About time. On that note: required viewing: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/ enlightening…

Futurists look to reach the singularity and Evangelists look to invoke the rapture. Not everything any group looks to do is actually practical.

Let’s say Don is now supportive of medical assistance (MAID) in dying. That’d be a better way to look at it. I wonder if that became a point of discussion whether he could actually be persuaded to support it. Although, there is an issue with some medical assistance in dying policy being too lenient, so not sure how to thread that needle.

https://archive.ph/2022.09.08-132926/https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/09/08/why-copyright-is-a-bad-fit-for-the-internet-age/

First gender affirming surgery was 1930 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ A little more than a few years ago…

Unpaywalled https://archive.md/2024.06.16-031352/https://www.thedailybeast.com/fauci-kills-puppies-memoir-details-forgotten-fake-beaglegate-scandal

It’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?

There are other ways to wildly speculate as well if we are doing so evidence-free.

Maybe Ben was being pressured by someone to submit false information and he wanted to ensure his work was scrutinized more and falsehoods uncovered without explicitly bringing attention to the fact that this was his intention.