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Oct 9 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
How did humans conquer the world? People mention fire, bigger brains, and tools, but no one talks about the real reason—our evolved shoulders.

Our Shoulders are the most unique in the animal kingdom, they’re the reason we survived and thrived.

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/in-praise-of… Our shoulders tend to get injured frequently if we're not careful.

That's become we sacrificed stability for mobility

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Jul 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"our hostages"

There is a big attempt at merging America and Israel into one country. It suits the Israelis since it gives them an empire with unlimited money and military arms.

Does it suit the USA? I'm not sure. But it's really weird. I've never seen anything like this before. This is the logical endpoint to a situation that started decades ago

It just seems to be accelerating toward an explicit union after the Gaza war.
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Jun 6 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The World is Divided into Nations with Thin Cultures and Thick Cultures.

Moving from a Thick Culture to a Thin Culture was ultimately what the Sopranos was about.

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/thick-thin-c… America is a thin culture nation. What binds us together is not much.

If you speak another language or have been immersed in another country it is obvious.

But if you grew up here you would think this is what the entire world is like

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May 27 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
People say this quote a lot but what it misses is that the environment has changed.

1999 was very similar to 1982.

But 2024 is not similar to 2002. What are the differences between then and now?

there are a lot

Let's go over them

1) Stuck Culture

Decades aren't changing anymore. Clothes, haircuts dont change.

Movies are all sequels

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/culture-stuck
May 23 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
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Doing Hard Things is Fun When You Have a Safety Net

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/safety-nets-… When you don't grow up with money you wonder why people who do have a lot of family money tend to do hard things. Like becoming a doctor. Or grinding in various other jobs

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Feb 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Vulgar Wave supermodels put on some great fashion shows.
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Oct 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There is this notion that passports or travel documents are a recent thing. That isn't true. They've been around for over a thousand years

He mentions Lord Byron here. Byron had a passport and even complained about passports in his poetry

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Sep 26, 2023 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
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I'm worried about the future of Chicago

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/im-worried-c… Chicago has participated in the great American Urbanism revival of the last 20 years. I was born in the city and grew up there. I can see the positive changes

It is truly a great American city with New York City as it's only peer. Even though coastal elites disrespect it
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Sep 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Vulgar Wave.

A period of 17 years(1990-2007) when pop culture catered exclusively to men 18-30. lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/vulgar-wave
Aug 10, 2023 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
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We do not know how to stop population decline

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/will-world-l… One of the defining features of our current age is declining fertility rates. Once society achieves a certain threshold of economic well-being the society than begins to have a lot less children.

Large swathes of the planet is under replacement including China, The US, Europe,… https://t.co/H8CJkZvcKOtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…


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Aug 2, 2023 • 41 tweets • 14 min read
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Why do we even need politicians?

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/people-afrai… Last week we see one 90 year old Senator not know what they were voting on. Another 81 year old Senator had a stroke in public but everyone treated it as normal.

We're increasingly becoming a gerontocracy with no end in sight. the age of congress just keeps going up.

It's a rational strategy. The longer you're in congress the more power you have. That means more favors to your citizens.

But at a certain point someone gets so old that their entire staff runs their office. Who is their staff? I have no idea. You have no idea.Image
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Jul 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
People enjoy Art Deco because it was part of an evolution. A continuity from what came before it. It's slightly different but in the same tradition. It includes dimensions, color, finishes, ornamental, motif, details, etc.

What came after Art Deco was not an evolution. It was a… https://t.co/gK9cZMaaqxtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If we want to make Architecture good again. We have to start back in Art Deco and evolve from there.
Jun 27, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
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Hollywood has been mediocre for awhile now and it doesn't look like it's going to turn around anytime soon.

It may be finally time to say goodbye for now.

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/saying-goodb… It's been years now where the big box office films have been rehashed intellectual property, sequels, or teenager genre that pretends to be adult.

I think that's enough for me.

The good news is we have 80 years of good films to view when we want to peek into good cinema

Jun 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Weird.

They don't have data before the industrial revolution Image You had to be at least 60 years old to be a senator in the Roman Republic
Jun 12, 2023 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
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It's 2023 and we still haven't solved the Exercise problem. The mismatch between our environment and our body.

The number of people who regularly exercise is still low and 90 percent of people hate doing it.

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/exercise-pro… Apple, one of the biggest and most visionary companies in the world recently announced their first product in 10 years. Goggles. Screens in front of your eyeballs. Ok. I'm sure it'll be good.

But it isn't a real problem that we're solving.

Jun 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kids grow up in ghettos and warzone and Brazilian favelas with chaos and trauma and turn out ok.

But some psychologist is gonna break you? Ok.
Jun 6, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
If the goggles replace monitors laptops and some big TV screens it may be a positive development

if the goggles replace smartphones it will be a disaster for our shared commons I had a follower try to make an aesthetically pleasing computer once.

We gave up on trying to integrate technology in our homes. They just stick out and act like alien spaceships Image
May 29, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Alcohol prohibition had a massive impact.

Restaurants make most of their profits on alcohol sales. So they all went bankrupt after this law was passed. Food quality didn't recover in America for 50 years.

People got sham prescriptions for alcohol for medicinal purposes which… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
May 23, 2023 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
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The internet is not forever. Big tech companies have announced they are beginning to delete old accounts and content.

All of this is going to go away by the end of the decade.

lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/internet-not… Ever since I logged in as a kid I heard the same thing. "The internet is forever." be careful what you put there it will be there until the end of time.

Everyone heard the same thing

It was the modern Boogeyman. It was supposed to scare you.

It turns out. The opposite is… https://t.co/n5b2pOe4Ohtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
May 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
75 years old. The canary in the coal mine. You know he's on everything they got. TRT, HGH, NAD, Stem Cell injections. Who knows what else.

This is the generation to watch. Some guy in his 40s can tell you all about "life extension" or whatever. He's young.

Arnold is doing it at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Biden is 80 and looks very weak and frail. But he started the transhumanism game late. They're pumping him full of drugs to survive until election day and then he can pass away peacefully. Fair play.

Arnold is another story.
May 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The refinement culture lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-c…