08-15-2003, 09:30 AM | #27 (permalink) |
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Stab and StDx-
Both of you expressed quite a great amount of sorrow towards the fact that I left you guys off of the ballot. For this...again...I apologize. If I'd a put you on, then two others woulda been bitching about being left off, so I guess it's lose-lose for me here. For the record (and I'm not just saying this), both of you guys' posts are quite possibly my favorite to read on this site. -Ugly Bastard |
01-02-2021, 08:07 AM | #48 (permalink) |
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I'd like to nominate myself for nubblies best member, but indirectly.
Most of your personal well-being lies outside of your control. Just imagine a counterfactual world in which you were 10 times richer than you are now but without the Internet. Technological and scientific advances are more important than personal success. Most people in the Western world are now better off than the richest person was a hundred years ago. They would have given you all their wealth in return for Wikipedia, Netflix, and modern medicine. Dent has done more for sentient beings than anyone here, and I'm getting my fucking statue. |
01-02-2021, 09:08 AM | #49 (permalink) |
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The richest person 100 years ago, for reference, was
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller |