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* "If you walk around with a leaf-blower there are no limits."
* "“Rural America” is a myth. I just took a cross-country road trip and like 98% of the countryside I saw had a massive highway running through it."
* "the UK is like if reddit mods ran a country"
* "If your karmic debt increases sevenfold over the rest of your life - lets say forty years - thats only a 5% karmic interest rate. But the stock market historically earns 7% over inflation. So the witch places the curse, she incurs some bad karma but gets paid a finders fee, the bad karma increases 5% yearly, the finders fee gets invested at 7% yearly, overall she comes out ahead.”
* "If your karmic debt increases sevenfold over the rest of your life - lets say forty years - thats only a 5% karmic interest rate. But the stock market historically earns 7% over inflation. So the witch places the curse, she incurs some bad karma but gets paid a finders fee, the bad karma increases 5% yearly, the finders fee gets invested at 7% yearly, overall she comes out ahead.”
* "“Theyre selling dollars for 95c” - guy who just bought $0 for 95c"
* "the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good"
* "You hear about "benign dictators" but you never hear about "benign warlords". Surely there's a warlord doing a good job and technocratically implementing smart evidence based policy."
* "If you have a suboptimal birthday, you can just change it and nobody will know. My birthday is on Christmas Eve and I hate that, so I tell everyone it's July 22nd and celebrate in summer. It's not like anyone's going to ask for your birth certificate."
* "Honestly, how does one get caught plotting? Its not exactly hard to do or require much planning, you just show up. If youre plotting it means you dont actually wanna do it."
* "Covid politics are crazy because if you didn't already know the political valences from living through it you'd guess many of them wrong."