August 2010
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“everything must come to an end.
no more semicolon, ellipsis or whatsoever, just...”
– bye, pool.
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S. Carey - All we Grow
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architecture of energy
It is difficult to determine in advance the magnitude of any human being’s energy, potential or kinetic. We can know the quantity of energy it takes to walk a given distance, but what is the energy of a person who assassinates a world leader? Do we measure it by cause or effect? Or the person who invents a new technology? Or the person who designs a housing project? Or the person who devotes...
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“Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of...”
– alex deLarge.
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subjective validation
The Forer Effect is part of larger phenomenon psychologists refer to as subjective validation, which is a fancy way of saying you are far more vulnerable to suggestion when the subject of the conversation is you.
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It is the the hope which gives subjective validation its power. If you want the psychic to be real, or the sacred stones to forecast the unknown, you will find a way to believe them...
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stand's toasted marshmallow shake recipe
3 scoops vanilla ice cream (they use Laboratorio del Gelato)
1 tablespoon whole milk
1 large dollop, er, Wookstock Water Buffalo Milk yogurt
5 Kraft Jumbo Jef-Puffed marshmallows
Whipped cream
Toast marshamllows under a broiler, or, if you’re frisky, over a flame until they just start to blacken evenly (the trick is to make sure it’s evenly toasted and dark, but not turned to...
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reddit's top 200 books
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. (UP:1443 | WS:2210 | Total:3653)
1984 by George Orwell. (UP:1447 | WS:2090 | Total:3537)
Dune by Frank Herbert. (UP:1122 | WS:2140 | Total:3262)
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:967 | WS:1750 | Total:2717)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. (UP:931 | WS:1680 | Total:2611)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. (UP:1031 |...
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I’ll laugh untill my head comes off..
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So we meet again after several years, several...
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The Decemberists - Crane Wife 1 and 2.
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July 2010
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claro que vou me arrepender de ter postado isso.
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student loans in a nutshell
School: Welcome to our prestigious institution, where you pay us ridiculous amounts of money but we generally treat you like crap. Now pay up.
Student: I... uh... don't have enormous amounts of money... so...
Bank: Don't worry son, we'll lend you the money. You have your entire life to pay us back with interest, and statistics show that you have about 60 years to live, so that's pretty much as safe a bet as we can think of.
Student: Alright. I know nothing about interest rates, personal finances, the dollar value of my education and the stability of the economy, but everyone else is doing this, so I might as well do it too!
Bank: Fantastic. Sign here. - No, no, no... we'll need that signature in blood.
Student: Awesome... so... I can have my money now?
Bank: No... we're giving it all to the school. They'll write you a check for whatever doesn't go into your tuition.
Student: That doesn't really make any sense... Why can't I hold onto it until the end of the semester? Put it in a savings account and make some interest on it?
School: Well, it appears that everything is in order here! Why don't you go ahead and register.
Student: ...yeah, but you didn't answer my question.
School: Here's your disbursement check. Why don't you go spend it on textbooks in our school store?
Student: ...yeah, but-
School: JUST GO!
Student: ...but I-
School: Tah tah! See you next year so we can go through this whole thing all over again.
Four years later:
School: Congratulations, here's a piece of paper.
Graduate (formerly Student): Woohoo! Life, here I come!
Bank: uh... not so fast there son. We're going to need all that money back now.
Graduate: Yeah, but can you at least wait until after I change out of my cap and gown?
Bank: sigh.... Fine, but make it snappy.
Graduate: Alright, I'll pay you back, but I need to get a job first.
Potential Employer: Hey there son, I see you have a crisp new piece of paper. How much did you spend on that?
Graduate: I spent a small fortune. I really need a high paying job now.
Potential Employer: Well, we can give you a job. I'm afraid it's only slightly above minimum wage though. You probably would have been better off working straight out of high school. By now you would have worked your way up the ranks and you'd be making twice as much, without any debt. This economy is a nightmare, you know.
Graduate: Ugghhh.. Fine. Well, I'll take it, just until the economy turns around.
Economy: snicker. Don't hold your breath buddy-boy.
Bank: Do you have our money yet?
Graduate: Hold your damn horses! I just signed up for a new job.
Bank: Awesome. We REALLY need your money, the economy is so shitty right now on account of us destroying it with bad lending practices.
Graduate: Woo hoo! First day of work! I'm a real live grown up now!
Government: Huh? What's going on?! Wait you're a grown up now?! Awesome, we can tax you!
Graduate: Son of a bitch! That's like a third of my paycheck!
Landlord: Gimme!
Girlfriend: Gimme!
Bank: Gimme!
Graduate: WTF?! I'm making like negative money now!
Bank: Have you seen our lovely selection of credit cards?
Graduate: Ooooh... pretty!
Economy: creeeeeak.....
Graduate: What was that sound?!
Government: Oh... nothing...
Employer: Bad news, son, we're not giving cost-of-living raises this year. Actually we may have to cut down on your hours. The economy... it's just not looking good.
Graduate: Son of a bi-
Employer: BACK TO WORK!
Bank: We know times are tough, which is why we're offering you a loan consolidation plan!
Graduate: Awesome! Hey... wait a minute... this doesn't look like it will save me any money... in fact... it looks like it'll just end up costing me more.
Bank: Yes, but it's more convenient this way. For us, I mean.
Girlfriend: I want to get married. Why haven't you asked me yet?
Graduate: I... uh...
School: Dear Alumni, the economy has just begun to crumble beneath our feet. Won't you please donate some money?!
Graduate: You have got to be fucking kidding me!
School: What? Is now not a good time?
Girlfriend: I found the ring I want! It's made from blood diamonds and baby seal hearts!
Bank: We can give you a loan for that.
Graduate: I... uh....
Landlord: Hey, I'm upping your rent. The economy is kicking my ass, you know.
Graduate: But what about my ass? ... Hello? ... Anyone?
Bank: WHOA! HOLY SHIT! STOP EVERYTHING! YOU JUST MISSED A CREDIT CARD PAYMENT!
Graduate: Yeah, sorry about that... it's just that my rent went up and I needed to get some prescription drugs and I-
Bank: LALALALALA! DON'T CARE! We're raising your interest rates. Like... REALLY raising them.
Graduate: That doesn't really seem fair. You can see I'm already struggling...
Bank: NOT. OUR. PROBLEM. This is your fault for not being financially responsible.
Graduate: Um, look who's talking?! Didn't my tax dollars just pay to bail you out?!
Bank: I don't understand what you're saying.
Graduate: Yes you do.
Bank: Regulations are bad.
Graduate: What? We're not even talking about-
Bank: REGULATIONS ARE KILLING THE ECONOMY!
Graduate: Can we stay on topic for a minute?
Girlfriend: I'm pregnant!
Graduate: What?! Are you fucking kidding me?!
Girlfriend: ...with twins!
Employer: Bad news, your job is being outsourced.
Graduate: What?! Fine I'll just look for a new job-
Every Other Employer in the U.S.: Whoa... not so fast. Sorry, we're not really hiring right now.
School: You know, now would be a great time to give us another small fortune for a brand new piece of paper!
Graduate: That's what got me into this mess in the first place. Oddly, though, it sounds like my best option.
School: JACKPOT!
Bank: JACKPOT!
Economy: ....creeeeeeeeeeeeeak....
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tetris effect
occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that it begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris. People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a...
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memory biases
In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory. There are many types of memory bias, including:
Choice-supportive bias: remembering chosen options...
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cognitive biases - list of 100
Cognitive bias is a general term that is used to describe many distortions in the human mind that are difficult to eliminate and that lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, or illogical interpretation.
Actor–observer bias – the tendency for explanations of other individuals’ behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their...
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Stromae - Peace or Violence
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what i've read in the last 2 months
The Perils of Introspection « You Are Not So Smart
The Willpower Paradox: Scientific American
The Invisible Grip - Esquire
Defence mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Peekaboo Paradox
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Tweet.
Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography? | Sean...
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misleading vividness
Lois Griffin: ”I found an ad for a used car from the paper.”Peter Griffin: ”Oh, no. A guy at work got a car from the paper, two years later, Bam! Herpes.”
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cognitive distortions
Cognitive distortions are exaggerated and irrational thoughts identified in cognitive therapy and its variants, which supposedly perpetuate certain psychological disorders. The theory of cognitive distortions was first proposed by David D. Burns, MD. Eliminating these distortions and negative thoughts is said to improve mood and discourage maladies such as depression and chronic anxiety. The...
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning, any meaning, same hat wearing hipsters burning for shared and skeptical approval from the holographic projected dynamo in the technology of the era, who...
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Watchslurp slurp.