Jeff Meier

6ft barefoot and strong enough to carry you around like a socialite’s chihuahua. High IQ. Hex Respect XL.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

This reaction to longevity efforts is common but silly as fuck. People who say this stuff:

1. Are almost always happy to use *existing* life extension technology, like bypass surgery or modern pharmaceuticals, yet would’ve opposed their development. It seems that, to them, whatever life extension tech we have at the present moment is the perfect and only reasonable amount.

2. Often seek immortality even more vigorously themselves, just in heaven. It’s transparent how threatened they are by any hint of immortality here on earth, as they perceive it to compete with their proposed path of immortality in heaven. But what they fail to grasp is that it’s a false dichotomy. Their problem is lack of mathematical intuition. True infinity is so much bigger than even a hundred millennia. Even if we succeed at living for thousands of years, that’s still not that long. Indeed, at what point does willfully avoiding the opportunity to live become suicide, a rejection of the gift the creator has given us?

3. Are often quick to accuse people who want to live longer of being terrified of death, but the dominant motivation is not fear. It's enthusiasm for the beauty of life, and optimism for the future.

4. Rush to dismiss it as impossible, to which we can just say, congratulations on being part of a long human tradition of naysaying. Damn near every successful breakthrough or invention's development had someone like you saying it would never work. Maybe it's important to the process somehow, an important rite of passage. So, thanks for doing your part, I guess.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

No, sorry. You’re going to die. Very soon actually, in the grand scheme of things. You have several decades at most. In 70 or 80 years, tops, nobody reading these words right now will be alive. Most will not even be remembered. This fact is so terrifying to some people that they live every second in denial, clinging to the insane hope that somehow “science” will come along and rescue them from mortality. Even if it could — which it definitely can’t — then what? You live to watch all of your friends and loved ones die and even their tombstones decay while you linger on, trembling in fear and grasping desperately onto a life that, no matter how long it lasts, you’ve already wasted? And then you get to see the Earth decay around you and the Sun burn out ? Wow. Sounds like a lot of fun. But no thanks. I don’t need to live for a million years. I just want the time I have, however long or short, to be meaningful.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

This reaction to longevity efforts is common but silly as fuck. People who say this stuff:

1. Are almost always happy to use *existing* life extension technology, like bypass surgery or modern pharmaceuticals, yet would’ve opposed their development. It seems that, to them, whatever life extension tech we have at the present moment is the perfect and only reasonable amount.

2. Often seek immortality even more vigorously themselves, just in heaven. It’s transparent how threatened they are by any hint of immortality here on earth, as they perceive it to compete with their proposed path of immortality in heaven. But what they fail to grasp is that it’s a false dichotomy. Their problem is lack of mathematical intuition. True infinity is so much bigger than even a hundred millennia. Even if we succeed at living for thousands of years, that’s still not that long. Indeed, at what point does willfully avoiding the opportunity to live become suicide, a rejection of the gift the creator has given us?

3. Are often quick to accuse people who want to live longer of being terrified of death, but the dominant motivation is not fear. It's enthusiasm for the beauty of life, and optimism for the future.

4. Rush to dismiss it as impossible, to which we can just say, congratulations on being part of a long human tradition of naysaying. Damn near every successful breakthrough or invention's development had someone like you saying it would never work. Maybe it's important to the process somehow, an important rite of passage. So, thanks for doing your part, I guess.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@engineers_feed 150, 495, 420 good job wasting minutes of my life.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@dhh Can anyone tell me, is Omarchy a laptop-focused experience? Considering putting it on my desktop w/ Nvidia GPU and multiple monitors. Use case is both work and play.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@FrameworkPuter Excited to see what you guys are up to. Can anyone summarize for me the current state of Apple’s M chips vs. AMD/Intel (+ nvidia)?

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @DocStrangelove2 Shooting .300 blk subsonic out of a suppressed rifle feels pretty great though, even out at 150, and it’s very quiet. If you’ve got something better, do tell.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@Grummz The sound fx and music rewinds my brain 30 years in an instant. Is it because we were young, or were things really just better then?

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@Itsfoss Some of you guys are wild. The answer is `realpath .`

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

This is fine advice, but I think people who say stuff like this are missing something. For many authors — and many readers — typos, grammatical errors, line editing, and even tight developmental work are not essential. The only thing that really matters is striking the right emotional notes through plot, characters, etc.

Millions of dollars have been made in this industry with woefully underedited manuscripts that never would’ve been published if their authors had acquiesced to this … what shall we call it? Strongly worded request?

Though it might get on your nerves, a huge swath of readers do not share your priorities. (I say this having done some pretty top-notch work as a professional editor myself.)

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

This is fine advice, but I think people who say stuff like this are missing something. For many authors — and many readers — typos, grammatical errors, line editing, and even tight developmental work are not essential. The only thing that really matters is striking the right emotional notes through plot, characters, etc.

Millions of dollars have been made in this industry with woefully underedited manuscripts that never would’ve been published if their authors had acquiesced to this … what shall we call it? Strongly worded request?

Though it might get on your nerves, a huge swath of readers do not share your priorities. (I say this having done some pretty top-notch work as a professional editor myself.)

[Skryvener @sarahs_sky]

I'm not going to be as nice as this lady.

If you don't have an editor, please don't publish. I don't care if you're paying that editor or not, but they need to be someone who *can* edit professionally. Technically, yes, you have a choice of whether or not to get outside help with your book, but I have yet to find the unicorn miracle that is good without any outside professional help. Opting to "not" is a great way to produce trash.

However, a good edit is going to run $3-5k. The £880 quoted as an average here for an 80k manuscript is only around 13 hours of work at $60/hr (which is a good editor's rate). That's not really realistic. I expect the quoted average, then, is not really a dev or line editor's average, but is a blend including copy, which is a lot cheaper. I recommend, if you can't afford this, to work on your own editing skills (check out our videos--we discuss a lot of developmental editing topics in the context of actual books) and then *swap* work with other people. Basically, use your time as currency instead to get others to help you edit.

But do not publish without outside editing advice.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

Porn is low on the list of causes of marriage decline, if it’s there at all. I’m sure there are some guys with addiction problems, but porn is mostly a scapegoat women use to cope with not being very desirable. Lots of guys out there have little interest in porn and still don’t want to marry because the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

You guys remind me of those people who think aliens must have given us cell phone technology because no human could be clever enough to come up with it on their own.

Related: I started using the em dash (—) around 2009, when I got my first Mac and it became easy to type, but now people think it’s a sure sign of AI.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@everymovieplug Not a good idea to pull the trigger with the scope snuggled into your eye socket like that

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@sysxplore Competitive gaming (like Valorant), and creative software (Photoshop, music production w/ virtual instruments, etc.). I really want to make the switch though, hoping for progress on these aspects soon.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@dhh The philosophy behind Omarchy is so refreshingly normal, really wanting to find a way to use it as my main.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@JaniBangiev @IterIntellectus lol “lil bro” when your own understanding is so limited. If we test the whole world and set the average at 100, that would drastically change the meaning of 100 from what it represents today, using tests that actually exist.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@hubermanlab @kyrregnaver Based on what? My understanding is that mitochondrial density drops as we age, and function declines as well. One of the big theories behind NAD+ supplementation is that it improves the function of mitochondria. You say "turns out not" so conclusively, what makes you think that?

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@_alisawu When a pesky bunch of combat drones is buzzing in the sky around you, looking to blow you to smithereens, but get thwarted by Steven’s robot gun, you’ll think about this tweet and say, “oh now I get it”

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

@NikoleCallihan Very cool. Curious how you do it, do you mostly read aloud together, or do you guys just both read the same book but separately? My son isn’t quite three but already loves books and I’m really looking forward to reading some of these with him.

[Jeff Meier @JeffCMeier]

This is exactly it. By feminism’s own preachings, we’re living in a tiny window of history featuring unprecedented female empowerment, but by embracing cultures that will strip women of their rights the moment they reach majority control, and by alienating the men who gave them rights in the first place, they’re already on the fast track towards ending the experiment.