(Part 3) Top products from r/MaliciousCompliance

I have, actually. You might try a couple books I've found to be very helpful in that regard.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

A People's History of the United States

I'm only halfway through the second one, but there's really nothing quite like reading history through the words of everyday people like you and me. Rather than the heroic narrative that glorifies and omits based upon the preferred narrative of the writer.

Sounds like you're doing good. Definitely better to start earlier rather than later with these talks. My dad always used technical terms for body parts with me (penis, vagina, etc.) and answered all my questions in a matter of fact and age appropriate manner.

I've also heard good things from this book though it came out after I grew up so I've never actually read it:

https://www.amazon.com/Care-Keeping-You-Younger-Revised/dp/1609580834

Re writing: Get yourself a copy of this, read it on the shitter or the bus or during boring meetings, and mess around with it. Your salary potential explodes with good tech writing capabilities. My blog is all about very niche code shit (eg xlib/xsb in Python to automate action) but I keep it up because it's a great resource in interviews that shows both code ability and writing ability.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but toilet training should take one day if you do it correctly. I know nothing about you. I'm not judging you personally.

Just read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Toilet-Training-Less-Than-Day/dp/0671693808

Follow the instructions in the book exactly.

Remember reading one book and spending one day on toilet training is much less work than months of changing diapers. Your daughter sounds awesome, and you are going to have to work extra hard to give her all the tools she needs to succeed.

Oh man, I was totally going to recommend this book but I thought it wasn't around anymore. My mom is a nurse, so she had no problem telling me how things were, but most of my friends were given a copy of The Care and Keeping of You at one point or another.

This one was popular too: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Happening-Body-Book-Girls/dp/1557044449/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205158158&sr=1-1

That was probably the point, to add a little bit more malicious compliance on top.

"I said I would recover your files. I never said they would be easy to access, or that I would fix your computer."

On a side note, tape drives are real.

Their data capacity is pretty good, but the seek times (how long it takes to find the data the computer wants) are incredibly slow.

If the son really wanted to mess around with the eldest daughter, he could have a floppy drive and some disks shipped in from Amazon, stored the documents on a floppy disk, then hidden the floppy drive or held it hostage until payment was delivered.

Oh, you need help using it? Pay me $100 up front, and I will teach you once. Make sure to take notes.

> Melany's Marvelous Measels

Try the "My Parents open carry"

I's nearly as good!

The name was something plain like "Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology" but I can't recall the author or publisher. However, this and this seem very similar. :)

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617

Or you could get it free on audible.

The reference is an actual dictionary ...

If you prefer the Webster website, then that works just fine too.

That's why I hate corporations. I really love concept from "Reinventing Organizations" book about corporate organization.

If you ever get a niece...

You wear pants? Amateur. Someone actually wrote a book about the company I work for titled "The Year Without Pants": https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118660633/

Might I suggest the Wiz Biz, by Rick Cook? That's basically the entire premise.

https://www.amazon.com/Wiz-Biz-Rick-Cook/dp/0671878468

Lefty here: My uncle got me a Parker pen for Christmas. He is also a lefty and has used my Grandfather's Parker pen since the 70s.

He swears by the Parker Quink Rollerball ink and now I do, too. It is the only pen I've ever used that doesn't turn my hand blue or smudge all over the paper. Plus I feel fancy when I use it.

http://www.parkerpen.com/en-US/shop-online/writing-type-rollerball

PARKER QUINK Rollerball Pen Ink Refill, Medium, Blue, 1 Count https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00007JQRE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_7L3xCbRQMK4AQ

I don't recall ever getting The Talk, but just had this book in the living room bookshelf. Avoided all sorts of awkward questions back then, I'm sure.

Reminds me of the book It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594634017/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_BVUXzb49JDMGS

I'm betting on this as well.

If you want some insight into how stupid and bureaucratic car companies can be, read Bob Lutz's Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. He tells a great story about his time at Ford (I think). One of the models had used poor quality head gaskets that were failing after 15-20K miles (which is a $1K repair for the customer). When Lutz tried to get it fixed, he was told they couldn't fix it, because the company had already worked the revenue from the replacement parts into its annual budget.