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[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Yep, I've got my copy of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman too, and the bar part was so gross, and the fact that people tell their story like that and don't have the shame to either leave it out or make it sound less predatory speaks volumes about who they are.

As for his part in the Manhattan Project, it seems as if he got his karmic return in the end. I just wish he'd lived long enough to see him speak in person. He died a few months before I was born.