À une époque, j'ai essayé de lire un bouquin de lui. Je l'ai reposé après un effort honorable de 50 pages, en me disant qu'il me prenait pour un con et qu'un auteur ne devrait pas. Il m'est longtemps resté un petit bout de honte (trop con pour comprendre) mais maintenant plus.

Child safety is also the reason behind most legislation targeting LGBTQ people everywhere. And the children can't even call the BS.

It only works if you have:
- a bought-for media base ready to obfuscate away any type of cognitive dissonance
- the rest of the media trapped in its both-sidesism stance

This would certainly _not_ work for a left-leaning president, whose lies would be picked apart instantly by 100% of the media

The IR band is too broad not to get confused.
Why not create new color names beyond visible light, by spelling out the acronyms? 'Yuvee' would be the first color beyond blue, and 'Ayar' the last color before red. And before that we'd need 'Theer', 'Mweer', 'Sweer'.

What's bothering me is that a lot of places where AC was non-existent 50 years ago (e.g. France) are transitioning very fast to adding AC everywhere, without first going through the fan or ceiling fan intermediate step, which would actually be quite sufficient in a majority of cases.

Image credit: Denis Lushch

Maybe you already said it elsewhere: it's much easier to get a whole country to join hands and make sacrifices when it's clear that _everyone_ is making the sacrifices. So even if the wealth tax in itself is not sufficient to reverse economic collapse, its indirect effect on national cohesion might.

We should make a meme with side by side pictures of the explosion at Boca Chica and the Iran site bombings, with people commenting that Starship is hardly delayed by the former, while the latter is proof that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a thing of the past.

My father, who hardly qualifies as a reader, told us improvised tall tales at bed time. No books. My brothers and I turned out to be avid readers. Fast forward 25 years, and I was reading storybooks to my sons every evening. Neither likes to read now. Take-away message: there's no magic bullet.

Just break things fast