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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • It’s really just about practice, writing in high school is difficult because you are just learning how to really do it correctly. By the time I finished college I could write 3-5 page papers with minimal effort. If I tried to write one today it would probably be extremely difficult since I haven’t done it in a while.

    Once you understand the formula it gets really easy. Introduction should have 1 sentence about the general topic, 1-2 about your overall thesis/point, 1 sentence for each of 3-5 points you want to make. Each point should get it’s own paragraph with 1 sentence to state the point, 1-2 sentences the reference the source material to support it, 1-2 external references if required, and 1 sentence to restate the point you made. The conclusion should have 1 sentence per point you made and 1-2 sentences that restate your overall point of the paper.







  • There’s nothing quite like today. There’s things that are similar, but social media has really made things worse.

    Populism is rising because things haven’t been great for a lot of people for a long time, and it’s too hard to ignore anymore. Globalism and free trade were massively oversold to the masses, it hurt wide swaths of people that have been ignored for decades. People that feel disenfranchised will vote for change regardless of the change proposed.

    Social media has escalated everything as well. The echo chambers are enormous and essentially impossible to avoid. Many traditional institutions are also extremely weak now that would have forced more interaction between people with differing views and limited extremism. Social media also does a great job in conflating the size of various groups and beliefs, a few dozen people can make a community seem as large and impactful as a few thousand .