Favorite line out of a great series of posts.

Anybody playing #FFTactics on Steam been having an issue with colored squares covering up characters in battle? Any suggestions?

Heavy social media use makes people meaner and more cynical over time. People get detached from their humanity and forget they're engaging with other humans. They start doing and saying stuff they wouldn't in real life. I've observed this anecdotally over two decades. It's one

You should not be on social media if you are not in a good space mentally or spiritually.

Yes, and you do this by either buying the adjacent land (as is your right) or by building where no one else is. Not by creating laws making it so you’re the only person who can do what you want to do.

Seriously

Losing a child is one of the most agonizing experiences a person can go through – as is dying oneself as a child. The decline of infant mortality rates over the last century has to be one of the greatest humanitarian achievements of our species.

Never forget, just in case:

How to fix a $220 billion industry with $0

A massive study involving more than 14,000 police officers found that implicit bias training had no effect on “racial and ethnic disparities in stops, arrests, summonses, frisks, searches, and/or use of force.”

"AI isn't intelligent, it just regurgitates bullshit that it read somewhere" bro have you met human beings

I think a thing companies should do is hire people whose entire job is to just sit in meetings and occasionally point out something funny or ridiculous that people just said. It would do two things: 1 - Make meetings more tolerable 2 - Make people less insufferable

For every 10 likes I'll tell ChatGPT to make this image more patriotic

There is debbie downer. There is doom and gloom. There is permabear. Then there is this guy...

People who send voice memos instead of texts aren’t self-conscious enough. Oh, you don’t need to overthink, type out, read, and re-read what you’re going to say (and still manage to send a typo) every single time like the rest of us? Ok, you confident weirdos.

it's important to remember that social media isn't reality: no one is actually as depressed as they are on twitter, as attractive and fun as they are on instagram, or as harmoniously following the principles of xi jinping thought as they are on tiktok

”Every generation is disappointed in their kids, partly because things typically get better over time, and you become resentful as you see younger generations bypassing problems you had to overcome.” — @morganhousel

Grades and GPA weren't invented to help students learn and improve. They were created to make the lives of administrators and employers easier. Here's a brief history of grades and their downsides. ➡️➡️➡️

Public opinion drives news coverage more than news coverage drives public opinion. https://t.co/ZGTBEfYuNO

This is the most patriotic thread in the history of Twitter.

Having a baby is such good emotional regulation practice. There’s crying and you feel frustrated but taking it out on a baby is silly so you have to figure out how to just move the emotions.