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Imagine how absurdly well, or absurdly poorly, your life must be going if you can accidentally step in animal waste without care Partly excluding situations where this is a prepared-for pccupational hazard And acknowledging that the same person might be doing both absurdly well and absurdly poorly

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I wonder if John Denver approached the Muppets first or the Muppets approached John Denver first

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Test if you should listen to someone's opinions about generative AI or large language models: Have they paid >$500 out of pocket to use AI tools? Have they spoken their opinions publicly? If you ask them to recommend good people to follow on this subject, do they list legal names or usernames?

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People in the 50s assumed infrastructure would be wildly different in the future and habits mostly intact Looking forward from today, I'd predict the reverse will be more likely

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Workplace affinity groups are kind of like unions if you've never been a member of either And both are products of their time

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Mirror life is like Y2K They're both minor panics among the members of the news app class who don't have a technical background We literally still have labs that culture smallpox Frankensteined E. coli cell will 1) starve in the wild and 2) get rekd by enantio ampicilin Worry about bird flu

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Eat more things you wouldn't recognize as food, especially if you can recognize it as having once been alive 🌼

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You can be half-Korean Half-Ethiopian Half-Peruvian Half-English Half-Chinese Half-Russian Half-Kazakh Half-Spanish Half-Irish Half-Canadian Half-Blackfoot Half-Aboriginal Australian Half-Cajun Half-Congolese Half-Saudi Half-Indian Half-Brazilian You can't be half American

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The dose doesn't make the poison It's how that does is applied: all at once, or over time It's the poison's mechanism and administration, the victim's unique susceptibilities Maybe a single molecule of benzene enters the body and butterfly effects into cancer 20 years later It'd be unknowable

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The perfection of eggs is enough to cause panic

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It always is

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Buy cheap art High art is good at being provocative Large art is good at being humbling Labor-intensive art is good at being impressive Old art is good at being historical Rare art is good at being prestigious But all are good at being museum pieces And cheap art is good at being art

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I can count on fewer than one hands how many beds and bathtubs I've encountered that were too big, and I can scarcely imagine what either of the appropriate size would look like

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Bricks are Protestant Stones are Catholic Wood is Protestant Metal is Catholic Pecans are Protestant Cashews are Catholic Sheep are protestant Horses are Catholic

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"15th century English fiction is weird 16th century English fiction is the epitome of writing 18th century English fiction is weird Pre-modern Chinese fiction is weird Pre-modern Indian fiction is weird Pre-modern African fiction is weird 12th century Persian fiction is relatable" Odd taste theirs

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The ratio of foods advertised as or modified to be "gluten-free" to that of all other dietary restrictions is a great example of market failure Some dietary restrictions are life-and-death Gluten avoidance is probably the least important one, and almost universally a placebo

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Floss

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The Body Positivity Movement is a lot like Phrenology in the sense that they were both attempts to replace society's old system of valuing appearance with a new system of valuing appearance as a reflection of how well an individual embodies society's values Alas, both appear to be wishful thinking

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Going to bed early is more important than waking up early

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Floss more Floss more

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Love thy neighbor I didn't say anything about liking, disliking, hating, coveting, avoiding, getting weirded out by, getting annoyed with, missing, or feeling bad for your neighbor You could do any of that too But you need to love them

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When deciding whether to do something, you should always ask "will this help at least two people?" Yourself now and yourself later count as two separate people

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Bachelor(ette)s should keep two towels in regular use: One for even days and another for odd days Your towel will always be dry You'll be prepared for when someone else arrives to start using a second towel regularly And, until then, you've given yourself a small daily luxury

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Capsaicin imitates a sensation of heat Menthol imitates a sensation of cold Hydroxy-α-sanshool imitates a sensation of licking a 9-volt battery What if there were compounds that imitated other touch sensations as flavors? Itchiness? Ticklishness? Pressure? Proprioception?

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Online dating advice for women is wild because your options are: - He clearly doesn't respect you, don't respect him - Nobody's perfect, give him another chance - TICK TOCK!!!1! And you're expected to pick one when you're 12 and apply it to all romantic situations for the rest of your life

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Online dating advice for men is wild because your options are: - Ruin your life - Work hard to improve yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually so you can find the right partner - Ruin her life And the people promoting option 2 and option 3 are the same

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We're getting to a point where you now encounter young people asking about Old Internet as if they want to know about a glorious bygone time. More and more I think the best way to explain it is to say look at Wikipedia. Simple, direct, run by enthusiasts. No SEO, algorithm-chasing, etc.

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Cherenkov radiation seems too miraculous and arcane to be visible yet it's somehow even a pretty/ethereal shade of blue It works too well

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Store food in glass containers

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You are the result of 3.8 billion years of evolutionary success. Act like it.

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Wood is so much more useful and versatile than I would expect Really got to give credit to our primate and hominid ancestors for laying the ground work on how to use it

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Everyone should have at least three things they can cook well

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Indonesia in the 1940s: "We're a new unified nation, we need a national language" 'How about Javanese? A lot of people are used to speaking Javanese' "No that's unfair" 'But the Philippines...' "No" 'How about Dutch? A lot of people are used to speaking Dutch' "No" 'But India...' 'No'

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I wonder if wild lettuce is especially more healthy/palatable than other leaves

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SCREENWRITING AXOIMS FOR A LONG CAREER: Underpromise, overdeliver. Don't turn in a 1st draft, it should be at least the 5th. Don't act emotionally to notes. Digest then respond. The studio / producers are your partners not your enemy. Your next job is determined by how you did on your last.

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Luggage was invented thousands of years ago Wheels were invented thousands of years ago Luggage with wheels was invented in the 20th century

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People used to print pamphlets and (40 pages) Why don't we still do that? Books are too long

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Humans really took their time with domesticating and selectively breeding reptiles Did they try that hard? Are they now? Aside from maybe alligator farms

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Reading about the Inca Empire, it's astoundingly reminiscent of the Soviet Union Mostly the bad parts

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Why isn't there a Roomba for my teeth?

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