Thomas

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Or, as i like to call it, DIEPTCUCPO (credit to @jtnichol)

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Do you know the difference between the Make-A-Wish foundation and the Ethereum foundation? … The Make-A-Wish foundation can actually work to deadline. ⁽ᶦ’ᵐ ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵏᶦᵈᵈᶦⁿᵍ, ᶦ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉᶠ⁾

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In times when the zeitgeist pendulum is swinging the other way, and the Overton window has shifted so much (albeit imperceptibly, one outrageous behavior at a time) that we start to normalize behaviors from our leaders that were previously unthinkable, there is only one thing that matters. And that is: stick to your principles, whatever they may be. Those principles haven’t changed because of whatever take is fashionable, whatever public tolerance exists for one extreme or the other. If some core principles were sacrosanct to you ten or fifteen years ago, odds are they are still non-negotiable to this day. Don’t be swayed by whatever apologeticism is used to normalize the state of affairs, past, present, or future

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post a picture of you from a different era

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My brother-in-law used to work in the ER. He tells the story of coming home pretty distraught one day. There had been a particularly horrific high-speed car crash involving a single vehicle. The driver was still alive upon reaching the ER, although barely. My BIL says he had never seen this much blood everywhere — red streaks on the ER walls, bloody footprints as the ER staff hurried around the patient, and a very crimson-soaked operating table. Even the surgeon’s face was splattered with hemoglobin whin or the patient’s open wounds gushed abundantly in every direction. It looked like a horror scene straight out of a cheap slasher flick. The patient kept bleeding endlessly like some hemophiliac fountain of gore. That was almost eight years ago, and some say the patient is still bleeding to this day, defying the laws of biology and the natural order. The patient’s name? Ray Shio.

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The unstoppable force of academic inflation continues to meet the immovable object of not enough demand for qualified jobs; this time, a report from China: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8nlpy2n1lo https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xe5a3b817

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Griftception: /ɡɹɪftsɛpʃən/ (US, slang). A recursive confidence game. Example: X (owned by Elon Musk) getting revenue for scam ads on top of Donald Trump’s meme coin.

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Ironically enough, the most effective defense by the powers that be (SEC, TradFi, etc) to stave off crypto’s threat to their dominance is *not* to regulate it to death, but rather the opposite — it is to institutionalize the grift at the presidential level, and let the greed incentive of the common man corrupt the tech from the inside

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Before doomscrolling became a 21st century concern about the engineered addiction to the kind of news that induce powerful negative emotions, the “mean world syndrome” was coined in the 20th century to describe viewers’ addiction to both fictional and journalistic accounts of violence on television, and their resulting negatively biased perception of the world. And before that, in the 19th century, the concern of the day was the readers’ neurotic addiction to newspapers that overindexed on violence and conflicts. “Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity. And it’s this disgusting aperitif that the civilised man consumes at breakfast each morning … I do not understand how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust.” wrote Baudelaire in 1860. Nihil sub sole novum.

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My wife said I should pick up a hobby instead of sitting around doing nothing, so I picked up meditation

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In aviation safety, we use James Reason’s “Swiss cheese” model to describe the successive layers of organizational defenses against human errors (which, themselves, form the overwhelming majority of errors). 1/

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Aim for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll end up with a rapid unscheduled disassembly

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It is funny to observe how car automations are handholding human drivers, the same way a parent might patiently handhold an adorable but bumbling toddler. 1/

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There exist unimportant matters of preference or perception that people jokingly pretend to be passionate about, which, in turn, upsets others. Examples: pineapple on pizza, flat earth theory, furries. If you pretend to have an extreme opinion on these, inevitably a few people will get combative and debate it in earnest. I wish ironics were a thing, so that we could dispel the confusion and keep the sarcasm going without aggravating anyone

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Electrogravitics is pretty high up on my “I want to believe” list I want us to leapfrog from 0.1 to 2 on the Kardashev scale, not incrementally get better at catching classical rockets with chopsticks https://x.com/andercot/status/1878944864580354273

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How did I miss this channel. It’s like NNN but all year long

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Anybody got user feedback on the @gnosispay card + Zeal Wallet? I'm warming up to the idea of a physical Visa card paid in crypto and it looks like a good stepping stone toward actually becoming @bankless From @koeppelmann.eth: https://x.com/koeppelmann/status/1877428020345987302

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Chronocentrist bias notwithstanding, I feel like we are truly living through a pivotal moment in History, as the pendulum forcefully swings away from the most progressive era on human record toward, well, the great unknown. A nine-part thread 🧵

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I once had to evacuate my family home in the middle of the night due to a wildfire when I was a kid. Firefighters had come to rescue us at the end of a cul-de-sac as the fire was closing in from all directions. Lifelong memory etched into my brain. I weep for all our LA friends here

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In addition to the general Ethereum discussions taking place here, if you want to discuss Ethereum-related market / price / tokenomics (which are against rule #2 of this /ethereum channel), please note that /ethfinance is now open to all, not just members. And if you want to discuss or ask about staking (solo or otherwise), consider casting in /eth-staker. https://warpcast.com/aviationdoctor.eth/0xf8868c7f

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