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Replying to @eigenrobot
Some of the biggest WW2 battleships which carried thousands of sailors and were in like 200 battles were build in under 12 months *before the war*. It wasn't even that we were on a wartime footing, we just could build stuff faster then.
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Replying to @toad_spotted @eigenrobot
I suspect the patronage and graft networks were smaller back then so only like 4 robber baron types needed to be paid off to get the show on the road vs the modern sausage factory that is the Pentagon where a million people wait for their pound of flesh off every new project
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One of the really interesting bits of the Caro books is how LBJ's hilarious never-ending corruption was actually really fantastic in terms of getting things done. Because you'd just bribe LBJ, and he'd make a phone call and then things would just happen.
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I’ve wondered if this is why the trains in Italy are quite nice
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and they combust biofuel too
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted and
I’ve heard they run on spices, actually; apparently Mussolini made the trains run on thyme
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yes that was step two of my joke after the reply of "what I hadn't heard about that" 
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Replying to @eigenrobot @toad_spotted and
Too bad you couldn’t land the punchline on thyme
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