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YinglingLighton Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs

When was this?

There is a big difference between Elon Musk pre and post-March 2018. For reasons that would take weeks to explain.

YinglingLighton The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

There is so much military hardware up there, military hardware disguised as civilian, satellites that were launched successfully but publicly described as a failure/"useless orbit".

The article is essentially asking that all countries need to share the location of their nuclear subs because the Ocean is getting crowded.

YinglingLighton Restaurant workers quit at record rate

Why not? When the media we consume promotes Victimhood over taking Ownership of one's problems, isn't this behavior inevitable?

YinglingLighton No More Movies

Content consumption "binges" are just that, they leave a feeling of regret if remembered at all.

YinglingLighton New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity

"No interesting discussion can take place" quickly leads to "No meaningful discussion can take place".

YinglingLighton Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

>Congressional acts are the most public thing possible

Not when said action occurs a week before the Congressional act is announced. Is this HN thread flooded with bots or something? Have never seen this level of sympathy for politicians.

YinglingLighton Adjustable, low-impact keeb

I presumed is was another example of the infantilizing of young adults today. 'Look at my cute pupper!' 'Just got dishy installed today Elon!'

YinglingLighton No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year

That's a rather racist statistic

YinglingLighton Voltswagen of America

Your flaw is the assumption that all, or even most, customers prefer the non-tangible idea of "reducing pollution" to the tangible experience of greater performance.

YinglingLighton The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability

Scientists got mortgages, too.

YinglingLighton The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability

>To be clear

You know you're in a cult when you must preface your fealty before voicing the softest of logical hardballs. This entire thread is 50% prefacing. We've lost our ability for true discourse.

YinglingLighton The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram

Old farts still had irl friends. The amount of teens who have no tangible friendships outside of Discord is sobering.

YinglingLighton On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)

You don't need Shakespeare to live

YinglingLighton Hockey goalies are too big now

Bro, kids aren't going to be less enthused about playing hockey because their goalie's pads are slightly different than what they see on TV.

YinglingLighton Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

Yikes. Is this 2004-era Tucker Max speaking?

Civilization cannot exist without promoted monogamy.

Q. Do you believe polygamy in the Middle East hurts women or men more?

A. Men. Young, poor, men. You have tens of thousands of young, poor men with zero prospects of having a mate. That translates into a thousand suicide bombers. To a man that desperate, that 60-odd virgin fantasy starts to hold far more meaning.

YinglingLighton On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't

It seems to me that luck plays a huge role

The concept of Talent Stacking: https://personalexcellence.co/blog/talent-stack/

Those who accrue and leverage a variety of skills tend to get 'lucky'. This is why you could strip most entrepreneurs of all their money and assets, and not be surprised to see them enjoying success in 5 years. You put into place a system that makes making the right decisions inevitable, and learning from the wrong decisions.

To believe that your success is out of your hands is incredibly disempowering. I understand it's primary function is to help you empathize with others, but it subconsciously has a hold on you. A very limiting belief, I'd 'yeet' it immediately.

YinglingLighton 1,000 True Fans (2008)

You don't have to care what people giving you small fractions of your livelihood think. You, as a creator, care, of course. But you don't need to care care.

I am of the opinion that every established Content Creator starts to care less and less. And is better off for it! And I am also of the opinion that George RR Martin/JK Rowling/Tom Clancy/Stephen King loathe their most hardcore fans while being paid to attend Cons. Inevitable.

YinglingLighton Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

That's when you market out your skills to satisfying niche fetishes on the Japanese equivalent of Patreon.

On a serious note, there's a slew of skills an animator has on their Talent Stack (https://personalexcellence.co/blog/talent-stack/). Mere fluency of Photoshop, Illustrator, being able to DRAW period, work ethic, are no mere skills at all.

YinglingLighton Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?

Journalism weeds itself of those not "in the club" via unpaid or barely paid internships in the highest COL cities.

YinglingLighton The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently

Of all qualms you could have against Ferriss, this is the pettiest.

YinglingLighton 1,000 True Fans (2008)

You've never heard the story of the embittered simp, who was giving tens of thousands of dollars to camgirlA. The simp, upon discovering camgirlA fretting about dealing with an overbearing nuisance to Reddit (but one that pays her entire rent), vengefully withdraws all support donates to her rival, camgirlB.

This is no model to live your life.

YinglingLighton 1,000 True Fans (2008)

Advice in 2008, a trend in 2018, common sense in 2028, unfathomable that people in history lived any other way in 2048.

YinglingLighton Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

I'll hold off on my order of the new Impossible Boner from Burger King.

YinglingLighton Learning to Suffer

The peak endurance runner looks akin to a skeleton. The peak sprinter, bursting with life. Humans were made for spurts of activity followed by long periods of rest. Same is true for the work world.

YinglingLighton Google Analytics Opt Out

>Wikipedia hasn't been tainted like everything else.

The illusion of purity allows corruption to thrive. There are influence teams hired by VIPs who use Wikipedia as simply an extension of cable news/social media. To "get out in front of stories", or if they're late to the game, to scrub/"memoryhole" undesired ones. Wikipedia editing as an amusing hobby for niche nerds is an outdated concept for many topics.

Wikipedia is far too powerful a Persuasion tool to let fail. Its essay-long donation plea's are designed to garner credibility towards innocence. How nefarious could the site be? They're scrounging around for scraps each year!

YinglingLighton Google Analytics Opt Out

Not a stretch to assume the data on one who pays for Youtube Premium is more desired than one who does not. 'Whales' to use a term in the mobile gaming market.

YinglingLighton Facebook accuses people tied to French military of running troll accounts

Well a competitor wouldn't be the brainchild of CIA's LifeLog program, for starters.

YinglingLighton Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact

Would you estimate that you have less periods of feeling nostalgia, for you cannot picture your childhood home?

Would you estimate that you have less periods of feeling cringe, for you cannot re-play an embarassing conversation in your mind?

Now the spicy, Ethical question. Would you estimate that you have less periods of feeling remorse for your actions?

YinglingLighton Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact

>The study compared the MRI scans of people who said they “often” feel lonely with the scans of people do not report feeling that way.

I'm curious about how a sizeable fraction of the population "lacking inner thought" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-exper... throws off that figure.

It raises a disturbing question: what feelings can/cannot be had if you not the conscientiousness to experience it?

YinglingLighton The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

'On November 8th of 2016, half the country learned that everything they believed to be both true and obvious turned out to be wrong. The people who thought Trump had no chance of winning were under the impression they were smart people who understood their country, and politics, and how things work in general. When Trump won, they learned they were wrong. They were so very wrong that they reflexively (because this is how all brains work) rewrote the scripts they were seeing in their minds until it all made sense again. The wrong-about-everything crowd decided that the only way their world made sense, with their egos intact, is that either the Russians helped Trump win or there are far more racists in the country than they imagined, and he is their king. Those were the seeds of the two mass hysterias we witness today.'