Three steps to take three steps and other tales from the shitswamp

From the one place where everything worthwhile happens (plus I got help configuring my routers there too!) :

BingoBoingo Lol, is anything wrong with ksh? >> http://www.csoonline.com/article/2688008/security-leadership/three-steps-you-need-to-take-to-avoid-overreacting-to-the-bash-bug.html
assbot Three steps you need to take to avoid overreacting to the bash bug | CSO Online
asciilifeform Lol that turd reads like it was a 'mad libs' product with 'bash bug' inserted in a blank.

Right ? Here's three steps to take to avoid making any sort of meaningful change :

1. Stick to Obama & The Libertardsⁱ' Mickey Mouse version of "change". Switch beans for lentils. Switch pork for beef. Switch them back again later on. Wear nothing but blue. Let your beard grow out. Cut your beard. Do things which essentially consist of the act of having done them, no more. Pour water on your head to cure cancer. Wear a wristband. Wear a different wristband. Discuss things. Make your opinion heard, but only in venues where no one's listening and no actual effect is possible. Change your opinion, but only to another one of the same kind. Carefully avoid any situations where effect is likely. Call those situations various things. Call the people involved various things. Call your inability to exist in the world various things. Call the observation of all this calling various things. Careful so it's either Cola or Pepsi, never any milk. Call milk various things. Never notice this. Call the noticing various things. Talk about all the ways to call various things and which is which and why. Give no actual reasons, repeat the process indefinitely. Vary the results. Call the variety observed and the observation of variety various things.
2. Pretend like disaster is unlikely and so the possibility can be safely ignored while it's not happened yet ; pretend it's "overwhelming" and so best ignored as it happens and shortly thereafter. Nobody could have predicted the crisis. Nobody could have imagined their using of the plane as a rocket. Nobody could have predicted the crisis. Nobody had any idea Madoff is running a ponzi scam. Nobody could have predicted the crisis. Nobody could have imagined the effects of sticking your hand in the fire. Nobody could have predicted the crisis. Nobody could have imagined the effects of sticking your hand in the fire. Nobody could have predicted the crisis. Nobody could have imagined the effects of sticking your hand in the fire. Nobody could have predicted the crisis.
3. Don't read Trilema or any other venue where people who know more than you are likely to call you and your friends idiots.

There you have it. Step c is the prerequisite for all activity in retardworld. Not reading, not speaking languages, not traveling, not anything. Much like in order to be a plant one must chiefly not walk, and not talk, and generally not break any of the proof-positive criteria for nonplantness, just so being a vegetable, or a retard, starts and at the core consists of not-*.

Step a is the basis of your future career in "politics", the retard implementation of politics. Depending on how much effort you can and are willing to put into jumping off the deep end, digging your way out of a hole downwards and escaping paper bags by wrapping yourself in paper, you may either be an academic or an aparatchick in the government. Often these are interchangeable.

Step b is the basis of your future career in "business", the retard implementation of business.

In closing, let's quote senor Bluffett :

If you compare our country’s present condition to that existing in 1776, you have to rub your eyes in wonder. And the dynamism embedded in our market economy will continue to work its magic. America’s best days lie ahead.

[...]

During the extraordinary financial panic that occurred late in 2008, I never gave a thought to selling my farm or New York real estate, even though a severe recession was clearly brewing. And, if I had owned 100% of a solid business with good long-term prospects, it would have been foolish for me to even consider dumping it. So why would I have sold my stocks that were small participations in wonderful businesses? True, any one of them might eventually disappoint, but as a group they were certain to do well. Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?

As long as you're prepared to accept retard money and the company of retards, the man is spot-on : never will the retardation resources of retards run out. There's no such thing as an "out of stupid" error. It's possible to not have enough money to do something expensive. It is plain impossible to not have enough stupidity to do something stupid.

See ya on the other side.

1. Some dubstep band from the 2000s, god only knows why anyone thought it worth the trouble. [↩]