aj

change is annoying. certainty is absurd

[Zardam @zardamhussain]

@drummatick Same prompt with a different POV, generated with PhotoGPT AI

[Dr. Nopussi OB-GYN @BussyDynamite]

The funniest thing to come out of eurocentrism in anthropology is the belief that indigenous tribes didn’t have the capacity for comedy. Straight up just doing bits like “nah we’ve never jerked our hog can you explain the mechanisms of it?”

[Viuda de Fidalgo @manuel_LG1996]

Los mexicanos explicándole a los ecuatorianos cómo usar el boleto digital para entrar al estadio azteca.

[🏳️‍🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦 @MariGO2thepolls]

lol remember when Obama suggested to the Germans not to do austerity during a recession and Angela Merkel threatened to kill herself

[anna banana @DirtbagLeftist_]

beastmode

[Anime Outsiders @animeoutsiders]

I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.

This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.

[323 @Ggod323]

i swear my consequences don't even have actions

[Paul Leavitt @legitleavitt]

@Dynastus Amen!
I managed to read about 70% of Leaving a Legacy by @JohannKurtz while traveling in Philly yesterday.

Gonna buy copies for my dad and all my siblings.

[sarina @sariverse]

i unfortunately see it

[Alexander Goslin @xandurglar]

I owe it all to this Reddit post

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

your lack of urgency is destroying your potential.

[RWR 🥂 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 @PunishedRWR]

This was the greatest day to be on twitter

[Lavader @Lavader_]

Spengler would not see China's revival as the rebirth of a living culture because in his framework, Chinese Culture had completed its arc more than two thousand years ago and had long since hardened into what he called a "fellah" people, which are basically the remnants of a People after the Culture had died off. So modern China is post-historical in his sense.

He would read the Communist Project as a Western import. Marxism is a late product of the Faustian (Western) world, so China running on it means an ancient fellah-mass mobilized by a foreign political form rather than expressing anything inherently Chinese. The Cultural Revolution fits neatly here since smashing the Confucian inheritance was just clearing away forms that were already dead in a Chinese context.

The economic and military surge he would attribute to Caesarism and the inorganic energy of a "Civilization" phase, so what we see from China is more the brute machinery of mass and power rather than any springtime vitality of a young or emerging culture. So he would regard modern China as a force pretty impressive, but completely sterile as a cultural soul.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

I recently spent a month in Asia, including 10 days in China, where I met with senior policy makers in several countries, and I found that over the past few months, there has been a big shift in the world order. I share my perspective in my latest article. 

As always, I welcome your questions and thoughts.

[🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷johnny🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷 @notthechips]

the W in George W Bush stands for Woke

[gabriel @gabriel1]

there are zero smart people, the bar is incredibly low, just think harder about things and update faster than others

understand every primitive of things and people, the world not very complex, people are highly predictable, and competition does not exist if you think

[gabriel @gabriel1]

this took so long for me to understand: the bottleneck to more innovation is not more high intelligence people, but more people having an interest in hard problems

it's impossible to create new useful things if you don't get immense happiness from making that thing

[Cosmopolitan Reactionary @cosmorxn]

I’m seeing this sentiment quite a bit, but I think it fundamentally misunderstands how people perceive wealth in the 21st century. Much of America’s wealth is effectively invisible. The country can lose billions through waste, inefficiency, or corruption and barely notice the impact (the Somali Minnesota daycare scandal is one example). Wealth is reflected less in visible infrastructure and more in things like high salaries, retirement security, and access to the world’s most advanced healthcare.

Football fans aren’t necessarily going to be impressed by those things because they are difficult to see. Most Europeans have little idea how wealthy Americans actually are. Walking around New York, for example, they are likely to see cities that feel familiar in many ways: older buildings, historic neighbourhoods, and dense urban environments similar to European ones, albeit with more skyscrapers. Even the huge stadiums, while visually impressive, may strike some visitors as more extravagant than evidence of everyday prosperity. They are also going to use subways full of graffiti, crazy people, rats, and fare dodgers.

A useful comparison is China. Someone visiting a Chinese city might come away thinking China is exceptionally wealthy because of its infrastructure: the modern airports, high-speed rail, and newly built urban areas (pictured). But they would be drawing conclusions from what is most visible rather than from the underlying reality. China remains significantly poorer than the United States on a per capita basis. In both cases, the average person is misled by what they see.

[Diasporaoid Doomer @DiaspoidDoomer]

@SweetSummerSN "THE CCP DID THIS" *describes capitalism as envisioned by Adam Smith*