Connor Harris

There’s a conversation happening on TikTok where the girls are finally talking about how a lot of men aren’t actually attractive. Like you go to the grocery store and see a ton of stunning women, but men? You will remember how many months back you last saw a hot man.

There should be a version of ‘earn to give’ that’s something like ‘get pretty to persuade’ I can’t think of a way to say this that doesn’t feel mean, but I think if you have a cause you really care about, and are lacking in basic hygiene practices, you’re leaving money on the table We’re wired to take fitter & more hygienic/presentable people more seriously than someone who eg clearly needs a shower and a hair cut. You may not want the world to work that way, but it just does I’m a little worried I’m going to get torn apart for posting this, but I genuinely want to see the people working on important causes have the best fighting chance to achieve their goals

Imagine not getting a job because some Foid HR manager thinks you're an "incel" who isn't qualified because you lack "dating experience" unreal.

Absolutely astounding figures from the NY state comptroller: spending on services for the NYC street homeless population ran to $81,705 per person last year, up from $28,428 pp 6yrs ago. Figures do not include all kinds of other spending, supportive housing, policing costs etc.

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Many of us neurodivergents struggle with Pathological Demand Avoidance, we absolutely hate being told what to do, especially if we were going to do that thing of our own volition. Like, it’s a visceral loathing. Can you relate? XO, Dr. Jen

One legitimate criticism of "classical education" is that it can undervalue the importance of STEM because it developed long before the explosion of scientific and mathematical knowledge in the 19th-20th centuries. That said, there's a simple fix: teach more STEM!

americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape

Wow, $37k in TOTAL tuition for a 5 year architecture degree? If my kid were interested in being an architect, I’d have them move to Utah for a year, work and save $, and pay cash for this degree.

the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering

"Functional strength" is a huge meme Number of times I've needed to deadlift a woman out of a burning building: 0 Number of gay billionaires who invested in my startup because they liked my abs: over 15 Focus on what actually matters

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