We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Samizdata quote of the day These four separate craters were man made, or to be honest, created by a bunch of government union drones, not refilled with blacktop or marked with an orange cone. The question is whether this is utter incompetence, blatant indifference, spite or a business transaction between government drones and local tire dealers. Luckily, government traffic engineers have been too swamped to properly time the lights on Chestnut Street for the last 20 years, so no one can travel faster than 15 mph anyway. Government lessens the pain of their ineptitude through their ineptitude in another area.
– Jim Quinn
Linked to by the amazingly industrious and non-drone-like Instapundit, in this case in the person of non-drone Ed Driscoll.
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Government isn’t just a business, it’s the best business in the World because you can shoot the customers if they don’t patronize you. Given that, what would the point be in worrying about customer satisfaction?
Sadly true, PFP. One megacorp-wide customer satisfaction survey every four years doesn’t really hack it as a performance incentive.
They don’t seem to get the message of the job reviews even when they do get them.
Anyway, there are far too few firings.
Expect a LOT of “Gub’mint business-as-usual is BAD” from Mr. Driscoll now.
His previous hobby of linking to, and defending, all things “Anyone but Trump, or anyone who speaks his name fondly” was been washed away on Tuesday.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”
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