When they recall the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes to amend the golden records they both carry toward interstellar space – to amend them and remove their references to Pluto – then I’ll stop calling Pluto a planet.
Until then, Pluto, as far as I’m concerned, is still a planet.
I’m not the first one to say those things.
Mike Rowe, for example did a rant on Safety Third – even more eloquent than I could ever put it. And I think I’d first heard Simone Giertz, Queen of Shitty Robots, say “Ideas first. Tools later.”
But I’m gonna put them all together with a little tweak.
If safety were really the primary goal of any individual/group/organization then the very process of creativity and the risk sometimes associated with it would be stifled and only function within the bounds of the safety box they’ve built around themselves.
If tools were the primary goal, then at best, it would result in little more than consumerism – at worst, it leads to people seeing every problem within the confines of that tool’s capabilities.
Ideas, though – ideas must always come first. Once we have an idea, then we can acquire, learn, or even create the tools to bring that idea to life.
So, I think I’ll put that on the wall in my shop and at the bottom of my company signature block.
…concludes that the U.S.-based but Kremlin-financed media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) is little more than a propaganda machine controlled by Russian intelligence agencies.
No shit?
Have you ever heard of the entirely State-side CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and other subsidiary media outlets and how they, too, are nothing but propaganda machines controlled by U.S. intel agencies?
No difference at all.
I don’t know what’s more disturbing:
the rest of me 