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#1

Off the Record / Re: Are we allowed to be happy...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 02:55:43 PM

When it comes to reviews in general, there seems to be a ridiculous inflation.  If my Uber driver has 4.9 stars, I start sweating.  The idiotic "perfect or nothing" mindset originally pushed by corporate management percolated down to everyone, and now reviews for anything have lost much of their power to differentiate.

Totally true.

BTW I would never trust a driver with 5.0 stars.  Something has to be wrong there. It's like an election result from a Cold War communist dictatorship.

#2

Off the Record / Re: Are we allowed to be happy...

Last post by HVC - Today at 02:52:48 PM

Question for ya, is this creation of rage targets different in practice and outcome from the creation of moral panic targets and the fight against them? Rights been doing that forever. Rock and roll will be the end of us!

Those people gave in.  I think current grievances are eternal.

Do they give in or die off*? Did those protesting rock, to keep that example, end up embracing or at least tolerating it?

 *Well, I guess in some cases they live on in keeping it alive through their kids. Amish are still fighting the good fight against the morally corrupting buttons

#3

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 02:51:33 PM

The more serious concern is that in the midst of what is arguably a revolution in military affairs, with implications for US tactics, operations, strategy, force structure, etc., civilian leadership is completely asleep at the wheel, obsessing over trivialities.

#4

Off the Record / Re: Are we allowed to be happy...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 02:50:16 PM

Question for ya, is this creation of rage targets different in practice and outcome from the creation of moral panic targets and the fight against them? Rights been doing that forever. Rock and roll will be the end of us!

Those people gave in.  I think current grievances are eternal.

#5

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - Today at 02:48:45 PM

Sorry, that was directed at Raz and his obsession, and you slipped in before it got posted.

Gotcha

#6

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Baron von Schtinkenbutt - Today at 02:47:05 PM

Sorry, that was directed at Raz and his obsession, and you slipped in before it got posted.

#7

Off the Record / Re: Are we allowed to be happy...

Last post by HVC - Today at 02:37:14 PM

Dude. There was a right wing rage machine 40 years ago. I know. I got screamed at by an endless and tiresome series of enraged Republicans in the 1990s for disliking Bill Clinton to a level that was insufficient for them. Like I didn't like Bill but I failed to reach their acceptable level of disliking. And for this crime I was regularly subjected to unhinged screaming sessions.

So stop with the fantasy land shit about how right wing people just started being full of rage.

Dude.  There have been angry people since Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden.  The recent difference, IMO, is that people discovered if they let the cause of their anger fester, instead of solving it, and simultaneously invent new things to be outraged about, it can generate positive feelings.  Or at least it's new that this mindset has been mainstreamed into political discourse.

Question for ya, is this creation of rage targets different in practice and outcome from the creation of moral panic targets and the fight against them? Rights been doing that forever. Rock and roll will be the end of us!

#8

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - Today at 02:34:32 PM

#9

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 02:30:03 PM

This was literally a Simpsons episode about 30 years ago

WFH police detective jammed button on keyboard to look busy
Niall Thubron has been barred from policing after tricking his superiors by 'key-jamming' at home when he was supposed to be investigating organised crime

On the twelve days he was WFH that they looked at he appears to have been away for 45 of his 85 working hours

#10

Off the Record / Re: Are we allowed to be happy...

Last post by frunk - Today at 02:16:37 PM

That doesn't sound new at all.  People have been fueled by rage forever, in politics or anything else.