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I will care about football the day I hear a quarterback yell "Jav out!"
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Poops Mcgoots posted:I will care about football the day I hear a quarterback yell "Jav out!" This is really reminiscent of 17776, is it related or by the same author?
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ryonguy posted:This is really reminiscent of 17776, is it related or by the same author? Same author. He also makes Pretty Good and Chart Party on YouTube.
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I propose Chirper. It piggybacks onto Twitter but it lets you send anonymous tweets to celebrities and professional athletes for $1 per tweet. I think this is the only way Twitter can be profitable.
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Isn't that just Sponsored Tweets?
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Killswitch posted:I propose Chirper. It piggybacks onto Twitter but it lets you send anonymous tweets to celebrities and professional athletes for $1 per tweet. I think this is the only way Twitter can be profitable. If I can tell Trump to kill himself without earning a suspension every time I'll pony up.
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Apr 8, 2019 16:02
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And lo, did the secret service descend upon Lowtax's spine once again.
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Apr 8, 2019 17:59
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Me posting here probably already did that. Sorry Lowtax. For real though I just assume the pressure will get to him eventually and blow up his McD's bloated heart. I'm just cheering and encouraging that to happen.
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ryonguy posted:Me posting here probably already did that. Sorry Lowtax. I don’t think he feels like he’s under any pressure at all. Indeed, why would he?
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Subjunctive posted:I don’t think he feels like he’s under any pressure at all. Indeed, why would he? Dude has like zero ability to take any kind of advice, you really think he's going to listen if a doctor tells him he has to calm down about things or he's gonna stroke out? Sure it's wishful thinking on my part, but I give about 50/50 on him dying of a heart attack within the next few years.
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Apr 9, 2019 13:08
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They probably just mix the necessary drugs in with his fast food.
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So like stuffing a pill into a chicken nugget like I do with my dog? Or do they dust speed over his fries and call them seasoned?
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Apr 9, 2019 13:39
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He's fat but he doesn't smoke or drink. Who knows, of course, but if you plug his basic info into a life expectancy calculator and odds are he'll be walking around for another 15 years, with a ~70% percent chance he makes it another 10. His mom made it to 88 and his dad to 93.
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Not exactly a company circling the drain story, but student loans tied to income sharing agreements (basically, give me money for school and you can have x% of the money I make for some number of years) are another symptom of too much capital chasing too few investments. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/college-grads-sell-stakes-in-themselves-to-wall-street If it makes you feel better, unless they've figured something new out and/or I'm wrong: a few students will get screwed, a bunch won't pay out, and the investors will lose money.
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pangstrom posted:Not exactly a company circling the drain story, but student loans tied to income sharing agreements (basically, give me money for school and you can have x% of the money I make for some number of years) are another symptom of too much capital chasing too few investments. Cool cool we're bringing back indentured servitude. 
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ryonguy posted:Cool cool we're bringing back indentured servitude. It sounds more like feudalism. Here you've promised X% of your crops to the Duke of Matriculation.
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pangstrom posted:Not exactly a company circling the drain story, but student loans tied to income sharing agreements (basically, give me money for school and you can have x% of the money I make for some number of years) are another symptom of too much capital chasing too few investments. This seems a lot like the system we have in Australia?  ~5% of my paycheck goes to the government to repay the loan they gave me for tertiary study. Though the loan doesn't gain interest (just inflation adjustments) and even if I got a ridiculously high-paying job I'd still only have to pay back what I owed, and now I look that version seems to be duration-based instead, I guess that's the main catch. Yeah, that's hosed.
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The money on this case would be going to rentier leeches rather than to public fund
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The retail apocalypse has claimed 6,000 US stores in 2019 so far, more than the number that shut down in all of 2018
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Doggles posted:The retail apocalypse has claimed 6,000 US stores in 2019 so far, more than the number that shut down in all of 2018
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Apr 17, 2019 20:10
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People get a weird sort of local pride over coal/factory/etc jobs, and it's highly visible when the one or two local factories/mines/whatever close down. Not so much retail jobs, and the death by a thousand cuts as individual stores close.
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Haifisch posted:People get a weird sort of local pride over coal/factory/etc jobs, and it's highly visible when the one or two local factories/mines/whatever close down. Not so much retail jobs, and the death by a thousand cuts as individual stores close. We have a manufacturing facility in West Virginia and the amount of coal industry worship displayed by my coworkers there is astounding. They're the epitome of... I don't know, I'm sure there's some idiom about being hanging desperately onto a slowly-sinking piece of driftwood instead of swimming a few feet to a rescue boat or whatever.
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Stockholm Syndrome
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Haifisch posted:People get a weird sort of local pride over coal/factory/etc jobs, and it's highly visible when the one or two local factories/mines/whatever close down. Not so much retail jobs, and the death by a thousand cuts as individual stores close. This is true, but absolutely not why so many chuds care about coal jobs; since the vast majority of them have never met anyone even adjacent to the coal industry.
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Apr 18, 2019 00:12
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Its easier to see an impact that is geographically concentrated over one that is spread out.
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There’s an odd romanticism with coal, but you could support a family on it until an early death plunged your widow and children into poverty. Most MAGA’s know as many coal miners as they know active duty military. It’s easy to idolize a profession you have no contact with. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 13:19 on Apr 18, 2019 |
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It's an industry where you produce something. Manufacture, Farming, Mining, Fishing, these are all considered Good, Important, Real jobs to the people this messaging is for, because at the end of the day, your hard work created something tangible and useful. Those of us posting here probably mostly have service sector jobs, where at the end of the day your contribution to mankind is moving numbers around a spreadsheet, making a fart app, or convincing someone to buy overpriced candles.
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Don't talk about my loving candles
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Spend less on candles It tickles me how a lot of the same people who idolize the vague idea of farmers being the heart of America will scoff at the "eat local, eat organic, farm-to-table, etc." types and buy whatever is cheapest at Walmart. I realize it's because the economy sucks, but that's partially due to their refusal to support policies that might improve that whole situation.
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It's also this weird ickyness at loving whole foods vegantarian douchebag LIBRUHLS with their yoga and pachouli and mushroom coffee and... It's kind of like watching TV from the 90s and people scoffing at latte cappuccino culture
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Apr 18, 2019 15:30
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Who doesn't like a cappuccino
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FilthyImp posted:It's kind of like watching TV from the 90s and people scoffing at latte cappuccino culture Off topic but it is surreal to watch shows from the 90's and how they portray homosexuals I thought things were better then
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They're acknowledged as actual people instead of being hinted at while off screen. Three's Company is actually weirdly progressive in that the landlord doesn't just run him off.
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My wife and I were watching Turner classic movies and out of the blue the protagonist backhands the female lead for being hysterical. The screen zooms in with the vignette all blurry and she has doe eyes and is holding her cheek and legit goes, "Thanks, I needed that." It was so surreal and horrifically funny.
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Glenn Quebec posted:My wife and I were watching Turner classic movies and out of the blue the protagonist backhands the female lead for being hysterical. The screen zooms in with the vignette all blurry and she has doe eyes and is holding her cheek and legit goes, "Thanks, I needed that."
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Glenn Quebec posted:Who doesn't like a cappuccino 
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Glenn Quebec posted:But why Don't like coffee.
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