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[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

I am big but also smol

[Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider]

The great divergence as you age is between people who were taken in by theory and grand ideas when they were younger, who mostly get mogged by reality, and those who spent their younger years on specific problems and eventually head to theory in search of greater meaning

[James @exhaustdata]

The Kafka museum in Prague should have one of those cutout things where you stick your face in a hole and it makes you look like a giant bug, but you’re not allowed to take a photo unless you filled out the paperwork at the beginning of the tour, which they don’t tell you

[Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero]

This is the default response to open corruption by most of American pundit class - Wiesenthal, Silver, etc. Detached, cynical quips. None of these people reacted to the massive scale of insider trading revealed just days ago. This is how a nation rots.

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

When FIFA suspends Nepal, India or an African country's football federation over "government interference", it is supposed to be a verdict and commentary on the third world institutions in place in these countries.

But when the US President calls the FIFA head to overturn a red card in the middle of a World Cup, and then celebrates the said call and decision on social media, it is to "save the game" and reverse the "injustice".

It is not hypocrisy. It is hierarchy.

[Karthik Balakrishnan @karthikb351]

Struggling with how to reconcile:

a. Many smart and insightful people I've known/followed for years in tech now fully in the "coding is largely solved" camp

b. What I can see with my own eyes

This feels like some kind of psychosis and I don't know if _I'm_ the one having it

[bayesian asian (42/50 paintings) @etirabys]

I meditated a lot in my mid 20s to reduce tanha/dukhha, but now I'm really into them. I like grasping & craving, taking things personally, waking up tortured with what I want to do and probably can't pull off, and thinking it'll just feel so great if I get one more thing

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

@ilovejerkchickn @ZaidJilani American army was mostly drafted, India's was an all volunteer army. OP should have written "all volunteer"

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

@Herzen2thapg Clowns are funny though

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

"Demise of Famine in Colonial India" Data is 1875 to 1919. There's torturing data and then there's the full Guantanamo

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

Famines were ubiquitous in India, until they weren't. What changed? The best explanation is the railroads built by the British colonizers. Improving market access meant that local income was less responsive to local productivity shocks. 1/

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

And of course, you gotta exclude the Bengal famine to not destroy the argument entirely. Railroads reduce mortality...after nearly 50 years of agricultural reorganization for tea and poppies, wiping out god knows how many people.

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

They claim it's 1861 to 1930, but you gotta unfortunately read the paper to see the massaging

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

Similarly: go listen to Stabwound by Neceophagist. Then realize that he made 3 albums of that shit. Likely, what you make in your life will never reach that. Now be free. Go make your beauty free, detached of ideas of success and glory

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

people think socrates' belief "oh, i must be wise because i am aware of my own ignorance, only way delphic pronouncement makes sense" was a humblebrag

but actually the more you see yourself as a drooling idiot, the wiser you become

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

Today I:
Deadlifted
Pushed some code
Had my baby fall asleep on me (she is currently in my arms)

[Old Ric @old_ric]

The daily mutating bible of indefinite length whose existence makes you insane

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

@_swanand @vivianmshen You're welcome to visit any time

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

Pacing of the cromulent fuckcrustable of a day tweet

[corsaren @corsaren]

Between AI, the debt crisis, cratering TFR, about 8 different flavors of rising slopulism, and whatever bullshit China is up to, it has become very hard to imagine making it to age 80 without some sort of Serious Crisis in the US.

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

I was reading this shit waiting for the punchline. Pagliacci or something.

[World War I as it happened (1914) @WarHappened]

The archduke and his wife are rushed to the Town Hall, both grievously wounded. Franz Ferdinand, barely conscious, pleads with his dying wife: "Sophie, don't die, stay alive for our children!" She dies before they reach the Town Hall; Franz Ferdinand dies moments later.

[panda kun (jacked) @Saurya]

@svadhyayi what would that look like to you?

[Torgeir Lysen @torgeirlysen]

Math examiners have very different standards of rigor.

I once got stuck on a problem in a numerical methods exam. At the end I scribbled in a panic “This follows trivially by Rolle’s theorem.”

The next day I checked the solution. It just said “This follows by Rolle’s theorem.”

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

The Bronze Age Collapse Conspiracy will forever be my favorite Bronze Age history post