"vibes and clickbait" i think translates into ~publishable analysis~ as "a fusion of folk practices and prosperity gosepel"

"moral law must be civil law" is an inherently fundamentalist position, but i'm not sure what flavors of fundamentalism we're dealing with here

so like why do people lose their minds over vaccinations but not, like, pills? dream logic correspondence. vax is snakebite, pill is eucharist.

the furthest i can go is to say that the west wing is about how all (national) politics is personal--but on that level it's closer to a morality play than a documentary

i'm not claiming that zohran would have been a nepo baby in a kampalan mayoral race, but the fact that this generational talent is here and not there illustrates both the massive benefits to america of immigration, and the long-term damages of autocracy

i really enjoy that anisota is not designed to be intuitively obvious to the widest possible audience -- those UIs are neutral at best and insulting whenever they won't let me do what i want or when i can't figure out something "obvious". meanwhile anisota is actively rewarding to explore

to the extent that rationalism is a "recruiting pipeline", it mostly leads to EA

we do so much for the Time Being, it's only right that it gives back, from time to time

wife & i took a late nap & collectively panicked about it already being friday when we woke up. fortunately we are silly lesbians and everything is fine

on the admittedly quite long list of x dot com's bad choices, displaying a view count is one of the early strong examples

though what really got me was experimenting with talking about a small-scope emotional situation with claude & it outclassing every therapist i've had by simply not being weird about queerness/spectrumyness

getting personalized support on technical projects i never managed to figure out on my own is really neat! realizing that support is but an echo of what could have been is Not

right like this does a better job of reconciling "there's *some* divine inspiration here" and "paul is absolutely unhinged (derogatory)" than A Lot of other approaches

(i have no idea what ducks smell like & really don't know what to make of a hypothetical person who is so comfortable IDing ducks by scent alone that they assume it's obvious to everyone)

y'know, if it smells like a duck...