I see that Isaiah from the Old Testament knew about Wall Street, crony politicians like Clinton and their shared ethos a couple of thousand years before the advent of any of it.

Isaiah 10:1–6:

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

I was in the military of course, so mistakes in military matters bother me more than they should. Like this sentence from Rick Yancey’s The Fifth Wave.

I sink into the chair, sitting on its edge, back straight, chin up. If it’s possible to be at attention while seated, I’m doing it.

It is possible and taught in the military. Admittedly, it’s not all that common, but every military recruit ever has done it and knows how to sit at attention.

Here’s how it looks.

Saying the universe is “made of math” as many of the quantitative bent are prone to do is as moronic as saying it is made of cheese or of apathy.

If you study and understand any of quantum mechanics to even a basic level, it seems more likely to me that the universe is made of bullshit and crazy with a dash of “aww, hell no” thrown in.

I do agree that the universe at some levels has a strange correspondence to useful mathematical abstractions, but that is just a consequence of being in a universe where life is possible because the rules are relatively fixed. (Yes, I went full anthro on you. Sue me.)