#rationale — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rationale, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion, rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1987-11-24)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83249…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #delusion #desperation #rationale #truth #selfdelusion
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion, rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1987-11-24)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83249…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #delusion #desperation #rationale #truth #selfdelusion
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion, rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1987-11-24)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83249…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #delusion #desperation #rationale #truth #selfdelusion
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If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
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If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
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If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
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If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
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If #oil price is set months before it goes on the #market, why everytime there is a #war the price change immediately?
The logic wants that you will pay that price months later, not now.
Market is #rationale or #irrational at its convenience.
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THE DOCTOR: Logic, my dear Zoë, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
Doctor Who (1963-1989) British science fiction television series (BBC)
05×07 “The Wheel In Space,” Part 3 (1968-05-11) [w. David Whitacker, Kit Pedlar]More about this quote: wist.info/doctor-who-1963/4639…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #authority #error #logic #rationale #reason #doctorwho #seconddoctor
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HECUBA: The clear actions of a man,
Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
good words should get their goodness from our lives
and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
a rottenness that festers in our speech
and what we say, in capable of being glozed
with a film of pretty words.
There are men, I know,
sophists who make a science of persuasion,
glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
but in the end a speciousness will show.
The imposters are punished; not one escapes
his death.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77262/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #actions #evil #excuse #glibness #persuasion #propaganda #rationale #smoothtalker #sophistry #wordsanddeeds
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The #orbital #fuel depot idea have been much maligned by #NASA in the early days of the #SLS development because it #undercut the #rationale for the program in the first place. “It got really #political, We were basically told to sit down and #shut up.” 🙊 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-starship-and-nasas-sls-could-supercharge-space-science/