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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Whoever invented the two-part jar lid needs to never be allowed to invent something again
I'm getting a lot of lectures on "canning" here, whatever the fuck that is. Meanwhile, here I am with oil all over my hands from trying to work with the inane two-part lid on this jar of peppers.
Okay well now I'm reading about canning instead of revising my book. Good job everyone.
If I tried to fit that bathtub-sized pot in my NYC apartment I'd have to move the bed out.

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Psychologists use a term called "pluralistic ignorance" to describe the phenomenon of "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes." (h/t @AdamMGrant)

Here's a way to visualize it:
Imagine a group of people who hold a wide variety of viewpoints on a certain topic. We can represent what each person thinks with a brain—the color of the brain represents their viewpoint. This is what a rich diversity of thinking looks like.
Now let's put a circle around each brain. The color of the circle represents what each person is SAYING about the topic. When everyone is saying what they're really thinking, the circle matches the brain, allowing the brains talk to each other. The group forms a superbrain.
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To honor Tom Brady's retirement, the 10 craziest Brady stats:

1. In his 20 seasons, he racked up by far the most regular season wins by a QB, going 243-73 overall.

He played the most games of any QB (316) AND had the highest win percentage (76.9%) of any QB with 100+ starts.
Still on #1, here's Brady's wins per season. His three worst seasons were 9-7 (once) and 10-6 (twice). Over 20 seasons, he averaged 12.1 wins a season.
2. Brady's teams made the playoffs 19 of his 20 seasons and won the division 18 times.
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Cartogram thread (all via worldmapper.org).

Let's start with the reference map. Every other map has countries sized by the statistic in question.
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So after tweeting last week that iPhone 13 seemed disappointing and I wasn’t gonna get it, a bunch of people kept telling me the jump from 60 to 120 Hz was actually a big deal. So I went to the store and checked one out and caved and upgraded. Turns out 60 > 120 Hz is almost…
…as big a difference as non-retina > retina display. Just immediately made my old screen feel a decade old. Scrolling at 120 Hz is silky smooth and looks to the eye like you’re pushing a physical object around…
People who don’t find new tech gadgets to be sexually attractive should probably ignore me and not bother upgrading but for those who do, you might want to bite the bullet and go for it.
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