I mentioned to my wife last night that the biggest change in my political thinking over the last 5 years is truly embracing the Moldbuggian concept of passivism. Once you realize that you have ABSOLUTELY NO POWER, and that none of the elites care what you think, you're free.
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7/ "Travis, you aren't panicking. I don't know why. THE NUMBERS ARE WRONG." Well, Sarah, would the situation be improved in some way if I panicked? Because if you can explain that things would be better, then I'm willing to perform "panic" for you. WOULD THAT BE BETTER?
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8/ " <long silence> no" Oh? Ok. Well, in that case, tomorrow I'll look at the data. Good night."
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9/ So, anyway. Trump said something. Pelosi said something. Would the situation be better if you panicked / screamed F bombs / posted a meme on Facebook / picked a fight with a bunch of your old friends? No? Then don't perform panic. Chill the !@# out and cook a tasty meal
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10/ The bookkeeping error was nothing so sophisticated as a spreadsheet problem. The bookkeeper had just ... stopped balancing the checking account halfway through the year, but thought she had ( ?????????????? ). https://twitter.com/JKP_Discovery/status/1207695762928390145 …
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11/ I went in to the office the next day (a Saturday), opened up the old checking statements, compared them to our accounting software (Gnucash), walked through the year until there was a discrepancy (June), and noted that her last annotation of the paper statements was May >>>
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12/ So then I spent 6 or 8 hours balancing the books for the rest of the year, pushing the correct data out through 31 Dec, then re-submitted to the accountant. On Monday I told the bookkeeper her error, my fix, and asked her to pay more attention in the future.
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13/ She was baffled. "I SWEAR I balanced the books all the way through the year". Well, ok, S___, let me open up the three ring binder and I can walk you threw your annotations in your handwriting through May, and my annotations in my handwriting, in yesterday's ink...
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14/ Her: <panicked look> "No, that can't be right. I did it ! I ..." me: <shrug> Well, I can show you the books if you want, but I was here for 8 hours over the weekend fixing it, so I'm pretty sure I'm correct.
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