Profile

  • Pseudothyrum
  • Member Since Aug 30th, 2009

Are you Pseudothyrum? If So, Login Here.

Recent Comments:

Sticker shock at the supermarket: Food prices poised to rise {Daily Finance}

Oct 15th 2009 11:08PM FROM THE ARTICLE:"No doubt it's frustrating to think that food prices will resume their long upward trend, but that's the reality of supply and demand in the global marketplace, economists say. "

That's a straight up lie. The truth is that there is a major OVERSUPPLY of food in the USA .. they want to jack up prices to cover all of the food they have to throw away every day.

Undead -- Trying to Find Myself After Life Falls Apart {Lemondrop}

Oct 4th 2009 1:13PM Why are you blaming your ex-husband for seeking to divorce you when you are emotionally unstable and unable to take good care of a child? Or would you rather a child be scarred for life by being cared for by a crazed and emotionally-unstable woman like yourself?

I Slept With Tucker Max, the Internet's Biggest Asshat {Lemondrop}

Oct 4th 2009 12:09PM EVE wrote:"I saw a monkey at the zoo who kept on bending over and spanking her butt to get a male monkey to do her....this is similar."

Yes, that's very true. The sexual behavior of many modern young Americans and the people in some other nations resembles that of captive animals in zoos rather than natural free humans. It should also be stated that animals in zoos have the lowest rate of reproduction in the world, being entirely demoralized, domesticated, and caged.

Also, the fact that endless amounts of alcohol is nowadays so often involved in the casual sex scene is just sad...people have to literally drug themselves like they did with 'soma' in Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD.

The four-day work week: Coming soon to a town near you {Daily Finance}

Aug 30th 2009 5:02AM If the 4 day work-week becomes common, instead of giving people Fridays off why not just give them Mondays off instead? Many people already hate Mondays as it is. Or even alternate Mondays off with Fridays off...there is no reason why we can't experiment with things for a while until we reach an optimal situation that is best for the most people.

Also, 32 hours per week should be considered full-time, or even just 30 hours. EVERYONE WHO WORKS 30-32 HOURS PER WEEK SHOULD BE PAID A LIVING WAGE - we aren't living in the 1800s anymore where people had to slave away for 67 hours a week or whatever in a factory or being a sharecropper just in order to survive. Times have changed...

Let the idiotic workaholics who have no lives outside of work continue to slave away for 40+ hours per week if they want - we'll pay them overtime for it...but those of us who don't feel the need to work our entire lives away have better things to do with our time than endlessly worship Mammon -- the fanatical workaholics should stop trying to force their money-worshipping lifestyles on to everyone else.

The four-day work week: Coming soon to a town near you {Daily Finance}

Aug 30th 2009 4:22AM "Fridays are traditionally the businest business day of the week and in my world, Friday is the most common day to get government related business matters taken care of."

Fine then -- instead of giving people Fridays off just give them Mondays off instead. Problem solved - have them work a 4 day work-week: Tuesday through Friday instead of Monday through Thursday.

Use your brain, dude!

Prisoners say Madoff is dying of cancer {Daily Finance}

Aug 30th 2009 4:07AM Madoff is lucky we live in a 'civilized' nation that prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments."

Remember how the Romans used to throw criminals and other antisocial scum to the hungry lions in big stadiums?

Well, I think it would be fitting to throw Madoff and people like him in to a small cage full of starving hyenas.

Do y'all think that might help to prevent more crimes like this in the future?

:)

The four-day work week: Coming soon to a town near you {Daily Finance}

Aug 30th 2009 4:02AM Another great quote from that same link:

"Turning to consumption, as the grand end which justifies the evil of modern labor, we find that we have been deceived. We have more time in which to consume, and many more products to be consumed. But the tempo of our labors communicates itself to our satisfactions, and these also become brutal and hurried. The constitution of the natural man probably does not permit him to shorten his labor-time and enlarge his consuming-time indefinitely. He has to pay the penalty in satiety and aimlessness. The modern man has lost his sense of vocation." - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/agrarian.html

The four-day work week: Coming soon to a town near you {Daily Finance}

Aug 30th 2009 3:53AM ALL areas of the USA and all technologically advanced modern 1st world nations should have a 4 day work-week, or even just a 3.5 day work-week in some jobs. Also, 30-35 hours per week should be considered full-time; however, that would mean that people would have to make a higher hourly wage (more per-hour) or else prices on the necessities would have to come back down to lower levels...the problem with El Paso is that they still added 2 hours on to everyone's daily schedule, which is entirely unnecessary. I'm sure that they could still get all necessary work done in about 32 hours with no problem.

If a company gets a major work order then of course they can always temporarily adjust people's work hours up if needed - but so much work these days is just pointless paper-pushing office jobs, and in those type of jobs many people waste at least 2 hours per day at their jobs piddling around, so we might as well just go ahead and 'officialize' a shorter work week with no more than 35 hours per-week considered full-time.

Lots of leisure time is one of the best things about living in an advanced 1st world nation. All in all, a shorter 35 hour + 4 or 3.5 day work week will give people more time in their lives to focus more on what is important in life, things like family and raising children right, friends/socializing, the home and neighborhood, various hobbies, learning and reading/writing, health/exercise/sports, traveling, religion, being creative or making art, social or political activism, etc rather than having to slave away like an automaton for 8 hours EVERY DAY in a pointless job in some drab office just to put a roof over our heads.

Why did our ancestors work so hard in the past if we are just going to squander our time way in pointless 'economic' activities? It is a little known fact that many peoples in the past actually had MORE leisure time than we do these days...which is very odd. Overall, we need to live our lives at a much slower pace (like the rural Scottish or French) rather than sticking to this worthless and destructive ideal of a "New York minute" or "fast money" lifestyle -- also, a slower life will mean less pointless and boring traveling, which also means less pollution spewed in to our air and less gasoline used too. So increased leisure time is also much better for the environment overall!

A good quote:

"Religion can hardly expect to flourish in an industrial society. Religion is our submission to the general intention of a nature that is fairly inscrutable; it is the sense of our role as creatures within it. But nature industrialized, transformed into cities and artificial habitations, manufactured into commodities, is no longer nature but a highly simplified picture of nature. We receive the illusion of having power over nature, and lose the sense of nature as something mysterious and contingent. The God of nature under these conditions is merely an amiable expression, a superfluity, and the philosophical understanding ordinarily carried in the religious experience is not there for us to have.

Nor do the arts have a proper life under industrialism, with the general decay of sensibility which attends it. Art depends, in general, like religion, on a right attitude to nature; and in particular on a free and disinterested observation of nature that occurs only in leisure. Neither the creation nor the understanding of works of art is possible in an industrial age except by some local and unlikely suspension of the industrial drive.

The amenities of life also suffer under the curse of a strictly-business or industrial civilization. They consist in such practices as manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, romantic love-in the social exchanges which reveal and develop sensibility in human affairs. If religion and the arts are founded on right relations of man- to-nature, these are founded on right relations of man-to- man."

- FROM http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/agrarian.html

Redbox is really irritating the studios, but they should calm down {BloggingStocks}

Aug 30th 2009 3:26AM Seems that Hollywood has started to hate free-market capitalism ever since the tide has turned against them with increasing numbers of cheap DVDs, dollar movie theaters, NetFlix, RedBox, the internet, etc...why is that? It wouldn't happen to be because they no longer have a MONOPOLY on all profits, would it?