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@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Man. Years of my life consulting. "Well, for what you want for your time, I could get *twelve* Bangladeshis!" They can go on and get their twelve Bangladeshis, man, like, I'll be here when that finishes playing out.
@p @npc @phnt
In my former life, I spend a few years working for a Contacting company - we were expensive and only hired real talent. Rigorous testing for anyone before the job interview even took place. We were expensive as f*ck. Gen-X owner. Nobody took our bids on RFP's seriously.
Never once saw one of our bids on a project get picked up by the big boys or state government.
Not once. They scoffed.
"We can hire 30 people from Palmer group for that!!!"
- 64 Year Old Boomer Department Head
(Palmer Group was a well known Jeet-Farm).
We were rolling in money, despite having never, once ever won a bid.
Our job was to show up after the "cheap labor" created a four-alarm fire, and fix it.
And we charged those same 64 year old fat boomers through the nose to do it.
They'd rather pay twice - once for a shit job and then a premium to fix it - than just pay people to do good work up front.
I say it again: Fucking boomers.
In my former life, I spend a few years working for a Contacting company - we were expensive and only hired real talent. Rigorous testing for anyone before the job interview even took place. We were expensive as f*ck. Gen-X owner. Nobody took our bids on RFP's seriously.
Never once saw one of our bids on a project get picked up by the big boys or state government.
Not once. They scoffed.
"We can hire 30 people from Palmer group for that!!!"
- 64 Year Old Boomer Department Head
(Palmer Group was a well known Jeet-Farm).
We were rolling in money, despite having never, once ever won a bid.
Our job was to show up after the "cheap labor" created a four-alarm fire, and fix it.
And we charged those same 64 year old fat boomers through the nose to do it.
They'd rather pay twice - once for a shit job and then a premium to fix it - than just pay people to do good work up front.
I say it again: Fucking boomers.
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Shit, man. If we were in the same region geographically, I'd be kinda surprised if we had never run into each other.
@SilverDeth @npc @phnt Ha, NICE.
Snowden just ended up depressing me. All that shit happened and the response was "Make them promise (again) to stop doing that (again)" and like...cracka I was at AT&T, I heard about the goddamn "Ha, so the government installs these boxes, we have to split and feed the fiber-optic cables to a different cage that we're not allowed inside, isn't that *weird*?" before the "warrantless wiretapping" scandal dropped and they were already building PRISM before that hit the news, like, every single time it's the same shit, how are people this fucking gullible? Very upset. Not Snowden's fault, but still, like...for a few years, just thinking about Snowden would depress me.
Snowden just ended up depressing me. All that shit happened and the response was "Make them promise (again) to stop doing that (again)" and like...cracka I was at AT&T, I heard about the goddamn "Ha, so the government installs these boxes, we have to split and feed the fiber-optic cables to a different cage that we're not allowed inside, isn't that *weird*?" before the "warrantless wiretapping" scandal dropped and they were already building PRISM before that hit the news, like, every single time it's the same shit, how are people this fucking gullible? Very upset. Not Snowden's fault, but still, like...for a few years, just thinking about Snowden would depress me.
@p @phnt @SilverDeth @npc What's even more depressing isn't just that very few people truly care, but that half of the people that do are in favor of mass surveillance because "durr he went to russia hes a traitor". This country needs a reset.
@mrsaturday @p @SilverDeth @npc @phnt it follows the extremely simple pattern of shitbags everywhere
1. "that's not happing, you're crazy, shut up"
2. "put him in jail for revealing our secrets shut him up"
3. "everyone already knew this was happening, it's normal, shut up"
1. "that's not happing, you're crazy, shut up"
2. "put him in jail for revealing our secrets shut him up"
3. "everyone already knew this was happening, it's normal, shut up"
Was one of many things to dispel the myth that people will "wake up" if presented the facts in a clean consistent manner.
Turns out they won't wake up, they'd prefer to play silly mind-games with themselves rather than look at the overwhelming evidence that the world is not as rosy as they would like to imagine. Because the implications of facing it are too stwessfuw for them.
Cowardice.
Turns out they won't wake up, they'd prefer to play silly mind-games with themselves rather than look at the overwhelming evidence that the world is not as rosy as they would like to imagine. Because the implications of facing it are too stwessfuw for them.
Cowardice.
@cjd
Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
I was in high school when it happened. I installed httpseverywhere and noscript. I started to avoid using google account wherever there was another option. The admin of a forum I hung out at switched it to https-only
But beyond that? Every day brought more and more depressing news that I could do nothing about. At some point I had to stop reading it
@phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
Hey Wolf, long time no chat!
Well, the really obvious immediate point here is that running around like a conspiracy theorist saying "the people gotta wake up" is nah guh work. So that one can be written off...
If you're trying to move the Overton Window, one point is you shift the conversation away from "people wake up" to "people are fucking worthless cowards" because then it creates a social stratification with the cowards getting made fun of. Now everybody knows what they want to NOT emulate.
Then on the other side, you might decide you are NOT going to worry about the 99%, you're going to worry about creating a lever for the 1% who have the capability to pull it. This is really where stuff like Bitcoin fits in.
Both are (obviously) happening as we speak...
Well, the really obvious immediate point here is that running around like a conspiracy theorist saying "the people gotta wake up" is nah guh work. So that one can be written off...
If you're trying to move the Overton Window, one point is you shift the conversation away from "people wake up" to "people are fucking worthless cowards" because then it creates a social stratification with the cowards getting made fun of. Now everybody knows what they want to NOT emulate.
Then on the other side, you might decide you are NOT going to worry about the 99%, you're going to worry about creating a lever for the 1% who have the capability to pull it. This is really where stuff like Bitcoin fits in.
Both are (obviously) happening as we speak...
Now there's a different question:
Everybody has woken up, now what? What can anybody actually do?
Well, there's approximately 50,000 suicides in the US per year - IRS workforce is something like 100,000 employees.
If everybody takes out just one tax goon before they go, it takes 2 years to wipe out the IRS by pure war of attrition. Assuming zero resignations which is NOT what will happen.
So yea, there's nothing anyone can do about anything except the easy switch, but you're not supposed to know about that because When You Kill Your Enemies They Win, or something...
Everybody has woken up, now what? What can anybody actually do?
Well, there's approximately 50,000 suicides in the US per year - IRS workforce is something like 100,000 employees.
If everybody takes out just one tax goon before they go, it takes 2 years to wipe out the IRS by pure war of attrition. Assuming zero resignations which is NOT what will happen.
So yea, there's nothing anyone can do about anything except the easy switch, but you're not supposed to know about that because When You Kill Your Enemies They Win, or something...
Back to: it ain't gonna be the average moron that does absolutely anything, it's gonna be someone with imperial ambitions.
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21@cjd @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
like Thiel?
Possible candidate indeed. It's anybody who can think "If I play this political division right, I can rule".
Honestly Musk is probably the top contender.
Honestly Musk is probably the top contender.
@cjd @wolf480pl @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @p @mrsaturday @sun musk does what he's told, i don't think anybody that we're aware of is a good candidate for an american caesar, you'd be robbing peter to pay paul
EVERYBODY does what they're told until the second that they stop.
@cjd @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun Ah, you been in France too long, thinking you're gonna get some Corsican psychopath to come gun down all the idiots.
@lss @SilverDeth @cjd @mrsaturday @npc @phnt @sun @wolf480pl This is probably funny and it looks like it rhymes.
"For the fuckhead, you need the machine gun spray"
@cjd
@phnt @lss @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
lowkey reminds me of a quote from a Polish 19th century theater comedy:
"Hej! Gerwazy! daj gwintówkę!
niech strącę tę makówkę!"
which means
"Hey! Jarvis! gimme the rifle!
I will pop that poppyhead!"
Ofc in the text where it comes from, it has nothing to do with removing scumbags from power, and everything to do with a neighbourly revenge, which the whole play makes fun of.
But since this is a hellthread anyway...
Yea that sounds about right.
I was not familiar with the expression and my first thought was "that's not what machine guns are for" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was not familiar with the expression and my first thought was "that's not what machine guns are for" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@cjd @phnt @SilverDeth @npc @p @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun a more period-accurate version would be: "For the mob, use grapeshot," and it's a quote from the Duke of Wellington. What pistolero said reminded me of Napoleon killing some protesters on the streets of Paris with it.
Okay I had a bad translation of mitraille, didn't realize it was also just any hail of bullets - and grapeshot (or buckshot) is a different vibe than machine gun fire...
> the rioter longs for the buckshot 😏
> the rioter longs for the buckshot 😏
@wolf480pl @cjd @phnt @lss @npc @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun It has plenty of thread, but no hell; there is no weeping nor gnashing of teeth.
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it's no LinkedIn either... does that mean you failed at your stated goal?
@phnt @lss @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun
It's like Linkedin in that absolutely nothing about this thread is going to do a damned thing to help any one of us get a job 😏
@cjd @phnt @lss @SilverDeth @npc @p @wolf480pl @mrsaturday @sun
Who actually uses LinkedIn anymore?
Is it just an ass-kiss platform for sycophants?
Who actually uses LinkedIn anymore?
Is it just an ass-kiss platform for sycophants?
I never used it, so I can't really speak one way or the other. I have an account but I didn't set it up...
@cjd
I know a few people who use it, never really bothered to ask what they get out of it.
@phnt @lss @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
@pepsi_man @cjd @SilverDeth @lss @mrsaturday @npc @phnt @sun @wolf480pl
> Who actually uses LinkedIn anymore?
People looking for work go where the recruiters are. You have a better idea, I'm all ears.
> Who actually uses LinkedIn anymore?
People looking for work go where the recruiters are. You have a better idea, I'm all ears.
Accurate.
@wolf480pl @phnt @lss @SilverDeth @npc @cjd @mrsaturday @sun Well, the stated goal was unintentionally ambiguous: I meant to say that I was going to do hellthreads on LinkedIn. But the result was delightful so I rolled with it.