Kurt

coziest man alive

[Anatol @KuraginAnatol]

Po robocie, czas na relaks

[Walrus Aurelius 🇺🇸☦️ @Walrusaurelius]

This is another example of smart people having bad theory of mind for dumb people.

When you aren't smart, you learn very quickly from experience that people talking about things in a way you don't understand - or doing things in a way that doesn't make intuitive sense - is a tactic that they can use to trick you out of your money. It's the same instinct that makes certain people skeptical of religion, except it's present in a material reality they're trying to sell you here and now so write that check please.

Plenty of "Peasants" know enough to know that they aren't smart and other people are. Those "Peasants" also know that smart people are willing to leverage that intelligence gap against them more often than not. So they see something like having 8 oil plugs and go "that's probably a trick", and that hueristic probably saves them a lot more money and time than a mindset that would lead them to go "oh, it must need 8 plugs for some reason I don't get".

[Heinox 🇭🇹 @heinox64428]

I don't know why people harp on China for copying technology. Copying technology takes skill. If I dropped a MiG-19 in the Congo and came back 20 years later, there'd just be a rusty MiG, not a MiG factory.

[Garold @Garold101]

@MattWalshBlog Imagine getting talked down too in an interview by some snooty AI boomer HOA foid.

We are living in some sort of hell.

[MrHobbes @VintageMrHobbes]

I think prisons should be safe, actually. If you want rapists to receive corporal punishment then change the law. Outsourcing punishment to random violence in prisons is morally and practically wrong, as well as cowardly.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

there’s something psychologically terroristic about these kids books that are full of adult platitudes. “there’s nothing wrong with asking for help”. yeah. my 5 year old never would have thought there was. “you don’t have to be extraordinary to be loved”. do not tell my kid that

[🍀 @9292atlast]

toys. they are toys. you are all just embarassed to admit you like toys.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.

[Kurt @ornithologistic]

@pingusschmingus uwu

[glycine nationalist @acteduweininger]

This is the defining experience of normie life because society doesn’t exist anymore. There are no governing social protocol or rituals for strangers to interact. There is no culture. No god. No people. Nothing. The boomers destroyed our civilisation. All that’s left is universal, unrelenting, low grade hostility.

[H @H3rvvv]

Told my roomate who I absolutely never want to hang out with that I had no Halloween plans right before my gorilla costume arrived in completely transparent packaging

[DFF @DFF6769]

Watch out America… a new Abdul El-Sayed campaign ad just dropped and this time Dave Smith and Ana Kasparian are the stars.

[BOBBY MARS @bobby_on_mars]

Sad to see Apple bending to frivolous consumer demands instead of dictating the market itself with good design. Foldable iPhone is pointless, touchscreen on a MacBook Pro is pointless. It's like they finally surrendered to years of critiques and said, fine, here you go.

[Vacha @TVachaW]

Alcoholics often say that they have a certain amount of freedom over whether to have their first drink on a given day.

But once the first drink has been drunk, all bets are off.

This dynamic I think carries over to micro-addictions like doomscrolling/binge-eating/porn etc.

Each morning when you wake, there is a window of opportunity to enact the freedom not to restart the cycle of compulsion.

But as soon as you start diving into your <insert compulsive behaviour>, all bets are off - it’s easy to get sucked into the compulsive loop indefinitely.

It’s why it’s so important to treat that first engagement in the day with a compulsive behaviour with a lot of care.

In the case of phones, it’s why it’s especially important to make sure grabbing your phone / scrolling isn’t your first act of the day.

This moment of first engagement with the world is a sacred opportunity to set the tone of the day.

And the moment of first temptation by a compulsive behaviour is a sacred opportunity to reset your relationship with that behaviour.

Often, finding a sacred ritual to start the day with can be a way of replacing the ritual of our compulsive habits.

Sometime I even think that many modern micro-addictions are caused by the lack of sacred rituals we have embedded into modern life.

In the absence of conscious rituals, we engage in unconscious rituals.

And all the power of our inherent drive towards the sacred gets channeled into compulsive behaviour.

[Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 @bitcloud]

My understanding of modern dating is that no one is attractive enough for anyone, doing literally anything is an ick, and the entire species is out of its own league.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Grocery stores make about $1 in profit for every $30 of goods sold. So if this person walked out carrying about $75 in groceries, that instantly erases the profit from $2250 in sales. Something to consider as you complain about grocery prices.

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

nothing worse than a failed nap attempt and you’re running out time.

[hamsters🌐🐹 @sigmahamster2]

Leftists be like: “They're using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight.”

[_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan]

The idea of there being a reddit where you can post men's bookshelves so people can tell you if there's any badthink in the picture (because you yourself haven't read the books and also don't even know what they're about) is extremely funny

[Abe Greenwald @AbeGreenwald]

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