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My bank repeatedly rejects transactions and temp blocks my credit card because they suspect fraud (each occasion hasn’t been fraud and a few times it has left me in a sketchy situation) and now they’re limiting crypto transactions “for our safety”

Which bank should I move to?

One time in undergrad I put off writing a paper until the day it was due and I woke up at 4 am and wrote 15 pages in one sitting, and it turned out totally fine and I got good feedback. It's the worst thing that ever happened to me and I wish I could go back in time and undo it

Whenever I feel good about life in general, any desire for optimization tactics just goes out the window

The best sleep remedy is closing my eyes and believing I made the most out of my day. The best productivity hack is waking up excited to play the game I'm obsessed with. The…

Uprooting a tree using a tire and physics

Feel like a car company could make a lot of money selling a small, very simple car with almost no tech.

Whilst disabled people should receive the support that they received, this is a train wreck.

How can the cost of the NDIS already exceed that of Medicare? Disastrous!
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So amazing

I treated a patient surgically in September 2022. An email from the insurer has advised me that today, 9th April 2024, they have mailed a cheque to pay me for my work

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I think about busywork more than I care to. I want to spend my time actually doing things with my brain and hands, but external groups who exist for busywork try to give it to me too. It’s nonsense.

Physics at work

Why does everywhere look exactly the same?

The death of local architecture, and why it matters... (thread) 🧵

Madagascar has been isolated for about 88 million years and is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth: 90% them are found only there.

It literally looks like another world.

[📹 cityscape_discovery]

Conscious individuals don’t need to be ruled or told what to do, they govern themselves, they tell government to get on with whatever governments do, when it comes to “self care”, I will do me.

To be exceptional, you have to be willing to be exceptionally misunderstood by pretty much everyone.

If you don't care what people think of you, you are liberated to pursue what is fundamentally right in reality, not what is fundamentally right according to the local maxima of…

What lay people interpret as seemingly random behaviour is actually just an outlier following a pattern most don't understand.

This is one of the more interesting insights I've had over my life.

Most things that look random are actually just a function of missing information in…

“Admit it.

You aren’t like them.

You’re not even close.

You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.

But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel…

I couldn’t love this more

Reminds me of the time someone asked me why I don’t have a Louis Vuitton or Chanel handbag

Perfectly put