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exzackley

  1. @sayhar I wish one would
  2. @donaldmiller Just saw it. Credits rolling, tears streaming. Don, you guys made the most courageous honest film I've ever seen. Thank you.
  3. Elizabeth: "What are you two talking about?" Esther: "Robbing banks."
  4. The Scots "mostly had a democratic form of society, and were addicted to robbery." - Casius (h/t Winston Churchill, Birth of Britain)
  5. @sayhar @padlerman @resnikoff Gots to read Ha Joon Chang. The obvious answer which is taboo for both new left & old right is planning.
  6. Most SFians are just conduits in the run up to the singularity. All this beer and bourbon is just catnip.
  7. Daddy, let's do only good things. But let's TALK about doing bad things. OK? - @estherexley
  8. #2 thing NOT to do when dealing with Genghis Khan: fall for the "give us all your cats and we'll stop attacking your city" trick.
  9. Weatherford's Genghis Khan: #1 thing NOT to do when dealing with Genghis Khan: Mutilate the envoy he sent to sign you up as a vassal state.
  10. Facebook is becoming Pintristized. But why is this happening?
  11. There's a good way to be bureaucratic. And a good way to be anarchistic. And then there's a bad way to be bureaucratic and anarchistic. Bad!
  12. The verizon store is the soviet union.
  13. Er...that was actually Kundera in Judt.
  14. Tony Judt: "Say what you will, the communists were more intelligent." (In 1945)
  15. Reading Judt's Postwar: UK could have shaped postwar Europe. But let France do it instead, which meant letting Germany do it.
  16. Reading Judt's Postwar: but UK was the poorest postwar major state - food rations only stopped in '54
  17. Reading Judt's Postwar: UK in 49: "We are a socialist monarchy that is really the worlds last hope of liberalism."
  18. Reading Judt's Postwar: shortly after 1945, uk's exports > than almost all of europe's
  19. I don't want to see the red haired banana republic woman in all the bart ads anymore -- or her nerdy boyfriend.
  20. Reading Judt's Postwar: marshal plan was 50% of some countries' gdp.