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"...and admittedly, an orbital spaceship is a pretty potent weapon against an army whose primary means of moving its artillery is the horse." I may have literally clapped my hands at that line. That might not be the popular image of the Wehrmacht, which tends to portray it as a high-tech mechanized ...

I completely didn't spot the "Hat" pun. Even better.

Oh hey, fellow polisci degree-holder. All three parts of the tale feel strangely topical today. The first two in economics, where the prospect of automation and market hypercentralization taking jobs is causing worries of this exact sort: the potential for unprecedented productivity of goods and ser...

Huh. Are there no German speakers to appreciate Chuck's silly gag about the same word in two different languages potentially having wildly divergent meanings? Namely, the throwaway example about a theoretical German sign that in English says a hat is lovely while actually meaning that a hat is poiso...