One out of three ain’t good and it’s not like von Braun’s background is some deep secret lore either.

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the manhattan project was mostly Jewish exiles. The haber-bosch process was invented by a guy who died in 1934 and a guy who lost his job because he was critical of nazis.

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someone who is not a dirt-bag leftist is not a right winger, we have more than two political views here, it's permitted

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Did some graduate study in pure mathematics in the 1990s. I would spend 2-3 hours each week digging up definitions now found on Wikipedia. I remember getting books on interlibrary loan just for background knowledge. It was the dark ages. No way today isn’t a vast improvement.

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Unfortunately, learned helplessness is a thing and some people are just too depressed or worn out to do anything to improve their current situation. It's times like these that helping each other out is most crucial.

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