If you are one of the few who listens to directions: THANK you.

You know what's tasty when that happens? Chia pudding.

Yes, but it's possible to make a racist joke about Muslims. Same as rap music isn't a race, but it's totally possible to make a racist joke about rap.

Ever been out of work for more than six months? It can definitely be "deciding someone's fate." If I hadn't gotten hired *the week* I got hired by the workplace I refer to as "Hell Lite," I would have been homeless - not moved back in with my parents, not "hey, I gotta crash on a friend's couch for a few weeks," homeless. We'd run through our savings due to an unexpected medical emergency.

It's immoral on a "deciding people's fate on petty bullshit" level, , not quite the "systematically depriving a people group of opportunities in such a way that it diminishes their overall quality of life" level - although there are areas where it gets freakily, cultishly close. More like "I'm not gonna hire anyone wearing a blue shirt" is morally objectionable, but it ain't exactly "I'm not gonna hire anyone I suspect is Jewish" terrible.

Shit, yes. Actually get to know someone's qualifications rather than making snap judgments based on their facial expression and bullshit like how firm their handshake is and whether they meet your eyes. Also, put down the goddamn copy of "One-Minute Manager," cause if you start following it, morale is going to tank and you'll be left wondering why all of the employees who could find other jobs did so.

.... Questionable. Technically, the same medical condition that's the primary reason I don't smile much is protected by the ADA.
But I never said they should legally have to hire me. I just said it's *wrong.* There's a shitload of stuff that's wrong to do that would also be wrong to make illegal.

If I have to put up with their sixty-watt smiles at six in the morning, they can deal with my straight face. So yeah, it's wrong not to want to put up with downers. People exist for reasons other than to make you feel better about your day, like maybe to sell you your groceries and get your change correct. Besides, it's apparently, like, primarily a U.S. thing. Some other countries actually distrust us because we smile so much.

Side note: You're rabbits, you idiots. That pit is clearly made of dirt. START DIGGING.

Don't think so. Related documentary?

You - you realize people who *aren't* happy are just as discomfited by putting up with cheerful people, right? There's this whole cultural joke about people who do it too early in the morning. And shit, there are specific stores in town I don't go into because the salespeople are too smiley to deal with.

Anyone else think the pressure in U.S. culture to be happy is kind of freaky?

Yeah. He's a heck of a story, if depressing and/or terrifying in places.

To be fair, she's following in the footsteps of L Ron Hubbard.

Well, it *is* using someone else's pre-established setting, and Mephisto fits almost perfectly into the Satan archetype.