In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate
Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish
I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried
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[I]t is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of [these products] by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
In other words [...] their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
From So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, my personal favorite of the Hitchhiker's Guide books, published in 1984. It is worrying to me just how much of modern life this describes.
"You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium" OK Frederick Douglass, I'm sure that's just how you talk every day
I made this chart a few years ago to explain the various possible outlooks people in the US tend to have about foreign policy. I'm still inordinately proud of it, and I also think it's one of the only cases where "horseshoe theory" kinda applies. Image description after the break.
