Ainsley McTree posted:

"I can do it, why can't you?" Personal Responsibility Bullshit

Nick_326 posted:

I think it's been a while since the "20 habits rich people do every day" thing was last mentioned, but I thought I'd share this:

Cracked.com editor and John Dies at the End author David Wong made a thread in order to figure out where those numbers came from:

http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/150127/fact-checking-26quot3B20-things-rich-do-every-day26quot3B/0

Here's his reaction to finding out that it came from the guy behind it interviewing "233 wealthy individuals and 128 poor ones":



Someone else in the thread apparently emailed the douche behind this thing, Tom Corley, and got this response:


There's so much flawed poo poo in that reply I don't even know where to begin.

ErichZahn posted:

Since the age of 10, my largest peer group has been Vietnam veterans. It annoys the poo poo out of me to see how Iraq/Afghanistan vets get treated. Knowing that it's unwanted makes it worse.

Also, if she's so good at research, then why is she a paralegal?

inkblot posted:

I ran across quite the keeper in the wilds today! Now, judging by how old this thing is there is a high chance of it having been brought up before, but someone tried to sell me on this wonderful product - http://www.amazon.com/Worthless-Young-Persons-Indispensable-Choosing/dp/1467978302

Yes kids, read this before going off to college to learn valuable insight into picking a marketable and lucrative career path! Spoilers: it boils down to "get a STEM degree". Those fields not your forte? Pfft don't be a scrub. Happen to not be a white dude? Hope you like putting up with a lifetime of casual racism/misogyny! Bonus points for having the douchiest portrait of him on the back with a huge cigar in his mouth and the cover as a whole having absolutely no design thought put into it. I guess once we're all engineering contractors sneering at the poor we won't have the time to make our products not look like a 6th grade book report.

Sir Rolo posted:

I really wonder how much of Matt Walsh's shtick is about how well he can milk being the voice of far-right millenials on the internet. It's largely uncontested territory, and he seems to be media-savvy enough to get his screeds reposted on a lot of facebook and twitter feeds.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

They do that sort of bullshit not because it's efficient or actually a good idea, but because it allows them to control their employees' lives more.

mllaneza posted:

I had a boss who kept complaining that people's scheduled would change from semester to semester. Naturally he only placed help wanted ads in the campus newspaper.

FuzzySkinner posted:

Did they use the "Experience" line on you? That's literally the worst.

BBJoey posted:

Yeah this poo poo is the most insane part to me - this isn't even an unprofitable venture. If a cable company, right now, rolled out cable to rural areas, then in 2018 they would have recouped the cost of doing so and be making a higher profit. And that's not good enough for them. They are literally forgoing increasing their income because the measures to do so would take a single president's term in office to pay off.

Neruz posted:

Again, not saying the coal miner doesn't have a harder job in terms of personal endangerment; he clearly and demonstratably does. I'm just saying that just because the office worker's job is easier doesn't mean it's easy and doesn't mean the office worker isn't actually working too hard and suffering because of that. Additionally different people have different tolerances for different kinds of stress.

Aeka 2.0 posted:

I have found that a friend knows he has lovely opinions. He knows they are lovely because he doesn't post them on Facebook, he saves them for Twitter where most people aren't looking, but I noticed.



As far as working hard at minimum wage. I did that in my early days, showed a good attitude, worked my rear end off, and in the end, I got .35 cent raises. Eventually I had slightly better jobs with pretty terrible wages and over the years my good attitude just turned into me putting in the hours, going through the motions, doing the minimum. It wasn't until I got a really good job with good pay (through luck, not bootstraps), that I'm back to doing my best. Good wages make happy, productive employees and I'm currently living it vs a sad, bitter employee that gave no shits that I was.

VitalSigns posted:

If it weren't for Facebook photos, pedophiles would never discover that schools are a destination for large amounts of children.

VitalSigns posted:

Yeah I don't get it. Do they really think their kids are so dumb they can't tell the difference between one of these

And one of these

?

Like, we can't encourage kids to develop a skill and teach them that even though only one team can win there's still honor in going out there and competing? No? We can't do that? Either you're the number one top of the heap in the Pee-Wee Division of West Silverlake Bluffs Soccar Club or you are nothing! NOTHING!!

FuzzySkinner posted:

It legitimately makes me angry.

I was told all of my life to go to college so I wouldn't get stuck working at McDonalds, Starbucks, and all of this other poo poo. I went to college so I could do something for a career for that reason. It's the exact same thing my father did, and his friends/family did.

Now? The EXACT SAME PEOPLE are shaming me, my brother and my friends for going to College.

"What a waste of money"

"You know College isn't for everyone"

"What are you too good to work at McDonalds?" (I just got hired for a part time job at minninum wage fwiw).

"You should have went to a trade school to be a plumber or something"

Double speak and refusing to own up to their mistakes.

VideoTapir posted:

This is unusual, tell us more.

Rick_Hunter posted:

No matter the ethnicity, you're going to run into these kinds of people. It doesn't surprise me one bit.

One question: Does your father reserve his glowing opinions for any specific type of Mexican I.e.: Metztizos(?) vs. Mexicans of Spaniard descent? In the few Latin American Studies courses I took I read about the growing divide between these two groups. Kind of like having lighter skin increases your social status in the American South or India.

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

Nonono, they're moral and good and just.

Seriously, my parents qualified for various benefits but refused because ~reasons~

Rick_Hunter posted:

Just to bring us back on topic: I think that not using race as a primary metric in our every day life takes a lot of training our minds to not just to use visual cues we've grown up with. I think that you can also be empowering to dark skinned women and still want to date other women because there's nothing 2 faced about it.

There's only 1 true race - the human race.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

The other dumb thing about that is, last I checked, feminism was all about a woman's right to choose so if she chooses to date a meaty rugby player, well, good for her for finding a meaty rugby player she liked.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

You'd actually be surprised at how good expert systems can be. Right now they're tedious to program and absolute murder on processing power but there are actually things that you can feed sets of symptoms to that are right more often than doctors. The other issue is that a human doctor's knowledge is guaranteed to be incomplete, especially if you're talking about a primary care physician. A computer you just stuff new information into as it comes. It will still be useful to have people to double-check but when it comes to diseases you'd be surprised at how specific the symptoms can actually be. As computers get smarter you'll even see stuff like surgeons being replaced as machines can be more careful than humans.

A lot of it is experimental right now but trust me people are working on it. There isn't a single thing humans do that can't be automated.

The Insect Court posted:

This gets tossed around a lot by hopeful GOP elites, but it's not actually true. Latinos tend to be more progressive on social and economic issues than white voters. Which means Republicans are doubly hosed. The idea of a huge wave of Latino conservatives rushing into the Republican party the moment it figures out a way to keep its candidates from talking about how the disease-riddled rapings need to self deport is a story pro(ish)-immigration Republicans tell because it means they don't have to come to grips with just how much their party's positions will need to change.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

she is dating Drake lol

Chimera-gui posted:

I was in the waiting for a doctors appointment and my mother started talking to another person about how "kids these days don't know how to communicate cause cell phones exist. There are so many killers cause video games desensitized them. They have no grasp on the real world." Give me a loving break!

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Yeah I never understood that, how do people expect someone to schedule an interview (possibly multiple) and then receive the job offer if they don't have access to a phone or email? Do they still think you just walk in, ask for an interview, get the interview immediately, then get the job offer that same day?

Rick_Hunter posted:

The same people who would speak of Ben Carson as articulate, well-spoken, and a good public speaker would also say that President Obama is a conniving, manipulative, and cunning public speaker.

In other words, they're right up their own asses.

Guavanaut posted:

"Ugly" in Michelle's case is a codeword for something else.

Also there are a ton of depressing doctored photos of her, so it wouldn't surprise me if some of these circlejerking right wing meme groups have never seen a photo of her that hasn't been deliberately made worse.

AbbadonOfHell posted:

I might be reading it wrong but it sounds like you two agree with one another. He's talking about keeping it secular.

Yawgmoft posted:

Wait I thought the point was that they recognize how terrible their show has been, but gently caress it.

DrProsek posted:

Did you normally get arrested when you brought stuff like shirts with marijuana leaves on them to school? Because that's really not normal. You get arrested if they thought you brought illegal stuff, like bombs, not if you brought stuff that just happens to not be allowed in school.

toanoradian posted:

How did the 'if the name "Jesus" offends you' thing start, anyway? What or who in which part of the country said anything to the effect of "Jesus offends me"? Even the staunchest atheist I have seen doesn't say "the name Jesus offends me". They may say he's not real, or he's an amalgamation of myth and a historical figure, but never pure "the name Jesus offends me".

borkencode posted:

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Sounds like a win for paramedics. They'll now have enormous leverage to negotiate raises or improve their working conditions when they can do food service for comparable pay.

seiferguy posted:

Some guy just did this real long post on imgur why people don't like Ronda Rousey: http://imgur.com/gallery/LnAeZ

Don't bother reading it The cliffs of it is "she's an arrogant bitch" because sports athletes are never allowed to be arrogant, ever. Of course you never call male athletes a bitch. MMA purists also hate her because her technique is real bad, or something.

borkencode posted:

This was shared by my cousin who has previously stated that native americans lost, and should get over it.

Keeshhound posted:

"There are no bad jobs," says Television Host and professional Narrator Mike Rowe.

Has Dirty Jobs ever done an episode on migrant workers working for the Ag industry in the south? I have a lot of trouble believing he could sling that poo poo after being paid a dime per bushel picking fruit.

BarbarianElephant posted:

What is wrong with with their eyes? Michelle Obama looks fantastic for her age. Is this just like playground insults where you call the prettiest girl ugly to try and make her cry?