the Rich
@Duderichy
Nominative Determinist. poet-physicist. sr swe. DMs open.
the lobster is a great first date movie
yorgos lanthimos’ movie posters
If any company is willing to pay you 7 figures… you have more career juice than 99+% of the population
If you’re in your 20s in tech right now, a couple of years at OpenAI, Anthropic or a great AI startup will give you 10x the career juice of any MBA or graduate degree (and a lot less debt).
Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Osaka, Japan, has achieved a remarkable 30-year record of never losing a piece of luggage since its opening in 1994. This means that every bag, out of millions handled annually, has reached its intended destination without getting misplaced.
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1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids?
pretty sure vast majority of people in the FIRE movement have some combination of severe ADHD and sometimes mental health issues which is why they hate work so much more than others / why they don’t understand why others don’t hate work as much
Capitalism has made people so small minded and selfish.
Capitalism has made people so small minded and selfish.
Note that this is the equivalent of $15 minimum wage from the Bernie era and this was in one of the richest and most expensive states and it was STILL way too high
California's $20 fast food minimum wage reduced employment by 3.2 percent (roughly 18,000 jobs) over the first year since its enactment, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer nber.org/papers/w34033
i vibe coded my childhood arcade dream in 5 hours. (to stop sitting 92hrs/wk)
One of the most straightforward, no-brainer pieces of dating advice you can give to a young woman is “focus on your education.” Ironic, given the hallucinations you read on here.
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
If you haven’t seen this you MUST watch it
'Spirited Away' was released 24 years ago today
Somehow managed to turn on a collision debug mode on Bananza on my retail Switch 2 and... all the colliders are banana shaped. I can't imagine that being the optimal collision shape, but it works for them I guess.