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auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional-managerial computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are still rich.

A bad economist and a bad engineer are often bad in the same way; they're both people who, when reality doesn't conform to the model, decide to get mad at reality instead of adjusting the model

read the works of vermin in a feverish rush over the last 36 hours and it ruled. i really liked leech and this hit the same high points of "paradigm-shifting recontextualization that makes you put the book down, do a lap, and reread the entire first act" for me. weird as fuck (positive). described it earlier as "a psychedelically weird adventure story about an exterminator and a perfumer and a reality-shaping bug and a series of horrible coups. in a city made of an enormous stump of a giant tree"