| ▲ | johnfn 14 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why aren't you working on curing cancer? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | xrisk 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I don’t think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for nothing though. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | spunker540 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the comedian is complaining about how scientists spend their time…” It’s a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say communism! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||