On 8/14/26
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Public · Design & Objects
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Genius
Nah
Terrible mix up
Man · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society
When I see a man infatuated with logic, I wager at once that he is not logical.
These fucking boomers will never understand
In the way that you can’t really understand what it’s like to be a parent until you have kids, you can’t really understand how it feels to own property until it’s yours. We are on our second generation of people being locked out of ownership, confused why they are socialists.
Of all ridiculous things in the world what strikes me as the most ridiculous of all is being busy in the world, to be a man quick to his meals and quick to his work. So when, at the crucial moment, I see a fly settle on such a businessman's nose, or he is bespattered by a carriage which passes him by in even greater haste, or the drawbridge is raised, or a tile falls from the roof and strikes him dead, I laugh from the bottom of my heart.
And who could help laughing? For what do they achieve, these busy botchers! Are they not like the housewife who, in confusion at the fire in her house, saved the fire-tongs? What else do they salvage from the great fire of life
Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Work & Power
Hate this, but works are reflexive
Anytime a work of media becomes popular with some Type of Guy, public perception of the work shifts. The work is no longer mainly about whatever it's actually about. It's now mostly about the Type of Guy who is known to like it.
- Any sufficiently high quality work will end up an attractor for some Type of Guy.
- This leads to a tendency for works to end up defined more by the type of guy that happened to latch onto the work than any property of the work itself
It be like that sometimes
1858
Sept. 19: Decided that one must love and work, and that's it.
Sept. 20: Tired. Didn't love and didn't work.
Leo Tolstoy
Misc
Those salaries are insane