Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
Elon says that a bunch of people will die going to Mars.
I don’t know if he’s read it, but I gave him a copy of the book (via Gwynne) when it came out.
And Samantha Bee is wrong about comedy.
Why it loves Black Lives Matter, and woke politics in general:
Woke politics has also been useful for firms hiding all kinds of unsavoury practices. Many firms will proclaim allegiance to BLM one day, while lobbying against curbs on forced labour the next, for instance. Indeed, whether you take the Marxist view, that all firms in a capitalist system exploit labour anyway, or the Adam Smith view, that sellers in a marketplace act out of self-interest rather than kindness, it is surely hard to take any company’s proclamations of righteousness too seriously.
This reminds me of how “feminist” men use their wokeism to attempt to insulate themselves from their abuse of women, like when Harvey Weinstein went to war with the NRA to deflect from his predatory behavior toward starlets.
[Update a while later]
Big Tech, Big Law, And Big Woke are banding together for a political realignment.
If you like watching a big ape (not “monkey”) punching a big lizard (and vice versa), does Sonny Bunch have a movie for you.
But notwithstanding the quality of the flick itself, I have to dispute his characterization of his home theater as “decent enough.” A soundbar is easy, but it’s not home theater. I’ve put in 5.1 surround sound, with a Polkaudio subwoofer, and that is close enough to theater quality for me to watch at home. To me the big difference between home and theater is screen size, even with our own 65″. It’s much more immersive when you can’t see much of anything except screen.
Heinlein saw it coming six decades ago.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Yes, our “elites” do seem to want a racial apocalypse.
…replaces baseball as the national pastime.
What we need is a coalition of the unwoke.
The great awokening:
[Update a while later]
I hadn’t been aware that Neill Ferguson had married Ayaan Hirsi Ali, apparently in 2011.
[Late-afternoon update]
I remember when Nancy moved up there. She told us she was planning it at a Halloween party in 2003 at the late Cathy Seipp’s place.
I need to do more shopping there. They have everything.
Why we have to be worried about both.
Remote hijacking of “smart” sex toys?