@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 days agoLet the man enjoy his boatslemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1502arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1498arrow-down1imageLet the man enjoy his boatslemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 days agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish64•7 days agoImagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get “cured” instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•7 days agoAn underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology. Sometimes people just don’t think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish28•7 days agoLord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 days ago“You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean.” sweeping gesture toward the window
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-26 days ago“Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?” “My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”
Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get “cured” instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.
An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.
Sometimes people just don’t think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.
Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.
“You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean.” sweeping gesture toward the window
“Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?”
“My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”
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