pursuing your passions - eviltoast
  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year 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

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      1 year ago

      This has been my reaction when anti abortion activists say things like, “What if Einstein was aborted??”

      Cool hypothetical. We know for a fact that millions of people waste their potential because of the color of their skin, their caste, their access to education, preventable disease, etc.