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been pulling one all-nighter just to execute the idea of making this app more ridiculous:
-> you can change the background however you like, change the timeline color however you want, or turn it into glassy, aero, retroslop. you can add particles like snow, rain, or a starry night to comfort your tantrum timelines.
-> web stickers! you can slap any stickers either images or gifs from your local file or from a url and make them as link buttons. you can add some aura or just silly reminders that this app is mostly a joke, so don't scroll too serious.. the configuration saved locally!
-> built to smooth integrate with the extensions "control panel for twitter" and "typefully minimal theme" both are the best at decluttering the bloated mess.
-> cross-platform! all you need is a userscript manager (tampermonkey/greasemonkey). you can mod it on mobile too (but only supports mobile-firefox-based browsers since chrome not supporting extension there).
now i'm ready to maximize fun value on this janky site… but first i gotta sleep huh
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"Okay, so imagine a magic button."
"I'm imagining the button."
"If you press the button—"
"What color is it?"
"It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is."
"Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—"
"That's a different thought experiment."
"—and I tried to be a nice guy and pick blue so I could save everybody, but it turns out ya'll a bunch of selfish motherfuckers and I died."
"It wasn't buttons. It was pills."
"Don't care. I'm out for me this time. What color is the button?"
"Ugh, fine. It's red."
"I press the button."
"You don't even know what it does yet!"
"And I pull the trolley lever."
"There's no lever!"
"Bias for Action."
"Just listen: there's a button that lets you save 10^100 shrimp, but it kills one random person. Would you press it?"
"What flavor are the shrimp?
"Flavor?"
"Yeah, you know: garlic, Old Bay, Korean BBQ."
"You're saving the shrimp, not eating them!"
"Saving them for what?"
"For nothing. They get to live their lives."
"What? Just doin' shrimp stuff?"
"Yeah."
"How long do shrimp live?"
"Uh, it depends on the species? 1-2 years?"
"And then what happens?"
"They die."
"That seems like a waste."
"How is that a waste? They got to live full lives."
"Weren't you just telling me last week that bees live in perpetual agony and we should commit insect omnicide to free from the suffering of the flesh?"
"Yeah, but that was last week. This week I read a new Snubstack post with a math equation in it and believe something totally different."
"Uh huh."
"It's called updating your priors."
"Okay, well here's my updated prior: I press the button, let the shrimp live for a year, and then I eat them."
"What?"
"All of them."
"You can't eat 10^100 shrimp."
"I freeze the leftovers."
"You would need a freezer bigger than the universe!"
"Really?"
"Yes! 10^100 is more than all the atoms in the observable universe!"
"Okay, then I have a freezer bigger than the universe."
"You can't just—"
"No, wait. Three freezers. One for each flavor."
"You can't just make up three freezers!"
"Why not?"
"It's a hypothetical!"
"Yeah I hypothetically have three big ass freezers."
"The point—"
"If you get to throw out a big ass number of shrimp, I get to have some big ass freezers. Maytag freezers."
"The point of the hypothetical—"
"I've always been a Maytag Man."
"The point of the hypothetical is to interrogate our moral intuitions!"
"Yeah well the only thing I want to interrogate right now is a Red Lobster menu."
"I don't think you're engaging with this in good faith."
"Wait, I got a new hypothetical. A counterfactual even."
"Oh really."
"You know what I would've done differently if I knew you were gonna hit me with this mouthwatering supper-time supposition?"
"What?"
"I would've had breakfast this morning."
"Fuck you."
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One of the things the stoics got right is that the mind and body need to be continually challenged, almost every day, to modulate neurosis
Not at an intolerable level, but a level where you’re straining for a decent part of the day
You will become more neurotic basically as soon as you stop. This is why people become basement dwellers that can never accomplish anything and eventually become afraid to go outside
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Be careful with habits. Notice the habits of others. They're sticky.
I recently bought a complicated mouse with extra buttons because I'm fancy now, and I programmed them to accomplish 10-second tasks with a single click.
What I'm finding is that I'm absent-mindedly clicking the buttons according to the habit that I built for a different mouse that I have not owned for 6 years.
I can remember the new button layout most of the time - and 100% of the time that I focus on it - but that defeats the point. It's supposed to prevent me from focusing on it.
As much as we all hate to admit it, we do most of the things we do in life at that low level of awareness. Stimulus, response. Stimulus, response. What do you mean, "think about it?" Why would I want to do that? This is the way I've always done it.
It can be difficult to remember that thoughts cost energy. We think about thinking as "free." You're not doing real work, you're just sitting there!
But that's not true. People have a limited amount of mental processing that they can do every day before they're tired, just the same way that muscles work. And also just like muscles, some people are stronger and some not so much.
Asking certain people to "just get it" is like asking a baby to help you move a refrigerator.
And when you're tired, (or bored, or hungry, or drunk, or in a bad mood), you get closer and closer to that baby-level mental strength.
Remember that when you are building your habits. You want to program the weakest, stupidest part of your mind to make good choices when you're out to lunch.
And remember that when observing the habits of others. "I'm not like that anymore" often only means "I haven't made those choices lately." The habit may still remain, ready to return the moment that things get tough.
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btw the "things" in "you can just do things" refers to like rolling your own auth, asking a girl out, or making sourdough bread, not murder
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thoughts on this guy?
>you actively lurk e/acc
>scroll through endless posts about AGI salvation
>like every "NEVER KYS," "ACCELERATE," and "GM ANON, DID YOU ACCELERATE TODAY"
>been Chad your whole life
>tech job pays stupid money
>digital nomad lifestyle
>handsome
>peak physical condition
>get into surfing accident
>develop CLBP
>the same shit from those cringe commercials with old people making exaggerated faces when bending over
>pain starts mild but gets worse every day
>physician suggests surgery
>insurance says no
>wants you to try every less invasive option first
>friends think surgery is stupid
>keep bringing up some swedish study from 2016 about fusion outcomes
>condition keeps deteriorating
>this goes on for months
>nothing works
>only option left is 4 level fusion
>know the risks are insane
>don't care anymore, need it to have any chance at normal life
>just want to move without wanting to die
>operation gets botched
>realize life is actually over
>oh also you just turned 26 so you’re no longer on your rich parent’s health insurance
what’s your next move anon
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While it's pointless to speculate much about the psychology of the United Healthcare shooter, it seems clear that he was both highly intelligent and highly irrational. That probably means he was an individual on a psychotic break, not an expression of a societal trend.
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OK, I have one last thing to say that's sort of about the guy but not really.
You can be young, handsome, talented, rich as hell, whatever. Chronic pain will shatter everything about you. All the privilege in the world doesn't outweigh pain you can't escape.
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Claude, Github Copilot, ChatGPT and Llama helping me debug this horrible code so i can provide shareholder value as a man in the arena trying to compile the codebase, sometimes it will work, sometimes you will get a segfault but always re-compiling
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loving rust is easy, but loving javascript or python slop and all its defects - loving the ordinary and seeing how you can use the sub-par to ship and produce value for your environment is what a great engineer does
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The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.
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The worst part about an unsatisfied mind is you rush through everything, chasing an an achievable satisfaction. You don’t build a conversation but say your piece or try to make an impression. You don’t enjoy a date but try to win her over or achieve some physical goal. You don’t play music but throw chords and lyrics together to play a song. You end up using people and experiences rather than enjoying them. And you never get what you’re after.