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So you drive down the avenue in the nice part of town
looking at the massive estates and wonder "How many of
these people earned their money doing evil shit?"
Now there's a way to know. "Virtue Flags" by Remucon
Industries offers up certified flags that tell the world: "I
earned my money by
doing good stuff and not harming
anybody."
Our team of dedicated dedicatees review your financial
records and determine if you earned your money nobly or
by nefarious means. We're like a Consumer Reports
ranking
for rich people.
If you're a drug cartel kingpin, no flag for
you. If you invented an anti cancer drug that's saved
millions of people, you get a flag but if you're a pharma
guy getting
millions addicted to your glorified, reformulated,
repackaged crack, no flag for you. Entertainers that stay
out of politics and have actual talent? Flag. Engineers
and
inventors? Flag. Doctors? Flag. Lawyers? No flag.
Now of course you don't need to buy our service but
people
might wonder why you don't have a Remucon Virtue Flag
flying in front of your home.
What's on it? I don't know, leave that to the drug addled
losers in the art department.
Job_20morality_20indicator
[calum, Jan 15 2019]
OK, who threw that?
https://www.youtube...watch?v=YfSV2wGpfZE
[doctorremulac3, Jan 15 2019]
Social Credit System
https://en.m.wikipe...ocial_Credit_System
Value judgements of an individual's worth. [calum, Jan 15 2019]
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
https://www.youtube...watch?v=UjUkjpJa6bY
by the women and the children [calum, Jan 16 2019]
Shining Star
https://www.youtube...watch?v=vwc0AW67CmA
Might be a little better song to establish the mood for the day. [doctorremulac3, Jan 16 2019]
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Sniper bones are cowardly! |
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OK, who threw that? Come on! Who threw that? |
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Stand and deliver! (link) |
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{I think the good doctor has been on wine gums} |
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pretty easy to do that (virtually) with google maps and
public records. |
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I predict we're no more than a decade a way from being
shamed on a continuous basis by some sort of AR angel on
our shoulder as we walk about life. We're destined to
become as happy as a cranky toddler. |
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How much do these flags cost? |
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What is the extra cost if you're evil and trying to whitewash your reputation? |
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Sir I resent the implication that we can be bought
off! |
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(That being said we can be... ahem... flexible.) |
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// I resent the implication // |
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Fine, just as long as you're OK with actually being bought off. |
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Cash, used notes, nothing bigger than a 20 ... brown paper bag, usual place ? |
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These allegations of corruption are completely unfounded! |
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What if you're the person who's ruined people's lives and reputations by failing to put up a virtue flag in front of their houses? Should you have a virtue flag in front of your house? |
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The first fishbone is mine. More than happy to explain
myself :
(A) the idea of a job morality indicator has already been
posted on the
halfbakery (I am of the view that the present idea would
have been better
suited to being an annotation on that idea, but that is,
I appreciate, a
subjective view). Similarly, the Chinese Social Credit
Score is widely known
to exist and has been discussed in this parish before. In
short, the proposed
idea is not particularly original;
(B) virtue signalling is a concept that exists, as I
understand it, in American
political discourse and is, again as I understand it, a
popular trope of
sections of the US commentariat (professional and
amateur). I think that
unless the intent behind the idea was to precipitate a
lively intellectual
debate on the merits or otherwise of virtue signalling
(perish the thought), I
am stumped as to why the idea would be given this
obfusticatory drapery,
so, minus marks for presentation;
(C) my personal rule of thumb is that if I can't tell
whether a posting is a
stupid joke or a stupid idea, it's the adjective that
matters, and it's the
adjective that warrants the fishbone. |
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//I earned my money by doing good stuff and not
harming anybody// I earned my money by
developing weapons that are then used to kill
people who can only afford to live in tin shacks in
Yemen. You see it's too subjective as to what 'good
stuff' is. I don't for example describe factory
farmers as doing "good stuff" but they would, and
you might too. You can never get consensus on a
criteria like 'good stuff'. Trump thinks he does
'good stuff'. Do you? Bankers do 'good stuff' but
they also evict mortgage defaulters etc. What does
'good stuff' mean? If you work in a slaughter house,
are you doing 'good stuff'? If you plant GM crops
and deny people access to natural non-toxic
alternatives are you doing 'good stuff'? Many will
say yes, but many will say no. (other bone not
mine by the way. I seldom bone anything except
the totally repulsive) |
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//I am stumped as to why the idea would be given
this obfusticatory drapery// |
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//I can't tell whether a posting is a stupid joke or a
stupid idea// |
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On the other hand, sometimes sniper bones are
OK. |
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Thank you for sharing the song in the link, it
actually gave me a little insight into where you're
coming from. I put up a song that sort of shows you
where I'm coming from. Maybe you'll be open to
giving it a listen. |
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// I earned my money by developing weapons that are then used to kill people who can only afford to live in tin shacks in Yemen. // |
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We don't recall you on our development team, were you using an alias ? |
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// Trump thinks he does 'good stuff'. Do you? // |
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// If you work in a slaughter house, are you doing 'good stuff'? // |
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// If you plant GM crops and deny people access to natural non-toxic alternatives are you doing 'good stuff'? Many will say yes, but many will say no. // |
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Again, depends on how hungry you are ... |
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..... and there lies the problem with the entire
premise of the idea. People whom a person of 8th's
destructive ethos see 'doing good work' as
generating pollution; killing everything that moves;
and promoting hatred and stupidity. |
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// killing everything that moves; // |
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Not "everything" - on the other hand, we do kill plants as well, which tend to be immobile. |
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// and promoting hatred and stupidity. // |
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... to positions of influence in the Labour Party (if you include anti-semitism in your definition of "hatred and stupidity"). |
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We also encourage unnecessary random violence against the weak, innocent and helpless. If you want a full list of the services we can offer, we'll email it to you. |
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Listened to the song in your link, doc, enjoyed it and then spent some time reflecting on what it has to do with the idea. I am drawing a blank, but have for the time being revised my mental image of your fashion choices. For the record, the Shipbuilding link was as a consequence of xenzag's comment, rather than being directly connected with my own ow you say issues with the idea. |
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//spent some time reflecting on what it has to do with the
idea// |
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Absolutely nothing. Glad you enjoyed it. |
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