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@MatthewHokie @nikitabier @stefanoscalia Same same. I was visiting from another country and I was flummoxed at how boring it all looked

@nikitabier @stefanoscalia The first time I visited the Bay Area working for a company in Milpitas I was so confused. Driving around Milpitas, San Jose, Palo Alto...like, what? This is it? Fair point about food, but the whole areas sucks.

I cannot believe people want to live in Palo Fucking Alto

@tszzl @apples_jimmy Just saw it, and I thought you might have been too harsh prior to watching.. but I ended up agreeing with you. They stayed unnecessarily safe and focused way too much on punchy funny writing. Was a nice watch, not overwhelmingly good.

@apples_jimmy I didn’t say it was bad .. just didn’t agree with the effusive praise I was seeing

Watching Project Hail Mary today. Will it live up to my expectations or will esteemed movie critic roon be correct in it being bad..

@signulll I can't find myself agreeing here, but at most, willing to say that it is a harder road and far from over - increase in socio-economic status in cities have made a difference.

@ravers1917 yes i am aware but it is so ingrained in the psyche that there will never be any progress on it for the most part.

america is one of very few countries that has even tried to build a multiethnic democracy at scale, & the fact that it has a visible, loud, ongoing discourse about racism is actually evidence of relatively low tolerance for it compared to countries where racial hierarchy is just... ambient & unremarked upon. japan (lol very obvious now), korea, much of europe, india's caste system, han chauvinism in china, ethnic dynamics across the gulf states.. most of these societies don't even have the vocabulary for the conversation america tortures itself over daily. america is quite literally is one of the least if not the least racist countries on the planet, & it's not even close.

@CobraTattiTate @IntCyberDigest How did you manage to derive that this is about Hinduism

@IntCyberDigest So what? What’s illegal here? Are you using hinduphobia to grift on X? I don’t get it.

🚨‼️ BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel's Gmail account was hacked by Iranian nation-state hackers. They have published his entire inbox, including mails on his home in India, private life, personal data, business dealings and travel history (Havana, Cuba!).

@remercurize @atomicmonday @ConnorLounsbury Lulz

@ravers1917 @atomicmonday @ConnorLounsbury Forced political viewpoints in a Sorkin show?! Say it ain’t so!!

It was bad

@atomicmonday @ConnorLounsbury It was a fun watch but don't think it stands up. Forced political viewpoints, and Aaron Sorkin Sorkin-ed too much (fast dialogue, walking-talking, etc etc)

@ConnorLounsbury The Newsroom was awesome. Each to their own but I loved this show.

@ConnorLounsbury "What if we make the lead an annoying Democrat who says he's Republican"

@BasicCityLex @Rainmaker1973 @grok youtube.com/watch?v=xUR2wu…

@Rainmaker1973 @grok what song is this?

Anti-gravity lean with the green screen

@TylerMannino @WallyWestEnd @disparutoo They visually repeated all of it for a short movie. Several people in the thread including OP noticed it too, can't be that much of a coincidence :)

@WallyWestEnd @ravers1917 @disparutoo No all the information was not known. Without that scene in the van we wouldn't have known the truth about what actually transpired.

This is obviously not true. “The Rip” has a whole van scene that drags on specifically because it is spelling out the ENTIRE and very basic events that happened before it. It literally retells the whole story again before the final action scene. Now this shouldn’t happen, but clearly does.

@TylerMannino @disparutoo It was a decent film, but it did exactly that in the scene. It's a good example too because Affleck and Damon also have publicly said in interviews that if is an expectation to repeat plots in streaming

@disparutoo You're being disingenuous. That scene is a classic twist reveal which needs to be explained. It didn't retell what we previously saw, it explains what was actually going on the entire time and without it we wouldn't know wtf was going on. The Rip was actually a decent film.

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@sughanthans1 @tszzl @pmarca Hahah

@ravers1917 @tszzl @pmarca What do you think? should I’ve introspect? ;)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X.16: “To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”

@sughanthans1 @tszzl @pmarca am kidding - it was the opposite :) Marc in a podcast said that he doesn't introspect at all, and this resulted in a big X debate

@ravers1917 @tszzl @pmarca Got it

@theperpetuity @darryn_briggs He can be smart, lucky, and a sociopath at the same time.

@darryn_briggs He got lucky for studying at Urbana-Champagne using the work of Tim Berners-Lee who basically invented the WWW on NeXt computers from Steve Jobs at CERN. Marc got lucky being part of the team who created 1 of the 1st usable web browsers. He got lucky, almost serendipitously.

This man, whom I used to greatly admire as a computer science student, is...a sociopath. Society keeps propping up sociopaths and it has endangered the world. Ayn Rand has WAY too many disciples.

@parmita We might not know much of him if he took action without introspection - there would be no book, and his achievements would have had to truly stand out for us to care.

If Marcus Aurelius introspected and took no actions then you would not know his name or his books

@SydSteyerhart @tszzl Honestly we are falling for the obfuscation. The word was introspection. Marc has purposely shifted his response to address rumination. And we are here now.

@tszzl I'm being extremely reductive here, of course. But I do think it's worth separating two types of rumination: the kind that Arjuna does at the beginning (and is chastised for), and the kind he does with Krishna. I think Andreessen specifically meant the first kind.

"Heroes don't ruminate, they act," is the entire thesis and substance of the Bhagavad-Gita.

@sughanthans1 @tszzl @pmarca Marc is a fan of introspecting (obv with quoting Aurelius) and is upset that many think it isn't important

@tszzl @pmarca What’s the obsession on timeline with introspection? What happened

@tszzl @pmarca don't fall for it roon, Marc has entered trolling territory :)

@pmarca an entire book where the guy is introspecting

@drgurner @andre_antunes @pmarca I was surprised to hear David immediately claim that in over 400 biographies, he didn't come across any examples of introspection?

@andre_antunes @pmarca David is such a well-read man who has read the many writings & introspections of some of the greatest builders...I was surprised he didn't piece it apart a bit. I think @pmarca has a point that you can't live in the past, but introspection is a part of learning.

I would love to see more interviews where people actually get pushback, and they're not just a platform for some person bloviating.