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Aug 2023
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What We’ve Chosen to Forget (Baratunde T...

Elise Loehnen
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“Energy doesn't dissipate. You know it moves, but it doesn't die. And the big bang that happened 15.7 billion years ago, all that energy is still here. We are it like we are a version of it. We are an instance of that near Infinite Force and every atom that existed then exists now. And some of those are us. Like we are riding this cosmic wave. We're like sur ... Show More
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