Via @calestous, who got it from this article:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …
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@breitwoman best response that every critic should read is from Anton Ego - ratatouille
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NYT article "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" is another great go to. Orville Wright's diary on same day reads "We started assembly today."
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I appreciate the cheeky tone compared to the accusatory anger of trolls nowadays though.
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the cheeky tone of a casual lynching?
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Here's the full article, it's clearly somewhat tongue-in-cheekhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140922/18035428602/moral-panics-1878-ny-times-warns-people-about-evils-thomas-edisons-aerophone.shtml …
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oh you mean "clearly" in the way an engineering textbook author skips a mathematical derivation because it's "obvious to the reader"
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This is what i hated about textbooks
at the University. I would head to a library to find books with 'the missing derivation' explained

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Being fair, the singing doll is definitely creepy enough to be of mildly deleterious characterpic.twitter.com/0Wb43WO0kx
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this is solid gold from a long dead anonymous alcoholic. trolls rule 4eva.
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What Ayn Rand called "the looters"
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"They didn't have all these innovations when I was young!"
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Holy cow wow!?


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f*cking americans who granted world of patents to this highly im-moral and in-ept man who exploited the real brains of this century
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Agree with the sentiment, but Edison is kinda a bad example given how many things he merely claimed credit for, not invented.
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For once NYT was right. It was Tesla who suffered the most. We had been way more advanced if AC was adopted sooner
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Nothing is new under the sun...
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If you meet the buddha on the rode, kill him
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