I had completely forgotten that song existed.
Never heard of it! Listening on yt rn.
I was eating breakfast out and the song âEverybody Wants to Rule the Worldâ by Tears For Fears came on and I thoughtâŚ
What happened to Dennis Miller?
I actually liked his HBO show as a teenager and he was great on Weekend Update on SNL. I didnât get everything he was saying on the former but what I did get was funny.
Apparently, he had a stint on The OâReilly Factor. He also released stand-up specials after that and man are they bad. At least when Louis C.K. fell from grace, it was because he was jacking off in front of women without asking them.
With Dennis, itâs even worse.
Iâm biased in the sense that I have worked remote for around a decade, and my business is one that can be done entirely via email. That being said, I really believe that remote is something that overwhelmingly benefits the worker - it removes the soft wage theft of commuting and worker judgment for leaving on time, it removes geographic restraints, it removes a degree of the physical and aesthetic requirements of the office, and it focuses in on actually doing stuff versus appearing to do stuff.
I also believe that it disempowers pathological management, which is why some companies are so resistant to it. People start businesses for many reasons, but a major one is power - the ability to control and dispatch people at will, which requires to some extent the ability to physically see them. Remote work creates a neutral geography for work - you are not on the bossâ turf, you are not able to be marched into their office, and your co-workers cannot see you get in trouble. Bosses also love having fancy offices to take pictures of and send to their dickhead friends, and they love having them full of worker bees. These aesthetics are depressing, but they are motivators.
And, yeah, itâs going to make hiring more difficult for them too, because you canât offer fringe benefits like Summer Fridays or Ping Pong or Office Happy Hours. When they want someone in the office three days a week, theyâre going to have to answer why, and that answer is going to have to be multitudes more satisfying than âI want to make sure we have spontaneity,â which is definitely how spontaneity works. Remote work inherently messes with the power dynamic of the worker and the boss, and it is going to make many, many brains malfunction.
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The whole album is excellent.
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How do did you gain an edge over the house in pai gow? Iâm assuming it has to do with banking as often as possible but even then I always thought the house still had a small edge
Chase, the media liaison and self-described âinfluencing professor,â agrees. Later that day, he will tell me that âweâve been kind of lucky to have these outlets across the last few months because weâve been more exposed to whatâs really going on.â For instance, just a few weeks ago, he was at home scrolling through his phone as a ritual of pre-sleep entertainment, at which point he stumbled upon âsome kind of documentaryâ about the apparently rampant levels of Satanism in the U.S. entertainment industry. The documentary offered a detailed exegesis of demonic iconography, which supposedly many directors embed in their TV shows and movies. âIt freaked me out, one hundred percent,â Chase says, âbecause Iâve seen those types of thingsâthose signs and symbolsâin these entertainment peopleâs offices, and so then to see this documentary and to start putting the pieces together, I mean, itâs nuts, man.â
At this point, I nonchalantly inquire as to whether Chase could maybe brandish his smartphone and pull up the video in question, and Iâm soon made to view something called âOut of Shadows,â which has been posted on YouTube by an account calledâI shit you notâThinqing QAnon. Later, when I ask Chase whether heâs ever heard about the QAnon conspiracy, he says no, but explains that the video must be legit because âitâs gotten deleted multiple times off the internet, which is insane.â Epistemologically, this is where we are as a country: when content gets expurgated because of blatant misinformation, it is taken as a sure sign of that sourceâs truthfulness.
WAAF
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yea this is definitely the case with trumpers at least, if it gets removed from youtube or anything its clearly them trying to silence the truth, my brother has told me as much multiple times. Because if its bullshit why would they care if its out there lul
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1402470553584340996
MSM out here doing godâs work. Never mind all the other times prices went up. Or basic inflation. Or that the CEO makes $40M. Or that even in the article it says itâs about supply costs.
Nope - gotta be the lucky ducky workers.
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This is the America liberals want.
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MUH BURRITO COSTS 19.5 CENTS MORE I NEED TO SPEAK TO A MANAGER
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Good? That makes me like them more.
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And weâre eating lamb tonight. Uh huh, sure.
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The take isnât that prices are increasing at Chipotleâs. Itâs that Chipotleâs shouldnât exist you goddamn philistines.
The restaurant I eat at just raised prices for the 3rd time this year grumble grumble.
Iâve gotten 6 spam calls in the last 4 hours. How do I stop this shit?
Just pay them for the damn extended warranty on your car, Iâm sure theyâll leave you alone after that.
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I got so sick of them that I answered one once (guarantee this was a bad idea but whatever). The guy asked me what make and model my car was and I tried âyou called me, why donât you tell me which of my cars youâre talking aboutâ and he said he couldnât because he needed to verify that he was talking to the correct person so I told him âporsche 911â and he laughed and said âok have a good dayâ and hung up.
I get those for a laptop. They keep saying this is my last chance! TBC, I donât answer but it ends up on voicemail. Blocking does no good.