Syllable rate and information rate in languages

i don't know how i ended up reading this post, but here it is

was curious if one could survive jumping off the golden gate bridge in an olympic diving stance

https://abc7.com/post/i-survived-jumping-off-the-golden-gate-bridge/2012267/

turns out only 2% of the people that jump off the Golden Gate Bridge survived the fall

and even if you jump in a perfect vertical posture, you're likely to suffer long term injuries like shattered vertebrae

The biggest issue with mass immigration from the 2nd and 3rd world is the fact that our countries systems are built as high trust societies.

High trust societies rely on widespread norms of honesty, reliability, and institutions that work because people generally follow the rules voluntarily.

Low trust societies rely on personal networks, extraction, and informal enforcement.

In high trust societies, systems like taxation, welfare, healthcare, and education only work if the majority of people play by the rules.

If a large fraction of newcomers comes from low trust societies, then they can:
• Exploit welfare systems
• Circumvent regulations
• Create enclaves where local norms don’t apply

This means they can easily game the system, which leads to mass corruption. It’s essentially a wealth transfer from natives to immigrants.

In the early days of immigration it was a much lower portion of the whole population, therefore the immigrant populations were forced to assimilate, and by the 2nd generation they embrace the culture and become natives themselves.

When the immigrant populations become a larger portion, new immigrants can create ghettos with little interaction with natives, this means there’s a lower likelihood of full integration over time.

And because the immigrant culture is lower trust with a focus on extraction, the natives become disenfranchised.

There’s only two solutions:

1. drastically reduce immigration and spread it out between many countries of origin (they can’t all be from India as an example). Also forcefully spread them out between regions, which means there is a lower likelihood of cultural ghettos and higher likelihood of integration.

Or

2. Make it extremely difficult for foreign workers to gain citizenship, essentially the gulf model. Where natives are treated as the higher caste and the lower caste immigrants do their work with the eventual understanding that they will go back home eventually.

In order to make this work you need to also change the fundamental way in which the youth is directed and trained. Governments should be able to anticipate where skills shortages may become acute and incentivise your own population to train for these. Low skilled labour should be heavily automated to the extent that the economic cost of lower immigration is curtailed to some extent.

a good summary of the current state of marriages/relationships

https://x.com/marriedmn/status/2040692560440500325?s=20

think Singapore government's move to double down on AI asap is also a move to alleviate the ageing population on top of reducing foreign labour (since singaporeans are so loud against it)

-one worker can do the tasks of 3 in the future-

yet when it comes to it, there are also singaporeans that do not want to upskill and are resisting AI

who else can we blame then?

https://t.me/c/2522076793/2145

slightly extreme take, but i think it is a valid one

applies more toward influencers/validation/vain girls

and i've witnessed some first-hand before

the idea of finding something random to justify making a face/pose

most recent case in point might be novita and her iran statement (finding something to justify her running update or her in her sports gear): https://t.me/humblespace/1052

men are not immune to it too, but i find it more prevalent in ladies

highly agree with this

i practice it as well

https://x.com/Pejuola_a/status/2040760096553132271?s=20

78 unwritten rules of life

https://x.com/thebeautyofsaas/status/2033995231473881168?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

reading before bed is proven to help unwind for better sleep quality

https://sleep.me/post/reading-before-bed

the three important files of ai

https://x.com/davemorin/status/2040999146694553761?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

good summary of a podcast with Anthropic's Head of Growth

https://x.com/lennysan/status/2041166073794592926?s=20

pebbling

https://x.com/lovedropx/status/2041335831668097284?s=20

How to Start Researching as a Hobby #BM

“How do I know what my interests are?” Date around.

Zines, poetry, smaller books.

To “find your type” you need to “go on dates.” You don’t need to full on date every topic, you are “falling in love” and should never feel obligated to continue anything for the sake of continuing.

https://sarahschauer.substack.com/p/how-to-start-to-researching-as-a

this blog post reminds me of starting your own curriculum: https://t.me/humblespace/498

learning what you are interested in without the pressure of grades or exams, just deep curiosity and passion for knowledge

you can just do things

Also, if you’d like two books on research as an art, I’d recommend:

On the Art & Craft of Doing Science - Kenneth Catania

Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - Shawn Wilson

good case study on the marketing and branding of toilet paper by PRINT

turning something so boring into something exciting

https://x.com/linafahizul/status/2041364788010508482?s=20

[cc]

another toilet paper company: Who Gives A Crap

https://blog.startupstash.com/debugging-marketing-myths-a-case-study-on-who-gives-a-crap-dcfaad1189e3

why are men always okay with doing nothing for their birthday?

Neuroscientists at Georgia State found this in 2019. Your brain has a reward center called the VTA, the part that decides how good socializing feels, and in females, it fires harder during social interaction. The male brain gets a smaller chemical hit from the same room.

The hormone driving the gap is oxytocin, often called the "bonding hormone." Men carry less of it. When researchers gave men and women the same dose during social tasks, the men's reward circuits lit up more, but the women's actually went quieter. Women's brains are already near the sweet spot for social reward, so extra oxytocin overshoots it. Men start further back, so the same dose pulls them toward it.

https://x.com/anishmoonka/status/2041251581501587700?s=20

inner game of tennis

https://x.com/thorstenball/status/2041396536819478780?s=20