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@ricci @SnoopJ @regehr @dev okay who’s gonna cite the egg diagram in their next paper?

@regehr @aburka @SnoopJ @dev this sounds awful, I can’t stand tomatoes

@heavyimage @steve @dev yes, this must be where I got the idea!

Like the article says, the best is when they start trying to explain and analyze purely abstract concepts. I remember reading one about “commander’s intent”. Not any specific commander’s intent, but the very idea of intent itself.

They are truly powerpointing at a level the rest of us cannot even comprehend.

@dev I took a finance class in grad school to satisfy an obscure requirement and it was roughly on this level.

But with worse graphics.

@steve @dev almost as rich a source of powerpoint absurdity as the time I googled 'site:*.mil' for ppt files

@dev this may be the best slide deck of all time

@kstatz12 @ricci @steve I once went to see @sharon's high school marching band compete with a performance about the JFK assassination

but I was still confused by marching bands and thus surprised to find them surrounding me in multi-battalion strength

@kstatz12 @ricci @steve for an additional fee, you can have your diploma printed on any surface of your choice, such as a tortilla or a Fruit Roll-Up

@ricci @hyc @jawnsy I mean, they had the emperor personally writing standardized tests two millennia ago, how can we even compare?

https://discuss.systems/@dan/112193317211093410

@rk this scene would translate well to an Infocom game

Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...

...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.

I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.