You know, when you get right down to it

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• Yarrun XIX

  2017-01-17 17:21:04

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Maybe you don't
  
  People would pay to see an elephant hanged. Especially in the days before The Wire invented good television programming. Edison stole that paycheck from some hardworking entertainers
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-01-17 17:37:34

  A stole that paycheck from a hardworking B who stole that paycheck from a hardworking C who stole that paycheck from a hardworking D who stole that paycheck from a hardworking E who stole that paycheck from a hardworking F who stole that paycheck from a hardworking G who ...
  
  hooray scarcity
  
• Tre

  2017-01-17 17:47:48

  
  

  obligatory "fuck Edison" post
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-01-17 19:23:16 edited 2017-01-17 19:23:28

  Tre said:

  obligatory "fuck Edison" post

  
  fedison
• Klinotaxis

  2017-01-17 21:57:47

  kill living beings
  

  well, now that you mention it. they weren't like heaviside, who was an engineer but made great theoretical advancements in service of that
  
• Lunate

  2017-01-17 22:17:23

  Transient.

  The whole Topsy thing is an urban myth, Edison or his company had no say about the elephant's fate, only its filming, and this was well after the whole AC vs. DC thing.
  
  And the Tesla circlejerk is dumb, it's like the internet read up on the mad scientist stuff and nobody told them it was a joke.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-01-17 22:20:29

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Tesla was a sexist drood with vague enough grandiose ideas that people a century later can idolize him for one of those things if they're offput by the other.

  
  

  I bet you in 2117 people will be doing the same thing with Eliezer Yudkowsky.
• Odradek

  2017-01-17 22:27:12

  My dreams exceed my real life

  I feel like Big Yud is more of a Blavatsky
• Aliroz

  2017-01-17 22:57:28 edited 2017-01-17 22:58:52

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  Tesla did some actually really good work in addition to his grandiose ideas.  I mean, on the one hand, he did arguably invent an induction motor (two years after Gallileo Ferraris), but he also had this idea that if you could put enough electricity in the ground, you could make wireless electricity available to everyone for free.

  
  

  Tesla's not the be-all and end-all of late 19th century science, and neither is Edison.  I mean, it might be just that those names are easier to say and spell than Dobrovolsky or Steinmetz or Helmholz.
• Klinotaxis

  2017-01-17 23:10:56

  kill living beings
  

  Aliroz said:

  easier to say and spell than Helmholz

  nice
  
• Obā-san

  2017-01-17 23:13:06

  
  

  takes
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-01-17 23:13:30

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  can we call like a take that is nicely-intentioned a "give"
• Lunate

  2017-01-18 00:24:00

  Transient.

  Also because of lack of photos of them doing something like the Faraday cage thing.
• Klinotaxis

  2017-01-18 00:28:48

  kill living beings
  

  faraday cages are pretty weird