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“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone.”
— John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849

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Only half done, I had no clue
hardly any of this. Wish they would mention this stuff in schools.
Gulags and stuff with Jocko and JP.
https://youtu.be/FU8IwII8hhc
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Here's one of the problems with righting the national ship as I see it.

The recent movement on the right around establishment Republicans has been populist, even when improbably led by billionaire populist Trump. Populist movements, almost by definition, require outside candidates.

But if the real problem happens to be a nonpartisan administrative state, an external populist movement becomes little more than a fashion show.

What one then needs instead is a reform movement, one specifically dedicated to digging out the pathological ticks.

But an outside populist ends up invariably being naive about the ecology of the tick infestation, which was one of the poignant hallmarks of the Trump administration.

What one ends up needing, then, is a Washington insider, reform candidate who knows the players and their deeds and thus which ones to most effectively fire and replace while bending his populist support to the specific material effort of governmental reform.

Unreformed government will simply shake off populism the way a Lab shakes off water.

Mr. Smith can't go to Washington; Mr. Smith must come from Washington, but I can't for the life of me tell you who that hypothetical Diogenes' honest man might be.
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HFS, FSE turned 3 years old! 万岁万岁万岁万岁万万岁

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I am just delighted as hell to be here and to see all of these posts people post on FSE and everywhere else on fedi. Thank you, friends!



(But also I should set some sort of reminder because I forget this literally every year.)
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Don't worry son, Uncle Sam got your b̶a̶c̶k̶ bags

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As thicker walls are stronger (and heavier), it is common to reduce the number of wythes the further up you go. This ex-bank and office, now museum, in Tokyo was built in 2004 with an average of six wythes between all floors and the basement. It will be around for awhile.

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One for the Brits.

Anyone fancy a day out in London Sat 25th September?

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