{"id":3100,"date":"2012-05-17T14:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2012-05-17T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:59:26","slug":"thomas-edison-was-a-douche-the-oatmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/thomas-edison-was-a-douche-the-oatmeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Edison Was A Douche (The Oatmeal!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mochalab.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-dolls-of-new-albion-a-steampunk-opera\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3133\" title=\"SO Blurb 31\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/so-blurb-31.jpg?resize=611%2C41\" width=\"611\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep a list of blog ideas so that on days when i have no idea or inspiration i can just open up the list and pick something.<\/p>\n<p>After doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/17\/the-victrola\/\">post on the victrola<\/a>, i had researched quite a bit about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and always meant to get around to doing another post on them. Specifically about what a dick Edison was and how brilliant Tesla was (although Tesla had a bunch of paranoid obsessions including a big\u00a0antisemitic\u00a0streak.)<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my delight when the funniest dude on the internet, The Oatmeal, drew a new strip all about Tesla and to a degree spelled out some of the ways in which Edison was a douche.<\/p>\n<p>Since i cannot top The Oatmeal, i&#8217;m going to do something i&#8217;ve never done before, i&#8217;m going to simply turn today&#8217;s post lock, stock and barrel over to The Oatmeal and simply reprint his post. Because i love The Oatmeal and him hating me would make me cry, let me be clear: From here on in this is The Oatmeal, who has won the internet through awesomeness and who can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/1.jpg?resize=640%2C1247\" width=\"640\" height=\"1247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/2.jpg?resize=640%2C1707\" width=\"640\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/3.jpg?resize=640%2C1885\" width=\"640\" height=\"1885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/4.jpg?resize=640%2C2178\" width=\"640\" height=\"2178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/5.jpg?resize=640%2C1176\" width=\"640\" height=\"1176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/6.jpg?resize=640%2C2458\" width=\"640\" height=\"2458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/7.jpg?resize=640%2C796\" width=\"640\" height=\"796\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/8.jpg?resize=640%2C510\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/9.jpg?resize=640%2C1906\" width=\"640\" height=\"1906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tesla, edison, the oatmeal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/theoatmeal-img\/comics\/tesla\/10.jpg?resize=640%2C1294\" width=\"640\" height=\"1294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a list of blog ideas so that on days when i have no idea or inspiration i can just open up the list and pick something. 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