This. If Walsh were a rocket scientist or brain surgeon or someone otherwise engaged in productive activity his criticism would carry much more weight. As it is he's a glorified twitch streamer himself complaining about some other twitch streamer.
I used to work with a guy whose drug-addict sister was like that to him. And yet he'd still giver her absurd (5 figures) amounts of money. He knew he was enabling her, but he did it anyway.
I don't even think it's that they're stupid as much as they know the person they're dependent on is a pushover.
That said, the stupidity from Zelensky was failing to realize Trump isn't a pushover.
All I could think of watching it was the exchange between Caesar and Ptolemy from Rome:
His Majesty forgets he is a vassal to Rome
Vassal? I am no vassal! I am King! I am...
SIT DOWN!
Elon’s a Founder, and those guys are hard to work for because they expect their employees to care about their passion project as much as they care about it themselves.
I worked for a guy like that once, and it was a nightmare. Never again.
It is genuinely mind-boggling how zealously the tech nerds have re-implemented the HR department in their hobby projects
The whole point of working on these projects used to be there wasn’t an HR department
It’s essentially been government policy for the past decade that they be the first “post-national state” with no distinct cultural identity.
Heritage Canadians will boo the US while their government imports infinite Chinese and Indians who are a far greater existential threat to the traditional Canadian way of life than the US could ever be
They gave a trump who doesn’t have to worry about being reelected 4 years to think about what he’d do differently
Almost certainly trying to pivot to be the Everyman who does the George Carlin-esque "I agree with what you're trying to do but you take it to far!"
Wonder if Carville's working with him...
Remember all the Generals who went on record after Trump left saying they lied to him about the number of troops in Afghanistan when he ordered them to withdraw?
With DOGE being embedded in every government agency hopefully they set up some sort of tipline for this sort of thing that bypasses the entire regular chain of command. Fire people for not following EOs since that creates "inefficiency" in government.
Probably full of people who want to appear "respectable" to their non-believing friends.
Sad to say that sort of thing would have appealed to me when I was much younger.
Both Vivek and Elon freaked out. Elon seemed to come to his senses later, and Vivek got booted and is now going to try to convince Ohioans he doesn't hate them.
Let us hope that is a sign of thing to come.
Looks like they finally found something to replace the red net neutrality graphic as the most popular post on every single sub on the site.
That was “totally organic voting patterns” too
That stupid xkcd comic with evangelical Christians as the tiny block keeping us from becoming a European style totalitarian hell-state
Really need to make sure we throw them a big bone every now and then to keep them happy
Trump winning the popular vote was an under-appreciated victory. Totally took the wind out of their sails, and I don’t think they expected that even if they expected him to win.
Ok but we still need an edit with him doing that with laser eyes with a rotating black sun behind his head.
No reason this can’t be fun…
Completely overshadowing MLK day, which is a fantastic side benefit.
If the shrew had won it would have been nonstop "first black woman innaugurated on MLK day" slop.
To be clear, I wasn't saying you were guilty of the things I said. However there were public figures on the "race realist" right who should have known better who thought he was the "future" of the right and who thought he signaled a rightward shift in the Republican party beyond Trump.
That their response to him was anything but "His name is 'Vivek': I think I'll pass" should be embarrassing to them.
It was honestly embarrassing how many people on the "race realist" right fell for it.
I would have rather been proven wrong, and him be all awesome
The siren's song of hiring Indians for anything: "if we could get them to do what they say they can do it'd be awesome".
Jesus. I went to SDCC in 2006 and it was still normal. I went down there again in 2015 and didn't attend the con, but they had a bunch of booths set up in empty lots downtown. That was a lot of fun because some of them had bars, one had a big zip line thing, there was a HITMAN themed thing where I got an official red tie...
Don't know if they still do that, but if they do I actually thought that was more fun than the convention itself.
The cheapest car I have ever seen someone I know drive cost $500, and that was ~25 years ago.
If you've never lived in a "migrant" neighborhood, there will be a good dozen people living in a 3br/2ba house. They will illegally convert (and I use the term loosely, because it's just a bunch of bunk-beds in a normal garage) the garage to a bedroom to fit all the people living there. And they will have like 5 cars parked in both the driveway (the garage is a "bedroom", so they can't park cars there) or the street all the time, making it difficult for you to entertain more than a few guests at a time without them having to park far away from your home due to all the street parking.
I'll always remember something the CEO of one of the companies I used to work for said: "you never want to be forced to compete on price". And that is why: because you can always find someone willing to live in greater squalor to accept slightly less than you to outbid you.
I lived very much as you did in my early 20s when I saved for my first house. Never did I want to live with 11 other people to do so, nor did I think it was reasonable I be expected to.
You basically have to go out on your own for that. I do that now for people I used to work with, and I work harder than I have since my 20s because team "billable hours" is a great team to play for. It's also a nice feeling (for me at least) for a project to end so it doesn't feel like work is an endless slog where nothing seems to ever progress.
But I don't know how you deliberately put yourself into that situation where you can do that; it would be very specific to an individual. In my case it happened on accident: old coworkers emailed me after they'd heard through the grapevine I quit where we'd worked together, they needed help, the ball started rolling, and things just worked out. After the first successful project they knew I could deliver, so then I was a known quantity for the next time they needed help.
None of these guys would be caught dead working a Panda Express management job. Hell they'll performatively act "insulted" if an offer doesn't give them enough money, as Steven Crowder demonstrated a couple years ago.
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