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FischerKing
@FischerKing64
Oct 4
A regimen of listening to Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas could be an antidote to the decline in attention spans. They were his workshop for musical ideas - and they got more complex over time. As you work through them, they keep requiring a little more of you. And listening to this
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FischerKing
@FischerKing64
16h
Kids used to walk into a corner store and buy ‘candy cigarettes.’ They were white sugar sticks basically, sold in a box that looked like smokes. I remember kids pretending to be ‘addicted’ to them, and asking each other ‘do you have a pack on you?’ - pretending to be desperate.
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FischerKing
@FischerKing64
16h
We have a society that actively kneecaps young men in the name of ‘justice’ and then sit around scratching our heads about why men are ‘falling behind.’
Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
22h
It’s even worse than Anish notes here because boys make up 61% of the top SAT scores. So despite that fact and the fact that men apply about 2x as often to MIT; @MIT admits more women every year than men. It’s impossible for this to be merit based. Just mathematically impossible.
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Anish Koka, MD
@anish_koka
Oct 30
17,000 men apply to MIT 8900 women apply to MIT 600 men were accepted 612 women were accepted If we assume male and female applicants to MIT are roughly the same, the probability this happens by chance, let alone every year for a while The probability of a sex blind
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FischerKing
@FischerKing64
16h
One other Halloween memory I have is being in a West Village bar, and a man walked in dressed as Hitler. Brown suit, armband, mustache - whole 9 yards. People didn’t think it was funny, the owner of the bar asked him to leave. Would love to know the back story and thought process
FischerKing
@FischerKing64
16h
I haven’t put on a costume since I was 12 or 13. Have nothing against adults still doing it - just not my thing. When I look back on trick or treating, the strongest memory I have is an older woman who answered the door, and tried to explain to me that what I was doing was
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FischerKing
@FischerKing64
16h
I haven’t put on a costume since I was 12 or 13. Have nothing against adults still doing it - just not my thing. When I look back on trick or treating, the strongest memory I have is an older woman who answered the door, and tried to explain to me that what I was doing was
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