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DELEGATE AN AI (LLM) TO TALK WITH YOUR TINDER MATCH

COMPUTERS / PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2023-04-21

Wow. The Match Group did indeed introduce chat-assist to Tinder. Just look at their suggestions to start a dialogue after a match: šŸ˜± ā€¢ Hiiii Jane! Getting into anything fun this week? ā€¢ Hello Jane. Howā€™s it going? ā€¢ Hi there! Getting into anything fun  + 

MORE THAN HALF OF AMERICAN WOMEN ARE SINGLE

SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2023-04-07

52% of American women were unmarried or separated in 2021. The rising share of single women households has been driven entirely by women who have never married. Over 80% of women under 30 have never tied the knot in 2021ā€¦ Despite all the readily-available research  + 

CLIMATE CHANGE? NO, WE WILL NOT LIMIT ANYTHING.

CYCLING / ECONOMICS / ENVIRONMENT / ESSAYS / 2023-04-04

As a civilization, weā€™d known about our impact on climate since the 1950-60s. Weā€™ve also continued to fail to agree on anything that would have prevented its negative impactā€¦ since the 1970s. 50 years later, the IPCC reports, again, that nothingā€™s changed. We will not  + 

THE ARGUMENT BY FUZZY CONCEPT

LINGUISTICS / PHILOSOPHY / PSYCHOLOGY / ESSAYS / 2023-02-11

The ā€œargument by fuzzy conceptā€ fallacy is second only to ad hominemā€¦ An argument of intellectual indoctrination, laziness and dullness which, if pressed, degenerates into circular reasoning, requiring, at best, a definition by negation (ā€œnot hate, not lust, not friendship, not nāæā€¦ā€) Got a World  + 

WHY ARE WE NOT FREE?

PSYCHOLOGY / RELIGION / SOCIETY / SPIRIT / ESSAYS / 2023-02-10

Are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit ā€” it is the freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from  + 

MORE MONEY CAN BUY YOU MORE PILLS

ECONOMICS / HEALTH / PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2023-01-24

ā€œAmerica is a kind, generous placeā€¦ if you have money. Itā€™s a rapacious, violent place if you donā€™t have money. To be wealthy in America is to be loved. People find you interesting, they want to know you. You have a broader selection of mates.  + 

DAVID GOGGINS RUNS BECAUSE HE HATES IT

PSYCHOLOGY / RUNNING / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2023-01-18

ā€œI run every single morning. Thatā€™s because thatā€™s the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the worldā€ ā€” David Goggins, an ultramarathon runner and triathlete. I wonder whether people who worship him realize the all-too-common pattern of self-abuse and hate in  + 

NICK LANEā€™S ā€œTHE VITAL QUESTIONā€ BOOK REVIEW

BIOLOGY / CHEMISTRY / EDUCATION / HEALTH / REVIEWS / 2022-12-26

A review of Nick Laneā€™s ā€œThe Vital Questionā€ is easy to write: just re-arrange a dozen of his own passages. The book itself, though, is not easy to read. Unlessā€¦ you understand at least the main principles of physics, chemistry and Latin. However interesting the  + 

RUNNING A BUSINESS IS NOT AS FUN AS YOU MIGHT THINK

ACCOUNTING / MANAGEMENT / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2022-11-27

Where does this voguish idea of everyone becoming a glamorous and fun entrepreneur come from? Sorry, but: 1) most people are not born with the DNA required to run a business; 2) while being an entrepreneur adds a lot of positive nouns to your life,  + 

HALF OF AMERICANS HAVENā€™T READ A SINGLE BOOK THIS YEAR

LITERATURE / SOCIETY / LINKS / 2022-10-26

Over 50% of Americans havenā€™t read a book in 2022. Nearly 25% of adults have not read a book in 1-2 years. 11% havenā€™t read a book in 3-5 years. And 10% of US adults havenā€™t read at least 1 full book in the past  + 

LIFE IS SHORT AND UNCERTAINā€¦ ACT NOW

PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / SPIRIT / ESSAYS / 2022-10-18

Life is short. You might have heard that one before. And uncertain. You can die at any moment, making it even shorter. So think hard about what you do with your gift of life right now, not after you ā€œget fundedā€ or ā€œfeel inspiredā€ or  + 

ROBERT SAPOLSKY ON WHY RUSSIANS ARE STUCK IN A SUBMISSIVE / AGGRESSIVE LOOP

POLITICS / PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / LINKS / 2022-10-12

An interesting take on why Russians have been stuck in a submissive / aggressive loop for centuries by Robert Sapolsky, who privileges the nurture (culture) component rather than the nature (DNA) factor. Iā€™d disagree somewhat: the negative selection pressure has expunged the country of its  + 

WHY EVERYONE AND YOUR GRANDMOTHER NEEDS AN AR-15?

POLITICS / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2022-10-07

A well-researched, superbly edited, humorous video explaining why every American, especially a senior, needs an AR-15 gun. In all seriousness. Or how to build the perfect straw man with a bit of a circular thing goinā€™. His logic: US civilians need the same firearms as  + 

ā€œCHEAP SEXā€ BOOK REVIEW ā€“Ā ITā€™S GONNA COST US MORE THAN WE THINK

BIOLOGY / ECONOMICS / HEALTH / SOCIETY / REVIEWS / 2022-09-19

ā€œCheap Sexā€ is a great book by sociologist Mark Regnerus to compliment David Bussā€™ ā€œEvolution of Desireā€. It describes the current personal and interpersonal sexuality / gender relations state of affairs in the US. The local trends and stats which do or will impact the  + 

ā€œHOW EMOTIONS ARE MADEā€ BOOK REVIEW (PSSTā€¦ WE DONā€™T KNOW)

BIOLOGY / HEALTH / LINGUISTICS / REVIEWS / 2022-09-05

ā€œHow Emotions Are Madeā€œ is yet another weird book with a promising title, written for someone without any knowledge of science, its methods and branches. Possibly for those of us who skipped biology classes in school and havenā€™t read anything about neuroscience ever since? The  + 

EURO COMPANY CULTURE: SAME DATE DELIVERYā€¦ NO, VACATIONS

LOGISTICS / MANAGEMENT / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2022-08-14

What is an Express Delivery by aĀ  European company, within the EU (no customs)? Ordered: Thursday 14:00, courier picked up on Friday, delivered next week on Wednesday 18:00. šŸ™„ Similar service name by an American company, also in the EU: picked up same day 20:00,  + 

I CANā€™T THINK OF A TITLE FOR THIS STORY OF WARPED MOTHERHOOD

ECONOMICS / POLITICS / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2022-08-09

In the US state of Nebraska, a 17-year-old girl got pregnant, decided to abort but couldnā€™t because of local laws, received help from her mother to buy and administer mifepristone and misoprostol, miscarried, buried the fetusā€¦ and discussed the details on Facebook Messengerā€¦ The private  + 

THE FEAR OF THE WORLD GOVERNMENT

ECONOMICS / LOGISTICS / POLITICS / TRAVEL / ESSAYS / 2022-07-25

The observable universe is a sphere of 93 billion light years in diameter. Our Universe contains 200 billion trillion stars (with their planets). And yet, people are against a ā€œWorld Governmentā€ for a puny rock that you can fly around under 45 hours in a  + 

JORDAN PETERSONā€™S OPINION ABOUT THE RU-UA CONFLICT IS HYSTERICAL & WRONG

ECONOMICS / POLITICS / SOCIETY / ESSAYS / 2022-07-18

Impressive to watch such a hysterical Descent of Man. Despite decades of his ā€œstudiesā€ of Russian literature and totalitarianism, Jordan Peterson completely misunderstands whatā€™s going on in Russia, NATO, rouble (un)currency, global economy, and uses a real war killing real people to talk about a  + 

BIZARRE GOOGLE REVIEWS OF EUROPEAN LOGISTICS CENTERS

LOGISTICS / SOCIETY / TRANSPORTATION / ESSAYS / 2022-07-15

Bizarre Google Reviews of European logistics centers, such as Dachser, Geodis, Kuehne+Nagelā€¦ 4-5 stars from truckers ā€” hauling the semi-trailer 1-2 stars from end-customers ā€” businesses and consumers unable to schedule a pick-up or delivery šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø Truck drivers commenting the tidy toilets and lacking space  + 

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