Grant_us_eyes
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"I totally support this thing that has happened before, is likely happening now, and some people want to increase to a horrendous degree. I also support this thing that has never happened before and the last time someone tried it got struck down by a judge despite being passed with nearly 60% of the votes."
You'll excuse me if I no longer give people like Caplan the benefit of the doubt.
It was origionally in relationship to clothing purchases in the modern age, but the core idea is, sadly, something that can be applied broadly to... well, anything. The phrase 'huge cognitive costs' encapsulates something not many consider as a negative, and a factor that I feel has increased in the modern days as we all drown under a rising tide of grey sludge of information.
Or, to shamelessly borrow from one of the replies, 'Huge cognitive costs is the through line of our times, which is kinda surprising, since we were promised the exact opposite'.
This turn-around became so famous it they actually coined a term for it.
A wonderful example of a quote I've become rather fond of.
"With omnipresent sloppification you need to become an expert yourself before [...] anything. Huge cognitive costs."
For context, this is the first I've heard about it. As in, literally today.
Then again, I don't normally dip my toes into the Linux side of things, so that might explain it.
...still looks cool, though.
Omarchy Linux
Oh for fuck's sake. What in the absolute fuck. I casually read through this post, then go on a refreshing update/research on local-hosting LLMs a few hours later, only to stumble across the guy who did an old video I was double-checking having done a 'you need to switch to Linux RIGHT NOW' that was all about Omarchy Linux.
This is either a prime example of observation bias in action, or that we're all in a simulation.
(I will say that Omarchy Linux looks pretty cool, imho.)
Less a straight arranged marriage and more weighting the dice as much as possible.
Also, if necessary, a brutal heart-to-heart talk along the lines of 'Bruh. You seriously think you're going to manage better? Get the fuck over yourself and marry that woman.'
I know of atleast one guy who got that from his dad. ... In the dad's defense, the lady in question was quite possibly the literal IRL example of a 10/10, angel descended from heaven, and the guy was... not. Knowing them both, the woman in question is an absolute sweetheart and the guy is insanely lucky. And, yes, they both have multiple kids by this point.
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The saddest moment in any serious, intelligent Libertarian's life is realizing they do not live in a world with zeppelins and talking monkies.
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