hidden_figures amyloviolet capostrophe those figures were not hidden. not by a longshot. can i pick up a book at the library and learn the next technology? i wouldn't, but can i? my grandfather was trying to sell old-style cash registers to Ray Kroch but Kroch went with the IBMs. does my parents' generation have that story right? it's doubtful. "the right stuff" just think what dumb geek jokes could be concocted with the slang, misogyny and word structure of lotsa languages. "songs of the satellites" doesn't want to be so basic anymore, i think. my question is if we just have to pick a fascism that will not kill people in any way. or cause them to get killed by some other force outside of our control. because you actually can't make stupid people smart without investing quite a number of years in broad brushstrokey experience and training in those actual people and not some standardized testing version of a population. and you don't want uninformed and malinformed voters. no, you actually don't. like what Einstein said about the word that references making the same mistake over and over again. insanity. i guess that's it. (i'm so fucking presumptuous. i know.) 170125 what's it to you? who go blather from