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1 posted on 01/03/2017 4:38:13 AM PST by SoothingDave
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity

Instead, the prevailing attitude is chabuduo, or ‘close enough’. It’s a phrase you’ll hear with grating regularity, one that speaks to a job 70 per cent done, a plan sketched out but never completed, a gauge unchecked or a socket put in the wrong size. Chabuduo is the corrosive opposite of the impulse towards craftmanship, the desire, as the sociologist Richard Sennett writes in The Craftsman (2008), ‘to reject muddling through, to reject the job just good enough’. Chabuduo implies that to put any more time or effort into a piece of work would be the act of a fool. China is the land of the cut corner, of ‘good enough for government work’.


2 posted on 01/03/2017 4:40:50 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Does the WFTD hang around with Shaggy and ride in the Mystery Machine?


3 posted on 01/03/2017 5:28:09 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, easily the most shabby duo ever to run U.S. foreign policy, employed chabuduo in their Iran Deal, which furthers the notion that Iran will be prevented from becoming a nuclear power. It is a notion believed only by Obama and Kerry.


5 posted on 01/03/2017 6:31:49 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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To: SoothingDave

Back in the day, I had a gorgeous vintage Gibson SG Custom Guitar, that everybody LOVED, until one tried to tune it.

“Close enough for Rock” became a motto.

Guitar is long gone. Sold to pay the rent.


10 posted on 01/03/2017 7:11:34 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SoothingDave

For Hillary it was chabuduo
To talk to the working class
But visiting where they live
Was not for her spoiled ass

She took workers for granted
On farms in factories or mines
Then called us all deplorables-
Promised us closures and fines

Now everyone but Hillary
Is in line to take the blame-
She can’t accept we’re tired
Of Clintons and their game...

It is 72 and sunny-but a cold front is going to blow in tomorrow and send us back into the 20’s at night for a few days...


23 posted on 01/03/2017 12:02:07 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave

Her choice of mate is beyond chabuduo:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3510327/posts?q=1&;page=1

Maybe a sort of duo, since who else can live with her?


25 posted on 01/03/2017 6:19:12 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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