100ProofTollBooth
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100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
11hr ago
Better phrasing than mine, for sure.
Maybe it's more the tyranny of metrics as product. If the point of measurements, and tolerances is to "make things work" that's fine. It seems to me that, in this case, the point of measurements was to point at the measurements.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
12hr ago
Agreed.
I was thinking about Minnesota and this comment a day or two ago. It's part of a kind of memetic that I think of as "Stop making Scott Adams look like Nostradamus."
Scott Adams, Dilbert comic creator turned online politico commentator and, recently, dead, made some not PC comments in 2023.
They're nothing special. A bit of breathless hyper-noticing and juiced up with a Very Online Person kind of flair. Ho-hum, as far as it goes. But the media pounced and Scott took a lot of flak for it. Elon defended him, which is kind of cool, I guess. Everyone moved on.
And then, at the end of 2025, he turned out to be completely right, at least directionally. Roving gangs of private citizens are harassing people - well, white men - for just kinda sorta looking like ICE agents. Which, I guess, consists primarily in ... being a white male.
While I am firmly on the right, I've never liked Trump. He's economically illiterate, a populist Dixiecrat rather than a conservative, and has no actual worldview other than an interesting and admittedly successful (in some sense) set of boomer "vibes."
But he keeps not trying to kill me or brand me as the devil. Which puts him materially ahead of half of the country, and the leadership and majority of the democrat party. And yet, they keep being astounded that I don't want to get my membership card in the "Kill Everyone who is like TollBooth" club.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
12hr ago
"Don't be hypersensitive"
"Most people are normal"
"Except all people on the right. Who are hypersensitive"
And, the parting morality shot - "Don't introduce data and ask me to review it, that would be ... unbecoming"
I'm not going to try to change your mind on anything. I'm only going to try to suggest that you read what you write before posting and ask yourself the question "am I making any arguments here or am I just kind of teasing my opponent?"
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
13hr ago
You might as well say any form of redistribution is a UBI.
I explicitly said that in my original post.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
13hr ago
I applaud your deep reading of the article, because it shows how bureaucratic thinking can infiltrate any job.
Notice the language of Bell - "everyone did it this way", "I was just doing what I had been told" - It's the "I followed orders and The Process" defense. I'd be much happier if a technician or supervisory one at that actually had a technician's mindset and pride in his/her work that would lead them to think "You know, if these rails are always a little off, that's probably a bad thing, even if 1/8th of an inch isn't Big Bad on its own." No, instead, there's citing of reports and approvals and procedure.
This is your brain on PMC+Bureaucracy. This is how they want you to think because then capital-C Compliance is the way to a "respectable" job.
Even if that job is making sure everyone is in alphabetical order before going into the culling machine.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
13hr ago
There are different kinds of not making a profit.
I wish my accountant would see it like this.
I see what you did there, friendo.
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