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Placeholder: I watched J-nuts glitching in the gap near the Tannhaeuser Gate..

082349872349872 2y ago
Dark 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 ago
  Due 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 ago
    The 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 ago
      i 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 ago
        compare 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 ago
        For 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 ago
        Sorry, 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).
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        sans peur[0] ; cependant[1] tant reproché ? That sure puts "founder mode" gripes in perspective — Napoleon was trying to run an empire, yet externally not only did he have General Winter as an enemy, but internally he couldn't even leave his direct reports alone unsupervised without them getting into each others' wives' beds. Bessières showed himself to advantage on the latter point because not even his wife was aware of his affair (apolitically with an actress) only discovering it when going through his papers to settle his estate. After a quick glance at his fr.wikipedia page, it seems Bessières may have been a good example of a successful "bigcorp hire"[2]: lacking the audacity and prowess of the other Marshalls[3], he made up for it by staying out of trouble and staying loyal. (the latter point, and Bessières having left no fortune, suggests he may even be placed among the clueless?) [0] had not my Goddonkey sang froid? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482398 [1] brag: I've seen Bayard's panoply with my own eyes [2] he even started out on the royalist side, and unlike Murat and Junot, wasn't already part of Napoleon's crew for the "whiff of grape". [3] compare Bernadotte, Murat, Poniatowski, Saint-Cyr, ...
        gradschoolfail 2y ago
        [0] probably not, if i stick to the optimal interpretation that Old Ben is Orwell incognito. (Jura & the pistol under pillow could well be merely prudential, but i dont see it) Gotta drop the discreetly placed marshal’s baton angle for now since i cant even find a half decent example pair lol
        aebtebeten 2y ago
        rods have been symbols of power for some time, eg (sorry no time to find original: in higher detail probably a mace) https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593599730 https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593599730 renaissance: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-2019-equestrian-statue-of-gattamelata-exhibited-at-the-pushkin-state-museum-of-fine-arts-credit-sopa-images-limitedalamy-live-news-2H4WND3.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-201... (I want to show you the baton here, but if you find other views of this statue you'll find Gattamelata agreed with Crazy Horse on ponytails) napoleonic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréchal_Jourdan.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréc... in our time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Charles_III_%28No._4_Dress%29_Salute_2024.jpg/300px-Charles_III_%28No._4_Dress%29_Salute_2024.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ch... and of course the riding crop is very reminiscent of a baton: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/princess-elizabeth-riding-a-horse-bettmann.jpg https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu... EDIT: https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(592x339:594x341)/prince-charles-princess-diana-polo-081722-b3689a859bbc49abb12e804004dfb00f.jpg https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/... (here Charles can also channel his inner Hector, via his pseudo-greaves) other examples: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1.jpg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1.... https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(428x0:430x2)/queen_elizabeth_horse_858-a4f62316014440a691c074eedff087af.jpg https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/... (you can tell it's a popular rag because they really could've chosen a more flattering moment, ie a few seconds before or after, to publish) EDIT: can't resist adding this pair; mirrored at birth? https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dsc_0167.jpg https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ds... https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-united-kingdom-queen-elizabeth-ii-seen-horse-riding-in-the-grounds-of-windsor-castle.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=hVi3PUwP4nJFVLCLFVXEYjGOUmo6p6ZJCXH8VMTu_oo= https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-un... Lagniappe: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20071108.gif https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20071108.gif

Dark 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 ago
Due 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 ago
  The 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 ago
    i 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 ago
        compare 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 ago
        For 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 ago
        Sorry, 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).
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      sans peur[0] ; cependant[1] tant reproché ? That sure puts "founder mode" gripes in perspective — Napoleon was trying to run an empire, yet externally not only did he have General Winter as an enemy, but internally he couldn't even leave his direct reports alone unsupervised without them getting into each others' wives' beds. Bessières showed himself to advantage on the latter point because not even his wife was aware of his affair (apolitically with an actress) only discovering it when going through his papers to settle his estate. After a quick glance at his fr.wikipedia page, it seems Bessières may have been a good example of a successful "bigcorp hire"[2]: lacking the audacity and prowess of the other Marshalls[3], he made up for it by staying out of trouble and staying loyal. (the latter point, and Bessières having left no fortune, suggests he may even be placed among the clueless?) [0] had not my Goddonkey sang froid? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482398 [1] brag: I've seen Bayard's panoply with my own eyes [2] he even started out on the royalist side, and unlike Murat and Junot, wasn't already part of Napoleon's crew for the "whiff of grape". [3] compare Bernadotte, Murat, Poniatowski, Saint-Cyr, ...
      - gradschoolfail 2y ago
        [0] probably not, if i stick to the optimal interpretation that Old Ben is Orwell incognito. (Jura & the pistol under pillow could well be merely prudential, but i dont see it) Gotta drop the discreetly placed marshal’s baton angle for now since i cant even find a half decent example pair lol
        aebtebeten 2y ago
        rods have been symbols of power for some time, eg (sorry no time to find original: in higher detail probably a mace) https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593599730 https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593599730 renaissance: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-2019-equestrian-statue-of-gattamelata-exhibited-at-the-pushkin-state-museum-of-fine-arts-credit-sopa-images-limitedalamy-live-news-2H4WND3.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-201... (I want to show you the baton here, but if you find other views of this statue you'll find Gattamelata agreed with Crazy Horse on ponytails) napoleonic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréchal_Jourdan.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréc... in our time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Charles_III_%28No._4_Dress%29_Salute_2024.jpg/300px-Charles_III_%28No._4_Dress%29_Salute_2024.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ch... and of course the riding crop is very reminiscent of a baton: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/princess-elizabeth-riding-a-horse-bettmann.jpg https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu... EDIT: https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(592x339:594x341)/prince-charles-princess-diana-polo-081722-b3689a859bbc49abb12e804004dfb00f.jpg https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/... (here Charles can also channel his inner Hector, via his pseudo-greaves) other examples: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1.jpg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1.... https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(428x0:430x2)/queen_elizabeth_horse_858-a4f62316014440a691c074eedff087af.jpg https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/... (you can tell it's a popular rag because they really could've chosen a more flattering moment, ie a few seconds before or after, to publish) EDIT: can't resist adding this pair; mirrored at birth? https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dsc_0167.jpg https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ds... https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-united-kingdom-queen-elizabeth-ii-seen-horse-riding-in-the-grounds-of-windsor-castle.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=hVi3PUwP4nJFVLCLFVXEYjGOUmo6p6ZJCXH8VMTu_oo= https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-un... Lagniappe: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20071108.gif https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20071108.gif