You could weep for a falling star

• “The future looks good,” Charles Kuffner says. “Honestly, they’re all leaders, and we need them.” 

• “Denmark Sets World Record for Wind Power Production.” The country produced more than 39 percent of its overall electricity from wind power in 2014. “A big source of the surge of Denmark’s wind production this year came from the addition of around 100 new offshore wind turbines.”

That’s Denmark’s big advantage — lots of coastline for capturing offshore wind. The United States, by contrast, is practically landlocked, and thus has no offshore wind farms at all.

Related: Here’s your long-term traffic forecast — crowded and crumbly, with an increasing chance of collapsing.

• “They’d say they saw you spat on the sidewalk, so they got to run your name. They pat you down, say some slick comments. That’s the kind of thing happening less.” 

• If any one of us admits that Dracula isn’t real, then all of us have to stop pretending we’re Van Helsing. That’s why none of us must ever be allowed to admit that Dracula isn’t real.

If you won’t fully participate in the smug, self-righteous delusion, then you’re just not welcome in the tribe. Even the slightest qualification or nuance could destroy the collective illusion of heroic superiority. That cannot be allowed.

• “Consider who you are marching beside,” says Norbert Feldhoff, dean of the Cologne cathedral. And William Lindsey says it’s good advice for Christians here in the U.S., too.

• Caitlin Dewey’s comments on comments make some sense, but it’s not as helpful as it could be due to the generalization that all comment sections are alike.

Yes, we use the same label of “comment section” for the thing beneath local newspaper articles and YouTube videos as we do for the thing beneath posts here or at, say, Making Light, but they’re not the same thing at all. One is a conversation amongst a hospitable community of neighbors. The other is a cesspool in which people piss on trees to mark their territory. They’ve got nothing in common except that label of “comment section.”

• There’s a Chinese robot on the moon. OK, yes, that feels a bit more like 2015.