Mi rendo conto che c’è una certa quantità di persone che hanno seri problemi a capire il concetto di “budget”. Che cacchio.
Facile lavorare bene, se le risorse sono infinite
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Il futuro dell’Italia: la ripresa (per il culo) è dietro l’angolo
Visto che l’Italia sta attraversando una crisi economica decisamente grande, provo a fare una piccola predizione di cosa succederà in futuro. 
L’Italia non andrà in “default” o “fallirà” ufficialmente. Le cose andranno sicuramente a peggiorare dal punto di vista economico (è fisiologico), ma i governanti dell’unione europea non permetteranno che l’Italia vada in bancarotta. No, la terranno in vita con la flebo invece.
I conti economici -in rosso spinto- del paese, quelli si che sono da default già da un pezzo, continueranno a precipitare. Le dichiarazioni dei politici del tipo “la ripresa sta arrivando” naturalmente sono solo bugie. Non ci può essere alcuna ripresa economica finché perdura questo sistema politico e bancario.
I politici continueranno a aumentare le tasse e a inventarne di nuove per cercare di frenare la valanga. Dovranno metterne tante, ma proprio tante. Non hanno un piano per il paese da qui a un anno, a cinque anni, a dieci anni, cercano solo di vivere alla giornata e mantenere il posto di potere finché possono.
In questo sono perfettamente allineati con quanto succedeva in un’azienda in cui ho lavorato, in cui ero sempre sbalirdito dalla mancanza di una visione a lungo termine della linea dirigenziale. Ripetevo spesso: “direi che i nostri manager hanno come motto ‘qua si naviga a vista’, ma mi pare troppo lusinghiero, mi sembra più che altro che guidino l’azienda col motto ‘qua si naviga al tatto’ come farebbe un cieco. gli imprevisti li affrontano solo quando ci sbattono contro con un frontale”
Comunque, le tasse faranno chiudere ancora più aziende e affosseranno gli imprenditori. Molti se ne andranno all’estero, mentre gli imprenditori stranieri si guarderanno bene dal venire a investire in Italia. Ci sarà un aumento notevole del livello di “schiavitù” che sopportano i lavoratori italiani: ore imbottigliati nelle autostrade per andare e tornare da lavoro, stipendi taglieggiati da irpef e balzelli, lavori inutili e non gratificanti da effettuare per lunghi orari, carriere ridicole.
Ci sarà insomma un peggioramento delle condizioni di vita (comunque, in senso relativo, ancora buone in Italia), ma sarà lento e graduale. Per questo probabilmente i potenti riusciranno a far ingoiare agli italiani tutte le schifezze che fanno senza causare una vera e propria sommossa popolare. Gli italiani sono, al momento, ancora un popolo anestetizzato, che ama lamentarsi (“il mio lavoro fa schifo”, “i politici sono tutti ladri”, “in italia non funziona niente” etc etc) ma che non fa molto per cambiare le cose.
Ma allora quando migliorerà la situazione? Quando si riprenderà l’economia, quando ci sarà di nuovo occupazione, quando ci sarà un miglioramento delle condizioni sociali?
La risposta è: solo quando cambieranno le coscienze degli italiani. Non basterà cacciare Napolitano, Letta, Renzi, Berlusconi dai palazzi del governo. Bisognerà cacciare la componente Napolitano, la componente Letta, la componente Renzi, la componente Berlusconi che c’è nella mente di tutta la popolazione italiana.
Qualcuno sta provando a dare una spinta in questo senso, il movimento 5 stelle. Un lavoro durissimo e ambizioso, ma se ce la fanno allora la ripresa potrebbe davvero arrivare. Insieme a un rinascimento culturale. Io spero che ce la facciano.
Perché i lavori d’ufficio sono pessimi
Se stai seduto davanti a un computer, non significa che stai lavorando.
Puoi spendere una giornata intera “stando a lavoro” senza produrre alcunché di valore.
Scambi il tuo tempo, una delle tue risorse più preziose, con pezzi di carta.
“Almeno lavoro in compagnia” è un’illusione. Tipicamente ti ritrovi semplicemente nella stessa stanza con persone con cui non hai niente in comune.
I colleghi frequentemente hanno una mentalità da schiavi, aspettano sempre che qualcuno gli dica cosa devono fare.
Se sei intelligente e lavori duro, il tuo lavoro di alta qualità viene diluito in un mare di pessimo lavoro.
E’ inefficiente: hai troppe distrazioni.
E’ noioso.
L’energia è un’onda, con alti e bassi. E’ inutile e doloroso essere forzati davanti a un computer durante i bassi, come subito dopo pranzo. E’ semplicemente meglio riposarsi e ricaricarsi.
Se devi scoreggiare, devi tenerla. Se non ti importa e scoreggi lo stesso, probabilmente sei un collega fico.
L’ufficio è polveroso e l’aria è secca, ambiente ideale per ammalarsi.
Why office jobs suck
If you sit in front of a computer, it doesn’t mean that you’re working.
You can spend an entire day “being at work” without producing any value.
You trade your time, one of your most valuable resources, for pieces of paper.
“At least I work in a social environment” is an illusion. Typically you’re just in the same room with people you have nothing in common with.
The government applies huge taxes on your salary.
The colleagues frequently have a slave mindset, always waiting for someone to tell them what they have to do.
If you’re smart and work hard, your high quality work gets diluted with tons of crappy work.
It is ineffective: you get too many distractions.
It’s boring.
Energy is a wave, with highs and lows. It’s useless and painful to be forced in front of a computer during the lows, like right after lunch. Simply better to rest and recharge.
If you have to fart, you have to keep it. If you don’t care and fart anyway, you’re probably a cool colleague.
The office is dusty and the air is dry, perfect environment to get sick.
Pro-ana tips and tricks: how to become a miserable woman
This article is part of the Nutrition Freak project.
“Yesterday I only ate two carrots, but then I swallowed from my boyfriend. Am I still in with the calories?” (from a pro ana blog) 
The numerous women who search for the famous “pro ana tips and tricks” miss a very simple and important point: there are two kinds of beauty.
- The first kind of beauty is the one depicted by the supermodels on the catwalks. Slim, light, ethereal, ruthless eyes. And I would add… they look a little bitchy and depressed isn’t it?
- The second kind of beauty is in what most men search: lean BUT happy, vital women with glowing skin, bright eyes and hair, curves. In other terms: the sexy kind of beauty.
It is pretty evident to me that a woman who pursues anorexia by following the pro ana tips and tricks has chosen the first model.
Now, I am probably the least moralist person I know. I think that those who say “fat is beautiful” are very hypocriticals. It is not. Beauty, mere physical beauty, is subjective only to a certain extent. If the body type proposed by the media (and which is more frequently considered beautiful in real life) is not fat, there sure is a reason.
But the point is, if one really wants to go after physical beauty, why chosing the type of slim beauty that the “market” wants less? Why chosing the model that is not real?
Even those supermodels on the catwalks aren’t ruthless bitches in their real lifes (hopefully). They simply wear that expression because they’re told to do so by the stylist. But can you imagine them in real life situations with that attitude? Visiting their grandparents? Preparing an exam? Bringing their little brothers to school?
Unfortunately… A ruthless bitch is exactly what the pro ana tips and tricks suggest to become.
Because it is clear that we are not only talking about becoming exaggeratedly thin here. No. By checking them (I collected some in the gray squares on the sides) it is evident that there is a huge psychological component in these advice. Therefore, let’s investigate both the aspects: aesthetic and psychological.
THE AESTHETIC ASPECT
To a certain kind of diet corresponds a certain body result. Few things have a huge and quick impact on the body as its fuel: food. 
Now, what is the aesthetic result obtainable with the pro ana tips and tricks? Is anorexia a good stopover, that eventually leads a woman to become a “gorgeous actress” like those on tv?
The answer is a sounding NO.
Anorexia is not a stopover, it doesn’t bring anyone anywhere because it is a disease that not only makes a woman sick, it also makes her physically unappealing.
Truly beautiful women, despite slim and despite caring a lot about what they eat, never cross an important line. That line is called nutrition.
Chances are that most ladies in the show business, who are regarded as beauty models, have rigorous but very balanced and nutritient-dense diets. They would hardly follow these tips, recognizing that they have probably been written by some 15 years old girl with a lot of confused ideas.
As for the slim girls that, yes, populate the runway, a clarification is necessary. Only a fraction of them are really anorexic, and guess what? They are there because the fashion brand wanted to generate a controversy and receive media attention. The reason why they’re there is exactly that they’re anorexic, not that they’re physically attractive.
THE TRUTH IS THAT
You can restrict your calorie regimen, but you can’t also let coffe, chewing gums and ice cubes be the carriers of these calories. It’s unrealistic, and if you try to do it your days will become a pain, being continuously obsessed by “evil” foods. You will, for sure, become an aesthetically miserable woman: sexually undesirable, bony, dull.
Simply avoid that.
Now, a little add-on. Without considering extreme conditions of anorexia, like the girl in the picture, I just want to state why it’s not even smart to adopt “acceptable” skinniness as beauty target.
The media, for example.
The media broadcast both the kinds of beauty that I mentioned at the beginning, indiscriminately: the skinny girl and the “hot chick”. What happens if both appear, for example, on a talk show?
Simple: you see plenty of comments on the dedicated forums in internet of horny men who say the wildest things about the hot chick, almost ignoring the other.
So, a wise person would ask “well you’re saying that the non-skinny, hot girl with curves is “lucky” because she attracts a lot of hornies who just want sex?”.
Of course not. The best I can wish to a woman is to discover that there’s so much more in life than physical beauty and that she doesn’t need to become obsessed by her image to be popular among men, women, or whosoever she wants to be popular with.
But I’ll make a step back from the “best” and follow the line “if being beautiful really counts for you, at least chose the smart way”. At least use as model a lean, juicy, healthy looking woman. Pick a sportswoman, or even one of those dollies that populate the calendars, but not the bunches of bones.
There’s not much you can do if you don’t have big curves (unless you opt for a surgeon) but there’s a lot you can do to be lean and juicy: real nutrition and workout.
Leave anorexia alone, that is dumb beauty. It is a misinterpretation of what men like.
Now, a little bit of psychology.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT
Anorexia is a secret. 
This is how a lot of women (who suffer from it) consider it.
- “Bring frequently chips or biscuits up to your room, throw them away and leave the empty bags around.”
- “Get out, tell your parents you’re gonna eat at your friend’s house, and when you arrive at your friend’s house say that you already ate at home.”
- “Delete your web history so nobody can discover that you read ana blogs.“
Anorexia is usually considered something to hide from others. Relatives. Friends. Why? Because they would not understand it, they would fight it.
It is based on the assumption, coming from the ego, that “I am right and they are wrong”. “They would fight it because they don’t understand it.”
But really… what is there to understand?
That your trying to become a human wreck? Of course they would fight such an attempt, if they love you.
Anorexia is polarized towards hate, hate on the body, hate on life. This is why it tries to run away from love, to lie to it, to elude it.
But it is just a giant illusion, it brings no real benefits but harms the psyche as much as it makes the body ugly and non functional.
It must be noticed that anorexia has a lot of appeal on teenage girls, because it makes them feel part of a sort of “special club”. A desire which is very strong in that period of life.
This is why some blogs with a bunch a crazy, harmful tips have become a meeting point for confused girls who exchange experiences and feed each other’s negative emotions.
Their thought patterns are repetitive, monotonous, the only concern is losing weight.
Again, making a step back to more practical arguments, I want to clarify that no man wants beside him a human wreck who spends her whole days counting calories, feeling “superior”, and using all her brain-power to find ways to escape from food.
That kind of psyche, that the pro ana tips and tricks promote, is definitely “out of market”: there is no demand from men in real life for it. It’s surely not smart trying to supply such a product. There is only a little demand from the fashion estabilishment, but that is the case I cited above. The case where the lead actress of the story is not your beauty but your anorexia.
It is her that walks on the catwalk, it is her that generates clamor.
WHAT TO DO THEN?
In my country there is a very nice proverb that I think suits very well the topic. It says:
“Men like blondes, but marry the brunettes“.
In our case, the blonde is the anorexic, bony model that walks through the calwalk generating a peak of attention for few minutes of life (and then goes back to her life of sadness), and most of that attention is shock for her skinniness.
The brunette is the “real woman”, the one who has a really nutrition-wise diet, who practice sport and is fit, who is vital, with a funny sense of humor and who is focused on all the aspects of life, not just her reflection in the mirror.
A woman who doesn’t live her life just to be perfect and ethereal for few minutes, but she swims through life everyday, in every moment, with personality and talent.
I say: be the brunette. You can do it!
SOME OF THE CRAZIEST TIPS PRO-ANOREXIA THAT I FOUND IN INTERNET:
1. “Low self esteem motivates you. Wear baggy clothes to make you feel fatter than you actually are, and hate every reflection you see.”
2. “Get your tongue pierced, so you won’t be able to eat while it’s healing.”
3. “Insult yourself. If you eat, call yourself a weak fatass in your mind. It works. It makes you feel worthless for eating.”
4. “Think of how you’ll be superior to everyone else in your grade when you have your perfect little body.”
5. “Drink something hot like green tea or bullion cubes, it confuses your tummy and makes you think you’re full.”
6. “If you get a really bad craving, turn on the tv. It’s most likely that there will be some program with lots of gorgeous, skinny actresses on it. It’s a definite way to curb an appetite.”
7. “Eat with the opposite hand.”
8. “If you don’t do it already, drink diet soda instead of regular soda.”
9. “Spoil your food: put too much salt, pepper, sauce on it. That way you won’t want to eat it.”
10. “Thinspiration is your best friend. You think you’ve lost weight? Trust me, you haven’t. Just check out the models and you’ll see you haven’t.”
11. “Clean something gross, like the cat’s litter, the toilet, your boyfriend’s closet, and you’ll lose your appetite.”
12. “Eat just the minimun necessary until your tummy cramps will be over.”
13. “Feel the emotion of total fasting, the effect of glasses of vinegar or lemon juice in your empty stomach, and run until you faint.”
14. “If you really have to eat, eat negative calories foods only.”
15. “Eat using chopsticks.”
16. “Punch yourself in the stomach.”
17. “If your friends start to become suspicious, claim that you became vegetarian or vegan.”
18. “Leave dishes in the sink, leave evidence that you have eaten something, even if you haven’t.”
19. “Say that you have your period and if don’t feel like eating anything.”
20. “Being sick is gold, you can stay all day in the house and eat nothing, and your parents will not know because they will be at work.”
21. “Talk about food like if you’re in love with it when you’re around family and friends. Talk about the greak cake your mother made, talk about how great are McDonalds fries.”
22. “Use any kind of excuse not to eat: I’m allergic, I already ate, I don’t have money, I am in love and lost the appetite.”