Freud said love and work, but my third
Is to search for the most aptest word
To skewer a fool
Who's being uncool
And spread joy when we see the absurd
[Glad to find your appropriately flippant verses!]
My personal opinion - outside working hours - is that "customer obsession" belongs in the DSM-5
12 is not unusual, but 14+ is big. I knew a big guy with huge feet who wanted to go ski-ing but couldn't find boots big enough.
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I am a veteran or victim of many corporate values training videos and quizzes :-(
This slaps; or rather this is well aligned with both our organizational and personal goals and our value system.
Principles of Boogie Management.
Napoleon had a similar problem when he took Moscow, and sat there watching it burn and waiting for the Russians to come and surrender.
They didn't.
There was more war than he expected, and it didn't go well.
What the f*ck happens then ?
And Trump and his sycophants will be puzzled that they've executed their military plan perfectly and Iran is supposed to be surrendering already, but somehow they didn't get the memo.
It's easy to predict that in another 3 weeks, everything will be just about the same as it is now - no oil getting out, Iranian missiles still hitting a few targets every day, US and Israeli planes bombing anything they can find - but with an ntensifying global economic crisis.
On reflection, it may have been a mistake to only hire goldfish to those positions.
The Pentagon and US government are playing this like Vietnam, bragging about numbers of bombs dropped and missile launchers destroyed and ships sunk. But Iran planned for this, they can and will take heavy losses but keep fighting. It's bad.
11 days into the war, and Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and is still hitting significant military and economic targets around the Gulf. Oil price was $65 before the war, now it's $85, that's a self-inflicted +30% shock. A completely avoidable crisis, and no easy way out.
Look at the map of the Straits of Hormuz and you'll see it doesn't take a lot of sophisticated weapons to make that very dangerous for ships. Reminds me of the Ottomans sinking 8 Brit/French battleships when they tried to force the Dardanelles in WW1.
An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen
The strategic virtues of muddling through and kicking all cans down the road.
In American media, using airstrikes to blow up targets in Iran is presented as a demonstration of strength. But it can also be viewed as weakness - America won't risk large-scale ground combat and high casualties. Iran fought an ugly ground war with Iraq for 8 years. They'll do whatever it takes.
Probably legal. But stupid on many levels. It serves no military purpose, gratuitously expands the warzone, annoys allies, and is a pointless slaughter.
The US hasn't positioned any ground troops or materiel there. It's a big and visible op to move an army. Obviously.
Dude, compare what hasn't happened here to Desert Storm. They haven't done any of the necessary logistics to have troops on the ground. And without that preparation it would be an epic clusterfuck. A single Abrams in the combat zone needs about 700 gallons a day.
Jesus fuck have you not been paying attention to the last 10 years ??? MAGA are vicious morons.
War is hell. No-one should ever start a war with an extremely well thought-out plan for how it will end. Instead, we've got all the hell and none of the thought and plans
I'm not in favor of torturing puppies. But if the current puppy-torturing orgy brings us full employment, more affordable housing, and less use of autotune then let's go for it
It was a way of killing time, for those who liked it better dead.
If someone is standing around doing nothing, and you go punch them in the face and say it's a fight, that doesn't make it ok to stab them. It's not technically a war crime, but what the fuck are we doing here and what is the point of any of it ?
Harper is a totally incoherent nobody (Marxist but antiwoke) with weird niche interests and nobody should ever pay any attention to him.
shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court
There were also various politicians who invariably pocketed the cash and thanked him for the campaign donation.
A pound note.
I particularly remember one letter about someone who had been wrongfully imprisoned, where he said "2 years for something he didn't do seems about right" asnd ended up with "here's a pound. use it to enforce law and order."
Amazing that the Celtics lost Tatum for the whole season (so far) and got rid of Porzingis, Holiday, and Horford and here they are still 4th in the league in win percentage, and 3rd in point differential. Kudos especially to Brown, White, Pritchard, Mazzulla, but also the whole roster stepping up.
