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"What is a wave without the ocean?
A beginning without an end?
They are different, but they go together.
Now you go among the stars, and I fall among the sand.
We are different.
But we go... together." - Sea Emperor Leviathan, Subnautica, A.K.A Lani Minella

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Nothing so much betrays a person as a member of the lower classes as their extensive knowledge of luxury watches and automobiles.

Victor Pelevin, Generation P

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The not particularly rich sell to the poor their fantasies about the lives of the rich, the very rich and the fabulously rich. Sometimes this grift includes a special touch: the not particularly rich shows off to their tabloid audience a house on the Golden Mile, or shares some detail of the oligarchic lifestyle they've accidentally gleaned...

Victor Pelevin, The Friedman Space

Meanwhile, the top 1% of Instagram:

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6 hours ago, Just Jim said:

"If it doesn't have numbers, it's just an opinion"  - Scott Manley

If it doesn't have numbers, it's qualitative.  Many important true things are just qualitative.  And you get qualitative before you get actual numbers, that is, quantitative.

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On 2/15/2022 at 10:53 PM, Jacke said:

If it doesn't have numbers, it's qualitative.  Many important true things are just qualitative.  And you get qualitative before you get actual numbers, that is, quantitative.

Meanwhile, me: "Our opinions are not assurances. Here's our disclaimers slide..."

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(Mind the letterbox. I am disappoint this movie isn't as used in memes as it should)

 

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"How can you mess up the grammar of your native tongue so badly?"

"My native language is maths!"

- Michail Leontovich

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On 2/27/2022 at 6:01 PM, Vanamonde said:

Some comments removed. Please avoid current politics, please. 

Well, so much for the quote about power, money, car keys, whiskey, and teenagers ... darn. 

Rest in Peace  P. J. O'Rourke   November 14, 1947 - February 15, 2022

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