Humanity throughout history is beset by fuckers. Right now, for example, we have overtly homicidal fuckers like Putin and Netanyahu, would be homicidal fuckers like Trump, and common or garden “hoarding all the money like some fucking dragon or something” fuckers like Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc.
There are also lots of other variety of fuckers: hatemongering fuckers like Farage, Murdoch or LePen: grifting fuckers swinging a wrecking ball at society because mummy didn’t like them or something.
And it seems to me that the problem is that for every fucker who gets to encounter the “and find out” stage: Hitler, Charles I of England, Louis XVI, etc, there are more for whom the only people finding out are the rest of us who have to live (or die) with their fuckery: Stalin, countless people with that Hapsburg chin, Henry Ford, and so-on.
I honestly think the world would be a much better place if fuckery were inherently a much higher risk strategy, and far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact (this i
... Show more...Humanity throughout history is beset by fuckers. Right now, for example, we have overtly homicidal fuckers like Putin and Netanyahu, would be homicidal fuckers like Trump, and common or garden βhoarding all the money like some fucking dragon or somethingβ fuckers like Musk, Bezos, Thiel, etc.
There are also lots of other variety of fuckers: hatemongering fuckers like Farage, Murdoch or LePen: grifting fuckers swinging a wrecking ball at society because mummy didnβt like them or something.
And it seems to me that the problem is that for every fucker who gets to encounter the βand find outβ stage: Hitler, Charles I of England, Louis XVI, etc, there are more for whom the only people finding out are the rest of us who have to live (or die) with their fuckery: Stalin, countless people with that Hapsburg chin, Henry Ford, and so-on.
I honestly think the world would be a much better place if fuckery were inherently a much higher risk strategy, and far less likely to leave all the important fluid pipes running through the neck intact (this is a traditional βand find outβ method throughout history, but far from the only one), but alas, the fuckers are the ones who by and large get to structure our society, and they do their best to ensure itβs structured in a way that keeps finding out as far from them as possible.
It is a great tragedy and it makes me sad.
David Matthewman
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Unknown parent • • •@rvedotrc That's brilliant, and fascinating, and I have low-key wanted to do that ever since the labyrinths went up. Congratulations on actually doing it! Are the photos viewable anywhere?
(My sister and I did the 24-hour challenge for her birthday back in 2014, but in that you only have to have the train stop at the station, not actually get off.)
Rachel
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in reply to Rachel • • •<enters the name of a place in London>
WHAT? HOW IS THERE NO STATION WITH THAT NAME? π
Rachel
in reply to David Matthewman • • •@djm4 My photos aren't online, but I believe that there are photos of the labyrinths somewhere.
It was fun β and sometimes rather tiring β searching around the network π
Colin Watson
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Unknown parent • • •I'm stopping at 75%, partly because I'm going to London tomorrow and will get spoilers then.
I'm embarrassed about some that I've forgotten, but it's not bad given that I left London in 2017. My London Transport geek partner got 85% "because it includes all those Overground lines in north and east London which [she's] never used", so I don't feel too bad.
Ellie
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