"the human brain has yet to adapt to our world" is a weird way to say "the system we set up to make a handful of people extremely rich generally sucks for everyone else"
Convinced we’re indeed gonna enter a new Great Depression and the catalyst is going to entirely be this government and the wealthy class refusing to accept that they made shit too expensive and our wages too low to keep the economy going.
I still can't get over how there are things that are considered perfectly acceptable to do to children that, if you did to another adult, would be considered domestic abuse
This is what people mean when they say that children are an oppressed class
Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline
I honestly hate that we've normalized the idea that all opinions are valid. I think we should get back to telling people that they are ill informed & ignorant
the actual point of college is you're supposed to try and make friends or just meet as many people as possible so one of them can get you a job at their company. nobody told me this before college either, my condolences to all of us
Men don’t approach women in public because we told them it was annoying and creepy. In retrospect we probably should have just taught them what we don’t think is creepy but we didn’t so if you’re attracted to men you’re gonna have to approach them now, they won’t do it anymore.
Wiping this company and the people behind it off the face of the earth would be an incredible boon to humanity. They've done nothing but make the world a worse place.
not dating to marry, not dating to break up, but a secret third thing (dating to enjoy being with a person you're compatible with for as long as you both enjoy each other, no matter if that's months or years or the rest of your lives)
The perception that women’s breasts are “offensive” or overly sexualized, while men’s are not is overwhelmingly a cultural construct, not a universal biological absolute, and is heavily shaped by Christian and Abrahamic modesty norms.
Tom Cruise tells every actor: spend time in the editing room and learn what Brando already knew about the lens
“I always tell actors, spend time in the editing room. Produce a movie and really understand and study movies, study old movies, study new movies.”
“Recognise what the composition is giving you, from comedy to drama. Know what those lenses are and know how to use it to your benefit and understand the lighting.”
“You look at guys like Brando in The Godfather, he knew what Gordon Willis was doing. He absolutely understood the lighting and the lenses. And all the greats, they understand it.”