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		beejiu 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon I assume you mean "I could look up and see exactly the chair he had been in" figuratively?

wolfgang42 8 months ago [–]

I mean, it’s possible that the library had rearranged their chairs in the intervening years and that exact one was now at a different table, but it was certainly a chair in the same location.

inopinatus 8 months ago | [–]

this is Neurath's library¹.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath%27s_boat

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