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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 22

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      Thread of threads IV ===== May 2021 =====https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1352866449044324353 …

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      Thread of threads III https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1305059855523172353 …
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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      the victim identity is conflicted on whether or not it wants to die to move onhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1389788538497949697?s=20 …

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      the victim identity has 2 main dysfunctions: 1/ the NEED for evil demons with agency directing the oppression (vs the emergent "moloch") 2/ the NEED to be extra-ordinary at something in order to make up for the self-inflicted narrative wound
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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      gpt-3 as wave function collapsehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1390158303171207171?s=20 …

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      after playing around with gpt-3 for a while, imo this analogy is the best way to interact with the tool. https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1339826316074348544 …
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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      passing it onhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1390673763486687238?s=20 …

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      it seems to be a trope that traditional asian families w only a daughter tend to implode. the mother cannot live vicariously through the conquests of the absent son. the father cannot make sense of his suffering without an heir
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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      democracy as an ironic path to authoritarianismhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1390764971781361666?s=20 …

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      democratic process may ironically lead to more authoritarian high modernism than literal authoritarianism think about how homogeneous gadgets have become. everyone just googles “Best XYZ” and buys it on amazon
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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      is climate changed narrative also weaponized like covid? does the weaponization really do more good than harm?https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1391448018558144512?s=20 …

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      it’s odd how viciously climate change deniers are attacked when questioning the narrative the violence is oddly... cultlike
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      "few understand this"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1391827947808464899?s=20 …

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      seeding gpt-3 with a few "few understand this" tweets. results:
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      every cult is a life culthttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1391956309235224576?s=20 …

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      every cult is in essence a life cult promising either redemption or immortality b/c they do not not how to handle death (viewed from the pov of the cult, Exit is the sin of suicide) they create collective suicide pacts ranging from cyanide laced kool aid to yolo hodl
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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      whether u like it or not, the young will rule the worldhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1392276953286119425?s=20 …

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      the world necessarily will adjust to the type of energy put into it once the boomer energy runs out, the economy will shift to run off of millennial spending habits rather than boomer habits
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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      the two primary states of oneness as Sunrise and Sunsethttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1392334858928615426?s=20 …

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      there are two states of Oneness that the hooman can achieve. they are the Sunrise. the new dawn that looks out at the world with a child’s wonder or the Sunset. the dusk of return to the Infinite. the bittersweet sadness of returning home to the dinner bell
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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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      be wary of an obsession w/ beautyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1392343990687522817?s=20 …

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      always be suspicious of people obsessed with creating or returning to something beautiful it means they see an Ugly world
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        1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          how to be reply guyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1392928246824460289?s=20 …

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          being a good reply guy boils down to one thing: amplify or positively shape the author’s self image
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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          missing the pointhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393072212475670531?s=20 …

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          something that gets missed when experts say "no one knows in the short term but long term blah blah blah" is that no one knows in the short term. sure the WORDS are literally right there but the actual meaning is missed
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          money as alchemyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393217133492924419?s=20 …

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          money is a promise chain that allows alchemical transformation of services it transmits force and allows something like typing at a computer to magically turn into pizza (w ingredients sourced globally)
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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          butterfly effect of minor childhood experienceshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393314313994072064?s=20 …

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          back when i was a wee kitten i remember doing very well on a multiplications test, finishing first with 100% that single event seared into me an identity of being "good at math" and boosted me through all of primary education
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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          caricature is mean but insightfulhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393754634716545034?s=20 …

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          something that is more important than intuition or simplicity is caricature caricature exaggerates the distinguishing characteristic and minimizes the non-distinguishing ones so that the "essence" of a thing is distilled
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        6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          love as self transcendencehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1393929416338640897?s=20 …

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          love at first sight is a thing because love inspires courage and courage inspires the sudden self-surprising urge to break a boundary and put yourself out there
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        7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          neediness for transcendence as a blocker for transcendencehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394148393803390976?s=20 …

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          a lot of times thinking u’ve transcended a domain just traps u further in it
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        8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          i just don't like dogs. and even if i did like some dogs i wouldn't admit ithttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394377579365208065?s=20 …

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          there's a weird disgust twinge whenever i see a "connector" type that is more successful than the "source" that inspired the bulk of the connector's content even though the value prop of pre-digesting sth indigestible IS a valuable and needed service
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        9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          identity as time loopshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394526629825712128?s=20 …

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          an identity as a time loop. it can be broken if the loop is created with a goal in mind like hermione getting to all her classes. however identities forged without this exit point becomes a depressive spiral of stuckness
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        10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          beauty scars and destroys identity time loopshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394538547013558275?s=20 …

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          only a memory can be beautiful. thus only scars can be beautiful. (kintsugi) the reason a sunset or art can feel beautiful in the moment is bc they radiate so strongly that they burn and scar in real time
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        11.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          "Ok Anakin"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394765694051373056?s=20 …

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          yep. that's the whole explanation. turns out it was not so complicated after all instead of "OK boomer" it is "OK anakin"
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        12.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          beauty and flow experienceshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1395012084249677826?s=20 …

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          what is interesting about flow experiences is that they are only ever experienced as memories beautiful experiences are so totalizing that they disable the "self" and its ability to "observe" and selectively influence memory creation https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1394623807550328832 …
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        13.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          the final testhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1395404900591235073?s=20 …

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          when u die u r asked only 1 question: “what did u do with sadness i gave u?” say “i ignored it” and be returned to a hell of your own making say “i bore it” and be returned to a hell of other’s making say “i made it beautiful” and then and only then will u be allowed to go on
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        14.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          bayes for everyonehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1395474223183790083?s=20 …

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          if u r annoyed at "bayesian thinking" signaling and suspect that it's just big-brain-ai-adjacent posturing then here is a simplistic breakdown:
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        15.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          twitter collection of sappy dappyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1395815396280733696?s=20 …

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          Experimenting with twitter collections: "How to Rip out a Heart" https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/timelines/1395806403105738753 …
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        16.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 23

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          money as... love?https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1396162217209307139?s=20 …

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          going to start w/ a beautiful notion and then end with offending everyone: first, the beautiful notion: Community is held together by mutual Love for the same thing https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1395862565679288321 …
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        17.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          freedom of constraints never leads to homogeneous equalization of outcomehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1396668707938521088?s=20 …

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          freedom and equality seem to be opposites. natural freedom is natural (exponential) growth leading to exponential differences. a tree “explodes” upwards in a forest and monopolizes the bulk of light and resources
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        18.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          purposehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1397191673730437120?s=20 …

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          "WHAT IS MY PURPOSE??" "Your Days Shall Be Filled With The Monotonous Routine of Sleeping, Pooping, Eating, and Chasing The Dynamic Pulsing Orb of Love" "OH BOI OH BOI THAT SOUNDS AMAHZING!!!"
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        19.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          being ur own worst enemyhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1397203359954841612?s=20 …

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          the trick is the word WORST in "i am my own worst enemy" not the ONLY enemy. not ONE OF the enemies WORST
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        20.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          chip on the shoulder vs chip on the brainhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1398647144215498755?s=20 …

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          the hooman-that-identifies-as-intellectual has a special "prowling" mode where it will purposely look for things to be offended by by imbuing combinations of letters with self-interpreted meaning
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        21.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          the illusion of trickle down economicshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1398659466669658113?s=20 …

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          "trickle down" economics may actually be a misinterpretation of the actual effect if an economic system is "leaking" and trickling down, it is actually a broken system. like a hydraulic system, the purpose is to maintain pressure https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1396119153723904003 …
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        22.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

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          turning someone into a dog is funhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1399015859494940673?s=20 …

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          u can either help someone be themself or u can help someone be a part of something trouble with the latter is that ur advice in this domain is always going to be biased. u can’t help but kinda proselytize
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        23.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 8

          ==== June 2021 ====

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        24.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          money needs to annihilate to create freedomhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1399855668643786752?s=20 …

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          what if “money” isn’t actually money e.g. if the definition of antimatter is that which annihilates with regular matter and produces energy then what is actually “money” is that which annihilates with debt and produces freedom
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        25.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          empathy towards black marketshttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1400112785309069314?s=20 …

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          outside of the u.s. "criminal" activity is more amenable to being viewed as "people doing their best for a better life for themselves and their families"
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        26.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          gold as treason. the "right to bear treason" as an Ultimate Right to agree to be part of a nation statehttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1400204724272435202?s=20 …

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          to understand gold one must first understand that nation states subsist on taxes & that taxes can only be extracted if individuals choose (or are forced) to call a specific geolocation "Home"
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        27.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          why inequality creates unhappiness despite rise in absolute "wealth" (wealth as fundamentally an expression of love instead of living standards)https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1400284980849254400?s=20 …

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          the source of unhappiness is not the lack of stuff but the inability to capture suffering and transmute it into something meaningful
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        28.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          violence without angerhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1400824350161395713?s=20 …

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          ever notice how cats don’t really get angry in the sense of blindly lashing out in the tunnel vision of extreme emotion the response to any excess stimulus, good or bad, is to attac it with claws
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        29.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          being yourself is a privilege like being naked is a privilege. the point isn't to just be naked, it's to show that you have the confidence to be so.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1401766845305155584?s=20 …

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          if ur born privileged the best advice is to “believe in urself” bc education, good communications skills, confidence, etc… are all “free” given the environment if not, then it’s likely bad advice bc wo cultural guardrails ur intuition is not so different than base instincts
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        30.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jun 25

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          a system that requires 80% of people to be top 10% will by definition failhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1403009669887455233?s=20 …

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          the distribution of jobs in a society needs to match the distribution of IQ if the system requires 80% of the people to be 130 plus, then it’s a BAD system
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