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Contraption Theory
- 082349872349872 2y agoShorter Rao: Just as one hopes to have pudding when one's eaten one's meat; one hopes to have Dionysian contraptions glitching in gaps between the smooth stainless steel surfaces of Apollonian designs?
- gradschoolfail 2y agoPlaceholder: I watched J-nuts glitching in the gap near the Tannhaeuser Gate..
- 082349872349872 2y agoDark Benjamin can afford to play the long game at Manor Farm because compared to donkey's years, pigs last no longer than replicants?
- gradschoolfail 2y agoDue to b/w limitations i havent figured out in which mode to interpret this dark benjamin.. J stands for Jesus, the supreme head of church but otherwise nothing up my sleeve
- 082349872349872 2y agoThe mode I'd intended depends upon if you prefer your sociopath donkeys with or without midichlorians: in the former case, he keeps to himself during the period covered by AF due to the Rule of 2; in the latter case, those beds the pigs are fond of sleeping in might just wind up with Mr. Whymper's head in them one day.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoi see..? What if I prefer my donkeys without midichlorians but also sans peur ? (With specific reference to the lore about Junot, what sort of mentalism afflicted the Duke of Abrantes? Compared to Bessieres)
- gradschoolfail 2y ago[With reference to whatever i could dl of the NE pages you linked, Junot didnt seem to love danger but was merely unfazed by it..]
- 082349872349872 2y agocompare Lasalle: « Tout hussard qui n’est pas mort à trente ans est un jean-foutre. » [he didn't live with as much hypocrisy as Pete Townshend (currently 79), for Lasalle only made it to 34]
- gradschoolfail 2y agoFor a moment i thought you were talking abt Group Captain Pete Townsend (& Senex Lascelles) - dont know an equestrian/squadron leader Townshend? Peripheral (conflationary?) debate from the reams of orthographically- or otherwise challenged HN scholarship: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470933
- 082349872349872 2y agoSorry, I should've typed Pete "Hope I Die Before I Get Old" Townshend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSKu7SbGNQ&t=136s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSKu7SbGNQ&t=136s (especially because I know that already in the 1980s audiences would yell out "too late" when they sang that line) compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don't_trust_anyone_over_30%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don't_trust_a... :: :: :: It makes perfect sense that a Caesar wouldn't trust anyone who seemed to be "sleeping on sticks and tasting gall" (臥薪嚐膽); armed rebellions are expensive, and someone who (by stock and flow analysis) clearly can't build up a war chest or hire spies or corrupt your guys can be trusted to the extent that they won't do much harm whenever they ultimately betray that trust. In very early feudal days, a king would wander around his kingdom with his retinue, using up each vassal's surplus in high living, and then moving on to the next. Louis XIV is credited with flipping that script: by running an extravagant court, he made sure that (even if his vassals themselves had to return to their own properties to administer them from time to time) their wives and children were close to the court, and a good portion of the revenue from their properties was flowing towards Versailles to support the court life to which they all had become accustomed. In Victorian days (in addition to commissions having been bought, not awarded) the posher cavalry units also used to apply a variation on this principle: setting unit mess dues higher than the army salary effectively kept the riff-raff out. In our days I've heard a VP Sales explicitly say he likes his top producers to have expensive hobbies, because it keeps them hungry (and working for him; they might get poached by an established rival, but they're highly unlikely to go to a startup and work for relative peanuts).