Word: uselessness
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...serious position,” said Kummer, philosophizing on his office. “The LP is not just useless bureaucracy, but the LP is somewhat akin to the Dean of Alcohol that Harvard has appointed and to whom I will have to pay heed at the Harvard-Yale game tailgate...
Shortly after Hiroshima, wrote physicist Richard Feynman in his memoirs, "I would go along and I would see people building a bridge ... and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought--and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability...
...reveal much. To call Jamal Rayyin, an Al-Jazeera news anchor who told me that Jews were behind the September 11 attacks, more biased than Ann Coulter, a popular Fox pundit who told America that liberals were really to blame for the tragedy, seems like a useless exercise anyways. The place to look to uncover bias will always be off camera. In Al-Jazeera’s case, you’ll find that literally all of the station’s top executives—the people who draw its editorial line, produce its documentary pieces...
...agree with Poseneenske’s implication that these kinds of dependent objects are largely useless? I can’t say. But I can tell you that on my way home from the exhibition, I stopped to look at the shadows formed on a patch of grass as the afternoon sun slanted through the branches of a young tree in the yard. The grass was still wet from a morning rain and the sunlight sparkled as it hit the water drops. I watched for a few moments as the branches shook and the shadows shifted. Then I reached...
...Shortly after Hiroshima, wrote physicist Richard Feynman in his memoirs, "I would go along and I would see people building a bridge ... and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought - and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability...