If you make hope mandatory you ruin science. Sometimes the data tells you bad $#!† is happening. Then you gotta figure what to do to fix that, so… more data.

Reusable Target bags were ubiquitous in NYC for awhile. They opened stores in neighborhoods that were underserved by big corporate retail. This was certainly data-driven. But… You add DEI and you've got a chance to ensure brand loyalty for a generation. Target played the short game and lost.

Keep the scumbag away from public office

Haven't thought about Ale-81 in 20 years. I guess that makes me "a late one".

Alexander Calder made his first suspended “mobile” sculpture about a hundred years ago. He wasn’t aiming for astronomical accuracy, but a precedence has been set.

Yeah. I thought I’d Google it first before asking. It came back with “non-destructive testing“.

Ignore the “fortune teller” types and whatever the current equivalent is of what used to be the horoscope column in the newspaper. I’ve met people who do astrology as a hobby like it was astrophysics. They can be quite intellectual about it.

Protests are punished. Insurrections are praised. Enantiodromia is the rising paradigm.

I am so disappointed in my Alma Mater Columbia.

Eclipses can't occur in a flat earth model. It's so wrong it's not even wrong.

Quote of the day, "Make that make sense".

Maybe it's like the Wu Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. There's only one copy, kept in a silver keepsake box, and Martin Shkreli will buy it.

When they realize their mistake and ask you to return, demand 4 years salary in advance and don't type a single character of code until you see the money deposited in your accounts.