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someone in the notes on that “stop fetishizing old houses” post commented that builders before the 1970s were too concerned with elegance and grandeur, and that was all really just wastefulness

and I think about my apartment, a duplex from 1912, surely built for a middle- or working-class family. spartan, really; quite basic and no-frills. not much to look at from the outside. just like a thousand buildings of similar provenance in the Boston area.

there are flowers molded in the chunky, cast-iron radiators

there’s a design of concentric circles in the carved door-lintels

many buildings of this type have a little stained-glass window somewhere

 I think about ornate door hinges in the staff wing of a country estate from 1878.  think of patterned wallpaper in a mansion’s kitchen, from 1797. I think about purely functional spaces someone looked at and said, “this needs beauty”

the past was certainly guilty of waste in many ways. but I cannot call making a house more than just a box to live in one of them

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I said what I said.

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huh !

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Touchscreens do not belong in cars

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in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

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Worst little cunts on this site by far are those who respond to complaints about mundanely shitty behavior like “I can’t stand when people don’t put their grocery carts back” with “um did you know that .000001% of the world’s population has terminal Can’t Put Grocery Carts Back Disease maybe think before you post”

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South Carolina followers: free green beans on I-95!

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My favorite mtg ruling joke is about how you can always win the game with mindslaver

So mindslaver lets you control your opponent for a turn. What "controlling" another player means is vague so there's rulings

So you cant make them quit and yoh cant make them do things not in the rules, like "punch yourself" or "give me all your money".

HOWEVER

Rule 100.6B says:

Therefore, because it's in the rules, after mindslavering your opponent, you can threaten to make them use their phone and spend all their data (and get them charged for going over) by repeatedly using the wizards store event locator if they dont concede. And it works every time (not really).

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