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16 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
honestly I am still kind of a big fan of how the singapore police force openly and proudly admitted to simply being the biggest gang in charge
i mean, will your local police admit to this? 😂 a lot of the stress in life I think comes from the bullshit pretenses. when we put aside the pretenses we can have more honest conversations about wtf is going on

I still suspect that the person who posted this tweet was someone on the social media team who was tired of the lies and bravely chose to say the quiet part out loud. good! I hope they're ok and wasn't fired for this, or if they were, that they're doing ok regardless
thread of tweets that I feel are uncommonly good at puncturing pretenses:

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visa is AFK working on @introspectVV Profile picture
16 Feb
ok I need to know the source of the milk girl feed meme

and...

oh ok that was fast
this is eugeny, the man who gave us the gift of this photo

seems like he also paints? based and chad etc etc

instagram.com/eugeny_hramenk…
this is soska_117, the girl feeding the milk

she looks younger in other pics than she does in the meme

she has dark hair now but I'ma just post more of the blonde shots

can't figure out who the other girl is, who is the real star of the shot IMO

instagram.com/soska_117/
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visa is AFK working on @introspectVV Profile picture
16 Feb
reminder: you don't have to accept other people's proposals re: what is worth your time and energy
every utterance is a proposal

choose your responses thoughtfully and artfully in a way that pleases you

"but the whole timeline is-"

fuck the whole timeline
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16 Feb
I don’t think I talk about it explicitly much, but generally speaking I’ve always thought it makes more sense to acquire more wealth & influence than to argue about it with strangers. Like even a dollar is worth more than yelling at some anon online
this can seem cringe but it’s also true that a lot of the people who argue about who’s in charge of the world or their country etc could spend more time thinking about how much of themselves they’re in charge of, and how good a job *they* are doing as monarch of their domain
which isn’t to handwave away systemic failings, but how much can you really influence The System directly? I say this as an optimist who wants to make a difference!! My assessment and reading have led me to believe that it requires playing a very, very long game, strategically
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visa is AFK working on @introspectVV Profile picture
15 Feb
when I was younger I thought that talent was rare, but as I get older I realize that the answer is so much weirder than that. talent is not ~super~ rare. but talent hides, talent often doesn't want to be found, talent is scared, talent is clueless
you could revise the definition of talent such that "it's only talent if it's also brave, bold, sensitive and savvy, otherwise it's just sparkling potential" or something of the sort... I'm in two minds about that
it's just so strange to contrast how

there's this whole sphere of people who have minimal talent, minimal taste, but they're just really loud and obnoxious about LARPing success, and they even get some of it in a tedious sense

then there's talent that's scared, or just clueless
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15 Feb
also if you want 5 minutes of my time you can basically just ask me the question

if you ask me an interesting question i'll likely give you more than 10-20 minutes of my time unintentionally

but if you need to ask for 5 mins I don't trust you sorry

think about your question
it's a lemon market problem – I'm sure some people asking for 5 minutes are just sort of awkward nerds trying to be respectful, but the most common 5 mins asks IME are sleazy salesman types, and fuck those guys

also a thing that happens as you get "bigger" is... weird social prestige stuff? some people seem to want facetime because they think the facetime is intrinsically valuable somehow. "i wanna meet you someday" oh why? "to ask you stuff" you can ask me now! I prob alr have a thread
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15 Feb
in 1997, statistician David Banks wrote an essay titled "The Problem Of Excess Genius" – why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest? His primary examples are Athens, Florence and London + another set of minor examples (Paris, New York)
he lists out explanations that historians give in conversations (peace, prosperity, freedom, new paradigms), but argues that they don't quite match up to the actual history
his own observations:
- preceding military victory
- high rates of social intercourse
- education (the role tutors in particular)
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