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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: There are countless 'meeee toooo!' mentalities out there.
I somewhat disagree. The first time it hit the news that a few crazy people were hoarding TP, I went out and bought an 8 pack (of the high end variety, so my usage per roll rate is very high, harhar). The reason being, yes, there is the lemming effect, but us more evolved mammals have to compensate for what the lemmings do, which sometimes means we look a bit like lemmings. But really, I was, am, and never will be a lemming.
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I think you are overy optimistic about the behaviour of "us more evolved mammals". Statistical predictions about how human populations will behave under given hypothetical conditions frequently turn out to be surprisingly accurate - explicitly shown by the effect of advertising.
Take this: I Norway, we have got one publicly financed and ad-free TV broadcaster; up until last newyear its main income was a yearly license fee (of about 200 USD); now it is paid by taxes. Other TV channels are essentially financed through ads. I repeatedly argue that the license fee for those is paid by a premium on every product that is advertised on the channel. I never owned a TV set, so I didn't have to pay the license for the public broadcasting channels, but I couldn't escape paying for the commercial ones. In the the grocery store, I couldn't demand a lower price on the Coke arguing that "I do not watch the TV2 network channels, so I don't want to pay that fraction of the price that goes to keep TV2 alive!"
I hardly ever get a positive reply to such considerations. Rather, "But it is up to you if you want to buy the advertised products! I certainly don't think I have to buy something just because it is advertised!" Right. Noone 'admits' that they are affected by TV ads. Yet ... TV ads work! In the commercial world, we are lemmings! If we were not, advertising would have a hard time. Fashions would have a hard time. Rock stars would have a hard time.
Any individual lemming will have a good excuse for following fashions ("That is my taste") or music style ("He is just a great gitar player") or buying 64 rolls of toilet paper ("We were almost out of it") - the others are the hoarders, the slaves of fashion or whatever. But seem as a whole, we are far more lemmings than we want to admit. (Obviously except you - you are a thinking individual who seriously considers the situation and conclude that it serves you best to do exactly like all the others.)
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Marc Clifton wrote: But really, I was, am, and never will be a lemming.
Everybody says that... 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: So, the twit's hoard.
A twits hoard is better than no supply.
I'm selling a package at five troy ounce. Just doin' the public a service 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I thought this was the point of all that TP
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Ummm. I don't get it.
It must be an EU Thing? Cognac-du-blanc ?
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Over the years, I've received countless emails from recruiters; today was the first that I received one that was for "100% REMOTE".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Yes, seems to be on the rise. I have been using 'flexjobs.com', which specializes remote jobs. Actually started a 100% remote long term contract this week.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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... predicted this over 50 years ago: We all live in a self-quarantine
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I'd like to be, in quarantine, with a pack of toilet paper, in the shade.
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They also did I Am The Virus[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Which is why they called for Doctor Robert[^].
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Whoa! With that temp It Won't Be Long[^]!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You called?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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They also predicted the rise of the hateful blue meanies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his locked down land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
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Not enough police to enforce it.
..pretty useless as a national policy; it will be back.
Then what? Another 3 months?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Do sick boats go to the dock?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yes, for an iv of sailing solution.
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Royal Navy boats go to the dry dock. It's a rum life...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In the current situation I'd say they're up a creek without a paddle.
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Exscuse me for barging in on this thread, but apparently, that scow it's done in sum places. There have been quite a few row's over that treatment oar am I mistaken?
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Try this....[^]
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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Oh gawd - now they'll start hoarding plastic saucepans ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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