Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by dragonwriter on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:16PM (#24900065)

Fight Club, though, was just fancying up and decontextualizing the first sentence of Milton (EDIT: John Maynard, nor Milton) Keynes famous quote: "In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if, in tempestuous seasons, they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."

I would be very surprised if a financial news outlet choosing the Fight Club quote did so at random and not specifically because of its predecessor.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by keiferski on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:19PM (#24900106)

Well, if we're going to play the X is really just modified Y game, we might as well go back to the original.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

- Ecclesiastes, 300 B.C.E.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by aesclepius on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:34PM (#24901749)

King James Version truly is the worst translation you can find of the bible.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by wmwmwm on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:29PM (#24900227)

Milton Keynes? :)

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by dragonwriter on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:36PM (#24900335)

Yeah, that was a great brain-o

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