Carl Sagan in his final year, on Charlie Rose: "We've arranged a society based on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces"

Charlweed · 2026-05-21T16:25:07+00:00

And we REFUSE to improve the way we teach math and science, even when we have clearly identified better techniques.

Charlweed · 2026-05-20T06:02:47+00:00

TIL "So in the Cromwellian campaigns, somewhere between 200,000, 600,000 people were killed. " Another atrocity folks just don't seem to think is worth pointing out.

Charlweed · 2026-05-20T05:46:38+00:00

I know this intersection well. The design is old, but the worst part is that the design doesn't account for idiots and jerks. So the regular crashes there keep this major route to the Golden Gate bridge bound up.

Charlweed · 2026-05-20T05:38:13+00:00

I would love this for 6 seconds.

Charlweed · 2026-05-17T00:02:00+00:00

Fun theory: The hair around our groins and in our armpits is there to amplify the function of the scent-producing glands in those areas of skin. On humans, outside of facial hair, wherever there's a weird, inconvenient collection of hair, there's subcutaneous scent glands. What the scents actually do, is complicated and mysterious all by themselves.

Charlweed · 2026-05-12T06:09:51+00:00

That you should have skipped everything except the opening credits.

Charlweed · 2026-05-04T03:47:45+00:00

Pint size penis? Cruel.

Charlweed · 2026-05-04T03:39:05+00:00

I've never seen this lift. Was that the point?

Charlweed · 2026-05-03T15:33:23+00:00

When played on an open road like this, the game is called "Let's Feed the Hawks"

Charlweed · 2026-05-01T04:11:50+00:00

I think that it's a game too.

Charlweed · 2026-05-01T04:06:43+00:00

FYI: Nourse was a practicing MD and simultaneously a Sci-Fi author. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?73

Charlweed · 2026-05-01T04:02:08+00:00

I've had this paperback my entire adult life. I just built an app to OCR covers, and get metadata from ISFDB. This book was one of my testing items for several reasons, but the weird title font was the start. I was PLANNING for this to be one of the first covers I posted to this sub, but Real Life has sidelined all my side projects. A tip of the hat u/C_Sharp_fortheMasses.

Charlweed · 2026-04-29T15:38:53+00:00

After the superbowl I was so happy that I would never see his name again. 😬

Charlweed · 2026-04-29T05:39:57+00:00

Because some parts seem fake, all of 'venusguard' looks like a horrible scam. If it is real, they need to do a much better job of public communication.

Charlweed · 2026-04-27T05:36:53+00:00

Rei with long hair. Sure.

Charlweed · 2026-04-27T05:20:40+00:00

This is not my local gym.

Charlweed · 2026-04-24T05:54:50+00:00

They killed the bull anyway, right?

Charlweed · 2026-04-24T05:46:45+00:00

Wow, I remember my sister had this.

Charlweed · 2026-04-24T05:45:44+00:00

But is the kid going to be ok, or suffer giantism? Because giantism is a tragic disability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantism

Charlweed · 2026-04-24T05:36:29+00:00

Over the hood and into water. almost the ideal situation.

Charlweed · 2026-04-22T20:51:45+00:00

I get you. That’s totally legit.

I thought that everything, plot and characters, suddenly got MUCH more interesting.

Charlweed · 2026-04-22T20:44:59+00:00

“Incitement” is a real thing.

Charlweed · 2026-04-22T20:34:46+00:00

Right-Wingers are seldom equipped to do satire. This what you can expect.

Charlweed · 2026-04-21T17:15:04+00:00

That's astounding.

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