Yeah, there’s electricity in the brain, for example.

Looks pretty good… but… is it just unapologetically fascist?

Boston is so awesome. You didn’t mention the museums, historical places, concerts, festivals, theaters, hundreds of little cafes and restaurants, bookstores, art galleries, several dozen universities each with events open to the public. Taking the T (public transportation) over to the Boston Common to see what’s going on, then walking through downtown, maybe stop at Fanueil Hall for a snack, then go all the way to the North End to a restaurant. Oh gods I’m homesick and I only lived there like 8 years.

“the answer’s on the information superhighway!”

I always imagined that ADHD was just our minds tuned to being hunter-gatherer survivors, and thus not suited for a sedentary office environment.

“if the sun went out we wouldn’t know for about 8 minutes.”

you might like the first chapter of Iron Sunrise. it’s a SF book that begins with someone destroying a civilized planet by causing their sun to explode. not a rare trope, but they describe it in a realistic-sounding way. (the rest of the book is mid, unfortunately)

The gif was made by those students.

To find the right stuff, I subscribe to non-political and non-tech communities, then browse “subscribed” by “new”.

Very interesting, thanks. It’s kind of funny how as I grow older, I become more interested in conflict termination.

Interesting. Is there a definitive reference for this, that you have handy? I just did some literature searches but most cites were over 20 years old.

I dunno. My aunt adopted a cat who had been rescued from an abusive evironment. Non-humans can be pretty messed up too.

I’ve heard that his autobiography is pretty good too…

You’re probably familiar with the argument that Japan’s surrender was in direct response to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria (and the southern Sakhalin Island)…

Garf shoulda ended with “Humans can be such animals.”