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No puppies were harmed in this analogy (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've thought this for a long time about other things. it's truly a shame.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We could have cured cancer years ago but the scientist grew up poor and ended up working the graveyard shifts in the mines.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Ramanujan died at 32 from complications with childhood dysentery.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Have you seen S4 of The Boys?