Post B7QPK2KPDFSaZRB4vg by dan@discuss.systems
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 (DIR) Post #B7QOfjpAaeCrbBLrQu by dan@discuss.systems
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       Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner......where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QP6RCnvFU3fk8bXk by JustinMac84@mastodon.social
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       @dan Hope she got paid twice for doing two people's jobs.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QP6RUAsfNWXcGTcO by ricci@discuss.systems
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       @JustinMac84 @dan ☝️ this guy bureaus
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QP9XtJWPZRHBVGSW by steve@discuss.systems
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       @dan Jen once needed a special cultural exchange visa to go work in a hospital in China. Getting it required _5_ trips to the consulate in New York, each time being sent away to come back with a more significant seal from the inviting institution.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QP9YCoLvAOFecpqi by ricci@discuss.systems
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       @steve @dan eventually they make you get a sea lion
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QPIDfQ5G7v9t8lUm by ricci@discuss.systems
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       @dan truly, we Americans are only babies when it comes to bureaucracy
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QPIDxV02aY3xbCfw by jawnsy@mastodon.social
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       @ricci @dan even Americans in academia??
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QPK0FMx0F87Eo1nk by hyc@mastodon.social
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       @jawnsy @ricci @dan China invented bureaucracy, they've been perfecting it over centuries...
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QPK0Y9p9Gv3Vb25Q by ricci@discuss.systems
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       @hyc @jawnsy @dan millennia, even American academia has only got to the "punching oneself in the junk" stage, amateur stuff, really
       
 (DIR) Post #B7QPK2KPDFSaZRB4vg by dan@discuss.systems
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       @ricci @hyc @jawnsy I mean, they had the emperor personally writing standardized tests two millennia ago, how can we even compare?https://discuss.systems/@dan/112193317211093410RT: https://discuss.systems/users/dan/statuses/112193317211093410