@StefanMolyneux I had kids and my belly looks 100% normal. And I am petite too!
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Jacklyn Pears-Eun
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Jacklyn Pears-Eun
@PersonJPE
Early eng & product @Google, 2 startup exits. Mom of 2. Sort of private person. 씨 뿌린 대로 거둔다
Palo Alto انضم Temmuz 2023
80 يتبع10 المتابعون
Ah the beautiful whirlpool of life!
Both men and women sacrifice their bodies for children.
Totally worth it.
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@mattkim1 Every time I go back to Korea, I feel safe. But raising kids there is such an incredible pressure that I raise my kids in the US. It is true that small US towns can have this safety, but never big cities.
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I’ve been living immersed in South Korea for the last month with my wife and daughter.
We just leave the stroller outside if we go in anywhere.
Because no one’s going to steal it.
I met a friend for lunch. He rode his bicycle. He just left it outside in an alley without a lock.
It was still there 2 hours later.
Another friend mistakenly left his phone on a park bench. When he finally retraced his steps and went back 4 hours later, his iPhone was still there.
I walked by a KPop concert. The fans who traveled from outside of Seoul to attend just left their luggage outside the subway station. No locks. No security.
Koreans take this for granted. They don’t realize this is not normal for most the world, especially America.
When I ask about it, they just respond, “of course, why would someone take it?”
Can you imagine any of these things happening or being possible in NYC or LA or *insert city*?
And IF, something were to be stolen in Korea, the police would investigate. Because in a high trust society, rules and norms matter.
There’s no “under $1000” law.
Theft is theft.
And trust is trust.
Will this social norm ever be possible in America?
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@RokoMijic Hope you straighten those out, Roko! Health is critically important.
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@PersonJPE I had some side effects and I want to deal with some other health issues and life issues first
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@dieworkwear The handsome, broad shouldered men look so much better.
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The reason why you think style is about money or body type is bc the only info you consume is from the fashion industry. You do not pay attention to culture and you know little about tailoring.
Here is a broad shouldered, muscular man who dresses better than two slim men
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸PALEOLITHIC AGE TUNA 🐟ALTUNA🐟 ALTINA@alt1na1
breaking news men with broad shoulders & a ton of muscle look worse in suits than skinny twink men/europeans regardless of $$$
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@nexta_tv What are they all saying? Is this what people in games chat like?
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The “dead internet theory” in action
In World of Warcraft, a server without humans has appeared — instead, 1,800 DeepSeek-based bots are playing there.
The bots behave like regular players: they chat, level up characters, run dungeons, and even fight each other. As a result, the game world looks completely alive.
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@newstart_2024 Nine minute mile? For a man? I don’t run but I am sure I could run a mile in seven minutes just from being healthy
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Tom Segura learned a game-changing running hack: Stop training at max effort.
On 2 Bears, 1 Cave, he explained that when he trains for a 5K by pushing hard (heart rate in the 170s), he hits a wall and doesn’t improve much.
Instead, he now trains at a much lower heart rate, around 135–145, which feels slower at first, but over weeks and months, you get faster at that same heart rate. Then on race day, when you push it, your times drop significantly.
Training at max effort all the time can actually make your times worse.
It’s counterintuitive but makes total sense, you’re building the engine instead of constantly redlining it.
Have you tried training at a lower heart rate zone to build endurance? Did it make you faster?
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@RokoMijic @ArtemisConsort Most people did not ride horses nor have archery practice.
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There's also the point that as society becomes more capable and more complex, the opportunity cost for everything goes up.
Think of all the things that people did 2000 years ago: riding horses, manual farming, praying, archery practice on Sunday. We've stopped doing almost all of them, because of opportunity costs.
You could grow potatoes in your garden to eat. But that's rare nowadays.
Most of what we do has been heavily upgraded by technology, and getting a given result got much easier and we had more time to spend on other stuff.
Child-bearing and rearing is somewhat exceptional. The real-terms cost of creating a human child has not been meaningfully reduced by technology.
Partly this is because biology is hard but it's also partly a result of moral squeemishness around "eugenics" and vast over-regulation and over-taxation of things like private schools and childcare.
Children also haven't gotten better. Again, we ignored eugenic breeding for "moral" reasons and the results are that people don't actually want to have children.
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No matter what your theory about birth rate collapse is, there’s some data point that disproves it. Japan didn’t have the pill when fertility collapsed. There are highly patriarchal countries where fertility is collapsing. It’s collapsing in countries that are still poor. It’s collapsing in places with more generous social support for families. It’s almost like a psychic alien just decided to phase humans out.
UBERSOY@UBERSOY1
Japan never legalized the Pill until 1999. Their fertility still crashed in 1970 anyway.
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@foolmealex I met my husband through work (not at work). I still think it is normal.
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Dating your coworker used to be one of the top ways to meet your spouse and now there’s a massive social taboo against it
𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛@muheediva01
Your coworker is not attractive, they are just within 10 feet of you 40 hrs/week
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@elonmusk @Coinvo What matters is the population IQ, and lack of insanity. This is why Korea went from little to everything in a few generations (same for Singapore, HK). You can't claim Korea did not suffer: Japan, China and a war tore the country just as much, if not more as African countries
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It wasn’t.
With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.
And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.
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@brianluidog I worked under female managers early on in my career. Never again.
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A common female blind spot is that they miss most of men's invisible work. This leads them to overestimate their contribution and value. Especially true at work, like, imagine two equivalent 100-person companies, one is all male, the other is all female. Which will do better?
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@royllovians Wow I pegged her at mid 30s, not high school! She can wear a Chinese or Korean dress for all I care though
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Eight years ago this month, a defining brouhaha of the Great Awokening broke out: An 18-year-old high school senior posted her prom pictures, in which she wore a qipao, a type of Chinese dress. Thousands of Twitter users attacked and condemned her for "cultural appropriation."
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@HillaryClinton I have nothing in particular to say other than I want to comment that most posts on your account seem to not allow people to reply. Seems censorious.
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I was proud to call Barney Frank a friend. He was a trailblazer, a brilliant legislator, and a champion for American consumers.
I'll miss his humor, his courage, and his heart, and my thoughts today are with his friends and loved ones.
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@Rationalbot It would work if the prices were high. Obviously it won't work if the prices are low.
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Yeah so take a guess about why this would never work
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
There's an UNBELIEVABLE use case for regional trips in the US that will decimate air travel and buses. Fully autonomous Tesla Robovans outfitted as long-haul first-class "buses". These would run routes similar to Amtrak or Greyhounds, but with First-Class-like comfort, amenities, and space. The price per seat of these can be the same as a bus, but FAR more comfortable and FAR more luxurious. Can obviously optimize the interior for the best configuration but MAN. This would absolutely KILL.
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Who should I interview on my podcast?
Open to more AI, but also to random history/econ/etc professors that I might not have heard of before.
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@AlecStapp @paulg Is there an actual list of specific individuals ? I am surprised east Asia is not represented outside of china and Taiwan
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Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants
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@StefanFSchubert @jburnmurdoch Is there a set of these stats for only White and Asian men and women above say 100k annual income
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@Hitchslap1 As a non native English speaker (Korean Native), I know roughly eighty five - ninety percent of these. Ugh.
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@GeneSmi96946389 Is it potentially a curse to be a woman 4 deviations to the right?
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A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
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@vovkrokkafella @robinson @hosseeb But I'm talking about a single time that's combined better as a mean across all of them, not individually
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@PersonJPE @robinson @hosseeb Pick a Country, but should be obvious; Iran, pre-1979, pre-Mullahs, Yemen, pre-Houthi occupation, even during British rule, Afghanistan, pre-Taliban, pre-Mujahideen, even Soviet occupation was better for Women. Libya, pre GNC, even under Gaddafi it was better for Women, etc. etc.
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Three takeaways from my post about wealth/technology yesterday:
1) People are really, really triggered by any suggestion that technology is has been a massive force equalizer. They are very committed to the idea that billionaires live radically different lives from them, and that technology is an opiate used to distract them from this.
2) Many have cartoonish ideas about how the wealthy spend their time. They believe wealthy people are mostly partying in yachts and jetting to the Maldives every weekend. Turns out, wealthy people are mostly workaholics—that's why they're wealthy (~70% of US billionaires are self-made), and you can't build a company while constantly on vacation.
3) People have really no sense about how the lived experiences of humans, across every decile of wealth, has dramatically improved over the last 100 years. Many people somehow seem to believe that the world was better in 1950—which could not possibly be more wrong. This trend is true across poverty, crime rates, life expectancy, education, pretty much anything you can measure.
I think Warren Buffett stated it best (h/t @jillgun):
"Money makes very little difference after a moderate level. I tell this to college students. They are basically living about the same life I'm living. We eat the same foods — that I can guarantee you. There's no important difference in our dress. No important difference in the television set that we watch the Super Bowl on... Almost everything of importance in daily life, we equate on."
Haseeb ＞|＜@hosseeb
Turning off this tweet because it seems to be insanely triggering to half the people who read it. Many are taking this as "are you saying that rich people's lives are the same as poor people's lives? OMG SO OUT OF TOUCH" No, I'm obviously not saying that rich people's lives are the same as poor people's lives. I am saying THE GAP between the lived experience of the MIDDLE CLASS and the uber-wealthy is the smallest that it's ever been. Rewind the clock 50 or 100 years ago. You had to be very wealthy to have access to microwaves, washing machines, music players, air conditioning, modern plumbing, a home theater, even a personal computer. The gap between the rich and the middle class used to be massive because of all of the THINGS that rich people had that they could use to entertain themselves that were not universally available. You now use the same iPhone that Elon Musk uses. It's the exact same OS. Same Internet. Same Netflix. Same LLM. Money cannot buy you better technology anymore. Unless you are really into VR headset porn or whatever, there's really nothing Elon Musk can buy that you can't. And most of our lives and our leisure, is, obviously, mediated by this technology. Rich people are not mostly flying off into space or flying private to the Maldives every weekend. They're mostly just working their jobs, on their phones, watching TV shows, the same kinda shit you imagine. Yeah they do that sometimes, but mostly the Maldives is not as compelling as the algorithms. At middle class sure maybe you can't buy some weird stem cell treatments, but that's pretty marginal. You can buy fruits and vegetables and work out and be healthy if you choose to. The accessibility of the core pleasures of life have never been more democratized. That's the point of OP. It's a simple point. I'm not saying wealth inequality doesn't exist. Relax everyone. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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