2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMy confession as a paid poster
But it is not by my choice.
You see, Big Math outsources their posting needs to the data mine in Bogdanovich, Siberia where they can receive high quality analytical posts for only a fraction of a cost.
Thankfully, I don't work in the mine, itself. I have my own cube. I get two square meals a day that I'm allowed to eat at an actual table. One of the meals is even required to have root vegetables. My friends, they tell me, "Nikolai, be more positive. Your bad attitude is dividing everyone in the office. Do you want to go work in the mine with mean overseers? Where the chief mode of transportation is crawling through tiny tunnels? You've seen the people who work out there. They're so beaten down, they're only a remainder of their true selves."
And until today I've kept quiet about working in an industry that is multiplying so rapidly, growing exponentially every time someone asks questions about Clinton's polling numbers versus Sanders. But for too long I've kept quiet! I stopped being silent after watching an overseer's car strike a child miner on the median of the road into our plant. I'll never forget the indifference for which the ambulance personnel carried that one off to the hospital.
Not to get off on a tangent, but there is an acute lack of awareness about the deplorable conditions that child data miners are forced to work in. Incredibly, there have been no negative stories in the international news.
Anyway, from that day on, I started speaking out about our lives here in Bogdanovich. The supervisor, he say to me, "Nikolai, your work is regressing. You're foiling our efforts to make our quotas by doing less than your share of the work. Don't become a problem for me."
But I say never! My worth is greater than the count of my math posts! I will not stand by and observe the repeating nature of these injustices! They may say, "Nikolai, your problems are imaginary. You're being irrational", but I know better.
So remember! All else being equal, when you see a post covering statical significance in polling or an analysis of historical trends, it was probably created by those of us in Bogdanovich!
If I suddenly stop posting, don't try and find me. The powers driving this business will stop at nothing to cancel out opposition voices that are steadily increasing in volume. But I will not be minimized any longer!
Skink
(10,122 posts)Response to Skink (Reply #1)
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(24,853 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)Godhumor
(6,437 posts)And no one is going to tell me differently.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Far be it from me to disparage another's creative endeavors
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)Maybe I have been up too late...
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Its also late...
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Those were my favorite parts. Very clerver, you!
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(6,437 posts)Response to Godhumor (Reply #10)
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(24,853 posts)Godhumor
(6,437 posts)I should probably rectify that at some point.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)For some reason, nearly everyone on my ignore list has a star. We must be on different ideological planes.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)You probably know, but for anyone who doesn't, she's no longer welcome here, the admins decided she crossed the TOS line. She always had this annoying little fly or bug that moved around. Then came the centrist fly-swatter grave dancers. The cute silly bug-chasing dog is them, flailing away at squashing a populist/left ideology they have no chance to extinguish.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)One of my all time favorite examples of what happens when I get truly exhausted and decide to post.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)yardwork
(61,650 posts)I'm a fan.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)I do wonder if someone can actually done every math term in the OP, though. I wrote it in something of a tired crazy state of mind.
bvf
(6,604 posts)and the conceit is implausible.
C-
yardwork
(61,650 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)to know which parties to avoid.
The OP would be at serious risk in an introductory creative writing class.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)More please
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Two squares a day is all it took!
livetohike
(22,145 posts)salinsky
(1,065 posts)Brain bleach, STAT!
kydo
(2,679 posts)they tend to make one fart and in in a mine, well damn there goes the canary plus all that gas in mines ... boom .. collapse ... trapped Godhumor in Bogdanovich. Not cool.
You need a union.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)And told me it would happen again if I didn't post favorable post for her. I don't get paid, but my life was spared in exchange for posts.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Don't let anybody post the Borat in ... whatever in the hell he is wearing at the beach ... pic again.
The pain.