The Ghost Did What?!
"What I had to do was get in the box 500 times a season. 100 times I'd connect. 50 times the goalkeeper would save it. Half of the rest would go in and 25 goals a season would do me - just by making sure I got in the box 500 times." - Jimmy Greaves
How Repositioning Your Product Allows You to 8X Its Price: It’s always 10x more valuable for a business to grow faster than it is for the business to save money. Both the amount of value created, and the percentage of value the customer is willing to pay, is a multiple higher for the “growth” pitch versus the “save money” pitch.
https://longform.asmartbear.com/more-value-not-save-money/
We Can Already Stop Global Warming with $700 Mn: The main way they achieve that is by releasing SO2. The idea would be to do exactly the same thing as volcanoes do, except constantly, not with one-off explosions. What’s beautiful about SO2 is that it reflects a lot of sunlight. Every gram you release in the stratosphere reduces the warming of one ton of CO2. A million times its weight! How much would it cost us to get a kilogram of that stuff to the stratosphere, so as to offset 1,000 tons of CO2? $0.35!
The Ghost Did What: In a Western horror story where humans disturb some dormant entity (wake a sleeping dragon, open the sealed tomb, build a shopping mall on an ancient graveyard, awaken the ancient killer swarm), the entity will lash out and harm/kill (A) unnamed bystanders, (B) the characters who did the violating/breaking/trespassing, and (C) people who are bad (the traitor, the villain, the profiteer etc.). On the other hand, characters who weren’t the original violators, and whose actions are earnest and heroic throughout the story, are spared. In such a story, the threatening entity is an instrument of Providential comeuppance, so there is a sense of good and bad people generally getting what they deserve, and things like purity, courage, or love earning salvation. We also do write stories where the bad guy triumphs or the hero dies, but these are inversions, and are powerful because they invert the unspoken pattern. In contrast, Japanese-written dormant-entity tales tend to depict the entity lashing out more indiscriminately, sweeping in like a flood or biological-level threat, and often killing good characters and/or sparing bad ones in ways that are shockingly unexpected if one expects Providential logic.
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-ghost-did-what-translation-exposing-providentialist-thinking