40 thoughts on “Cool, Cool Memes

  1. The Reader suggest that removing 90% of HR will just allow the tumor to regrow. Remove 110% to be sure. No company needs a ‘Human Resources’ department – the one thing they never do is treat employees as useful resource.

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    1. Just go back to the “benefits” department (which was often just one person). Employees like benefits, and they at least got along with the person who administered them.

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      1. I’ve done both benefits and HR. Send payroll to accounting, split off benefits into its own department. Ship disputes and discipline to legal.

        Just like so many other things, HR exists because of government regulation, reporting requirements and red tape.

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      1. Many years ago, I worked at a Retail company (in Data Processing) and one of the company’s slogans was “Retail is a people’s business and we value our people”.

        One of the jokes going around was that we weren’t people, we were Associates. (Our name tags read “Associate” not “Employee”). [Very Big Twisted Grin]

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      2. While the Reader agrees that that the HR usage of resource views employees as interchangeable and consumable, he is awaiting the theory of economics that starts with the first principle that the only economic ‘resource’ is the human mind.

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  2. The ice/sleet/donut meme is even better with the context. It was originally posted by a police department, with a disclaimer that they really just chose this example at random, and they had no special knowledge about different types of donuts.

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  3. Elsewhere a Liberal said that the Democratic Party is too wimpy to execute political enemies.

    That’s isn’t a joke and made me wonder if he wanted to execute political enemies. ☹️

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        1. Which is maybe grounds for optimism, but my view maybe must necessarily be wacky.

          Lots of stuff gets priced into my priors, and so I see a failure to source more shooters for follow on strikes.

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    1. I have many inappropriate jokes to make. Hopefully I will allow the impulses to pass through me, and leave me, and I shall refrain.

      The serious thought is that the belief or confidence in peace are a lot of different mental things coming together. Such as methods of dispute resolution, and views on how tightly the circumstances of others are related to your own.

      This stuff of x dollars in national debt, or y dollars in fraud in whatever governments budget, or whatever, those are downstream of coupling almost everyone into a common interest in government run business.

      I’m mellow on this stuff, for the moment, because I had my very angry phase years ago, and the new estimates of quantity are not a real qualitative change for me. In the circumstances I must navigate from, my own mistakes are the major problem for me.

      The idea of peace only really naturally occurs when someone thinks that others can do well for themselves without necessarily being a problem for that one. Endemic warfare shit, of the worst of the third world tier, comes from figuring that if your neighboring village catches a break, they will hurt you in the future.

      Lots of things are ‘only ideas’, but ideas do shape how people think, thus act, and actual actions do have consequences.

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      1. But those were not committed in the execution region of Poland, those were sparkling lynchings.

        (The decision of the Democrats and the communists to join their political causes together was mistake. Politics has capital and it has technical debt. They merged the capital, but they also merged the technical debt. )

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    2. The only want to shoot the ones who make noise and cause them to notice how wrong they are. Like the old saying;
      ‘It’s the squeaky Wheel that gets greased’

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  4. You know, that moving a mouse from one computer to another to copy and paste ought to work. Except for the unplugging part, I discovered that feature by accident and it is amazing. I have my CMS/media server next to my main workstation, and one day I thought, boy, it’d be nice if instead of having to switch mice and keyboards every time I switched focus I could just move the mouse from one screen to the other like this… and I flicked the cursor off the right of the screen on my main computer and saw a bulge on the left of the screen on my server. I continued moving the mouse over… and the cursor came out the other side. That also meant the keyboard now worked on the server.

    This is apparently a feature in modern computers.

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    1. The only good Harambe meme is the one where he’s telling the kid, “I have information that will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of Hillary Clinton…”

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    2. I don’t necessarily infer that from the meme.

      I may be inferring wrong things from knowing the artist from other works.

      Was maybe some sort of inflection point, or obvious difference in perception. It was famous, and clearly, there were a lot of people who left their brains turned off.

      I prefer it when Gorillas are shot, because it would suck so much to be left with using strangulation or conventional melee weapons on problem animals.

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    3. Oh dear Lord. i don’t think that’s what it’s suggesting. It’s a joke about the world having gone awry since Harambe was shot. LONG running job, partly fueled by people confusing Harambe and Hamurabe.

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  5. Amelia catching fire like she did has been amazing. I hope the Brits are able to turn things around in their country. It would be hilarious if the symbol for a successful voter revolt was a fictional woman created by moron bureaucrats who were trying to suppress males acting independently of the government.

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  6. re: start up

    sounds superficially like it would work, and might be easy

    Well, it might not work, and if it did it would not be easy.

    First, patents were never the most complete form of the recorded recipe. Additionally, the recorded recipes are less available, except for enthusiasts.

    Anyway, a truly complete machine recipe from 1940, 1950, 1960, or 1970 is not gunna be ‘crank it out, and get producing’ for most current day would be manufacturers.

    Stupid trick example, VT fuses from the 1940s. Those apparently were a serious production quality challenge, back then. These would not be easy to do, but also there is almost no one who would really want to get fresh examples and have them actually work. I mean, yes, if you had a very autistic artillery engineer, he might think the exercise could be educational, but I doubt the existence of one who could persuasively make the budget case for doing it, especially compared to other alternative educational experiments.

    The general problem in replicating decades old manufacturing processes is materials, labor, equipment, and engineers skilled in applying the methods used on those drawings and documents. Given how engineers age, and the weird personal interests they can have, you might be able to find the small numbers of engineers needed for some of these things, and they may donate their work for free. And somebody somewhere has studied how to repair the equipment and continue to operate it, but not necessarily the specific machines you are interested in. The materials and the skilled labor are the real killers.

    Anyway, washing machines, refrigerators, sewing machines, toilets, etc., I really do think I prefer a lot of the older designs, and would like to make more fresh. Of course, survivor bias. (I have been watching forgotten weapons, and, well, I’m a freaking moron on firearms design, and would not have an easy time managing those sorts of manufacturing quality issues. But, design space exploration and manufacturing space exploration are not completely trivial.)

    Unfortuneately, I am a stupid lazybro, and my ambitions are routinely exceeding my displayed ability by a wide margin.

    re: dragonball Z meme, modern women 19th century

    The manga is really weird setting wise. Dragonball was based on Journey to the West.

    The Earth that it is set on has literal animal people, and might not specify a lot when it comes to the ‘where’ on earth. Also, it was written in the 1980s. Anyway, the period is also not specified. (Generic space future, at setting start, with the minor exception that there seems to be absolutely no one with an interest in engineering space vehicles. Bulma later gets into spaceships.)

    Chichi is basically the Ox King’s daughter, and married Son Goku after a showing at the the big world martial arts tournament when they were sixteen, pretty near the epilogue of dragonball.

    Before then, a lot of the series happens when they are ten or so. (Goku was younger than his monk friend (IIRC Krillian), and younger than Bulma (the Sanzo analogue)).

    Anyway, there is a huge timeskip between Dragonball and Dragonball Z, and basically Chichi’s new character is established as more or less a stereotypical housewife from Japan of that era. She directs and psychologically dominates her husband, and is very Tiger Mom towards her children.

    So the meme is funny on a surface reading, but. This isn’t a feminist in the public sphere being that way towards an unrelated man. This is wife who is a weird mixture of a traditional Chinese wife, and a 1980s Japanese wife, in the private sphere with her husband.

    It’s funnier when you know that Chichi basically in universe would not care about gun control, or the second ammendment, or probably feminism, but basically has expectations that are a weird mix of sound and screwed up when it comes to trying to raise her sons. She was a motherless orphan, raised by her father, and a tomboy. Goku is literally an orphan in several ways, grew up pretty wild, and the closest to maternal exposure was Bulma, whose own parents were wildly permissive. Dragonball’s Goku is also a bit of a monomaniac for fighting, and basically did not feel traumatized at the violence he grew up around. So she wants her boys to have a safer environment than she did, or he did, but he absolutely does not fully grok why. And she is responding to her understanding of what women in her culture think is safe, and not so much to the lived reality of her or her husband.

    The power scaling in the dragonball setting is wild, notoriously wild, and I literally have no idea whether Chichi is invulnerable to bullets, car wrecks, etc.

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    1. also also

      I should have an extremely narrow and shallow view of manufacturing. Both for the now case, and for the then cases.

      Almost certainly, my ignorance means that I have overlooked and was entirely unaware of many many points of relative stability in manufacturing, points where ease of manufacturing and improvements in production quality are relatively indifferent to when a design was prepared, and how fully it was documented.

      also also also

      many fairly systemic errors in how I estimate and evaluate stuffs. :D

      PPPPS (metal 3d printing may be entering the stage of development where what I learned twenty years ago is absolutely no longer valid. I haven’t kept up enough to tell, and saw some cool details on new stuffs recently. )

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  7. I have no idea who Amelia is or what all those memes refer to, other than a vague notion that the UK is trying to make it illegal to say unkind things about certain favored population groups.

    It reminds me of the Christmas speech by the Dutch queen some years ago, in which she boldly asserted that there is no right to offend. Oh? Even the pseudo-Constitution used in Holland appears to protect a right of free speech, though it does say “subject to everyone’s responsibility under the law” — which could be seen as “void where prohibited”.

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    1. Long version short, UK gov decides to go woke and say how great having immigrant “diversity” is by having a slow witted white boy be turned to the dark side by a attactive purple haired villainess. Naturally, they selected a terribly woke and dimwitted studio to make a flash game and made it a required activity in UK schools. Teenage boys rolled their eyes and did what they always do: they mocked it mercilessly and subverted it. Hence, Amelia.

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    2. The UK government created a very bad game to warn teens about the dangers of being radicalized. In it, for instance, if you run across a claim that immigrants are getting housing instead of veterans, you should just ignore it. If you share it, you are very bad, and if you research it, you are still bad. (Note that the game does not claim it’s false.)

      In it, the villain was a purple-haired girl named Amelia, a classmate who tells you to do Bad Things.

      It backfired.

      Here’s an article:

      https://thatparkplace.com/amelia-takes-over-the-internet-uk-government-ai-avatar-ruins-internet-nanny-efforts-out-of-europe/

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    3. Amelia from UK Anti-Radicalization Game Becomes Patriotism Mascot

      Last updated 17 hours ago

      Released in 2023 by Shout Out UK with Home Office funding, the game Pathways features Amelia trying to sway a teen protagonist with anti-immigration arguments like protests against grooming gangs. Players were meant to reject her, but memes, fan art, AI videos, and posts turned her into a mascot for British patriotism, with clips showing her rallying heroes or decrying migrants. Elon Musk boosted the phenomenon by sharing content and prompting his Grok AI for more, while the game’s site now shows errors. Supporters see it as validation of migration concerns amid UK debates, as critics call it far-right fantasy.

      See also X – https://x.com/i/trending/2014248293992448005

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    4. Information warfare ran amok. It seems to have backfired.

      Because the wackjobs hired sycophantic wackjobs, who failed to account for not preaching to the choir.

      So the UK national bureaucracy did the sort of outsourcing job that they apparently do for some information warfare and for some IT products. It delivered to the internet some years ago, and was fairly quiet for a time. (And the big brains from UK universities, UK politics, and UK bureaucracies apparently wonder why they can’t be per capita equivelant to the USA in IT/computer chips. Then they again decide that they really need to run IT choices through the government, especially in order to compensate for weaksauce information warfare on behalf of $currentRegime.)

      Anyway, does not seem to have caught on fire as a game. So it was memed, but mainly visible among a) immigration stans b) that subset of gamers who are violently allergic to crappy games, and who follow the crappy game news very closely. Then some American, I think one of our radicals trying to profit from politics, allegedly used grok to make a video. And or the UKs government got around to making the extremes of censorship more visible, and or the censorship pissed off Americans, and or Preston Byrne unfairly radicalized Americans against our very special friends the British.

      Could all be a twitter tempest in a teakettle, caused by Musk manipulating his algorithms because he is butthurt about all the business that the EU is going to be able to take away from him with W.

      Anyway, from the outside perspective, it was not that topical, so it didn’t take off. Until it was more topical, and network effects, and it did take off.

      Maybe it really could be an elaborate conspiracy against law graduates from the university of LEeds. You could even explain it as a conspiracy, without trying to invoke Jewish conspirators especially angry at Starmer because the BBC wants to support Team Jew Hater.

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  8. Nomenclature opsec. Awesome!
    Every company. Yes.
    “We can’t give you more hours but we’re hiring more people so we can give each of you even less hours.”
    I’ll go with the racoon attitude, yes.
    …but no cigar. Carp away!
    When can we fund that startup?
    Hey, nothing stops you from being unstable AND unstoppable!

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