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I enjoy traveling but I think "travel"-loving culture has done a disservice to us. Romanticism turned consumptive. In elevating wandering it diminishes belonging. Belonging, creating beauty where you are, is

So China launched something, its stuck in orbit but decaying, orbiting the earth every 90 minutes, and will descend at [we have no idea] and hit [something between New York

How many doctors visits, total, did the average 30 year old have so far in their lifetime in: 1900, 1950, 1970, 2019?We have too much healthcare, not too little. The

The benefits of marrying earlier (than currently fashionable) seem very underrated. The earlier you do, the more advantages compound.It's not a final thing you do, like graduation. It's foundational. If

After obesity, the biggest threat to health in the US is a certain kind of ultra-politicization that's increasingly rotting people's brains. Scandal minutiae and things they truly cannot change erode

When I was young it was very easy to stumble across the WEIRD internet. Forums full of brilliant and strange people having meaningful or interesting discussions. If you joined, you

I love Simplicity but I hate minimalism, esp indoors. I dislike I.M. Pei's and FLW's works.The house I built for myself is very austere, aesthetically. One of the first pictures

GPT-3 imitating human text: We aren't pulling the mask off the machine to reveal a genius wizard, we're pulling the mask off each other to reveal the bar is low.

It's really very unfortunate. In USA, England, and France* clubs and associations were some of the most important and influential political and non-political entities that existed for ~200+ years. Now

Next month I will be a father so please give me your best father or parenting advice. My own father is basically a desert hermit inexplicably born into the slums

Has anyone ever done this, charring the boards for siding? This is for the chicken house. It's working so far. I will need to touch up sides with a torch

Video games lead me to believe that you could just walk into places like gyms or taverns and they'd be full of people who would teach you the ropes at