Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy just goes on and on, doesn’t it? But it’s still pretty good.

Would love an improved, much more compact version of the trilogy. Maybe I’ll eventually do this myself, but I don’t want to plagiarize him.

The U.S. failed in Iraq and Afghanistan for two reasons: 1.) it didn’t get the governance it needed, and 2.) it didn’t get the economic control it needed either.

So those occupations failed not due to a lack of power but due to a lack of control.

Why don’t you launch a moonshot institute? I’m sitting on an incredible pile of inventions, and I’m just one guy. You’re a busy man but I guess someone else could run it.

Elon Musk

'Everybody can just keep on standing higher and higher until they're 35 years old with their youth and their money poured completely down the drain. Then we cry out to pour even more funding into it!'

Met de dood van de Iraanse president #Raisi gaan mijn gedachten naar zijn talloze slachtoffers:

- De duizenden politiek gevangenen die eind jaren ‘80 onder zijn verantwoordelijkheid zijn geëxecuteerd

- De vele vrijheidslievende Iraniërs die de afgelopen jaren zijn opgepakt,

Forbes published an article titled:

'Why Big Tech Will Remain Beyond Government Control'

A single screenshot from Quiver might have sufficed:

A Spherical Parallel Manipulator can achieve precise three-dimensional movements with high accuracy.

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The Netherlands kinda sucks but should be doing much better. Why should we be doing worse than a bunch of pretty isolated mountain dwellers?

I will make this cinematic! open.spotify.com/track/2VW6HO7f…

Mark Knopfler will always be👌

open.spotify.com/track/7lX5thFF…

Like gaps in IQ, educational achievement, and income, murder gaps can't be closed. They all reflect real psychological trait differences, which can't be jawboned away.

But it's even broader than that: If a murderer is white, their race is made clear in over 90% of news articles, but if they're black, it only appears in 30% of articles.

Also: If they're white, their race is more likely to appear at the top of the article than if they're black.

Science girl Physics teacher shows Bernoulli's principle

“You wanna make the media go away? Just mention black on black crime.”

― Cleveland Brown

CEOs and CFOs who use Ashley Madison “are more than twice as likely to engage in corporate misconduct.”

Similar results for financial advisors and breaking SEC rules and cops doing police misconduct.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31363051/

International Energy Agency “…health, gender & energy issue”

You mean humanitarian issue. Please stop being as annoying as you possibly can and fire all useless and worse than useless people. Drown them if you can get away with it.

Na onderhandeling met gemaskerde activisten belooft Universiteit Leiden het mes te zetten in samenwerking met Israëlische universiteiten. En ondertussen is China doodleuk hun 'prioriteitsland' voor partnerschap. Eh, #Oeigoeren ? Wat antisemitisme en 'mob rule' wel niet voor elkaar krijgen.