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“Good news! We’ve shoddily reconfigured this triangle maker to make circles. You have to hold onto it as it goes through the machine or else it will get thrown around, because the machine is designed with the assumption that the product has corners. Ignore those stickers that say not to put your hands that close when it’s operating, that’s just CYA shit that doesn’t matter in the real world. Also when the machine jams because it wasn’t designed to operate on circles, we’ll blame you for using it wrong.”
— Management the last time I had a factory job.
(At that job it was actually a machine that was designed to wrap large objects in plastic, but was being used to wrap cabinet doors, some of which were less than 18 inches long and weighed just a few pounds. The thing is covered in labels that say not to put your arms near the rotating plastic spool, but if you don’t hold onto the doors for dear life it will fling them all over the place, endangering you and everyone else nearby, because it is only intended to operate on stuff that weighs many times as much as the average object they were putting through it. Also if the doors are not wide enough, the plastic will be in the wrong position when it gets cut and some of it will get caught on a moving part, which will eventually jam it, so you have to hold onto the door with one hand and pull the plastic out of the way with the other, and if you fail to do that enough times (due to needing both hands to hold the smallest doors as they move through the wrapper) then it will jam and it will be your fault, because you should have magically had an extra hand or something.)
Sorry, I didn’t start this comment intending to write a whole rant, but it kind of ended up there. :P
I checked because it got briefly mentioned in the article: WBD stock price is down 40% YTD!
I wonder if it will keep crashing until they get bought out by the Mouse for some loose change they found in the fountains at Disney World.
Ginkgo don’t have flowers. They’re older than flowers.
I just finished replaying Dark Souls 2. And I’m going back for NG+, and there’s nothing you can do about it!
/me cackles evilly
Interesting, I make sets of 10. When I see 7 and 6, half of the 6 moves over to make 10 + 3. I say “moves over” because it feels like dividing tokens into sets in my head.
The mentor/parent figure has to die for the protag to prove that they’re self-actualized or whatever. Sometimes I can point out who’s going to bite it as soon as the first few scenes of the book/movie/game and it makes me want to stop reading/watching/playing, and then if I keep going anyway I regret it when it turns out I was right.
I will never understand the giga-rich. They could afford to hire round-the-clock help at rates that both buy expertise and inspire loyalty. Your house staff know where the bodies are buried, maybe literally—there’s no world where it makes sense to pay them less than six figures. Remember, $100,000 is 0.01% of $1,000,000,000, or about 0.003% of their estimated net worth of $37B. They could hire an extra maid at $100,000/year and not even notice the expense.
But they can afford even more than that. Splurge a little. Hire a specialist in early childhood education to tutor your kids. Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school. They could afford to spend millions on salary. Why skimp? What do they think they are saving up for?
