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A great little bit by @ZachWeinersmith about struggling to find facts that can reasonably be called "true". It's good fun! Worth a listen. There's also a transcription.

My favourite bit:

> And so, I was asked to say something moderately uplifting, and the best I could come up with was to say it's kind of amazing that civilization just keeps shambling forward with the amount of intellectual poison just coursing through its veins 24-hours a day.

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