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Journal by fustakrakich
I offer exactly what you already know, and I get nothing but ingratitude.
Well fine, here's the next best thing... After that, you're on your own...
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Dealing with failure is easy:
Work hard to improve.
Success is also easy to handle:
You've solved the wrong problem.
Work hard to improve.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:00AM (9 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:20AM (5 children)
khallow is the man, only a tiny, small-handed, impoverished man. But some day, mark my or his words, he will be one of the Captains of Industry, someone who carries weight in the community, and not just around his midriff. By Sucking up to the rich, you will some day become rich yourself, like a Kock brother, or a Walton, or possible a Mercer. [counterpunch.org] If you suck hard enough, the sky is the limit! khallow could end up being the "man", 'cause he certainly does suck (up) a lot.
fustakravicher, on the other hand, probably could only get a job as a Senate page, on the Republican side of the aisle, where they, um, "bend over a page" to mark their place in reading a bill. (As if Republicans could read, and if Republican Senators actually read bills, instead of just passing them on from ALEC. Pederasts!)
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:26AM (4 children)
More likely, you just don't get him. I mean, I don't get him either. But you get him even less than I do.
So you make him Satan. It's understandable. Just not particularly helpful.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:51AM (2 children)
Oh, I get him. He is like a pane of glass to me. Float glass, like from the old days, which would sometimes have flaws in it, that allowed you to see what was not there. I think it was in the Novel, "Ceremony in Lone Tree", that some one claimed to be able to see buffalo still wandering through the town, when he looked just right through the float glass window of his hotel room. I get that. Don't make it real.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 05 2019, @11:31AM
Boo.
Boo! Seignore. Still.
Boo.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @02:56PM
Time to update your knowledge of glass making, float glass is a fairly recent development,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_glass [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @02:12PM
Oh, well, then he's not gonna be billionaire and all his suck up will be for free. Or for the sake of art. The art of sucking up.
With some things, the less you get the happy you are. Things like diarrhea. Or khallow.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:49AM (2 children)
If you are referring to my economics-related scribblings, it's just rather normal, near libertarian opinion - defending the rights of unpopular groups because they're the first ones to be challenged. My take is that the pervasive violation of economic rights are one of the great sins of the modern developed world. The Man, aka the mundane business owner, is being suppressed and we suffer for it with fewer jobs, more centralized and less competitive businesses, a bunch of powerful bureaucrats and elite nannies telling us what to do, enormous tax revenue streams spent on making our lives worse, etc.
There's nothing magical about the Man, rich people, whatever. The point is that they're the unpopular outliers, the ones affected by a lot of bad regulations and violations of human economic freedom first. And they happen to have huge positive impacts on society when they're allowed to.
We should be asking who's next when Daddy Warbucks can't or won't cover the tab? The bill still gets paid.
Pitchforks and torches only get you so far when the purported bad guy targets can be on the other side of the planet inside of a day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:53AM (1 child)
What's in your wallet, khallow?
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Saturday October 05 2019, @11:00AM