You just happened to stumble across the stupidest motherfucker alive. Probably alive. Those risky decisions don’t take themselves.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • (a) Organizations and Conferences

    (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

    (2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences …

    (3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible—never less than five.

    (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

    (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

    (6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

    (7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

    (8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

    © Office Workers

    (1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.

    (2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.

    (3) Misfile essential documents.

    (4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.

    (5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.

    (6) Hold up mail until the next collection.

    (7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.

    (d) Employees

    (1) Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job …

    (2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can …

    (3) Even if you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.

    (4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

    (5) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.

    (6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

    (7) Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

    (8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

    (9) Misroute materials.

    (10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

    (12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

    (a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

    © Act stupid.

    (d) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

    (e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.

    (i) Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion …

    (k) Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.


  • What’s the general plan of action when a company’s base region shits the bed?

    Keep dormant mirrored resources in other regions?

    I presumed the draw of us-east-1 was its lower cost, so if any solutions involve spending slightly more money, I’m not surprised high profile companies put all their eggs in one basket.






  • Is there a difference between self censoring and “having a filter”?

    Like, I usually don’t say the first thought that comes to mind.

    I have to think, often unconsciously like you mentioned, will the next thing I say:

    • be stupid (protect my ego)
    • be rude (preserving the dignity of others)
    • be incriminating (will I get into shit if an authority figure reads/hears it)

    I guess self censorship is just that last one? If something I say can later be reprimanded by the law, my boss, or even a moderator, I’d rather just shut the fuck up.





  • For legit trouble sleeping:

    Ambien, but only in the short term.
    Long term: Unless you have serious insomnia, in which case, ask a doctor not Lemmy, it’s better to fix up your sleep hygiene.

    For recreation:

    Ideally, neither.

    1. With Ambien you’re probably just going to black out and send a few embarrassing if not incomprehensible text messages.
    2. Benzos are addictive and tolerance builds fast. If you start taking it too much too frequently, you’ll start getting withdrawals. You won’t realize until long after you’ve crossed the threshold.

    But if you’re going to anyway… benzos. Keep doses light and infrequent

    I’d strongly urge weed or exotic tea or a hobby instead


  • I tried catching up on work and got pretty much nowhere. Friday night, most of yesterday, and some of today.

    To any employment seekers reading this, if the company mentions SAP anywhere: Job description; website; linkedin follows - anything, then I would strongly advise you to stay the fuck away

    Otherwise; Friday and Saturday I got high before bed and watched old episodes of the Adam Friedland show. Highly recommended.

    Oh, to answer the full question, yeah SAP really fucked me sideways






  • I’m not American, so I can’t speak to the reality on the ground over there, but I’d say you should try getting rid of that debt as fast as possible.

    It sucks feeling guilty about every necessary purchase with that ever-growing number looming over you.

    Shit happens. A pipe will burst. Your favourite uncle will have too much fun on a gambling app. The car’s engine will make a noise no mechanic has ever heard before. etc etc.

    I have roughly ~$3.5k in debt and it feels impossible to shake off.

    That being said, there’s no ‘wrong’ choice. The other two comments hit the nail on the head. These aren’t the only three options and you can always go back and give another shot at whatever you didn’t pick.



  • I stole this from the other thread

    A kernel, in computing terms, is the computer program that sits between applications and the hardware, facilitating their interactions.

    This is the GNU/Linux operating system’s kernel (the part that is technically Linux) showing its architecture.

    The columns represent the areas of functionality the kernel offers, the rows (from top to bottom) representing the level of abstraction from the hardware.

    From the top; user space, where users barely have to think about the hardware enabling their applications. To the bottom; the hardware itself and the interfaces that enable the kernel to talk to them.

    The lines represent the relationships between the various Linux kernel functions and structures - the text - that interact with one another directly.

    The diagram is interactive in the sense that you can click the functions/structures and be taken to relevant resources to help a Linux kernel developer navigate the humongous amount of code that comprises the kernel, to accelerate debugging etc.

    This diagram has been continuously developed for well over 15 years at this point and is somewhat iconic in the Linux world as it makes tangible the kernel and its thousands upon thousands of lines of code which I doubt any one developer has or could read and comprehend as a whole without the use of tools like this map.

    (thank you honourable fartsparkles, blesser of knowledge)