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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Good news! How do you feel about podcasts? Haitian Revolution episodes begin December 6th! I didn't know he was kicking it off so soon. Very much enjoyed the English podcasts, starting on the French with my daily walks.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Good news! How do you feel about podcasts? Haitian Revolution episodes begin December 6th! he is great. everyone should listen to his history of rome podcast.
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The Senate parliamentarian will review a reconciliation bill tomorrow, which could make the vote in the Senate next week on removing the Medicaid expansion and defunding Planned Parenthood with a 51 vote threshold.quote:As he left the meeting, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said he was “very encouraged” by the emerging proposal that would roll back more of the Affordable Care Act than the version of the bill passed by the House. The chamber’s parliamentarian is expected to review the finished product Tuesday and debate could start soon after. 
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Joementum posted:The Senate parliamentarian will review a reconciliation bill tomorrow, which could make the vote in the Senate next week on removing the Medicaid expansion and defunding Planned Parenthood with a 51 vote threshold. oh good, are we going to crash the goverment again.
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Good to see Cruz and Lee working together again.
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Joementum posted:The Senate parliamentarian will review a reconciliation bill tomorrow, which could make the vote in the Senate next week on removing the Medicaid expansion and defunding Planned Parenthood with a 51 vote threshold. Who employs the parliamentarian?
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Dec 1, 2015 05:06
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greatn posted:I thought Joe Biden could override the parliamentarian as president of the senate. I think he could preside over the Senate whenever he wants, but there are bound to be procedures for getting around him, and he can't sit in there forever.
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greatn posted:I thought Joe Biden could override the parliamentarian as president of the senate. Only by drowning out the proceedings with a big block V8
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Dec 1, 2015 05:11
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"Hey lets shut down the government during the one time of year Americans buy all the poo poo!"
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Dec 1, 2015 05:22
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DemeaninDemon posted:"Hey lets shut down the government during the one time of year Americans buy all the poo poo!" I have a really bad feeling about the numbers for christmas this year. EDIT: ha ha ha ohhhh boy http://time.com/4128592/black-friday-sales-down/
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Dec 1, 2015 05:35
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zoux posted:Who employs the parliamentarian? The Senate as a whole, though technically they're employed by the Secretary of the Senate (who is technically elected by the Senate, and in practice selected by the Majority Leader, currently Julie E Adams, a former McConnell staffer). In practice, the parls do not give a gently caress about what any given Senator thinks and will make the decision they think should be made. (Current head parliamentarian is great, even if she made my life difficult a few times.) The presiding officer doesn't have to listen to them, though.
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Dec 1, 2015 05:41
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I have a really bad feeling about the numbers for christmas this year. Read the whole article gently caress. Says right there that Thursday/Friday numbers were down due to online shopping. Then stores also do all month long deals. They will, however, be down on the year if the government wet farts its way to shutdown.
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Dec 1, 2015 05:48
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I have a really bad feeling about the numbers for christmas this year. Sales start as early as a week ahead of Black Friday now, and I think more people are finally starting find out that a lot of Black Friday sales aren't actually any better than past sales for the same item.
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Dec 1, 2015 05:48
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Also, it's a living capitalist hell that any sane person should want to avoid at any cost.
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Dec 1, 2015 05:56
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As America's will to shop recedes, ISIS's power grows commensurately.
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zoux posted:Also, it's a living capitalist hell that any sane person should want to avoid at any cost. Black Friday is the only time I've ever seen a store manager loose her poo poo and start screaming at customers. Granted it was at a Wal-Mart, but goddamn. 
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Dec 1, 2015 06:18
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Black Friday is like some ironic twist ending from a smug 1950s scifi anthology show about the dangers of consumerism. It's awful and it needs to die.
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In other news, Martin Shkreli continues to be a turd [tw: gawker] http://gawker.com/pharmaceuticals-r...dium=socialflow He quietly bought into a dying biotech company (dying = shorted heavily), announced he was going to invest in it which shot the stock price up 4000% when everyone who shorted panicked and bought shares to run away, lent his shares out for more short selling, and then announced he was recalling them which shot the price up further. In the meantime, short sellers (who are vultures but a lesser evil here) all lost their rear end and Shkreli runs away an ownership stake worth God knows how much. Is the company actually going to survive? Who cares.
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Dec 1, 2015 06:40
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GalacticAcid posted:As America's will to shop recedes, ISIS's power grows commensurately. America actually works like Tinkerbell except with consumption instead of audience applause. When GWB encouraged us to go shopping after 9/11 it wasn't "haha GWB is dumb" it was more "if you fuckers spend enough money we'll grow powerful enough to deploy the gundam"
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Evil Fluffy posted:Sales start as early as a week ahead of Black Friday now, and I think more people are finally starting find out that a lot of Black Friday sales aren't actually any better than past sales for the same item. If another one of you clucks getting a Walmart laptop special expects your tech guy to fix after a month, may your name be cursed for all eternity. Black Friday electronics are the cheapest bits of poo poo mismatched and returned from the previous year. Never buy them please.
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Dec 1, 2015 06:42
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Luigi Thirty posted:In other news, Martin Shkreli continues to be a turd [tw: gawker] You know, I can't even be mad at this. He's taking advantage of people who are trying to game the stock market in the short term (like, minutes to hours?). So he is essentially using Jedi mind tricks on them and getting them to do his bidding. If you make panicked buy/sell decisions on what are almost penny stocks then you kind of deserve to be fleeced.
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From that one shortseller that got reamed: quote:My plan moving forward is to liquidate mine and wife’s 401k’s and try work out a payment plan with Etrade. I’m also going to ask them to help out in some way...thats a longshot. I will pay them and be back trading....only with set stops this time. What an expensive lesson that was.
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Luigi Thirty posted:In other news, Martin Shkreli continues to be a turd [tw: gawker] Does this happen if Shkreli isn't semi famous? Is it the money or the person investing the money that led to the stock surge?
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Alkydere posted:Black Friday is the only time I've ever seen a store manager loose her poo poo and start screaming at customers. Granted it was at a Wal-Mart, but goddamn. My wife and I go Thursday/Friday at midnight. The crowds are moderately thin, well behaved, and it's fun to be in a store during their closed hours. It feels like being in a museum after hours  Otoh I try to be as nice to the cashiers as I can because they're propping up my stupid bourgeois spree for minimum wage 
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Chokes McGee posted:My wife and I go Thursday/Friday at midnight. The crowds are moderately thin, well behaved, and it's fun to be in a store during their closed hours. It feels like being in a museum after hours Yeah, I worked handing out free samples in Walmarts for 3 years, got stuck doing 2 Black Friday events during that time. Thankfully I was a contractor and not technically a The year I saw a manager lose her poo poo was one where WalMart was doing a new deal every hour. They'd cart out a bunch of pallets, tell everyone to stand back and wait for it, give them 30 minutes of madness to destroy the pallets, clean up and pull the wreckage back before bring out new pallets. The customers repeatedly refused to move back and give the workers space to bring out the new pallets and had to be told to make space so many times the manager just snapped. I've never done a Black Friday anywhere else, and have been told WalMarts are the worst. I never loving want to find out, after working those to nights my only desire on Black Friday is to curl up under my blankets and tell the world to go gently caress itself. Kudos on you for trying to be extra nice to the workers on that night because holy poo poo working a Black Friday is the worst experience. It's very much a "rock and a hard place" situation with batshit insane crowds on one side and batshit insane corporate management on the other side.
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Chokes McGee posted:My wife and I go Thursday/Friday at midnight. The crowds are moderately thin, well behaved, and it's fun to be in a store during their closed hours. It feels like being in a museum after hours Sorry your fate is sealed. TO THE BLOCK!
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crazy cloud posted:America actually works like Tinkerbell except with consumption instead of audience applause. When GWB encouraged us to go shopping after 9/11 it wasn't "haha GWB is dumb" it was more "if you fuckers spend enough money we'll grow powerful enough to deploy the gundam" Economics is the biggest religion of all, only the gods provide tangible answers when people believe in them. (Literally the stock market is nothing but trading money for faith)
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I am not, in any great sense, a spiritual man. Yet it still strikes me as something very twisted about following a day of thanks and being grateful for what you have with a weeklong orgy of mass consumerism, manufactured greed, and impulse acquisition, where crowds literally beat each other to death in the name of getting more, more, more.
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Grey Fox posted:From that one shortseller that got reamed: gently caress everyone involved in this stock market circlejerk, but especially this guy you're talking about -- he tried a GoFundMe page because he wanted to profit off other people's misery and got bit in the rear end. But hey, he's gonna have stops in place this time!
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DemeaninDemon posted:Sorry your fate is sealed. TO THE BLOCK! Ironically I had to work black friday and thus didn't have to listen to my lovely aunt explain how we're living in communism. Is there an SMBC graph where it's an upward curve and the axis are labeled "Likelihood of being first against the wall in actual communist country" over "Sincerity of belief Obama is a Marxist?"
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HootTheOwl posted:Economics is the biggest religion of all, only the gods provide tangible answers when people believe in them. (Literally the stock market is nothing but trading money for faith) Ya agreed, no sarcasm intended in the original comment 
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I have a really bad feeling about the numbers for christmas this year. Those numbers are usually non-indicative.
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Alkydere posted:The year I saw a manager lose her poo poo was one where WalMart was doing a new deal every hour. They'd cart out a bunch of pallets, tell everyone to stand back and wait for it, give them 30 minutes of madness to destroy the pallets, clean up and pull the wreckage back before bring out new pallets. The customers repeatedly refused to move back and give the workers space to bring out the new pallets and had to be told to make space so many times the manager just snapped. They don't do this anymore for precisely this reason, also people being thrown onto the pallet stacks by those behind them, bumrushing employees as a distraction, and tearing off the plastic to get at the items before their appointed time. Last year was a poo poo show of human cattle trying to kill themselves. Now if it's an advertised deal, it's on sale for the entire duration, I ended up having to go to Wal-Mart for a sale item thursday night and the only real difficulty was being stuck at the register behind two women who had a small herd of children with them, picking through a shopping cart full of loose clothing with their one free arm trying to figure out which one belonged to which person.
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Could you summarize the point in your link? I'm not invested enough to listen to an entire podcast.
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Martin Random posted:Could you summarize the point in your link? I'm not invested enough to listen to an entire podcast. There's a transcript. The long and short of it, though, is that it's more or less based on a survey that compares self-reported spending on Christmas gifts last year vs. expected spending on gifts this year. And the numbers (which can often show "swings" of 30-40% increases/decreases) are usually completely unrelated to actual figures (which are usually 2-3% increases, with 4% increases on particularly good years). Barry Ritholz (who was interviewed) has been one of the loudest voices complaining about the issue, and, this year, linked to an Atlantic article on the topic which pretty much summarizes his criticisms.
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Ho ho ho! I bring you a new thread for the new month!
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