At scale, even edge cases become common.

When one side declares war, the war has started. Your refusal to fight back doesn't mean there's no war, it just means you're going to get fucking destroyed.

the ideal amount of delusion is non-zero

humanities scholars see a STEM topic they don't understand and think "damn, guess i don't understand that. they must be smart" while STEM people see a humanities topic they don't understand & go "they must just be making shit up"

It’s ok to just not like something without fabricating a moral reason to fulfill your self-righteousness

I don’t think people treat you how they feel about you. I believe people treat you depending on how they feel about themselves.

The reason why "diaspora poet" has become a denigrating term is not because people are afraid of the hard hitting truths about orientalism or art. It's because these poets, in their search for identity, end up approaching their heritage through an orientalised lens themselves.

MLK, Jr. succeeded because he crafted his message for a broader audience. Today's protestors ought to learn from his strategy. Most folks aren't paying attention until extreme events happen. Don't give others the opportunity to paint you as an extremist when you're not.

yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

Sometimes your friends don’t consider themselves as close to you as you do to them