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  • Seleni@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    1 day ago

    I sent the club a wire stating, “PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER”.

    -Groucho Marx (Telegram to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged)





  • Some people hate their own agency. They want to be told what to do by a ‘higher power’, whether that’s God, men, a cult leader… that way they can safely say nothing in life is their fault.

    It’s the adult version of wrapping themselves in a blanket because they’re scared of something. That something being their own choices, or worse, random chance, leading them to fail.

    But those who desire control often desire both to be subject to it and to exert it over others. So a hierarchy forms. Men tell those women what to do, and in turn they tell those lower on the ‘ladder’ (younger women, children, and in their ideal world ‘others’ like PoC) what to do. Thus everything in their life is controlled, and they feel safe. And they get to have a little power of their own, again without real responsibility, because they’re just underlings for someone ‘higher on the ladder’.





  • Yes, fertilizers can be a skin irritant due to the concentration of chemicals. Obviously it depends on the fertilizer; most likely this owl stepped in a water-soluble chemical fertilizer, as they tend to be quite concentrated and are placed on top of the soil so they can dissolve a little bit every time the plant is watered.

    Unfortunately people often dump more on the soil than plants really need (the ol’ ‘if one application is good than twice as much is twice as good!’ crowd that also drives doctors crazy). At usual application rates and spread the fertilizer should, in most cases, be too spread out to be much of a problem, but obviously a giant pile of it…




  • Seleni@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.worldRule-follower
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    1 month ago

    Soft firing without having to pay severance. That makes their quarterly numbers look better, which in turn makes stocks and thus their compensation package go up.

    Of course it will probably kill the company in the long run, but by then the board will have elected a fall guy to blame and they will all jump out with their golden parachutes, leaving the rest of you to burn.