Harry - Agency School 4/10-12!

NEWCOMB'S HOT DATE Cassandra is, by all accounts, an extraordinarily attractive woman. This has become a problem for her dating life, because she keeps meeting guys who are just mesmerized by her looks, and aren't actually interested in getting to know her as a person. So, to solve this problem, she's invented a first-date ritual with her twin sister Clara, which she calls The System. Before every first date, Cassandra makes a prediction. Either her date is genuinely interested in her — her personality, her mind, everything beneath the surface — or he's running a general hot-girl-acquisition strategy and she happens to be the current target. If she predicts genuine interest: she shows up herself. If she predicts hotness-chaser: she sends Clara. Clara is indistinguishable from Cassandra, thinks this whole thing is hilarious, and is not romantically interested in men — so for her, it's pure low-stakes entertainment. You are on the date. The stunningly beautiful woman across from you has just explained all of this. She offers you two choices: Option A: Continue the date normally. Option B: Continue the date, and make out. She explains: “If I'm Clara — which means the real Cassandra already clocked you as a hotness-chaser — then you have zero chance of a relationship with either of us regardless. The Cassandra door is closed. So in that scenario, you might as well make out with Clara. She walked in ready to have a good time, there are zero stakes, and you get to make out with Clara, who I will remind you is exactly as hot as I am. Everybody wins.” "But if I'm actually Cassandra?" She gives you a look that practically makes you melt in your chair. "That means I’ve already run my analysis and decided that you're the real deal. So yeah, at this point, making out with you sounds very enticing..." Her eyeline drops to meet your lips. “That's assuming I'm actually Cassandra of course.” A small, mischievous grin spreads across her face. She continues: “But it actually doesn't matter, does it? Either way, the girl in front of you wants you to make out with her. This is not a test — you've already either passed or failed. Whatever you decide to do now won't change whether Cassandra or Clara is sitting in front of you." She leans back, relaxed, looking extremely pleased with herself. "The only question is: how confident are you that you actually passed my filter, if you're the kind of guy who would choose making out?” Her eyes flicker down to your lips again. "Well...?"

Curiosity. Curiosity leads to intelligence. But curiosity about people leads to *attunement*. That's what I'd value in a partner, more specifically than just kindness

@mishapathy Curiosity. Curiosity leads to intelligence. But curiosity about people leads to *attunement*. That's what I'd value in a partner, more specifically than just kindness

Would you rather your ideal romantic partner was exceptionally smart or exceptionally kind? Imagining that in whichever virtue they are not exceptional they are at least not improficient. In the poll options below, imagine each word is preceded by “exceptional”.

@brundolfsmith slowsocial.us sounds similar?

If there were a social app where you 1. Could only write one post per day to your friends 2. Couldn't read anyone's posts until the following morning, so there's no opportunity to scroll Would you be into that?

@jtcbrule So basically a fisheye lens? youtu.be/c-3I0lOYJ74

ELPVO: Extra low power variable optic Magnification runs from 1/4 to 4X. It's like an ACOG and an anti-ACOG in one! Extra situational awareness

@keyofgeo "Cut down on your bill drill with this one weird trick" wait...

do you carry your drill in condition 1 or condition 2?

@jtcbrule !!! Probably only temporarily, but 60 days is pretty significant, longer than Hurricane Katrina. I wonder what that suggests about how long he thinks the war will go on for...

Trump is the weirdest gacha game. Usually, you pull weird posts. Sometimes you pull "tarrifs". And if you're lucky, you pull "suspend the Jones Act" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@kramerposts They did the exact opposite of this x.com/array_hog/stat…

Remember when twitter used to just show what people were liking, not even on the profile but like in the timeline? “So and so liked…” Dangerous times. I miss them.

@lolalucxy @xsphi Yeah, the fascinating irony is that choosing to transition is a very high-cost signal that you are choosing your own path, so if your local culture doesn't include "being cïs" in the female contract, transitioning can get you the best of both worlds x.com/alicemazzy/sta…

@array_hog @xsphi It actually made reconnecting with masculinity feel scary because I was afraid of losing this. But it appears I can still thread the needle via presentation and just... Being present, kind and grateful. Still haven't figured out how to connect with men lmao.

AND I WAS RIGHT

@lolalucxy @xsphi Meanwhile, being a man means starting out with much less of a clear path to social acceptance, but also you have more freedom to make your own

@lolalucxy @xsphi My perception is that society offers a clear social contract for being female, and is willing to accept you as long as you follow its expectations to a T. But if you want to deviate from them, you immediately get a lot of scrutiny

Probably my favorite thing about video games in general is the feeling of physics Sometimes i feel this irl too. Like when carrying today's morning coffee down three flights of stairs and trying not to spill it There's demand for this feeling

@DaCaveOfWonders I think it's a great metaphor that even in a world with zero competition, we still have many ways to compete with ourselves (and many ways to fail)

@array_hog I also had this objection to the perfect game thing. I think in a full game for me personally, I'd miss the strike zone 4 times in an at bat by accident once

The only thing preventing us from coming to a consensus is you all disagreeing with me. If you just don't do that, we'd all agree

@DaCaveOfWonders Even if your opponent completely submits, turns out you can still defeat yourself more than they would have defeated you x.com/array_hog/stat…

@ben_c_rowen In 2020, the *average* batter would have had an OBP of .519 without a bat x.com/array_hog/stat…

@dylanmatt @bennstancil calculated that in 2020, pitchers threw few enough strikes that most batters would have had *higher* OBPs if they literally never swung benn.substack.com/p/a-season-wit…

The only thing preventing me from pitching a perfect game is batters swinging at my pitches. I'm pitching a perfect game if those batters just don't do that.

@RichDecibels Don't use crying emojis, they use so much water

rivers use so much water 😭😭😭

good rule of thumb: claims of the form "X uses Y amount of water" are all fake and made up. eg when people talk about how much water it takes to raise a pound of beef they factor in every drop of rain that falls on the cows habitat. the most useless measure in modern discourse

@cookiecarver youtu.be/0N_RO-jL-90

in my early 20s i was pretty into western philosophy. that interest quickly died when i found out how terribly they all lived in my late 20s i got pretty into eastern philosophy. lived practice and life are inseparable

@EedenEnne x.com/array_hog/stat…

being high openness but hateful is such a funny combo to be

Sounds like the proper approach to developing your own taste. Gotta try a lot of things you don't like to define what you do