The Serial Thinker Blog

The 996

Do you want to trigger your local union member? Tell them that Biden and Trudeau are both going to propose that companies mandate the 996 work schedule that is common in China.

9:00 AM - 9:00PM

6 Days Per Week.

No OT, no bonuses, just the grind.

When you vote for socialism, that's what you get.

(At $15/hr, that's how minimum wage workers will achieve a living wage - by working 72 hours a week)

Thinking Aloud - Wednesday Addendum

Seattle area grocery store QFC will close two stores after the socialist City Council imposed a $4.00 per hour 'hazard pay' law. While these locations had been underperforming for some time, this extra salary burden made it much easier for the retailer to pull the plug. 
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Just saw the headline - Rush Limbaugh, perhaps America's greatest voice for mainstream conservatism has died. 
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Borrowed from a friend: Minimum wage is for minimum skills. If you want higher wages, develop better skills. 
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Thinking Aloud - Wednesday Addendum

Seattle area grocery store QFC will close two stores after the socialist City Council imposed a $4.00 per hour 'hazard pay' law. While these locations had been underperforming for some time, this extra salary burden made it much easier for the retailer to pull the plug. 
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Just saw the headline - Rush Limbaugh, perhaps America's greatest voice for mainstream conservatism has died. 
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Borrowed from a friend: Minimum wage is for minimum skills. If you want higher wages, develop better skills. 
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Thinking Aloud - Thursday Morning

Good Morning Thinkers - Will evidence of Hunter Biden's criminality change a single vote? My hunch is, no. 

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The left is making a big deal out of Judge Barrett's use of the phrase 'sexual preference'. Here's my two cents: If gender fluidity exist, then sexual preference must exist as well. 

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f my son were falsely accused of something as the claims against Hunter Biden, I'd be screaming his innocence from the rooftops, not cowering in the basement like a frightened squirrel. Screw the consequences to me and my career, I'd defend my son to the end.

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Reading about Starbucks' diversity in hiring goals... Isn't tokenism, even on a systemwide scale, still tokenism?

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Seattle city staff is considering replacing, not repairing, the West Seattle Bridge and expect to have it done in three years. THIS is the effect of the legalization of marijuana.

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The City of Seattle is now mandating a $16.47 per hour minimum wage for Lyft and Uber drivers in Seattle. RIP Lyft and Uber in Seattle. The rates will now go through the roof and the businesses become non-viable. Here's what's going to happen - drivers will network with clients and offer ride services privately. How do I know? Because it's already happening.

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IKEA is buying back furniture to reduce 'excess consumption'. Here's a simple solution for companies that are worried about 'excess consumption' -- limit how much consumers can spend at your stores. That will also simplify your accounting by reducing profits, stemming free cash flow, and capping reinvestment. 

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Thinking Aloud - Friday Morning

I suspect that I'm guilty of toxic masculinity. No apologies. 
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Biden wants American farmers to put their farmland into Government “land banks”. The government would then tell farmers what “sustainable” crops they could grow. Because government planned collective farming has never been tried before - with disastrous results. 

Because bureaucrats in government Ag departments know better than the farmers themselves what will grow and sell and what won't. 
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Biden doubled down and called Trump supporters, "dregs of society". I guess I'm a deplorable dreg now. I'll wear that one with pride. 

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The recording of the Breonna Taylor grand jury hearing will be released soon. Will the facts made public change anything? I doubt it. 

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Did you know that the moderator for the next debate, Steve Scully, interned for Biden while in college? That he wrote an Op/Ed piece called, "No, not Trump, not ever"?

 

Perhaps I should write an Op/Ed called, "Biden is a child sniffing, doddering, senile moron" and apply for the final debate moderator job. Seems fair to me.

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The media is reporting 207,000 deaths from Covid. What complete BS. 

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Thinking Aloud - Tuesday Morning

Good Morning Thinkers - I was hoping to watch the pre-market news on CNBC this morning, but when I flipped it on the talking heads were discussing, guess, what COVID, and without saying it directly, they blamed the President for all of the Covid deaths in the USA and suggested that we should be more compliant with 'sensible government requests' -- like the Chinese. 

Hey dipshits... The Chinese don't have a choice. If they don't follow the rules they get disappeared. 

F-ing morons. 

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What could be more repugnant than winning NARAL's "Lifetime Achievement Award"? An ironic title, if I may say so.

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So there's a teacher's group on FB in which one of the members is vehement about divesting the teachers retirement fund from companies that he views as evil. One of these companies is Ultra Electronics that makes UAVs.

My comment on the group was as follows: Those UAV's provide intel that protects my Brothers on the ground in some of the most dangerous places in the world. I'm proud to own shares of companies that keep our soldiers safe and send terrorist rat bastards to their just reward.

If they want a face to face with Allah, I'm happy to own the shares of companies that will arrange the meeting.

By morning there will be a zillion trolls, I mean fellow teachers, who will call me every flavor of a-hole because I have the audacity to voice opposition to their leftist dogma.

Soon I'll be banned from the group because dissent is not allowed.

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Stamps -- Rosh Hashanah

A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Rosh Hashanah cards.

She says to the clerk, “may I have 50 Rosh Hashanah stamps, please?"

"What denomination," says the clerk.

The women says with a sigh, "My God has it come to this!? Okay, give me 6 Orthodox, 12 conservative and 32 reform."

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Headline in the business section: Amazon plans expansion in Vancouver, BC.

 

Anyplace but Seattle.

 

That's what the Kshama virus does. It causes cities to bleed money.

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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for? - Thomas Sowell
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Newsflash: In a free society, you cannot legislate equality of outcome.

 

Some people will always be smarter, work harder, will be willing to take greater risks, and make greater sacrifices to attain their objectives.

 

Equality of outcome is the objective of every failed state and socialist s-hole in the world and the people ALWAYS suffer.

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Thinking Aloud - Monday Morning

Good Morning Thinkers - Today I'm going to begin with a quote from legendary Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka. In an interview with TMZ Sports about the kneeling controversy that is now spanning multiple professional sports he said, “If you can't respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned. ... You don’t protest against the flag, and you don’t protest against this country who’s given you the opportunities to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen. So, I don’t want to hear all the crap." 

Thanks Coach. You're a great American. 

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In the days before Rangers had vehicles, we were road marching beasts. One morning my platoon went out for a 12 miler with a new PL and first squad set one of those head down and haul ass paces. That lasted a few miles and the PL rotated my squad, 2nd squad, up to the front hoping for some relief. No effing way. We continued to push the pace. The same thing happened when 3rd squad took the lead. For the last stretch, Chris Hardy took the lead and hauled ass. We weren't running but we were moving out. When we made it back to the Company area and were stretching out, the LT asked Chris, "Sgt. Hardy, do you think that we were marching at an EIB standard pace?"

Chris replied, "No sir, because if we were we'd still be out there walking."

And that was that.

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If gender selection abortions resulted in zero female births in 132 towns and cities over several months across the US, would that be distressing to the left at all?

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When the America haters condemn our treatment of people who attempt to cross our border illegally I think of this:

Imagine what our country COULD DO to dissuade people from crossing illegally but doesn't. That restraint is the measure of our goodness as a nation and our generosity as a people.

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I was in a conversation in a private group and we were discussing the differences in the refugees/immigrants we knew who had come to this country- either through our own family connections or from direct observation. Consistently we found that those fleeing communism/socialism (actual communism/socialism) tended to be the most appreciative of the freedoms and opportunities provided by their new homes in the US. The following is one of the comments I made:

I lived in Orange County, CA during the time that the Vietnamese 'boat people' fled their country. Many of these refugees settled in the city where I lived. So many, in fact, that a generation later the demographics of the city have changed completely. In the mid to late 70s when I lived there, there was a smattering of Vietnamese families. Today the population is 47.8% Asian and 39% White; and the city is thriving. My Vietnamese neighbors came and started businesses, worked their asses off, demanded excellence from their kids, and prospered. The point is that there is a vast difference between refugees determined to make a better life for themselves in the US through their own productivity, and immigrants who want to make a better life for themselves in the US by living indefinitely off of taxpayer funded social welfare programs.

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The fundamental choice in politics today is between being people who are self-determined or people who look to the government to the government to solve problems for them.

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Self-deprecating humor doesn't work when coming from a narcissist. It rings hollow. 

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Editorial Comment: The word 'woman' is not an adjective, it is a noun. It is grammatically incorrect to say "The first woman President." The phrase should be "The first female President," as female is an adjective.

THIS drives me insane. Educated people should know better.

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Portland last night:

" A night that started with a reported shooting and a bag containing loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails amid a peaceful protest..."

How is it a peaceful protest if there are reports of shooting and a bag loaded with ammo and incendiary devices is found? This BS narrative has got to be crushed. It is NOT peaceful. It has NOT been peaceful for a long time. They are NOT protests, they are riots.

And, as far as I'm concerned, the rioters are damn lucky to walk away uninjured and alive.

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Headline: Black start up founders day that venture capitalists are racist, but the law protects them. 

What is a VC's bottom line? Correct. To make an insane amount of money. Silicon Valley is one of the most woke zip codes in the world - do you think that they care about how much melanin the founders of a company have? Do you think that it actually MIGHT raise their status to fund a bunch of hugely successful start-ups run by POC founders?

 

This is so much BS I can't even stand it.

 

You know - there are POC billionaires and hundred millionaires (lots of them). If these ideas are so great, why aren't they funding them? Why rely on Cracker Barrel funding at all?

Article here

 

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Thinking About Compensation

When I think about compensation, I often consider the 'completely incompetent' criterion... What's the worst possible outcome if the person doing this job is completely incompetent? In the case of teachers, a group of students will have to relearn a bunch of material that was taught poorly. If you teach specialized classes or electives, like I do, the impact is even more minimal. So, arguably, a K-3 teacher should make more money than I do because the impact that they have on their students' academic trajectory is far greater than mine.

On the other hand, if a firefighter or paramedic or construction worker does their job poorly, the worst possible outcome is loss of life; so rationally, they should make more money than I do.

In the Army, an artilleryman who fires high explosive 155mm rounds at targets miles away should make more than a finance clerk whose only real career risks is paper cuts or carelessly stapling themselves.

This makes sense to me. 

Are There Corporate Sabermetrics?

Sabermetrics - The rabbit hole confluence of baseball and math.

A well known measure to emerge from this nerdfest is the players' WAR rating or 'Wins Above Replacement'. What this calculates is how much added value a player gives to their team - how many wins does the team. In other words, if player A is injured and is replaced by player B, how many wins would the team not have because player A is better than player B?

I'm curious if corporate HR departments have distilled employee value in similar, objective statistical ways.

Thinking Aloud - Monday Morning

I don't understand the perceived immorality in allowing businesses and individuals to keep more of the money that they earn through tax rate reduction. It's THEIR money, not OURS. What they do with it is THEIR business, not ours.

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Asinus asinorum in saecula saeculorum. (The greatest jackass in eternity) - This is one of my favorite Latin phrases because it enables you to call someone an idiot and sound like you're praying.

Merry Christmas AOC. 

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The leftist elites pretend that illegal immigrants are all the Von Trapp Family Singers and not the El Chapo Family Narcoterroristas. If building the wall saves one person from harm, isn’t it worth it? 

(That’s the trope, right?)

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