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We’re reverting to an oral culture and nothing is going to stop it as long as phones and social media exist. But that doesn't mean reading has to end. Someone who hates reading can scroll twitter hours and hours a day even thoug it's filled with text. It's because twitter is in the maxims/sayings/proverbs/adages category. This is compressed and accessible.
A Berkeley history professor said he’s gone from assigning 100 pages of reading per week to 35. Another “said the earliest version of the…course he taught required seven full books, while his most recent iteration exclusively consisted of excerpts.” “We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of history can really be taught,” the first one said.
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We aren’t living in a culture of literacy anymore, we’re back in oral culture. From that lens, everything makes sense: short attention spans, virality, popularity, who makes money, even populist politics all follow orality Lets study the oral rules lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/…
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The percentage of 9 year olds who read for fun reaches a new low Source: NAEP
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Social media is a machine that will trap you in nostalgia if you are not careful.
It's rare that AI video makes me feel any emotion. But these "nostalgiamaxxing videos" really do capture what it's like to grow up in the 90's Credit: homeforchristmasofficial
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You don't see guys with shirts off as much anymore in public. Used to be quite common. Now every man is wearing a shirt But you do see women wearing basically see through tank tops exposing their nipples, or pants that expose their underwear. another gender inversion
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More gender inversions
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Another gender inversion
For more than 50 years nine year old girls did better than boys in reading on the NAEP, until 2025
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Hot take: NYC is the most overrated city in the world and people destroy their lives attempting to live there when they really belong (and would be happier) in a much smaller city.
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friends and I have started to integrate “challenge” since inception of ABS system
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Baseball will always be America's sport because it is embedded in the language that Americans use. There are so many idioms from the game we use in casual conversation and we don't realize it. No other sport even comes close. You only notice it when you're abroad because no one else in the world (except Japan and carib) plays baseball. And no one knows what you're talking about. The baseball language is even now deeply embedded in American corporate culture. It will probably be here for a long time. Even if Baseball itself loses popularity. Out of left field Touch base Home run Strike out Ballpark figure Cover all the bases Step up to the plate In the ballpark On the ball playing hardball caught offbase in the big leagues
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Baseball will always be America's sport because it is embedded in the language that Americans use. There are so many idioms from the game we use in casual conversation and we don't realize it. No other sport even comes close. You only notice it when you're abroad because no one else in the world (except Japan and carib) plays baseball. And no one knows what you're talking about. The baseball language is even now deeply embedded in American corporate culture. It will probably be here for a long time. Even if Baseball itself loses popularity. Out of left field Touch base Home run Strike out Ballpark figure Cover all the bases Step up to the plate In the ballpark On the ball playing hardball caught offbase in the big leagues
Baseball is “America’s pastime” and occupies a special place in the national psyche. But it is no longer Americans’ favourite sport—not even close. What can MLB learn from baseball’s exhibition teams? econ.st/3WZjOrv 👇
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Classical Athens seems to have had an aversion to bloody spectacle. Something the Romans enjoyed. Most punishments for crimes involves paying fines, or exile. Higherstatus citizens like Socrates who were condemned to death were allowed to drink hemlock poison. For others, they would tie you to a wooden board and leave you exposed until you died. Again, no blood.
The western obsession with "beheading" as like, the bad kind of murder, as opposed to being blown up, drowned or shot with a gun, needs to be studied in a lab.
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The sun setting at 10pm is really nice. It feels like your life is being extended
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I have a theory that most major sports leagues have been figured out. NFL, Tennis, NHL, etc. They are optimized now. Most fans don't see it. But the game has been solved. Take the NBA for example. It is mostly played at the perimeter or up close. The same thing happened with Baseball. The game began just being all about strikeouts and home-runs. So the game spiraled into 3-4 hour play time and fans started to hate it. So they introduced a pitching clock. And it worked. the game finishes quicker. But that doesn't mean the gameplay is not optimized. If we look at the stats, it is the same game as last year or the year before with the same amount of strikeouts, home runs and hits. It's still optimized. But the game finishes faster.
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Men are taught to understand the difference between a competitor and an enemy. Part of sports/games/business/commerce/mate rivarly A competitor is a player in a non-zero sum game. Actually good for the environment. It resembles play. An enemy is serious business. You are willing to destroy parts of yourself (and others) to defeat. Becomes zero sum. Women often don't separate these categories. The distinction collapses. Competition turns personal. Enemy and competitor becomes the same thing.
“Regardless of party or ideology, men are so much more tolerant than women that the gender tolerance gap dominates the ideology difference.”
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This is a good post, but there are several things Karl gets wrong. 1. 10k should be your floor. Ideally you want 14-17k 2. That being said, 7k is better than 4k 3. Speed does not matter 4. Time of day doesn’t matter 5. Don’t worry too much about incline or load
Walking is the most underrated medicine on Earth. It lowers blood sugar, blood pressure, anxiety, and even your risk of early death. Here's how to get the full effect with 7 simple steps: 1. Don't chase 10,000 steps.
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In America everyone drives suvs or trucks at this point. It isn't really a class signifier. But in Europe you still see these small sedans everywhere. And then you have wealthier people driving suvs
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An under-discussed part of America is there is no "third option" when you see people doing this. It's either you call the cops or you don't take the train. Actually confronting someone is ruled out for fear of violent reprisal. There's no social contract that you can appeal to.
i would like to be able to ride the subway with my 4 month old baby and not be in a car with people smoking
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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve made this point, but please take this as a WARNING, and not merely an observation: Anti-social behavior—think about the guy blasting music from a speaker, talking loudly on speaker-phone, smoking inside the subway car, etc.—in public spaces is often engaged in ***_as a dare_***. The whole point is to provoke anger and annoyance in those around him, which serves two purposes, depending on the response he’s hoping for: (1) If everyone bites their tongues, the antisocial asshole gets to tell himself he’s such a badass no one would dare speak up; or (2) If someone confronts him, he finds his excuse to scratch a violent itch. Understand that saying something to these people will often come with a real risk of violent confrontation.
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Stephen King famously had the guts to run this experiment. His alter-ego found a publisher and a small audience but would never have become wealthy.
Mr Beast says he could start a faceless channel tomorrow and hit 20 million subscribers in six months “I could start a new channel tomorrow not using my face or my voice without ever promoting it and in six months have 20 million subscribers” “It’s purely knowledge if you knew what I knew you could get 10 million views a video and 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months” “It really is just knowledge”
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I've never met an attractive women who didn't have stomach and digestive issues. Not sure why that is.
I used to struggle with constipation and shifted my diet and water intake many times to fix it. I’d get results for a moment but no ultimate change. I then realized that everyone I know who poops frequently and healthily seemed to love and enjoy pooping. This was mostly men and animals. I realized I did not love or even accept pooping as a concept - I saw it as a burden, one of the most unfortunate and dirty things about being human. It was clear my issue was not a physical or dietary one but purely emotional. I decided I had to love pooping. I began by seeing it as a beautiful cyclic ritual, a bodily rebirth of sorts. I would imagine that more was exiting me beyond the material itself, like old doubts or pains or fears, the innate release of it. I thanked my cells for their hard work in separating the fuel from the waste. What a magnificent machine. How silly was I to think I was above nature? Above the machine that holds my consciousness on earth? Anyways, I haven’t been constipated in months, even if I eat poorly or don’t drink enough water. As usual, Love wins.
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Public transportation is a uniquely vulnerable environment.. There's nowhere to run. You are in close quarters with other people. And if you're using it, most likely it's because you have to and are going to work. This makes crimes committed on public transportation different from the same crimes committed elsewhere. Criminal penalties should be tripled for any crime on public transportation. Minimum 10 years in prison.
I have been briefed on an incident that occurred at Grand Central Station this morning. Reports indicate a man slashed three people on the platform with a machete. Officers shot the man when he did not drop the machete. He has since been pronounced dead. I’m grateful to the NYPD for their quick response and for preventing additional violence. The three victims were taken to the hospital and are thankfully in stable condition. The NYPD is conducting an internal investigation and will release body-worn camera footage, as it does in all incidents involving the discharge of an officer's firearm.
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Crimes committed on public transportation should carry 2x or 3x penalties. It is a uniquely vulnerable environment. You can't run away. It makes the whole system feel unsafe and pushes normal people out of public space. x.com/Noahpinion/status/2060…

The reason Japan can have great trains is not high trust. It's LACK OF VIOLENT CRIME. If you have even moderately high levels of violent crime, people will want to drive instead of taking the train. You can't have trains without suppressing violent crime.
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change the law. make crimes under public transportation 2x the penalty x.com/nypost/status/20640801…

Penn Station slashing suspect was free despite eerily similar 2022 attack: records trib.al/phwGlES
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It spreads the idea of romantic love across the world. Instead of marrying for tradition, need, tradition, culture, you marry solely for love. But that has never been the case. Love has always been rare. So we're seeing less couples now and less babies x.com/TheStalwart/status/206…

What is the theory for *why* the iPhone's release caused fertility to collapse? I'm temperamentally pre-disposed to agreeing with these kinds of notions, but I don't know what the people who study this stuff seriously see as the real causal link.
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Why are people having fewer babies? Because fewer couples are forming Why are fewer couples forming? Because love is now the minimum threshold for longterm relationships The problem is that love is rare. It always has been So we need to talk about love lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/…
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Because couples are being formed solely through love now. Not tradition, desperation, need, or custom. Eastern societies have less experience coupling solely through love than western societies x.com/Dljokl/status/20575287…

Turks have a TFR of 1.11. They are "Muslims." Ethnic Russians also have a TFR of 1.1. But Swedes have a TFR of 1.6, as do Danes, white Americans, etc. Can anyone explain this to me? Why are the based and trad countries worse at having babies than "Atlanticist degenerates"?
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It spreads the idea of romantic love across the world. Instead of marrying for tradition, need, tradition, culture, you marry solely for love. But that has never been the case. Love has always been rare. So we're seeing less couples now and less babies x.com/TheStalwart/status/206…

What is the theory for *why* the iPhone's release caused fertility to collapse? I'm temperamentally pre-disposed to agreeing with these kinds of notions, but I don't know what the people who study this stuff seriously see as the real causal link.
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