Recently I had a friend visit. He used to live in Texas, but moved out of country. I love my friend, but he gaslights. This summer, it was just too hot for him and he was obsessed with talking about global warming.
“The alps have no snow!”
OK, I don’t know about that. Whatever you say.
“Texas is boiling away!”
That one I could speak to.
“The heat has broken records in DFW!” Said the gaslighter.
Note: DFW is the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas, for you non-Texans.
No, actually it has not. The hottest temperatures recorded in DFW were in 1980. I lived through 1980. I remember. Here’s the chart from NOAA:
| Rank | Temperature | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (tie) |
113 | Jun 27, 1980 |
| 113 | Jun 26, 1980 | |
| 3 (tie) |
112 | Jun 28, 1980 |
| 112 | Aug 11, 1936 | |
| 112 | Aug 18, 1909 | |
| 6 | 111 | Sep 4, 2000 |
| 7 (tie) |
110 | Aug 2, 2011 |
| 110 | Jul 12, 1998 | |
| 110 | Jul 18, 1980 | |
| 110 | Jul 2, 1980 | |
| 110 | Aug 16, 1943 | |
| 110 | Aug 10, 1936 |
The 2000s barely register any records. Also I don’t know what is with that table color scheme. It’s crazy.
“There have been more consecutive days of 100+ temperatures in DFW than ever before!” Said the gaslighter.
No, actually 1980 holds that distinction with 13 days in a row over 100. Which isn’t even a good measurement, because we usually have close to 20 days over 100 degrees in an average summer. Just not consecutively.
All of this was fear mongering and gaslighting to support a belief system. And I hate it. Don’t let people around you get away with this spouting this kind of crap, you can bring up the numbers and show the truth. So suck it, fear porn mongers! At the very least, do it when kids are around, so they can see gaslighters sputter. Question authority kids!
As an extra step, I decided to look at August average temperatures across the years since 1900. Remarkably the same, fluctuating in decade-long sine waves from 82 to 92. No hockey stick rise. Or even a little upwards trend. Up and down.
Even more interesting, one of the coldest days in DFW history was in 2021. It was -2 degrees F (-18 C for the Euros). You have to go back to 1899 to the great Valentine’s Day Blizzard to see a colder day.
So when people start gaslighting about climate change to support their own misguided beliefs, feel free to bring up some data, tell them to stop praying to Al Gore and go live their lives. You feel hot? Go jump in a lake. We built a lot of those in Texas.
hottest temperatures recorded in
DFWeverywhere were in 1980I spent most of it outside, camping even, wearing jeans: didn’t notice
Don escaped Texas and wet jeans.
Id go to that concert
yeah: I didn’t know any better
we wore that stuff 365
Sounds like my boss.
“It’s never been this hot!
Climate change is real.”
When I ask him about the unusually cool June we had, that doesn’t matter.
one of the coldest days in DFW history was in 2021. It was -2 degrees F
that one datum could be a reasonable outcome of climate change; a lot of things could be
my position has never changed: it takes more data than we could collect or process to model all the factors in play, so I’m agnostic: I don’t know because I don’t believe there is a comprehensive model
and I expect no such model in my lifetime
I don’t glom onto ideas that might be true
a comprehensive model
Even if you had a model that was close to right, you have a paucity of data to feed it. We don’t have hundreds let alone thousands of years of actual data.
When I ask him about the unusually cool June we had, that doesn’t matter.
There is nothing climate change can’t do.
I mean, it literally changed from June to July.
Speaking of gaslighting,
This place is full of insular, suspicious and deceitful natives, with strange ways. Though with a decade of walking among them, I thought I had learned a few of them, such as: Utica pie is a pizza consisting of crust, tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese.
Then a local dive bar got renovated and got a website, upon which they posted a menu;
Specialty Pizza
Utica Style
White Garlic Base, Sausage, Italian Long Hots, Italian Cheese Blend
Somebody is wrong somewhere.
There is no utica style.
Utica barely has anything that might be regarded a culture. The town certainly doesn’t produce anything that might be regarded as good.
Wasn’t there a Utica Beer in the 60s? I remember it being exotic (in Philly area) but can’t remember if it was any good.
I wasn’t around in the 60’s.
Are you perhaps thinking of the brand that eventually evolved into Saranac and the Matt Brewing Company?
I don’t follow as closely anymore, with the changes made that allowed Yuengling to be classified as “craft”, did Matt also finally make the list?
Not sure about that. I did see with Breckenridge being sold off, that they’re back to being considered “craft”.
Interestingly enough, Matt Brewing did recently acquire Flying Dog (who left the BA due to first amendment issues).
Yes, saw that about Breckenridge. Had not heard about Flying Dog. What was the issue?
robc:
Flying Dog immediately left the BA after the BA instituted the policy that any beer with a offensive/misogynistic name/label would be prohibited from displaying their GABF medals (or mentioning them) on labeling or in association with the beer name. Despite the reassurances that none of their beers would be impacted by this rule, Flying Dog left the organization. This was recent to when they had just won their case in Michigan about Raging Bitch.
I figured it was something like that.
Flying Dog needs to spend more time on their beers, and less on their marketing.
I have always found them to be only slightly better than “meh”.
robc:
Well, that’s on Matt Brewing now. Flying Dog had some really good beers, and a lot of average ones. One of their best was a one off seasonal they did many years back called Wildeman. It was a dry hopped saison that was fucking amazing. A friend and I drank as much of it as we could get our hands on, and it never came back again.
Saranac. I remember their stuff. I remember liking it.
Their pumpkin beer is good.
“Their pumpkin beer is good.” – Not Adahn
Somebody is wrong somewhere. – Not Adahn
They sell it in quarts.
Utica Club. The brewery also made the Matt’s beer ball, a plastic mini-keg that was floating in creeks all over upstate NY in the 1970s.
I remember that from my beer can collecting days as a yute.
I stopped for gas once in Utica.
In Tulsa, there is a street called Utica in the fancy part of town.
I have family in the area, so I’ve been there more often.
Is that like Gangnam Style?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
/becomes elevntybillionth click
Thought you were talking about us for a minute.
#MeToo
A few more years before there’s an official decade.
Depends on if you want to count the time interacting at TOS.
I started posting at TOS in the early to mid aughts. So roughly two decades ago.
I believe I started at about the same time.
Me too. But not seriously until circa 2009 -10
Never posted but lurked for many years since the early 00″
Bah.
“Suspicious” is really the only one that applies.
You’re clearly being deceitful, as we do have strange ways,
‘Utica pie is a pizza consisting of crust, tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese.’
Huh, growing up I called that the Chef Boyardee Boxed Pizza Kit.
But… but… hockey stick!!
The article someone (DEG?) posted about Mann going to Penn, they were proud of the “hockey stick”.
They should beat Mann to death with a hockey stick for his fraud.
That was me. Had to post it twice as I fucked it up the first time.
Let’s see if I can get it right this time.
I believe the opening sentence is textbook gaslighting.
Humans are basically stupid with a pattern fixation that evolution selected on for oh, 10,000 generations – at a minimum. Shit ain’t random bubba – it happens for reasons (or stories) and we’re gonna believe in one or another.
Pattern recognition is the difference between living and being eaten by the tiger.
The issue is that there are few real dangers that civilized people need to recognize.
We are pattern processing machines, we will find them even where they don’t exist and then make up a story to justify that.
agreed
Your patriarchical sentence structure indicates hostility.
I was in Dallas in 1984, at the Grand Prix, working with a Can-Am team. “Hot” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
When I was a much younger person, every winter was the coldest but we still walked to school in Mpls, rode the bus in Podunkville. Of course, we didn’t wear proper clothes.
Paywalled now, but relevant:
Cleveland enjoying delightful summer but has not escaped effects of climate change
The article is talking about the EXTREME STORMS that we had. We had several bad thunderstorms, this is true. But that’s not unusual for Cleveland in summer. There have been several tornado warnings in the CLE area, but no touchdowns. In fact… from the very same fscking paper:
Yes, Cuyahoga County does get tornadoes, but none since 2019; here’s where the last 16 have been spotted (Updated April 7th 2023)
I can damn near guarantee that there will be some article in that same rag come winter talking about the unusually cold/warm winter and blaming it on climate change as well.
I remember watching a show on the History Channel (back when they covered history) about how every 40-50 years a big storm would hit New York.
It talked about the last couple and finished with the fact that we were overdue for one.
I told my wife that when one does hit, they’ll blame Global Warming (this was before they rebranded it).
Sure enough, when Sandy hit, they acted like this was a new thing and Climate Change caused it.
Define “Big”. I recall a freakout storm in 2012 that knocked a chunk of downstate off the grid.
By big, I think they meant hurricane.
Well, Sandy was still a Cat 1 when it rolled over Downstate.
Not the one back in 2003?
Monday was the official 20th anniversary of it.
We were talking about storms and I was trying to figure out if we were still overdue for a big one.
It’s been a while since I saw the show, but I think Sandy filled the requirements for the overdue storm.
Sandy did indeed take a shit on NY.
Oof, fun times. Second time in two years I had to walk ten or twelve miles home from work. I got to wondering, “WTF, New York?”
I don’t remember if Sandy knocked out my power. I know I was off work because instead of working I was moving into my current apartment.
The left and the corporate press have become masters at gaslighting. It does work. But I’m encouraged lately because the gaslighting lately is going against observable reality. Cities overrun with migrants, increases in crime, tent villages full of drug addicts, high gas and food prices… all of this counters The Narrative, and people are seeing it every day with their own eyes.
I am not quite sure it is going against anything. People have been highly conditioned to believe what they are told to believe. Mass Stockholm Syndrome in effect.
Pretty much any psychologically abusive behavior you can name, is now standard operating procedure for the left. It’s almost like they’re a giant destructive cult…
The real problems come when so many of their followers actually believe the bullshit that they overwhelm the manipulators.
And I guarantee many people will rationalize away what they see.
Does anyone here remember people blaming GWB for the economy well into Obama’s second term?
YES.
I remember.
It was clearly Reagan’s fault.
The same people were saying “Thanks Obama!” in the middle of Trump’s term when the economy was buzzing along.
Speaking of which, I ran across this: San Diego now enforcing homeless camping ban
People have been highly conditioned to believe what they are told to believe.
Thank a teacher!
Speaking of “gaslighting” harken back to the story I linked in the last day or two featuring prominent global warming alarmists talking about how the media have conspired to keep it a secret. Nobody is willing to tell us the truth about the great climate calamity, because they’re all on the take from Big Carbon!
Let the truth be heard!
Yet no one questions where the alarmists’ money comes from or what would happen to it if they were to write a paper that goes against the “consensus”.
“Gaslighting.”
Naw. He’s just caught up in a cult, parroting what they say. Lying, if you will, maybe being an asshole and/or a new zealot, but not gaslighting. Gaslighting’s more sinister and more insidious than that, so I’m a little wary of people claiming that lying is gaslighting. My son’s therapist misuses it too, and I called him on it, but he said that was just the common vernacular. No. Gaslighting is:
Me: “You motherfucking cunt!”
That uncle that every family has to his wife who is on the phone: “She called me a blankety blank blank blank!”
Me: *gasp* I most certainly did not!
Husband: No, she did not!
Aunt: She would never say that.
Uncle: *confused and doubting what he absolutely did hear*
My grandmother was a master of manipulating things to make you feel crazy, and turn the people around you against you. The very few powers that be are gaslighting us, yes, but this dude’s just a zealot and doan know no bettah. I know scientists who are true believers, but I can’t say, “Your data’s flawed, and also, based on conjecture” because he won’t believe it and will write me off as a flat-earther. There is no hope there. The best you can do is hope your friend looks at the numbers and goes, “Dafuq.” But he won’t. He’s just brainwashed, like cultmembers are, and deserves some quietly contemptuous pity.
I know scientists who are true believers
Jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, …
Suppose you are right. He is a true believer.
I guess we did this to one of my kids last night. Middle kid (XX) is with an emotionally abusive boyfriend, and has changed her phone number and refuses to give it to any family. We had a friend over last night, a car dealer who can sell ice cubes to an Eskimo. We were telling him we’re worried for XX’s safety. I had the boyfriend’s phone number so car dealer decided to call him, and he covered for me.
Car Dealer: Is this (boyfriend)? Is XX there?
Boyfriend: Yes, here she is.
XX: How did you get this number?
Car Dealer: You called me a while ago about buying a car.
XX: I don’t remember that.
Car Dealer: Then why is the number in my call log?
…
XX: So how did you get this number again?
Car Dealer: You gave it to me, remember?
XX: Ok maybe I did.
In any event, he talked to her and verified she’s at least alive.
That’s scary, I don’t know of a way to convince someone like her that she is in a bad situation.
God knows I tried with my daughter, but luckily, she grew out of the insanity.
You can’t convince them. It’s usually a mistake to try, at least past the point where they start shutting you out.
It is scary. Fortunately she lives in town, so sometimes people see here walking to work. And my oldest works with her, so she sees her there (when that one isn’t calling off work for BS reasons, but that’s a different story).
This infuriates me. I get language changes, but this Left-driven weaponizing of word definitions for political gain is bullshit. Gaslighting = lying. Bigot = racist. Racist = someone who won’t bend the knee to multiculturism
Newspapers in NoDak for lack of news
https://www.foxnews.com/us/multiple-north-dakota-newspapers-cease-publication-closure-century-old-family-business
Insert ‘close’ in there somewhere
Where will MikeS advertise his STEVE SMITH can holders?
I’m counting on the Gilbertiat to buy them all. I’ll have a booth set up at Honey Harvest. See you all there!
I cannot attend Honey Harvest. But I wish to buy one.
Were you one of the ones wanting a stick-in-the-ground version? Maybe I should make a forum topic for them
That would be nice. I just want one that holds drinks, and has a stand. I agree with whomever said the base should be removable for mailing.
The building I went to kindergarten in was across the street from one of the newspapers they owned. They made all of us kids a little stamp of our name from newspaper type. I still have it.
That’s cool.
“Help us Billy Busch, you’re our only hope” – Princess Bud
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anheuser-busch-heir-billy-busch-wants-buy-back-bud-light
No news is good news.
No gnews? https://youtu.be/d-fqRVRd8Wc?t=170
They don’t care.
Facts are for patriarchal transphobe colonists.
Or something.
Fide World Cup semis are set:
Magnus Carlsen (2835) v Nijat Abasov (2632)
*Fabiano Caruana (2782) v R Praggnanandhaa (2690)
Pragg won his tiebreaker today, in the sudden death portion, after first 3 tiebreakers were tied. The 8 matches before sudden death featured 2 draws and 6 wins by black! Pragg drew white for sudden death, showed up 30 seconds late to a 3+2 match (3 minutes on the clock plus 2 second increment per move), wasted 10 more seconds taking off jacket and id badge, and then preceeded to win.
Carlsen said yesterday that he would not be playing in candidates, so the other 3 players remaining all have guaranteed themselves a spot in next years Candidates Tournament.
The womens semis finished up today, the finals will be:
Alexandra Goryachkina (2557) v (2409) Nurgyul Salimova
Salimova is the big suprise on the women’s side, she has recently been coached by … wait for it … Nijat Abasov. They are having a heck of a run. There is also talk that after the top Azerbaijanis were eliminated in the early rounds (Abasov entered tourney as #4 in Azerbaijan), his openings have improved. It is suspected that he has been prepping his matches with his top countrymen. The tourney being held in Baku, they wanted a good run from one of them, and with the others getting upset early, it fell to Abasov.
One additional comment related to the coaching bit. Outside of about the top 20 players in the world, you can’t really make a living just playing chess. So players like Abasov coach to make a living and play chess tournaments to supplement their coaching income. However, by making the semis, Abasov has guaranteed himself at least a $50k prize (up to $110k for 1st place), which I am sure goes a long way in Azerbaijan.
If things had followed seeding, Abasov would have lost in 2nd round and earned $6k. Which would have been nice for what would have been 1 week of work, but not the same as earning $50k (for a month of work).
Gaslighting’s more sinister and more insidious
I’d say it also involves upending objective reality for personal gain. Parroting what you’ve been told is just old fashioned lemming follower-ism. Claiming (in utter and obvious disregard of the facts) the media has ignored your hobbyhorse in order to get more “research grants” and interviews is gaslighting.
Absolutely insane thread on the origins of Lymes.
And you don’t need a TwiX account, complainers!
Do read it, though.
I knew before I clicked.
My conspiracy credentials remain untarnished.
I’m vaguely familiar. Crazy stuff, eh?
I’m shocked that I’m still able to be shocked.
But I am shocked.
Great read…depressing read. It is hard to comprehend a species that has two extremes: great capacity of creation and great capacity of destruction.
That’s almost as crazy as thinking Covid came from a lab!
This guy makes great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZdk9xdkI4E
Speaking of gaslighting, what is the ‘far right internet’ and why aren’t we circulating any of these pictures?
The reemergence of the alt-right internet pipeline I see.
Also…didn’t they list the juror names on that ‘oopsie’ document? But then are going to blame people for digging them up?
Stormfront, ZeroHedge, and that fringe libertarian site that’s full of sick fucks and run by a self-styled child groomer and a Sasquatch that travels the globe raping hikers.
You’d think that Sasquatchsexuals would be celebrated these days. Maybe they need a better flag.
I thought that was the thrusting arrow on the new Pride flag?
They should get a little fur patch. Like a flag merkin.
THRUSTING ARROW WITH HIKER IMPALED ON BED OF PINE NEEDLES.
MOTTO: SI CURRIS EGO TE RAPUI DURIUS
Names, photographs, social media profiles and even the home addresses purportedly belonging to members of the Fulton County grand jury that this week voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants are circulating on social media – with experts saying that some anonymous users are calling for violence against them.
Do they all wear polos, kakis and sunglasses?
Sounds way worse than the lawyer in the Andy Ngo lawsuit who said something like “I am Antifa and I’ll remember all your faces” to the jury.
Also I don’t know what is with that table color scheme. It’s crazy.
Yeah, that’s bad on the eyes.
Don’t let people around you get away with this spouting this kind of crap, you can bring up the numbers and show the truth.
You can’t reason someone out of a position he hasn’t reasoned himself into.
On the other hand, as you say here:
At the very least, do it when kids are around, so they can see gaslighters sputter.
You might just reach someone watching.
More Deep Think
Democracy is, at the very highest level, a system for turning the idea of human equality into practical political reality. When leaders can get away with whatever they want, there is no real political equality: We are electing kings, not fellow citizens. If powerful actors try to act above the law, independent institutions need to check their misbehavior.
That’s just fucking retarded. What on God’s green earth does that even mean?
Politics as personality cult? As a means to beatify those most precious and glorious among us?
I could have sworn “democracy” is just an extremely crude method of finding somebody to do a job no sane person would want.
It doesn’t matter how many come up past examples politicians doing the exact same thing and in some cases, even worse, in how we can apply the law only to a specific person or twist the law after the fact to apply to one person. The leviathan is demanding a pound of Trump’s flesh and it will get it, even if it has to destroy itself.
Here’s to the leviathan destroying itself.
*Clinky
Democracy is way overrated, all political offices should be chosen by drawing names out of a giant hat.
a system for turning the idea of human equality into practical political reality
This is not a serious person.
those most precious and glorious among us
Which is doubly ironic when it is done in the name of human equality.
Gaslighting causes climate change. We need windmill-lighting and solar-lighting.
Pull my finger.
I’ll gaslight.
The Trump prosecutions are thus revealing a paradox at the heart of American democracy: its institutions are at once both strong and weak.
They are strong, in the sense that many act the way they should in an advanced democracy — taking legal steps to defend the system against the novel Trumpian threat. They are weak, in the sense that they lack the universal public legitimacy to fully quash the threat through these legal means — a reflection of the fundamental social divisions that gave rise to Trump in the first place.
Those democratic institutions are pitifully weak because they do not allow us to mercilessly crush those who do not conform to our beliefs. We must maintain a thin facade of tolerance for their egregious heresies and assaults on all that is good and proper.
What’s the novel Trumpian threat again?
He exists
That’s funny, I thought in a democracy the way to handle things was for people to vote. I didn’t realize it was for the non-elected “system” to protect itself by throwing people deemed as political threats in jail for 700 years.
That’s only if the electorate doesn’t vote in a democracy destroying fascist.
Fight “fascism” with fascism.
I miss the Young Ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOGeIZHTRw
I think there is aslime possibility that a Sug and Scott Alexander collab would work:
The usual hum of conversation is punctuated by a tinny voice at minute-long intervals. You track down the hostess, who points at what looks like a kind of distant relative of an Amazon Echo.
“This is the prototype,” she tells you. “The Automated Land Acknowledger. I’ll be running a Kickstarter campaign next month.”
You’re not sure you heard right.
“Automated land acknowledger,” she repeats. “It seems so tokenist to just acknowledge land once, at the beginning of a meeting, then never talk about it again. You think the land stops being stolen from indigenous people just because you’re done with the preliminaries and have moved to reading off the minutes? The ALA has an adjustable setting for acknowledging Native land as frequently as you want, up to every thirty seconds.”
“This is the unceded ancestral land of the Ohlone people!” chirps the device.
“And it’s GPS-enabled,” she goes on, “Like, right now, we’re on the unceded ancestral territory of the Ohlone people, but if you go a few miles north, it will be the unceded ancestral territory of the Iwok or Ewok or something, I can’t remember. The ALA keeps track of it so I don’t have to.”
“I thought part of the point was keeping track of it. As, you know, a show of respect for Native people.”
“Yeah, and the more you do the land acknowledgment, the more respectful it is. It’s like those Tibetan prayer wheels attached to the watermill, where each time the mill turns the prayer wheel, you get more good karma. Except instead of something fake like karma, it’s respect and allyship.”
“This is the unceded ancestral land of the Ohlone people!” the device chirps again.
“Here, I’ll give you a link you can use to get to the Kickstarter campaign once it’s set up. If you’re one of the first ten donors, you get an automatic Gold package, which includes two ALAs for the price of one.”
That’s great. I will save that to read later.
I imagine the hostess sounding exactly like Veronica Palmer (Portia de Rossi) from Better Off Ted.
This paradox could shape not only the political consequences of the four Trump trials, but the long-term prospects for the survival of the world’s oldest democracy.
In political science, healthy democracies are often referred to as “consolidated democracies.” It’s a typically bloodless academic term, but it refers to an important idea: that democracy becomes truly stable when it is understood as “the only game in town,” meaning that basically all relevant political players accept that free and fair elections should determine who gets to wield power.
No upstarts. Everything must be controlled by the duly credentialed members of the establishmentarian bubble.
the world’s oldest democracy
Which is?
accept that free and fair elections should determine who gets to wield power
When is the last time we had a free and fair election?
Flashlight > gaslight
You know I’m right.
Well played.
I disagree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKlztcfUBOY
What’s the novel Trumpian threat again?
He is not of the Body. He is a foreign object, causing infection and decay.
Once he is removed by any means possible, everything will go back to normal. We promise. Your job is to help load him into the tumbrel.
We must return to a time when a man and his boy could do their grifting in peace and quiet. Especially the quiet part.
Be the antibodies! Reject him!
In 2020, Trump’s absurd legal arguments against the election results failed over and over again in court, often in front of Republican-appointed judges.
This is one of their most favoritest lies. Those arguments did not “fail”. The courts refused to hear them. There is a difference.
Narrative/Truth > Facts
Is the climate changing? Probably. Glaciers once covered a much larger area than they do now, and at one time the poles were pretty warm.
Is man causing it? Somewhat, probably. But it’s also capable of changing on it’s own.
Is it catastrophic? Here and there maybe it will have an impact as it has in the past, but we are much wealthier now and better able to deal with it, unless governments enact policies that impoverish us. (Narrator’s voice: They are enacting policies to impoverish us.)
Should the models be trusted? No. For one thing, we haven’t measured most places very long in the grand scheme of things. A lot of measurements are taken at airports, which at one time were pretty isolated and are now surrounded by urban areas and thus impacted by the urban heat island effect. I doubt that has been corrected for properly, and it’s probably nearly impossible to do accurately. As an example of the phenomenon, in the winter I can see the thermometer on my car drop about 4-5 degrees between the freeway and my home, which is less than 1 mile. I bet the temperature would drop even more if I went out to the middle of a field.
Should we trust the hype about every new heat record? No. For example, suddenly the news started reporting surface temperatures and how we’d burn our feet on asphalt when previously they reported only on air temperatures. Why the sudden switch?
Is man causing it?
Man is the center, and measure, of the universe. From people who claim science over religion.
Gaia has no defenses against man.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Nada.
She is completely and totally helpless.
I mean, they’re not wrong.
Values require an evaluator.
So apparently, According to the training, we’re not allowed to require employees to comb their hair and speak english.
This cunty woman in the video also irritated the crap out of me.
Combing hair is for saps.
Saps and white people.
Agreed.
Oh fer fuck’s sake “Bystanders can file a complaint” So you can be offended on behalf of someone not bothered in the least.
The proper way to run with that is to get a group of people who file complaints on behalf of each other.
My complaint that the training is producing a hostile work environment will be circular filed.
I swear those trainings do more harm than good.
The sorts of things they’re fishing for aren’t happening, so they’re riling up the perpetually offended to justify their existance.
My Stupid Subject training modules (sexual harassment, DEI) aren’t due until December. I’ll put them off as long as possible, hoping for a reprieve via death, natural disaster, SMOD, whatever works.
We are required to attend either an in-person session or a webinar.
I’m not going in person, lest I violate the workplace violence policy.
I get it. I walk in a room, people start taking notes and giving me side-glances. They know I am not one of the body.
Might just be the big green head though.
Ah you are catching up to the Federal Government I see.
I really wish the stupid videos and the stupid trainers were at the same volume so I didn’t have to keep adjusting the settings to hear or not be deafened.
Worst part is the random pop quizzes. Otherwise I’d mute them and go do work.
POP QUIZ
What do you get when you cross a one-legged Polack with a mongoloid?
A politician?
A Polaroid One-Step
A joke that only someone born before 1980 would understand.
Guilty as charged
Narrowed gazes…
Narrowed gazes everywhere…
A free ticket to the unemployment line?
Related, do pronouns on linkedin say “I am a potential problem because I might be the type to file complaints due to any sort of perceived microaggression” or, “I will swallow stupid bullshit, which is valuable to my corporate (or government in this case) masters” ?
Everyone I know considers it the former. But I hang out with you guys.
Does anyone here work in HR?
Either way, it’s a red flag.
So likely if they find out we binned them over that they can file a complaint.
Video: “The policy applies where ever you are doing your job.”
My unasked question: “So it doesn’t apply to my cube?”
“A supervisor can require an employee to do their jobs”
I’m shocked. The way the policy is written I figured everything was “discrimination” under its definition.
Are there any standards at all anymore?
“My culture requires me to wear flip-flops and halter-tops.”
“Sure!”
PPE, Probably.
“Put on this face-diaper”
Both the American (Ingrid B.) and British versions of Gaslight are excellent. Ask Teds.
Angie Baby Lansbury is such a saucy wench in the Hollywood version.
Ohhh yeah. “Anything more, sir?”
Greatest gas-lighting in the 20th century: the NAZIs were right wing.
Proper response: oh yeah, the Nationalist Socialistp Workers Party of Germany. That was a real hardcore bunch of right wing extremists alright.
I lost count decades ago on the number of blank stares and sputters i have caused with that one.
Yeah, that’s annoying. This lolbertarian just posted a stupid meme making that claim the other day.
The left can’t meme.
Fun-ny! In no way are socialists fronting for “oligarchs.” That would never happen.
Everyone knows conservatives are fascists because they want constitutionally limited government. That’s what fascism is all about, after all.
Tried to get a leftist acquaintance to take a gander at the nazi party platform one time, figuring he’d find a lot of things he’d agree with. I don’t know if he ever did.
Been there done that. They barely get started and…everytime they quit. Why? “It makes me feel uncomfortable. I dont know why but it does. “
You start to take a second step and they cut you off with “I dont want to talk about it any more.”
You can count on that response every time like you can count on the sunrise.
Interruption over. Second half of my comment.
My best gaslighting: i tried to quit smoking. My coworker was very pleased. A week later i was back smoking. Right in front of coworker i lit up and smoked a whole cigarette. Ten minutes later she exclaimed “ Hey! I thought you quit! I just realized you were smoking!”
Me: “No. you are so accustomed to seeing me smoke you put that in your own memory”.
Her: *puzzled look* “Oh….i guess i did .”
* everyone in the room snickers*
Unfortunately Global Warming beats the NAZI gaslighting by a mile or ten.
Do you want to be represented by Hitler or Stalin?
Represented? I dont think that is the way socialism works.
They weren’t real socialists. Everyone know that real socialist are internationalists and non-racist. Therefore National Socialist is an oxymoron.
Lemme see if I understand this:
If you don’t have an MJ conviction, you can’t legally open a pot shop.
But if you’re busted for running an illegal pot shop, then you have a conviction so you can legally open a shop.
Not quite.
If you get busted running an illegal pot shop you have a licensing violation conviction, not a pot conviction.
So we’ve moved on from Catch 22 to Catch 420?
** giggles while reassembling a carburetor”
Better than Catch 320, which occasionally autodetonates.