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    31 Dec 2021

    21 thoughts from 2021 I'd like to take into 2022:

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  2. 2 hours ago

    My laptop started with this out of nowhere just now. Anyone else?

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  3. 3 hours ago

    The TikTok vid:

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  4. 3 hours ago

    From the sister

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    There is no where to hide on the open ocean. This is 1923 and what you are seeing is a biplane creating a huge, dense smokescreen, hundreds of feet tall, masking military units and their movement... 1/

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  6. Jan 4

    You can't just say "we are experiencing longer than normal hold times" every time I call. It’s the customer service version of everyone thinking they’re above average intelligence.

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  7. Jan 3

    That one engine has enough thrust to lift a stack of 100 cars

    Raptor just achieved power level needed for Starship & Super Heavy
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  8. Jan 3

    Y'all is such a needed word. Can we all use it and not just southern people?

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  9. Jan 3

    I can’t tell what’s more amazing—that they do this or that we figured out that this is what they’re doing.

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    Bees dance in the hive to tell each other where to find good pollen. The angle of the dance is the angle relative to the Sun, the tempo of dance is the distance, the duration of dance is the quality of the pollen [source, read more: ]
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  10. Jan 3

    There are even bigger stars. As of a few months ago, the largest known star is Stephenson 2-18, which has a diameter of 3 billion km (compared with 1.25 billion km for Betelgeuse). Here’s what we wrote about it in the Universe in a Nutshell app:

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  11. Jan 3

    Fat Betelgeuse

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  12. Jan 3

    Meanwhile, between 446,000 and 1,060,000 suns can fit inside Betelgeuse—which means around 1 quadrillion Earths can fit inside Betelgeuse.

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  13. Jan 3

    1,300 Earths can fit inside Jupiter. And 1,000 Jupiters can fit inside the sun. [video: lord_of_the_stars]

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  14. Jan 2

    From

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  15. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2021

    As 2021 draws to a close, let’s spread some optimism: What was the most exciting piece of news this year for you, and why?

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  16. 31 Dec 2021

    Go hug someone
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  17. 31 Dec 2021

    If I aired a highlight reel of your most selfish life moments and most shameful thoughts, you'd seem like an awful person. If I aired a reel of your best, kindest moments, you'd seem like a saint. But people aren't highlight reels, and the unedited cut is always a messy mix!
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  18. 31 Dec 2021

    A batter who averages 4 hits every 20 at-bats is out of a job. One who averages 5/20 is mediocre. 6/20, an all-star. 7/20, the league MVP. There's probably some area of your life you're going 4/20 and feel hopeless. But upping your game just a little might change everything.
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  19. 31 Dec 2021

    This deep focus writing schedule: M: 3 hours T: 3 hours W: 3 hours Th: 3 hours F: 3 hours Is more hours than: M: 0 hours T: 0 hours W: 0 hours Th: 7 hours F: 7 hours The second requires two Herculean efforts, the first requires none. Consistency compiles to huge numbers.
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  20. 31 Dec 2021

    Politics encourages us to see the world as monolithic groups of people in conflict with one another. But empathy comes from remembering the top and bottom of this tower—that there's a lot we all have in common, and a lot about every other person we can never fully understand.
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  21. 31 Dec 2021

    Feed a man a fish, feed him for a night. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to reason from first principles, he can teach himself to fish. Then he can invent a better fishing rod and feed a billion people.
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