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Peg Tittle
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Jun 03 2025
The obsession with Mars
The obsession with any sort of off-planet future is completely irrational. Look: Mars, for example, is uninhabitable as is. So you’re going to have to build bubbles or bunkers to live in. So why not just build them here? Save the travel expenses.
Jun 02 2025
a few of the many insights in Holly Bourne’s When We Were Friends
“That song [“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by Carole King) is the most true song that’s ever been written.” p175 “Speaking so loudly [about football] and with such arrogant authority that everyone else sort of had to listen.” p219 “Is it just me or is it crazy that football chat is taken seriously when …
Jun 01 2025
Truth
Only someone who doesn’t know very much thinks the truth is simple. (just finished Crichton’s Airframe,which illustrates that very claim through, notably, a reporter)
May 30 2025
Freedom of Speech vs DEI initiatives
Margaret Munn – Defending Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Impact of DEI Initiatives
May 29 2025
Men ‘experience’ labour pain
Read the comments too, especially about the relative duration of the pain …
May 26 2025
Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher – delightful!
“… I argued that the arts are a form of diversity [which was] sadly characterized as ‘divisive’” p28 “… watching me pull at what remains of my hair while I stamp back and forth in paroxysms of incredulty caused by the half-baked ideas casually lobbed in my direction from the back of the room.” p55 …
May 25 2025
Does advertising really work? Prove it.
So this obsession on the internet with clickbait. I get that the more clicks on an ad, the more money the company will pay a website to have their ad on the site. And I get that more clicks mean the ad is being seen by more people. And I get that the more people …
May 14 2025
from “Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin
” … the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame. …” “What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful …
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