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Twerk from Home posted:is the thread seriously arguing over appliances lol at having an apartment with a dishwasher, and LMFAO at having one with a clothes washing machine. unless a shared basement quarter feeder counts.
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I like how it took 2 months before the market decided it didn't care about rising bond yields anymore and threw that on the pile of other poo poo they don't care about.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 03:35 |
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Has number become sentient and cares not for the boundaries of reality? Has it been given a Turing test lately?
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 03:37 |
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cool av posted:lol at having an apartment with a dishwasher, and LMFAO at having one with a clothes washing machine. I had one apartment with a washer and dryer in the unit. It was great =]
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 03:37 |
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https://twitter.com/onlinelonghorn/status/1375332954709368837
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 03:48 |
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TACD posted:check out mr moneybags over here with his plates that shatter instead of crumple check out mr moneybags over here with his plates
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News: Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’ Exclusive: Teleperformance, which employs 380,000 people, plans to use specialist webcams to watch staff https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/26/teleperformance-call-centre-staff-monitored-via-webcam-home-working-infractions Views: Lol, imagine the bonus for the junior vice president who proposed this
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 04:20 |
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sleep with the vicious posted:News: just gonna make things worse but they'll say they did the program and become C*O somewhere else
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 04:34 |
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sleep with the vicious posted:News: seems like one of those things like open offices that comes back to bite them in the rear end, but once their bad ideas get them punted out the door they just glide to the next corner office on their golden parachute so the cycle continues forever call centers have incredibly tight margins, unbelievably high turnover, and a surprising difficulty actually filling the seats with people who will do the job. at entry level, I'd say 1 in 3 don't make it past their first day, and 1 out of 3 of that group usually don't make it past their first month. If you're in management this system probably seems like a good idea until they start having to actually issue warnings and start firing people, and in a situation like this it's the system making the choices, not the manager. this is a big problem when you consider that call center SLAs are basically only being met because you have "studs" (a weird former boss put it that way to me) who are immune to abuse and monotony and can get the work done at scale. I have never worked in a call center environment where these people weren't all sorta unreliable weirdos who justified themselves on month to month metrics and every one of those people (myself included) would not last long under a big brother webcam regime, if we didn't quit on the spot at the intrusion in our privacy (I certainly would) the ultimate revelation of any monitoring system like this is going to be that they wasted a lot of money on a system that actively tried to kill their business (all in an attempt to reclaim $30-40/day per laborer in "lost productivity", lmao)
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:
It's been happening for a loving while now, to the point where it no longer even makes sense to buy a used car if you're not buying one that's at least 4-5 years old. It's especially hilarious with manual transmission cars now that essentially no one manufactures them anymore. When my car got rear-ended and totaled in 2018, insurance ended up paying me several thousand dollars more than I paid for it five years earlier. I had to "overpay" and go several states to get a replacement with a 6-speed and now the book trade-in value for this car is more than the wildly inflated price that I paid.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 04:44 |
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used cars as an investment vehiclecool av posted:lol at having an apartment with a dishwasher, and LMFAO at having one with a clothes washing machine. i once lived in a bedsit in bristol with a pound coin operated electricity meter under the kitchen sink, and an electric shower in a closet, so you can see where this story is going once i get naked and have shampoo all over my hair.
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Paradoxish posted:It's been happening for a loving while now, to the point where it no longer even makes sense to buy a used car if you're not buying one that's at least 4-5 years old. We see this poo poo at the end of every bubble - car manufacturers stop making economy cars, the value of every physical object we own appreciates, housing prices spike to wildly inflated prices, etc I wouldn't be surprised to see manual transmissions make a comeback after this thing pops. It's all about what's cheap to produce when nobody's willing to spend money they don't have
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:I like how it took 2 months before the market decided it didn't care about rising bond yields anymore and threw that on the pile of other poo poo they don't care about. there will be more buyers than sellers up until there are more sellers than buyers
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Mirthless posted:We see this poo poo at the end of every bubble - car manufacturers stop making economy cars, the value of every physical object we own appreciates, housing prices spike to wildly inflated prices, etc I'd love to see manuals come back, but autos and cvts outperform them in fuel mileage with ease now, and the machinery to make more autos/cvts exists to outproduce manuals now. The last time I looked at a new car with a stick, it was a $2500+ option, the standard was an automatic of some variety. That was a Hyundai, I think. More people want the convenience of an automatic and that's what the industry is geared towards now. Between a generation of drivers that don't know what a clutch is, and the coming mass EV rollout we're bound to gently caress up in america, the stick is effectively dead outside of niche cars in the next decade or so. Just going to drive my manual Outback until I die.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 05:10 |
My CVT gets 40~ mpg city (30-35 if there's a ton of red lights in places with primitive traffic engineering) and 46-48 mpg highway. Manual is dead.
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Yeah, the manual transmission is never going to make a comeback. There's no economic or engineering case from the manufacturer side and they're a terrible fit for anyone who isn't crazy enough to go hunt them down. Modern ones also kind of suck. I used to know a couple of dealership sales guys that would always claim they fell into a weird demand donut hole where they couldn't keep anything remotely desirable with an MT on the lot for more than a few days, but also couldn't ever find enough buyers to justify selling at volume. So the demand was there, just not ever at a level that would justify manufacturers continuing to build them.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 05:24 |
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simple automate call centers
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euphronius posted:simple What are you even replying to, drunky?
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 05:26 |
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Wait WTF? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRWbAjy-P4E We have spent more on COVID ($6 trillion) than America spent during all of WW2 (adjusted for inflation $4 trillion)? I thought Bill Maher was lying (shocker) but I looked it up and it seems to be true.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 06:24 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:Wait WTF? infact we have spent $14 trillion and handed it ALL directly to hedge funds, jeff bezos, equity groups, and other assorted mega-rich people.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 06:33 |
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COVID has killed almost twice as many Americans as World War 2.
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Xaris posted:lmao my little summer child, we spent far far more than $6 trillion How much did COVID checks cost?
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punk rebel ecks posted:How much did COVID checks cost? the actual amount of money that average normal people got via stimulus checks + extended unemployment was probably like $1 trillion, and that may be generous. Xaris has issued a correction as of 06:40 on Mar 27, 2021 |
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when I was used car shopping in 2019 there was this one perfect looking car that was $2k below every comparable example of the model in the region and I spent at least two hours poring over the photos and profile to figure out what the hell was wrong with this car manual transmission since I do live in a traffic hellscape city with stoplights every 8 blocks and city speed limits of like 40mph it would've been a pain in the rear end to drive
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 06:38 |
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Xaris posted:well.. if you are just talking total bills that includes handing out big payroll tax cuts to corps and free money to businesses and more defense budget grift money for boeing, and bailouts to airliners and beef and corn industries and everything, yes like $6 trillion. the feds then also handed out another $14 trillion to big finance capital groups if all 320 million americans received the full $3200 then it would total 1.05 trillion dollars
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if all 320 million americans received the full $3200 then it would total 1.05 trillion dollars yeah and of course a lot arent eligible but i was also thinking the extra +$600/wk UI probably made up that up to about 1 t, prob a bit more. it should be a trivial amount to find out how much actual normal humans got but im being lazy overall point is that like rich ppl and corps and their board members all got like 19 trillion (indirectly or directly) vs 1 trillion for the poors
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:post your fav veg lentil recipes tia This one's good
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 07:00 |
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like you can even find fresh sky outside of san francisco or nyc
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 07:20 |
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I bought a manual transmission 2009 Ford Ranger in 2019 for $10k, blew the shocks and springs right out on rough logging roads and ravaged the gearbox, and just sold it for $14K LMAO. I replaced the clutch and timing chains and still turned a profit on that thing, this market is insane.
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Rime posted:I bought a manual transmission 2009 Ford Ranger in 2019 for $10k, blew the shocks and springs right out on rough logging roads and ravaged the gearbox, and just sold it for $14K LMAO. I replaced the clutch and timing chains and still turned a profit on that thing, this market is insane. you may have gained $4k but you lost a small-ish truck which arent made anymore smdh
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 07:39 |
MysteriousStranger posted:Ehhh they aren't THAT bad. All the ones I've seen are pretty large, thick walls, great wiring, the fitness center is larger than most gyms, there is a pool, sauna, steam room, hot room, hot tub, and often a tennis court as well. some developer poo poo up my commute for two years building a "luxury apartment" building at a chokepoint intersection in the middle of downtown. they want loving $1800/mo for a 500sqft studio or $2300/mo for a 725sqft 1br plus $100/mo "technology fee" and $200/mo parking and income requirement of 3x the rent they spent $50m building this thing and then sold it two years later for $75m. it constantly has like 20% vacancy and i'm p sure most of the tenants are super-rich saudi/chinese college students. I live 10 miles away and pay $600/mo for a 1br, but I've been here for 10 years and the landlord is surprisingly not a total dick and my rent only goes up like 3%/year even though other units in this building are going for like $850 now.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 07:49 |
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Paradoxish posted:COVID has killed almost twice as many Americans as World War 2. this is a thread for negative news
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Xaris posted:you may have gained $4k but you lost a small-ish truck which arent made anymore I drove it a whopping 14 days last year due to constant travel, so at $2.2k/year in insurance keeping it wasn't really in the cards.
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oxsnard posted:you can't (and that's by design), lots of twitter chatter on someone blowing up. Could be related to greensill, which is extremely spicy if not who, then screens like this, where you can see big moves? https://twitter.com/nope_its_lily/status/1375542025269878785?s=21 I mean like with terminal access (although better without) like what do I have to search for to see this stuff?
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Paradoxish posted:It's been happening for a loving while now, to the point where it no longer even makes sense to buy a used car if you're not buying one that's at least 4-5 years old. Dude this just happened to me be and my Rav4. It got totalled and I somehow made $4k. I also spent a week in the hospital with bilateral dissection of my vertebral arteries, so it's all a wash I guess.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 09:25 |
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Manual transmission are still widely available in Europe. Their stated mileage is usually slightly better than the automatic, of course that would depend on the driver.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 09:33 |
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I'd have thought boat would have had a negative effect on Number by now but I guess Number is immune to reality.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 09:36 |
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manual trans is not annoying in city traffic, it's actually better. I sit in 2nd in my 95 Miata the whole time, hardly even touch the brake due to engine braking. In short, 94-97 Mazda Miata is the greatest car ever made.
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I have to apologize for my absence, I have been gallivanting on twitter, but please, I want CSPAM to understand that I love it for what it is regardless of the disagreements I may have had with individuals on and off this forum also, I apologize for passing off my twitter posts as content https://twitter.com/FormerDILF/status/1375764038148231172
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dead gay comedy forums posted:here in Brazil even upper middle class homes do not have dishwashers and most of them suck isn't that because upper middle class in Brazil have a servant?
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