I’m sorry, but I am also a source.

You’re joking though. Right? Or are you thinking about wealthy people? The ones who might be written about?

I come from several generations of “prom night” conceptions and “shot gun weddings”.

If only there were serifs so I know what you love.

I got called out for “vibe coding” real work because I said fix the comments and look out for edge cases.

I tried them and looked into them. They do something, but nothing like the curated searches they try to sell you on.

I did something similar in school. Laid out the kid making fun of me.

We were in pads and helmets. It was middle school chickens establishing the pecking order.

Kid was more abusive than most and picking on me in particular. Put him on the ground, made it clear that this would not be tolerated.

Then I caught up with the running drill.

That’s kinda the attitude that is cultivated for success in athletics.

Fair point. Communication is hard, and scientific writing is for a specific group not a general audience.

PhD here.

Be interested in whatever you want. Someone else said speculative fiction. I’m not aware of a scientist who didn’t grow up reading that. Just be curious and care about if you’re correct.

Young people now just don’t have easy access to popular science from people who are telling them the truth, and I don’t know what to do about that. You need to learn how the basics of reality work before you can gain the proper level of skepticism.

Tell your granny she needs to pick up her teeth.

My beans need a break and I’m really not sure if these things can go in the dishwasher.

So there’s this concept “agent provocateur”.

It means the guy from the opposite side who throws the first stone as if he were on side he disagrees with.

The one who throws the first stone is the villain.

The reason why 60’s era civil rights demonstrations were so successful is that no white person was able (or probably willing) to infiltrate the African American side to throw the first stone.

In a modern protest, plenty of people without any identifying group support any side, so someone just has to turn around throw a bottle onto their own side to start the violence.

Also please remember that Europe purchased nearly the entirety of products produced by slaves in the Americas.

If there were no European market there would have been little incentive for American slavery.

I guess the slave free northern states also purchased their fair share, but nothing compared to Europe.