Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

  • Mac@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    I’ve thought this for a long time about other things. it’s truly a shame.

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      3 months ago

      We could have cured cancer years ago but the scientist grew up poor and ended up working the graveyard shifts in the mines.

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        3 months ago

        I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

        ~ Stephen Jay Gould