Safe and reliable self driving cars, affordable and accessible high speed public transit, a smart grid that can handle a nationwide shift to renewables... I want so many things. But my expectations have never been lower for what we'll actually get.
FlapJackFlapper
joined 2 years ago
It's an old story: be careful what you wish for—and to whom:
- King Midas (8th century BCE)
- One Thousand and One Nights (13th century)
- Doctor Faustus (1592)
- The Monkey’s Paw (1902)
- Robert Johnson (1938)
It doesn't matter how rich you are. Always check the price.
"I'm not a marble so I can't enjoy Marble Madness."
They aren't asking for permission. They are asking for attention.
The fact that capitalism taints everything it touches is not a criticism of the things it touches.
I switched to an internet pharmacy that mails my prescriptions, and there is no going back.
Reminds me of a funny story I heard Tom Petty once tell. Apparently, he had a buddy with a POS car with a crappy stereo, and Tom insisted that all his records had to be mixed and mastered not so that they sound great on the studio's million dollar equipment but in his friend's car.
Sergeant Hulka: Soldier, I've noticed that you're always last.
John Winger: I'm pacing myself, Sergeant.
No one has ever wanted to work. One of humanity's oldest stories is about two freeloaders getting unhappily kicked out of paradise and forced to start getting their food "by the sweat of [their] brow."
And since no one has ever wanted to work... you have to pay them to do it!
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