Oh it’s Nassim Nicolas Taheb

And Daddy owns a full-fledged battering ram which he uses to ping them around

I can definitely relate. I have several PDFs of advanced textbooks from when I wanted to learn some very niche skill. The latest one is an economics textbook from when I wanted to learn about different types of auctions and the maths/game theory behind each.

You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.

Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!

Pfft, Germans and their rules!

X would be hardness of job and y would be salary

This is what using an app like Lemmy daily to pass time does to you – I feel like you always get one of 5 conversations repeat under each post (capitalism vs communism, tech companies doing sth stupid (feeds into:), US politics broken how to fix it, etc.). So reading what is essentially the same conversation just under a new post every day will do this to your brain. I see the solution as either touching grass more, blocking the major communities, or joining other types of scrollable media like WhatsApp/discord groups that have less of a tendency to repeat themselves.