Snerk
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Random Rants #63: These Rants Don't Run
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azzaman333
meh
I agree with Snerk.
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warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I don't see that as such a bad choice, everybody knows who Merkel is. I mean, there have been far more influential German leaders in the past, but Merkel is sure making a name for herself. I know this is probably not feasible but I wouldn't mind it at all if each Civ had a whole bunch of potential leaders, instead of just 1 or 2 or whatever.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
I think that most Civ leaders have a cut off date at about the post-WWII period, don't they?
Yeah. The most recent leader I can think of off the top of my head in the Civ series is Mao.
You Celtophobe!
I'm just a mess right now.
For complicated family reasons, I had about two and a half months to find a job. A month has since passed, and I don't even have a resume I don't cringe to look at.
I've basically been nocturnal for the past three weeks and I'm trying to sleep and wake up at normal hours and it's not really working. Despite getting enough hours of sleep I feel sleepy the whole day to the point that I find myself involuntarily drifting off and it takes effort just to snap myself awake. Caffeine is no help.
I've no drive to do even things that I like to do. I don't kid myself anymore that I can take some time off and "sort myself out", there's no way to "sort myself out", I can only just slog through.
For complicated family reasons, I had about two and a half months to find a job. A month has since passed, and I don't even have a resume I don't cringe to look at.
I've basically been nocturnal for the past three weeks and I'm trying to sleep and wake up at normal hours and it's not really working. Despite getting enough hours of sleep I feel sleepy the whole day to the point that I find myself involuntarily drifting off and it takes effort just to snap myself awake. Caffeine is no help.
I've no drive to do even things that I like to do. I don't kid myself anymore that I can take some time off and "sort myself out", there's no way to "sort myself out", I can only just slog through.
Terxpahseyton
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I suppose I'll have a rant. Lucky to be in the Rants thread.
Her luck is an alright German economy and a series of international disasters calling for management where she can appear all strong and wise without really accomplishing anything.
With regards to internal politics - she is beyond doubt the most apathetic chancellor we ever had. It is a well-established trope by now that Merkel just watches whatever is happening in public political life and her cabinet and only takes actions when she feels she must.
However, since her inception she has enjoyed a huge leap of good faith.
She was a sort of shy, visually very unremarkable, apparently cold, rational, female, East-German wallflower winning it all. The media loved loved loved it. And in time so did the people.
And she has fed from that image exactly by not really doing anything (because she is so wise and cautious...) every since. The only time she did stand for sth was in her first bit for chancellor and she was almost crushed by a hugely unpopular government which made tough cuts while the economy tanked.
If one just looks at her track record - what is the thing she has accomplished? The Financial Crisis? Bail out the banks - that was a no-brainer everyone did. The Euro Crisis? She clearly has demonstrated to only do what she felt absolutely forced to by constantly changing her message and mind and leaping at whatever seemed absolutely nessarry.
Merkel is IMO a dumb-witted apathetic no-good. Who opened that border once. And again her image overtakes her actual accomplishments.
You may not agree, but the reasons to not adore her are IMO strong enough to find the idea of her being idolized estranging to say the least.
/Rant
Merkel may have gained some international fame with her refugees policies - but she has given up on them completely by now without being willing to admit it in the slightest. The solution is to just have other countries block the refugees while she can pretend that she never gave up on her "ideals".
Her luck is an alright German economy and a series of international disasters calling for management where she can appear all strong and wise without really accomplishing anything.
With regards to internal politics - she is beyond doubt the most apathetic chancellor we ever had. It is a well-established trope by now that Merkel just watches whatever is happening in public political life and her cabinet and only takes actions when she feels she must.
However, since her inception she has enjoyed a huge leap of good faith.
She was a sort of shy, visually very unremarkable, apparently cold, rational, female, East-German wallflower winning it all. The media loved loved loved it. And in time so did the people.
And she has fed from that image exactly by not really doing anything (because she is so wise and cautious...) every since. The only time she did stand for sth was in her first bit for chancellor and she was almost crushed by a hugely unpopular government which made tough cuts while the economy tanked.
If one just looks at her track record - what is the thing she has accomplished? The Financial Crisis? Bail out the banks - that was a no-brainer everyone did. The Euro Crisis? She clearly has demonstrated to only do what she felt absolutely forced to by constantly changing her message and mind and leaping at whatever seemed absolutely nessarry.
Merkel is IMO a dumb-witted apathetic no-good. Who opened that border once. And again her image overtakes her actual accomplishments.
You may not agree, but the reasons to not adore her are IMO strong enough to find the idea of her being idolized estranging to say the least.
/Rant
Borachio
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This probably isn't the disaster you think it is.
The cure for being nocturnal (a habit which is incredibly easy to acquire, I think) is not to worry about going to sleep, but to use an alarm clock to get up early instead. And then, of course, not to succumb to the temptation to nap during the day. And the way to do that is to keep upright, on your feet, and preferably outside.
Of course, none of that is going to be of any use if you don't have the motivation to actually get out of bed when the alarm goes off.
Nonetheless, there's nothing to really worry about. Once you've some reason to get out of bed - like a job paying you money! - everything else will sort itself out.
As for the stinky CV, who doesn't have one of those?
You might find some snot in there.If you are talking about starting a new thread, we aren't at 1000 posts yet...oh wait.
EDIT: Oooo, does this mean I get to start the new one!?
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