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“Quantity has a quality all its own.” - Joseph Stalin “If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.” - John Allston… more →
Occluded Sun
Useful Aphorisms
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melendwyr wrote 1 month ago: “Quantity has a quality all its own.” - Joseph Stalin “If you don’t control … more →
Pound of Feathers, Pound of Gold
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melendwyr wrote 1 month ago: Which weighs more: a pound of feathers, or a pound of gold? Close consideration of this riddle … more →
More Borgstromancy
melendwyr wrote 2 months ago: More of the informal work of Jenna K. Moran, taken from this rpg.net thread. The phone call is comin … more →
The Bed of Procrustes
melendwyr wrote 2 months ago: It’s time for another “Favorite Words” – something I haven’t done in q … more →
The Purpose of Power is Power
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melendwyr wrote 3 months ago: You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeate … more →
Treating the Weapon
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melendwyr wrote 3 months ago: The man known as Paracelsus (see also Wikipedia’s entry) was unpopular and vilified in his day … more →
The Accidental Discovery of Ambroise Paré
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melendwyr wrote 3 months ago: In the sixteenth century, exciting new advances in technology led to horrifying developments in warf … more →
Progress
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melendwyr wrote 4 months ago: A reasonable starting point for a discussion of the many-body problem might be the question of how m … more →
Pretty Standard, Really
melendwyr wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to The Agitator’s Radley Balko, who directed my attention to this particular story. Tak … more →
Things You Know That Ain't So
melendwyr wrote 5 months ago: It’s not the things you don’t know that get you, but the things you know that ain’ … more →
Lessons From Popular Culture
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melendwyr wrote 6 months ago: [Peter Griffin]: “I read about this in a book once.” [Brian Griffin]: “Are you sur … more →
Fictional Wisdom
melendwyr wrote 8 months ago: Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat. … more →
Borgstromancy
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melendwyr wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been considering hunting down and archiving the collective postings of Rebecca Borgstrom … more →
Creation and Destruction
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melendwyr wrote 9 months ago: There is a single idea that I have observed wearing many different incarnations. “It’s e … more →
Credentials and Qualifications
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melendwyr wrote 10 months ago: Credentials are symbols that it is presumed indicate the presence of qualifications. Qualifications … more →
Babbage
melendwyr wrote 10 months ago: On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figu … more →
The Most Contemptible Thing
melendwyr wrote 10 months ago: “The only thing better than a good friend is a good enemy.” – paraphrased by many … more →
Reasonable Priorities
melendwyr wrote 11 months ago: (Bart and Lisa rush into the room. Homer sits in his recliner, watching television.) [Bart and Lisa] … more →
Another Useful Law
melendwyr wrote 11 months ago: Thanks to TGGP, I was browsing LanguageLog when I came across the following: Poe’s Law: It is … more →
