# Getting Your Fingers Dirty ![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a32f45c-4d7a-4485-9ee4-265e4d7cf86c_800x513.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Jonn Elledge]] - Full Title: Getting Your Fingers Dirty - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The article discusses the Green Party's approach to decision-making and how it may impact their effectiveness in addressing issues like climate change. It also mentions a historical event where nobles drowned in sewage, drawing parallels to current political challenges. The text touches on the importance of understanding political dynamics and the potential consequences of ineffective governance. - URL: https://jonn.substack.com/p/getting-your-fingers-dirty?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=255975&post_id=146713969&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=62t39&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > “Look at the Thames and know the time for metaphors is over,” read a headline on [Marina Hyde’s](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/02/thames-politics-drowning-effluent-sewage-boat-race-england-water-industry) *[Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/02/thames-politics-drowning-effluent-sewage-boat-race-england-water-industry)* [column](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/02/thames-politics-drowning-effluent-sewage-boat-race-england-water-industry) back in April, “our politics is drowning in effluent”. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j3378avm6t8vn99e3w1psc38)) > One slight problem with this plan was, it turned out, that the wooden floors in the provostry at Erfurt Cathedral had not been constructed with the intention of holding quite that many German nobles in one sitting. The floor on which the meeting was due to take place collapsed. The force of the impact took out the next one down, too. > The *other* problem was that the height of bathroom technology in the Germany of 1184 was the latrine ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j337cpm71shadacvcym3pw7g)) > There’s even a second layer, in the fact that Ludwig, Conrad and Henry alike all survived (the latter was sat in a stone alcove, and had to be rescued from his perch, high above the pit of effluent and corpses, using ladders) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j337f219jwnn0qndfg3av6mj))