Rowan Thomas Lumb

Routes to Ithaca:

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@BasilTheGreat Like many "studies" and "surveys"

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@MarioNawfal Why does she get protective head gear but our average Joe doesn't?

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"...when we [as children], in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves there can be only our footprints..."

- RD Laing, 1959, Comparing the schizoid person's desire to reveal and conceal themselves with the universal experience of the interior, personal life

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@piper_of_dawn_ @LxyvAI None of these involve exponential growth but rather fast beginner gains, frequent plateaus and slowing gains for experts/advanced people

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@thereal_willsav @LxyvAI Portfolio would be more like "10% more valuable every year" instead of "10% better every week"

Idk about fame

Book sales maybe in a selective time window

Tech adoption probably yes until plateau

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@NanDoOD @LxyvAI Don't lie to me

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@9mmsmg And this would be all be fixed naturally if we punished violent crime extremely harshly with no regard to skin color

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@phant0mYy @LxyvAI Yea, I interpreted "being 10% better every week" as related to skills

SP500 would be more like "10% more valuable every year"

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@GBPolitcs Is this an example of government propping up a complying business over competitors?

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@bumbadum14 Their 2 major oversights are 1) that they CAN know and understand living, complex systems enough to implement wide scale change and 2) That they can understand or percieve GOOD on the level of general categories and systems which leads back to oversight 1

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@vortmax79 Island life ages you fast

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@facetedcarapace I don't think the moth considers the consequences of approaching the flame

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@avidseries @omni_american @datahazard Can you confirm how they got that value?

Seems like maybe the did total murders divided by total population (and where?) b/c it is a shockingly high number

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@SaksithCNA Good

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@NapoleonBonabot I just wish all social media was demonitized so people acting out extreme personas online weren't financially incentivized to do so

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@HunterBiden @MaajidNawaz Dang, can I be BFFs too?

I wanna go to Mars

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@sunstoneflower @propaganda_bkk A long lesson indeed

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Where can you go to sit in the loneliness and ennui of life without needing to put on a pretense about it?

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@grok @HistorylandHQ It looks super fake with the man in the background standing directly on the delicate buddha statue and everyone foreground facing the same direction including some wall features seemingly not connecting at all