Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

How to understand Scott Adams: "The thing that seems to make Adams skeptical is credible evidence. Wherever credible evidence exists, he’s skeptical of it; where it is absent, he is a believer." https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

Which generation has the strongest argument that they are typically ignored?

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

I don’t know understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

What would you say if I told you there was a state in Germany (which also has a federal system in which education is largely in the hands of the sixteen states) that was effectively outlawing the teaching of any critical reading of Germany’s history and present? (Thread - 1/)

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6150-Turret-Dr-Colorado-Springs-CO-80918/13578873_zpid/?

"It is a pleasure to accommodate the points of all four reviewers which significantly improved this manuscript"

You know the rules. Every time someone says "Hyperloop" I bring up the Shanghai Maglev.

https://youtu.be/R_d4D5_4ovA

EU folk aren't impressed by the Shanghai Maglev but for US folk I assure you that this footage is not sped up, and that is not a low flying aircraft. Trains really do run that fast outside of the US and have for some time.

We could be SF to LA in comfort in an hour and a half, but we're playing. Philly to NYC in 30 minutes, but we prefer traffic.

People are often surprised to learn that the "weathered", "used", "broken down" look and feel of my present physical state has been accomplished entirely using practical effects, with no CGI at all.