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We the assembled have gathered here to declare the start of a new era—our era—a New Anime Century.
Mount Purgatory
Joined April 2011
As we move forward to an oral culture society, the noble prize winning authors will become more and more obscure. Very few will have actually read them. The prize will end up being a discovery mechanism for obscure writers in the future. https://t.co/M8n2xcgWR8
“To read books gives us more power to survive these very difficult times on Earth.” When we spoke to 2025 literature laureate László Krasznahorkai, he encouraged us all to read more. Krasznahorkai also spoke about his happiness and excitement about being the newest Nobel Prize
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A hidden gem, from Harold Bloom’s Western Canon list: Alberto Moravia’s late novel 1934 (published in 1982). At the risk of overselling it, I can only describe it as “DEATH IN VENICE (meets VERTIGO) but heterosexual and Italian”
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The novel’s opening line: “Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?”
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Dragon Ball Z - 1989 Japanese Opening - Cha-La Head Cha-La - Remastered
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AOC is making fun of Stephen Miller for being short. Common joke we hear a lot. But it's just geographical. America is a northern european country so it takes northern european cultural traits. But if you look at old jokes from countries all over the Mediterranean (and France)
Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work now we know their eyes don't work.
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The world is not a bad place. Countries where immigrants come from are functional. They have economies. You can work there. Have an apartment. Buy food and clothes. Hang out with your friends and family all day. This isn't like the old days with famine and starvation. People
78% of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes. This is probably a good measure of the Lunacy Quotient in American politics. The 22% who want to keep criminal illegals in America are unfixably insane and politically very dangerous.
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A pretty solid marker for the decay of a civilization is its obsession with dogs.
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low ceilings make you stressed (but more focused) and high ceilings increase pleasure and creativity but make it hard to focus https://t.co/VXxqzYc7c0
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The most amazing thing about America is you can end up a millionaire just by working a normal job all your life. Doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. That's why they battle in the streets for pensions. They don't make much working for a living. That's why so many people
Earlier this week I tweeted that people who want to get rich should focus on maximizing their career, not investing In a sign of the times (frothy market), a bunch of people told me I was wrong. But I’m obviously not wrong, and it’s worth talking a bit about why Let’s say your
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It's so ugly seeing people walking around looking at their phones in public. Arm bent, neck craned down, shoulders sloped, bent posture Zuck needs to hurry up and put the internet browser in the ray ban sunglasses so the public space can be beautiful again
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I got Chris Farley a couple of times, but just a couple of times. The rest of the time his grossness was just appalling. (2001)
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"Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient.”" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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Being someone who's familiar with more than a couple of these people sounds like a fate worse than death
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Marino-living-alone expectations: "I'm going to reread Dante, and Goethe in the original German. I'm going to watch all the arthouse films I was too lazy to watch heretofore." Marino-living-alone reality: "so, I can just binge hundreds of Dragon Ball episodes every day? awesome"
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