Notices by Everybody loves Gordo (gordoooo_z@nerdculture.de)

@mcc I guess it depends. I tend to like the more hard scifi writers like Asimov, and maybe a background like that gives someone a different view of the world, but I can't say I blame anyone for a fatalistic outlook.

I think one person, or a small team, can do a whole lot of good with a bit of knowledge, but the resources to do something really new, and really difficult, and really impactful are concentrated at the top, and I don't know of many people who got to the top completely by...

@mcc ...accident, just by doing really good work, and beind a really agreeable person, along the way.

I'm not sure that anybody with the resources to do really cutting edge science even has the same world view or motivations as the rest of us, I mean, aside from eating, sleeping, and maybe having a couple kids to pay someone to raise.

@mcc Was he just a weirdo, or a hateful toxic weirdo?

I can handle weird, but again, maybe I don't need to add anything to my reading list.

@mcc No fucking way ?

Damn, and after my last months long ER marathon, I was thinking maybe I should consider reading one of his books.

I mean, I didn't, because I'm terrible about finishing books, so I'm choosing not to start any until I finish the ones I already have going, lol, but the thought occurred!

@mcc Too bad that's such a classic quotable, nobody who hasn't read the book will ever know.

And now we find ourselves in whatever tf this past few years of history is, where mistrust of the gov't and giant pharma megacorps has morphed into mistrust of independently funded, impartial science.

I've kinda given up on even trying to explain anything to anybody at this point. Thankfully my SO and I both work from home, and it's too cold in Canada anyway, so we exist in our own little sanity bubble