Thomas Friedman, why don't you break up?

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It’s P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q.

Y/N: this is the most tom friedman headline ever

Z S, Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link

The winners won’t just be those with more I.Q. It will also be those with more P.Q. (passion quotient) and C.Q. (curiosity quotient) to leverage all the new digital tools to not just find a job, but to invent one or reinvent one, and to not just learn but to relearn for a lifetime. Government can and must help, but the president needs to explain that this won’t just be an era of “Yes We Can.” It will also be an era of “Yes You Can” and “Yes You Must.”

Maureen Dowd is off today.

never have i so longed for maureen fucking dowd

Z S, Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link

stuff like that always just reads to me like "depressives can just fuck right off, sorry you won't be employable in the brave new economy"

Instagram Llewyn Davis (silby), Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link

Now, notes Craig Mundie, one of Microsoft’s top technologists, not just elites, but virtually everyone everywhere has, or will have soon, access to a hand-held computer/cellphone, which can be activated by voice or touch, connected via the cloud to infinite applications and storage, so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before.

can it type punctuation that isn't a comma

a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link

Only magical people will thrive in the new economy. This is destiny and cannot be fucked with. Unmagical people will simply wither away, just as the state was predicted to wither away under flourishing marxism. Friedman has spoken.

Aimless, Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you,
fuck you fuck you fuck you,
fuck you

i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link

that headline's partic good w his picture

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link

so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

But, more than ever, our kids will have to “invent” a job. (Fortunately, in today’s world, that’s easier and cheaper than ever before.)

Please quit the NY Times and go do this yourself

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link

i've got a new job that i've invented right here in my solar backpack.

barking came easily to me (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link

Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job.

you say this, tom, but your continued employment suggests the existence of high-wage, no-fucking-skills jobs.

barking came easily to me (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link

columnists are basically monopoly rent-seekers

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

乒乓, Thursday, 4 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

aw already posted

乒乓, Thursday, 4 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

One, people don't behave like migratory birds, so attempts to treat them as such are a waste of time. Migratory birds never suddenly set up a black market for Western DVDs.

otm

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link

friedmanomics

--808 542137 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link

xpost i smell new yorker caption

Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

argh, just fucking END this guy already
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/opinion/friedman-its-a-401k-world.html?hp&_r=1&

huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link

So people like reading this junk:

If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you’re not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say “it is a 401(k) world.” Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

Self-motivation is all it takes, right...

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

that a-hole is sorta correct, given that for average investors 401ks are basically rigged against them, inefficient, and a total and utter crapshoot that is far too likely to end in woe, as far as retirement income security goes.

life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link

that doesn't really make him "sorta correct" -- Friedman is saying this all just means you have to "learn about investing"

huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

I posted this on the "Rolling Economy" thread but it fits here too. Salmon totally destroys Friedman:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/01/the-systemic-plight-of-labor/

o. nate, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

youre correct, he is oblivious to the manner in which his analogy has any merit at all.

xpost

life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

that "thought leaders" zing at the end stings, i love it

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

enjoying juxtaposition of thomas friedman and arkham asylum in SNA tbh

life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

u_u

life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

floors don't protect you, unless he means from vermin

j., Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link

just showing up is all i have in me, motherfucker.

Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link

Thomas L. Friedman: This Ain't Yogurt

daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

Saw this blurb in a NY Times email. This sounds too painful to read.

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Blowing a Whistle
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Respecting and caring about civil liberties means supporting the government programs needed to prevent another 9/11.

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link

and now i went and read that whyyyy

adam, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link

mostly cut & pasted the asshole from The Wire, White People's Favorite TV Show Ever

ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link

haha yes The Wire, white people's favorite show that had reruns on BET

Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link

three months pass...

someone wrote an article on medium about what the next generation's thomas friedman would be like

I appreciate the idea that a countercultural female figure could be the next generation's generalizing annoyance

beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

If Kerry’s mission fails — because either Israelis or Palestinians or both balk — he will either be tacitly or explicitly declaring that this two-state solution is no longer a viable option and “that would plunge Israel into a totally different paradigm,” said Grinstein, who recently authored the book “Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability.”

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 February 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link

really only posting for that book title, which is vaguely Friedmanesque but not Friedman

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 February 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link

lol

i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 13 February 2014 09:20 (ten years ago) link

a little grossly sexual too

j., Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

This has got to be one of his worst:

"Never go to a hockey game with Putin and expect to play by the rules of touch football. The struggle over Ukraine is a hockey game, with no referee."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/friedman-playing-hockey-with-putin.html?src=me&ref=general

Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link

loool

purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link

gahhhhhhh!

ביטקוין‎ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

This is not a joke. This is actually taking up space in the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-the-world-according-to-maxwell-smart-part-1.html?_r=0

IN the 1960s, there was a popular sitcom — “Get Smart” — about a hapless secret agent named Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams. Smart went by the code name “Agent 86.” “Get Smart” famously introduced the shoe phone to American audiences, but the show also introduced something else: its own version of the bipolar world. Do you remember the name of the intelligence agency Maxwell Smart worked for? It was called “Control.” And do you remember the name of Control’s global opponent? It was called “Kaos” — “an international organization of evil.”

The creators of “Get Smart” were ahead of their time. Because it increasingly appears that the post-post-Cold War world is cleaving into the world of “order” and the world of “disorder” — or into the world of “Control” and the world of “Kaos.”

Queef Latina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link

can't wait for his take on dick van dyke

everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link

"Today, in this globally connected, app-driven, post-Uber world, our mothers are, in a very real sense, cars."

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link

he's NYT quiddities-ness, in the flesh.

in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:38 (ten years ago) link

seriously, i don't think i can stand both Friedman and Dowd making a "comeback."

in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link

have they been away? i thought their voices had just been drowned out by the sea of clickbait crap.

j., Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link

huge lol @ eephus

balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link

A+

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link


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