time flies
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“It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty.” — Roman Historian Sallust (86–35 BC)
In 2026, if you write a big chunk of text (say, 100 pages) you could serialize it as a Substack, one-shot it in a long post, release an ebook, or do a self-published book on Amazon. Which should a person do and why?
51%Serial blog
11%One giant poast
24%Self-published book
14%Other/explain
37 votes • 5 hours
type of guy who can hold intelligent discourse on the jhanas but responds "wow, fuck THAT guy" when he gets cut off in traffic by someone rushing home
Complaining is a (poisonous) trick of the mind. It says: "it's not your fault, there was nothing you could have done. It's everyone else, they suck. You were so right"
Feels good to wallow sometimes. But the sun goes down, comes back up, and it's still your problem
I agree & also want to argue. There's something regulating for the ADHD-mind about letting go the false pretense of cognitive discipline and engaging on 20 things at once. Feels good man, which like as I write I realize isn't a good argument and is likely more cope lolsob
the dysregulating methods of cope will continue until you learn how to regulate
begs for an eventual "the aristrocrats" style joke where, after this escalates through 4 meta-levels of replyguys summarizing gptslop meta-discourse, we all just collapse in exhaustion and figure "we should just have ppl over for cozy dinner parties and talk like human beings"
forever indebted to @the_wilderless who saw this many moons ago. "It's all the same cycle" except seed oils have been replaced with AI slop
teapawt.net/the_wilderless/status/…
having 1 of those "oh my god I've become my father" moments. First found tpot in (~2019) I'd pucker my face at shit @eigenrobot would tweet like "what the..." after years of borg hivemindmeld I'm now tweeting stuff that would make 2018 me want to have me committed
Thing I do on purpose on this app is when I see 🫵👀 some1 proud posting about a thing & I can see it's good, I try pour gasoline on the 🔥 bc this is the joyful side of the "focus your energy on what you want to see more of" ledger. Try to be earnest and poast your Ws pls 👏
The passage of Time is absolutely necessary. A lot of us are procrastinators. And a forcing function is a kind thing, in the end
Stand-up comedians press on sore spots. And people with a public sore spot can't hide it. They were made for each other.
Obama since forever has just generally been like a calm, reasoned, principled dude. Nothing political intended in either direction.
Friend Tasshin prompted a thought.
when society deals with heroin addicts, sometimes we need to first practice harm reduction. I'm not asking anyone to condone their behavior, but I also don't think it's as simple as asking them to stop taking heroin. There are important reasons why those disordered behaviors are going on. In the case of a heroin addict, we might give them clean needles so they don't contract HIV and hopefully say: "you don't have to make it worse; you can stop when you're ready, we'll be ready for you".
This is how I think of humans and war. If you ever had a kindergarten friend, you know in your bones the true moral status of war. But it doesn't help to say it out loud or rail against it; no more than it helps the heroin addict to tell them that heroin is bad. You can be assured, they know in their bones, better than you even.
The issue is that something in us as human is pre-occupied with this. Tens of thousands of years and counting, we WILL NOT LET IT GO and that means something important.
