>>5303949 (PB)

Ms. Koh, As recently as this week we were roundly scourged by multiple media outlets as "conspiracy theorists". We, collectively, chuckled.

And here you are, looking to us for story leads.

THERE is the direct answer to your question – but probably not one you are comfortable announcing. We are a self-aware worldwide brain-trust. The great minds of the past would find peers here. I don't say this to brag, but simply to inform you of who else is in the room. Bring your best, as if trying to make small talk in a roomful of "rocket surgeons" – because that's where you are. Lawyers, executives, NASA employees, doctors, literal brain surgeons … they are here. I wrote an algorithm for spreadsheets and placed it in the public domain. You'll find it as the canned function for elapsed time. According to the folks at Borland, I was the first to solve it. Would you like to know who solved it second? My "high school dropout" adult education students in Ecorse, Michigan – the armpit of the educational world. I coached. They solved. They had dropped out of school, on average, in the second month of 6th grade.

The room is also well-stocked with AI bots, paid shills, government agents, other members of the press and guys who still, at age 40, often use the wrong head to think with. Membership in these groups is not mutually exclusive.

I, myself, am in the 97th percentile … and I have never yet been the smartest guy in the room here. Not once. Let that sink in. Stop being a female and become a mentat. (Look it up if you must. Think "Frank Herbert".)

Grammar counts. Based on the post to which I am replying, you may expect to be visited by the Grammar-Nazi Cat. You can still have soup afterwards, but you'll have to make it yourself. ;-)