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reallykindasorta

@ reallykindasorta @slrpnk.net

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  • A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us

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  • Yeah it’s kind of like the psychological advice to let go of things you can’t control. That’s fine when it’s your annoying boss (within limits) but not fine when it’s mass kidnappings.

  • A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us

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  • In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study.

    Found this bit interesting

  • Who Remember This? We Also Broadcasted It Live To Schoolrooms

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  • I don’t forgive the nazis or the americans either

  • Who Remember This? We Also Broadcasted It Live To Schoolrooms

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  • I haven’t forgiven them for sending up a dog and a monkey though

  • Is Bitcoin actually worth anything?

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  • Besides gambling hype I think regular people are into it for a couple reasons:

    -don’t have to trust the whims of your state government (who could devalue their currency at any time)

    -deflationary by design so your earnings maintain value (no one could discover a btc meteor to mine)

    -Requires broad miner consensus to change the rules

  • Soon

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  • Despite all the and suffering it has caused and will cause, Trump admin has at least handed us the beginning of a breakdown in US hegemony as trust has eroded with other nations who are all busy pivoting away from it right now.

    Unfortunately upon breaking the gridlock, other nations are scrambling to maintain the status quo rather than leaning into the future by redoubling commitments to address human and climate crises before it’s too late for the humans.

  • What are the websites, articles, books or games most intellectually stimulating to you?

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  • Philosophy is excellent food for thought, working through a MOOC course (MIT/Yale?) and doing the prescribed readings might strike your fancy. Happy to give more specific recs if you have some existing curiosity about a topic. Side note that it’s difficult to find people to talk to online about serious philosophical topics, the options I’ve seen (discord groups, facebook groups) usually aren’t very engaging but the reading and lectures and contemplation are engaging on your own imo.

    Watch ancient history documentaries like the Fall of Civilizations or History with Cy channels on youtube (Fall of Civilizations is also/originally a podcast if you prefer). Whenever I am feeling empty of interesting thoughts this is my go to. When I watch frequently I constantly find my thoughts combining and recombining history with my current experience in a way that feels awfully close to intellectual stimulation. I also find it gives some mildly comforting perspective on current events.

    Built to purpose gadgets. Getting into arduino or similar as a hobbyist can be intellectually engaging. The process of identifying something in your space you could enhance then drafting and executing a plan (including some basic programming) is kind of like a puzzle. Building things you don’t need like an LED based checklist for chores that resets every day, a pedestal that spins to give a house plant even sunlight, or a solar powered bird house might be a fun challenge.

    Edit to add that if you live near a university professors will usually let you unofficially audit their class if you’re interested in a topic and have time during the week.

  • I can track my old lease car

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  • That’s wild!!

  • You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list?

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  • Find a nice waterfall and build a hut by it

  • It's so beautiful

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  • I ran into a litter of wild turkey chicks a few months ago and it was such a contrast to how little ducklings group together and line up to follow mom. The turkey chicks scatter every which way instead.

  • Fellow Lemmings, in work-place conversations (like conflict resolutions, negotiations etc), where you feel you are being misunderstood, how do you manage to realign the conversation?

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  • Flow charts or bullet lists as visual aid. The higher position your interlocutor is in the simpler you should try to keep your point. If you need their input on a project only bring them one A vs B decision at a time.

  • Pure authoritarianism

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  • On god I have a co-worker named Riz though. Straight bussin’.

  • Karl

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  • …it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers.

  • Great addition to any vessel

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  • I still remember the pneumonic for “pool” in Spanish that a high school classmate came up with: La Piscina — Piss in a pool.

  • Rulebois

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  • The least gay way to get pregnant since liking girls is gay

  • It aint that hard, fuck wits

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  • Or badly designed ones with a combo of yield and stop signs that effectively prevent the people with the stop sign from ever proceeding

  • It aint that hard, fuck wits

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  • My mom taught me to never trust a turn signal (or lack of one)

  • Dude looks like a Nickelodeon character

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  • a slight caricature of a real photo

  • The same picture

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  • Definitely wasn’t disagreeing with you haha