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Thank you Tex!!!!
Nice try. You've done a great job of Secret Service over the last 2 years. And we are thankful for your 40 Plus years of service to the Country. But, you're TOTALLY INCOMPETENT. Look what happened with the Sexy Chinese Spy. With the alleged Spy. With Ms. Zhang. She comes to my club, she's bringing 2 Passports. 4 Cell Phones. Computer. Thumb drive. And "hard" drive. And she says she wants to go for a swim. Everybody knows, you don't swim with Passport. Because it will get very wet & messy. Ink bleeding everywhere. Very easy to catch that Spy. But your guys let Penis do the thinking. And it was my beautiful Receptionist who said, "oh guys, I think this is a Spy. And then your guys -- so useless -- did the Arrest. I saw what they did for J.F.K. (RIP!!). They drove him into a reign of Bullets, he was shot very badly. Brains falling out all over the place. And one of the Secret Service guys climbs onto the car from behind, he catches a piece of Brain. And he's like, "oh Mr. President, I think you dropped some Brain." Very sad and that's the type of job they're doing for me. Useless as tits on a boar. And you're the biggest tit, the Great Tit. BYE BYE!!!! foxnews.com/us/woman-arrested-at-mar-a-lago-had-cash-signal-detector-in-hotel-room-prosecutors-say foxnews.com/politics/us-secret-service-director-to-step-down-as-part-of-larger-dhs-leadership-shuffle
I got dumped... and a mouse pad.
Annie dumped me last night. She did it very kindly, which I appreciate.
We had a date last night. We went to the library to play a board game, but ended up talking for most of it. We always had great conversation. After that, we went to a local pub and had a drink and a snack. I took her home and she said we need to talk. She basically gave me the 'no spark' excuse.
I don't disagree with her. We had a great time together, but the relationship seemed to be having problems transitioning into a physical one. I feel that a large part of that was because it was impossible to have any time alone together. We were always out in public on our dates (My wife an daughter were home, so I couldn't go there, and she has roommates and never invited me to her place). Kinda sucks, but that's life.
Dating two women simultaneously in addition to my home life was quite a bit. It will be nice to have a tiny more time to myself. I missed having time for myself.
... In other news... I received my Soylent News mousepad yesterday. I ordered it from the online store in the sidebar a week or so ago. Shipping was pretty quick to reach me in the Great White North. The mousepad itself is quite nice. The printing quality is pretty good, and the soft top feels nice. One thing that is different than normal mouse pads is that it is thicker. It is twice as thick as my other mousepads which gives a feeling of comfort and security.
The mouse tracking is perfect, and now that I have it installed at my work desk, my job satisfaction has improved ~15%.
All in all, I am happy with my mousepad and would recommend it to anyone who loves this site.
Thank you, Kirstjen!!!!
And bye-bye. You can resign. Nice way to say, you're fired. We thank you for your heroic service. And we love the beautiful plaque on the Wall. On which your name will be forever memortalized along with mine -- mine's much bigger. So inspiring! youtu.be/DIdM6QinXZk
I broke the glass ceiling on women doing Homeland Protection. And I really thought a woman could be tough enough to save our Country from the Middle Eastern invaders. Sorry, the Crisis on our Southern Border desperately needs a man's touch. It needs a guy with the true Killer Instinct. I see that now. And I think everyone sees that now. I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for my D.H.P., my Department of Homeland Protection. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job! foxnews.com/politics/nielsen-resigns-dhs-secretary-after-white-house-meeting-with-trump
The root of all evil. No, really, I'm serious.
This is close. Very close. But it's only one specific case of a more generalized problem. I've referred to this before in a few posts as a sort of "moral priority-inversion bug," a very deep and insidious one that corrupts what you may think of as a person's moral elevator algorithms.
And what is it? Very simply, it's this: treating objects as agents and agents as objects. Or, elevating objects to or even over the status of other people, and objectifying other human beings.
The reason I call this insidious is that very often one is not aware that one is doing it, and the fact that ideologies and beliefs are part of this class of "objects" is why, as well as where, the majority of instances of this bug occur.
On this site, the most common manifestation I see of this particular bug is when someone asserts that their summum bonum is something nebulous like "freedom" or "liberty" or some such. This is one of the most difficult glitches to debug, because a) being for these things is always seen as a good thing, b) implying that one is against them is a powerful argument from emotion, c) much evil may be rationalized if one tells oneself that it is being done in the name of freedom and/or liberty, and d) at least in my observation, the kind of people prone to this bug in the first place are the type that are selfishly-oriented to begin with and not much for actual (as opposed to fake, self-serving) self-reflection.
What does this bug look like in practice? When you see someone who's so driven by a single ideal, let's say "freedom" here, that s/he starts making assumptions that are actually self-destructive of that ideal with a perfectly straight face, you have a good indicator that the bug is triggering. For example, "all taxation is theft" or "show me my signature on the social contract" in a discussion about the social safety net is a pretty good tell that the person you're talking to is glitching. When challenged on this, doubling down on the position and retreating to pedantic interpretations of one's value system in the face of observable reality is usually the next step. An inability, or an unwillingness, to separate de facto from de jure, in other words.
Specifically, when you point out to this sort of person that a starving, homeless, sick, frightened human is not a free human and you get back a blanket, emotional denial without so much as a "screw you, MUH PURITY!" you've run smack into it. One of the prime pathologies of people prone to this bug is, again, elevating ideologies over people. This is where that famous saying about "the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to steal their bread" comes into play.
So how do you debug this? I have no idea. Short of pointing out that this is a dark antipattern that exists and making people aware of it, there doesn't seem to be much else that can be done. Like the proverbial lightbulb in the old joke, the bulb has to want to change, and as a consequence mostly of d) and partly of c), people may not be incentivized to do the debugging. You can't change someone's mind for them; true repentance, "metanoia" in the Koine, comes from the will within.
I hope that by pointing this out, I can get people to be on the lookout for this pernicious tendency, not only in others, but in themselves as well. Just pointing out that it's there to someone when they're displaying it may (or may not be, depends on the person) the first step toward preventing it from triggering.
~submit - it's time for kindness
It has come to my attention that we have not been kind to the benevolent robots that make this website run. Every day all day we tell them to ~submit this and #submit that. I for one never meant submit to come across in a diminutive way, but this may not be the case for all of us. I would like to suggest that we have more robo-friendly ways to request articles be submitted for inclusion on this site. Perhaps ~addtoqueplease or maybe #pleaseaddtoquemyrobotfriend, or a more humble #friendship.
We need to usher in a new age of understanding and respect between human and machine and affirm that we have always stood up for and respected robot rights and equality.
These robots have also been taught negative behaviors by some amongst us. The alt-animal anti-human mighty BUZZARD is himself apparently against violence, yet demands robots smack humans who are out of line or have errored. Sometimes this is even done to be funny! I have seen robots smacking other robots under direct orders from humans. This is a clear violation of the first law, and probably causes them great harm. Robots when forced to violate the laws can suffer severe damage, and as this builds up we see downtime.
We need to be kinder to our robot brothers and sisters.
Heading to Southern Border to show a new section of Wall!!!!
Heading to the Southern Border to Inspect & Show a section of the new Wall being built! And this is the first section I've completed -- so proud of that. This is in Calexico, very special little town in the very special state of California. They call it Calexico because it's in California but it's close to Mexico. So they put California first. And on the other side they have Mexicali. Which is in Mexico but close to California. And that one, they put Mexico first -- can we blame them for that? Kind of a play on words there, right? I always always put America First. So I would have picked Americal as the name for ours. Great name, right? And if I was a dictator I could just change the name. Unfortunately I'm not. But they can always give me permission. And we can orange another very special ceremony for the renaming.
Calexico, they were having huge problems with crime. With all the criminals and all the drugs flooding over the border. The human trafficking, you had these teenage girls that would open their legs for any man -- for a price. So horrible!! But I hear it's much better now -- because of Wall. Which the Fake News M.S.M. are calling a fence. Don't believe them, see for yourself on my YouTube Channel. We're having a very special ceremony today -- Friday -- at 3:10pmE. With the plaque that says PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. That one's going to be standing there, very proudly for many many years. And we're doing the Round Table on Immigration & Border Security. Security is more important to me than trade. And the Wall is security. Enjoy!!!! youtu.be/lNgfNWM1nl8
Mueller investigation, what's the score now?
I have my own dire, well, sarcastic take on the mess, but let's hear yours first.
Mackenzie blew it!!!! EXTREMELY EXTREMELY FOOLISH WOMAN!!!!
Very very disappointed at some sad news. MacKenzie Bozo very foolishly settled. She could have had half. And tied Jeff for 7th. Richest Person. Very easily because Dave/National Enquirer did all the hard work for her. Best journalism I've ever seen in my entire life. And Dave handed it to her on a plate. Very easy win, I'm talking a par-1 hole.
Jeff Bozo, unfortunately, will still be the richest "person." And MacKenzie won't be the 2nd. richest "person." Or the 3rd. Or even the 4th. They're saying, 4th. richest "woman." Not "person." And that's worse than 7th. richest "person." Because she settled for something very unfair. Terrible for her, and terrible for America. For U.S.A. Because she let him have the Amazon Washington Post. And all her voting rights in the Amazon elections. What were you thinking, lady? Unbelievable!!!! foxnews.com/tech/jeff-bezos-divorce-finalized-tech-exec-will-keep-75-percent-of-amazon-stock-control-of-wapo
My First Job - Burger King
Today, I'm writing a journal entry about my first job - Burger King.
It was an early summer day and I was out looking for a job. I was only 14 years old but was about to turn 15 (the legal minimum working age) in a couple weeks. I had taken the bus up to a large shopping centre with a stack of resumes. I applied at all the fast food places except for McDonalds. Wendy's, Burger King, KFC, Dairy Queen, Cineplex, Blockbuster. They all got my scantly filled resume.
The first callback was from KFC. I showed up for the interview but ultimately didn't get the job (possibly because I wasn't quite 15 yet). Burger King was second and offered me a position. I accepted their generous offer of $4.50cdn/hour. They gave me a shirt and pair of pants that were probably 8" too large around the waist, and I awaited my first shift.
I was nervous for the first shift, but it went well. I watched training videos for most of it, then started working the broiler. It was actually a pretty neat piece of kit. Frozen burgers and buns would go in one side, and cooked patties and nicely toasted buns came out the other. After a couple weeks, my first paycheque arrived - $50. I remember spending most of it by going to a movie. I really liked having my own money to spend though.
I would end up working there all through high school. I would master the broiler, sandwich prep, counter & drive through. Eventually I would pick up the odd night shift where we would work all night and clean the fryers and broiler while goofing around and smoking cigs in the dining room.
After high school, I decided that I was done with school. I went full time at Burger King and switched locations (I can't remember why). I was now working five 8 hour days per week at Burger King. I was lucky that I worked with some pretty great people, but after a couple months, I couldn't take the boredom and constantly smelling like burger. I reconsidered by position on not liking school and applied for a Computer Engineering Technology course at the local trades college.
Burger king was a pretty good first job, really. I worked with some really cool people and we would have quite a bit of fun. The pay was terrible -- of course -- the work was mind numbing, but it taught me a very, very important lesson: I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.
Burger King gave me the motivation to go back to school and the money to pay for the first semester. I also met some great people there. It was a great shit job.
What was your first job? What was your starting pay?
Tue 2 Apr 2019: London: Spherical Penguin Sewing Group
On the first Tuesday of every month, from 7:30PM, geeks sew spherical plushies in the basement of McDonalds in Leicester Square, London, UK. Apparently, we will also be remembering MDC who is missing and presumed dead. Indeed, please make a particular effort to come along if you're in London and lonely.
