Consuming news online is spiritually unwholesome. If you absolutely must read the news you should go down the street and pay with coins for a paper. Then keep walking and read it in a cafe. When a friend comes in you'll remember how little the news matters and put it down.
even better just buy one newspaper, ever, and read it over and over for a few years every time you feel compelled for news. This may cure you.
the guy wandering alleys downtown picking up used cigarettes to find the good ones left has keener powers of observation than a person who is compelled to be 'informed' by the news
if something actually important happens 3 guys carrying trumpets ride through the street on horseback announcing it anyway. It's not like you won't know.
A good newspaper would be a subscription where once a month an envelope is mailed to you with 12 printed photos or drawings or paintings of things that happened that month. There should be no context beyond the photos.
I don't know. You probably don't even need 12. Here's all of human history in 2 photos.
Here is all of human psychology in 2 images
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The zero-interest-rate era is going to become lost history because people want to make up a narrative around AI. The white collar bloodbath didn't happen because of a chat app release, it happened because of the end of ZIRP which occurred rapidly in 2022.
the extreme over-hiring and then bloodbath is visible from space. Also visible from indeed dot com data, indexed to 100 pre-covid.
The AI post-hoc story is doggedly self insistent but its completely false.
People a decade from now will think Elon slashed Twitter's employees by 90% because of some AI initiative, and not because he just thought he could run a lot leaner.
We're on year 3-4 of other companies wondering the same thing.
consider for an obvious example how h. pylori was discovered as the cause of peptic ulcers
RCTs might be used to develop new drugs to treat ulcers, but that's obviously inferior to discovering the cause. One is more scientifically important (the one that won the nobel prize)
Why *did* so many western nations seem to decide on a policy of infinity migration so suddenly, with seemingly no fanfare or public debate or even mention about it prior to backlash?
for example the change in Canada here from 2015-2019 looks genuinely crazy. Huge change to a previously conservative system, more than doubled. Possibly it made local news but not in the US.
But then the post 2020 change blows *that* out of the water
2022/2023 more than doubled the 2015-2019 averages in a lot of countries. And some of those 2015-2019 averages were already high, as we see with Canada, which makes these bars look less weird than they really are.
big % of the loneliness epidemic and fertility crisis is downstream of the fact that men now pursue a girl for 2-10 seconds total and if it doesn't work go "oh well"
women probably also reject far too quickly but that just means not giving up matters even more
there seem to be many different shades of "no desire" at play. If you really like someone you should probably try harder before giving up. But second if you like someone and they reject you you should be learn from that. Actually consider how you can be more likeable
A lot of times I see someone pursue someone else but its truly half-hearted. Like the pursuer hardly seems to want it. Or they want to overtly act like they cannot possibly be that interested even if they are. No lust, no laughter. Romance seems like a bore with those people.
A: You can leave keys in your car
B: You can leave car unlocked
C: You have to lock car
D: You have to lock car and conceal any valuables
E: You cannot keep anything in your car
F: E + and you have to leave it unlocked so they don't smash the window
IMO just buy Siggis 4% yogurt and cut up small pieces of what you already eat to feed them
3 babies in: We have never made a puree, never bought "baby food", and the only baby-specific thing we've made is roasting sweet potato cubes, which we mostly stopped doing