As the guy who buys his own wine and isn’t that picky, I’d much rather open a $5 bottle than one ten times that price. Especially if it’s a sweet red; then I can get an order of magnitude more drink than the snob who likes sour grapes.

(And, honestly, $50 is way too much for a common bottle of wine. Even $30 is nearly in the realm of conspicuous consumption.)

Science is not a search for truth. It’s a search for provable falsehoods and useful theories.

The beauty about actual science, as opposed to the fanfic and bragging that scientists need to publish to get paid, is that we can resolve contradictory theorems through experimentation

Massachusetts and NY raised taxes on the rich, and yet their revenues did not plummet.

Is there any contrary instance we can find where taxes were raised on the rich specifically and revenues dropped?

(And if so, get the academics back to refine their theories, make more predictions, and let’s see who’s more accurate!)

1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns? Rows go up to 2^20 (~10^6), and the thing starts to run like ass way before that.

2: Excel does have a RXCX format, if you really do need to go out hundreds of columns.)

3: feel free to ignore. Bitching about being forced to use the wrong tool is definitely more stress than anyone needs.