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No puppies were harmed in this analogy (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Ramanujan died at 32 from complications with childhood dysentery.