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I'm sort of obsessed with non-destructive construction aesthetic. No nails, no glues, everything connected with bolts and clamps and joinery, no wire ever laid in a place you wont be able to reach later, nothing permanent, everything renegotiable.

Follow these principles and experimentation will have no material costs.

I don't know how practical it is, but I was raised on Lego and Data and an edict of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and so I do not know if I can live well any other way, I just need it

logitech.com/en-gb/products/mi meanwhile on the office end we have vertical and horizontal scroll wheels, works on glass, and the cursor can travel between different computers and transfer files because why the hell not

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looking at really expensive mice

logitechg.com/en-gb/products/g

11 buttons. looks like a stealth nuclear bomber. faster than a wired mouse, using what i can only assume are tachyons. wireless charging, move over nikola tesla

Interested in this because operationalising how important centuries are coldtakesbeta.com/this-cant-go, eg I could make forecasting questions like P(21C has more growth than 20C), P(21C has more growth than the next 10,000 centuries), etc

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Pokemon: The Origin of Species:
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gdp growth

1700 to 1800: 1.7× ($640G to $1.1T)
1800 to 1900: 3.2× ($1.1T to $3.4T)
1900 to 2000: 18.5× ($3.4T to $63T)

*hotdogs are a sandwich voice* a binary tree is a linked list

list of unsolved technical problems and also technical problems with simple solutions (unlabelled)

pokemon the origin of species summary

chapters 1-80: red needs therapy / red goes to therapy

chapter 81-: AND GANDALF THE GREY AND GANDALF THE WHITE AND MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL'S BLACK KNIGHT AND

"you don't have to reinvent the wheel" they say, despite the wheel not having been invented

@niplav sometimes you wake up, no memory of the past 48 hours, the only sign of what you did a handwritten note: "CARL SHULMAN"

alignment chart Good / Evil, Perceives Humanity As Having A Future / Doesn't

what if asriel comes back from college and he's wearing a flower in his hair like basil omori

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