The_Blade

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by The_Blade 2y ago
Bowdlerize as a verb literally came from Thomas Bowdler gutting Shakespeare Ophelia was randy AF if you study her verses closer especially the "mad scene" (act 4, scene 5) Shakespeare wrote for the groundlings
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by The_Blade 2y ago
i read Homage to Catalonia on the TGV to... Catalonia drinking a bottle from De Wijnerij in Amsterdam. it was fantastic 2018. Rebellion broke out on the Spanish side of Catalonia a week later.
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by The_Blade 2y ago
80 Days is perfect. take your favorite artist recording 400 songs and you only get to listen to 40 of them and you just want more Meg Jayanth++ Choose Your Own Adventure++
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by The_Blade 2y ago
plus a billion for Turgenev. Bazarov is the original hipster also Pushkin's Queen of Spades
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by The_Blade 2y ago
It is sandwiched between Pnin and Speak, Memory But I really love Invitation to a Beheading. he wrote in three languages!
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by The_Blade 2y ago
i would argue it can turn into positive outcomes given the right problem and certain personality. often times, if i start something too early, i end up overdoing it (from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step). instead i'll backg
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by The_Blade 2y ago
Henry Rollins
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by The_Blade 2y ago
Denver definitely had perverse consequence. people eking out a living selling weed on the street quickly turned to... harder substances. people will get their dollar and people will get their high
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by The_Blade 2y ago
I would also add the famous Bert Cooper line, "I never heard the word client in there." He mentions patients, but they are all wrapped up in a woe-is-me section I work so hard and yet I haven't been diagnosed with a mental il
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by The_Blade 3y ago
don't game the system, make the system
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by The_Blade 3y ago
Sandhill Road Fighter 6 Turbo! Guile still slaps
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by The_Blade 3y ago
if i could go back 6 months i would name my adopted shelter cats Calvin and Hobbes instead of Kendall and Shiv but alea iacta est and they are more needy than 16th century philosophical
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by The_Blade 3y ago
i was going to say, what planet are you on where you have to wait 60 minutes at the pharmacy, and what you need more than 24 pills for? you're either Jesse Pinkman or sicker than a vintage Jimi Hendrix lick
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by The_Blade 3y ago
correct. a fever is your body's self-cleaning oven
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by The_Blade 3y ago
dang, i always thought Newton Mass was named after Isaac, not some other rando British chap that hopefully at least liked figs. the more you know...
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by The_Blade 3y ago
Leibniz was the first thing I thought - IIRC he and Newton basically "invented the calculus" simultaneously and independent of each other. But my stars, Newton's contributions to astronomy, optics, oobleck and fig-based treat
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by The_Blade 3y ago
nice, you beat me to this gem (with a side of Lewis Carroll and Baudrillard) because I was finishing work the lesson is, never try edit OH and the other part is that it was staged literary forgery by "Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones
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by The_Blade 3y ago
sewing machine
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by The_Blade 3y ago
and plumbing Rome's uptime was likely better than the downtown Denver building i lived in (that shall remain nameless) turning off the building's water IN COVID during working hours twice a month Diocletian had his issues but pro
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by The_Blade 3y ago
I just learned hops are named exactly for that, jumping on plants and sheep and the town crier or whatever. A Germany / England thing from the very early Crusader Kings timeframe. English Germanic words are so much shorter and straight
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by The_Blade 3y ago
you touch on a fatal flaw of the current approach to RTO. you know what we need? business hammocks!
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by The_Blade 3y ago
Angel Hernandez and Scott Foster would like to give you a code review
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by The_Blade 3y ago
> I don't understand why they don't just support OAuth OAuth breaks peoples brains and I can only imagine the tech / political debt reddit has
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by The_Blade 3y ago
I like the take of Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil as well as the guy who sold the Eiffel Tower... twice to conflate movie quotes, a fool and his money were lucky enough to get together in the first place, and we just can't help our
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by The_Blade 3y ago
listen spez has to re-billionize, his children need wine