The self-obsessed boomers told their kids to “follow their passion” and “be whatever they want to be” Would have been more helpful if they had told us to “learn how the system actually works” and “pay attention to trends”

Growing up, I never understood all the talk of wishing for “peace” around Christmas This year, I get it so, so much

Caught a fun detail watching Honey, I Blew Up The Kid with my daughter The working shrink ray system’s database that was deleted was an “entire 38 gigabytes” Brb gonna go torrent the source code on Pirate Bay

If I could do it over again I would have posted 0.1 times less per day

We are so back View quoted note →

X is the degenerate slums of Babylon Nostr is a small organic, regenerative farm Yes, it takes intention and work to cultivate your Nostr feed, but that expense is nothing compared to the psychic toll that X takes on the mind and body, imo View quoted note →

Fun fact: That banger put dizzy to on the map tho View quoted note →

Seriously, where

Check out this rant. It’s the unlock. View quoted note →

This rant was a tremendous unlock for me and I recommend everybody here go listen to it. It simplified the world of the present day for me so clearly: the 80 year Strauss-Howe cycle is above all else the death and rebirth of a shared paradigm. After a crisis, we establish a paradigm for everything - money, the social contract, gender roles, government, social values, expectations of each other and the use of technology, etc. That paradigm holds for 80 years, but accumulates many anomalies - unintended consequences, edge cases, unanticipated challenges - along the way. At a certain point, enough anomalies accumulate for people to begin rejecting the old paradigm and searching for a new one. The very obvious two camps in the world right now are the people who still accept the paradigm, and the people who have given up on it and are seeking a new one. This will be a period where a lot of bad proposals are made for new paradigms. We just have to have faith that the ones that actually work will prevail.

WINNING View quoted note →