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16 October 2024
- 19:2019:20, 16 October 2024 diff hist +220 N File:Screenshot Reddit Kunal Nayyar on Ellen regarding Ulta Beauty.png No edit summary current
14 October 2024
- 20:3620:36, 14 October 2024 diff hist +368 N Conversational Singularity Created page with "Someone's 'singularity' is the topic that all conversations with them always tend towards. No matter what you start out talking about, Eliezer Yudkowsky will start talking about AGI risks, Elon Musk will start talking about Mars, and I will start talking about organ donation. Coined by my buddy [https://x.com/charlesgardens Charles Giardina] Category:Concepts" current
11 October 2024
- 06:3106:31, 11 October 2024 diff hist +56 Bozo Bit Phrases No edit summary current
10 October 2024
- 20:4820:48, 10 October 2024 diff hist +157 N Talk:Blog/2024-10-10/Ubers In India →Draft: new section current
- 20:4620:46, 10 October 2024 diff hist +341 N Talk:Blog/2024-10-10/Origin Story →Draft: new section current
9 October 2024
- 20:5620:56, 9 October 2024 diff hist +144 Ancient Neologisms No edit summary current
- 20:5520:55, 9 October 2024 diff hist +2,382 N Ancient Neologisms Created page with "Some neologisms seem like they've been around forever. Some people even believe that they've been around and describe their grandparents using them and so on, in some kind of Mandela Effect but they are nonetheless neologisms. I don't have a comprehensive list, obviously, but here are a couple. == Sweet Summer Child == Most commonly in "Oh you sweet summer child". The use of it to disparagingly mean "innocent and naïve" is decidedly from..."
- 20:4220:42, 9 October 2024 diff hist +4,810 N The Prisoner, Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker Created page with "''The Prisoner'' by Mary Scrimzeour Whitaker is a frequently-cited source of the use of the phrase "sweet summer's child". It is from the collection of poems ''The Creole''<ref>Mary Scrimzeour Furman Whitaker, ''Poems'', J.B. Nixon, printer, 1850, 296 pages, digitized December 5, 2007, from Harvard University. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poems/mGQSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Google Books]</ref> <blockquote> Within a prison, pent, he stood, <br/> Dread Gulio,—that..." current
- 20:2420:24, 9 October 2024 diff hist +4 m The West Wind, James Staunton Babcock No edit summary current
- 20:2420:24, 9 October 2024 diff hist +1,871 N The West Wind, James Staunton Babcock Created page with "The West Wind by James Staunton Babcock<ref>James Staunton Babcock, ''Visions and Voices'', American Antiquarian Society Collections, 1849. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visions_and_Voices/1xA_AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Google Books]</ref> is a poem frequently cited for its first use of the phrase "sweet summer child": <blockquote> Thou comest, summer breeze,<br/> With life and music on the air;<br/> I trace thee thro' those tossing trees,<br/> But where's thy dwelli..."
24 September 2024
- 22:2722:27, 24 September 2024 diff hist +23 Lexicognosis Syndrome No edit summary
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- 22:2422:24, 24 September 2024 diff hist −17 Lexicognosis Syndrome No edit summary
- 22:2422:24, 24 September 2024 diff hist +35 N Cocoballistic Syndrome Redirected page to Lexicognosis Syndrome current Tag: New redirect
- 22:2322:23, 24 September 2024 diff hist +470 N Lexicognosis Syndrome Created page with "Lexicognosis Syndrome is a condition whose sufferers accord higher importance than required to concepts or phenomena that have a name. As an example, a person suffering from this would not react if a coconut fell from a tree. However, if the a coconut falling from a tree were named Cocoballistic Syndrome, the person would find themselves experiences some measure of hysteria - primarily expressed by their attempting to warn other people about this phenomenon."
- 20:4920:49, 24 September 2024 diff hist +36 N Category:Reviews Created page with "This page lists products I've tried." current
- 20:4820:48, 24 September 2024 diff hist +233 Ottobock Ankle Splint No edit summary
- 20:4720:47, 24 September 2024 diff hist +7 m Ottobock Ankle Splint No edit summary
- 20:4720:47, 24 September 2024 diff hist +1,844 N Ottobock Ankle Splint Created page with "thumb|alt=A photo of an Ottobock splint worn by someone with a basketball shoe|To the Germans, my 9.5 US size is "Small" but it be what it be I have this Ottobock [https://www.ottobock.com/en-us/product/50S3 splint for my ankle] that I twisted playing basketball. My dad's an orthopaedic surgeon and suggested this particular make and model and it's honestly a lot better than the normal ankle strap you get from Walg..."
- 19:3819:38, 24 September 2024 diff hist +90 N File:Basketball with the lads.jpg No edit summary current
- 19:2919:29, 24 September 2024 diff hist +48 N File:Ottobock Ankle Split.png No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 24 September 2024 diff hist +19 Blog/2024-09-23/Internet Exaggeration No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 24 September 2024 diff hist +2,360 N Blog/2024-09-23/Internet Exaggeration Created page with "Why does everyone on the Internet exaggerate so much? If you were to listen to Twitter you'd expect that: * One time using fentanyl would instantly addict you for life * One time using LSD would break your mind open forever * A single dose of shrooms is going to make you lose your sense of self These are all objectively untrue. I know this because I have experienced all of these things: fentanyl in a hospital, LSD a few times at music festivals,..."
- 04:5504:55, 24 September 2024 diff hist +19 Blog/2024-08-20/Addiction No edit summary current
21 September 2024
- 07:5007:50, 21 September 2024 diff hist +867 N Ablative Error Created page with "An Ablative Error is something you intentionally introduce so that it can be fixed by a process or person who needs to fix things irrespective of whether they need fixes. By providing a simple and weak target, you allow them to fulfill their inner urge while not damaging the thing that needs to be built. People with authority do not have to employ this technique since they can simply reject 'fixes'. People without are frequently governed in large organizations by th..." current
20 September 2024
- 19:5919:59, 20 September 2024 diff hist −87 The Decline of Empire No edit summary current
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17 September 2024
- 03:5303:53, 17 September 2024 diff hist +793 Blog/2024-09-03/Getting A French Visa No edit summary current
15 September 2024
- 06:3806:38, 15 September 2024 diff hist +4,252 N Blog/2024-09-14/Politics Created page with "I'm not American, so I can't really vote in US Politics, but it does affect my life quite a bit, both proximately and ultimately, since I live in the US and I'm married to an American and because my children (if everything goes well) will probably be American too. Given all this, I try to pay attention. And about the biggest surprise for me this time has been that the Republicans are actually making most of the sense. Democratic Party policies seem patently insane - eit..."
11 September 2024
- 19:3719:37, 11 September 2024 diff hist +36 Bozo Bit Phrases No edit summary
10 September 2024
- 22:5922:59, 10 September 2024 diff hist +859 N Talk:Blog/2024-09-10/No one ever sees the end coming Created page with "{{Template:Draft}} Status quo bias is almost universal. On the Internet, people call it "[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nothing-ever-happens nothing ever happens]". And for most nations this is true. They're small timers and life just goes on almost all of the time because no one is able to get going in any way. File:Run Off The Cliff Blissfully.jpg|thumb|alt=A Dall-E 3 generated cartoon of someone running off a cliff|This is how people..." current
- 21:3521:35, 10 September 2024 diff hist +76 N File:Run Off The Cliff Blissfully.jpg No edit summary current
9 September 2024
- 22:1922:19, 9 September 2024 diff hist −4 m Blog/2024-09-03/Getting A French Visa No edit summary
- 22:1922:19, 9 September 2024 diff hist +19 Blog/2024-09-03/Getting A French Visa No edit summary
6 September 2024
- 07:0307:03, 6 September 2024 diff hist +707 Establishing An LLC Add banking current
- 06:5906:59, 6 September 2024 diff hist +68 N File:Mercury Bank - Dashboard Screenshot.png No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 6 September 2024 diff hist +103 The Emperor's Tailor No edit summary
- 06:0706:07, 6 September 2024 diff hist +2,860 N The Emperor's Tailor Created page with "The Emperor's Tailor is a story about how ideas can escape from the context in which they are expressed, leading to adverse consequences. Sometimes, when the smart play at being stupid, the foolish listen and think that what they're doing is wise. <blockquote> Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom, there was an Emperor. This Emperor loved clothes, and would frequently have his tailors design new and extravagant designs for him to walk around the city in. One day,..."
5 September 2024
- 23:3823:38, 5 September 2024 diff hist +22 Bozo Bit Phrases No edit summary
- 08:5208:52, 5 September 2024 diff hist +336 Roshan Variant English No edit summary current
4 September 2024
- 05:4305:43, 4 September 2024 diff hist +3,787 N Blog/2024-09-03/Getting A French Visa Created page with "Since I'm an Indian citizen, getting a visa is a common activity for me. Going practically anywhere is an exercise in paperwork. Some places are easy, like Hong Kong (which just needs an instant online application), some places are easy if you've got a US visa (like most of South America), and some places are hard (like the Schengen zone). For much of my life I've had a Schengen visa since either my parents applied for me to visit as a child..."
3 September 2024
- 21:2021:20, 3 September 2024 diff hist +11 Bozo Bit Phrases No edit summary
29 August 2024
- 19:4819:48, 29 August 2024 diff hist +23 The Decline of Empire No edit summary
- 19:4619:46, 29 August 2024 diff hist +23 The Decline of Empire No edit summary
- 19:4519:45, 29 August 2024 diff hist +13 The Decline of Empire No edit summary
- 19:4519:45, 29 August 2024 diff hist +2,617 N The Decline of Empire Created page with "Empires decline, and over time become backwaters, but the memory of the past remains long after the empire has lost what it can do. One thing that rapidly degrades as an empire declines is its state power, in its introverted sense. Lee Kuan Yew visited London in October 1946 and saw an empire still in power<ref>Yew, L. "Britain revisited". ''Asia Europe Journal'' '''1''', 311–313 (2003). doi:10.1007/s10308-003-0027-y [https://wiki.roshangeor..."
- 00:2400:24, 29 August 2024 diff hist −2 Big O Magnitude Notation No edit summary current
- 00:2300:23, 29 August 2024 diff hist +27 Big O Magnitude Notation No edit summary
- 00:2200:22, 29 August 2024 diff hist +19 Big O Magnitude Notation No edit summary
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