| Person/Place/Thing |
Shit-storm level (tm) |
| Obama / Healthcare |
 |
| ERB and HAML templates |
 |
| Matt Newton Metaprogramming |
 |
| T-Mobile |
 |
| Ruby Hash Rockets |
 |
| PHP Developers |
 |
| Taxes |
 |
| John |
 |
| Person/Place/Thing |
Shit-storm level (tm) |
| Carnies |
 |
| ERB and HAML templates |
 |
| Ruby Hash Rockets |
 |
| PHP Developers |
 |
| John |
 |
Unioning Alice & Stephen's maintains the same partial order, even though their magnitudes vary. It forms a semi-lattice.
| Person/Place/Thing |
Shit-storm level (tm) |
| John |
 |
| ERB and HAML templates |
 |
| Ruby Hash Rockets |
 |
| PHP Developers |
 |
The union of Bob and Stephen's shitlist can't maintain the same partial order since Bob has a bigger shit-storm in mind for John than he does for PHP Developers.