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I LOVE the linguistics in this book!!!!!!!! andy really did his homework omggggg

"I am personally immune from prosecution for any crime anywhere on earth." DUDEE

BUT an entire section of my dissertation is that this, data philanthropy (using data for humanitarian good) is actually a bad thing. if a company gave your data to your city so that it could track how you used public transport, they would have your location data. thats bad. just cause its gonna fix a humanitarian problem doesnt mean you should give up data protection

EXCEPT THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED ON PHM

the bit with IP Vs PHM, they're arguing that they have a ssd with every piece of copyright material on it, the computer that grace has in space. and as the reader your first thought is "well yeah but who cares, it'll save humanity, I'm sure one author doesn't mind three astronauts having their book in space."

that one meme that's like "when you find a scientific paper that completely disproves your entire hypothesis and so you just pretend you didn't see it."
except thats me with my dissertation AND THE PROJECT HAIL MARY BOOK WTF 😭😭😭😭

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ROCKY IS WEARING A TSHIRT

"sometime I play klondike solitaire on the nav computer." SO TRUE

"this is an alien spacecraft."
"holy fucking shit!"
they should've made ryan gosling swear more in the movie

"someone put a post-it on my head while i slept."