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Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

A very important question is one about questions themselves. Namely, how do you find better questions?

I love writing. I LOVE WRITING. THE ART OF ALL ARTS.

Your ability to describe the world affects how you think about it. If the language and idioms you know are constrained to a particular window, that window will act as a constraint in shaping not only how you see the world, but also how you experience the world.

NYC Subway Bacterial Petri Dish Art by Craig Ward

The problem with investing energy in trying to refute bad arguments is that you inevitably put yourself in their company.

I remember Toonami. And Cowboy Bebop and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin at 3am. Anime reruns on the screen.

The concept of heaven banning is possibly one of the most hilarious forms of punishment. Users are unaware, isolated from the main network, and subjected purely to positive feedback loops, creating a sense of perpetual false validation.

So much clowning on influencers but the real cancer is life coaches talking about law of attraction or whatever yuppie bullshit 'philosophies'. Hang them by their testicles etc