Visakan Veerasamy
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Focus on what you want to see more of. 💪🏾❤️🔥 buy my ebooks ▲ FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD ▲ (https://t.co/ilqQnEHTOz) and ꩜ INTROSPECT ꩜ (https://t.co/K7oSiNofSa)
Joined October 2008
from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read
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there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his lifeless body on his back for 6 hours. The climber then blocked the sherpa on Instagram.
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favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props
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Guy describes how his friend is the group’s Airport Dad (takes everyone’s passports, double-checks everything, etc) the comments are full of ladies who wanna marry him
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this mf failed to detonate his shoe bomb once 22 years ago and now everybody everywhere has to take off their shoes at every airport forever until the end of time
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for itsy bitsy
You think the itsy bitsy spider gave a fuck about the rain and having to start the journey over. No. It crawled up the spout again. Lock in.
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love this: awkward shy rejection-sensitive pimply asian guy asked 100 girls out on a date. 19 said yes! 10 were lesbian. concludes that he got over his fear of rejection in a single day
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kind of cool to know: a lot of celebrity Wikipedia pages have photos of them at comic con because there’s one guy (Gage Skidmore) who photographs them all
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anyway. 👑 Gelje Sherpa!!! 👑 May you have a great rest-of-your life and may your name and deeds echo eternal through Valhalla 🫡. > "Saving one life is more important than praying at the monastery," said Gelje, a devout Buddhist.
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the tragic thing that I suppose lots of people have to learn the hard way is that getting people to care is an almost completely independent skill to acquiring achievements or accolades. it’s mostly storytelling actually.
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the bluetooth voice lady showed up on my tiktok so here you go. stick to the end for “bluetooth sad”
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one thing ive learned as a serious-hobbyist media consumer is that if a movie like this is actually made, it will somehow end up being the most profound one with the actual richest understanding of the source material.
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Arnold had an abusive alcoholic father. He was born in an Austrian village with ~2000 people and had little money. He started lifting weights, got so good at it, which took him to the US. Decided he wanted to do movies. Became huge star despite accent. Decided to do politics….
What's up with straight men and Arnold Schwarzenegger?.
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feel like I haven’t see a “there are too many podcasts, why is everyone trying to start a podcast” take in a while
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this remains to me one of the most interesting emails ever written
Taliban fighter becomes disillusioned with the regime because he now has a 9-5 e-mail job and traffic sucks lmao
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an interesting thing about humans is that pretty much everyone gets at least 20% smarter when they’re doing pranks or other goofy shit. saw this in the military all the time.
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I can’t take Whiplash seriously because the premise is flawed; you don’t get good as a jazz drummer by becoming a human metronome. The whole thing has a cartoon model of musical excellence. Maybe it should’ve been a movie about sports instead.
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I like this photo I took when I was out on a walk today
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one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you.
How is first good rasam I’ve ever had outside family’s house in JAPAN
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facial and body language have memes and fads just like spoken and written language do. imo it’s part of why imo you can sometimes tell from someone’s face what their ingroup affiliations are; it’s similar patterns of muscular tension shared via mimicry.
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you can meet enough new people and build a new life amongst them well enough that the people in the former group become a comparatively insignificant rounding error.
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imo all apps with a 'for you' timeline should allow you to toggle a bizzaro switch and browse the 'NOT for you' timeline, just to feel what the opposite is like.
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collection of 4chan posts that are extended criticisms or analyses of something, hit me up with whatever comes to mind. 1. john oliver
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here's a video of the sherpa. astounding. I would've assumed that having one's life saved like this would be a humbling experience, one of profound gratitude
Lupa daratan. Incase people want to see it, here is the video for your reference.
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excellent minute of a comedian getting a hot girl to do a side by side comparison of hot girl mannerisms
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looks like Ravi has since updated to acknowledge the sherpas, and unblocked Gelje. who responded with tremendous grace
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the sherpa, Gelje, had even persuaded his own client to cancel their own attempt so that they could save Ravi's life. Ravi then subsequently did media appearances and ig posts etc and said nothing about Gelje. Blocked him!! .
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for future ref, the recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims
Video games are terrible nowadays because developers don't include an entire page of recommended reading at the back of the manual to further elucidate their whimsical satire of post-war American suburban consumerism.
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@solarsystern i think maybe in his narrative he might be mad at the sherpa for revealing his vulnerability, like he doesn't want to admit that he needed help.
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my 18mo will ask to see the inside of our fridge (“fridge? daddy? fridge?”) and then when I open it he’ll quietly whisper “wow”. which is really quite an appropriate response to modern commercial vapor-compression refrigeration systems.
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Request for Netflix show: ethnic aunties travelling and cooking together. An Indian aunty goes to Mexico and meets the local aunties there. And compare cooking recipes, and complain about their children. Repeat with aunties worldwide.
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one thing i've noticed in the past 20+ years of being very online is that a lot of people who end up being really popular, get their early start from doing a gimmick, and then dropping it once they reach a critical mass. and people then often forget the gimmick within ~3-5 years.
NPC Miles Morales announced that he’s retiring the ‘NPC’ gimmick to do traditional streams
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when I was single I used to love talking with girls who had bfs. if they like you enough they introduce you to their single friends!! and warm intros are 1000x better than cold approaches.
Talked to a girl for 15 minutes last night then she casually mentions she has a boyfriend
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this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the universal within the particular”
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collecting notes on what seems to be an emerging story of animals being onboarded onto our superstimuli.
Parrots are clearly intelligent enough to understand video UIs. They also apparently prefer watching videos of other parrots 🤔. This implies an opportunity for a "parrot streaming" platform. Looking for a team who is as excited about this opportunity as Iam
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one of life’s big “cheats” is: you can learn a lot by reading a lot and talking with a lot of people and thinking through it all.
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pretty straightforward heuristic. i trust their cost-benefit analysis and so i'll do it when they do it.
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kids feel the blues too. big source around this age is that people no longer find you cute. now they scold you for making mistakes. mama’s too busy with the new baby. nobody claps and whoops and cheers for your accomplishments like they used to. you’re on your own now kid….
Kid plays like he just got divorced and she took everything from him
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an interesting genre of pic is "celebrity as a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding"
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whenever my 18yo does something upsetting- smack one of his parents too hard, make too big of a mess, etc- he attempts to redirect our attention and reset the vibes by pointing and naming any object he recognizes. (Apple!).
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kids will say things like “strawberries taste better when I’m wearing my strawberry socks” and I bet they’re 100% right and this subtle sense of aesthetic gestalt is socialized out of us.
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one of the funny things about life– hilarious when it happens to others, humbling when it happens to you– is meeting someone who’s casually, indifferently better at a thing than the median person who makes an identity out of it.
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a while ago people were asking how come it took humanity so long to develop agriculture etc. i suspect the answer is basically this. innovations are deviations which threaten the prevailing social order and so they tend to get put down.
Have you guys heard the story about the Roman guy who invented plastic, and the emperor got freaked out and had him executed?
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I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking
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this is gonna sound like a bit, but i'm serious: if there's one thing i suspect might be a cure to all ills, it is good reply game. i'd argue that good reply game, in le guin's sense of "love is not a stone that sits there, love is bread that must be remade anew, daily", IS love.
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- knows precisely what she wants.- makes clear plans.- communicates well and early.
Right before she fell asleep, my 3 year old said “tomorrow I’m going to practice my new scream in the living room”.
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…became the governor of California. And since then he’s grown into an elder-statesman like figure with gravitas and real king energy. He’s not a perfect guy, but if you look at where he started and how he turned out he has lived an incredible life which has meant a lot to many.
“Arnold. You’re a very impressive bodybuilder. But what’s this talk about movies? Your accent is terrible! Nobody will understand- oh, ok. You’re a film star. Well done. Wait, you want to be WHAT?”
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having kids turns you into a morning person the way being chased by a bear turns you a running person.
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when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like yeah now I understand… that all those adults were wrong and messed up lol.
I honestly think the world would be a better place if parents didn’t think of life as a gift bestowed, but rather a curse inflicted. You bring someone into this godforsaken world, you’d better make it worth their while.
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i'm happily married 10+ years with a wife and son who love me and i have none of that shit together lol. this is the "shiny lure" class of advice i was talking about. ime the only thing you actually need in a relationship is to know/learn how to relate to each other healthily.
my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.
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especially consider him in relation to some of the more boy-kings we have around. If my son someday puts up an Arnold poster on his bedroom wall, I would be quite pleased about that, considering all of the other options out there
there has to be something more subversive and radical that a wealthy adult man can do than behave like an edgy 13 year old.
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periodic reminder: have you taken a minute to write down what your actual problems are lately? the practice of properly describing a problem often reveals its solution.
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imo: if you’re deliberate about “doing the reading”, whatever that means for any domain, within a year it’s possible to be in the top ~5% in the scene. This is because 95% of people don’t do the reading.
I became a filmbro faster than expected. It literally just takes a year. Watch 4-8 movies a week for a year and you will eventually dig deep enough to discover something odd that really hits the spot. Now ur a filmbro with alternative taste & esoteric recommendations.
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one thing about people is that they love to contribute towards solving finite, observable problems with clear solutions. they’ll happily do it even at a moderate personal cost, because it feels so good to have made a tangible difference to something.
A baby humpback whale was rescued by a team of onlookers after being stranded on the beach
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these improover type memes somehow always have a glaring omission: the absence of cultivating a great peer group, friends, community.
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ngl it would be funny if pfizer's first hit was making a boner pill by trying to treat high blood pressure, and if their second hit was making a big booba injection by trying to make a covid vaccine.
Case of a 19 year-old woman experiencing significant breast hypertrophy starting 1 week after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in September 2022. "The patient initially reported tingling paresthesia in her breasts, followed by sudden bilateral growth which worsened after
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@megaballs45 the replies are odd to me, if biting can be nonsexual then tying someone up can also be nonsexual surely.
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i'm so curious to understand the economics behind this business. have they actually built the thing? how much did it cost to make? what do they do if nobody buys it? how did they finance it? do they sell smaller subs? let's investigate.
The Austrian-based company Migaloo is offering a 541-foot-long "private submersible superyacht” for a base price of $2 billion. The M5 has a range of 9,300 miles and can take its passengers to a depth of 820 feet. The luxury submarine includes a helipad, two swimming pools, a
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a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys
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a dairy cow eats ~100lbs of food and shits ~60lbs of hot stinky manure daily, you never see that in the pictures.
So you're telling me you don't wanna get married, have 6 kids, move to the country, buy a homestead, get baby cows, grow our own food, drink raw milk all day and live happily ever after?
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i figured this out by age ~6 and it made me miserable, occasionally even suicidal, until i was about 22- but after that it's basically been paradise. (there's an interesting parallel between how people flinch from the full truth of the lowest lows and the highest highs).
I think the earlier a kid figures out that the world doesn’t necessarily make sense, follow rules, or have one system of logic the better off they are.
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@SparrowAdorer bluetooth lady is hot so i’d bet the cash/payment lady must be too.
the bluetooth voice lady showed up on my tiktok so here you go. stick to the end for “bluetooth sad”
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this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐
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sharing this for all the mfs who ask if it's over for them at 27.
Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far).
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a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment
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when I was in the military I was responsible for a file, meant to track loans of certain items. one month my superior yelled at me for not bringing him the file. “but nobody loaned anything,” I said. “I don’t care!” he shouted. “your job is to bring me the file!”.
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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yknow, I don’t recall a single man telling me, when I was growing up, how great it is to be a dad.
the ceiling of how good life can be is so much higher than I was told was possible.
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focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of.
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my wife is a smart sensible woman and it seemed sensible to both of us that it would be a good idea for her to socialize with other moms online and it seems like every day she is just being bombarded with horror stories.
A lot of academic study has been devoted to online right-wing spaces cultivating violence but we need more attention to mom groups cultivating schizophrenia.
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nobody is coming to do an honest audit of your time and energy for you. only you can face the truth of how you are living your life, and whether it’s the life you know in your heart you are actually capable of living.
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there isn’t a special boy at the centre of it.
why is taoism not as popular as buddhism?.
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I’ve sold thousands of books to people all over the world, including people from Mexico, Indonesia, Honduras, Namibia, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines…. and yet for some reason, the dozens of people who’ve asked for a discount all come from the same one country.
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whenever people say things like “I don’t want to bring children into this horrible world” I ponder about the people who had kids during the Black Death, when it felt like God was actually abandoning humanity in real time. maybe those people didn’t see parenthood as a choice.
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was talking with a fellow dad who was struggling with making certain decisions, like when to be tough, when to indulge, how do you know if you’re going too far, etc. I found myself saying: just imagine that your child’s adult self is in the room watching you. in a sense, they are.
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for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children. and kids actually are a joy to have . but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that.
Let’s flip the script today. Why did you have children? And don’t give me the “they’re a joy to have” thing. Be fr. People tell me I’m selfish for not having children. So by all means, tell me why you *did* have children.
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from time to time I’m reminded that the Internet has ruined me
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nietzsche has a quote that's like, "insanity is rare in individuals, but in groups it is the rule". over the years as i've participated in all sorts of groups i've come to see more clearly how and why this is true.
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me: "I need a coffee." . kiddo, grabbing my face and staring into my eyes: "you cannot have caffeine. you are not asleep. you are awake. you have lots of energy. you do not need a coffee.".
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