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Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don't spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it's on expensive yachts in Monaco. They're not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don't think I've ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn't really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it's mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they're the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.

Great for you but that's got nothing to do with what we were talking about which was you thinking that a war between Venezuela and the United States would be a good thing.

It depends on the part of the goat being sucked I suppose. The goat may be fine with it, we need more information.

There's also the black-headed gull, only the males have a black head and only during the mating season. The vast majority of the time the black-headed gull has a white head, just like the other 11 billion gull species

Yeah there's a girl at work that had my email signature for about 6 months because you just copied it when she started, and I was always having to explain to clients that I don't know who they are. They are in fact her clients.

I've worked there for years now and I'm still unclear on the hierarchy. I think they're both the same level of authority but I honestly could be wrong, the organisation is an absolute mess.

You can tell when you work for a big multinational because it's never clear who's in charge. If you know what's going on you're not working for an important enough organisation.

So to be clear I "report" to the manager that I actually like. What I'm supposed to be doing I have no idea about. Given that I've never actually got in trouble for withholding information I assume that the other guy isn't my direct line manager. But it really is all up in the air.

Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump

Nah, they are lost. They are too thick to be able to think critically, so they'll still vote for him. So they a still stuck in the cult of brainless stupidly.

One of my managers is like that, I've known him for about 5 years and he's been the biggest idiot I've ever met the entire time. But ever since AI came out he's turned it up to 11.

Fortunately my other manager can't stand him, and they have blazing arguments, so generally speaking if he tells me to do something I don't like / want to do, I go and tattle tell.

I still think it's hilarious as it's named after the road.

I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he's doing but at a personal level I can't stand him. He's just very whiny.