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Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2018
Just moved to Sydney so I'm starting a thread about funny or cool stuff I'm noticing!
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In Australia, a mentally ill person picked up far-left beliefs and severely injured a politician. Now they are attributing it to the "manosphere". I think this kind of move is no longer +EV because it's too easy to figure out the truth.
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In Japan they say buckwheat noodles are for poor people, but I actually like them more than ramen or udon. They're very good either cold or hot, full of umami deliciousness.
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Brian Lui retweeted
interesting implications of humanoid robots that are at least as good as an average restaurant line cook large robot industrial kitchens with grocery-store sized pantry that can make ~any arbitrary meal for the cost of ingredients + electricity then add drone delivery
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I'm really getting into these salads that have the Japanese style carrot-ginger dressing. You guys have GOT to try these. So easy to make, too.
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Asian-American diaspora can write some tedious novels, but they can't make a movie like Oldboy. Much to think about.
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When they want to curry favour with someone, they really know how to bring out the flowery language
苏州市委书记和谷爱凌亲切交谈。
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I actually do think that we should ban foie gras pate. The difference between duck and chicken liver pate is negligible. However, there's nothing that comes close to foie gras escalope in taste and texture, and anyone trying to ban that is worryingly absolutist.
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"Literary writing" technically means "writing that's good and makes you think", but in common usage means "communists for Palestine". We need a new word for writing that's good and makes you think.
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Being high conscientiousness is so good because I can just play procrastinate and video games all day without any guilt. Those low-C weaklings would feel SO BAD about doing that. But I know I'll get right back to it tomorrow without any effort. So cool!
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It feels like the moth invasion is finally over. Hope those moth migrants are having a good time wherever they are.
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CNC AI-safety orgies are bad, but like, if you accept a ban on it, they will create "choking is dangerous" campaigns and then ban all BDSM, and eventually everything except sex for procreation. Some people want that, some people don't.
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Foie gras is bad, but like, if you accept a ban on it, they will create "plant-based meat" and then ban all factory farming, and eventually all farming of animals for slaughter. Some people want that, some people don't.
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It helps to remember that in Melville's day, whales were seen as legitimate targets and great glory would be attained by conquering them. It's like how the commenter here would view Israeli music festival attendees.
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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In Street Fighter, do they ever say what kind of yoga Dhalsim practises? I bet it's "hot yoga".
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In Sydney, they built an entire new international airport pretty much on time and on budget. Western countries cannot comprehend this.
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"What do you want for dinner tonight?" "Anything's fine." "Thai?" (Displeased) "No, that's too heavy." "How about sushi?" "Don't feel like it." "Pasta? Pizza?" See how it's easy to identify the gender dynamics? It's because women love to offload emotional labor onto men.
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Something that's annoying about ratios is that the sun is a million times bigger than the earth. But we have to explain to our kids that this could mean it's a million times bigger, a thousand times bigger, or just a hundred times bigger. Ugh!
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In China they have the concept of a "cuck hat" that men can wear to signal that they are cucks. This dates back to the Tang Dynasty. Useful.
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Why do they have these AI benchmarks anyway? You can easily tell how good it is by using it for 15 minutes.
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Centrists are low-key ruthless because they politely expel all the very stupid people to one side and all the very low conscientiousness people to the other side
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