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What are some modern bullshit jobs?

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  • Corporate communications / public relations

    They've largely subverted the occasionally useful profession of journalism. There's a big difference between researching things your audience wants to know, and asking someone with a commercial agenda what they'd like to tell your audience.

    • What irritates you the most with your own language?

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  • Remember: invaluable is a synonym of priceless, but not of worthless.

    • What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

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  • I always interpreted Clarke's Law as first fixing an observer.

    Then there exist technologies that are sufficiently advanced that the observer can only understand as magic.

    Obviously someone had to understand it to make it in the first place, but there are (or will be) even more advanced technologies that that someone couldn't understand either.

    • Alabama inmate opposes being ‘test subject’ for new nitrogen execution method

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  • I support giving convicts with death sentences the right to choose the means (within reason). Nitrogen hypoxia is probably more humane than most of the methods we've tried, although I personally prefer bringing back the guillotine. If we're willing to kill a man for justice, we ought be willing to reject childish euphemisms (putting him to sleep) and make a bloody mess of it.

    • Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College

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  • Might work for MD size states, but most smaller even EV states would split their EVs evenly, even if the state voted 60/40 one way or the other -- while odd EV states would always cast a net vote for the winner.

    For example, using the 2020 election numbers Trump would win if the election included only the following states:

    • AK (R+10) Trump 2-1 Biden
    • GA (D+0) Trump 8-8 Biden
    • WI (D+1) Trump 5-5 Biden
    • PA (D+1) Trump 10-10 Biden
    • NV (D+2) Trump 3-3 Biden
    • NH (D+7) Trump 2-2 Biden
    • ME (D+9) Trump 2-2 Biden
    • RI (D+20) Trump 2-2 Biden

    I don't know that it's any nobler to for electoral influence to discriminate on the basis of even states and odd states than swing states vs safe states. Unless you're also one of the group wanting to expand the legislature until there are no 4 and 6 EV states ...

    • What quote from a movie is instabtly recognisable?

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  • I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

    • What songs from foreign languages are most successful among English speakers?

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  • I wasn't expecting a Mongolian answer to show up here, so this is great.

    • What songs from foreign languages are most successful among English speakers?

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  • I think so. Some Scottish words are co-intelligible with English, but the song as a whole isn't.

    • What songs from foreign languages are most successful among English speakers?

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  • La Bamba and 99 Luftballons were on my list, others should have been.