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As Dr. Lehrl had explained it, entropy was a measure of a certain type of information that there was no point in knowing.
but that in all honesty he’d like it even more if they took the money his father would have spent on the ice cream and instead donated it either to Easter Seals or, better yet, to UNICEF, to go toward the needs of famine-ravaged Biafran kids who he knows for a fact have probably never even heard of ice cream,
Ben is malding
She read My Struggle and could not understand all the fuss.
Referred to in English
if sensitive issues of governance can be made sufficiently dull and arcane, there will be no need for officials to hide or dissemble, because no one not directly involved will pay enough attention to cause trouble.
Zoning laws
The government is the people, leaving aside various complications, but we split it off and pretend it’s not us; we pretend it’s some threatening Other bent on taking our freedoms, taking our money and redistributing it, legislating our morality in drugs, driving, abortion, the environment—Big Brother, the Establishment—’
What my problem is is the way it seems that we as individual citizens have adopted a corporate attitude.
The problem with this viewpoint is morality is not consensus. Also environmentalists
We’d bitch at the water cooler about these damn soulless corporations who don’t give a shit about the state of the nation but only care about making a buck.
Literally Reddit
There is no point in describing the gauntlet of franchise retail and shopping centers and auto and tire and motorcycle/Jet Ski outlets and self-serve gas plazas with built-in convenience stores and national fast food brands we crawled through, since it’s now the same basic gauntlet around every US city—I believe the economic term is ‘monoculture.’
Snow Crash
No one else among the crowds of personnel in the waiting area or standing in the lines that now extended out beyond the three narrow hallways67
The sex scene is buried in the footnote
