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note 241

2021.01.18

(me, living in doha, qatar) “man, this place is awesome! i love all the GDP/capita!”

note 240

2021.01.13

bolted my mouse upside down to the desk and now i just move the mousepad on top of it

note 239

2021.01.10

a post-hocracy is when you do whatever you want and afterward decide what form of government it was

note 238

2021.01.09

many respected figures are “tough but fair”… i strive to be “tough”

note 237

2021.01.07

walking around a party thinking “wow i’m gaining so much social capital right now”

note 236

2021.01.04

are there evidence based interventions to make you more of a go getter

note 235

2020.12.31

i havent seen 2021 yet don’t spoil it for me

note 234

2020.12.26

if you don’t donate genetic material you’re not a true Effective Altruist

note 233

2020.12.24

unabbreviate brony to “brother pony”

note 232

2020.12.22

tactical voting is possible in ranked-choice but is not a problem because no one knows how to do it

note 231

2020.12.18

are there evidence based interventions to make you more of a go getter

note 230

2020.12.17

i get where they were going with it, but the series should have ended after Zero Dark Fourteen

note 229

2020.12.15

it took me a while to realize i’d actually bought a Toffee machine, but now i love it! my friends tell me i’m not very perceptive

note 228

2020.12.14

aesthetic: life satisfaction

note 227

2020.12.07

excess deaths don’t tell you everything. covid numbers are higher than they seem due to the reduced rate of sidewalk-crack accidents

note 226

2020.12.05

for every hour i spend optimizing my website to make it run better on mobile, thirty other developers are intentionally making their company’s mobile pages harder to use so you’ll download the app

note 225

2020.12.04

i have heard the phrase “dollars to donuts” multiple times lately, is this the exchange rate for some new cryptocurrency

note 224

2020.11.29

do liberals realize that Saturday Night Live is an anagram for Saturday Night EVIL??

note 223

2020.11.13

moved 2 the swamp a couple years ago. sad to learn that swamp politics are dominated by the capital of the swamp. when will anyone think of the outskirts of the swamp

note 222

2020.11.12

BREAKING: woman who claims to have grown a bunch with record number of bananas on it revealed to have glued 14 bananas on by hand