falling-star
4d ago
I'm Gen Z. They're still playing Street Fighter/Tekken and rambling to me about Dragon Ball Z.
falling-star
8d ago
I'm going to be in Manhattan for a week on a business trip. What should I do/see outside of working hours?
falling-star
9d ago
Often you're not getting just money from a VC fund. You're also getting their prestige, connections, and """mentorship""". Sometimes the legitimizing effects of those secondary things is worth more than the money you raise in the first place. Many prestigious and well connected funds have minimum check sizes that are quite large.
There are other incentives to raise more than you need. If you have a failed startup on your resume, people will use how much it raised as a proxy for how far it got. There's also some weird recursive perception things where raising money improves the perceived value of the company. This can frequently result in your stake rising in value more than it's diluted.
falling-star
16d ago
I like frogs.
falling-star
18d ago
I'm going to be more kind to my friends and knit a hat that looks like a frog.
falling-star
23d ago
I ended up getting a fake Rolex as a gift. Person giving it to me said they inherited it and honestly didn't know if it was real or not. I can't find anything that looks the same on the Rolex website, and other parts of it feel off. Still considering getting it fixed up and wearing it in public. What's The Motte's advice on the fake Rolex? Wear it anyway and tell anyone who asks it's a fake? Spend $700 and get a legitimate watch?
falling-star
1mo ago
I really wish we had the level of UI accessibility of that game combined with the deep mechanics and settings of alpha centauri. Friends have played beyond earth with me, nobody wants to play alpha centauri.
falling-star
1mo ago
The vibes are great, the mechanics are deep, the controls and discoverability were dogshit. Or maybe I'm just too zoomer brained.
falling-star
1mo ago
Snuggies are too loose to be attractive. I'm a big fan of the onesie. Feels great to hug a gal in one.
falling-star
1mo ago
Would you say it's immoral for someone to intentionally burn themselves so they could get a cool scar? What about smashing their own (non shared) things in a fit of rage?
falling-star
1mo ago
Was that based on anything or just a typical smear job?
falling-star
1mo ago
I don't doubt this phenomena exists, but I've never witnessed it first hand. Maybe people I know don't give off simp vibes?
falling-star
1mo ago
Maybe they've been maximizing shareholder value a little too hard. Maybe society would be better off if they didn't maximize as ruthlessly.
falling-star
1mo ago
There's a sweet spot of moderate to low dosages where it enables intentional, manual rewiring. I don't really get the fixation on macrodoses.
falling-star
1mo ago
Sounds like an improvement.
falling-star
1mo ago
I recently got a Sega Dreamcast and have been enjoying games I first played on the Game Cube. Soul Calibur holds up really well and looks beautiful. Sonic Adventure... not so much. Anybody else been getting into retro game stuff?
falling-star
1mo ago
It's simultaneously profound and trivial that BDSM is a safer way to satisfy the same urges that lead to domestic violence. Too much of the "community" is tied up in consent ideology and PR to really dig into the implications of this.
falling-star
1mo ago
Yeah he's gone public with his name after the whole NYT doxxing thing and the shift to substack.
falling-star
2mo ago
My first instinct was that drugs categorically different because they cause physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms. A quick google search tells me that gambling withdrawal is a thing, but all the sources are treatment centers, and all the symptoms are psychological. Withdrawing from amphetamine left me pretty much non-functional for weeks. I doubt gambling can cause that sort of nervous system damage.
falling-star
2mo ago
I think we exist in numbers, but we're less represented among frequent posters.
falling-star
2mo ago
Thiel commented on SSC? I read the comments section pretty religiously and completely missed that one.
falling-star
2mo ago
I'd be interested in reading further if you have any references on this topic.
falling-star
2mo ago
Knowing what printer was used isn't that much of a threat if you plan around it. People leave out perfectly good printers on the street when they move. They sell them in yard sales without taking ID. Collect a few without being traced, print the fraudulent ballots, then dump them somewhere.
Also wonder how hard it would be to hack a printer to change the dot pattern it imparts.
falling-star
3mo ago
Eh, I don't think weed causes much cross talk. More like putting a thick layer over everything. Psychedelics on the other hand? It's cross talk central.
They don't show more agency, they don't do those "bad" things. Agency is actively making choices that don't strictly follow others. This is the same mistake as thinking someone too incapable to commit crime virtuous.
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