Posted On: Wednesday - April 10th 2024 4:48PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity
We really ought to have a Bureaucratic Stupidity topic key here at Peak Stupidity, but back-filling in topic keys into older posts is something we are loath to do as we near 3,000 posts. This post would have such a topic key.
Overwhelming bureaucracy is a form of stupidity that has been building throughout my life, and it has even greatly affected my career path. It's gotten worse with all the Artificial Stupidity involved, that is, the computer systems that every business great or small (thinks they) simply must use. (We've noted some of this at the auto parts store, pizza joints, etc.)
This is about the YMCA, where we've been going regularly for a children's program. Since this is far from home, I end up staying for 3 hours. No problem - they've got wifi, and I'm here using it right now. They've also got a LARGE number of exercise machines, which is what I'll get to.
At the YMCA, one must have an account, see? OK, but my wife had signed up for various things, and she somehow had 4 accounts, unknowingly. They ask questions on the app, and she answers them. That's all. We didn't care about "no steeenking accounts". They did, so they spent 20 minutes with me as I was ready to take my boy home a month or so ago. That was frustrating, but I guess, we're straight now.
"You're fine" now, as they say these days, but since I'll be spending some time here, I asked about using the work-out machines. Getting a membership for this won't be worth it, but the lady suggested I use a day pass for just one time for free. That was to be the deal today. The gym entrance is 20 ft from the counter, so... "What's your full name." She looked stuff up. "OK, I'll need some form of ID." I pulled out my wallet to show her my driver's license. That wasn't going to cut it. She was deep into the software, figuring out how this all was to work and ...
"Forget it. If it's gonna be that much bureaucracy, I'll just stay over there again and get on my computer.". (I got a big bowl of fruit too - thanks, REDACTED, my wife!)
Come on, man! I see 50 to 100 machines over there, but no exercise for me... beside the typing. What in hell is wrong with just giving me a bright yellow card?! Put a date on it. She'd recognize me were I to come in next week and try to weasel in with another one-time pass. The day that (I shouldn't!) hope comes when all this software stops is the day these people will all die inside. Good! Shoulda' put in more cardio, but ... the computer won't let them.
PS: More of this: We came here mostly for the swimming. It was getting near the end of the morning, and no kids were in the pool. I came to the desk to ask. I kid you not that 2 minutes or more had already gone by with the woman checking "stuff" in the computer to tell her when the kids would go swimming, if at all! I had to say it this time. "OK, you all keep checking stuff in the computer all day. This will go on till noon, too late for swimming. Let me just get him, and then we'll go in the pool." I had to sign a tablet, and luckily I knew the right phone number, or we'd be at the YMCA all day.
PPS: O/T from the bureaucratic stupidity, yet pretty apropos here: I've mentioned there's a nurse in our family. She told us that on a recent shift, all patients on the floor had no pain medicine for about 4 hours. The computer password had been changed. See what I'm talking about, but worse?
PPPS: No, I won't embed the Village People song. Go see 'em in concert. I imagine they're still playing, like everyone else, at least the ones that haven't died from AIDS.
Comments:
Adam Smith
Friday - April 12th 2024 8:08AM MST
PS: Good morning, Dieter!
There's a lot of info to unpack in your comment. (I had no idea that Norbert Wiener even had a daughter.) I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the link. Thanks for the fun comment!
Mr. Moderator,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwkgVdKfEW0
Where to begin? Hmmm...
“What does it take to make/import one's own Rebel Flag emoticon?”
If you mean how do you add an emoticon to the unicode format so anyone can insert a flag (like 🏳️⚧️ or 🏴☠️ or 🏁) in the comments, well...
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/have-apple-make-a-confederate-flag-emoji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set
https://emojipedia.org/flags
If you mean how do 𝑦𝑜𝑢 add add a confederate flag to your posts, that is much easier...
http://www.rw-designer.com/icon-detail/899
(just insert an image using html code)
And if you're asking how to you add a confederate flag favicon to the browser tab on a website...
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_favicon.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_favicon.asp
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-ICO-File
(.ico files are really just renamed .bmp files.)
You can also use .ico files as icons on a windows desktop. And if you really care to you can change the windows start button icon to a rebel flag...
Without The Curse of Greyface there would be no bureaucrats or bureaucracy in the world.
Cheers! ☮️
There's a lot of info to unpack in your comment. (I had no idea that Norbert Wiener even had a daughter.) I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the link. Thanks for the fun comment!
Mr. Moderator,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwkgVdKfEW0
Where to begin? Hmmm...
“What does it take to make/import one's own Rebel Flag emoticon?”
If you mean how do you add an emoticon to the unicode format so anyone can insert a flag (like 🏳️⚧️ or 🏴☠️ or 🏁) in the comments, well...
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/have-apple-make-a-confederate-flag-emoji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set
https://emojipedia.org/flags
If you mean how do 𝑦𝑜𝑢 add add a confederate flag to your posts, that is much easier...
http://www.rw-designer.com/icon-detail/899
(just insert an image using html code)
And if you're asking how to you add a confederate flag favicon to the browser tab on a website...
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_favicon.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_favicon.asp
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-ICO-File
(.ico files are really just renamed .bmp files.)
You can also use .ico files as icons on a windows desktop. And if you really care to you can change the windows start button icon to a rebel flag...
Without The Curse of Greyface there would be no bureaucrats or bureaucracy in the world.
Cheers! ☮️
Moderator
Thursday - April 11th 2024 9:42AM MST
PS: I took a look at that book, guys. I don't know what to make of it yet. So far, I can make a hat, a broach, a teradactyl... ;-}
Alarmist, that is the plan for a few years, I think. Right now, there's no trip and no charge when I'm traveling, using the machines at the hotels, so that's fine. I just figured I'd take advantage of the 3 hours, rather than waste time, errr, writing blog posts...
I'll check out your video later on. What does it take to make/import one's own Rebel Flag emoticon?
Alarmist, that is the plan for a few years, I think. Right now, there's no trip and no charge when I'm traveling, using the machines at the hotels, so that's fine. I just figured I'd take advantage of the 3 hours, rather than waste time, errr, writing blog posts...
I'll check out your video later on. What does it take to make/import one's own Rebel Flag emoticon?
The Alarmist
Thursday - April 11th 2024 5:44AM MST
PS
I built a home gym in my basement roughly 15 years ago ... It has paid for itself several times over in gym fees, time not wasted getting to & from, and the convenience of not waiting for a machine or weights, and, apparently, bureaucracy and data privacy.
Happy Confederate History Month ... embed this!
https://youtu.be/__kQX12S9YI
confederate flag emoji unavailable
🕉
I built a home gym in my basement roughly 15 years ago ... It has paid for itself several times over in gym fees, time not wasted getting to & from, and the convenience of not waiting for a machine or weights, and, apparently, bureaucracy and data privacy.
Happy Confederate History Month ... embed this!
https://youtu.be/__kQX12S9YI
confederate flag emoji unavailable
🕉
Dieter Kief
Thursday - April 11th 2024 12:17AM MST
PS
Hi Adam!! - your recommendation/quotation of "PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA - OR - Howe I Found Goddess and what I did to her After I found her" - forwarded by the famous Douglas Adams - - -a scholar kinda of
- Jean Paul,
whom I follow in his thoughts in his novel TiTAN (1800- 1803) - daily on Twitter: TITAN is a synopsis / synthesis of all that Adams and friends wrote - and all the stuff below - without the overshooting Women-.C.r.a.z.i.n.e.s.s. that was what made the liberating Sixties/Seventies - - - -shine: hehe - - -
This is Adam's magic link to PRICIPIA DISCORDIA , you might want to follow to dive deeper into my words above - and below - - -
https://tinyurl.com/mr2ynuyp
So here we go: Hippie-Goddess stuff - a mixture of Albet Einstein, Robert Anton Wilson (Authentic Foreword!) Hermann Hesse, a few left out Zen Masters*** looking out for the -Non-Tao - then .T.h.e. .G.o.d.d.e.s.s. (nothing in San-Francisco worked without or: God ferbid: contra!! - - feminism around that time - clear, my dear!) - well lemme see. Cybernetics/logic/ computer-stuff!!!! - halloo Mod.! - - - as examples that there'd be an asymptotic to truth/reality, but hidden deep inside the: software/hardware-interfaces, only to be encountered at night, after the three raven had flown over the shrine of the - - - - Young Goddesses!!! - and kissed them in between the legs, while flying by (ok: I just reconstruct what's up - ok: as spiritually!! - centered - anthropological amateur (we're all of us amateurs when it comes to such questions - - Cadwallader*).
Now: To hit the deeper grounds of all things concerning hippie-Humor: Understand that this book is BASED - in a substance you'll encounter After Bathing at Baxter's (which is near Esalen, - this is quite Californian here, I admit that...).
Ok good: the idea is to transcend not only the Bible's manyl God-kingdom ideas by approaching the - far out, man! - - .o.u.t.s.k.i.r.t.s.!! - - : - - of logic/and software-development, but also to enter the holy grounds of the She-Goddesses - after having left the patriarchalistic main-lanes of all kinds of thinking - Until 1970 San-Fran, that is - - -and:: Catal Hüyük!!! - : - The center of the Women-Goddesses/MAtrairchy!! in ancient:: Turkey - as discovered by - Johann Jacob Bachofen.
We're now in Basel/Switzerland: Together with Bachofens colleague Friedrich Nietzsche , who just happens to be one of the main references of Adam's lil' book and - - - - Dr. Albert Hoffmann, who not long after all that appeared on the Basel-scene at the Rhine-knee set chem-trail-sails to discover - - - - LSD-land - - - - now you see: Basel// San-Fran is the epicenter of the attack on the Western Canon in toto that Adam linked here to my pre-breakfast delight, hehe!
I should mention, that this manifesto of the Pricipia Discordia also relies heavily/heavenly on : A software/logical man's writer's work who's - apropos Women-Goddesses - who's only daughter!!! - - is now a hugely influential Cook and restaurant-manager in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin .a.n.d. in the EU parliament in BRUSSELS: Where she resides as one of the most lunatic of the lunatics of the - - German Green party representatives: Sahra Wiener - trying to kill all Russians (we're at war with Russia, say all the green Women-Warriors she is part of that unhinged crowd. led into chaos by our foreign minister of Green Party wisdom: Annalena Baerbock - superfan of Mr. Selensky, who, she famously said, wants to free East-Cocainia - she wanted to say East-Ukrainia - but: see, - - -Dr. Freud came in her way - and let her say what moves her most deeply and connects her most deeply with Mr. Selensky****...)) - and they are also at war with traditional farming and want to overturn (Sahra Wiener says: reform!) traditional farming - - - completely, heheh. - Ok: The father of this spaced-out daughter is at the epi-center of Adam's little book:
- Norbert Wiener - - who also ran a few restaurants (Sahra learned this cooking-business from Norbert) --- and Norbert developed software for big businesses and: Wrote a famous novel in the vein of Thomas Pynchon (they started out a ta bout the same time: I guess: Indenpendantly from each other): "The Improvement of Central Europe" - trying hard (very hard!!!) to synthesize Albert Einstein, logicians/Mathematicians/philosophers Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russel - - - and some of their predecessors/references/enemies like: Niels Bohr, Heissenberg, Hegel, Frege, Kant and Wittgenstein - - -and all kinds of cybernetic/software-empire stuff to reach out for: A better world...bringing - finally - order into chaos - - - withthe help of their computer-knowledge, yeah even: Based on it, Mod, hehe - that's fun, how that worked out at the YMCA 'n' all, isn't it!?!
Pahh: and now see how the New Green Goddesses fare with this hippie-tradition of religion-free religious Women-Goddesses:
Ha-ha! - This is one of the greatest jokes - and there are lots and lots of them out there in TITAN's - Cosmos!! - Can you hear me laughin' Adam?!!
* in the best Dylan-essay ever by Paul Nelson in: The Rolling Stone's Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll***Zen without Zen -Mastering the No-Zen - finally (Th. W Adorno art about the same time: Hegel - seen through the ölens of - - - -Negativity: Negative Dialectics..., hehe: same idea, by and large - - -!)******lots of hippies developed a sweet spot for this connection of LSD and - cocaine - - - Joni Mitchell got addicted 1975 ff. - while making her best - if a bit paranoid - album - Hejira - - -
Hi Adam!! - your recommendation/quotation of "PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA - OR - Howe I Found Goddess and what I did to her After I found her" - forwarded by the famous Douglas Adams - - -a scholar kinda of
- Jean Paul,
whom I follow in his thoughts in his novel TiTAN (1800- 1803) - daily on Twitter: TITAN is a synopsis / synthesis of all that Adams and friends wrote - and all the stuff below - without the overshooting Women-.C.r.a.z.i.n.e.s.s. that was what made the liberating Sixties/Seventies - - - -shine: hehe - - -
This is Adam's magic link to PRICIPIA DISCORDIA , you might want to follow to dive deeper into my words above - and below - - -
https://tinyurl.com/mr2ynuyp
So here we go: Hippie-Goddess stuff - a mixture of Albet Einstein, Robert Anton Wilson (Authentic Foreword!) Hermann Hesse, a few left out Zen Masters*** looking out for the -Non-Tao - then .T.h.e. .G.o.d.d.e.s.s. (nothing in San-Francisco worked without or: God ferbid: contra!! - - feminism around that time - clear, my dear!) - well lemme see. Cybernetics/logic/ computer-stuff!!!! - halloo Mod.! - - - as examples that there'd be an asymptotic to truth/reality, but hidden deep inside the: software/hardware-interfaces, only to be encountered at night, after the three raven had flown over the shrine of the - - - - Young Goddesses!!! - and kissed them in between the legs, while flying by (ok: I just reconstruct what's up - ok: as spiritually!! - centered - anthropological amateur (we're all of us amateurs when it comes to such questions - - Cadwallader*).
Now: To hit the deeper grounds of all things concerning hippie-Humor: Understand that this book is BASED - in a substance you'll encounter After Bathing at Baxter's (which is near Esalen, - this is quite Californian here, I admit that...).
Ok good: the idea is to transcend not only the Bible's manyl God-kingdom ideas by approaching the - far out, man! - - .o.u.t.s.k.i.r.t.s.!! - - : - - of logic/and software-development, but also to enter the holy grounds of the She-Goddesses - after having left the patriarchalistic main-lanes of all kinds of thinking - Until 1970 San-Fran, that is - - -and:: Catal Hüyük!!! - : - The center of the Women-Goddesses/MAtrairchy!! in ancient:: Turkey - as discovered by - Johann Jacob Bachofen.
We're now in Basel/Switzerland: Together with Bachofens colleague Friedrich Nietzsche , who just happens to be one of the main references of Adam's lil' book and - - - - Dr. Albert Hoffmann, who not long after all that appeared on the Basel-scene at the Rhine-knee set chem-trail-sails to discover - - - - LSD-land - - - - now you see: Basel// San-Fran is the epicenter of the attack on the Western Canon in toto that Adam linked here to my pre-breakfast delight, hehe!
I should mention, that this manifesto of the Pricipia Discordia also relies heavily/heavenly on : A software/logical man's writer's work who's - apropos Women-Goddesses - who's only daughter!!! - - is now a hugely influential Cook and restaurant-manager in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin .a.n.d. in the EU parliament in BRUSSELS: Where she resides as one of the most lunatic of the lunatics of the - - German Green party representatives: Sahra Wiener - trying to kill all Russians (we're at war with Russia, say all the green Women-Warriors she is part of that unhinged crowd. led into chaos by our foreign minister of Green Party wisdom: Annalena Baerbock - superfan of Mr. Selensky, who, she famously said, wants to free East-Cocainia - she wanted to say East-Ukrainia - but: see, - - -Dr. Freud came in her way - and let her say what moves her most deeply and connects her most deeply with Mr. Selensky****...)) - and they are also at war with traditional farming and want to overturn (Sahra Wiener says: reform!) traditional farming - - - completely, heheh. - Ok: The father of this spaced-out daughter is at the epi-center of Adam's little book:
- Norbert Wiener - - who also ran a few restaurants (Sahra learned this cooking-business from Norbert) --- and Norbert developed software for big businesses and: Wrote a famous novel in the vein of Thomas Pynchon (they started out a ta bout the same time: I guess: Indenpendantly from each other): "The Improvement of Central Europe" - trying hard (very hard!!!) to synthesize Albert Einstein, logicians/Mathematicians/philosophers Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russel - - - and some of their predecessors/references/enemies like: Niels Bohr, Heissenberg, Hegel, Frege, Kant and Wittgenstein - - -and all kinds of cybernetic/software-empire stuff to reach out for: A better world...bringing - finally - order into chaos - - - withthe help of their computer-knowledge, yeah even: Based on it, Mod, hehe - that's fun, how that worked out at the YMCA 'n' all, isn't it!?!
Pahh: and now see how the New Green Goddesses fare with this hippie-tradition of religion-free religious Women-Goddesses:
Ha-ha! - This is one of the greatest jokes - and there are lots and lots of them out there in TITAN's - Cosmos!! - Can you hear me laughin' Adam?!!
* in the best Dylan-essay ever by Paul Nelson in: The Rolling Stone's Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll***Zen without Zen -Mastering the No-Zen - finally (Th. W Adorno art about the same time: Hegel - seen through the ölens of - - - -Negativity: Negative Dialectics..., hehe: same idea, by and large - - -!)******lots of hippies developed a sweet spot for this connection of LSD and - cocaine - - - Joni Mitchell got addicted 1975 ff. - while making her best - if a bit paranoid - album - Hejira - - -
Adam Smith
Wednesday - April 10th 2024 5:38PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed!
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris...
https://tinyurl.com/mr2ynuyp
☮️
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris...
https://tinyurl.com/mr2ynuyp
☮️
Ah : I want to correct the - Wiener I once even met the daughter of is called Oswald: the software profi and then experimental lyricist and prose-experimenter and author of the - quite famous - novel Die Verbesserung von Mitteleuropa (The Improvement of Central Europe) - and landlord and cook in Berlin, then in - Canada! - Oswald Wiener!