The Finch of Moosehallow

Basically

capitalism is a system so good that even the socialists can become millionaires

i think people are drawn to conspiracy theories because that way they get to make sense of a world that just doesn't make sense

The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit. To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law. But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer". Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him. This was simply his model of how the natural world worked. He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture. Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law. But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work. Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians. Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here. But he would not, in fact, be wrong.

High-agency people are playing an open-world game. Low-agency people think they're on rails. Same game, different experience of reality.

"The variance of the methyl-CpGs associated with age-accelerating factors was significantly reduced for the old compared to the young age-group, suggesting a contribution of the age-acceleration-associated CpGs to epigenetic drift"

If people could really just stop killing each other, then the second half of this year would be really amazing.

...maddenly, three federal agencies have to okay the release. One already has: the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). It's still pending with two: the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Public encouragement would help.

アメリカ人よ アメリカ人よ 見たまえよ 日本式の天然川魚のBBQだよ。

The 𝕏 algorithm is open source and updated frequently, but you do not point to any alleged bias or suggest corrections, choosing instead to leave for platforms that everyone knows have a strong bias for political correctness, which just another way of saying “lies”. You used to be about freedom and truth, but now you want to destroy freedom of speech and artificially suppress viewpoints that run contrary to the lunatic-left activism that drives your every action. Shame on you.