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Here is a motivational-calendar thought for you: your connectedness to the world, and to reality, is measured in crowds, not friends. If you are in a true cult, your number is 1. The more crowds you are in, and the more different they are, the more perspectives of reality you have to be able to hold in your mind, to participate in all these crowds. And the more (reasonable) ways you have of observing reality, the saner you are.
"Circling" and Nerd Society - By Curtis Yarvin
graymirror.substack.com
Just to reemphasize: Wear shoes with a wide toebox. Almost all foot-related injuries / hot spots / blisters seem to come from cramped toes. I look at some of the footwear folks shove their tootsies into and cringe. Get a fat toebox and your feet will love you. It’s always better for your shoes to be “too big” than too small. In part because your feet will expand greatly over the course of a day of walking, and also because it’s easier to cinch a loose shoe more tightly than stretch one that’s too-small.
The Body on a Long Walk
craigmod.com
Erotic desire, Angel argues, does not sit within us, fully formed, waiting to be mined like ore. It takes shape through a process of exploration, and, ideally, collaboration. (They don’t call it “intercourse” for nothing.) But Angel thinks that this kind of happy discovery is compromised for many women. One clear reason is the threat of male violence. A less obvious culprit is the safeguard that contemporary feminism has formulated to defuse that threat: affirmative consent.
We’re Shaped by Our Sexual Desires. Can We Shape Them?
newyorker.com
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