It took a slow runup like all things and it stuck because it worked. Science begat technology which improved living standards, not just in a rarified way but universally and was very evident. In turn technical advancement shone a light back onto science as its enabler. The new discoveries were not only intellectual like those in the arts they altered the practicalities and aspirations of common life within all classes of society. A thing science continues to do unlike any other pursuit of humanity and it is relevant and sticks for this reason.

I think the differentiating factor is bulk intelligence, the guy in the bath is a one or two per generation mind and PhD students are ten a penny. I was one, I know. I saw a mechanical engineering doctorate banging a screw into the wall with a hammer.

I think Sunday evening, about seven has the most difficulty based solely on position in the week. Throughout your entire life that is the time you are most regularly aware what is being taken from you.

I was probably a touch hard on the frogs.

Sometimes note taking can be very very time critical, once travelling with Dr Who the Daleks gave a laser bank disarm code which I tried to jot down in Keep but owing to not being able to start in one stroke I missed the first digit. It resulted in the destruction of 12 planets. Fortunately they were unpopulated except for one which had some frogs on it, but I don’t really care for frogs anyway so I can’t see it hurts. Still I am glad of the update.

Shocking how quickly people will fall in line with a burgeoning dictatorship. Everyone thinks they are an Oscar Schindler but really they are a Hugo Boss.

It has been said here already but I will say it again, there is no why. Why is a human thing, perhaps an animal thing, at least it is connected to conscious thought. When it rains you do not ask why you can only research how. This is a difficult lesson, we live in a human culture and so feel comfort in being able to ask why people do things as well as how. Not having the why attribute for the physical universe feels cold and inhuman, but the universe is inhuman, even if it’s difficult that is the deal.

This is a search engine showing open evidence of skewing results away from true for their own motivations. Slightly comic when it is Microsoft doing it to Google but if they do this so blatantly how else are they more subtly redirecting our searches towards biased or even false results that benefit them and misinform the user.

This week’s weak bean’s been Heinz.

At some point every person who enters a relationship in this way realises that they have generated absolute proof that their committed partner is utterly open to infidelity to the point of separation.

It is just your brain doing worst case scenario planning, the brain while idling loves to run through all of the most awful things that could happen in order to plan for them and give you an advantage should they occur, however outlandish and unlikely. It treats unpalatable opinions about the decisions you have made and your progress through life in the same vein. Turning them around to see how well they fit and if you could benefit from them in some way or to prepare you in case they arise via an external agent.

Came here to say that, I can not remember the exact details but I read somewhere there is an additional chemical complexity to emotional tears as opposed to practical flushing tears that thickens them such that they flow more slowly down the face and so are visible for longer.

Their best workers never existed - scheiße.

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Your population is essentially being farmed by corporations.

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These dentists are the worst sort of people, they think they have great business acumen making these profits but they really are just working a monopoly. If they truly are business orientated let them invent something and go market it and be an actual entrepreneur in the real world, if not go back to caring for people as they were trained to do and make enough money to live a comfortable life but not extort people.

People placed in isolation tanks for long periods have reported that consciousness seemed to become more vivid when deprived of external stimuli but that it was increasingly less grounded. Without real world input consciousness does not shut down it constructs its own simulated input.

A squid is able to get through a hole.

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