Perhaps. I was thinking in the last 1-2 years. Maybe it was that long ago.
RuBisCO
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4 billion years of fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere. Sometimes mistakes O2 for CO2. Not as fast as some enzymes, but very abundant. Here, have some phosphoglycerates about it.
Hey, let's get Stephen to do the live fact-checking!
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
Terence McKenna
4 laws passed in 3 states over the last 2 years with 1 million dollars.
Clever and impressive. Will YT brush this off and move on or double down and wade into it? Would you want to pick a fight with clever, eloquent nerds who seem to enjoy battling dragons, or EEE while quietly going about other business?
You just can't get away from them.
If this is in DC, does that mean no more Aileen Cannon for this case?
AmplifyBio should rebrand to AmplifyCruelty.
Also, we're Satan-hybrids now? That's awesome! Coolest thing they've called us yet.
Vance’s investment in Rumble is more on-brand. That company hosts insidious films by anti-vaxxers, who’ve spread the conspiracy theory that Covid is not a respiratory virus, but actually snake venom added to municipal water, and that those pushing mRNA Covid vaccines want to make you “a hybrid of Satan.”
At what speed?
Oh dear, thought I recognized that name and vibe. You're not here to repeat this kind of thing again, are you?
Missing the other big factor:
There's a large quantity of influencers profiting off of doomsaying and convincing millennial they can't afford homes with bad math and bogus statistics. They churn out clickbait content with unfounded claims, purposefully designed to rile up viewers and drive engagement.
This of course applies to many topics, housing affordability just being one, that turns out drive big engagement by spreading disinformation.
It's actively profitable to lie on the internet nowadays, so lots of my fellow millennials have an extremely soured and warped perspective of reality, because if you keep getting told lies by enough different random strangers on the internet on a topic you aren't familiar with, you'll start to believe it.
Spreading disinformation, especially about serious topics like economics, medicine, politics, religion, etc, needs to be cracked down on more. Posing as a professional online and spreading damaging info on purpose should result in jail time imo.
No justice, no peace.
"People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
Banksy
When things get really tough, two of you will double up on the same keyboard.
1 in 6 have multiple personalities and substance abuse daemons.
Your bosses ride little skateboards everywhere, when they're not busy programming animated singing viruses.
The FBI watches you code, but has no idea what they're looking at.
A significant fraction of you can type with your feet, proficiently.
Ahh ok. Thanks!
That's what got me. A bouncy 7 mile ride back to home. 2 world wars. Regular trowel cleaning. A paint job in 1982. And set in concrete, which EOD had to remove it from. What a ride, for the shell and the reader. Whew!
So proud of you both.
Three from Ron Fricke: Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka, Samsara.
There are some Frank Herbert books you're gonna love.
And Seveneves.
It's a lot of plastic. What if a canning jar was used instead? Then we just have to convince Packaging to switch to waxed paper bags or something.
Practice.
Taking notes during lecture helped. Not only does it help cement the information in your mind, it is practice writing legibly enough it can be studied later. You could practice this now, before school starts, by watching something like Khan Academy.
If your major sends you to the whiteboard often, that will help a lot, too. You will naturally improve as you do it out of necessity. Practice on the board until you can write a straight line of consistent text that doesn't droop or curve down as it goes along.
I second the suggestion for calligraphy in a script you like.
Perhaps practice by trying to quickly write down song lyrics as you listen? I think that's when I first started to improve.
Pay attention to your classmates who can take good notes quickly. I made a friend who found my writing to be glacially slow, so I watched how they wrote to learn some tricks.
Sorry if some of these won't help until you're in, but don't worry about it too much. I'm sure your handwriting will be markedly improved by the end of even the first year.
p.s.
Write letters or postcards to friends.
Try to fit your favorite quotes on a notecard.
"As a tactic, self-immolation expresses a logic similar to the premise of the hunger strike. The protester treats himself or herself as a hostage, attempting to use his or her willingness to die to pressure the authorities. This strategy presumes that the authorities are concerned with the protester’s well-being in the first place.
It is not willingness to die that will sway our rulers. They really fear our lives, not our deaths—they fear our willingness to act collectively according to a different logic, actively interrupting their order."
If you pull that trigger, Takeshi, it doesn't all go away. Just you.
-Quellcrist Falconer
Pesticides
Or a Mel Brooks film.
Everyone should watch The Social Dilemma.
Love it. One example that springs to mind is calling out the NCAA.
"'Student Ath-uh-letes'? Haha, that is brilliant, sir."
How does one 'swamp for' a trucker? What new devilry is this?
Turkish delight?
Gateway Arch? I think you meant to say City Museum.
This really needs to be rescheduled for the winter, and/or pilgrims encouraged to travel by night. But then the AC tents might not sell as well.
- Easy access to dark skies for stargazing.
*bacteria
Help me understand this.
SCOTUS is saying states cannot determine who is and who is not insurrectionist enough to be off their ballots. Rather, it is Congress (the same Congress that acquitted a known insurrectionist) who is the sole judge of that.
???
Obvious answers seem to be corruption and regulatory capture. But I'm trying to make sure I'm reading their opinion correctly. Is it not essentially, "States conduct elections as they see fit. No, wait, not like that!"
Who was the other famous old country singer who died recently? I want to say he even resembled Kristofferson a bit.