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Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

Direct link to the book (without the backref):

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Ignore this document. It's a plant.

It suggests filing metal containers that contain gasoline. They just want to see who shows up in ERs or local police dept with specific injuries or vandalism charges.

Edit: the anarchist cookbook that circulated in the 90s and 2000s was a false flag that was intended to remove fingers, hands, and entire faces. It was a funded attempt to get 'smart people' to blow their hands off. The doc posted by OP has the same hallmark copy-paste from reputable sources mixed with advice from chaos agents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's eighty years old. It's a different world. That doesn't make this bullshit at the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

The physics of combustion and gas phases has not changed appreciably on planet earth until atmosphere arrived. Gasoline vapor will ignite if you grind metal on metal nearby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What's the chemistry there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Grinding metal can create large voltage potentials which can create arcs which can ignite gasoline vapor which can cause an explosion.

More to the point, i'm commenting on semi competent text followed by suicide advice. I stopped reading to make my previous post. I'll pick back up to see if there are any more obvious points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't read that bit. I misread filing as filling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Haha, no worries. It's a manual for ending your life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure that the people at the companies I've worked at for the last 15 years have been following this playbook the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (43 children)
  • “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
  • “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
  • “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
  • “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
  • “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
  • “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
  • “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
  • “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
  • “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
  • “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
  • “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
  • “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”

But ... but we're already doing every single one of them 🥺

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

Isn't this like the whole SCRUM framework

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Bruh this is my leadership team at work!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Same... Lol

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  • “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
  • “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
  • “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”

Holy shit, my workplace must be trying to sabotage fascism...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I really need to keep that spiderman meme in my back pocket, but this was also my first thought

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I can't upvote this enough....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

I work in the development office of a municipality.

I was made for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

So, civ v was right, the only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy, is its inefficiency.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Milton was the best: playing music that distracts your coworkers and reduces productivity, engaging management and taking up their time about quibbles, muttering incoherently leading to lost time due to miscommunication, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and setting the fucking building on fire.

Be like Milton.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I believe you have my stapler...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just a coincidence. President Musk would never allow fascism to take hold in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

He will raise his hand to nearly the hight of the stop sign to clearly communicate his intent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention...

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