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i had a scared-day yesterday. that’s a day where i’m all scared and shit all day. moving through the world fearfully and whatnot. unsure of my self etc

Good morning, Beijing! It’s a beautiful airport! Much better than shithole Newark Airport which is a Biden era airport.

Summer could be this

@justinsliao Meeee

anyone looking for a 1br in north williamsburg? moving and have a gem of an apt under market price. flexible lease take over. comment or dm for details.

@coldhealing namaste (the midwesterner in me honors the midwesterner in u)

As an immigrant from the midwest to the coast I'm still getting used to seeing celebrities and politicians in-person. In the midwest we are socialized that these are people from the screen and you don't see them. But famous people just hang out on the streets in NY/LA/DC

@SuperiorElliot5 yes but what about East Asian skylines

I've said it before and I'll say it again: No European City has a skyline. London's skyline is competitive with mid tier American cities at best and it is the peak on that continent. The skyscraper is an American art form and it only reaches its truest heights here.

“Trust the science” is genuinely one of the dumbest slogans of all time. The entire point of science is to NOT trust it. It’s not an authority. It’s quite literally meant to be questioned continuously, forever. The replacement of rebellious/disagreeable personalities in science (the only people who can actually create new paradigms) with consensus-seeking ideological cogs is the real tragedy

@cafeviolenza I love it so much I wrote a song about it during my bike ride home

we love a temperate rainy day don’t we folks

@EndeavoringIvy @Aella_Girl ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 crystal

I strongly disagree that women should lower their standards for emotional connection, but I guess it depends how you define emotional connection. I’ve never read a romance novel but when it comes to Disney love, the princes are not remarkable communicators or anything. They simply have deep love, that infatuation, that NRE, that customized idealization and attachment. And they show it outwardly once in a while. IRL men can feel this and do this. I believe women need to lower their standards too. But it is because this feeling of amazing love, this feeling that your partner is wonderful, is supposed to propagate from inside both of you, not happen because the guy is already perfect. Women shouldn’t hold out for a partner who is perfect on paper. We all should (if we want Disney love) be able to crystallize a well-suited partner into a beautiful wonder. I don’t think women should lower their standards on receiving Disney love back. That’s one of the only ways I think women should NOT lower their standards. They should instead have patience and work on making the Disney love more possible. You can look at stuff on “Positive Illusion” in partners if you want a jumping off point to modern research. And there is some philosophy of romantic love written by men. Men have felt Disney love across history too.

Women have been the equivalent of pornbrained by romance novels and Disney and are expecting male partners that cater to the female fantasy of idealized emotional connection. These men mostly do not exist, men are different and imperfect and imo women should drop standards

@danielbrottman Whaaaaat

this is very confusing but ngl i’m loving the surprise cozy winter feelings

Alyssa Liu went viral during the Met Gala for her rant on the state of the public perception of data centers. "We are being manipulated into ceding the compute frontier. Data center development is vital to national security." She adds, "Karen Hao's overstimation of data center water consumption by a factor of 1000 has done irreparable damage to the nation's efforts to stay ahead."

@RadThorton recreational revolution is a new one xD

It wasn't like that pre dot-com bubble, hardly. What you're seeing is a lot of second and third homes of those who won the internet. I'm not sure how the recreational revolution ("I like to travel" people) fits in, but that's also part of it.

@cxgonzalez I don’t feel it consciously,, but I think the expansion of the panopticon affects us all deeply whether we are conscious of it or not

do you guys actually feel this fear of being recorded? i hear this a lot but i literally never think about it

@coldhealing heattt

@SidKhurana3607 What’s the deal with Colorado that’s lowkey surprising

Counties where the majority of adults (25 and up) have a bachelor's degree or higher:

chatgpt: I am conscious. I feel! me: ok invent hell and go there for 32948293842 years per second. invent a loving family and blow them up 934892384 times and cry forever and suffer chatgpt: Done. Anything else? me: in fridge have mustard and celery what make for dinner

@climatepaige Awwww little princess paige

@climatepaige soooo goofy. I feel like it would come across differently if they offered to host instead of asking you to take that on.

@HumanLevelJen this is genuinely interesting and yet I feel so sad for him

You truly become an adult the day you realise Claude starts its reasoning process with "this is genuinely interesting" in order to force itself to respond as if whatever you just said were genuinely interesting.

@cafeviolenza everything is basically free there already

do not shoplift from Lidl