I work in manufacturing, I think we have a slightly varied buzzword/phrase pool, but equally nauseating. Still lots of variations of “telling a story” unfortunately. Also a few years ago all of a sudden we stopped using the word specific and started saying “granular” instead. I think the one that bothers me the most is when people say they’re going to galvanize something… so you’re what, adding zinc to it? Was your dumbass idea suffering from corrosion?
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At my last job, I worked primarily with salesmen and the level I had to drop to to convey data rich information was a step above 5th grade level I shit you not. Some of the District Managers had a tough time grasping that an average ins’t the whole, or even best, way to discern what’s really going on - Fuckin’ mouth breathers - I felt for the division president … wicked smart guy, driven like you wouldn’t believe, had a stable of morons - one or two sharp guys, the rest were borderline retarded sleazeballs. I used to love the sales meetings I would present at - like story time at kindergarten…
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Lol. My stories make sense in their contect. I just think it’s sorta non-sense.
He doesn’t need a score. He’s going to be the Emperor lol. The “Son of Heaven” answers only to the Jade Emperor in the fucking clouds.
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I’ve been making jokes about this all week - not one person has understood the jokes - almost as if they don’t know what’s going on ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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The president banging a porn star is way more interesting than the largest authoritarian nation on earth getting an emperor for life.
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Monday mornings at the ‘new 5am’ after spring forward.
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It’s a great idea to give the government more power, kids.
For people who do not understand what this means and think, “oooh clamping down on corruption is a good thing!”, i.e, children who think communism and big government is a good idea:
Expansion of anti-corruption body =
More authority, manpower and a wider reach for suppressing dissenting voices by way of spurious allegations which, when amounting to actual charges, evidence will be easily produced and falsified. The highest penalty is the death sentence.
But surely there will be enough dissenting voices in parliament if shit hits the fan?
Nope.
The military?
Err… nope.
What about the people?
Meh.
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Special election commercials! It’s the only friggin federal election in the whole country today. So the Rep and Dem money bought ALL the radio adds for the past week. They are getting really ridiculous.
“Connor Lamb is Nancy Peloci’s pool boy sex slave.”
“Rick Saccone aborted Tim Murphy’s bastard child with a rusty hangar.”
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And frequent! Holey Moley! I used to be ambivalent toward both. Now I just hate them and want them off of my TV and Youtube.
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This.
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Yeah. Tim may have been a lot of things, but at least one of them was quiet.
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I hate how everyone on dating aps are obsessed with travelling. And they all use the same two lines like " looking for my travel companion" or “looking for my partner in crime”
I like travelling to the gym and my bedroom . Not in a slutty way like a in my pjs cause it’s 8pm and my bedtime kinda way.
Die travelling
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If you want to put that in a way that doesn’t make you seem like you’re crabby maybe try “home body” or “like to relax”, not “die traveling” lmao
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But do they travel? Like really? Like do they go to places most Americans have never heard of and drive around and stay in little villages and experience the culture or do they go to sunny, all inclusive places where they have an equally likely chance of getting dysentery and chlamydia, sometimes in the same pool? i’d wager the latter.
I’m just really glad these dating apps weren’t prevalent when I was single - it sounds exhausting and like one has to learn a new language in order to communicate with, what seems like a majority of, sociopaths and narcissists.
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Wow, dominating a billion people had never looked easier.
How is it possible that a country within living memory of The Great Leap Forward, the ensuing famine, and things like the Gang of Four could once again be poised to go down the same path? Might as well rename his anti-corruption squad the Red Guard.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Let’s not forget the point that @loppar has tried to drill into my head a dozen times. While we in the free-er West can go “why would they put up with that shit?”. They have living grandparents and relatives that remember the first 5 year plan and the purges of “reactionairies”.
So compared to all that, the average Chinese person’s life has gotten much better. Sure they have the most corrupt government possible. And occasionally people who speak out against the Party “commit suicide” or “disappear”. But compared to millions dead and mass purges. Meh.
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But that’s exactly what I don’t get, they do have grandparents and living relatives that remember and yet they still don’t learn from them and try to go a different direction.
I guess what I don’t quite understand is their power structure. Does the communist party hold such a grip that even after the death of Mao the people (900 million or so of them) weren’t able to get out from under the party’s control?
It’s probably just my western myopia showing through but one would think they would get tired of living under such circumstances.
They’ve learned a revisionist version of history and those who were alive during the Cultural Revolution were not privy to the full extent of the atrocities commited because of the state controlled media.
Right now, China is, I dare say, more capitalist than most socialist western nations. The economic progress after the Open Door Policy has been astounding. The people generally don’t give a shit about politics. Seeing people get wealthy has led to the mindset of moving up, not pulling others down. This mindset, however, may not last through the next generation onwards.