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IF MAMDANI WINS NEW YORK THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WILL LITERALLY MELT, all the rats will form a council, pizza will be banned, & somehow this affects YOU personally in Oklahoma. im not crazy. You’re crazy
I don’t like asking for money and I never expect financial help from anyone but due to circumstances outside of my control I’m about €230,000,000 short this month to pay for this yacht any assistance would be amazing and I will absolutely pay it forward (I won’t)
Between the literal false idols, the dedication to lying and the exhortations to kill Venezuelan boating enthusiasts I’m starting to think evangelicals might not have read the 10 fucking commandments
Writing - every day - is practicing thinking clearly over and over until it becomes almost natural.
Worst case: you’ve lost twenty minutes a day that you’d likely have lost scrolling your phone anyway.
Best case, you’ve debugged your own cognition.
The greatest irony of progress is that the people most obsessed with building the future rarely know how to enjoy the present.
We’ve optimized for acceleration so hard that Be Here Now feels like a system error.
TIRED: giving poor people $200/month for food
WIRED: giving a corporation that makes $60 billion in profit a $15 billion tax break because they promised to create 41.3 jobs in Ohio
> "There’s something mortifying about this spectacle: a grown man, supposedly a paragon of rational thinking, scratching around in primeval religious texts to terrify himself with superstitious prophecies, which the people around him entertain because he’s wealthy and powerful...”
The Venn diagram of people who shout “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” and people who have actually read 1984 is two circles so distinct and so far apart they might as well exist in different and incompatible multiverses
