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4. Yeah that was a defining moment for me
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:23 AM
Monday

I still reserve the right to lie whenever I think RFK jr etc may retaliate against scientists I don’t know at all (were my devices taken hostage)! This must have been what the old USSR was like.

Society does need some people who are not crazy to not have all their work thrown away by narcissists who may well get triggered by stuff as arbitrary as random online posters who can be tied to specific scientists.

Anyway I never heard of them! Galileo did it. Winston did it…so it is not just P.G.Wodehouse.

It is a complicated waltz between a now when nothing will matter much if they nuke the place and pushing back as much to check the scourge.

It really is a hostage situation where you are dealing with ppl of unclear levels of lunacy. Look at this Iran war. I wonder if they think it is all a simulation. This is madness.

I realize now I have been defaulting to that script with the contemporary GOP that you see where a group has been taken hostage by an armed militant. “Sir step away from the ledge. Calm down. We can talk about this.”

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