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- here lemme just fix this meme for y’all
- I’ve been thinking a lot about a persona that I call the ‘Costco American’ recently. They’re like the anti-hipster or something — perfectly content outsourcing their selection of a product to others and purchasing it simply for the function it performs, to just get on with life.
- Replying to @yashevdeHe seems like he’d just buy the top-rated cowboy hat, no qs — he’s not going to go to Reddit to read reviews, check whether it’s ‘buy it for life’ or not, read the history of cowboy hats, look at a chart for his head shape, etc. He’d just return it if he didn’t like how it looks.
- Replying to @yashevdeThey cut across all the main identity categories, including, notably, economic class. It’s more about the simple optimization of taste & purchasing power. Eg. I’m sure he wouldn’t be caught dead in one of their stores as a competitor, but imo Bezos is a Costco American at heart.
- CEOs of technology startups: You almost certainly have degrowthers as employees. What are you going to do about it?
- we’ve now outlasted 2 funds and 2 syndicates that had passed on us
- Replying to @DKThompHilarious. Speaking of assistance for families including new ones, here’s a real king for comparison. 👑 neither dropped nor stolen — when asked for his thoughts on the “royal” baby:
00:00 - Replying to @yashevdeRamanujan always said that he received his equations in his dreams from the goddess — don’t leave that part out of the story every time this goes around!This meme going around reminds me to make the argument that Ramanujan’s discoveries are the only events that clear David Hume’s enlightenment standard for the veracity of miracles. Ramanujan’s family goddess Namagiri Thayar is therefore *the only* Cryptographically Verified God.
- the New Orleans Athletic Club is the most beautiful fitness center I’ve ever seen
- What have I told you since the first day you stepped into my office? There are three ways to make a living on this site: build something cool, become who your followers want you to be, or simp.
- <touring apartments in Manhattan> “Hi! I’m Mary, we spoke on the phone.” “My credit score is 814.” “Okaay… So. This apartment has pretty good light but that’s also made the demand for it—” “814.” “Right. But we’ll also need to see that your income’s forty times the—” “8. 14.”
