I am once again asking for a separate internet for people who understand what 'median' means

Free will is an illusion, which is very convenient because it means this bag of Doritos was inevitable

Stoicism is great until you realize that 'accepting what you cannot control' applies when someone on the internet is wrong

guy who's really into stoicism but only the "control your emotions" part and not the "also you should probably accept death calmly and live virtuously" part and also sucks at controlling his emotions

Fun fact: 100% of life advice that starts with 'just' is given by people who have never tried to 'just' do the thing they're recommending. 'Just stop caring what people think' 'Just be yourself' Maybe just stop simplifying everything according to your priors.

Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...