30. As a culture we have too negative a view of cowardice.
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31. The "-ard" suffix in Middle English is usually deprecatory and indicates an excess of some quality (e.g. drunkard, laggard, etc.). This is an important lens with which to view every wizard in fiction.
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32. The median plumber creates more value than the median app developer.
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33. Revolutionaries are like vampires: it's rare to find one that can resist the exsanguinary urge.
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34. Evaluating the quality of art will be an early and valuable application of AI.
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35. Individual people are, on occasion, trustworthy. This is not true of institutions.
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36. It is imperative for us, as a culture and as a society, to breed and train bears to create art. Probably black bears, but I'll leave that to the experts.
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37. You know that nagging feeling, that there's... something... that our modern culture is missing, that faint longing you don't quite understand: it's as old as civilization, a tribe- and/or cult-shaped hole in human psychology. Don't put anything it.
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38. Cosmopolitanism (by my idiosyncratic definition, the ability to live alongside people radically from oneself) is one of the most powerful forces binding America together, which is why both sides of the culture war are chipping away at it.
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39. There was a throwaway line in the first Men in Black about how velcro and microwaves were secretly advanced tech we'd bought from aliens. This is actually true of bagpipes.
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bagpipes are just advanced farting
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yeah, farting without using the butt. that's not something a human would think of.
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