there is something deeply wrong with pickleball. it is a microcosm of everything wrong with modernity. a giant larp. the shrunken court, the way the whiffle ball absorbs all shock and kills all pace. it’s tennis but safer, stunted. like walking on a treadmill desk
the outfits, the entire aesthetic, terrible. leisure disguised as strenuous exertion. golf doesn’t have this problem because it’s honest. pickleball wants you to believe that you’re doing more while cradling you in a sea of athleticorp simulacra. very fake and dishonest
elon is so f*cked. zuck’s kids are literally named after roman emperors. the man has been waiting for this his entire life. this is his destiny. ālea iacta est mfer it’s over
it’s also somehow completely devoid of tennis’ inherently sexual nature, another modern parallel. just completely botched it. i would like to see what paglia has to say about pickleball, the signs are all there
Tennis has some of the best aspirational aesthetics of any sport. Athleticism, calmness, atmosphere, sexuality, fashion. It's just perfect
for this reason I can never forgive the pickleballers
yes and that’s another sign of it’s fake and unnatural nature. it’s fucked up, made in a lab, has all of these weird unnatural qualities as a result. a franken-sport
still can’t believe an entire country got bamboozled into eating sugary cereals for breakfast while simultaneously being guilt-tripped into exclusively accompanying it with low-fat milk
@gbrl_dick
hahahah must be the most incredible feeling in the world tbh. multiple weeks trying to get the message across and it finally lands. total victory
@web3__
it's different. doesn't have that american corpo-cringe to it. the ball is a different material. idk. it wasn't co-opted by the wrong aesthetics like pickeball has been
@jack
Strongly disagree. Not sure how you can look at Chromebooks and conclude that this is what we need for mobile.
Majority of web-based tools fail to inspire confidence. On mobile you need to be absolutely sure you won’t lose your work with no internet connection etc.
i think it's fucking insane that, knowing everything we know about pavlov's dogs, we're all somehow ok with our computers making a bunch of stupid little sounds all of the time in order to get our attention
What do I do in my free time?
Oh, nothing really, mostly just defend Chili’s as a respectable dining establishment and staple of American culture that towers over its mediocre peers (TGI Fridays, Outback, Red Lobster, Applebee’s, Olive Garden)
We want food vendors to be permitted so we can ensure the food being sold on our streets is safe and healthy.
@SF_DPH
will continue to enforce our food safety laws. They’ll also continue educating unpermitted vendors on how to get into compliance with the support from the City.
@amasad
Yeah, of course he's exaggerrating.
But I think he's doing so in a way that gets us closer to the truth about creativity. The humble, "I know nothing" move is peak Socrates. That's why they killed that mfer, he was annoying in exactly this way lmao
@JustMrPhillips
@DeanPreston
How can you possibly make a claim like this when the getaway cars are fucking BMWs and Mercedes’?
It is organized crime that is tearing this city apart.
We will never live in Utopia and by attempting to make it so you’re hurting those who you want to help the most.
Arc has been my default (and only) browser for many many months now.
The tiniest details make a huge difference in how you experience the web – once you see them, you cannot go back.
Business Insider openly admitting that they don’t care (or check) whether what they’re publishing is true or not because they said “reportedly” in the headline
@Logo_Daedalus
@coldhealing
Part of cultivating and aligning aesthetics, you must have the same visions for the way you both want the world to work.
Foundational to all (romantic) relationships IMO
@micsolana
it’s crazy how close she is to being able to extrapolate this logic into a coherent view about all government mandates but she’ll never get there
“not realistic”, “not sipping, drinking sipping, drinking”, “the fun police”
What do I do in my free time?
Oh, nothing really, mostly just defend Chili’s as a respectable dining establishment and staple of American culture that towers over its mediocre peers (TGI Fridays, Outback, Red Lobster, Applebee’s, Olive Garden)
@TenreiroDaniel
I think it shows weakness on behalf of Elon. Zuck caught him slipping and earned himself home court advantage. He’s going to get mogged standing next to Zuck who’s going to be wearing the gladiator armor he bought to commemorate the birth of his first child.
dude who just won the fields medal is a next-level autist king
- lived off frozen pizza for months
- has a three-hour work quota
- enjoys mindless, repetitive tasks like cleaning
- did math during labor of his own child
America be like:
Here’s a giant grocery store, probably a Kroger. Inside the Kroger is a Starbucks. Outside the Kroger, across from the giant parking lot, is another Starbucks that is flanked by a Chick-fil-A and a Chipotle, and behind the Chipotle there is a Wendy’s.
amazing how chris lattner just looks at any given problem and knows that one of the options he has to solve it is to simply invent a new programming language
Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame just announced a new programming language for ML that is high-performance and backwards compatible with Python (works with Python libraries). Could be a game changer.
"But I understand that I’m insane, and I would happily die for the whole universe to wake up and have like, you know, mega gods building new stars and stuff."
@grimezsz
very true, but there is also a delicate line to walk here.
every single person throughout all of history who has ever accomplished anything of note has done so because they thought themselves to be uniquely suited to do so. and sometimes even destined to do so.
@Aella_Girl
Actual babies themselves
The bathwater being the environment, jobs, finances, “modernity”, a million other things we can’t quantify yet etc.
@amasad
Yeah, of course he's exaggerrating.
But I think he's doing so in a way that gets us closer to the truth about creativity. The humble, "I know nothing" move is peak Socrates. That's why they killed that mfer, he was annoying in exactly this way lmao
@itsandrewgao
this was a hot idea for a minute a few years ago. ISAs but for people
some people like to criticize it as a form of indentured servitude, i pray for your mentions if you get hit with that lmfao
I’m extremely impressed by the ChatGPT app. They’ve taken the strategy that I have for the last few years lauded GitHub for:
Simple, plain, and vanilla with the exception of a few extremely intentional tweaks to highlight the brand.
Fits right at home on iOS. I love it.
@seltzergenius
@Logo_Daedalus
@coldhealing
Yeah to be clear I don’t think you need to like all of the same things lol!
I don’t need to like everything my partner likes and vice-versa, but I should probably think it’s cool that she likes ______ and take interest in her growth with regards to it. And vice-versa.
for the record i will say that i’m very excited about it all. when i say it’s the only mistake, i mean it.
it’s unclear to me what the “moments” are that will prompt people to put the headset on right now and i hope that the headset disappears over time. exciting nonetheless!
@DanielleFong
i don’t know who you’re referring to but it’s so sad every single time.
i personally try to follow the golden rule that i first heard from
@boop
:
“Never become the twitter account your followers want you to be”
@BecomingCritter
funny enough, nietzsche understood this and phrased it better than just about anybody else:
“The ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart… What he (Christ) bequeathed to mankind is his practice.”
@antoniogm
A special flavor of American ethnocentrism where you view literally everything through an anti-US lens and have never spoken to an actual Cuban.
@rivatez
True. The pros are God-given and the cons are man-made.
But it may be the case that most people actually do prefer the current situation, they literally vote for it.
Centuries from now someone is going to unearth the fully preserved works of Fleming and Dahl from the underground library they serendipitously find underneath the foundation of their new house, like when Petrarch rediscovered Cicero’s Pro Archia at a monastery in Liege in 1333.
LOVE IS NOT A MATH PROBLEM 💌
No wonder everybody’s sad and single and swiping fruitlessly and endlessly wondering why they haven’t been able to connect with anybody.
@wiki_early_life
@proona5
true but he also has unreal distribution from day one
talent def required but normies must first spend years scaffolding the distribution pipeline via a strong reply game