Big things are coming. Big. Things. But not this week.* But this week things are preparing, for as a decent author once wrote (before getting high on xer own farts) “For a word to be spoken, there must be silence — before and after.”
As such the planets are out of alignment. Sagittarius will do well with both the Sun and Mercury working on bringing xem luck. Venus in Scorpio recommends finding someone to make sweaty snugglebunies with because baby, it’s cold(ish) outside. This is amplified by the Moon being in Leo, which also has the meaning of a particularly auspicious time for the demi-mondaine. And this isn’t just a euphemism for whores, but anyone in the less-than-respectable, often nocturnal vocations should see some success soon.
Two things of note in the cards this week — Transition news (The Emperor and The Magician reversed) with disastrous results (The Devil). Or reassign The Devil to the politician of your choice, I don’t care. And lastly, someone is jealous (8WR, 9WR) with good reason since their partner is stepping out on them with another man (KnW).
Sagittarius: Page of Swords reversed – The evil side of authority, covert actions against you, the unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
Capricorn: 2 of Swords – Conformity, equipoise, courage, friendship, concord, aggression
Aquarius: 5 of Cups reversed – News, alliances, affinity, consanguinity, ancestry, return, false projects
Pisces: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation, news and messages in writing, obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment
Aries: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gain, opulence
Taurus: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration, change of residence
Gemini: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
Cancer: 9 of Wands reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity
Leo: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, guilt, quarrels, domestic disputes
Virgo: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
Libra: The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet
Scorpio: The Emperor – Stability, power, protection, realization, aid, reason, conviction, authority, will
*December 20th give or take, depending on your time zone and/or direction you’re oriented while asleep.
Sagittarius: Page of Swords reversed – The evil side of authority, covert actions against you, the unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
LALALALALALALA I can’t hear you!
That’s the most positive/ least shitty draw for us Aries types in a while.
Not sure what “imitation” would be but my guess is it’s the COVID mask theater I will go through in order to go to work.
Full thing, for your convenience: “Aries: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gain, opulence”
I’ll take it.
Competition, gain, opulence are all good words. Imitation? I’m neutral on that.
I got a raise at work that pushed me over a certain salary threshold. I remember when $30k seemed out of reach…
Congratulations!
“Obstacles, adversity, calamity”
Ugh. I demand a recount.
Me too, especially given how spectacularly bad last week was. Pretty much in line with last week’s horrorscope.
Probably means I’ll get a garbled version of what will turn out to be a bad pathology report 🙁
Nah, pathologist results in a week? It is to laugh. More likely billing errors will start to Mount up.
Surly is not a happy camper.
Hope all works out favorably.
Thanks! It should all work out at least moderately well. Much of the bad was transient and now past (truly awful colonoscopy prep), some of it is the ongoing degradation of medical care (my physician’s assistant is an idiot, and getting worse), some is just waiting on the post-colonoscopy pathology report. The gastroenterologist was of the opinion that the worst of the likely outcomes would be the next colonoscopy in 3 rather than 5 years.
Having it all hit in a single week was a bit much ;-\
The waiting is the worst part. I kinda got through that part of life without too many problems and now have kicked the colonoscopy habit, unless there are other indicators. I think it was about age 70 for me that it became less necessary.
Listen to the docs but they make mistakes, too. Have a back up plan, like a second opinion, if you have questions.
Sagittarius: Page of Swords reversed – The evil side of authority, covert actions against you, the unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
With my boss retiring and her wanting me to step into the role….this doesn’t bode well.
*December 20th give or take, depending on your time zone and/or direction you’re oriented while asleep.
I sleep with my feet to the south.
Facebook reminds me that on this day 7 years ago, it was -8 degrees F. I posted that along with a declaration that my goal was not to leave the house.
Now it’s in the 60s outside, and my Governor doesn’t want me to leave the house.
He can fuck off and die. People only put up with California government because California is a beautiful state blessed with natural resources. If they try to prevent us from seeing or using those resources, we really will leave.
Are there outdoor mask-mandates there yet? Reading the things the Biden team and CDC have been saying recently I’m starting to think thats the next thing coming…..obviously with CA being in the vanguard.
If there have been outdoor mask mandates, it would have been at the city or county level.
In San Diego North, the masks are worn upon entering an establishment and are pretty much ignored thereafter.
That’s why San Diego’s inclusion in the new “guideline” surprised me.
The new guideline says “ It prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes sector operations except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others.”
Meh. Nothing really new. The black market for social gatherings in my neighborhood is well established by now.
Monterey County has an outdoor mandate. My town in a different county has mandated them downtown.
Facebook moderator: I totally understand where you’re coming from. [pushes silent independent thought alarm]
The reason CA does not fear that, is because all the exit people will move to TX and turn it deep blue also. Sometime, I think that’s actually their plan.
The flaw in their plan is most of the people moving from California to Texas are the Republicans.
California Republicans
Need more money, can’t catch all the bad guys on a shoestring, ya know.
You were warned,
Yusef, I need an address for a small package.
1313 Mockingbird Ln
I’ll ask SP to pass it along,
/ done
Thanks
Haha. Fourscore has a small package.
I am curious how California spins their lockdowns when their per capita positives are higher than Texas and Florida. In the latter state, even requiring face masks is literally illegal.
They have an overwhelming populace that believes in one-man government and accept his word at it.
My entire family is from California and I have several of my nieces living with us in Texas right now. The reason why is they are athletes and the state locked down sports. They are depending on sports for college scholarships and can’t afford to miss a year. So they came to Texas to play.
Now my cousin (their mom) is looking at houses to move here permanently.
I had wondered about sports scholarships and how that might be affecting student-athletes. Especially those who are non US citizens who are here on a track scholarship for example. Do they have to go to their home countries to wait this out?
Districts aren’t even caring about education, why would they care about sports?
If I recall, there was a dust up about foreign students on a visa and what to do when in-person classes were shutdown.
Them-be-the-rulez.
If you want to stomach 60 Minutes, that appears to be their topic tonight.
Guessing most of those kids are shit out of luck.
/learn to code
Maybe a transcript will be available.
Your nieces will eventually have to compete against men who identify as women so they will probably lose in whatever sport they play. Sexual dysmorphia is going to be the new black for college admissions anyway. I wish them luck.
Their per capita deaths are still lower, so that’s how they’ll spin it. If they keep locked down until the vaccine gets widespread distribution (3-6 more months) then they’ll probably be able to crow that it worked.
There isn’t any spin. This is more of the same. The only thing new is ICU usage has increased. Government must save us from ourselves.
“Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet”
So…..a continuation of the last 9 months?
HHmmmm…
https://twitter.com/JayGlazer/status/1335633628789760005
Oppo team paying docs to get false positives so teams they are facing have to be up all night.
But don’t anybody dare question the theater.
let’s see what the drooling imbeciles at Current Affairs puked up this week.
Dear God…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/the-socialist-ant
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It turns out that according to the Protestant-capitalist work ethic, many members of ant societies are abject sloths. Recent work on Temnothorax rugatulus ants, by Daniel Charbonneau and colleagues, has established that many so-called workers do not actually do much work. Colony activity is instead characterized by cycles of labor, with variation in how often any given worker is committed to any laborious task. Some “workers” may simply be a reserve force whose only purpose is to fill in any gaps should overall worker numbers fall below a certain level. At most other times, they are inactive, doing close to nothing. It is in fact believed to be common across colonies of different social insects that as many as 50 percent of workers are inactive at any one time. Historians of human work life before the Industrial Revolution—when eight hours of labor a day was considered a lot, and even peasants enjoyed several months’ worth of holidays—should find something familiar in these insect societies characterized by frequent breaks and periods of inactivity across large swathes of the workforce.
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So you’re saying we could enjoy several months of free time and the only down side would be a medieval standard of living?
[head desk]
You’ll at least be grateful for that pound of wheat every other month given to you by your local commissioner
So you’re saying we should live like
lobstersants?Those are politician and manager ants.
80% of success is showing up. Most of your pay is to insure you’re around when needed.
I knew a guy who decided to use a stop watch to measure exactly how much time he spent in a factory actually working. For a 12 hour shift, it was about 2 hours. The rest was talking and waiting for someone or something to show up.
Hurry up and wait – not just for the army.
Literal LOL
Morning, Glibs.
Afternoon, Glibs.
That was a short morning.
Gemini: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
I just can’t even.
YouTube thinks I want to head F104 howls. No Vulcan, but they’re right.
https://youtu.be/rf7HB9o4eGU
LIGHTING THE GLIB SIGNAL
I NEED Y’ALL’S HELP FAST
My very non-local HR is thinking (with other remote inputs) of cranking up mask mandates in our facility. To date we’ve been doing the smart stuff – wash your hands, spread out, and wear masks if you have to be in close proximity during machine or lab work. The explanation is “rising cases in your state”, which you all know is not a good metric anyway.
Meeting this afternoon.
Anyway, can any of you point me to a sober technical summary of the “40 years of research says masks don’t do anything”, or something like that? I’m going to make my normal case that masks actually INCREASE the risk to our people and business, but I think I’m up against mask believers.
Thanks.
“but I think I’m up against mask believers.”
That’s exactly it. No amount of research, statistics or graphs will convince the ‘SCIENCE!’ crowd. It’s become an article of faith. Vin Armani makes a great argument that we have entered into “the dim age” whereby COVID is a great magical calamity and will only be over when stronger magic overcomes it. We are literally regressing from the age on enlightenment.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1756-the-covid-mask-controversy/
this episode was as good a scientific response as any however
And the show notes link to several sources
I know. My main goal is to deal with it via the rathole problem. I want to give my boss a way to retreat from his current position. Part of it is my “this increases the danger” gambit, and part is some counterpoint to their new religion.
In that episode they discuss how masks collect moisture and increase the aerosol affect of exhalation, possibly making them MORE likely to transmit viruses, especially w/ cloth masks. It’s a simple, plausible and easily understandable reason for not wearing a mask……which will get you called a SCIENCE! denier and banned from polite society.
I think it would also be effective to point out that not all masks are the same. Cloth masks are, like you say, pretty worthless, but N95 masks do a good job, from what I’ve heard, so one method of approach to the topic would be to point out that fact and make the case that a mask mandate in the office is only a good idea if the company will be providing masks that actually work (N95 – which I think are still hard to come by). That could make the mandate less likely to happen while also giving someone who was leaning pro-mask an out – you’re not making them accept that masks don’t work, just that the common ones don’t. It’s easier to concede part of a point than a whole point.
Yep, increasing the costs of the mandate is the only way to slow or alter it really. You’re not going to win on arguing the merits. The CDC issued revised guidance and that will be the gold standard for any company that’s large enough to have an HR department.
How many masks are required for the company to provide 1 per day, 1 per 4 hours? Is your Procurement able to source that many on an ongoing basis? Disposal set up used masks? Increased janitorial and haulage costs (if your employee population is large enough)? Potential liability to the company for mandating mask usage? Alternatives such as WFH or staggered start/work hours? What about employees with bona fide medical conditions? And so on.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-year-of-disguises/
https://lockdownsceptics.org/scientific-information-on-masks-against-covid-19/
That Aier article is about the sanest thing I have seen yet regarding masks, how soon before it gets memory holed?
Thanks To’G!
I have one question for you before you embark on your crusade: how much do you value that paycheck?
I know. Good enough relationship I can go at least this far – “you pay me to be right and to tell you the truth”. Also doing it privately before the main meeting tomorrow.
By the way, thanks very much to everybody so far. Please keep them coming.
Anybody have anything from a Proggie source? That would help a lot, too.
That’s a tall order…..Jacobin of all places had a terrific anti-lockdown article from a lefty perspective……but mask denial is probably beyond the pale for anyone other than maybe an outlier like Glen Greenwald or Matt Taibi…..whom have been labeled enemies of the people and therefore don’t fit the bill of what you are looking for.
I’d be more concerned about heading off discipline both for not wearing a mask and not enforcing the mandate by supervisors. That’s where we are now.
You don’t even need any of that. Just point to CA. We’ve had the mask mandate and various degrees of lockdown this entire time. We now have the highest amount of cases. Amount of cases is a bullshit metric anyway, because we have no idea how many people have had this thing at any point, ever. We have free test centers everywhere and people are lining up to get tested now. Of course we have more positives. Duh. Either way, if this stupidity worked, we’d have much less ‘vid floating around and FLA would be crushed under the volume.
“We have free test centers everywhere and people are lining up to get tested now.”
God, why? (where not mandatory, that is.)
“Everyone’s too stupid!” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162346/mediaviewer/rm1979881472/
I’m trying to think of how to win the mask argument on the basis of emotions rather than facts, because the facts are not working.
Something something my body, my choice?
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others?
Help me out, guys.
Fear is the emotion being played upon. Unless you can trump that fear with a worse one, you ain’t winning.
^^^This^^^
It’s hard to top death as far as fear goes. Pestilence is one of the fab four, but I hear War might be leaving to pursue solo projects.
“So we built that wall? To keep out all of their hot red heads?”
We built that wall on rock and roll.
God I hate that song, once a good band, now a joke…………
For Yusef: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHBr0ndKus
For You,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
For Yusef and Toxteth
That was a Good incarnation of the Band Ted, thanks!
“Look at the package your cloth mask came in. It says they don’t work.”
Oh, sorry. That’s another fact.
well knock me over with a feather
BREAKING! CNN… Admits China Lied About Covid | Louder With Crowder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMjp6xuIBpA
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
I read that China almost immediately locked down travel to and from Wuhan province within China while continuing to let international flights come and go.
“Where are my testicles, Summer?”
tee hee!
Wet Market Chernobyl…
Glad you recognize Snowball. Easily one of my favorite single appearance characters. I still think of him at random times.
“We are not them.”
Shout out to Meat Wagon bbq, who has been doing well enough to open a satellite location much closer to me (during a pandemic!)
https://www.themeatwagonbbq.com
Also, that location is in https://trolleybarnpublicmarket.com
It’s a bit hipster-ish feeling, but hey they have bbq, beer, wine, and spirits with open dining areas. I’m gonna support them.
The market was fairly busy, with people walking around and people dining in the open areas (without masks!)
The cupcake shop looks heavenly, but definitely not keto.
I found a marked-down point cut brisket the other day. It was probably around 3 lbs. I was lazy, so it got rubbed with some generic concoction, sat in the fridge overnight, and into the crock pot for 14 hours or so.
I may have gotten a couple bites of it- Jugsy ate the rest. Turned out really, really, good.
I got two porterhouse sitting in the fridge. Gonna grill em for dinner.
Lovely. We stock up the chest freezer with the corned type when it drops from $6.99 per lb. to $0.79 per lb. for St. Patrick’s Day. I can’t remember the last time I had one that hadn’t been corned or pastramied. I like it with my mom’s recipe for a rum/brown sugar/vinegar glaze.
Likewise, I don’t think I’ve ever bought a brisket that hasn’t gone through the same processes.
Personally, I find brisket too fatty, I prefer corned beef rounds.
Cook it with the fatty portion up, so that it runs off.
Opened up the wifey’s laptop to discover I ordered the wrong replacement battery. Gahhh. Another week to fix this thing.
You’d think a 5,000 year old civilization would be better at lying.
ORLY China?
And there is almost no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
Why do you need to be convincing when no one is going to bitch slap you for being brazen? It’s posturing to try to rub the impotence of others in their faces.
Looks like election night vote totals.
Priorities
Black campus leaders silent on UW paying ‘White Fragility’ author more than fellow black keynote speaker
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-campus-leaders-silent-on-uw-paying-white-fragility-author-more-than-fellow-black-keynote-speaker/
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The university paid “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo $12,750 to speak at the diversity event earlier this fall, while its black speaker, Austin Channing Brown, received $7,500 for speaking at the same event, according to an article published by The Washington Free Beacon.
That’s 70 percent more, a difference of $5,250. While Brown’s address did run a half-hour shorter than DiAngelo’s, both were billed as keynote speakers by the university.
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Well, at least he didn’t get paid 3/5 as much. It’s a bit less than that actually – 0.588 to be exact.
IIRC, both DiAngelo and Brown are represented by the same agency; that’s like a lovely dollop of cream on top.
While Brown’s address did run a half-hour shorter than DiAngelo’s, both were billed as keynote speakers by the university.
That sort of justification is not going to fly with the commies.
Also, if DiAngelo spoke for a half-hour more than Brown, that implies a very long speech. Torture, IMO, but if all the attendees were voluntary than they got what they asked for.
That’s about $12,700 too much.
Leo: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, guilt, quarrels, domestic disputes
So, should be a fun week locked inside with the wife.
And then here’s the wife’s:
Gemini: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
?
Like all Aries people, I don’t believe in Astrology.
Adolph Hitler elected to office in Namibia:
https://nypost.com/2020/12/03/politician-named-adolf-hitler-wins-election-in-namibia/
Do you know who else was named Adolph Hitler?
Article points out that Namibia was a German colony until 1915 so German names are common.
But this guy is what, 45-50 years old? It’s not like Hitler was some obscure figure when the Namibian guy was born.
He does reassure the reporter that he isn’t planning world domination.
When I lived in Brazil I went out with this guy I met at a party to his massive farm in the Bahian hinterlands. When I say massive I mean about 20 square miles of land with lots of the ranch hands and families living on it. He asked me to talk to some of them about historical things that have happened. When I mentioned the visits to the moon they all burst out laughing at my silly ass. There was no possible way that had happened. (They weren’t conspiracy theorists, they just didn’t think such a thing possible).
♫”SWAPOs in Namibia♫”
Bruno Ganz ?
Gemini: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
Why aren’t my judges ruling my way? – DJT45
Taurus: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration, change of residence
Any west wing staffer who tries to quit will be fired!!!! – John McEntee
Whelp, Im not in the same profession as Winton’s mom, but I DO work nights.
…but anyone in the less-than-respectable, often nocturnal vocations should see some success soon.
/looks at the Browns game
Alright… it looks like there’s some good things happening in 2020.
Sorry, man. I meant to watch it, but I’ve got actual honest-to-goodness formatting/typesetting work going on today (yay!), and my game isn’t until 7:25 p.m. God’s Chosen Time.
No worries at all. 38-7 at the half, with two fumbles from the Titans. I’m still trying to process the Browns getting calls in their favor. My personal favorite was a roughing the passer call… when the passer was Jarvis Landry, and the receiver was Baker Mayfield (no, didn’t mistype that). It’s a hell of a change from the opener last year.
I’m looking forward to being able to trash talk in the work chat tomorrow.
Jets here. Huh, they’re losing.
Aries: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gain, opulence
Orangeman’s squealing like a little bitch, but I have these cute masks to choose from; when’s the press briefing again? – Nancy Pelosi
The YouTube recommendation algorithm continues to baffle me. For the better part of 2019, if I left autoplay enabled, regardless of the topic of the video I just watched, it would serve me The Cult; more often than not She Sells Sanctuary. For most of this year, it has thrown me a surfeit of Jordan Peterson, almost always his Bible lectures. I’ve never really cared for the band, even when they were the much cooler sounding Southern Death Cult, and I have no interest whatsoever in hearing Peterson deconstruct archaic texts.
*blinks*
I can’t belive it.
No one leaves autoplay enabled.
I keep getting that song too.
My main goal is to deal with it via the rathole problem. I want to give my boss a way to retreat from his current position. Part of it is my “this increases the danger” gambit, and part is some counterpoint to their new religion.
Late to the party, but ask him if anybody has made a serious examination of the mechanics of masks. For instance, if the mask “captures” the virus thingies attached to droplets, what happens to them? Especially when the mask dries out, and you put it back on; are you not then broadcasting the virus into the environment?
The best masks I have seen are rated for 0.3 microns
The cootie bugs are 0.0125 microns.
The mask manufacturers recommend that you change your mask every 15 minutes.
Those droplets evaporate very quickly, get broken up and work their way through the mask.
The mask nonsense is bullshit theater, or as I have heard it described, psychological protection.
TO’G’s link to the Aier article is very informative, see ^above^
Most viruses degrade to being harmless after a few minutes of exposure to UV rays.
Fun fact: viruses aren’t really living things. They can be crystallized just like non-replicating molecules and still be pathogenic.
They’re sort of a halfway between alive and not alive. And now…
Abiogenesis, the musical!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we0vBoQfSjQ
Oh, man I was transfixed the first time I saw it when I was a wee lad.
Sagittarius: Page of Swords reversed – The evil side of authority, covert actions against you, the unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness
Does anyone remember that I donated to the campaigns of Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama? – Steve Mnuchin
Virgo is dead on.
Michael Malice tweeted this out yesterday and seems to have triggered a bunch of Antifa tuff guys (whom seemingly have no concept of irony) with some pretty hilarious results.
every one seemed to agree from the replies I read…
/and it’s true
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1335381311255683072
Check out some of his retweets……of course most of his followers get his point/understand the golden gift that is Michael Malice….
But there were more than a few idiots that chimed in to RHEEEE!!!11!!
Oops….copied the wrong link, try these
https://twitter.com/realblackjesus/status/1335654645402898432
https://twitter.com/AykhanSalmanov8/status/1335672874829549568
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1335669748634431493
Ugh….copied the wrong link and now awaiting moderation:
https://twitter.com/AykhanSalmanov8/status/1335672874829549568
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1335669748634431493
Dug goes to the Library:
Nice.
Knowledge is Power, Guard it well.
Te: the article linked above touting the glorious leisurely socialist society of ants and other social insects, they left out salient facts about how that ultra pure socialism works:
The colony queen is a ruthless murderous despot who treats her nest mates as follows:
All the males are idle drone non-workers whose sole job is to fertilize a new queen. After fertilization, all these drones are summarily dragged out of the nest and left to starve to death.
When a new queen hatches, her first act is to sting to death all her unhatched rivals, and battle to the death any hatched rivals.
All the remaining worker caste insects are chemically castrated and turned into mind controlled zombie slaves by said chemicals.
The elderly workers are sent to the most deadly task, leaving the safety of the nest to forage, since their usefulness to the colony is almost up. The ones that survive a given foray to gather food are forced to surrender almost all the food to the colony.
Other than that, their socialist society is a paradise.
You left off the fact that the ‘leasure’ time is merely idling on-call for future labor. There is no recreation or artistic expression. Though it may be implied by the ‘zombie slaves’ remark.
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us?
relevant re-run
https://fee.org/articles/justice-versus-social-justice/
life as a Soviet factory worker
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Nobody in the bus factory was in a hurry to work; the workers preferred to sit in the smoking room until the foreman appeared, when they all dashed to their places. “Why should we hurry for the money they pay us?” said the workmen. “Work’s not a wolf, it won’t run into the forest!” In the mornings they were almost all drunk or hung over, and throughout the working day people would be regularly detailed to slip over the fence for some vodka. Only one man put in a full day’s work. The rest hated him, and when pointing him out would rotate one finger meaningfully by the temple. They were always looking for chances to do him dirt, either by surreptitiously damaging his machine or by stealing his tools. “Want to be a champion and raise the targets?” they said spitefully. It turned out that if one man exceeded the target, the target would be raised for all of them the following month, and they would have to work twice as hard for exactly the same money.[6]
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Workers of the world, look busy, the boss is coming!
Class, all together now:
QUIET, YOU!
Don’t tell me what to do!
Stop barking orders! Calm down! NOW DAMN IT!
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E15/953201
Holy moly. I was just outside, doing a little cleanup project, and it’s practically hot out.
Awesome.
Most viruses degrade to being harmless after a few minutes of exposure to UV rays.
What if the virus-infested mask is in your pocket?
Hey, now the Chinese have assured us the virus came from tainted foreign food, probably deliberately by the evil imperialists at their germ lab at Fort Detrick.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-packaging/frozen-food-package-polluted-by-living-coronavirus-could-cause-infection-chinas-cdc-says-idUSKBN2720MD
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Only living virus can infect people, while samples containing dead virus could also test positive for virus traces, Jin said.
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Well, there’s no way that could cause any confusion…
After perusing (ostensibly) far-left twitter per my links above…..how is it that the same people who believe we live in a fascist centralized state, built by and on the backs of the oppressed, are, to a man, unironically all-in on the government mask mandates and lockdowns that are tailor made for transferring wealth from the middle and lower class to banks and wealthy corporations?
Are these people so about power that they don’t give a shit or are they really that stupid?
“Finer clay”? Govt Agency A is pure and noble unlike Agency B?
I can understand how a Leninist would be all about skin-suiting gov’t institutions, but I can’t wrap my head around them not having any issues with the way this has been the greatest boone for BIG CORP in history. I guess it’s just easier for a commie to loathe the working class these days.
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
They don’t see the hypocrisy at all because their rules are “common sense” and the right’s rules are “oppressive, racist, heteronormative, and transphobic”.
They think they have the moral high ground and thus, their rules are not hypocritical in the least.
After perusing (ostensibly) far-left twitter per my links above…..how is it that the same people who believe we live in a fascist centralized state, built by and on the backs of the oppressed, are, to a man, unironically all-in on the government mask mandates and lockdowns that are tailor made for transferring wealth from the middle and lower class to banks and wealthy corporations?
Are these people so about power that they don’t give a shit or are they really that stupid?
It’s different, when *they* have the reins (and the whip).
I’m working up a sweat out there. The sun will go behind the ridge in half an hour, and the temperature will drop precipitously.