tarpert
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The literal #1 most suicidal belief you can have is that you’re an introvert/socially anxious/don’t like people.
I was this guy until around 22. Thought I was better than everyone else and actively chose not to be social.
Life completely changed when I started interacting with random people and just trying to make them laugh. Opportunities opened up, made relationships with people I never thought possible. Everything was just less dull and boring. Every day was fun for no reason.
You cannot be a lone wolf. It’s a mental illness.
Life is meaningless without people.
Goldie@dezgoldie
I believe in socializing basically 24/7. This has made me more money than anything else. High energy levels and constant social interaction.
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The big secret nobody tells you is that everything is actually easy. you just have to do it. That's it. That's the whole secret. Most people spend years psyching themselves out over something that takes five seconds of just doing it. Stop overthinking. Stop preparing to prepare. Just do the thing. It's easier than you think.
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You're not telling a young man to learn a trade, youre telling a 30-40 year old man to learn a *new* trade that pays less than his lifelong trade that he was told as a child to pursue , because companies are now financially incentivized to pass them up based on their heritage.
BoiltOwl@nealjclark1
You tell these sensitive young men to skip college and learn a trade and they melt down for days. You tell them to go to college and they melt down for days. Did they think life would just be anime and video games 24/7? (Yes they did)
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there's a lot of hard-ass, tough-shit, devil-take-the-hindmost guys who believe that it doesn't matter if young people are systematically misled, because it won't affect *their* kids.
but when you dig beneath the bluster, there's just a vague, shrugging acquiescence to decline.
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Boomers are entering rapid population decline—and with it, their cultural dominance is fading fast.
Black pill or white pill, the choice is yours. You have ~15 years to step up and shape what comes next.
2030s–2040s will be the peak decline window:
- All Boomers 65+ by 2030
- Peak annual deaths ~2030–2045 (max ~2044)
- Annual deaths could climb toward 4 million
Bottom line:
- Culture is momentum-based
- Culture is upstream of politics
- America’s culture is up for grabs
- The Culture War is about to accelerate exponentially
- Thousands of battles over the next 20 years
- Stop thinking in 2 or 4-year election cycles.
- Start building for the next 40.
Get to work.
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
I've written for the last decade about the educational divide in the US, but culturally there is now a large divide between generations — specifically those over sixty versus basically everyone else. The sixty-plus cohort (Boomers which I'm at the very tail end of) have a lot more certainty that they've discovered the Truth — or the high point, and often end point, of many things. From music (rock will always be here), to fashion (why would anyone wear anything but blue jeans), to politics (liberal democracy with emancipation from all forms of obligation as a human Telos). Younger people are much more uncertain and relativistic. They don't accept the claim that it's been solved, and the Boomers' rigidity and religious-like certainty seems to them either laughably naive or arrogantly condescending. The Boomers see everyone else as having fallen away from the path to historical perfection they paved, and are uniformly angry about that. What most of the Boomers miss is that the younger generation is living in the world they built — of hyper-individuality, of smashing of prior norms, and of moral relativism. This post-truth, post-gatekeeping, hyper-partisan world is an endpoint of their worldview, and yet they are angry about it.
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The Danish are paying Somalis $25,000 a year to rape Danish women.
Mirjam152@Mirjam152
Interessant plaatje uit Denemarken, waar dit soort zaken wél onderzocht en benoemd mogen worden.
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This one is actually beyond ridiculous: Stanford can’t find a job-seeking American database administrator. 🙄
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet
Stanford University (@Stanford) just posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Database Administrator Salary: $142,000 No software developer in the Bay area was qualified to administer this database.
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This is genuinely how the trajectory of most high IQ people will look over the next 10 years
Be good at something, climb to the top 10% with relative ease, build platform and financial security to pursue bigger things, then just go all in on the biggest opportunities that present themselves in the market
Same way the Chainsmokers got into PE, Mr. Beast got into CPG, celebrities got into hospitality, etc etc
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PewDiePie trained a frontier model at home and beat OpenAI and Gemini > be me PewDiePie > play games on YouTube and scream 24/7 > become a meme reviewer > get unfathomably famous > "fuck that" I'm a family guy now > retire > move to Japan with my beautiful wife > mfw I'm a dad now > "as a dad I must do dad things" > scratch that > "as a dad I must do frontier AI research" > goal is to beat GPT-4o at coding (16% on Aider) > buys $30000 GPU setup > reads DeepSeek paper > decides to start massive GitHub scraping and data augmenting run > not good enough > read Magicoder paper > generate tons of synthetic coding data > train a new model > guuuuuh. the data made the model worse > mfw I just wasted months for nothing > decides to lock in and try again > makes model worse again ffs > try again > finally beating GPT-4o on data (16.1%) > not satisfied > "I should simply train a reasoning model" > reads more papers > start experimenting with more synthetic data > "Mhhh something doesn't smell right" > house almost burned down due to power connector > shrug > just buy a new one > mfw computer is now crashing 24/7 generating synthetic data > new plan: just call DeepSeek API for high quality synthetic data > train model again > 17.2% > performance fluctuates slightly on each eval run > big brain idea: repeat eval until we randomly reach >18% > sike actually got 19.6% > feelsgoodman.png > nvm the benchmark was contaminated and I was training the wrong base model the whole time > rerun everything again > new score: 4.4% > you read that right REEEEEEEE > almost get a heart attack > "have you tried plugging the device off and back on again?" > change nothing and just retrain again > 25.3 % > LETS FUCKING GOOO > realize that 1/3rd of the benchmark was not running. guuuh > scared shitless it would score below 10% again > run yet again. the whole thing this time > Thirty fucking six percent > accidentally beat Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp and GPT-4.1 mini > pops the AI bubble > "I want moaaaar" > finds some more post-training data > 39% babyyyy > realize at the end that I was just benchmaxxing Aider polyglot > next quest: run SWE-Bench and other coding benchmarks > "I failed a thousand times, but prevailed in the end" > just a little sad side-quest > probably going to train GPT-6 myself by next month
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@ClearCastComms @danielgothits The younger generation is more stressed for sure. That's not at issue here. The issue is the method (AI agents) and the scale.
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@corbett3000 @danielgothits And the younger generations are deeply stressed by the asking price
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@danielgothits This is "fun" but a perfect example of an unethical use of this technology. My parents have a house on the market. I know that if they received this they would be deeply stressed. Ask yourself why you're causing harm at scale and what the implications are for you and humanity.
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If you invent a new energy technology in the US
and file a patent, here's what can happen:
1. Your patent gets flagged by one of 12 federal agencies
2. A secrecy order is issued
3. You cannot publish, sell, or discuss your invention
4. Violation = up to 2 years in prison
This is current US law. Not a conspiracy theory.
It's 35 U.S.C. §§ 181-188.
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@minithoughtsz @realrobdurden That’s provably not true. We have decades of data about life milestones like buying a home
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@realrobdurden We millennials have all those things. Live below your means, invest before you pay expenses. It's completely do-able.
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American Millennials have the unique curse of being old enough to remember that our dads and grand dads had comfortable lives, good wages, a house free and clear, pensions…& now we get none of those things. It makes us feel like we failed, but it’s the system that failed us.
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@FinanceLancelot I like that you’re doing TA on this chart. What’s RSI at?
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What are the odds we get to 20% unemployment?
FoFty@FoFtyTrader
nytimes: us added ~70% less jobs than initially estimated in 2025. the last time it was this bad? 2009 due to the great recession when it was adjusted down by about 902,000 jobs buckle up
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You need to realize that there is almost no competition right now. More and more people are drawn to escapism. Dopamine traps such as TikTok and Reels have effectively fried about 70% of humans. Attention spans decrease, ambitions drown. You have no competition. In a few years from now, you will be able to see a clear elite.
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In 3-6 months, it will be nearly impossible for the average person to get a typical low to mid level white collar job at a company where they don’t already know the person making the hiring decision. It’s happening.
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@Nigel_Farage You admitted that you threw me out of party, reporting me to the police, because I wanted to deport foreign communities of gang-rapists and their accomplices.
I stand by every single word I said.
The British people can now join Restore Britain to make it a reality.
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