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Floaking [chat]
credeiki
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As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to--those that granted me a certain cachet and income while keeping me from fundamental responsibilities. This is what I excel at: the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah that we call floaking.
Immersers, I think, created the term. Everyone has some floaker in them. There's a devil on your shoulder. Not everyone crewing aspires to master the technique--there are those who want to captain or explore--but for most, floaking is indispensible. Some people think it mere indolence but it's a more active and nuanced technique than that. Floakers aren't afraid of effort: many crew work hard to get shipboard in the first place. I did.
China Mieville coins the term floaking in Embassytown; I immediately thought of the community of floakers that is [chat], because what other sort of person manages to shitpost all day while holding down a job?
In any case, please take this word, because it is delightful.
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The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays
The work divided evenly among the three men
In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months
John Jay got sick after writing five
James Madison wrote twenty-nine
Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one
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There's sailors and then there's Sailors.
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That's some hardcore shit!
I am neither holding down a job nor a shitposter
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I feel like when used in reference to a career it's partially that but partially a lifelong quest for a sinecure--except it's a position of your own making rather than one that was just handed to you
But it's also the ability to bullshit your way into places that you want to be that you don't quite belong in
Oh I'm totes floaking in that respect
this is what I really needed today
Eat at Starbucks', I guess
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oh boy oh boy they've been waiting for this moment I can't wait to see what OP they've got in the wings
and this
this is what I get
FDR isn't (but Eleanor was)
You caught on eventually, Sharkboy
You're just not on credeiki's floaking level
From the excerpt it sounds like one for whom the mission is merely a means to the comraderie and carousing that follows.
And that's what most of us sailors are doing.
Then there's that one fucking Sailor.
That fucking guy.
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1) did you find out which side of the family got the welfare fraud layabout surname spelling, and which side got the god-fearing honest day's work surname
2) did you inform the respective bearers of these names of this
Now I'm gonna prep and then stream some of this new fangled Mario game.
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look I am not hating on cred, it's not about cred it's about respecting all hallow's eve
It’s even worse in healthcare. Because then you feel like you don’t want to help people as much as post-grad Sally over there reading up on the latest clinical practice journals.
I just want to make sick people more comfortable and make it through the day without being literally shit upon, and I still miss that mark with shocking regularity.
Somebody report this man to HR for flashing!
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You can't argue with that
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Look I really genuinely want [chat] to know that word and also maybe read Embassytown cause it was cool
It's a perfect word and describes a lot of my mindset and way through life
It needs to be set up in contrast to 'protestant work ethic' and 'impostor syndrome'
well and yes, I did have a whole discussion about 'floaking' vs 'crab fab' but never wrote it out, I suppose
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