'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)
Midnight Maniac Sri
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Midnight Maniac Sri
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- It takes 20 minutes to get an ice cream at Salt and Straw, which is terrible if their product were ice cream, but great since their actual product is prolonging a promising first date.
- * insane person acts insane toward you * Normal person: “wow this person is insane and i’ll avoid them and be happy” Inner-work person: “wow what an opportunity to explore my shadow. it’s definitely a good idea to prolong my exposure to them”
- Replying to @divya_vennIn my experience, people who are unusually fixated on something are often haunted by the shadow of that thing. Classic case: closeted gay homophobic Republicans. I personally know a well-known spiritual influencer who is deeply troubled and chaotic person. I guess for Clara,
- Reading @ESYudkowsky's Sequences for the first time and I feel completely underwhelmed. I mean this as a compliment. The ideas are so pervasive in tech circles that it's hard to imagine that they were noteworthy enough to write about at one time. It's like "Oh, this is water"
- every dude at a meditation retreat is either broke or has fuck you money. no middle ground.
- so... weird story: my inner monologue completely disappeared 2 months ago after an energy-work session reality feels like 60fps now b/c not filtering through an intermediate conceptual layer
- The vibecamp gender ratio discourse is misguided. The men I’ve met here are good, caring, powerful, open, and intelligent. This festival and this community is no less because of their abundance.
- Replying to @zackhargett and @elonmuskIf these are your bad ideas, would love to see your good ones
- Replying to @maebichka and @not_a_hot_girlThe funny part is such a person would not be able to squeeze past the pole.
- Replying to @Romy_Hollandif you’re looking for concrete reasons, it’s because of twitch streamers like Kitgboga, who amassed huge audiences by trolling Indian scammers. Indian scammer English phrases then became memeified and co-opted by racists. around the same time, TikTok creators started doing
- Replying to @ManeeshaSemI think the opposite is true also. What you dislike about others can stem from what you haven’t accepted about yourself.
- Replying to @robably__dawg, every designer older than 25 has been awaiting the return of skeuomorphism like it’s the second coming of Christ. Ain’t nothing original about it
- Replying to @immadVirtual longevity clinic. AI does the ‘primary care’: collect history/goals, coaching, answers questions. Orders labs/tests/meds with a human doctor in the loop.