Tim Rooney
@tjrwriting
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People underestimate the gentle and thoughtful design of the iPhone’s silent-mode switch. Mechanically shutting your phone up without entering the digital mindscape is a blessing that should exist on other appliances.
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those who see no contradiction between “idealistic” and “practical” are my favorite people to work with
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my neighbor cut down two trees and it made the street noticeably worse
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my sturdy wife
Once you notice how often “beautiful” is used as a default compliment for women, it’s hard to unsee. Instead of “my gorgeous wife”, may I suggest describing her as courageous, sincere, virtuous, earnest, patient, determined, or (as a generic fallback) loving.
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if you wear cargo shorts you absolutely should hire an art consultant
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this book doesn't work on anyone under 25 because young people are sufficiently socialized
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this is not the writing of someone with my best interests at heart
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imo this misunderstands how societies work some amount of bullying is necessary to impart values and traditions
The "bully the young to be more socially conservative than we were" theory of social change is the most Boomer trait of Millennial and Gen X Twitter. "Ah yes the solution is for us wise 30-50 year olds to bully people 10-15 years younger to shape up." Perfect plan no one has
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for the annals of “why wasn’t this invented earlier” it would’ve been very tractable to get an anime artist to ghiblify your family photos
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deserved caveats aside this pencils in a surprising amount of places
(1) A young married couple, both unskilled, take convenience store jobs at $15/hr in a moderately prosperous state. The big convenience and fast-food chains offer pretty good benefits. They both work 48-hour weeks, giving them a combined annual income of $74,880, enough to pay
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the purpose of bullshit is to produce compromises that would be unachievable with full disclosure
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american ambivalence towards academic excellence is a direct result of having our frontier
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new theory on european vacation weight loss: europe is less hot and less humid they're shedding water weight
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can a football team politely decline their invitation to the club world cup
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one reason for the speed and effectiveness of spaced repetition is a lack of external evaluation
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