if i wanted to do eco-terrorism i would already be plotting to threaten an ice age unless every country in the world administers itself with the competence of pre-handover hong kong or antebellum massachusetts
I’m gonna hijack this: if there’s one thing that explains why everyone under the age of 40 seems to be a nervous wreck it’s the reduction of life to “guessing the teacher’s password” for everything.
“but the personal statement is…”
…an arbitrary game of “guess what’s in my head,” inauthenticity embodied by writers and readers alike. an undignified hazing ritual whether written by you, your $200/hr advisor, or your good friend Claude.
good? bad? junk either way.
loans with interest only make sense if you can invest the money in ways that increase the productivity of your assets, otherwise you’ve got a debt trap. Prior to the early modern era productivity growth is very slow, so…
Chef @sdamico just cooked me up a hell of a burger
The @ImpulseLabs_ stove is insanely impressive, I was already electric-pilled but I’ve never seen anybody cook with beef tallow and generate no smoke whatsoever
These are gonna be the centerpiece of every high end kitchen soon
and thinking now also of this "trans autistic catgirl communication protocol" infographocomic I've seen not too long ago; it even had a "phatic communication to establish familiarity" phase; but then, if you go "mrow :3" at normies they … will not recognize this as "smalltalk"
Right. Smallholder peasants have a bad harvest so have to borrow grain from a larger neighbor to eat through the winter and plant in the spring, with their land as collateral. The next season’s harvest is mediocre and now they’re tenants on land they used to own.
not to detract from the point at hand, but I worry that a major theme of the 21st century is that sooner or later “white-collar first-worlders,” i.e. almost everyone responsible for the world not being 95% subsistence farmers, will get categorized as an Overperforming Minority
History has consistently shown that the most extreme bigotry is usually directed against high-performing minorities, e.g. Croats in Yugoslavia, Tutsis in Rwanda
In the West, the Jews are the most obvious example, but this also applies to South Asians, East Asians, even queer ppl
Remember that a price is information
Short-selling nursing homes in February of 2020 sounds dastardly but is basically pulling a fire alarm that spits out quarters if and only if there's a fire
Thermonuclear take: being long a firm can sometimes be unethical (if the firm itself acts unethically) because your incentives are to want the firm to do well
Short-selling, however, is *never* unethical