Thinking about how rave culture was shut down with extreme prejudice because kids getting together to drop e in giant warehouse cuddle puddles on the edge of the city where they weren't bothering anyone could not be tolerated, and now we have fent zombies littering urban cores with used needles and the only reaction from the authorities is safe injection sites and distributing narcan to first responders, but this can't even be chalked up to a more permissive attitude in general because it's not like they're letting kids have raves again.
i've talked to a phd crystallographer and he was pretty candid and humble in admitting the limits of our knowledge.
some crystals apparently start forming everywhere at a much higher rate once one lab has grown them. apparently this is an unsolved mystery. the prevailing theory is that it's the effect of contamination and seeding. but afaik this has not been rigorously empirically proven as the cause. the alternate and currently fringe theory is that this is possibly pointing to non-local effects.
>Gave Kurt Cobain the money he needed to record Nirvana's first album.
>Was Nirvana's guitarist for a bit.
>Went to be the bassist for Soundgarden for a bit.
>Becomes inspired by Benvenuto Cellini's philosophy that every man must be an artist, warrior, and philosopher.
>became an Army Ranger
>retires from military service, and became a bike courier in NYC.
>Goes to live in a Buddhist monastery for a while.
>Re-joined the Army as a Green Beret this time
>gets an Honorable Discharge
>Recieves a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Columbia
>Back to music
What an utterly wild life trajectory.
Keith Hernandez in April: There's real cause for optimism for the Mets this season!
Keith Hernandez in July: My miscreant children have eradicated my bloodline.
It's kind of wild that China seems to have prevented the global energy market from blowing up by massively cutting its oil imports after Iran closed Hormuz, and they are still doing it at the moment, but we have no idea how or why they did it.
just watched Project Hail Mary and here is my sequel pitch - after returning to Earth, Gosling and the rock monster move to LA and start a small private detective agency… also the rock monster is now played by Russell Crowe