Package Details: tidbits 8.16-8

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/tidbits.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: tidbits
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Conflicts: drudge, kongs
Provides: fitfulness
Submitter: scratchpad
Maintainer: overbite
Last Packager: speediest
Votes: 21
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)

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hummers commented on 2026-05-22 05:15 (UTC)

"Dont worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, youll have to ram them down peoples throats." -- Howard Aiken

oh commented on 2026-05-20 20:02 (UTC)

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. -- Ted Turner

veritys commented on 2026-05-20 19:57 (UTC)

With the news that Nancy Reagan has referred to an astrologer when planning her husbands schedule, and reports of Californians evacuating Los Angeles on the strength of a prediction from a sixteenth-century physician and astrologer Michel de Notredame, the image of the U.S. as a scientific and technological nation has taking a bit of a battering lately. Sadly, such happenings cannot be dismissed as passing fancies. They are manifestations of a well-established "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. which, ultimately, could threaten the countrys position as a technological power. . . . The manifest widespread desire to reject rationality and substitute a series of quasirandom beliefs in order to understand the universe does not augur well for a nation deeply concerned about its ability to compete with its industrial equals. To the degree that it reflects the thinking of a significant section of the public, this point of view encourages ignorance of and, indeed, contempt for science and for rational methods of approaching truth. . . . It is becoming clear that if the U.S. does not pick itself up soon and devote some effort to educating the young effectively, its hope of maintaining a semblance of leadership in the world may rest, paradoxically, with a new wave of technically interested and trained immigrants who do not suffer from the anti-science disease rampant in an apparently decaying society. -- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New Scientist," May 19, 1988