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something-in-the-waterism is the belief that what you’re lacking is a secret sauce from not moving to the right city and not being part of some special group that will make you a phenom. people who think this way almost always need to work on themselves way more than they need…

note: I cannot avoid the author saying that this post itself is a “status game”, or that any criticism of this reasoning is a status game. when your theory explains everything, it explains nothing.

plato had a lot of silly ideas, but the gist of focusing on universals or somewhat permanent ideas is the correct one. (advertisers, dumb as they tend to be, have made the term "evergreen" to refer to almost exactly the same thing.) when your thoughts are so obviously just constrained…

I often struggle to get others to believe that there was a period where the bemani-centric rhythm game scene circulated revenge porn of me that was also legally considered child pornography, and did so with amusement and not any concern that their behavior was harmful, despite that much of this…

I have included my name here so that if you forget where this is you can search my name + playlists into google. anyway, I’ve made a lot of playlists over the years and they’ve helped a ton of people and annoyed others. here mostly all of the good ones. …

a friend of mine, who is an immigrant from India, posted that claims like "the US has more crime than my third world country" are dubious. …

coined this a while ago but it bears repeating: "something in the water syndrome": the belief that what you’re lacking is a secret sauce from not moving to the right city and not being part of some special group that will make you a phenom. people who think this way…

I made a protein per dollar cost list for my own budgeting, and here it is if you find this at all useful. dollars are 2022 USD and prices are local to san antonio, but the hierarchy will probably be the same wherever you are *unless* local prices exceed the…