DagwoodIII
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- Comment on Washington Washington 6,7 killing for fun 2 days ago:
He was a genius politician
One trick he had was to pretend to be undecided on an issue. He’d invite over people he was trying to influence for a nice dinner and have two of his cronies stage a debate on the issue as an ‘entertainment.’
After hearing the faked debate, Washington would ‘reluctantly’ agree with the issue.
- Comment on Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says 6 days ago:
- Comment on When your invention is so good that everyone starts copying it 1 week ago:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/flashman-at-the-charge-george-macdonald-fraser/af0e8f98b48522e2
Can a slave trader, rapist, murderer who fights fixed duels be all bad?
General Sir Harry Flashman is the worst human who ever lived, but he is honest in his diaries. In this this book he dishes the dirt on Lord Cardigan and explains how an ardent coward ended up in the middle of the biggest military disaster any country was ever proud of.
- Comment on When your invention is so good that everyone starts copying it 1 week ago:
Also, smokeless powder made armies go from brightly colored uniforms that could be seen through clouds of gunsmoke to dull uniforms that blended with the terrain.
- Comment on How long did it take certain inventions from sci-fi to materialize? 2 weeks ago:
[off topic?]
Stand On Zanzibar won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It was set in the early 21st century.
Some of the predictions were thrill killing mass shooters, artificial intelligence, music videos, personalized advertising, legal marijuana, and widespread homelessness in rich countries.
- Comment on There are so many… 2 weeks ago:
I saw the remake mentioned when I went looking for the trailer.
2017[?] Obviously it didn’t make much of an impact.
- Comment on There are so many… 2 weeks ago:
[off topic]
H.G. Welles versus Jack the Ripper.
Welles is about to test his Time Machine when Jack arrives and absconds with it.
Welles is forced to travel to the far off year of 1979 AD.
Great acting, supersmart script, and wild twists.
Ignore the inferior remake
- Comment on Modern day monarch. 2 weeks ago:
Apparently, Henry loved to joust.
He probably took a lot of concussions.
Might explain a lot.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/ss/slideshow-concussions-brain-injuries
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 6 months ago:
Blame Reagan.
A big part of deregulating banks back in the 1980s was shifting away from expensive manufacturing to cheap financial services. Instead of investing in bringing US factories back, Reagan’s polices sent the actual work overseas and left management here.