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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by jiggawatts on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:06AM (#38260389)
"Quantity has a quality all its own." ― Joseph Stalin
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by samanator on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:10AM (#38260432)
Apparently a misattribution.

According to this

https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow...

It was not Stalin who said that

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by ralusek on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:41AM (#38260642)
Although the whole "tragedy vs statistic" thing is an applied version of that thought.
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by hef19898 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:35AM (#38261039)
And Stalin was so right about that.
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