To quote one of the extended project team members in the very early planning stages of this: "We're NASA. This is what we're supposed to do." Just matter-of-factly in a telecon trying figure out how do this…

Redshirts was not the book I thought it **would** be. But what you did with it was so much more interesting than what I expected.
Not to crawl completely up my own ass, but it's pretty brilliant meta-fiction wearing the pilfered skin of a mildly clever parody.

Almost like we're all still being made to pay for one of the foundational, and unatoned for, sins of this nation.

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She's the best
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And they want you to believe they’re stupid. Because people roll their eyes and dismiss stupidity, whereas people fight tooth and nail against evil.

An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.

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"A politician knows if they lie, say something crazy or take an extreme position, they will be challenged by journalists."

Is there evidence for this in the last few years?