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You know, it's really unfair on the bosons that blah blah blah blah. What? No, it just, it just is, right? And, and it's sort of like because this is a field of study that's so impactful to our lived experience in our daily lives, it sort of, it just gets bundled up with feelings and emotion, which is, yeah, not to say that we should all be Vulcan-like in our appraisal, but I just, I feel as though, as a general rule, and a pretty good general rule, when you deny reality, I mean, reality is always gonna win. It's always gonna win. You can argue until you're blue in the face, shake your fist at the ocean, do whatever you're gonna do. It's just sort of like Engineers, physicists, they get it. Like, doesn't matter how nice your workplace environment was, if the bridge falls down, right, it doesn't matter. It just like, something has to be fit for purpose. And I feel as though we need to just get back to a more mature conversation. Absolutely do what we can to sort of make things better. But just looking at these first level, first order impacts and going, oh, something bad happened and someone should make a rule to fix that. I mean, if rules fixed things so conclusively, then, you know, the world would look a very different place. It just, it's just not that way. So anyway, I don't know, I, I spin my wheels on this, on this kind of stuff. It's just, um, the, the, all you can do, I think, in life outside of just this one domain is, is just constantly You know, to take in feedback. What's reality telling you? Have a working hypothesis. And as soon as that is proven unsound, untrue, or not perfect, it needs to be refined. We do it in everything except economics. I don't— it's a weird thing. And we do it because it's actually— well, you know, you can get great personal advantage by playing the political game. And wherever there is advantage to be had, people will exploit it because we're people, right? In the same way that people exploit things for their good and the good of others, you know, some, you know, read Machiavelli, right? What was his book? God, it was good.
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