Yud is against seed oils, right? Or was that Siskind? I have a vague memory of the topic coming up but was unable to substantiate it in the 22 seconds of archive-searching that I was willing to do.

“What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?”

su;dr

(saw URL; didn’t read)

You don’t even have to be well-known to get crank attention. Post anything with “quantum” in the title on the arXiv and they’ll find your e-mail.

Source: this is one of the few times when I can say “trust me, bro” and be entirely sincere about it

“Listen to the flowers. They will tell you sweet secrets.”

eyelid twitches

One thing that may not be visible from outside the profession is that there are a lot of steps in between air-hockey tables and the research frontier, especially for the part of the frontier that gets the most press — black holes, Large Hadron Collider stuff, quantum computing, etc. Wanting to understand any of those things at a level better than (bong rip) man, like, quantum mechanics, dude, requires systematic study. Doing that entirely on one’s own might not be impossible, but it’s damn hard.

The orange site comments aren’t all worthless:

His attention span won’t be enough to stick with physics for longer than 4 weeks.

When I got back home and regaled my friends with my mountain stories, one of my friends joked that I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt. So I reached out to some people and got in.

What a fucking idiot. Also a fascist collaborator, but importantly, a fucking idiot.

Steel, like a pressure cooker