Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[amadeus]

CAT DECISION TREE

<IS THIS ACTION EVIL?>
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  <YES>-----<NO>
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 <DO IT>   <STOP>

 

[Takhisis]

I must amend the above. It's not ‘evil’ but simply ‘amusing’.

Can I call it a shutdown if almost nothing is shut down except for myself? I still have to go to work, but my leisurely outings have been suspended for about five months now.

Summer heat is doing the most damage right now. Too hot to walk anywhere even outside, and I’ve been around my neighborhood 100 times already.

Here the government insists it's not a quarantine. We're nto allowed to work or study, we get stopped by the police, and Congress has been suspended for almost everything (legislation happens in the form of executive decrees, which is technically unconstitutional) and aaaaaargh!

 

[Arakhor]

Epictetus should mind his own business. It's unreasonable to expect people with chronic or terminal illnesses to adopt a Pollyanna attitude.

You may wish to try your hand at extended suffering before you make "reasonable suggestions" like this.

For what it's worth, Epiktetos was a former slave with a crippled leg, so I presume that he did know quite a bit about chronic pain, but then he was a Stoic, so dispassionate beliefs like that would be expected.

 

[tuckerkao]

CAT DECISION TREE

<IS THIS ACTION EVIL?>
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  <YES>-----<NO>
    |         |
 <DO IT>   <STOP>

Green Light, advance ahead and do it. Red Light, stop and don't act on it.

Yellow Light is where most people are confusing about the decisions. Are you able to pass the intersection before yellow turning red. Example: Borrowing the money from the bank.

 

[Synobun]

Green Light, advance ahead and do it. Red Light, stop and don't act on it.

Yellow Light is where most people are confusing about the decisions. Are you able to pass the intersection before yellow turning red. Example: Borrowing the money from the bank.

I'm not sure many cats borrow from the bank.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I deal with an inordinate amount of poop right now. I wipe 75% of the asses in our house. My infant, my 2 year old who is potty-trained but can't wipe effectively yet, and of course my own.

 

[JohannaK]

Holy poop, Batman!

 

[Arakhor]

Well, that's a crap job and no mistake.

 

[Synobun]

I deal with an inordinate amount of poop right now. I wipe 75% of the asses in our house. My infant, my 2 year old who is potty-trained but can't wipe effectively yet, and of course my own.

Your boss would be ashamed you're not putting in 110% of the work.

 

[Farm Boy]

I deal with an inordinate amount of poop right now. I wipe 75% of the asses in our house. My infant, my 2 year old who is potty-trained but can't wipe effectively yet, and of course my own.

Opportunity for 33% market expansion.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Opportunity for 33% market expansion.

This legitimately had me laughing for a good couple of minutes.

 

[Traitorfish]

Capitalism has created an entire strata of low-level managers whose only apparent purpose is to produce paperwork which makes mid-level managers feel better than high-level managers don't allow them to have any actual power. A small army of supervisors and petty managers whose primary occupation is producing endless reports to make mid-level managers feel like the haughty lords of a vast clerical fiefdom, to distract them the reality that they are largely interchangeable functionaries, and who in doing so can only hinder shop floor-level employers in doing whatever it is the business is supposed to be doing, as actual supervision is replaced with an erratic combination of neglect and micromanagement as dictated by the specific and arbitrary demands generated by whatever paperwork the mid-level managers are demanding that week.

i should probably read david graeber's book about "bulls- jobs", huh.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I saw a chart of how many more billions the multi-billionaires made during a pandemic. I never want to hear anybody say there isn't enough money for a UBI again.

 

[Synobun]

Rant: I saw a chart of how many more billions the multi-billionaires made during a pandemic. I never want to hear anybody say there isn't enough money for a UBI again.

*pushes glasses up nose*

But Aimee, these billions are in stocks and investments, not real currency. You see, this isn't a 1-to-1 ratio, so they actually don't have as many billions as their net worth would suggest. Therefore, it's silly and outrageous to want to tax them, because Bezos may only have 80 billion dollars instead of his net worth of 196 billion. Who are you to ROB them of their hard-earned money? They are job creators. They fuel the economy. Why don't you stop buying from Amazon if their riches bother you so much?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Who needs 80 billion dollars? You're not going to eat 80 billion boxes of Kraft Dinner when it's on sale.

 

[Synobun]

Who needs 80 billion dollars? You're not going to eat 80 billion boxes of Kraft Dinner when it's on sale.

You just sound jealous of success. Pick yourself up by your bootstraps. You are but a temporarily embarrassed billionaire.

 

[JohannaK]

It is my god-given right to commit suicide by eating 80 billion Kraft Dinners if I so choose.

 

[choxorn]

Capitalism has created an entire strata of low-level managers whose only apparent purpose is to produce paperwork which makes mid-level managers feel better than high-level managers don't allow them to have any actual power. A small army of supervisors and petty managers whose primary occupation is producing endless reports to make mid-level managers feel like the haughty lords of a vast clerical fiefdom, to distract them the reality that they are largely interchangeable functionaries, and who in doing so can only hinder shop floor-level employers in doing whatever it is the business is supposed to be doing, as actual supervision is replaced with an erratic combination of neglect and micromanagement as dictated by the specific and arbitrary demands generated by whatever paperwork the mid-level managers are demanding that week.

i should probably read david graeber's book about "bulls- jobs", huh.

Additionally, all levels of managers get paid more than the peons who do the actual work, because the managers are very important (despite not contributing anything meaningful), and must be paid accordingly, lest their feelings be hurt.

 

[W|M]

i should probably read david graeber's book about "bulls- jobs", huh.

sounds like you already understand the central thesis

it's available on libgen

 

[GenMarshall]

News of a meteor coming to earth and a double whammy hurricane hitting the gulf coast states.