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@AlvinTanYOLO

14 Jan

Republicans: "Let Trump finish his term."

Corporations: "We will not be donating money to your party."

Republicans: "Trump must be impeached."

Noam Choamsky was right.

There's only 1 party in the US, with 2 factions (Republican and Democrat).

And that party is the Corporatist Party.

Every government entity has tremendous checks and balances.

The White House, federal agencies, the Supreme Court, Congress, state governments, local governments, etc.

Power is distributed and under tremendous scrutiny.

And all of them are bound by oath to the Constitution.

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𝘼𝙇𝙑𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝘼𝙉 陈杰毅

@AlvinTanYOLO

14 Jan

I know it's popular wisdom that you should move on if a girl rejects you.

But I find this to be suboptimal or even wrong.

The only exception is if she starts ignoring your texts.

However, if she still responds and says she's busy when you ask her out, you still have a chance.

From my personal experience, girls might genuinely be busy with their lives, not feeling it that night/week, seeing other dudes, etc.

It's your job as a man not to overreact if she says no, gives an excuse, or even agrees yet flakes at the last minute.

In fact, I never ever reply whenever that happens.

I don't even give them a reaction.

I just wait a few more days, ask them to come over again, as if nothing happened.

I take it all in stride and stick to the game plan.

There's no room for emotions in the game.

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𝘼𝙇𝙑𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝘼𝙉 陈杰毅

@AlvinTanYOLO

13 Jan

When you work for a company, you need to prove yourself by constantly making noise, or else your boss will think you don't care.

It really should be about your work, what you do, and what you deliver.

But in my experience, surviving a job requires some degree of politics.

Unfortunately, it's not enough to just work.

You need to fake your emotions to look like you care more than everyone else.

And for that, you need to constantly make noise.

In-person, in a meeting, on a Zoom meeting, etc.

Everywhere where your boss is looking.

This is definitely a big reason why corporate jobs are so ridiculous sometimes.

Instead of working, people make noise by faking interest, because they feel they have to.

Your boss is faking it for her boss, the boss of your boss is faking it, so you have to fake it too.

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𝘼𝙇𝙑𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝘼𝙉 陈杰毅

@AlvinTanYOLO

11 Jan

Which Big Tech company is the hardest to boycott?

Do note that Google owns Android and YouTube, among others.

Do note that Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.

Do note that Amazon owns Whole Foods and Twitch.

Do note that Apple owns of course the entire iOS ecosystem, including iTunes.

I can get rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp today.

I don't use Apple products as a matter of principle. Score.

Amazon is easy to look for alternatives, as I don't shop that much.

Google... Ugh. 😳

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𝘼𝙇𝙑𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝘼𝙉 陈杰毅

@AlvinTanYOLO

11 Nov 20

Do the real thing.

Whatever your goal is, do the real thing.

Don't do fake things to prepare for the real thing, while fooling yourself that you're making progress in the real thing.

You're not.

I'll explain to you what I mean.

[THREAD] 👇

Back in high school, we had a physical fitness test called the NAPFA 2.4km run.

To prepare for it, guess what I did?

I ran 2.4km every day on a treadmill in an air-conditioned gym.

I was making excellent time on the treadmill, hitting 9-minute times consistently.

I was ready.

Well the day of the test arrived, and I was determined to get the best time in my class.

Guess what happened?

I gassed out like 5-6 minutes into it.

Despite leading the race for much of it, I saw people from the back overtaking me while I was forced to walk the final stretch.

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𝘼𝙇𝙑𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝘼𝙉 陈杰毅

@AlvinTanYOLO

31 Oct 20

We don't like to acknowledge that we judge people by their looks and dish out different treatments based on it, because it's admitting that we're shallow assholes.

We'd rather blame our mistreatment of unattractive people on their "bad personalities."

That way, we're not the bad guys, it's just a defense mechanism against their so-called bad personalities.

Which is a total cop-out/rationalization.

Truth is we perceive attractive people to have good personalities, even when they actually don't.

And vice-versa, obviously.

An ugly guy who's confident will be accused of being "cocky," "uppity," "faking it," "try-hard," etc.

A hot guy who's confident will be perceived as, well, exuding true confidence.

But guess what?

It's the exact same personality trait, just expressed by different people.

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