Translation: Bernie won big and now we have to cook the results so that he didn’t win, because that’d just be wrong and against the will of the people who matter: the rich and the pundits.
Day: February 3, 2020, 11:42 PM
Books Per Day

I can believe it. When I was a kid and had tons of free time I could burn through 3-4 books a day routinely, and sometimes more. When you read 12-18 hours a day, it’s not that hard to read a lotta damn books.
Common MBA
What a waste of time, money and resources. Someone in Upper management had the bright idea to make everyone in the leisure, culture and education sector train to be interchangeable. Needless to say, I cannot work as a lifeguard. Nor should I. I am a library worker.
— Untitled Grump Game (@grumpwitch) January 31, 2020
This happens in IT, too. It’s a very common MBA idea, I think, across industries. I’d wager a guess that it occurs because MBAs have no special skills and that causes them to believe that no one else does, either.
At a previous job it was announced that every systems engineer would be trained in everything so that we’d all be able to do any IT role found there. That encompassed about 30 areas of expertise and maybe 200+ subfields within those specialties. Needless to say, this didn’t work as it’s absolutely impossible. Just absurd. One would need a lifespan of a thousand years to become even adequate — much less achieve expertise — in all of those areas.
This initiative utterly failed and was quickly forgotten.
We Have Gotten Better At Guessing
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
For even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
-Xenophanes
Arbi
Liberals use the word “arbitrary” in way that’s absolutely meaningless. Some social construct is “arbitrary,” who gives a whoop. Many of these constructs are essentially unchangeable over short time scales and many more are likely unalterable even over very long time scales.
In the end everything is arbitrary, so that’s really saying nothing. Even the laws of the universe are very likely arbitrary in that there might be other universes with different rules.
IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER what’s arbitrary or not in most ways. That’s just way of of liberal avoiding dealing with any issues, combined with some virtue and intelligence signaling. Declaring something “arbitrary” doesn’t give you an argument win, it just means you are useless in any real battle for anything.
DIY
The job centre have sent us four people today who cannot read. They cannot even tell me which letters are which. One of them described a C as “the curly one.”
Legally I can’t even look at their universal credit account.
Do they expect me to teach these poor people to read?
โ Untitled Grump Game (@grumpwitch) February 3, 2020
They serve no purpose to the capitalist enterprise and thus must be soft-eliminated.
These days we don’t put people in concentration camps and just outright kill them. No, we isolate them, tell them they are worthless to our civilization and provide them with plentiful opioids, abundant harmful pabulum filled with sugar and little else, and let them go die on their own, unremarked.
Then we tell those barely still making it in the system and the families of those liquidated that they “brought this on themselves.” Why bother with the expense of concentration camps? It’s a gig extermination, DIY eradication world.
Anx
I have never felt anxious that I know of. I can only guess what anxiety feels like because I observe it in others. However it feels, I have never experienced anything like that I am quite sure.
Don’t want to, either.
Choose
the myth of "perfect health" and the desirability of it keeps people in denial about (often treatable) illnesses or conditions, which in turn prevents them from getting the resources they need
— Yael Grauer (@yaelwrites) February 2, 2020
True in the small minority of cases. Most people have the power to be fitter and more healthy to a greater degree than they allow themselves to believe — most just don’t want to. It’s not all individual fault, of course. There is a vast array of ubiquitous and unavoidable propaganda imploring you to lounge on your couch, caress your smartphone lovingly and consume, consume, consume.
That is not nothing. But who do you want making the choices in your life, you or some marketing putz from Nabisco? Choose wisely.