This is good advice, but it’s like telling people “well, just avoid sweets.” The habit of telling off people giving stupid advice is likely to be both rational & selectively advantageous in small groups. Social media is the cognitive equivalent of the junk food industry.

Pynchon has been derided for less

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” (Notes of a Native Son)

🎢 Close up slo-mo video of a bow sliding across the lowest violin string, which has been tuned down further, creating a wave pulse that moves in a counterclockwise motion.

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RFKJr is more of a Lynch Harkonnen

If only Peter Parker could have had a photo credit

The literalization of dream boots in the last panel is mechanical, but otherwise agreed

Nomen est omen

Islands in the Caribbean

This last part is not far from what Tolkien put in the text: as “ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits”