Adlach

Abso-goddamn-lutely.

John Brown. The man stood up for what was right, even at the cost of his own life.

Say you need to go west. There’s two buses on offer: one goes east, and the other goes further east. Do you get on the bus that goes less east, or do you just start walking west?

I didn’t make a silly mistake, you did.

(thanks, lol)

The right one will be twice as willing as the left one!!

0*2 is 0, you see

Oh wow just switch employers, is that all

Beyond that, you missed my point. Even if I were being paid more, I still wouldn’t have any incentive to make myself dispensable. Unless I’m vested in the company profits, then the profits don’t matter to me.

Lmao fuck integrity I’m trying to make rent

It’s not like the company has any integrity in their dealings, like when they lay off entire departments with no notice. One of my current coworkers worked for Dell for 17 years before being laid off. According to you, if she were confident in her abilities, she shouldn’t have worried.

Companies don’t care about integrity. They don’t care about people. All companies would replace you with someone cheaper if they could. Why should we care about them?

Then they should pay me based on that—giving me partial ownership, for example, would incentivize me to do better for the company. As it stands, I get paid the same no matter how the company is doing. I only have an incentive not to get fired… which is easier if I’m indispensable.

Capitalism offers a perverse incentive in this regard. I have no motive to keep the company healthy, only to get paid. Ensuring I can be replaced benefits the company while harming me.

That’s literally exactly how voting works. You can’t put an asterisk on your vote. An exuberant, wholehearted vote counts exactly the same as one where you feel dirty for a week after.

A or (A or B) reduces to A or B, not A

That’s different from the Japanese one… how, exactly?

Regular earthworms are also invasive in my area (as they are in most of the eastern US) so it’s one problem solving another problem I guess

How irresponsible are you that starting an uncontrolled fire with a tea candle is a risk?

When the CPC was losing to the KMT, they did not have more political power. I feel you’re misunderstanding the quote, which is a colorful way of saying that force is the ultimate basis of all political power—which should be obvious from a cursory examination of international politics.

Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.

This seems like an opportune time to note that Gene Roddenberry was a Marxist who strongly supported China. He almost certainly thought well of Mao.

Can you imagine an episode where Picard doesn’t agonize over this decision for 22 minutes and ultimately not do it? The guy spared the Borg.

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The average age in the Gaza Strip is 18. Do you think that might have anything to do with Hamas not acting “grown up”? What do you expect out of one million teenagers you locked in a cell?