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While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.

... Surprising?

Just ahead of the curve.

... Sorta like how people seemed to think Carlin was... joking.

Delivered in an entertaining, humorous way?

Yes.

Joking?

No.

Cost of living is too high, put it on credit.

Your alternative is starve now.

Either way, this is about to get a lot more bonkers in roughly the next 30 to 60 days as Just In Time delivery... kinda just, stops working, and grocery stores will have to both raise prices and ration items per customer per week to deal with shortages and try to minimize in-store injuries and deaths.

Go look up a compilations of black friday shopping stampedes.

Imagine that, but for groceries, every time a grocery store restocks.... for the forseeable future.

... This is a 'which coworkers are idiots?' test... right?

... Right?

Yep.

This means the 4th Amendment is dead.

Oh, any LE agency wants to search your house? Your car?

Uh, hrm, which very vaguely suspected migrants live in your building, your neighborhood?

2 miles away? Whatever, close enough.

Ok, now you've got ICE at your door, on the flimsiest evidence, connected in the flimsiest way, to a person suspected on a different set of flimsy evidence...

... And they are just searching your place because random guy may have been in the area, might have burgled you, whatever, who cares, we've got a warrant, lots of guns, do not interfere with our investigation.

This comm does actually have a rule that you are to replicate headlines precisely.

Have... have we all learned yet, by now, that basically 90% of managers and bosses are literally idiots who only understand buzzwords, vaguely, uselessly?

... Their jobs are easier to automate than ours.

Reminder that during Covid, Elon bought a bunch of CPAP machines (for sleep apnea), sent these to various hospitals, claimed he sent them 'respirators', and then claimed it was a conspiracy against him personally when hospitals told him 'these are not respirators, they will not work, we cannot use them'.

Also, vibes based math aside...

I don't get how this ... makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.

You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.

You... flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be ... hiding... then evading! then running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach... scittering slightly like it thinks its safe, sniffing for food -ah back to evading!

Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles.... but you literally have leverage, working for you.

... The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair...

... How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?

It is even less work on your end if you use a laser pointer, though personally I would not recommend this due to the chance of accidentally injuring your cats eyes.

Damn, that's... quite the line up of Steam Deck related devs, shit.

Welp, I'm convinced.

That sounds very much like certain white trash family members in my family/extended family, and family of neighbor kids I grew up with.

Utterly shit people who have objectively fucked up or failed at nearly every opportunity ever presented to them, never seek out or attempt to create their own opportunities... but also somehow just infinitely smug and self confident about basically just random unremarkable nonsense details of their lives.

And of course, are never wrong about anything and are literally incapable of genuine introspection.

I mean, I'd appreciate it!

Polar bear plunge for your balls!

Not for the meek, lol.