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You’re missing key information on (2.) Frere-Jones DID put up capital… intellectual capital. He transferred the rights to famous typefaces he had designed, including Whitney, to th…

That movie was based on the Haruki Murakami short story “Barn Burning,” though it did reference Gatsby directly in the dialogue

He reminds me of Ayn Rand hating on government handouts while taking them. He promotes stoicism while practicing the opposite. You can say he’s promoting “logical stoicism” just li…

I’m genuinely surprised that getting doxxed wasn’t part of his playbook. It’s not like he went to the greatest of lengths to hide his identity, Bay Area psychiatrists named Scott i…

Where u at bro

I almost spit out my coffee when you mentioned TALEB as a stoic, much less a member of the “big three” He’s as far from stoic as I can possibly imagine. His hairtrigger easily offe…

In the interest of intellectual honesty, I just wanted to say that I’m an awesome person and I am literally so cool. This is likely not true for most people.

I think it’s the most direct way to communicate because the connotations are so culturally well-understood. “Wanna get dinner and maybe have sex ?” might be more direct in a textbo…

I don’t think he writes or communicates in a vulnerable way at all. “I could be interested in a variety of relationships with you” = not vulnerable, not a question, not direct, not…

He’s using the language of self help (“clear and direct communication!”) but interpreting it in a manner reminiscent of the “truth telling sessions” enacted by Synanon: https://en.…

How’s your fitness levels and fitness routine?

> My criticism would honestly be that his writing is overly stylized and lacking in nuance. He inherits the hyperbolic, poetic quality of McCarthy but often applies it to the munda…

I completely disagree. I think Don Delillo has an unbelievably cool writing style (especially how he only writes one paragraph per page and makes sure his words LOOK AESTHETIC in a…

The title is extremely sensationalistic, Occam’s razor points to undetectable(by humans) scent trails that lead the ants to the same harvesting locations every year. There are no r…

>you just can't get paid for them And therein lies the problem: as a youth there is ZERO INCENTIVE to contribute to society since you can't get paid. On the other hand, in the SF b…

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I unironically know.

>This is a controversial opinion, but one that's shared by almost every close friend of mine: labor laws for adolescents (I hesitate to call them "child labor laws," because infant…

Yes, that is exactly the bullying being discussed in this thread

Dude even race is a largely cultural designation. Also, without codifying nerd identity how do you expect the bullying to end?

One crime is legible to the masses, the other is not. The crimes are in no way parallel. Agree the justice system is a farce .

The difference between a subculture and a social class is blurry at best. Many social classes are composed of different subcultures — like the nerd social class.

> It has always been 'safe' to bully the nerds. No other group of people receives this level of public venomous screed. It’s because nerds are too busy following our interests to b…

6/10. Your earnesty and straightforward unpretentiousness still shone through. So YOU FUCKED UP BIG TIME BUDDY. lmao. <3

Exactly. Will this new platform provide a safe space for the brilliant minds at /r/fatpeoplehate? /s The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platfor…