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Unity!

I find it oddly fascinating that even in our highly documented age, we still create history that we must then go back and piece together.

Powered flight in our lifetimes!

The article reveals that Welles was under the influence of a sleeping pill, but the intro states that he was “obviously drunk.”

> 4. Is our schedule realistic?

No. No it is not.

I wonder what the effect on religiosity over the eons would have been if earth had such a crappy total eclipse.

The vastness of the cosmos is kind of upsetting in an odd way.

Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world without some insanely specific hobby they are passionate enough about to write blog posts about.

What percentage of the population would you say has an interest in a craft at or above this level?

Two things can be true simultaneously:

1. Musk committed a catastrophically huge unforced error with his right wing buffoonery.

2. Tesla was MASSIVELY overvalued and a huge drop in valuation was inevitable regardless of Tesla’s performance.

Ha! As soon as I saw the article I thought, “I wonder if there’s a RealLifeLore video on this.”

Photos of people staring at computer screens are not particularly inspiring on their own.

Are there really electrons? Or does observable phenomena simply fit with the theory of electrons?

Yes, they should "just fix Siri." That would do the trick.

Oh I loved Infinite Loop by Malone. Bill and Dave sounds like an insta-checkout for me.

Stick to checking out books from your library / Libby. You'll save money and might end up making discoveries you otherwise wouldn't.

And the homeowner just happens to be a NASA aficionado?

Chernow’s biography of Grant is excellent, and very edifying for me personally. Grant was both a great and good man, and should be much more revered in American society than he is.

Has the same kind of study been done in, say, Norway?

By the way, the built-in dictionary app in macOS is one of the most slept-on of Apple's many slept-on built-in apps over the years.

If the word of the week is "act up", I'm not enticed to think this is a more useful or detailed reference source than Urban Dictionary, or, you know, a dictionary.

Both sides journalism prevents the headline from being “Republicans seek to weaken laws against child labor”

Culture is ephemeral. Some things are preserved, others are not. It's fine.

“Dark matter” always seemed like a cop out to this layperson. You can’t just give up and attribute problems with your theory to a mysterious substance that can’t be seen or measured!

Why are rockets always blowing up? Feels like we should be past the point of that being a regular occurrence.

Unless you're the guy who invented fertilizer, you as an individual aren't having a big impact. Just find a place where they respect you and you don't cringe when telling people you work there.

There was no benefit.

I struggle to find this emoji on Slack on a regular basis.

Pretty much everything except farming and church is new.

I wasn't directly involved in importation, but AFAIK it went pretty smoothly: https://linear.app/docs/import-issues#pivotal-tracker