Rishi

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[Rishi @weaseltoad]

must be so weird to be a plant. you've outsourced sex to creatures that look nothing like you. your flowers need to be attractive not to your opposite sex but to an alien species

[Create Profit @Create_Profit]

Preparing for another week in Nasdaqistan.

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

very uniquely subcontinental usage, despite the fairly prosaic nature of the phrase itself

implicitly assumes that we are by nature airhead dreamers who must be tethered to the ground by getting henpecked into submission via collective outsourced reality checks

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

the harsh reality is that indians are very fond of using "harsh reality" in any sentence they can get away with

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

lungs yearning for <5 aqi again

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@shguke yo add me. it has been on my to-read list for years

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@VarshneyVardhan this conclusion only holds if players are not playing repeated games

the fact that this does hold implies that most players of the game (i.e the general indian public) are generally short-term payoff-seeking and do not sufficiently value future game outcomes

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@simransvault @IndianTechGuide could be true but eh, seeing lots of anomalies. have no way of confirming accuracy without going through methodology

[Sovi | #SheRaMovie | FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA @SovietOnionn]

Non-American kids after watching Gravity Falls tbh

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

me: "nature is one hell of an amusement park"
her: "abusement..?"

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Claude: Hey, mind if I grep -ohP "useEffect\(.*?\[\K[^\]]+" **/*.tsx 2>&1|tr ',' '\n'|awk 'NF{$1=$1;a[$0]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}'|sort -rn|head -20

Me: ... yeah go for it dude

[ftlsid @ftlsid]

an essential frustration of modernity is that success within the system is largely conditional on wanting things that I have never really wanted

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Ironic - as a child, I was enthralled by the WWE..... yet today, it is I, who must "wrestle mania"

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@simransvault happy new year!!

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@WorkflowWhisper builder

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

one of my more out-there intuitions is that ancient religions repeatedly came up with "god" as a social technology not to enable large-scale coordination via shared civilizational myths but to primarily help the individual come to terms with the burden of agency in a hostile env

[∿ @somewheresy]

i'm not saying there's a correlation but as soon as I stopped feeling sociologically attached to atheism and began trusting the power of an unknowably powerful and benevolent God my life got 10 times better in every single way and my longest struggles evaporated

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@ftlsid one of the most moving books i've ever read

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

hanging posters in your room is the modern manifestation of the same deeply instinctive millennia old pagan impulse for idol worship. domesticated beaver making a dam with pillows

[The most powerful man in financial markets 🌍 @JeromeTheHero1]

programmers don't realize that this is exactly their PM's relationship to them.

[Rishi @weaseltoad]

@ftlsid keep us posted