Notes

Our brain seems to process luminance faster for warm hues compared to cooler ones. And it really likes pink. This is fun research that may lead us to new models for perceptual color spaces.

To spite Obama, Trump dismantled the pandemic response team right before a pandemic.

To spite Biden, he’s dismantling the program to prevent nuclear war.

Mijn broer zegt dat ik te veel over Amerika klag. Hij zal zeker denken dat ik een traitor ben wanneer ik in het Nederlands schrijf dat ik de inburgeringsexamens doe.

The internet is being buried in “makes you think” and “hmm” statements that provoke the thought “wow, this author really didn’t think this through before posting.” 🤔

Instead of trying to show the bigots that their genes do not make them superior, we should focus on a phenomenon I’ve noticed:

Bigotry is correlated with incompetence.