LOGIC💣

I remember there was this story about a business. I think it was a brokerage. But anyways, they gave out large bonuses at Christmas, thinking that this would encourage employees to work harder.

But instead, it had the exact opposite effect. The stock brokers worked most of the year, but when it came to December, they basically stopped working because of the bonuses. They knew by around November generally how well they did compared to the other stock brokers, and so they knew what kind of bonus to expect in December.

The problem was that even if they worked really hard in December, they were unlikely to earn a much bigger bonus, but there was a higher possibility that they’d screw up, which could reduce their bonus by a lot. So, if they worked hard in December, it could only make their bonus go down. So, they didn’t work hard.

“Who wants to colonize my colon?”

What is the thing labeled with an “F”?

In the first panel, it appears to be a laptop. But in the third panel, it shows that he’s closed it, so in the fourth panel, that would mean that the boss is looking at the bottom of the laptop. But that doesn’t look like any laptop that I’ve ever seen.

Did Henderson attach this paper to the bottom of the laptop?

Or maybe is it not a laptop? Maybe it’s just a manila folder, and between the 3rd and 4th panels, he opened it up to show the boss the contents of the folder. But then, I guess it could be one of those tablets that can be used like a laptop, and he’s folded the keyboard around.

Or, does Henderson have multiple things labeled with “F”?

We may never know what the F this is.

Surely those sorts of things could happen in any country. There’s no constitution that is inherently more than just words on paper.

because everybody already knows what he’s like in public

I don’t think that happened very much. Epstein wanted money, and so he’d invite any rich person who wanted to go.

Epstein even hung around with Donald Trump, who has no redeeming qualities, and has an especially horrible personality. Apparently, in private, he never shuts up and only wants to talk about himself.

I doubt anyone thought otherwise.

On a side note, do my eyes deceive me, or is she wearing a collar? It seems wrong for an elephant to wear a collar.

Of course it can be enforced, and was planned to be enforced from its inception. All three branches were designed to have a hand in enforcing it. The legislative branch in creating laws to enforce it, the judicial branch to adjudicate it, and to a lesser extent, the executive branch. It was all enforced from the beginning.

If you’re saying that a conspiracy of government officials can choose to ignore the constitution, and that’s the reason why it can’t be enforced, then that’s true for every government’s constitution.

My intuition is that is wasn’t what Charlie Kirk would have wished for.

That person was joking. Dairy Queen serves normal drinks, so there is no reason why a person who worked there would turn every cup upside down.

In fact, there are even some blizzards where it was a risk to turn it upside down. If there is enough stuff in there, it runs the risk of falling out over a marketing gimmick.

Charlie Kirk dying had no downside for her, from her perspective.

I now think that anything Congress does to cede its authority to anything should be inherently unconstitutional.

Congresspeople on the day they first walk into office have less power than most people probably expect. They don’t sit on committees. It’s difficult to introduce legislation. Many of the important bills they vote on are giant monsters of bills and they have no option except to vote along party lines.

So individual congresspeople are put into a this conundrum. If they want to benefit their constituents, they have to play along with their party leadership. If the executive branch has too much power over the party, as Trump does, due to his controlling all the money, then essentially, the executive branch controls Congress.

We need to get rid of all of this ceding of power not just to the executive branch but also to anything else, like political parties, or even to rules of order, like how the filibuster works today. There are all sorts of ways that Congress today has less power than specified in the constitution.

Wait am I allowed to feel or should I not

There are different types of meditation. Some outright encourage emotional feeling. Like there is a meditation where you just try to project love onto everybody in the world. A lot of people say “meditation” and mean “mindfulness meditation,” and in that case, you’re supposed to be aware of the sensations around you, but let go of other thoughts. So, you might have fleeting feelings or emotions, but without a conscious thought to maintain them, you also tend to let go of the emotions.

Probably the thing that unites types of meditation is that they are an attempt to control your attention.

I’ll level with you. A car wash mode is a great idea. It makes sure the windows, mirrors, wipers, and various sensors on the outside of the car like the opener for the charging door are in a good state for a car wash. I think every modern car should have a car wash mode.

What’s not smart is that the Cybertruck is vulnerable to completely dying from garden-hose-based attacks, in general, and that they “fixed” it by using car wash mode, as if water never gets sprayed at a car at any other time. They’re abusing the car wash mode.

To summarize, car wash mode: good idea. Abusing car wash mode to hide glaring design/implementation defects: shitty idea.

Although I don’t agree with his politics at all, I remember learning about this concept from Ron Paul, of all people. He was being interviewed, and the interviewer said, “You vote ‘no’ on every spending bill, but then inside the spending bill, you have made all sorts of earmarks,” implying that this made Paul a hypocrite.

But Ron Paul said, “It’s my job to make earmarks for my constituents.”

That’s when I realized that there are two things in play, “The world as it is now,” and “The world as in my ideals.” Ron Paul’s ideal world had virtually no government spending (again, I disagree with his concept), but the world that he lived in required him to spend the government’s money on his constituents.

It’s for this same reason that I feel like fighting against gerrymandering in America, locally, if the gerrymandering would benefit you, is a losing proposition right now.

As much as we don’t like it, it’s currently legal to gerrymander for a wide variety of reasons, so the good politicians will be trying to make gerrymandering, as a whole, illegal, while making sure to gerrymander as much as is legally allowed at the same time. It’s not hypocritical. It’s just that we live in that world. If people complain, you just say, “Look, here’s the bill/amendment that I support that makes gerrymandering completely illegal. Those are the laws I want in place. What I’m doing right now is doing what my constituents think is best for them. If you don’t like it, then make sure my bill/amendment passes.”

It’s possible that they have the iPhone for some reason other than they bought it new. Maybe it was a gift from a parent who uses iPhones, or maybe it was a hand-me-down, for example. Point being, the guy in the second panel doesn’t have enough information to say what he’s saying.

“new” colon?

Do they live next to the Addams or the Gartens?

I’ve heard it said that “white” isn’t a proper race. It’s just a skin color. So you could make the argument that snowmen are the only actual white people, and that your uncle is a beige person.

Also, it goes without saying that tons of competent people work at Microsoft, despite OP saying exactly the opposite.