Fuck Larry Ellison.

Now he’s going for super-villainy against people who’ve never even heard of Oracle.

Wouldn’t let me rent when the housing crash hit and I couldn’t afford the place, wouldn’t let me have friends over late at night because they thought my d&d group were a bunch of drug dealers. All around a miserable experience.

That’s not what happened.

Having it in neutral is also important in case your clutch is slipping. If you have it in gear and hold the Clutch + Brake down, and your clutch friction plate is slipping/grabbing even when fully depressed, it can be just enough friction to put a real strain on the starter with the extra load. Over time, this will burn through starter after starter until it’s addressed.

Holy shit, those are some decent actors. Damn.

Got it. And which ones were the three good actors in that again?

I believe you are correct.

It appears the confusion is around great apes VS lesser apes and the way it’s worded.

We are all descended from great apes, but lesser apes are our cousins.

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He’s saying we’re not apes, they’re our cousins.

We’re all descendents of a common primate. But apes are their own thing.

Do it! I got one of Madisonseating.com on a sale they had going and have zero regrets, other than I wish I did this much sooner.

Honestly, some two part epoxy smoothed around it and you’d be gtg. And getting high off the fumes it gives off for the next three years…

This is great stuff. I mean, not for my tires. But in every other respect. Great.

That’s a fair critique.

The issue comes down to imperialism imo.

Western societies have an imperialist belief that we should be at the head of the table when it comes to the world order, politics, and having a say about what happens outside of our borders.

This is ingrained in all of us from a very young age by design. They’ve been doing it for millennia, and it’s been working pretty well, so no need to change tactics.

It’s also why non-western nation-states aren’t as involved directly in the politics of other nations. It’s not really a part of their ethos as a culture.

Wait, really? I would like to know more about Porcu-facts.

This is good advice. I was going to type something up, but this pretty much covers it. Listen to this person please OP.

Hopefully, clean water.

Narcissists tend to sound the same, because it’s all lies about themselves and over inflating their own achievements because they can never get enough, have enough, do enough, etc.

Hogan and trump both would have had legitimate things to be proud of/brag about during their hayday; but because they are the way they are, it was never enough. It always has to be about them, and they have to be the best at everything. Their ego is fragile and any challenge to anything they do is met with extreme aggression to try and hide the fact that most of their accomplishments are made up lies.

Once you start down that path, you can’t walk it back without admitting to every one of the lies you’ve ever told. And they physically can’t do that. Like, their brain will not let them. You’ve seen trump try and acknowledge that he was lying by a judge and the best he can do is admit that the thing he’s saying ISN’T true, but he believes it SHOULD be true, so therefore why shouldn’t he be allowed to say what he personally believes is true, even if nobody else is willing to believe him? He knows that by saying it enough times, people will accept his lies as truth, there’s no reason for him to stop.

Hogan’s the same way. All Narcissists are the same way. It’s their cornerstone behavior.

This was literally an “Ask Lemmy” question, which pulls on individual personal experience for responses, so I’m not sure what else you would have been expecting.

I work with MBAs all day every day. Nonstop. They’re the vast majority of my touchpoints as a lifelong software engineer/DBA that manages several teams. I’ve been in the industry for 25+ years and have worked for multiple large (enterprise tier) medium, and small (startup) companies across multiple states including owning my own consulting company and interfaced directly with C-types that held nothing but MBAs.

So, not uninformed, but it is anecdotal. In the sense that this matches my life experience for 25+ years of working closely with MBA types on hundreds of projects during that time. Someone else might have different experiences. But I’m here answering their question so I’m going to talk about my experiences.

There’s plenty of MBA holders that are pragmatic and “normal”. However, at the top level, MBAs either attract, or turn people into narcissistic sociopaths, because the majority of narcissistic sociopaths I know and have worked with, hold MBAs.

Take from that what you will.

Edit: Apparently he took away a downvote. Getting a sneaking suspicion this guy might have an MBA. :) Not sure why you’re downvoting my life experiences, but sure guy. You win.

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no

Edit: Rather than being full snark (it was a genuinely funny question though), I’ll give a more thoughtful answer. The reason the answer is no, is because MBAs tend to attract narcissistic sociopaths. And the first thing they do in this situation, is blame someone else, not the degree, but the specific person.

“If only he was a better MBA he would have kept the company focused on its core values”. That sort of thing.

The thing a degree that’s held by the majority of Narcissists and Sociopaths in the world absolutely won’t do, is inflect.