We don’t need more people to get more Mozarts, we need more opportunities. When people have the time and the means to create, they do.
Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion humans in the solar system
"I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins"
"Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy. And we can easily support a civilization that large with all of the resources in the solar system"
If you think the owners are going to fix baseball, I’ve got bad for you.
The system isn’t broken, it’s operating exactly as it was designed to.
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Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall | @Josh_Gabbatiss w/ comment from @baltrusz @martiskainen
Read: bit.ly/3FUULgi
ALT Chart title: The richest British people use more energy flying than the poorest use overall.
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As a former FBI agent, this is a big deal. We didn’t execute search warrants of this magnitude/scale unless we had a mountain of cause to back it up cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/…
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.
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Here's your medieval meme of the week you pedants.
ALT Chaucer on a horse riding with a crowd of knights around him. Speech bubble says "I'd expected there to be less of you..." and then someone in the crowd says "FEWER!" The words on the bottom say "The Pedants' Revolt"
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Fascism will be embraced with open arms in America as long as it's profitable and gets good ratings. The institutions will bend their knee and be complicit as long as its great for business...until it isn't. But then it's too late. We'll learn the hard way, as always, it seems.
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Two Moscow women each took their two kids and went to the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to lay some flowers there. The kids had drawn signs saying “No war.” The women were arrested and shoved in a paddy wagon—as were the four kids. All of them are being held by police overnight.
Reminder: According to the 13th Amendment, slavery is still legal.
Gov. Hochul wants New York to enroll in the Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program, which gives private corporations access to prison labor. In her proposal, the state would be able to garnish up to half of prisoners’ wages.
nysfocus.com/2022/02/23/hoch…
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Here's a transcript of a Russian soldier's last text messages to his mother that Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN just read out from screenshots at the emergency session of the UN General Assembly
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@AdamSchefter get on Matthew Stafford watching a photographer fall of the stage at the Rams parade and walk away 🤦♂️