He has quite possibly written more words about Harry Potter than She Who Shall Not Be Named, herself.
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Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.
That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they're ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.
Fred Clark (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who's been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn't consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.
There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.
So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.
I'd think being there to take a photo of her mid-Caesarian section would have convinced him otherwise.
The bar for being treated as a genius by media seems extremely low now.
"What do you think would happen if you asked the redheaded couple about race and IQ?"
Oh god it's those two again.
Oh god we're going to see hybrid home brewer / crossfitter / biohackers aren't we. Heretofore unseen levels of tedium.
I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but "better alertness than you get from caffeine". And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they're burning the candle at both ends.
As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.
To really test this you'd probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they're well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a 90 minute lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)
I might be anhedonic because I've been using methylphenidate for ADHD since 1992, but I've always been somewhat anhedonic. To paraphrase Maria Bamford "Some people really love life. I've always been on the fence." The question "what do you do for fun" has always been a bit difficult for me.
Of course it's also hard to find pleasure in many things if you can't stay with them long enough for the pleasure to really develop.
Also of course he has his own EA organization / grifting engine.
Which looks like they probably use Twelve Monkeys as a role model.