Your paragraph about reputation is wrong: the thesis statement of this paragraph is: half of science is your methodology. And that's not really gatekeepy, it's what's needed to be recorded to actually verify what was observed. So we don't have another Piltdown man or microraptor.

Have you looked into citizen science projects? There are many many projects set up so the average joe can contribute in some way. They may not be discovering a new species like some Edwardian British Naturalist, but they are helping contribute in significant ways.

And the work he did for the Native Americans

I kinda wonder if he'll end up like Nixon. The people who still like him will "forget" about him.

Aldos Huxley is not a great writer. I think he had a better understanding of humanity than Orwell... Or at least, I feel like his books are more insightful, but he is not as good of a writer.

Yeah. The article reads: make your database worse, because AI is dumb.

The point of the article is that of you stop investing in science, you are going to fall behind in science.

I wouldn't recommend Mike Heiser. The dude was an evangelical through and through and not only that most of his views were fringe to evangelicalism, his work is apologetics for his idiosyncratic views.

But Religion for Breakfast is good.

Help others in need, let your torrents seed.

Oh. He's still got a golden parachute, but rather than being a bazillion crap loads it's only half a bazillion crap loads.

Fair enough. It's hard to learn something new when what you have works and you know it. And if what you have works, then yeah. I get that. Especially if you have lots of visuals and themes. I think libre office calc is pretty ugly. But I also don't try and make things look better either

I avoid spreadsheets in general. But I have used some pretty funky formulas in libre office's calc. I'm just kind of curious what formulas you use that aren't supported in Calc.

Maybe they were thinking of Mountain Lions. And they didn't even mention wolves!