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Dec 2, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
It only took two and a half negronis and now I can lay before you to behold: the new simonsarris.com

How did I do #designtwitter?
its a 1550's painting by Sebastian Münster of Speyer, Germany that I split apart in photoshop to animate different bits. Everything runs on CSS with no JavaScript involved, even the buttons!

oof if you open the site in a new tab and later tab to it, you don't see the intro animations. I might have to add JavaScript just to fix this
GUYS IF YOU RELOAD THERE ARE NOW BIRDS

still in pure CSS. Just crazy how much there is in CSS3.
bird update: they fly bird-sanely now.

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Dec 18
When we first bought the land we had no landscaping budget but our own time. We started cutting down trees and brush all over, planning ideas for everywhere (orchard here, grove here, clear this field, etc)

We found it was unsustainable
There's simply too much for two people to do (at least two people who aren't retired)

So we took a step back and decided to work from the house outwards. Make the immediate lawn look nice and pull out all poison ivy. Plant a couple trees we really like (magnolia, sugar maple)
For several years (2019-) we just focused on cleaning up spaces starting from the house to the road.

by 2022 I was working right by the road, digging out overgrown stone walls. Like in this thread

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Nov 21
The simplest conclusion from looking at "seed oils" for ten seconds is that the burden of proof is on them. Never before did we eat this much Linoleic Acid (LA). Never before did we muck with fat composition at this scale.

You don't need "proof" to decide to avoid them. Image
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if fat composition explosively changes and everyone gets obese you don't need to do a bunch of studies. You can just not eat them and eat saturated animal fats instead and not get fat yourself and feel great.

You don't have to prove anything to anyone. Image
"blah blah calories in/out"

If you want to search for theories you don't have to look very far. Mammals in hibernation (torpor) tend to amp up linoleic acid content right before. All mammals except humans hibernate, its easy to imagine we have a pseudo-torpor state too. Image
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Nov 14
I avoided answering this one because I wanted to think about it for longer. But I still don't have a great answer that isn't rambling personal philosophy which probably won't translate well.

A few general things though.
I did make a thread of advice on finding a wife, which is not exactly finding a husband. But there is some overlap.

Some people asked me to write a husband version, but I found it difficult to say much with confidence

Dating really is a searching quest but its important to always keep in mind that it goes in two directions. You want to find someone and you want to be found. Many people spend most of the time on the first point. Working on the second point may be more fruitful.
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Nov 7
I think lots of people are used to the idea that life has a script. School encourages this, many ppl follow script from 3-21. Once the script is finished, people can exist at a sorta end-of-history state without re-examining. Some get depressed by this.
It's like navigating a river downstream and then finally you reach the ocean. Now what?

I have some sympathy for men and women stuck here.
There used to be strong scripts for getting married sooner. And married men and women used to be elevated in status. That's not really the case any more.

excerpt from "the way we never were" about the 1950s America. Socially anything like this is totally gone Image
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Oct 25
I think some of the birthrate decline can be attributed to two forces happening everywhere: increasing complexity, and decreasing hardship. Life is too complex and too 'good.' I'll try to explain Image
Complexity: There are too many non-life decisions to make and navigate. Whats the right healthcare plan? did I pay my phone bill? My dishwasher broke, I needed an oil change last month. 115 IQ people hardest hit: am I REALLY optimizing my IRA contributions perfectly with my HSA?
A lot of interventions don't help because they don't decrease complexity. Sometimes they increase it!

We see graphs like this, where the poorer elide complexity by ignoring it, and the richer wisely pay to remove some complexity from their lives. The middle again "hardest hit" Image
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Oct 24
the idea of a "honeymoon phase" in relationships is the fakest thing I've ever heard in my life. To believe it you would have to be a passive actor in your own life, things just "happen" to you. A television-brained phenomena
"oh whoops my desire just magically went away, no doing of my own of course, I was just minding my own business and then it wasn't there anymore. I have no function or part in the making or unmaking of that."

are you an imbecile? are you watching life from the third person?
"nooooo love is not something I seek and build and take an active part in, its actually just chemicals that happen to me"

ok. I guess I believe that for you

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