# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/161 "2019-08-03T17:36:04Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > Gah, I linked to the wrong article. I meant this wiki, specifically the upward and downward comparison section: > > [Social comparison theory - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_comparison_theory) Yeah, that provides better insights. This one may be the most apt in this context: > [@](#): > > Low self-esteem and social comparison: > > However, people with low self-esteem or people who are experiencing some sort of threat in their life (such as doing poorly in school, or suffering from an illness) tend to favor downward comparisons over upward comparisons. People with low self-esteem and negative affect improve their mood by making downward comparisons. Their mood does not improve as much as it would if they had high self-esteem. Even for people with low self-esteem, these downward social comparisons do improve their negative mood and allow them to feel hope and motivation for their future. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/162 "2019-08-03T17:44:50Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I am at least being pragmatic and trying to get at least basic health care coverage (if not necessarily as good as mine) for everyone who does not currently have it. You apparently feel that it is better to sit on a high horse and express condemnation of anyone not as morally pure as you. :rolleyes: > > Just in case my wording there is not clear, that is 26% of all Americans, not of swing voters. > > ETA: > Epic #humblebrag there :rolleyes: > > YWTF: Are you not aware that those “sad sacks” include swing voters in Wisconsin? I guess I’m alone in feeling gratitude that I’m not at the mercy of my illness anymore. Apparently, it’s more common to feel Superior to other poor saps who can’t get medical care. I don’t compare myself to “those people” because I was one of those people and it SUCKED. I hope no one has to be one of “those people.” Then I’m alone. Ah well. Still wish everyone had great health coverage. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/163 "2019-08-03T18:35:49Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I guess I’m alone in feeling gratitude that I’m not at the mercy of my illness anymore. Apparently, it’s more common to feel Superior to other poor saps who can’t get medical care… He thinks you’re humble bragging about your awesome healthcare, not your feelings. The projection is so strong in this one that his smallness can’t help but show even in his insults. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/164 "2019-08-03T19:21:25Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > BTW, Andy, you are the one who has trouble imagining how others feel. You were so ready to believe I was into the whole “red pill” thing until I showed you that I had stated in unequivocal terms my condemnation for them well before you posted. Why do you suppose that is? Maybe because your views on other things make it a pretty natural assumption? You seem to have turned the douchiness up this last week or so, too. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/165 "2019-08-03T19:30:00Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I guess I’m alone in feeling gratitude that I’m not at the mercy of my illness anymore. Apparently, it’s more common to feel Superior to other poor saps who can’t get medical care. I don’t compare myself to “those people” because I was one of those people and it SUCKED. I hope no one has to be one of “those people.” > > Then I’m alone. Ah well. Still wish everyone had great health coverage. You’re not alone in feeling gratitude or wishing everyone had even basic health coverage. I was lucky I had insurance. But it made me aware of how we would’ve been financially devastated if I hadn’t, and to how many people either can’t afford their treatment or are indeed financially ruined. A compassionate person gives a shit about things like that. No matter how much\*\* Slacker \*\*wants his feeling of superiority to be normal, it isn’t. It’s certainly widespread, however. But normal? No. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/166 "2019-08-03T19:37:03Z")
I have the best healthcare package in this country (tricare) and my prevailing feeling is guilt. Guilt that me and my family have reaped the benefits of socialized medicine, while there are others who have to scrounge for loose change in their couch to pay for their life-essential insulin. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/167 "2019-08-03T20:37:18Z")
As noted early, on issues like alleged origins about the differences of intelligence among “races”, lukewarm climate chance, and “centrist” anti-GMO stance, the evidence shows that **SlackerInc** continues to be unaware about how the sources he relies on grossly misleads people like him. As his latests efforts show, it has to be added to all that that he also falls easily for asinine sources regarding late term abortion, health care, incels and feminism. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/168 "2019-08-03T20:49:20Z")
Merrily continuing to strawman away, I see. If someone read these posts in isolation, they would see a picture painted of someone who opposes universal health coverage and relishes seeing people go into medical bankruptcy. Have you really somehow deluded yourself into thinking this is true, or are you just trying to make some distorted case to spin readers you hope have not actually read what I really have to say about this? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/169 "2019-08-03T20:54:56Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Why do you suppose that is? Maybe because your views on other things make it a pretty natural assumption? You seem to have turned the douchiness up this last week or so, too. ORLY? Like this post from yesterday, in the next Pit thread over? > [@Smirky McDouchebag lawsuit dismissed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smirky-mcdouchebag-lawsuit-dismissed/837686/261): > > I agree with others who counsel a different approach. I was “carfree” for several years and often had car drivers pull dangerous shit when I was on my bike. My first impulse of the moment, seeing red, was often to flip them off before immediately regretting it. This was in rural Missouri, and there were two different occasions when this led to a double barrel being quickly pulled down from the redneck’s gun rack and my life flashing before my eyes. It’s not worth it. > > Sam Harris talks effectively about how testosterone-fueled hairless apes can be so dangerous when they feel their manhood is challenged. In particular, they can take offense even to someone inadvertently making eye contact with them. He described what he says when this happens. and I’m sure you would think it makes him a “pussy”; but I believe it is extremely sage advice. > > When a bristling macho guy, spoiling for a fight, challenges him with “What are you fucking looking at?” he responds “Oh, sorry man: I was just kinda zoning out and staring off into space. It’s been a long day.” Confrontation defused, and what has he lost? If your self-image is tied up in maintaining a strong and unwavering exterior of someone who doesn’t back down, that’s a pretty sad existence if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/170 "2019-08-03T21:29:12Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Merrily continuing to strawman away, I see. If someone read these posts in isolation, they would see a picture painted of someone who opposes universal health coverage and relishes seeing people go into medical bankruptcy. Have you really somehow deluded yourself into thinking this is true, or are you just trying to make some distorted case to spin readers you hope have not actually read what I really have to say about this? Well, one thing to add as a clarification is not more flattering. I add that while you are not going full throttle into right wing lala land, it is just that you do not have much of an aptitude in identifying what would be an appropriate source of information to use even when trying to reach for a middle ground on a subject, a “middle ground” that is also compromised beforehand by the silly sources that you rely on. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/171 "2019-08-03T21:52:28Z")
GIGO, you still need more ESL classes to interact effectively on this board. I’m sure what you know is perfectly adequate for ordering at a restaurant or checking into a hotel though. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/172 "2019-08-03T22:05:51Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > GIGO, you still need more ESL classes to interact effectively on this board. I’m sure what you know is perfectly adequate for ordering at a restaurant or checking into a hotel though. Are you going on this again? Do you realize that everyone else has absolutely no problem reading Gigo’s posts, and he has probably less\* typos and errors than most posters on this board? If you have problems following his posts, that is entirely on you and you reading comprehension. I get it that it’s the pit and insults are to fly here, but this picking on him due to your knowledge that he speaks at least one more language than you do just makes you look petty and stupid. \*fewer ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/173 "2019-08-03T22:08:49Z")
What evidence is there that he speaks more languages than I do? I am currently making extra money translating a self published author’s novel from French to English. ETA: But I would still be reluctant to post on a Francophone board like this one. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/174 "2019-08-03T22:11:21Z")
I mean if more of us spoke affected-dipshit it might help Slacker out. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/175 "2019-08-03T22:19:10Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > What evidence is there that he speaks more languages than I do? I am currently making extra money translating a self published author’s novel from French to English. > > ETA: But I would still be reluctant to post on a Francophone board like this one. Sorry for the author. I guess if you are self publishing, then you don’t really have many options, and you go with the lowest bidder. That you claim to struggle with GIGO’s posts anytime that you just don’t want to answer them makes me think that you are still need more EFL classes, though your English is probably almost adequate for locating a bathroom, but obviously not yet good enough to find the library. Seriously, in the post that you called out, what was the grammar or syntax issue, caused by GIGO’s use of English as a second language, that you were unable to understand? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/176 "2019-08-03T22:24:13Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > I mean if more of us spoke affected-dipshit it might help Slacker out. Yeah, I forgot to mention that besides falling for misleading information about the differences of intelligence among “races”, lukewarm climate chance, “centrist” anti-GMO, late term abortion, health care, incels and feminism, he also likes to reach for the grammar nazi gambit as an excuse to not have to deal with the point one makes. As others like you showed, I may have problems with English, but it is not hard to see what is the point. So, we will see if the Slacker still thinks that a hack like [Lomborg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMPFDqyfrA) is still a good source of information to rely on regarding the issue of climate change for example. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/177 "2019-08-03T22:26:53Z")
It’s true that I bid lower than others, not having a degree or anything. But she has been rapturous about the results. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/178 "2019-08-03T22:38:34Z")
And fine, that one was less garbled than most. Good for you, GIGO! BTW, my Spanish is probably better than most people who have taken five years in high school, although not nearly as good as my French. And I took a year of Russian in high school, with the second semester being moved to Russian II because I had lapped the rest of the class. I can still parse Cyrillic and engage in basic pleasantries. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/179 "2019-08-03T22:44:24Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > And fine, that one was less garbled than most. Good for you, GIGO! > > BTW, my Spanish is probably better than most people who have taken five years in high school, although not nearly as good as my French. And I took a year of Russian in high school, with the second semester being moved to Russian II because I had lapped the rest of the class. I can still parse Cyrillic and engage in basic pleasantries. Avoidance of the fact that you are still not acknowledging that Lomborg is a hack is duly noted. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/180 "2019-08-03T22:44:36Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > BTW, my Spanish is probably better than most people who have taken five years in high school Comparing yourself to people who took 5 years to complete high school may not be as flattering as you think it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=10)