CSotD: The Rising of the Mooned
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No politics today, but how’s about some reactions to politics? There must be some very unhappy plutocrats wandering around wondering, as this pair does, what just happened.
When I got in the car Wednesday morning, I heard an interview with some counselor explaining how managers could help employees who were upset with the election results, and I wondered who those employees might be?
Nobody I ran into.
This pair seem to be taking it all quite calmly. Perhaps they’re calm because they’ve seen so many lesser beings meet the same fate.
When I was working for the Denver Post, they moved into offices in the production building. They had a huge roomful of reporters working away and they even had a combination food and games room. It was inspiring to see them all typing away or taking breaks for foosball, but within a very few years, you could fire a cannon through there and not hit a soul.
They wrote an editorial about it, which took courage except when your staff goes through this in five years, what’s the risk? If they’d stayed in the old building downtown, they could have sat and watched colleagues hurdle past, but management sold it.
Anyway, if anybody at Alden Global Capital is surprised at Tuesday’s vote, they’re dumber-with-a-b than I thought, and I’ve worked for both them and Lee Enterprises, so I’m an expert on stupidity, and very happy to be retired.
I may be living in poverty but at least I’m no longer living in fear.
Isn’t it nice to know we have a global economy these days? The past little while of sorting though cartoons has been challenging, because the US, New Zealand, Israel and South Africa were all having elections, and, while the issues were fairly universal, the cultural references were often puzzling. And the UK started going on about their budget and I had no idea what they were talking about.
I’m glad Thandi mentioned two companies, because I recognized Uber Eats, which shows the contributions we make to world culture. Here’s the other one.
Some international developments make the press here: It seems they’ve been having problems overseas with hackers switching off the refrigeration units in grocery stores. If you didn’t know that, Matt’s cartoon could be quite a head-scratcher.
As it is, having your refrigeration units under some kind of internetably vulnerable control is quite a head-scratcher but I’m sure somewhere there’s a fellow in a suit who can explain why it was a good idea. If he hasn’t gone out a window by now.
Which reminds me of when a newspaper I was working for (the Lee Enterprises one) decided to install cameras around the building. They didn’t even say it was for our safety and security. They said it was so they could watch us work. Either locally or in Davenport. They abandoned the idea, probably after finding out what it would cost. In money for them, not in morale for us.
First thing they’d done when they acquired the paper was to cancel our Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys. Morale was not high in their priorities. (The cost was a full page ad for whatever grocery store supplied the food.)
And that guy in Weyant’s cartoon wonders why Tuesday went the way it did?
A friend of mine lost her husband two or three years ago, so she sold the house and moved into a condo. I always thought condos and townhouses were a good way to have someone watching over your shoulder and giving you grief, though I realize you can live in a house where an HOA will do the same.
The argument, at least for condos and townhouses, is that, in return, they mow the lawn and shovel the snow, which my landlord does, too. All I’ve shoveled in the past 16 years is the snow on the three steps from my kitchen door to the driveway. I guess the landlord could complain about this and that, but he hasn’t, and if I decided to move, I’d just load the U-Haul and go my merry way.
Of course, renters don’t build equity, which is a blow to any colleges their kids decide to attend.
There’s a lot of talk about kids and college and how to monetize what they learn. I’ve told the story before that along about senior year, I wished we’d also had some HVAC repair training or something, because nobody was hiring Philosopher Kings. But a lot of my friends went on to law school, and I don’t think you want to face anyone in court who has learned to think from people like Descartes and Aquinas and even Hobbes, who was a grumpy old guy but fierce in logic.
The best part of Existential Comics is how they mock these superintelligent people by exploiting practical gaps and taking their theories literally. Every freshman metaphysics class features the professor holding out his pen and asking, if he releases it, will it fall? You won’t get an A in the course if you offer to bet on the outcome.
I hated metaphysics, but it made me a better reporter. If somebody’s pen didn’t fall, I didn’t blame Bishop Berkeley but dug in to discover the facts.
I wasn’t a bachelor of science. I was a bachelor of arts. Better snacks and good movies on demand.
Thought I’d better get this one up before parts of it become completely outdated.
The combination of Russia’s troll farms losing connectivity and our own rightwing losing the elections has really changed Xitter. We still have rightwing politicians — or their hired guns — posting hateful, illogical things, but they get slapped down in the comments, because there aren’t so many bots to cheer for them and there are plenty of people feeling their Cheerios after the elections.
(My favorite is that moron Todd Blanche, who keeps saying his powers are in the Constitution. Pull up a copy and do a Ctl-F search for the word “Justice.” Three entries, none about him.)
Blueskyers are currently celebrating their impact, but Threads is still like being immersed in a crowd of college sophomores, full of self-importance and impractical insights.
Never figured out Mastodon.
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