Dan McCarthy

@dmccarthy.eth

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Lots of discussion about remote work policy lately. It’s a complicated issue, but the right approach is: whatever maximally benefits me personally

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Anyone who was watching MLB in the early 2000s recognizes that Yankees fan’s physiognomy instantly. It’s like if Tolkien based orcs on Italian people

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"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates, who never spent an entire afternoon at the driving range on a low-grade edible

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Reading the entirety of Mishima’s Sun and Steel just before lifting 135lbs off the bench press rack and immediately tearing every muscle in both shoulders

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slow is smooth and smooth is fast. thank you, cat in the hat beginner book dictionary

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Crypto is great if you want to hear a passionate and well-reasoned defense of the freedom to transact from someone who’s simultaneously wearing the dumbest shirt AND shoes you’ve ever seen

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Feels like we haven’t had a stampede in a while

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Anyone participating in SF crime discourse should have to post a heatmap of their location history over the last 30 days

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man's optimal state of being is "wearing boardshorts to the gym"

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I bet “distance between where a candidate currently lives and where they went to high school” is a better predictor of success in a given job than many other conventional metrics

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February 2024: I should find joy in playing baseball, a sport I loved when I was 18 August 2024: [yelling at my son because I gave up a monster bomb to a 37-year-old plumber 6 days ago]

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CON: - Every organism on earth is being poisoned with microplastics - Young people are celibate shut-ins - Our political system actively weeds out virtuous, competent leaders PRO: - There’s a new Gatorade flavor called Midnight Ice

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you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension

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check out my works, dude, and despair

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Found out there’s a kid named Anakin in my son’s kindergarten class and now I’m waiting for the PTA meeting where I get to meet his parents like a 4-year-old counting the days until Christmas

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Working on a mathematical proof of the idea that, given one hour, a conversation between any 4 American men will have a 100% chance of mentioning Jeffrey Epstein

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Betteridge's Law of Headlines is probably the Wikipedia page I think about most frequently

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one of the most powerful arguments for your political beliefs is being able to deadlift 315

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People make fun of Silicon Valley guys who constantly reference Lord of the Rings for the same reason they make fun of DC politicians and journalists who constantly reference Harry Potter: because they’re jealous of those people’s intense sexual magnetism

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the Olympics broadcast is always depressing because it's always like "the world's greatest athletes, many of whom overcame incredible hardships, are here! let's hear from Ariana Grande"

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