I"m going to try to avoid talking about politics here. And I ask that you do the same.

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The public response to these California fires has completely changed my understanding of hydraulics.
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Nobel disease or Nobelitis is an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life. It has been argued that the effect results, in part, from a tendency for Nobel winners to feel empowered by the award to speak on topics outside their specific area of expertise, although it is unknown whether Nobel Prize winners are more prone to this tendency than other individuals. Paul Nurse, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, warned later laureates against "believing you are expert in almost everything, and being prepared to express opinions about most issues with great confidence, sheltering behind the authority that the Nobel Prize can give you". "Nobel disease" has been described as a tongue-in-cheek term.

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[ ] Do you like science fiction?
[ ] Do you like biology?
[ ] Do you like Moebius's illustration style?
[ ] Do you like animation?

If you scored two or higher, you should fire one up and go watch Scavenger's Reign on HBO.

AI is going to do for white-collar jobs what robotics did for blue-collar jobs, but 1,000,000x more because while robots are expensive, AI is incredibly cheap.

WASHINGTON — In a historic outcome that promised to halt the rising scourge of the United States in its tracks, America has defeated America at the ballot box, sources confirmed Wednesday. “After 248 years of tense and often divisive conflict, we can finally say, as of this morning, that the nation turned out at the polls and delivered a decisive blow to the nation,” said electoral analyst Kurt Howitzer, describing the results as a remarkable triumph of the democratic experiment over democracy. “It’s a stunning turn of events. But it really shows the power of one citizenry to come together and prevail over themselves. The message was loud and clear: We are sick and tired of our country, and we want it to end.” At press time, millions of emotional Americans had reportedly gathered on the National Mall in an impromptu celebration of their resounding victory over the forces of liberty and equality.

Folk guitarist John Fahey had some deep thoughts about things:

Those who fear their guitars are essentially cowardly faggots who have allowed themselves to be conquered by perverse tendencies. There are unable to sit anywhere for six hours under any circumstance. Their span of attention is short, but what is much worse is that they don't care. They don't even care to lean how to lengthen it. They have constituted themselves as essentially as hatred, opposition - pure negativity. Homosexual guitar playing is an imitative gesture of the non-essential (i.e. temporary) characteristics of women - bitchiness, frivolity, flightiness, and super-sensitivity. These superficial characteristics are not the essence of the feminine. Look at the homosexual guitarist pick up the guitar - he is afraid to touch it. He is afraid of it. He thinks it hates him because he hates it so much. He has constituted his spirit against - he is against life. He is a Nazi. His politics are against freedom. He is a totalitarian at heart, but he has no power. He must overcome this fear of the guitar. And he can. The guitar must be his secret love, narcotic, whatever image he prefers. But he cannot forget to abuse it also, to learn to bang on it and to make a percussion instrument of it, to play hard on it, and bend it to his will.