Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
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“All of them”
Based kid realizes their parent is a middle management moron, and grows up to become a mechanic or a plumber.
As advanced as any MBA’s concepts.
Led team in writing 17,000 lines of code…ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v
Led team in writing 34,000 lines of code!
Stanley, it’s time to stop pressing buttons, go back to your wife.
This is when the child should be told about the concept of “looking busy”.
Just those hundred ones here. But I have to press them repeatedly and on a set pattern.
POV: You’re Homer Simpson.
https://xkcd.com/722
This is the story of a man named Stanley… EDIT: damnit, didn’t notice the joke was already made, I truly have no original thought 😔
Yeah well I saw your comment first, so you keep doing you.
Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
George Carlin
That was a fun time, now I’m at the stage of conveying the concept of hobbies that can also be careers and learning for fun
“Why are you in the black window! You’re not working!”
“Sometimes the black window is work and sometimes it’s my own project I’m doing for fun or learning”
“Why are you learning, you don’t go-to school anymore!”
“Because it’s fun to learn new things, even when I’m not made to”
“That sounds like work still”
“It’s just like work, except I don’t get paid, and nobody is helping me.”
As opposed to hardly getting paid and nobody helping you.
Sometimes I forget that I’m lucky that my job doesn’t suck
About 20.
about
20three fiddyGod Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain’t gonna give you no tree fiddy.
Wait a minute, this ain’t no new hire
the question is fair, i’ll allow it