Elena

My first recommendation would be fiction. Reading fiction is important to understand the cross-sectional variation in humanity, to understand how difficult generalizations can be, to just get a sense of how different social pieces fit together, and to get a sense of different historical eras – and plus, reading fiction is often just plain flat-out ... See more

Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead.

Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.

The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.

A veces imagino las relaciones humanas como algo blando, agua o arena, y que al verterlas en un recipiente concreto les damos forma. Así, la relación entre una madre y su hija se vierte en un recipiente etiquetado como «madre e hija» y adquiere los contornos del envase, y ahí dentro se queda, para bien o para mal. Puede que unas amigas enemistadas

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