Aneesh Mulye

You do not need a life that looks impressive from far away. You need one that works up close.

when you ask an LLM "how may P's in srawperry?" what you're actually asking it is closer to "How many [151]'s in [15563][23][4124]"

If your habit depends on feeling motivated, it is not a habit yet.

Your future is being quietly shaped by what you do when nobody is making you do anything.

@benlandautaylor "Socrates, you're absolutely right."

I once saw a production of Gorgias where everyone read "Very true, Socrates" "To be sure, Socrates" "Indubitably so, Socrates" in the most exasperated I’m-sick-of-your-shit tone of voice imaginable and it permanently changed how I view all of those dialogues.

"but I did have breakfast"

@DaystarEld You can also think that 'democracy' *needs* checks on the insanity of the mob, and one of those checks is "can't pull shit like this". We respect human rights for good reason, and it's OK to say "using my money like this is a fucking abomination" and still be OK with democracy.

My guess is if you believe "my democratically elected government forces me to pay taxes, so I'm a slave if my taxes go to anything I don't like," you probably do understand what slavery is (it's not that complicated a concept), you just don't like democracy, so are equating them.

If your beliefs require using one word to refer to two totally different things, alarm bells should go off in the part of your brain that believes it cares about truth. (My guess is "taxation = theft," and he's upset that <1% of his taxes go to food stamps used by black people)

The space of things you can do is much greater than the space of things you can conceive of doing.

Lots of whiny mfers in my timeline. Just remember, if you are a regular person (and you are) this is the greatest time in the history of mankind to be a reader of books and a listener of music. Stop bitchin.

One of the laziest things you can do is berate yourself for being lazy. Stop judging your character and start building your systems. Wallowing in self-loathing is a form of procrastination.

The Western world today is governed according to the principles of Boomer Socialism with 401k characteristics and Grand Theft Bureaucracy.

@LanceVader @thewreathwright The 1947 culmination, yes. Since it was also an 'elite' revolution, and also far more peaceful than others at the time — which meant that the degradation it imposed on Indian society was kept to a minimum (except the insanity of Partition).

@aneeshm @thewreathwright Not the one in the 1940's?

"average rebellion mostly good" factoid actualy just statistical error. average rebellion pretty evil. Rebellion Against Georg, which lives in USA & brought forth the greatest country ever to exist, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

@justinskycak The Pedagogy of the Kinky.

If you want to remember it, you have to practice pulling it out of your head, not just pushing it in.

juice: take the world's sweetest fruit, selectively breed it to be sweeter, grind and strip out everything but the sugar water, slap a NO ADDED SUGAR label on the bottle

The ability to play any single game "rationally" perhaps has very little to do with living a well-ordered life.

estonia is named after the e-stone, which contains the e-sword that grants the person who pulls it out the right to become the e-head of the country's e-government

we like to imagine the ancient greeks and romans as looking austere and pale, because that's how we see their skeletons. but historians have increasingly been drawn to an unsettling conclusion: back in the day, those skeletons would have been covered in garishly colored flesh

@MasalaBai But nobody is raping, molesting, etc (or even can) 'women in general'. You're being dishonest here. Pause; consider; rejoin the fellowship of decent people. Don't justify fundamentally illiberal, tribalist/groupist low-grade degroid behaviour; better is possible. Your call.

I mean y'all forget you have mothers when you rape, insult, molest, stalk, abuse women.