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[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

Nothing brings out stupidity in people as much as sports and politics.

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I’ve been superstitious about only two things in my life: when Sachin used to play, and when Messi plays.

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It’s so damn hot in Lisbon and my AC stopped working at the worst possible time.

Melting over here

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When I don’t know the Portuguese word for something, I use the Norwegian word for it, praying that the other person would somehow understand that.

Or if that doesn’t work, i just add “oão” to the end of the English word.

20% of the time it works every time.

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Elon’s trillionaire status is the latest IQ test.

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Dogs shouldn’t be allowed to live in apartments. Too loud.

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Why is it hard to find languages where the words are pronounced exactly as they’re written?

Portuguese and English are terrible in this regard compared to Hindi.

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Meet Fleur. She’s very cute but unfortunately not a friendly cat 🥲

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I don’t care that X only has 30 engineers. It’s simply a worse product than Twitter.

I’m seeing words I muted on my timeline, search is almost always broken, the list goes on.

A bad product that’s only surviving due to network effects.

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Living in Portugal and being forced to speak broken English regularly so people understand me has made my English noticeably worse.

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@Austen Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it.

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@Austen Context:

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Hey @Austen . My brother wants to do Gauntlet AI. He’s an international student in the US, and he will need the timing of the cohort to align with his OPT if he’s to participate.

Do you already know when cohort 4 will start? Thanks!

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

@Austen This is cohort 3, right? Do you know when cohort 4 will start?

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

Hey @Austen . My brother wants to do Gauntlet AI. He’s an international student in the US, and he will need the timing of the cohort to align with his OPT if he’s to participate.

Do you already know when cohort 4 will start? Thanks!

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

“A man’s entire life is spent putting out fires

One problem after another.

Then he reads books about what type of hose to use.

He never develops the Sincerity to ask,

‘What precisely is going on.’

‘What is the source of all my problems.’”

— Kapil Gupta

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

Met the prettiest girl today at a restaurant I frequent and chatted with her for 2 minutes before she had to leave.

Asked a mutual friend for an intro. Let’s see how it goes!

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@sutherlandphys Maybe the person is stationary from the belt’s POV in your graphic, but it doesn’t look like the person is moving to the left.

I know for sure that the person is moving to the left from the belt’s POV, but it doesn’t seem that way in the graphic.

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

@sutherlandphys Maybe it’s an optical illusion/effect, but in your graphic, from the reference frame of the belt, it seems like the person is moving to the right.

Won’t the person be moving to the left from the belt’s reference frame?

[Carlos De la Guardia @dela3499]

Would aliens and humans converge on the same ideas?

Would two friends?

Yes and no.

Yes: Some ideas are so far-reaching, that you're almost guaranteed to bump into them eventually, no matter what you're interested in, or what planet you're on. (e.g. physics, arithmetic, logic, computation)

No: Even if you agree with someone about almost everything, you still have different problems and interests, leading you to develop different ideas and skills.

So, one person (even a very smart person) is unlikely to know everything somebody else knows. Likewise, a society (even a very advanced society) is unlikely to know everything another society does.

[Vib 🐐 @vbmach]

I’ve spent 5 years in Europe and spent time in 10+ countries, and I’ve never had any of these things happen to me.