I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again
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Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."
i wish all trans girls a very kissed on the face by someone they love
when a hug is more romantic than any of the kisses
I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.
Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.
""The index, Monroe said, is named in honour of Pratchettâs creation Sam Vimes, who in the Discworld novel Men at Arms lays out the âSam Vimes âBootsâ theory of socio-economic unfairnessâ.
âThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money,â wrote Pratchett. âTake boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots thatâd still be keeping his feet dry in ten yearsâ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.â
The Pratchett estate has authorised the use of the name, tweeting its own Pratchett quote in support of Monroeâs campaign. âSometimes itâs better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness,â wrote the late Discworld author in Men at Arms.
Rhianna Pratchett said: âMy father used his anger about inequality, classism, xenophobia and bigotry to help power the moral core of his work. One of his most famous lightning-rods for this was Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch - a cynical, but likable, man who attempts to better himself whilst railing against the injustices around him. Some of which heâs had a hand in perpetrating in the past.
âVimesâs musing on how expensive it is to be poor via the cost of boots was a razor-sharp evaluation of socio-economic unfairness. And one thatâs all too pertinent today, where our most vulnerable so often bear the brunt of austerity measures and are cast adrift from protection and empathy. Whilst we donât have Vimes any more, we do have Jack and Dad would be proud to see his work used in such a way.â