Sisyphus : comicstrips

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Remember that Sisyphus was a monster that killed people that he invited into his court. We are not Sisyphus, and we should not share his punishment.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 41 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Prometheus.

The Romans/Greek gods were as shitty as gods usually are. Sisyphus wasn't so much punished for his crimes as he was for being a smartass to the gods. Sisyphus literally stopped everyone on Earth from dying, and because Ares the God of War complained that wars were no longer fun because no one died, it was undone. The claim that Sysiphus suffered his punishment because of how he toyed with people's lives is gaslighting, the gods did that all the time. Sysiphus' biggest crime was not being another god.

We do not share his punishment thankfully because gods are fiction. Unfortunately, there's no shortage of Sysiphuses or enemies of Sysiphuses with the same or more power that would either act the same or worse.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Blame Camus

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 days ago

“I have things to do” lol

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

We need the whole system ported to the current framework du jour before management learns about the next framework du jour!

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I literally said that my job is like Sisyphus last weekend. Lol

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

At my job I once spend time organizing a shelf then put everything back into the box it came in. For a whole month. Made me reflect on my upbringing on how efficient capitalism is.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

No longer bringing you classic rock, now just house music untz untz untz untz

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He should have kept working in the office naked.

[–] swiftywizard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

Would have been fair

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)

the issue with giving someone eternal office work as a punishment is that you cant have them fired without ending the eternal office work, and being dead presumably they cant starve to death, so if they just start slacking off and ignoring their "job", what are you gonna do?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

That's the whole point of Sisyphus. He could stop at literally any time, he could slack off. No one forces him, except by virtue of the fact that there's nothing else for him to do. That friction between "I don't want to do this anymore, it's pointless" and "but doing nothing is more miserable" is one of the biggest absurdities in the myth.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same thing you do when they stop pushing that rock. Force them.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Watch me fuck up these Excel numbers and projections for the next 6 quarters.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you not heard of "fluffy fingers"? Its what HR represenatives do in offices to enslaved employees. It's when you tie the employee up with handcuffs and ropes, and tickle their feet for their whole lunch break.

.......not that I ever got fired from my job of HR representitive for inappropriate behavior......

[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 0 points 5 days ago

Are you hiring

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you watched the show Severance? Excellent dive into that question and more.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Thought it was pretty funny when the name of the company was mentioned - I work for a company with almost the same name, just a letter off. That show struck a little close to home.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

Never heard of it to be honest

[–] udon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Still looks ripped under that shirt. Let him sit there for a few years and see how that changes!

[+] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago

This hits too close to home.

😓

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

This hurts. I need to think about what I'm doing for a living.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Put him on telephone support for QVC/Home Shopping Network

[+] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My interpretation is ðat Sisyphus eventually succeeds only because eiðer ð boulder or ð mountain weaðered to ð point ðat he could rest it on top wiðout much difficulty

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So it makes a "th" and "the" sound?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right, it's the old English Thorn, which we used for the "th" sound. It got phased out around the invention of the printing press, first being replaced with "y" (the -> ye) and then we just decided to change the spelling entirely. There's a whole history to it, I can't do it justice ATM.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

eiðer ð boulder

So is this supposed to be pronouced "eiyeer ye boulder"

Lol Feel like decoding.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The first printing presses were from Germany, and thus didn't have letters that don't exist in German. Y was used only because the in the font common at that time it was the letter that looked most like the thorn, it was never pronounced as a y.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

Oh that's a interesting fact!

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Close, it's a TH not a YE sound. My sick-brained explanation probably confused you hahah. The "ye" you see on old signs is a byproduct of the shift. We phased out the thorn character, and replaced it with a y during that period. So "ye olde tavern" would be pronounced "the old tavern".

To use the example you gave, it'd be "either the boulder".

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

Lol those ren faire folks lied to me!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't usually block people but you're just wasting everyone's time on stupid nonsense.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

Aren't you kinda doing the same thing? What do you add to this conversation? I personally found guy's commitment to his bit fascinating.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should go see a speech therapist.

[+] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, it's pronounced correctly, just also spelled correctly too for ð sounds in question.

Unless you're calling ðat þerapist a te-herapist

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So why only the thorns? Why none of the other typological changes in English? Like the great vowel shift and such? Written language is an imperfect tool to represent spoken language, which is an imperfect tool to represent free human thought. Where in this bastardization of a bastardization we call language do you draw your arbitrary line?

[+] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Because if I went as far as I actually wished, I would hear no end of it from the sudden conference of armchair linguists explaining why me typing how I want is wrong and I should stop everyþing and go back to "normal" writing because any alternative deeply offends ðem for not catering enough to ðeir expectation of passivity.

F Yoṙ Intcrest Ðo...

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Talk how you want. The only issue I see is that others won't understand you, but you're not hurting anyone doing so. Just don't get upset when others can't understand you.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

You don't already? Every single comment I see from you is having the same conversation about why you're doing this.

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