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RoastBeef posted:It's not that long. I’ve been using Quicksilver to prop up the alarm clock so i don’t knock it off the night stand in the morning. I tried reading it 5-6 times and always give up at about 3/4. True story: i found a big, chunky hard cover copy for $10 at a book store long time ago. It was on a shelf, in the corner, all alone, clearly misplaced. Different price tag than every other book there. When i took it to the clerk to check out, she couldn’t find it in the system by manual search. The barcode was unreadable. She didn’t know what to do with it, but eventually sold it as labeled. I’m still half convinced someone gave up on reading it and dumped it at the book store.
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https://twitter.com/GreatPaulSmith/status/1080870548886892544?s=19 Pro-click explanation of how the registration delay/fraud has been used in the past to create a Ponzi scheme and defraud auto company lenders. A plausible explanation for Tesla's 38,000 missing cars.
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Over Easy posted:E-schlong Musk and his electric cock factory I'm gonna repeat my prior suggestion of "Special Edison"
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Nebakenezzer posted:Short term stock market gains. Seriously There is a large Chinese middle class that wants western goods and having the "real" versions is a bit of a status symbol so even if your stuff is ripped off theres still a market there for you. And for tech companies like apple as soon as the fakes are out there there'll be a new thing. Sure its a smaller percentage of the population you're addressing, but the Chinese market is so massive and the market penetration is so tiny that its still worth it.
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RIP Syndrome posted:I've been suspecting something like that is happening but the articles I get are just about slowing growth, which, sure why not, Chinese growth was stratospheric to begin with compared to the rest of the world. China has an excise tax on expensive consumer goods, including cars, called the "consumption tax." Consumption tax receipts have imploded. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-31/china-s-economic-slowdown-is-worsening-stop-dithering-beijing That's probably not a good sign.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:China has an excise tax on expensive consumer goods, including cars, called the "consumption tax." Consumption tax receipts have imploded. for those that didn't click through:  haha
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oystertoadfish posted:im the bad case of consumption *weakly coughs blood into a knockoff of a $80 silk hanky*
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Dude found a lot in Hawthorne. There’s somewhere around 500 cars there apparently. FYI this guy is a pro-follow. https://twitter.com/latrilife/status/1080931832797908992?s=21
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hobbesmaster posted:There is a large Chinese middle class that wants western goods and having the "real" versions is a bit of a status symbol so even if your stuff is ripped off theres still a market there for you. When I worked in the Rhineland, our city had a lovely shopping district that was full with Chinese tourists buying the weirdest kinds of everyday household items as long as they had "made in Germany" on them including steak knives and frying pans. The shops also had prices written out excluding VAT which is basically unheard of in Germany outside of airports. Also yes our auto makers are making big bux in China. Also the Chinese actually like our classic engines like BMW I6s, Daimler V8s and for whatever reason the volkswagen VR6. VW was basically ready to seaze producing the VR6 but it sells like cut bread in China. Far east is basically the single market that keeps the VR6 alive at this point. I think VW would be glad if some Chinese sweat shop started making VR6s for them because the engine really became kinda embarrassing to them over the years in comparison to other German or Japanese "performance" Powertrains Combat Theory has issued a correction as of 07:41 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Bearded Whiteguy posted:Dude found a lot in Hawthorne. There’s somewhere around 500 cars there apparently. FYI this guy is a pro-follow. extra security for no reason in LA always reminds me of the armenian mafia school and church I was investigating once drat things were in the middle of little armenia, on like a two lane street, and they had fortified goddamn fences all the way around with big heavy rolling gates, the school one was blastproof and had steel casters set in a track, basically poo poo that only made sense when you had a look at their finances and saw how much medicare fraud money they were not-so-secretly wiring back to yerevan
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FAUXTON posted:I'm gonna repeat my prior suggestion of "Special Edison" Special Edsel  quote:Ford invested heavily in a yearlong teaser campaign leading consumers to believe that the Edsel was the car of the future – an expectation it failed to meet. After it was unveiled to the public, it was considered to be unattractive, overpriced, and overhyped. The Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly.
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red19fire posted:Special Edsel oh that's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
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Elon Carstark of Carhold.
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Agean90 posted:I remember when I used to work retail that the unthinkable happened and I had a shift with no manager for my department in for like 2 hours. Know what it changed? Self-important white ladies didn't have anyone to complain to?
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Combat Theory posted:When I worked in the Rhineland, our city had a lovely shopping district that was full with Chinese tourists buying the weirdest kinds of everyday household items as long as they had "made in Germany" on them including steak knives and frying pans. off topic but as far as I can tell VR6 Golf/GTI/R32s are desirable in the US  tho obviously you can’t get it on any new cars here because VW/Audi hates us
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FistEnergy posted:https://twitter.com/GreatPaulSmith/status/1080870548886892544?s=19 So Elon is doing the Jerry Lundegaard fraud from Fargo? Lol
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This reminds me of the car mechanic simulation game that the McElroy's played, and they didn't bother to read about how to buy parts so they kept repairing one car by taking another car and salvaging air and oil filters out of the next one.
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FAUXTON posted:Cryptonomicon was a relatively enjoyable WWII story but some rear end in a top hat cut it poker-style page upon page with a real nerdy and cringey story about two dorks (one from a family of tremendously autistic stemlords) wanting to find literal buried axis gold to back a bitcoin bank in some totally-not-the-UAE sultanate. God that book was loving dreadful. Pages and pages of ubernerd mccomputertoucher eating breakfast cereal, or deciding to go nofap, or obsessing over his magical half-Filipina girlfriend, or recognising how superior conservative philosophy is to the weak cultural marxism that was practised by his bitch of a liberal professor ex-wife who I am absofuckinglutely certain is based on some girl who rejected Stephenson once. Two loving thirds of a thousand-page book dedicated to a spineless greasy nerd descending back into adolescence. His major character moments come when he shaves his beard, sees a dead body, touches a boob and sets something on fire. It's a coming-of-age story except backwards and loving terrible. Often Abbreviated has issued a correction as of 16:41 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Nothus posted:So Elon is doing the Jerry Lundegaard fraud from Fargo? Lol COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Jerry lundegaard forging vins.gif just gotta dull the pencil enough gschmidl posted:Elon Carstark of Carhold. Loose Bolt-on
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:China has an excise tax on expensive consumer goods, including cars, called the "consumption tax." Consumption tax receipts have imploded. Oh cool, yeah, that's... that's bad.
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He's back https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1080963589719056385
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Last Chance posted:how did he becum so smart/? he did DMT
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Often Abbreviated posted:God that book was loving dreadful. Pages and pages of ubernerd mccomputertoucher eating breakfast cereal, or deciding to go nofap, or obsessing over his magical half-Filipina girlfriend, or recognising how superior conservative philosophy is to the weak cultural marxism that was practised by his bitch of a liberal professor ex-wife who I am absofuckinglutely certain is based on some girl who rejected Stephenson once. reverse coming of age story, thats a really good description
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g'norts, mr alien is how aliens say hello to each other
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Did you guys know that Elon musk spelled backwards is "slavery rules"?
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FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: eLON mUSK is STUPID PROOOOF!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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There's a druggie in pissed pants that always stumbles around behind a nearby supermarket. He also sees reality in a fundamentally different way.
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orcinus posted:There's a druggie in pissed pants that always stumbles around behind a nearby supermarket. That was all of us
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I see the reality in a radically different way where every open ¨space is a guillotining spot waiting to be realized, yet no venture capitalists are giving me money, they seem to be focused on the people whose radical vision is based around tax evasion and stock fraud, I wonder why 
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Liberals: You progressives need to be more pragmatic and closer to the mainstream if you hope to win, get a grip on reality and get in line with the rest of us. Also liberals: The system rewards those who dare to dream and cast away conventional barriers to progress.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:heh, “liberals” amirite Yeah, they suck.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:heh, “liberals” amirite Why did you put the word "liberals" in scarequotes? steinrokkan posted:Yeah, they suck.
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I'm not saying it doesn't apply, actually the opposite- it applies too broadly to virtually any movement or ideology wherein there is a progressive element (and that's a lot of them- not necessarily political parties but ways of thinking and being). To single out the liberal aspect of doing to me feels kind of pointless in this, the Tesla thread- Elon Musk is an out-of-touch oligarch enabled by pro-business forces that exist counter to most liberal ideology rather than in favor of it.  Anyway, is a great own
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