Thread of photos from families in each quartile of income in the world: first photo is from the poorest 25%, last photo is richest 25%.
Based on these photos, which income bracket are you in?
First up: Toilets
Outside of house:
Beds:
Stoves:
Toys:
Trash:
Armchair:
Bathroom:
Cars:
Getting water:
Front door:
Instruments:
Light:
Living room:
Power outlets:
Plates of food:
Showers:
These all are from Dollar Street. I tried to take roughly in the 'middle' of the quartile ranges. I mostly chose the photo I was going to use before I looked at the photo, but sometimes changed it if it felt very out of place compared to others in its range or was a bad photo
Roughly speaking, the quartiles for each (household income per month, in USD, adjusted) are $0-400, 400-800, 800-1600, and 1600+. Again - I tried to take middle ones, so we got mostly photos from around 2-300 range, 600 range, 1100 range, and like 2k-3k range
err srry bottom was closer to $100 range and top was closer to 3-4k range
gonna throw a few more in here
Families:
Their street:
Their nicest (as opposed to everyday) shoes:
Child's bed
Favorite home decor
Having guests over for dinner
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i've heard ppl who lost a lot of weight talk about some angry cynicism when people start treating them better, even ppl they've known for a long time.
I'm having a bit of that now that twitter seems to like me. i've been consistently myself this entire time, what's happening.
literally last weekend i had multiple ppl come up to me at a party and go 'oh are you aella? i see you on twitter cause everyone hates you'.
if the thing that causes ppl to like me is that i just publicly was patient and knowledgeable with a doofus then this feels kind of shallow and fickle and bad incentives for me. Like what, i win the tribal allegiance game by doing very easy, low-brow things? oh no
i feel like i got friendly with the anti-woke coalition over the past few years, but now it feels like they're walking off a plank into extremism and i feel frustrated about it. Being anti a bad thing doesn't make you right by default; righteous revenge is not compassion
i cant believe i went through years of being super trans-cancelled, shinigami eyes labeled a transphobe due to my sin of being nuanced, and now im feeling like im about to become an insane woke trans defender in the eyes of those who moved further right than me
maybe this is cliche af but my calibration method is something like "Imagine you were really, deeply in love with someone, but also had good boundaries around not overexerting yourself, betraying yourself, or lying. From love, what would you say, how would you act?"
as someone who's eaten a buttload of lsd, tripsat another buttload of people on lsd, and seen plenty of examples of ppl kinda losing it after lsd, here's my advice to not go insane: 1. LSD can be lifechangingly good. You shouldn't make the decision to avoid it lightly/
2. I would be hyper careful if you have bipolar, schizophrenia, any psychosis in your family. I'd be careful if you're trans, have anxiety, are switching any meds, or if you've exhibited unusually high amounts of altered beliefs on other drugs.
3. I would START WITH SMALL DOSES. Seriously. Start tiny. Slowly work your way up. This can give you the opportunity to notice at very low levels any symptoms that are a clue you should not continue.
Those symptoms are:
The more I've learned about kinks, the more I realize I have no idea what's going on, and neither does anyone else. If someone makes a bold, blanket claim about kinks, they don't know what's going on.
Probably some kinks are the result of trauma, sometimes. But it depends! 1/
Certain fetishes seem correlated with childhood abuse more than others, and in certain demographics more than others. And even among the fetishes that are correlated more, there's still a substantial fraction of people who are into weird stuff and report zero childhood abuse.
Not all kinks are created equal - there's different categories of fetishes, and my theory (looking at all the data i have) is that they likely have different types of causes, and use different types of the brain than others, and play vastly different functions
I've been tracking my mood, habits, and biometrics (oura ring) for years. I fed all 2k+ days of data into claude and asked it for a report on what to do to improve my mood
it was like "based on the relationship of your mood to all your other data, i recommend you go outside more, hang out with friends, and dance. you should avoid spending a long time indoors isolated and gaming"
i asked it 'how do i improve my sleep' and it was like 'go to sleep at 1am, get ~7 hours of sleep, and for the love of god keep a consistent sleep schedule'
I sometimes do interviews of people with obscure fetishes, here's some of my favorites --
1. A guy was aroused by the moment women discovered they had accidentally put on some weight.
It had to be accidental, and it had to only be some weight (like, not getting obese). He loved the concept of a woman going on vacation, eating good food, coming back home, and realizing she couldn't really button her jeans anymore. When women would make posts online like 'omg how did I gain 10 pounds over the summer' that was prime erotic fodder for him.
He didn't seem to be particularly into anything adjacent. I was like, 'is this about embarrassment and loss of control', but he didn't seem to be into anything else involving embarrassment or loss of control.
2. A guy who was into a related older women giving disinterested handjobs while sitting next to him on the couch.
It was optimal if they were something like an aunt. Mom could work but was less good. Unrelated woman could also work but was less good. He specifically liked the handjob thing. I asked if it would be good if they gave him blowjobs, and he'd be like eh no not as good. She had to be not paying attention to him, like ideally watching a movie or something. She had to be ambivalent. He said it was hard to find good porn because most stuff in this genre involved female dominance or some kind of humiliation, and that was a turnoff.
Other forms of ignoring kink didn't seem to do it for him. I asked about like... what if someone is having full sex but not paying attention, or making him clean while ignoring him? No, not as good.