Great Quotes III: Source and Context are Key

[Thorvald of Lym]

Relevant.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Texture > flavor though

I can't smell texture. Also, it's rendered irrelevant by mastication.

 

[madviking]

dawg that's like saying a well done filet mignon is the same has a crappy flank steak.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Only if you think the added cooking and marbling wouldn't affect the flavor.

 

[Hygro]

Relevant.

nice article

 

[cardgame]

"The gulag was invented as a humane alternative to Russian literature."

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Found this nugget in Jim Sterling's Assassin's Creed Syndicate review and it reminded me of two ongoing threads.

"You can perform tasks for Charles Darwin, the man who was right about evolution, or help out Karl Marx, a man hated by people who claim to have no interest in politics but keep talking politics despite knowing nothing about politics. Cultural Marxism isn’t real, by the way."

 

[gay_Aleks]

Can you really do any of these things in Syndicate?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Can you really do any of these things in Syndicate?

Haven't played it, but uncle Karl is an NPC.

 

[Tee Kay]

"The gulag was invented as a humane alternative to Russian literature."

Who's this from?

 

[cardgame]

/u/OfficialWitchBurner

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Sin is that which was once in its place, persisting now it is out of place; there is no other sinfulness.

The sense of sin was necessary in order that man might become disgusted with his own imperfections. It was God’s corrective for egoism. But man’s egoism meets God’s device by being very dully alive to its own sins and very keenly alive to the sins of others.


Sin & virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret.

...........

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[gay_Aleks]

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"

-Russel Crowe, in his incredibly realistic and immersive 1:1 representation of Maximus Decimus Meridius

 

[MacAttack]

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill





A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The social impacts of technology must never be underestimated or ignored.
"There also was a social impact of air mobility, though not one understood well at the time. In earlier Pacific wars, soldiers returning from war might have weeks of emotional decompression during their sea voyages back to the States. [...] Soldiers leaving Vietnam might walk away from their fighting holes one morning, catch a 'freedom bird' the next afternoon, arrive in the states the following evening, and be demobilized and on the street a day later. The stress of such abrupt transitions was not mitigated later in the war, when the new civilians, with their obvious military haircuts, often were subject to verbal and even physical abuse from fellow citizens opposed to the war."
-Robert C. Owen, p. 189, "Vietnam", Air Mobility

 

[madviking]

"I don't know. I honestly don't know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more f***ing time.
But I would really settle for less f***ing tragedy."

Jon Stewart

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

If that was regarding the attacks, I think silence would have been better.

 

[madviking]

it wasn't. it about the eric gardner case. but it's still apt.

 

[Mouthwash]

"To preserve free will, call your kid 'Namefate' so that any choice they make will be compatible with nominative determinism." -Eliezer Yudkowsky

No idea what it means, but it sure sounds clever.