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.
6d ago
Anyone who stepped up to offer those things would get nothing but criticism for only being willing to volunteer for the fun things but not the hard things.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Diogenes laughs in Ancient Greek.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The mainstream does not teach rebellion; it teaches conformism (as always) with some of the outward trappings of rebellion. It's what it is teaching conformism TO that no longer fits Scouting.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Compare the Cybertruck bombing, which was similar in involving a US Special Forces soldier who served overseas who drove a long distance to launch a nutty but (in that case explicitly) politically motivated protest attack, involved a white guy so nobody said "THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE EVERY SPECIAL FORCES VETERAN."
The idea that veterans are dangerous has been around for a very long time. Here's a 2012 article decrying it, and it's obviously much older than that; First Blood is based on the idea. And in fact the idea of some sort of plot by a group of veterans was involved in the cybertruck bombing WAS investigated.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
· Edited 6d ago
One problem with traditional scouting is it emphasizes conformity with society and obedience to authority. But traditional scout activities today are forbidden or fenced around with so many rules and regulations to be essentially so. So an organization doing them today would have to be transgressive, and that's exactly the opposite of Scouting.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
I think Guess 5 is actually a subset of Guess 1. I'd be surprised if an Afghan were a full-on anti-Trump #resistance supporter, but stranger things have happened. And I don't know any other reason a Muslim in general or an Afghan specifically would attack National Guard members, but add in a little crazy and who knows? Whatever the reason, I'd bet on Guess 1.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Don't put words in my mouth, buddy. I'm not part of some sort of anti-man conspiracy; my position is that basically no one (including myself) should have the epistemic confidence to have a position.
If you insist on using your own state of mind as if it were evidence, prepare to have the contents of your mind interrogated.
As for the position that no one should have epistemic confidence to have a position, if that were to be universally adopted it would mean either throwing up ones hands or trying things at random. But in practice, that position is only deployed against certain positions -- usually but not always positions that imply a change should be made -- and so it is not the neutral agosticism it would appear.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The Scout Oath is from 1908. The oldest of the WWII generation was still too young to join at the time (Cub Scouts not yet existing). The author, Baden-Powell, was two generations before that. If you want trad you're stuck with cringe, but the boomers had nothing to do with it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Men tolerate liability when it comes to other pursuits.
Nobody tolerates liability unless they can insure it away, and that means accepting the constraints the insurance companies put in to prevent actually having to pay a claim.
I find myself unconvinced by the argument that they must therefore be the principal causes of our crisis of masculinity.
Yes, because you have a reason in mind (in general terms, that men, in some way, suck), which is wrong, but is the only reason within the Overton window.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
· Edited 7d ago
Doubt isn't an argument. It's part of American culture, and has been for a long time now, that a man interested in interacting with kids other than his own (and sometimes his own too) is probably up to no good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I lead people and if there is a time for promotion discussion, what is supposed to be an argument for promotion?
There's only one real argument, and in most parts of corporate culture, it's verboten to state it outright: "If you don't promote me, I can do better somewhere else, and this company will be better off paying me more than losing me." Nobody likes that argument (except salespeople, who will come right out and say it), so there's layers of corporate BS coming up with proxies for various reasons. For instance, corporations will often have a policy there's a certain number of promotion slots available, at which point the argument becomes "I'm better than all those other candidates for this slot". But the policy is generally more a guideline than a rule; slots will be left open if the company thinks it can get away with it, and slots will be pulled out of the air if needed to retain an employee.
But this is not the case for regular positions such as IT admin or accountant etc. There are some unspoken rules: if you are accountant, it is implicitly understood, that there will be more work around quarterly earning reports or when taxes are due. If you are in IT, it is understood that you need to put more when a new system is being implemented or when some security crisis happens. This is compensated by less work on regular workday in summer let's say.
This is true, but there are plenty of companies and managers who will make this one-sided as well, demanding you put in the extra time when it's needed but bitching if you show up late or leave early during the slow times.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
What it comes down to is childbirth and pregnancy are things men cannot do. So if you're weighing dangers or difficulties of men and women, you can assign an arbitrarily high coefficient to them and make the equation come out to "women suffer more and men are coddled" and men can do nothing about that. Checkmate, mistake theorists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I suspect they simply hadn't trained, aside perhaps from target shooting. They only fired 11 rounds, and only one hit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Doesn't matter. As was similarly true for Kyle Rittenhouse, "They shouldn't have been there, and Trump sent them there" will resonate just fine with the large portion of the public attuned with the mainstream media.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
I would expect ICE to be shot at, especially during active operations: but the National Guard? They're literally doing nothing but stand around. They're dads and uncles pulling overtime shifts away from their real jobs, not stormtroopers. I'm highly suspecting some sort of mental illness or dumb radicalization, but I'll refrain on coming to conclusions for now.
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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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.
8d 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).
It's unfair because you're only including civilian deaths.
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