There are worse ways to use the force
Septimaeus
joined 2 years ago
Founding CEOs and those working for small companies usually are at least not-far-removed from the life experiences of their employees. In many cases they draw a relatively low salary and have a meager lifestyle compared to their most skilled employees. The pop culture tropes of the callous fatcat, ruthless machiavel, nepotistic bungler, etc are informed mostly by career CEOs hired by much larger corporations.
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Weird but, probably not. This is especially true if
- there’s an employer match to consider
- the retirement vehicle type is exempted from civil and/or legal disputes
- the class of debt can be discharged via bankruptcy
- you expect inflation to continually chip away at remaining debt principal
- you expect markets to perform on average as they have historically
- your contributions can lower your tax burden now or later
Among other things
Haha *click*
Immediately dropped into ongoing estate crises. Your staff hasn’t been paid in months. An angry groundskeeper has set fire to the stables. A nearby parish seeks restitution for damage to its roof. You apparently have relatives with expensive vices whose debtors won’t leave you alone. The clerk insists that the novelty title company you speak of does not exist and your peerage is duly confirmed.
E: Everyone keeps reminding you that you must produce an heir. Suitors hang on the bell, each of them somehow more hideous than the last.
Not OP, but they’re right that successful collective action requires a modicum of focus and prioritization -- i.e., a spam filter -- and it’s especially important for negative headlines since they can easily demoralize, frighten, and even paralyze would-be activists.
It’s an insidious problem for online leftism because too many of us labor exclusively within an activist paradigm of amplification, advocacy, and awareness that excels at igniting a fire of vigilance within people without proffering action to which they might apply it, other than “spread the word.”
That leads to an emotionally exhausting, unproductive churn of frustration and negativity which slowly poisons the activist with anxiety, panic, and despair.
TLDR: Unmeasured vigilance disrupts action, and vigilance without action is worse than oblivion.
That’s the only reason I opened this post; i.e., it may be “engagement bait,” a recent online trend.
Maybe because from any angle it looks like a twice-pasted cutout of a late 90s hatchback?
At the risk of sounding clueless, since others here seem to know, could somebody point me in the right direction re: “stormbringer” and its WS association?
I haven’t found much beyond the name of a sword in an old fantasy series that doesn’t appear to be a NatC favorite or otherwise associated with WS ideas. And while I’m familiar with “stormfront” and “stormtrooper,” I hadn’t thought the nominal format of storm-____ was necessarily WS-related.
So is “stormbringer” a dog whistle, Norse-related, or something like that?
Did NatC that coming.
OK I admit, the first few times the cuddle monster wakes you up, it’s the cutest thing. But at some point when the sleep debt has accumulated and you’re still lying awake after the fuzzball woke you to make his current sleeping spot, it hits you that maybe cat social sleeping behavior isn’t 100% compatible lol
Denethor, fresh off a palantir binge, criticizes Faramir for being alive (2025, crayon on canvas)