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yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

no they will not posted:

a re-launch of Dilbert for a younger generation

Silicon Valley already exists and this guy probably has no loving idea

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

no they will not posted:

a re-launch of Dilbert for a younger generation

alternately, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITL4NqOKmzk

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

i wonder how many YOSPOSters don't even know the true origin of The Dehumanize Yourself And Face To Bloodshed Meme

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006


And it has to make me cry when I think about certain scenes. (Remember, this is a reimagined Dilbert with emotions and action scenes and whatnot.) The crying has been a problem lately because I have been weeping on the elliptical as I imagine scenes playing out. I hope that means I am on the right track.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

well???????

yeah actually they will
Aug 18, 2012

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

apparently dilbert wears a red polo shirt instead of a shortsleeve + tie now. this is how you know scott adams is With It

My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!
the only thing I agree with is the making cities to encourage moving around instead of driving

which cities do already just by being congested? idk

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

whoa when did logansryche start writing for dilbert.com?

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
i want to build a big floating island but it'll just be a chill place to relax and hang out, if you want to paint a bit or work on a light project thats cool but we're low stress here

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

As a Millennial I posted:

And it has to make me cry when I think about certain scenes. (Remember, this is a reimagined Dilbert with emotions and action scenes and whatnot.) The crying has been a problem lately because I have been weeping on the elliptical as I imagine scenes playing out. I hope that means I am on the right track.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

As a Millennial I posted:

And it has to make me cry when I think about certain scenes. (Remember, this is a reimagined Dilbert with emotions and action scenes and whatnot.) The crying has been a problem lately because I have been weeping on the elliptical as I imagine scenes playing out. I hope that means I am on the right track.

why would a film about a comic strip where an rear end in a top hat engineer makes jokes to/about his rear end in a top hat coworkers have action scenes

what exactly does he think dilbert could be

will it be all the episodes of the failed dilbert cartoon edited together into a movie?

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Jonny 290 posted:

i want to build a big floating island but it'll just be a chill place to relax and hang out, if you want to paint a bit or work on a light project thats cool but we're low stress here

how do you enforce the chill though

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Jonny 290 posted:

i want to build a big floating island but it'll just be a chill place to relax and hang out, if you want to paint a bit or work on a light project thats cool but we're low stress here

have you considered buying some hawaiian rainforest and opening a croudsourced yoga retreat with your wife?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

duTrieux. posted:

how do you enforce the chill though

byob reggay 24/7

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
100% of the assumptions in the article are wishful hot air and even if you take all of them seriously the end result is still poo poo

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

poty posted:

100% of the assumptions in the article are wishful hot air and even if you take all of them seriously the end result is still poo poo

very insightful you brrain dead moron

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
smythe more like shyt me

dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003

substantial "reimagining" of dilbert lookin good

dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003

also

quote:

...recent advances in medical testing technology (which I have seen up close in start-up pitches) will drive the costs of routine medical services down by 80% over time

lol

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Jonny 290 posted:

i want to build a big floating island but it'll just be a chill place to relax and hang out, if you want to paint a bit or work on a light project thats cool but we're low stress here

welcome to your new island
please pick your downfall:

1) teens snuck in, got drunk and a rich white girl drowned
2) someone poo poo on the soldering irons
3) libertarians

> :ovr:

dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003

you don't understand... i have seen..... start-up pitches

not from a distance. i saw them very close

the 21st-century shaman, Start-up Pitch Watcher

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
according to startups the world has gone through 171 groundbreaking revolutions that changed everything since monday

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
I read all of these words, and all I can say is that Scott Adams is twit, akin to Marc Andreessen and Mike Arrington.

But LOL at him trying to make a libertarian paradise and half his ideas being socialist or outright communist.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:
Hey idiot, communal farming will fail due to the simple fact that people aren't robots and won't eat the same poo poo day in, day out, for the rest of their lives. It'll become a clusterfuck in six months or less.

Also, I don't loving like broccoli, and I'm not trading my potatoes for it. :colbert:

Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
you'll eat your broccoli rations or else, comrade Freeman

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Doc Block posted:

I read all of these words, and all I can say is that Scott Adams is twit, akin to Marc Andreessen and Mike Arrington.

But LOL at him trying to make a libertarian paradise and half his ideas being socialist or outright communist.

The traditional view of money-vs.-morality is that you want to start with a moral foundation and then you can pursue making money in a way that makes the world better. You treat your employees and customers well, act honestly, and perhaps even donate your wealth to those in need.

That was a good model. I think it served the United States well in its formative years. You can’t have capitalism without some level of trust, especially in earlier times, and morality in the form of religion provided a form of predictable honesty.

But today that situation is flipped because of the Internet and the free flow of information.

Today, morality is not limited to what your neighbors are doing. Now we look at the entire globe and see that morality is subjective. In ISIS-held territory it means beheading innocent people. To you it might mean donating time at a homeless shelter. Those are the extremes, but the point is that your neighbor has a different idea of morality. He’s hitting the bong and climbing on top of his friend-with-benefits while you’re in church. The Internet allows us to see just how subjective morality is. Or to put it another way, morality is mostly magical thinking that had utility in earlier times but now seems quaint.

Luckily we have a better substitute for morality in 2015. It’s called capitalism, social media, and the Internet. Now if you treat others poorly you lose customers, lose job prospects, and lose social options. Capitalism is doing what morality once did — keeping people in line.

So when you accuse me of putting money above morality (which I do all the time) it’s not because I’m possessed by Satan. It’s because you get a better result in the year 2015 by being smart in business than you do by being morality-driven.

If you want to be good to your fellow humans, just make some money and give it to people that need it. That works every time.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
please source your quotes

i want to see the post's comments

Unless
Jul 24, 2005

I art



1,427,438 views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Mister Macys posted:

Hey idiot, communal farming will fail due to the simple fact that people aren't robots and won't eat the same poo poo day in, day out, for the rest of their lives. It'll become a clusterfuck in six months or less.

Also, I don't loving like broccoli, and I'm not trading my potatoes for it. :colbert:

broccoli is Good

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Elder Postsman posted:

broccoli is Good

if health benefits were relevant to eating people wouldn't be unhealthy

shadok
Dec 12, 2004

You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Fun Shoe

Mister Macys posted:

if health benefits were relevant to eating people wouldn't be unhealthy

i love broccoli but potatoes will keep you alive indefinitely and broccoli will not. hang on to your potatoes with both hands, you will need them when dilbertville collapses, which will be immediately.

du -hast
Mar 12, 2003

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

shadok posted:

i love broccoli but potatoes will keep you alive indefinitely and broccoli will not. hang on to your potatoes with both hands, you will need them when dilbertville collapses, which will be immediately.

potatoes will keep u alive til u die of scurvy from their lack of vitamins, but potatoes and broccoli will truly keep u alive indefinitely

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:
they also act as ammo for my contraband potato cannon, which i will use to become undisputed ruler of dilbertopia :commissar:

the other farmers will be as serfs to my beneficent rule

shadok
Dec 12, 2004

You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Fun Shoe

du -hast posted:

potatoes will keep u alive til u die of scurvy from their lack of vitamins, but potatoes and broccoli will truly keep u alive indefinitely

potatoes are antiscorbutic, that's why so many irish people died of scurvy during the great potato famine.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

du -hast posted:

potatoes will keep u alive til u die of scurvy from their lack of vitamins, but potatoes and broccoli will truly keep u alive indefinitely

people attribute scurvy to lack of vitamins but its mostly excess of nutrient free processed food. the sailors had white flour and white sugar to eat, coz they lasted well. fruit fixed this, but the problem wasnt the lack of fruit as much as the excess of refined food with nothing else

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Sham bam bamina! posted:

please source your quotes

i want to see the post's comments

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/108184751841/money-is-the-new-morality

oh god i didn't even think of reading the comments on that one



You're missing the point of his argument. As Mr. Adams stated, capitalism is doing now what morality used to do fairly well. There's no question a moral business that did the right thing without being asked would be preferable, but when "the right thing" becomes subjective, it is difficult for one person to be in-line with everyone else's moral code; what we find to be "immoral" a businessman or woman might simply think is his or her right as the business owner. In general, you might not think that [ABC Company]'s actions were particularly tasteful, but that doesn't mean anyone else is as mad about it as you are. This is where social media comes in: to organize people into revealing their true preferences pertaining to the subject. If enough people can be persuaded that scandal XYZ is a big deal, change will follow; businesses shouldn't be expected to adhere to every moral code in existence.

In summary, morality would be a better control mechanism if it worked in this day and age, but when morality becomes intangible, social enforcement (i.e., capitalism), based on an aggregation of individual preferences, becomes superior.

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shadok
Dec 12, 2004

You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Fun Shoe

echinopsis posted:

people attribute scurvy to lack of vitamins but its mostly excess of nutrient free processed food. the sailors had white flour and white sugar to eat, coz they lasted well. fruit fixed this, but the problem wasnt the lack of fruit as much as the excess of refined food with nothing else

what? no. scurvy is directly caused by vitamin C deficiency. it is cured, completely and immediately, by consuming vitamin C.

pro-read about how the cure to scurvy was discovered in the 18th century and forgotten again in the 19th century: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

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