Benedict Westenra
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Writing a revolutionary farce • Teaching music like a language to 50,000 students • Founder of the Tigris Scholarship
Joined December 2021
@p8stie It's worse than that, female gymnasts tend to be at their peak at the age of 16, so if you happen to be born in the wrong year you could peak 2 years in between 2 Olympics and never have a chance at gold even though you were the best in the world for a year.
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@abettertake Tell your boss if he wants you in the office you're gonna have to have sex with him instead.
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@Rainmaker1973 Awesome innovation from the owner for their fish, but it does make the fish look like it's eating sushi with chopsticks.
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@extradeadjcb India went through everything we're going through a couple of millennia ago.
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@ItIsHoeMath One of the intellectual mistakes people make is thinking that a country is just its laws (which are frequently not enforced, anyway). A country is also its cultural norms.
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@thechosenberg We don't know what the girl wants, other than she wants to have sex while she's in palliative care. Do you want to deprive her of that?.
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@thechosenberg @ItIsHoeMath Extreme donestic example of what you've been talking about lately.
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@AutismCapital @signulll "Perhaps she could have simple cosmetic surgery if she doesn't like her appearance?" Girl is upset for accurately recognising that society is not designed to pair people up like it used to be, and you suggest she changes her face.
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@Shteyngart Giving people cash to buy their first house doesn't help them buy their first house, it just inflates house prices.
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@growing_daniel Whatever you think of Zelenskyy, the US offered to help him evacuate safely at the start of the invasion and he chose to stay in his homeland. He's incredibly brave.
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@rava Also saying "my parents are rich". People with rich parents are always trying to look poor.
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@Indian_Bronson What a loser, I start a new day every minute. This tweet took me a day to write.
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@jamiemessick14 If the guy wanted to blend in afterwards he could have just walked around screaming like a madman.
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@KILLTOPARTY Jerry Seinfeld has a joke that when and his wife and kids are getting in the car to go on vacation, he sits his wife in the passenger seat, walks round the back of the car to the driving seat, and that walk is *his* vacation.
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@InvasiveAmerica @ItIsHoeMath So the intruder broke in, but the husband ended up getting robbed by the therapist.
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@rajaalibraa @p8stie I'm sure the age varies, the point is that it's cruel that the Olympics is only once every 4 years if your peak only lasts for 1-2 years.
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@yonejutsu @abettertake You're right, this gambit is risky if the office is in San Francisco.
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@benonwine @metpoliceuk Same thing happened when my ex had her phone stolen. We tracked it to the house, pointed out that they probably had many other phones and we could prevent future crimes if we busted them, and they did nothing. And this was 10 years ago.
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@Martposting A mood stabilizer is incredibly valuable, splitting consumption saves money, and social signalling is effective.
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@skooookum So now I have to listen to someone called skooks reassure me about someone called zeta.
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@signulll Girl sounds nice and seems to be doing all the right things. It's not her fault, or the organisers' fault, or the comics' fault, society is not structured to pair people up anymore. Hope she finds someone nice as a result of this video.
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hoe_math on how to go viral without taking your clothes off. @ItIsHoeMath makes funny videos explaining what's wrong with modern dating. I interviewed him about social media strategy and society. timestamps:. 00:00: What hoe_math's YouTube channel is about. 01:30: hoe_math does
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@verymoisturized To clarify, you're talking about girls going on dates with guys they have no intention of sleeping with, right? It's super important for me to have Platonic female friends.
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@LDS_Dems They hate Zelenskyy because they want to pursue an isolationist policy and post-rationalize hating him.
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@moonbeamdreams_ Also true if you swap the genders. The best relationships are when both partners think they got a good deal.
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@ThatEricAlper "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor (by Prince). "Halleujah" - Jeff Buckley (by Leonard Cohen). "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell (by Ed Cobb, originally recorded by Gloria Jones - original is way better). "Hurt" - Johnny Cash (by Nine Inch Nails). "My Way" - Frank Sinatra.
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@_falsi1ke Appreciate the present. You might be yearning for things in the future, but by the time you get to 30, someone you care about might no longer be with you.
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@DrZhana Unpopular opinion in puritan America: putting your hand in a blender is actually super fun and healthy. Buy my book.
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@CartoonsHateHer @OrionTaraban has an interesting take on this, which is that if a woman gives a guy a marriage ultimatum, she cares more about being married (to someone) than she does about that specific guy:
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@littleapostate This whole debate is always framed as a false dichotomy: either kill the people being crazy in public or leave them where they are. Obviously the solution is to get them out of public spaces using the least force necessary. The cost would easily pay for itself in boosted business.
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@deepfates Everyone north of LA should supplement vitamin D. It's not actually a vitamin, it's a hormone, and sufficient levels of it are required to express 1/5 of all of your genes. I could not build muscle properly until I supplemented vitamin D.
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@CartoonsHateHer If a woman says she wants to get married and her partner breaks up with her because of that, then she was with the wrong person to begin with.
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@BillboardChris "Waste your spending money on dinners" - so how do young people buy a house? How much was your house as a percentage of your income when you bought it? Do young people still have that opportunity now?.
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@HumbleBarracuda @AutismCapital @signulll Great, please tell me what label I can give myself that gives me a license to be mean to people.
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@TheZvi I signed up for Claude Premium, discovered you can't upload, e.g., email threads for analysis like you can on ChatGPT, and immediately cancelled my subscription.
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@ItIsHoeMath I'd say the "masculine" part of her brain that knew this would get her money and attention overrode the "feminine" part of her brain that wants love and connection, and as she progressed through the act the feminine part of her brain started to rebel.
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@gvtcontractor Your friend is actually still exhibiting "nice guy" behaviour, i.e. doing things he doesn't want to because he thinks the woman wants it. He needs to just do what he wants: "I'm not gonna talk about TV shows, these are my plans this evening if you wanna join, these are my.
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@8zdn8mh7vz @growing_daniel That's because he doesn't get covered in Western media when he's in Ukraine. He does tons of broadcasts from Kyiv.
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@SperglerAcolyte So Diana and Joseph are in a straight relationship, but they otherwise only have gay relationships with people who otherwise only have straight relationships?.
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@RampCapitalLLC Your dog is your legal responsibility. Keep him off private property altogether.
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@steveruthrford @growing_daniel I've been in Kyiv while it was being bombed. You're in Michigan.
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@mixedfruit_ Rent control inflates prices of non-rent controlled apartments (i.e. most of them).
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@duck_cat1203 @ItIsHoeMath Intruder wasn't being violent for moral reasons, he was being violent because that's what he wanted to do.
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