10 commandments for maintaining sanity on X, by yours truly 1. Don’t argue with people manifestly immune to persuasion 2. Don’t argue with manifest idiots 3. Remember your feed is not representative of the world at large 4. Ignore the “For You” tab 5. Don’t doomscroll (no better way to wreck your ability to sustain attention) 6. Your posts should provide useful information / perspective, ask a good question, provide a useful challenge, foster human connection / provide encouragement, entertain, or a combo of the foregoing 7. Recognize bait & don’t engage 8. Mute and block liberally 9. Recognize the signs of AI slop & don’t read it 10. Don’t wallow in content that aggravates you, it’s unhealthy

A reminder about Paris etc. Rioting is fun. Anyone who doesn't grasp this is simply ignorant of the youthful male psyche. Out in the healthy fresh air with your mates. Throw a few cobbles at the gendarmes, burn a bus or a building. It's all good clean fun. Maybe not so much for those who get caught by les flics but the war wounds will be a wonderful conversation piece for decades to come. No, really, once it's all kicked off - for whatever reason - it's fun. A useful prediction is that it'll all die down on Wednesday. For those trying to manage riots pray for rain - it's all markedly less fun, this out with the mates, when you're getting wet. Sorry about this but blokes, young blokes, are just like this.

Getting off this hellsite for awhile. I hope not permanently but honestly maybe. It’s become insanely retarded on here. The value of learning about the world and having interesting conversations with random smart people is 99% gone. Every poster sells slop to a 90 IQ audience, everyone in the replies is a screaming baboon.

people just want healthcare

Real life, baby

To people arguing that having a book withdrawn from sale for political reasons does not somehow amount to a ban or a restriction, all I can say is, you are a natural authoritarian.