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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird. ”
Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know. ”
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond. ”
I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond. ”
Our increasingly electrified, electronic, and data-driven society places steadily rising demand on reliable baseload power - that is, on electricity available 24/7/365. Servers never sleep, nor does air conditioning during hot nights, and in Asia's megacities, subways and electric trains take only brief naps between midnight and 5 A.M. ”
Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food. Large animals have inherently low efficiency of converting feed to muscle, and only modern broilers can be produced with less than two units of feed per unit of meat. ”
Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures. ”
Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere. ”
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ”
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ”