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Comment Re:Close but it's just a little bit stupider than (Score 1) 193

The core tenet of the right wing, which we constantly confuse with conservatives because the right wing are extremists and they would very much like you to think of them as being conservative and therefore safe, is a unflinching belief in the benefits of the hierarchy.

This is definitely a harmful and cancerous view, but it reaches across the aisle. Limousine liberals at the most obvious, but also city people who hate country people, etc

Comment The reason you don't enjoy work (Score 3, Insightful) 67

The reason you don't enjoy work is because if your manager sees that you are happy, he thinks you are not working hard enough. They find a way to achieve their success metric of making you unhappy. This happens in a lot of offices. Success metric achieved.

If you were happy, you would do better work, and more efficient work. Unfortunately, "better" and "more efficient" are not success metrics (in many cases).

Comment Re:I remember the 80's and 90's (Score 1) 115

Oddly enough, I’ll bet the vape record beats the shit out of it.

Why do you think that? I would expect vape to cause fewer lung cancers.

For example, cigarette smoke is rich in benzopyrene (which is mostly absent in vape, but still present in small quantities). In the lungs, benzopyrene reacts with cell DNA in a way that causes G bases to convert to thymine bases. Sometimes the conversion happens on the P53 (tumor suppressor) gene, leading to cancer.

It's thought that benzopyrene causes about a third of the lung cancer tumors. Of course, there are other carcinogens (60 or more) in cigarettes. Vape is still a health problem for the user, but it's better than cigarettes because there are fewer carcinogens.

Comment Re:Good FUCKING Grief. (Score 1) 115

I absolutely loathe people who gotta bring up their highly fashionable attention book in the middle of a discussion. Usually citing it knowing that there's little chance the rest of the room has read it, often in bad faith or with poor comprehension.

Often an appropriate series of questions can help bring them back as a contributory conversation member.

Comment Re:Good FUCKING Grief. (Score 1) 115

How do you respond when people observe that you only read books to impress people?

I send them this video (alt="Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer").

How about when some 3rd party writes an article about literary readers, claiming that nobody reads books except to point out to people socially that they read so they can feel intellectually superior?

People who read books are intellectually superior, they should feel that way. Even those people who only read them to impress people are more knowledgeable than people who haven't read...those people aren't the best, but they have more knowledge than people who only watch things like bachelor, and don't read. If you're entire worldview is created by daytime TV and Netflix, then you are only pitiable.

If people can discuss what they've read, they are more likely to be interesting than people who haven't read.

And this is fact: if more Americans read in order to impress people or for any reason, we wouldn't have president Trump.

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