Is that psychowarfare or a boring person trying to sound not-boring?

Not to take anything away from his skill

billionaires want you to know they could have done physics

I knew a guy in college who wouldn’t eat fish because he thought they were a stupid animal and it was beneath him to consume them.

Here’s the song, to go with the coffee tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8

Mandem’s basically in American English as well, we just say it a little different. It’s a shortening of man and them, as in your boys. As Vince Staples says “know a change gone come like Obama 'n them say, but they’re shooting every day round my mama 'n them way”.

There are a lot of Europeans living abroad so who knows, but I agree, I’m pretty skeptical of such a fast rise.

Went to the park last night and the lake smelled like eggs, so this is why?

The neuromoron.

Parentheses can also be called (round) brackets, especially in the UK

Doesn’t musk have a story like that about chess? Like he doesn’t play because he finds it too easy.

Edit: https://www.chess.com/blog/raync910/elon-musk-chess-twitter

God he reminds me of this kid I knew in college who would make up these long stories about beating up his bullies in highschool with his amazing karate skills. How do you go through life thinking you’ve convinced anyone of such obvious bullshit? It’s even sadder that they seem to have convinced themselves.

I kind of got both that impression and its exact opposite, like the whole paragraph feels like a long wink and a nudge, like the author would like to say “maybe fixating on ‘line go up’ distracts you from all that is good in life” but that would negate The Economist’s entire raison d’être.

It’s like Schrodinger’s argument.

It’s like they desperately want to prove how awful their ‘innovations’ are.

I’m getting Egger from MIB vibes.

With all the stuff about the ruthless efficiencies of multinational corporations, I took it more to mean ‘ill cough up the dough for a fairphone next time’. But maybe I’m projecting my own reaction to getting fucked by the 4a (all things considered, I’m actually kind of ok with the degraded battery life in the end, spent the 50 bucks on a couple external batteries and I rarely even need to use them).

Well to add some more pedantry to this conversation, only one of the explanations makes sense, the other is obtuse for comic effect.

Let’s all have an awful party together 🥳

You’re reading it backwards, and it’s a dal not a kaf, it says Madison.

Because placenta means cake in Latin, what we today call placenta being referred to in Latin as ‘placenta uteri’, ‘womb cake’. Yum.

In case you’d like to bake some authentic placenta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giPXpKy2lQ0

Duckduckgo, a search engine

This is… so accurate

I watched the first few episodes and he comes off as an entitled techbro moron. The last straw for me was when he went on a rant asking ‘what does NASA even do anyway, just let SpaceX take over’. Typical silicon valley bubble self-aggrandizing, thinking tech disruptors have anything to do with actual scientists, the worst kind of hypercapitalist obscurantist bullshit.