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"ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered thousands of years ago." –Goethe #ozymandiascomesforthee

“If you say to yourself in such matters: who am I to judge?—you are already lost.” Hannah Arendt #falseequivalences

China makes 20X more cement & 13X more steel than the U.S. It makes more than 2/3 of the world’s electric vehicles, more than 3/4 of its electric batteries, 80% of its consumer drones, and 90% of its solar panels. Its shipbuilding capacity is several orders of magnitude larger

"Education should enable each student to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions.” –James Baldwin

"White Christians have forgotten that the religion that is now identified with their virtue and their power—“God is on our side,” –came out of a rocky piece of ground in what is now known as the Middle East before color was invented, and that in order for the Christian church to

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” –Sinclair Lewis

"there are two kinds of writers...those who are hospitable to their fans, and those who get their books finished." –Robert Heinlein

Pro tip for Millennials: Don't bother "setting intentions" before your next "medicine journey." Double the dose. Intention will find you.

"All religions are based on the idea either that copulation is good for the crops, or that copulation is bad for the crops." –Ezra Pound (commenting on Frazer's Golden Bough)

"Longtermism is a philosophy with a special appeal for smart and extremely rich sociopaths." –George Packer

"Those who make a revolution by halves do but dig their own graves." — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Trump isn't playing 5D chess. Neither is Elon. Thiel and Altman tho... #keysersozes #chatgptcomesforthee

"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war." –DFW #CarlosAlcaraz #janniksinner #RolandGarros

this just in: DTLA protestors burn Waymo taxis instead of the real target of their wrath. Chalk one up for Tesla's delayed robotaxi launch. #rageagainstthemachines

"Serious fiction is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were’. –Ursula LeGuin (critiquing the

"Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be

“Being a libertarian right now, is like being punched in the face with your own ideas by a drunk teen-ager.” –Veronique de Rugy, a leading libertarian thinker at the Mercatus Center and one of the thirty-four named authors of Project 2025 commenting on #DOGE

when we lived in kingdoms we were ruled by kings then we lived in empires and we were ruled by emperors now we live in countries...

"I am always reminded when people talk about the liberal international order of what Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: It was neither holy nor Roman, nor an empire. And the same is true of the liberal international order. It was never very liberal, very international, or