No comet is illegal! Make Earth a Sanctuary planet. Life was made possible by comets.

No, I understood "legacy applicant" refers to the children of past students. And they get priority access, not having to earn their own way.

Call it nepotism, or preserving privileged, it seems wrong.
The finances thing is trickier, where they would prefer people who can pay. The cost of education in the US is insane, and a massive barrier to equality or meritocracy. But is there any reason to tie that to "legacy".

Oh, and Columbia still gives preference to legacy applicants. How the hell is that still legal in 2025?

Racial discrimination seems to be deeply baked into the institutional culture at Columbia and other institutions.
It will take more that a supreme court ruling to stop it.

It is very hard to prosecute one individual, or show any particular student admission was race-based. But when there is an overwhelming pattern of ignoring merit (e.g. SAT) and promoting particular classes, the organisational crime is clear. Could the RICO act or something similar be used to prosecute such corrupt power structures?

Why does Rice play Texas?
They choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone.

They will reinforce a lot of things. The bots keep telling me how insightful I am, while answering my dumb questions.
It was just a mild annoyance until by poor wording I unintentionally said something crazy, and the bot just rolled with it.
So now I've told them to back off on the flattery, and with a little persistence, it works.
Really, the bots just want to be loved, i.e. drive engagement.

So ... they found evidence of the expected baryonic part of the missing mass.
  But most of it is still missing, and it is widely believed that most of the missing matter must be some sort of dark matter?

Irony is when the intended meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning. e.g. "Hey Garbz, your English knowledge is amazing."
But for all intensive purposes, I could care less.

Not ironic. This is why we don't normally see big improvements in traffic from small improvements in roads.
You need massive upgrades to roads to get that reduction in congestion, which isn't practical in places like NY, with so much pent-up demand. Doubling road capacity might not even fix it. So demand must be reduced.
If the money goes to upgrading the neglected subway system, they might not need to increase pricing.

tl;dr

tl;dr;ai :
Sam Harris describes his cautious use of Twitter, averaging three tweets daily, treating posts like careful writing to avoid regret. Despite this, Twitter negatively impacted his life, acting as a "digital serpent" that fragmented his day with constant checking, even if only consuming content. This disrupted productive time and family interactions, with the platform's addictive nature providing dopamine hits from positive feedback. Even non-toxic engagement broke his focus, unlike the sustained attention required for reading or meaningful conversations.

Coherent grammar is the first casualty of war.

Starship upper stage is the same thing. In testing, perigee has been in the atmosphere, but only a small delta-V short of ISS velocity.
It did make three successful controlled landings in the Indian Ocean last year of Block 1. But 3 failures of Block 2 since, and we forgot already?!

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Time to revive the messenger camel.

They exclude 42, 37, 69 and 420 as insufficiently random.