My Eye Doctor Told Me I Needed A Progressive Lens Prescription. Now All I See Are Good People!

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As of 2025, globally, 0.3% of Windows PCs and 0.1% of all devices across all platforms continue to run Windows XP.

today i learnt that you can knock out large portions of a mouse's genome, and it can still bear children and live a long and healthy life

because large portions of the genome just do not do anything

Ominous positivity

People in their thirties remember the olden days, when it was just you, your Windows 95/98/me desktop with floppy disks, and Nokia 5110 versus the universe.

"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Giant Squid Nebula

When my mind hands me a small thought, I can ask “Is this true?” and my mind will answer “Good question, let’s go over three thousand different rationality techniques and see what answer each of them gives.

When my mind hands me a big thought, I ask "Is this true?” and my mind just answers “It better be, m——–r, cause this is how you’re gonna be thinking about everything from now on.”

TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.

whimsy is a virtue I think. one of the more important ones, especially if you're about to embark on a serious undertaking. and when things are getting distinctly unwhimsical in a situation it's generally a sign you ought to make yourself scarce.