On redistribution of income and wealth

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
– Stephen Hawking

Source: Redistribution of income and wealth – Wikiquote

The Hell Ultra

Everyone who starts the race has to get to the first cutoff at 71 miles in 22 hours. There are two more cutoffs before the finish, which runners have to reach in a minimum of exactly five days. That’s about 60 miles per day, a pace that requires stuffing peanut butter sandwiches in your face on the move and sleeping just enough to prevent yourself from zonking out mid-stride in the middle of the road, which happens.

To Win An Ultramarathon Through Hell, You Need A Devil To Chase

On internet, stupidity and information

Do y’all remember, before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?