the social contract is that we keep the pointers as to who owns what and hope that we don't lose them and that everyone is in agreement what those pointers are

(this is a general West vs East thing afaict)

TIL that (oversimplifying) the London Underground operates at one 9 of uptime, while Singapore MRT achieves three 9's

screenshot from Twitter: Maya ☁️➡️🌸 @mayaofspring "revealed preferences" is fake because "preferences" as a cohesive concept are fake; the way people use the phrase it sounds as if to doomscroll or overeat or whatever is our "true" preference Quote Maya ☁️➡️🌸 @mayaofspring · Feb 2, 2025 Replying to @visakanv "revealed preferences" is such a brutal phrase but also it omits the fact that the preferences of 1-second-time-horizon me are quite different to those of 1-minute me, 1-hour me, 1-day me... 7:46 AM · Jun 3, 2025 ·Twitter Web App

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it's valid to desire the more automatic part of you to exercise a different option than it currently does!

I'm strongly against this and related views (like the supposed primacy of revealed preferences). your 1-second preferences and 1-day preferences are different! for example, in any given second I'd rather stay in bed, but also I'd rather leave the bed at some point!

as far as pointers in a database go, those are quite solid! reinforced! nevertheless, pointers in a database

Every once in a while I realise that my ability to acquire goods and services that are necessary for my daily life comes entirely from pointers in a database and I get scared

an American who vaguely remembers that Commonwealth countries spell things funny but can't quite remember the details: let's eat at the hawkre centre

While other 2020s AI technologies have probably slightly improved my life thus far, image gen, even if its impact is minor in the grand scheme of things, has been very clearly negative and I can't think of a way in which it could be redeemed

There's no greater tell that the author's native language is Chinese than when the slogan goes <verb> <noun> <verb> <noun>

sign that says 'Exclusive CIS deals'

sign that says 'TRANSEND'

posting without elaboration

Photo from a park at night: flowers in the foreground, sculpture on a pond in the middle, and trees and a thunderstorm in the backgrouns

they should have called this Bouba‘s Delivery Service

Star Sapphire from a while ago, made slightly more sparkly

#東方project #StarSapphire #スターサファイア

Climate data for Singapore: all-time temperature record is 36 °C

Current weather forecast for Singapore; the temperature maximum is 32 or 33 °C every single day

It will not cease to amaze me that the temperature in Singapore hits 33 °C every day and yet it does not ever breach 36 °C

Commendable consistency

It's an open question whether it's permissible for humans to farm animals for food in general.

But there is actually plainly no justification for factory farming short of "human desire for cheaper meat outweighs infinite suffering of lesser beings"

Skyline of Singapore's Central Business District and the Marina Bay area

"Singapore if <a thing Singapore did>"

The standard templete image used in memes to depict a utopian society, usually ironically. Shows a grass lawn in front of a glassy futuristic skyline, with cars flying above

A problem with Singapore is that you can't really do "Singapore if ..." jokes with the image attached, because Singapore already kind of looks like that

The very first minute after stepping inside feels even more pleasant 😌

A neat thing about Singaporean weather is that the very first minute after stepping outside always feels pleasant

do I know anyone in Japan? or do you know somebody in Japan whom I should know?

so when does it become acceptable for me to start complaining about Singapore on main

💭a pfp with multiple lighting versions that I swap out depending on my current latitude

I should do something to my pfp. The lighting looks too 51°N for my current equatorial whereabouts

Ming aralia wikipedia introduction – mentions 'culinary uses'

do you think it would be socially harmonious for me to tear off a leaf and try it next time I see those?

I saw those in Singapore, they look soo tasty...

drooping bougainvillea branch at night

bougainvillea can substitute for wisteria if necessary

photo pointing up through the cherry blossom; there is a plane in the middle

Singapore, since 1923, is a peninsula(?)