The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Sure. People are reluctant to teach women that they need to hold up their end even when their husbands sin against them.
Or that they need to hold up their end at all. Or that they even have an "end" to hold up.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
In their defense, that's all the countries which border them except Belarus (which is already aligned). Maybe also excepting Norway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
I think that’s key. The church needs to teach men to do their part, even when women sin against them, and it needs to teach women to do their part, even when men sin against them. But it’s fine for a parachurch ministry, or a church’s men’s or women’s ministry, to focus on just one of these at a time.
Maybe. But not if all such are focusing on the same one; then you're just teaching that half to be chumps. And contrary to the GPs insinuation, it's mostly not men who are demanding perks without responsibilities, and insinuating that when talking about a group specifically called the "Promise Keepers" is especially bad.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
MS products (other than their OS I suppose)
But aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln....
They had a decent word processor for a while. Excel just embraced-extended-and-extinguished Lotus, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
We've had two quarters of negative GDP growth since then. We've gone about 10 years without a recession in the past (1991-2001 and 2009-2019) and we're only 5 years into the current growth period. The doom-and-gloom seems unshakable though. As I said, some of it might be manipulation, either market or political. Holiday travel is way up this year, which seems to me to be an indicator of positive sentiment. Holiday shopping has been predicted to be below-trend this year. If that plays out we probably are headed for recession. If it doesn't, I smell a rat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Microsoft have embraced H1-B visas and Infinity Indians with open arms... and look at what's happened to their products.
Nothing. Microsoft products have always been that way.
If you were to kill of the H-1B visa, companies who use shitty tech H-1Bs would at first just offshore more. Since shitty overseas workers suck even more than shitty H-1Bs (and companies have found this out the hard way multiple times), this might eventually result in mediocre American tech workers getting boring business jobs again. That's a win. However, the H-1Bs who are actually any good can't be replaced by Americans, because there aren't any to replace them (they're already employed). Which means tech companies will do more hiring overseas in countries more favorable to skilled immigration, like Canada. That's a loss. Not sure about health care but health care is so messed up that you'd likely get higher prices and poorer service if you got rid of the H-1Bs.
Losing immigrant construction and farm labor (whether legal or illegal) is definitely a loss for employers, and they're not going to believe you if you try to spin it as a win any more than I do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
If you haven't read Parkinson's Law, you should. The more common law is "Work expands to fill all available time". Less pithy but relevant to your point is
"The number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other."
The book itself is filled with stuff like this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
The TPS report is alive and well. Corporations love to institute procedure, and procedure that generates paperwork. The TPS report is electronic and doesn't have a cover any more, so instead they'll get on your case for not properly handling the irrelevant questions on the report template.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
Agreed. Something odd is going on as well, where under Trump financial analysts are talking about "rising unemployment" when unemployment is lower than it literally ever was under Obama. Unemployment has only very rarely been lower than it currently is.
True. It is, however, rising. And as far as I can tell, every other slight rise of unemployment has been followed by a sharp rise (and recession) -- 2007, 2001, 1979, 1974, maybe 1960. That's technical analysis and technical analysis is BS, but it's tempting. I also suspect some of the doom and gloom talk has been attempts at stock market manipulation; e.g. talk of AI bubble and how we were in a recession if you didn't count AI was reaching a crescendo and then NVidia reported great earnings (entirely predictable since even if there is a bubble it manifestly hasn't popped yet).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Find a picture of an engineering office in the 1950s. Replace drafting tables with desks with monitors on them, voila, 2020s software company office.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
A stable alliance between the business segment of the GOP and the anti-immigrant chuds is entirely possible in the near to medium term, if it dawns upon the business segment of the GOP that a large portion of immigration is dysgenic—whether it be through legal or illegal immigrants and their Birthright Citizenship children—and could compromise the ability of Big Line Go Up Forever. Or if even Big Line Go Up for Now: Pocket Go Evermore Thin Fivever as more of take-home pay gets chomped by NPV of net-tax transfers.
I think to get such an alliance you'd have to offer the business segment something in exchange for losing some of their workforce -- relaxed labor, environmental, and building regulations. Problem is, that's not only outside the Overton window, it's not what the anti-immigrant chuds want. They're basically like 80s Democrats, only anti-immigrant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I made a TPS report joke in a status meeting recently and my (Millennial) first line manager pointed out nobody got that reference any more. I told him it must be time for a remake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I don't think it's unemployment; unemployment in the late '90s was low, in the early '90s it was high and people were no less cynical. In fact, Office Space was a bit unrealistic when it came out (as I recall noting at the time) because of that; it was a boom time and if you could spell computer (or at least get close) you could get a programming job; nobody at Initech would need to worry about being laid off.
Both Office Space and Dilbert were about tech, and speaking specifically about tech, I think what changed is the rise of the profession. In the early to mid '90s, software was just another white collar job. Then came first the dot-com boom, when people realized you could get stupid rich in software. Then following the dot-com crash, the rise of Google, stock options and much higher salaries in established companies, and a new wave of startups getting people rich. Now software was a prestige job, up there with doctor or lawyer or at least stockbroker. Not the kind of thing associated with the grind. Google, earlier on, made some attempt not to feel like Dilbert's company. And the startups... well, you might be doing a death march, but probably not a steady endless grind. But all things come to an end; the big software companies have become fully corporate and the final startup wave seems to have completed. Salaries are still high, and full cynicism hasn't yet returned, but it probably will. The only thing permanently gone is the cubicles; cost-cutting, you know, it's all open desks now.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The difference is the popular opinion of neoclassical economics doesn't affect how well neoclassical economics works; it only affects how well your country works. Whereas if our resident Jew-posters get their opinions enshrined in law it very much affects the Jews.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's already illegal in many areas to discriminate against people on the basis of race or ethnicity.
De jure, but not de facto. De facto it's legal to discriminate against whites and Asian in college admissions.
What would change this would be a purging of the entire Harvard staff, which would defeat the point of Harvard as a place for the rich and powerful to rub shoulders and make connections.
If so, OK. Note that's staff and not faculty -- it's the latter you need to keep Harvard elite. It's probably not even necessary, though; purge the regulatory agencies, have the replacements make some threats, and follow through on a few of them, and the Harvard Corporation will get their admissions department aligned. Same for a lot of other schools. The problem is keeping it up long enough that they realize you're serious.
In America, the whole "Hispanic" identity was an invention they created out of whole cloth to make it easier to manage. This was then used to make people racist both for and against the umbrella of people they had filed under the Hispanic identity.
The category is invented (and somewhat incoherent) but it's persisted because it labels (if imperfectly) a real phenomenon. People had no problem with being racist against Mexicans before it was invented, even "Mexicans" who happened to be from Guatemala or something. And the Mexicans had no problem supporting other Mexicans (though not "Mexicans", as indeed they do not today)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The exact mirroring is eerie, though. Some of Jack Smith's cases against Trump got dismissed because his appointment was considered unlawful by the District Judge (and Clarence Thomas).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I'm not asking to make a human free of bias. I'm asking to make the law not discriminate against young white men. This is a much smaller request.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It appears the senders aren't deliberately funding the terrorist groups, but rather the terrorist groups are getting a cut.
I think this story represents an overall change in the cultural climate, where this sort of information is finally becoming more popular to discuss.
It's just political, with a Republican administration willing and even eager to offend a local Democratic power center.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
IQ tests are not indirect discrimination. "Disparate impact" is not indirect discrimination based on race, it's a reason for implementing indirect discrimination based on race. Banning IQ tests for jobs where IQ matters is discrimination against the intelligent (and indirect discrimination against groups which are more intelligent on average). Some of the indirect discrimination I'm referring to is banning criteria that would result in advantages for young white men.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Buy a gun and get trained up on it.
Love to, but the gun control laws of New Jersey -- which were not passed by Jews, the most recent proponent is Irish Catholic -- won't allow me.
Grill some stuff on July 4th and celebrate America. Don't fly flags other than American flags. Don't complain about nice statues of dead guys who founded the country.
The statute-complainers seem to be mostly heritage americans. I'm not aware of Jews refusing to grill, even if observant Jews are rather picky about it. The Jews around here mostly speak English except some of the Haredi, and they're anything but Progressive. I think the local JCC flies an Israeli flag. But I'm pretty sure they fly it lower than the American flag. I'm also sure that if they didn't fly it, it would make no difference; the anti-semites will use any stick they can find and if they can't find one they'll make one up. Further, I don't think "change your domestic politics" is actually a reasonable thing to demand, even if I wish Jewish progressives would.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is actually extremely credible
You can say it all you want, it ain't. Even if the Israelis were the ogres you claim, it wouldn't be credible that they'd mistreat someone as visible and with friends as powerful as Greta Thunberg.
The statistics we have regarding sexual abuse of foreign women in Israel are pretty nasty too - https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-a-new-report-reveals-100-of-thai-agricultural-workers-were-sexually-assaulted/
I found the original report this claim supposedly comes from. It has few statistics and says basically nothing at all (it doesn't even make that claim).
including the "starving child" who actually was born with a genetic disease,
...what exactly makes starving children more morally acceptable if they were born with a genetic disease? The actual starving isn't in question at all
The child wasn't starving; its appearance was due to the disease. And yes, the actual starving is in question.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
There's nothing antisemitic per se about opposing the actions of the Israeli government. Israel is not the Jewish people nor are the Jewish people Israel, regardless of what Netanyahu or anti-semites would like you to think. But a lot of the accusations against Israel are A Rape on Campus-level incredible, and that includes claims that Greta Thunberg was sexually assaulted by the Israelis. Not because they're such saints, but because they're not utter idiots. I don't know about that particular cardiologist, but I do know doctors have been involved in creating and perpetuating Hamas hoaxes, including the "starving child" who actually was born with a genetic disease, and the bogus X-rays purporting to show infants executed by IDF soldiers. As with A Rape on Campus, you start to wonder why people are believing obvious nonsense. And in both cases, the most likely answer is hatred of the target.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Almost as bad as a large Swiss bank being founded by a guy named "Credit" and the other one "Suisse."
I had to check to see if that was the case. It wasn't, it really is just "Credit" and "Swiss". My favorite of those are Outerbridge Crossing and German Chocolate Cake. The former named for the first chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Eugene Outerbridge. The latter is named after an English-American baker, Samuel German. (No Mr. or Mrs. Crossing or Cake are involved, alas)
Wikipedia has Goldman's last name being fairly recent, but why his paternal grandfather (who was not in the gold trade) chose it to replace "Marx" isn't easy to find.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Blacks are even more of a political bloc than Jews. But no one claims the NAACP in engaging in some conspiracy to sell out the country to Wakanda or something.
You know how anti-Muslim radicals attack Sikhs sometimes? Same thing; the kinds of people willing to engage in violent #resistance are probably not especially discerning about their targets.
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