been seeing the debate about “earn more” vs “need less” on my tl today…and here’s what I feel about it. I know a guy who’s a multimillionaire but spends less than $1000/month, doesn’t travel outside his country, keeps a low profile, doesn’t have a car, reads a lot and finds enjoyment in little things. I also know a multimillionaire who lives like a king, holds multiple citizenships, owns multiple villas and cars and goes on international trips all the time. somehow, both of these lifestyles make sense to me. I’ve argued with the first guy a few times about his broke way of living, but I can’t really say that he’s not enjoying life or that he’s doing it wrong. ultimately, I feel like how you enjoy life is a very personal thing, and you shouldn’t listen much to any guru who tells you how to live. no matter how you live, you’ll always sacrifice something. most people can’t have it all. so, don’t be that close-minded idiot who blindly holds on to his opinion. give both of these lifestyles a try to understand which one really appeals to you, and then commit to one or find a balance that works for you.

The “boss of ADHD” has been spotted in China — a guy is simultaneously watching TikTok, chatting in a messenger, and playing a game. This is what a foldable smartphone is for.

it’s really beautiful and encouraging how there hasn’t been one single person with an IQ above 85 who is upset at Elon becoming a trillionaire

Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.

25 is TOO OLD. i never understood everyones softness towards aging. what upside is there? everything you could POSSIBLY have at 40, you can also have at 20... and also be 20 years younger. "success takes time" "you'll understand when you're older" "aging is beautiful" please stop the fcking copes. yes, you can extend the taper as long as possible, but its a fact that the older you get, the worse your body and mind will be. growing old is overrated. dont do it kids.

SpaceX's 11% share price boost has made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, controlling two of the world's largest companies. ft.trib.al/wHPQ9gw

Dear @Aella_Girl, I’ve heard a lot of people seeming to think that I reject you wholesale, or that I don’t approve of you for being a sex worker. I want to set the record straight about why I do not want to work with you and have made certain comments, and offer the chance for a dialogue if you want. I also want to apologize. I don’t like you because of how my ex-husband, Ronny Fernandez, your plzdontkillus cofounder, would make sexual and romantic bids at you in front of me (presumably also in private) while we were in a monogamous relationship. This was his fault, and it contributed to our divorce, but because it caused me to resent you as well, I came to you about it, hoping to give you a chance to show you weren’t down with it. You were cold to me, dismissing my concerns with “he’s not my type.” At that point I realized we were not friends. It wasn’t your responsibility to stop him, but your priority was him and my feelings weren’t part of the equation. When you’re in an abusive relationship, it’s easy to feel more angry and betrayed at the people around you than at the abuser. I felt angry at you and many others from the rationalist community, as well as general rationalist culture, for supporting him. It’s not your fault that I was in an abusive relationship. It was his fault. Even though I think my feelings are valid, especially when you opted not to help me when I reached out, I recognize that I’m transferring anger onto you that really belongs to him. I saw you once say that I judged you for being a sex worker. I think you were remembering a time when I argued that, because Ronny had your nudes, you didn’t just have a platonic relationship. I have also critiqued the blurred line between your sex work and your intellectual content, where engaging with you without sex is still a form of flirtation and erotic connection, for a similar reason. My issue has never been with the sexuality. It had to do with how you and our mutual friends were insisting that I had no recourse against my partner cheating on me— that I was in the wrong for feeling jealous. Perhaps you regret this, or would regret this now that you know how I felt. It would make a big difference to me if you did. There are also subject matter disagreements I have with you on AI Safety work, and I wrote a lot of them up, but upon introspection I think that discussion would be pretty collegial if I saw you have empathy for a wound in me that’s still healing. The breach of trust was really a personal thing. I’m also writing to share my concern about your current relationship with Ronny. Ronny lovebombs you epically on main, and I think that could lead to epic devaluation and exploitation if you’re not careful. I have wondered if he’s pushed you to do and share more and more extreme things when I see him seeming to get dividends. I saw him negging you and undercutting you even when he and I were together, and he’s good at portraying that destruction of self-esteem as rationalist introspective virtue and fucky intimacy. No matter how annoyed I may feel at you, I would never want you to go through what he did to me. I’m going to unblock you, and you can DM or reply if you wish. Holly

The 2024 face died for an economic reason, and it took less than two years. Filler face was a status signal because it was expensive. Lip filler runs $700 per syringe, twice a year. Buccal fat removal, $5K. The full Instagram package cost $20K annually, and you could read someone's disposable income off their cheekbones. Then two things broke the signal at the same time. AI image generators made the look free. When any teenager can render a flawless filler face in 4 seconds, the face stops communicating wealth. It starts communicating filter. And dissolver appointments exploded. Clinics report filler dissolving now outpaces filler injection among under-35 clients. The same patients who paid to install the 2024 face are paying $300 a session to remove it. So the signal flipped. Visible work now reads as dated. The new flex is "undetectable": skin texture, asymmetry, real freckles. Things AI renders poorly and money can't fake quickly. Beauty standards don't drift. They chase whatever is currently hardest to counterfeit.

His original “bull nose” made him look like a psychopathic country farm boy, but in the way where if he took you out back to the shed as a young teen and stole your innocence, you might not know you were taken advantage of until somebody told you when you casually shared the story many years later. You’d spend years thinking you must be an insatiable nymphomaniac, pulling up your shirt in the shed for all the guys in town, not realizing it was because this guy sent you down a dark road. The new nose makes him look like someone you’d know violated you, and you’d want to tell on him to ruin his reputation before he gets to graduate and maybe become a senator, while you drop out of high school to self-harm and do drugs. Vulgar description, I know, but if looks can kill, they can do a lot of other scathing things that determine its measure, and if we’re being honest, I’d say that’s a huge component of the looksmaxxing project.

damn grok 🤣

I'm 38. At this point of my life/career, I have so many friends working corporate W2 jobs making $200-400K/year (mostly in NYC/NJ/PA corridor) who just don't actually work that much. One friend makes $250K as a manager at a biotech... all he does is send pictures of his chicken coop or other DIY projects all day during the week.. no idea what value he actually provides his company. Then there's my "jiggler" friend who you might recall... guy makes $250-300K and just plugs a "mouse jiggler" into his laptop and just goes to the gym, homeschools his kids, tans, does yard work... all day. I ask him what he does and he can't even articulate it... Another friend makes $150K at a remote startup and just travels around the world all the time... don't ask don't tell situation on where people are at any given time... but does seemingly little actual work.. maybe 1 hour a day. This is truly what's going on out there... BS W2 jobs all over the place. And AI is a bubble? Really?

Most do not understand how bad it is. The average American woman is built like blastoise at 5 ft 4 and 170 lbs. USA averages break down: Non-Hispanic Black women have the highest average weight at 188.5 pounds Non-Hispanic White women at 170.9 pounds Hispanic women at 168 pounds Non-Hispanic Asian women at 135.0 pounds

I attended college near the Bay. The women in the computer science major had a favorite saying “The odds are good but the goods are odd.” My entire college career, 99% of my programming partners were men. I was friendly and approachable, but none of them or even my CS classmates ever directly approached me. This was the same for the few women in the CS department. Many of them were dating outside the CS major. Many men simply won’t or do not know how to approach or charm a woman. They don’t get any more charming post college. But they are making >$500k. It’s easier for them to make an nth percentile income than it is to secure a relationship or even rizz a woman up.

This same issue is true across all arts - theatre, publishing, music. Young success stories are often backed by family money and come from a handful of private undergrad expensive masters/MFA programs. The costs and the privileges are never talked about. Everybody pretends to be a struggling artist (mostly for the sake of the donor class), so nobody names dollar amounts, though the fields are insufficiently remunerative to make a living. Total elite capture. The identitarian turn has made this even more difficult to talk about, as the persons privilege is often veiled behind their identity, as if that is a perfect proxy for absence of wealth or presence of struggle.