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Good thread on stuck culture here
He doesn't feel like he is aging because there has not been any shifts in contemporary mainstream culture for 15 years (fashion, film, music, etc)
If you time traveled to 2009 no one would know you were from the future.
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Wife and I had an interesting conversation last night
She was looking at pictures from a few years ago and she made the comment that for the first time I really "look older now"
But I still have that shared millennial experience of not *feeling* old/older
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"Its terrible what they're doing to the environment*
"Yeah"
"These fucking corporations and governments need to wake up"
"Of course"
"I'm going to see whales next weekend. Do you want to come? Theyre so beautiful. We have to save them"
"Yeah I'd love too".
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leonardo di caprio’s new girlfriend being 19 is insane like literally what do they talk about
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A smiley face on a sponge?
The smiley face has a long history. It was found on an Anatolian jar in 2000BC. Still routinely used today in emojis. It's Lindy.
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If you think you're idea is too dumb to work, just remember that Scrub Daddy, a sponge in the shape of a face, does $670m in annual sales
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There's this really odd hybrid of language that really liberal white people in affluent east coast cities speak now.
It's like HR-academic-corporate-therapy speak.
This local politician is speaking about a gunman who went on a rampage at the train station killing people.
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Just leaving Potomac Ave Metro. A devastating morning. Investigation ongoing; appears an individual in deep crisis on bus transferred to the station - shooting 3 unrelated people, 2 injured & 1 Metro employee killed. A neighborhood traumatized. We’re all angry & want action.
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I don't know how many winters I have left in me
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Tom Hanks, Robin Wright to Be De-Aged in Robert Zemeckis’ New Movie Using Metaphysic AI Tool hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n
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Looks terrible in the daylight. Beautiful California sunshine doesn't go well with it.
It's a car meant to be driven under a permanent grey cloud after the nations of the world blotted out the sun with a botched geoengineering project in hopes of stopping climate change
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Refinement Culture
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It's utterly tragic the way the NFL ruined Super Bowl logos for everyone starting in 2010. 
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Friday in the 4HL
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Taliban fighters from rural Afghanistan struggling with integrating into the group’s administrative structure in Kabul is fascinating. TB ministry personnel with little to do spending their days scrolling on Twitter & complaining about fixed office hours twitter.com/aanafgh/status…
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in a(n excellent) café in bogota where they’re playing a killer philly soul playlist, perfect mix of deep cuts and the obvious stuff. 1KYAE
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This is pretty crazy: decades of computers and video games and the #1 game going viral is still chess. The Lindy effect is real.
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Finally got on "know your meme"
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Also I'm 5'10 1/2
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I respect the right of being an anon on here
But if you threaten another man on here with violence.
Then you must accept his offer for a fight.
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People are figuring out about Stuck Culture
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Actually this is what a competent lawyer looks like. Probably knows the judge. Has done this case a million times.
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Moderns conflate ornamentation with superficiality.
Aesthetics are not superficial. Something that the ancients understood in architecture and books
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A lot of old manuscripts were illuminated. Full of pictures and color. Font shifts. Design.
Maybe the problem with books is it's just words on paper. You need ornamentation.
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Everyone is reading manga LindyMan, probably about 6/10 Americans I’ve met who said they read a book last year said it was a manga
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The sealed home is the plan for any new housing.
But it extends to cars too. 80% of new cars bought last year were trucks or SUVs.
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Warmth by proximity enables behavioral homeostasis.
With modern heating it's either too hot everywhere or too cold everywhere
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Modern heating is nice, but there are downsides. It makes the cold less enjoyable.
Our body temperature has to lower for us to sleep. A cold bedroom is ideal. A cold living room is not. A fireplace makes a room very warm, makes the next room over kind of warm and cooler beyond
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You don't really see people wearing a nightcap much anymore.
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This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard this man with respect, or disgust?
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It mixed domains
Posting content for your family/friends is not the same as posting content meant for a wider audience.
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Can someone explain why people stopped using facebook despite the enormous utility?? Feels like the "fake news" era and Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2016-2018 really set things back for Facebook. Or maybe cannibalization from Instagram.
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A hundred years ago it was the cultural capital of the world. Now? It's a nice place to walk around.
Things can change fast
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