Mapping, Tech, Cities, and other boring things. Creator, @themapdallas
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The people living rich, fulfilling lives and the people demanding you be political all the time are never the same people.
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I’m so glad the sun is finally setting at 4:50 PM so that our kids can barely play outside or have a practice before dark!!
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cell phones aren’t druglike, they’re carlike. even if you consciously want to opt out, you can’t, because everyone expects you to have and use one to interact with society. i cannot even use the laundry machines in my building without being forced to use the laundry app.
Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.
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Glen Powell is smart to avoid politics because people who are terminally online and obsessed with politics are the unhappiest people on Earth, and their only brief joy comes from making others miserable like them. Trust me, I speak from experience as an online, political person.
bob dinger retweeted
Maybe this is a stupid question but why don't dinner parties put everyone's chair on a conveyor belt so they can talk to different people throughout the evening?
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Washington needs a good power washing top to bottom. Five things I would do today to end corruption in Washington across all three branches of government:
1. Ban all stock trading.
2. Ban all participation in prediction markets.
3. Mandatory retirement at 75 years old.
4. Mandatory blind trust for individuals with a net worth more than $1 million.
5. Ban all foreign gifts to public officials, including foreign investments in their businesses or other entities.
bob dinger retweeted
You aren't bad at math.
Math was just taught to you by people who hid its power behind convoluted formulas, abstract jargon, and soulless textbooks.
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Palmer Luckey on how he hires at Anduril: he looks for people who worked on projects they cared about, not ones given to them, because that's what drives you to learn the most.
"Whether it's college or the state-mandated younger educational system, don't look to them to tell you, 'Here's what electronics projects you should be working on. Here's what you should be doing to learn how to do these things.'"
"One, they're often years or even decades behind what industry and hobbyists are actually doing, so you're gonna be learning how to do things that are ancient."
"Two, when you're working on something that you're only doing for yourself, you're gonna make way better decisions in what you teach yourself, in how you do things."
"When I hire people at Anduril, I look for people who have done projects that were outside of what their work paid them to do or what their school made them do. Because that means they're the type of person who is willing to work on things with their own money and their own time, because they wanna bring something into this world that wouldn't have existed otherwise."
@PalmerLuckey w/ @ShawnRyan762 (Feb 2025)
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Sorry, the world is panicking because of these two teenagers?
If either of them have stock, this LARP could make them millions at IPO.
This company has done this shit dozens of times before.
Stop falling for this shit. I swear to god. 😑
bob dinger retweeted
Socialists always believed in violence. It's part of their history. The Welfare State isn't club dues : it's financed by coercion.
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The idea that all beliefs are ideology is something that ideologues pushed hard to get into the lexicon so that they could compare their oversimplified dogmatic and doctrinaire ways of looking at the world to everyone else's, even if they were pragmatic, open-ended, and subject to change, rather than rigid, intolerance, and wildly oversimplified. I refuse to accept that.
The scientific method, for example, is not an ideology. Nazism and communism are.