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The article is indeed hard to find without a nyt subscription; if you do have one, it's at https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/01/09/851...

As "feeling precise" goes, lojban is pretty good - it feels more like coding an idea than speaking

I think you might be looking for https://youtu.be/bKqO6gdJIz8 (at about 0:33 in)

Shows a 747 banking at an incredible angle (though I feel like that hovering thing may just be an optical illusion)

Also see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apology

Covers the apology "step" in detail and treats it as "a form of ritual exchange between both parties, where words are said that allow reconciliation".

In high school right now; my calc teacher links to this all the time when the textbook's explanation/examples are unsatisfactory

Especially with the way innovation works now, one person's "megalomaniacal fantasies" can easily lead to scientific progress.

I think another thing that contributes to that last problem about "computer" brands is the lack of knowledge of the distinction between operating system manufacturer and hardware manufacturer - I just moved recently, and in the process of getting to know more people and accidentally becoming their tech support, I was surprised to see how many people didn't have that basic bit of knowledge. When pointing at a chromebook, people say "Google" without questioning why "lenovo" is also written on it.

Three is two, two is one, one is none.

The podcasts-over-time statistics remind me that podcasts are like the new blogs.

It's also interesting to note that, already, bots on some Wikipedias are the largest contributors of articles in that language. The Swedish, Waray, and Cebuano Wikipedias already have an estimated "between 80% and 99% of the total" all written by one bot, Lsjbot [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot