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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.” — Carl Sagan

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

Actor Michael Sheen with Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night.”

The carrier USS Franklin approaches Manhattan as it prepares to dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 28, 1945. Her deck shows the melted and burned decking and aircraft parts resulting from a March 19, 1945 Japanese kamikaze attack. Over 800 crewmembers lost their lives in t…

Sun Tzu's order of attack is: first attack the enemy's plans, then his alliances, then his armies, and only then his fortified cities. Who followed this approach?

SEVERELY   UNDER-RATED  📺 SERIES 🥶 THREAD🧵 1.    The Americans  (2013)

Its very simple, you don't understand men. You started having sex with him right away, which short circuit's a guy's brain and fast tracks his thoughts of you past giving a shit about you as a person and simply thinking of you as a sex toy. Once you started making demands, he moved on. You have to hold back sex until they start to see you as a person, if they stick around for a few months of dating with no sex, that means they are actually interested in you, as a person. This is how women used to filter out men who were not a fit for them.

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Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham explains how he used ChatGPT/AlphaFold to create a vaccine to treat his dog’s cancer tumors.

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Common sense

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?" Plato

Everything you believe about time is a lie

PARAPROSDOKIANS: (Winston Churchill loved them.) I had to look up "paraprosdokian".? Here is the definition: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation."?? "Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian. 1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. 2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list. 3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. 5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. 6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. 7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. 9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. 10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station. 11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks. 12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.' 13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. 14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. 15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. 16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory. 17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. 18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. 19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away. 20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure. 21. You're never too old to learn something stupid. 22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. 23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. 25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. 26. Where there's a will, there's relatives.

You’re bored because you don’t do side quests, bro. Life isn’t just work… and bed rotting. Side quests build edge. Edge builds identity. Here are 100 side quests to complete: Dangerous: Boring life breaker…

Tattoo this to your brain: "The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.” – Marc Andreessen