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And the gold would be radioactive for something like 18 years

Sell, sell, sell

A stupid, cynical ending with no insight. Better to explore the way the CIA could be used by an authoritarian like Trump. Everything in the NYer these days is NYer Lite. And the timing could not be wo…

Yes, NY Times in, NY Times out Trying to excuse their own complicity

https://archive.ph/cMLNo

I find these comments very illustrative when taken together- they nicely show how different explanations sound spot on until you read the next one. Inexplicable is one of the great words in the Englis…

Or maybe that’s what they cling to until their money can buy them everlasting life.

As a potter, when I open my gas fired kiln, I hope for one piece I really love. That’s enough. I think success is in the moment of experience. Maybe an effective passage in one of my novels. Just a di…

Agreed, it gives the impression he had nothing to say. Probably a wrong impression. Shining a light too brightly is often the same as turning off the lights

Yes, I’ve never seen a more sociopathic company than Meta. They are so true to the cliched ethos of “you are the product.” Sickens me that society has facilitated the rise of such banality of evil

By now, the FBI should know better than to underestimate the cartels.

The same could be said of people, revealing the emptiness of this idea. Knowing the process at a mechanism level says nothing about the outcome. Some people output German, some English. It’s sub-mecha…

Genesis: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

Maybe Goodreads is just what it should be, a place to quarantine all the nonsense concerning books. Amazon polices reviews heavily, such that a reviewer found to be in some way paid can cause their re…

But can’t take a clear picture.

Of all the toys to throw, that’s a big one, if he holds to it.

Sounds like a training exercise for a planned invasion.

My novel set partly in the Polygon (Semipalatinsk) is “State of Matter”

RR is awesome, totally agree-

That you are writing the above is testament to his success, so I don’t know what you mean? You don’t understand why someone so successful is successful?

In my novel writing experience, this technique has a serious limitation. I find that writing the story leads to major epiphanies that would never derive from outlining alone. These would render much o…

He sh start by not wasting our time

Don’t forget P Feyerabend, Against Method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method …

I think Poland would be more effective, that’s why. And the Poles have cause —

What I would give to see Polish tanks riding into Ukraine to give foreign aid.

The first fault that bedeviled the MAX was the compliance and safety bodies. They built what turned out to be a trap for corporate executives, and Boeing flew right into it

the soviets had a mini sub program with reactors like that. the fleet barely made it into service before it was cancelled. I would not even want to tune up a car if it had to be running at the same ti…

Poison travels in many forms