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Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by vanderZwan »

db48x wrote: post #54
vanderZwan wrote: post #38

> For legal reasons, I’m not saying the people who write this stuff are literally Lucifer in human skin. It’s just that, if I wanted to maximize human misery, I would 100% try to convince people to spend more time doing things they hate When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens thirty years ago they already hit upon this idea when Crowley, a demon and one of the main characters, tries to explain to his fe…

I bet he had read The Screwtape Letters though.

I was wondering if they were the first to comment on this, or if this is a problem that has been satirized for much longer! :)

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by 6stringmerc »

b112 wrote: post #131
6stringmerc wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend recently got what he thought was a great gig with an engineering firm - turned out it was more of a cult - rah rah sessions, after work bowling, softball - and they weren’t shy about shunning anybody who didn’t want all in right away. He got bullied and saw others bullied too - we figure it’s why they prefer to intern pipeline and hire and retain - a lot easier to brainwash when young. I mean it’s not a bad…

Oracle?

Negative - as mentioned in a couple other comments here, a different industry. Not a really large company either, like 1700 people, which is a good place as a private firm with a 60% margin on professional services and low overhead…

I worked at Best Buy so I recognized the signs immediately. The expression was “man he/she really bleeds blue” and if you hung out with the managers after work - because they all hung out together (and drove the same Scions lol) - you’d be in line for the next promotion. For some people that was a good path. Store Manager life and pay is legit.

It’s definitely a “high school hero” type thing where there’s not of lot of experience with leadership outside of sports like football. If it’s all they know, yeah, it’s their playbook. Fortunately here in Texas I know that playbook and I’m helping him go Mike Leach on them and they’re really surprised and not taking it well. Which is good for him.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by aeneasmackenzie »

ElfinTrousers wrote: post #115
vanderZwan wrote: post #38

> For legal reasons, I’m not saying the people who write this stuff are literally Lucifer in human skin. It’s just that, if I wanted to maximize human misery, I would 100% try to convince people to spend more time doing things they hate When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens thirty years ago they already hit upon this idea when Crowley, a demon and one of the main characters, tries to explain to his fe…

I also seem to remember that the story went on to say that Crowley at one point had been praised for his work in the Spanish Inquisition. That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he went and had a look, and then went and got blind drunk, because there are some things even demons would rather not think about. That kind of abrupt tonal slam, from comedy to horror, leavin…

> I also seem to remember that the story went on to say that Crowley at one point had been praised for his work in the Spanish Inquisition. That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he went and had a look, and then went and got blind drunk, because there are some things even demons would rather not think about.

Well, it makes sense that demons wouldn't want to think about strict judicial procedure and rules of evidence.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by ttyprintk »

anonymoushn wrote: post #59

Related reading: https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/113360634364/the-stan... http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertise...

Taking tests is an important frog. It’s been quite a few years for me, but lately the movement to dethrone tests like SAT made me wonder how disadvantaged kids can distinguish themselves without a quantifier for potential. If it’s essays instead of a math score, then maybe an essay is like this article says, improved messaging makes bad startups look like good ones.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by istinetz »

user_7832 wrote: post #117
istinetz wrote: post #37

I strongly disagree with the author. What brings me pleasure is playing strategic computer games. I was addicted to playing dota. I was playing 12-16 hours a day, which left no place for socializing, career, family, even basic self-maintenance suffered. Anything meaningful, art, self-improvement was cut. It's a disgraceful, shameful life. The meaning of life is not the blind pursuit of pleasure. We are humans precise…

Hey OP, do you have issues with time management/procrastination, organization and planning too? If so a) read up about executive disfunction, and b) ask your doctor to test you for AD(H)D. I had a very similar story and struggled with motivation for years, until I realized its a fundamental symptom of AD(H)D that isn't really well discussed.

yep, this is the diagnosis I got as well. Unfortunately, adhd drugs are legal, but not mainstream or easy to come by in Eastern Europe.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by 6stringmerc »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #107
6stringmerc wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard a quote once that a general or some leader said he preferred “highly intelligent and slightly lazy” people because they found the most efficient and reliable ways to get things done, and quickly as a bonus!

> General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, the present chief of the German Army, has a method of selecting officers which strikes us as being highly original and peculiarly un-­Prussian. According to Exchange, a Berlin newspaper has printed the following as his answer to a query as to how he judged his officers: > “I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupi…

That’s the one! Thank you for the text so I can cite it properly.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by vanderZwan »

samatman wrote: post #73
staticassertion wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of Supernatural's Crowley optimizing hell to just be one big line where everyone just has to stand and wait. The simpler solution.

How would we describe the state of standing and waiting for all eternity? Being in limbo, perhaps?

The British remake of "The Room" by Sartre

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by WoahNoun »

mijoharas wrote: post #142
vanderZwan wrote: post #38

> For legal reasons, I’m not saying the people who write this stuff are literally Lucifer in human skin. It’s just that, if I wanted to maximize human misery, I would 100% try to convince people to spend more time doing things they hate When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens thirty years ago they already hit upon this idea when Crowley, a demon and one of the main characters, tries to explain to his fe…

I also seem to remember that Crowley had a hand in the shape of the M25 to help maximise misery.

Found this on the wiki page for the M25.

>The M25 plays a role in the comedy-fantasy novel Good Omens, as "evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man".[14] The demon character, Crowley, had manipulated the design of the M25 to resemble a Satanic sigil, and tried to ensure it would anger as many people as possible to drive them off the path of good.[122][123] The lengthy series of public inquiries for motorways throughout the 1970s, particularly the M25, influenced the opening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.[124]

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by stefantalpalaru »

eesmith wrote: post #90
akiselev wrote: post #31

This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…

> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation ear…

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Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by jonhohle »

MrsPeaches wrote: post #121
akiselev wrote: post #31

This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…

> foie gras, salmi of duck, and the $5 esp32-wroom dev kits Never been a fan of chips in my sandwich, but each to their own I suppose.

But that satisfying crunch and galvanic shock of grounded fillings!
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