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StormDrain posted:My first thought on conscription. Holy poo poo, props to @LegitTayUpdates, goddamn.
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The two year draft for virtually all 18-20 year olds makes much more sense when you're a giant colonial empire who just lost Alsace Lorraine, but a bit less when your "existential enemies" are 80 times smaller than you and have a smaller defense budget than the new York police.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:43
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Probably if you lumped all the AmeriCorp, Teach for America, etc programs together you could scrape together a good civilian service program. Add in some benefits like time served counts for experience requirements for paramedic/teaching certifications, or maybe counts as some amount of college credit, and it would be a viable gap years program for high school graduates. On conscription talk, I remember that the only thing really on the table for the US is a limited skills-based conscription. Basically, if they had a hard shortage on medical personnel they could conscript specifically for that.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:48
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Aces High posted:Just a little over a decade ago I was on a camping/road trip with a friend and one of the places we camped there was a couple from Europe in the site next to ours. I believe they said they were from Switzerland but it's been 10 years so I don't recall exactly but it was a mandatory service country and I don't think any other mainland European nations have that. Anyway, my friend and I were curious about what that service entailed and they explained that you could delay it but you're mandatory service had to be fulfilled by the time you hit 30 and also that you had options outside of military branches. I believe the fellow said he chose to be a paramedic, with his ultimate goal to be a nurse. It depends a lot on how it's structured. Germany has (had? I think they were talking about killing their conscription requirement) universal male conscription with a Civil Service alternative. I had a friend years ago who did his service via that civil requirement and basically ended up photocopying patient files at a local hospital for a year. It did him gently caress all good and to hear him tell it the hospital basically used his "service" as a way to avoid hiring someone to do the same thing. I'm sure there are ways to craft a universal, equitable system that would put young people to productive work in their communities while also giving them valuable experience that they could employ later in life. I'm equally sure that there would be a ton of people out there looking to exploit that giant pool of non-voluntary labor. edit: it also doesn't fix the underlying problem that many proponents of universal conscription are keen to address, which is the major bifurcation between families who join the military and those that doesn't, and the attendant willingness of voters and politicians to waste servicemembers lives on dumb poo poo. It's way easier to support a forever war when it's not your relatives on their fifth deployment.
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Aug 19, 2021 18:52
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Mans posted:The two year draft for virtually all 18-20 year olds makes much more sense when you're a giant colonial empire who just lost Alsace Lorraine, but a bit less when your "existential enemies" are 80 times smaller than you and have a smaller defense budget than the new York police. the last great success of the mass draft was the french revolution, where their enemies, kings who didnt like gettin king heads chopped off (austria spain prussia britain piedmont and the dutch), could field armies that could kill 2 frenchies for every austrian or whatever that died. that lasted for like a few years and then their enemies started doing it the levee en masse fixed this by simply outnumbering the combined coalition army of all those separate professional armies by 3 to 1 so the mere fact of conscription is different from the signature french military innovation, because its one or two orders of magnitude fewer peeps per capita. the revolutionary french really fuckin conscripted nearly every able-bodied man bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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Aug 19, 2021 19:02
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632797/onlyfans-prohibit-sexually-explicit-content-porn-creatorsquote:Video sharing site OnlyFans, best known for its creators’ adult videos and photos, will prohibit sexually explicit content starting October 1st. First reported by Bloomberg, the company says it is making the changes because of pressure from its banking and payment provider partners. Another company that doesn't seem to understand its own business model. bob dobbs is dead posted:the last great success of the mass draft was the french revolution, where their enemies, kings who didnt like gettin king heads chopped off (austria spain prussia britain piedmont and the dutch), could field armies that could kill 2 frenchies for every austrian or whatever that died. that lasted for like a few years and then their enemies started doing it quote:"You cannot stop me," he warned the Austrian statesman Metternich, "I can spend 30,000 men a month". AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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Aug 19, 2021 21:28
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Another company that doesn't seem to understand its own business model. Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Verizon wound up selling it off for under $3 million. This happened just a couple of years ago and OnlyFans has already forgotten.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:14
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632797/onlyfans-prohibit-sexually-explicit-content-porn-creators Seems like they were "forced" to do it because their payment processor said they would stop working with them and multiple VCs passed because of the "liability issue" of potentially allowing minors to make accounts + lots of payment processors and VCs will just straight up not work with adult content providers. This will absolutely kill the company, though. lol at the idea of going to OnlyFans to pay $29.99 per month for short exclusive clips of your favorite celebrities' Snapchat stream.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:18
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632797/onlyfans-prohibit-sexually-explicit-content-porn-creators Haha what. What???? quote:Video sharing site OnlyFans, best known for its creators’ adult videos and photos, will prohibit sexually explicit content starting October 1st. What?
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Aug 19, 2021 22:19
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Seems like they were "forced" to do it because their payment processor said they would stop working with them and multiple VCs passed because of the "liability issue" of potentially allowing minors to make accounts + lots of payment processors and VCs will just straight up not work with adult content providers. I'm honestly, legitimately surprised that it's not just porn. I honestly thought that it was just a porn site. Reading this news would be like if someone had a story about PornHub removing all adult content to focus on their baking shows. So now they're, what, shittier Patreon? I'm wondering why they didn't just do whatever it is all the actual porn companies do to process payments. God knows there's no shortage of paid porn on the internet.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:24
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My understanding is that they were supposed to be a website for individuals to create teachable content like Masterclass or Skill Share. But the porn came and they never took it down.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:32
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The quote block ends immediately before the sentence which clarifies that creators can still post adult content, so this seems more like a “rando fans can’t send dick pics” than OF not realizing they’re a porn platform.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:41
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Coca Koala posted:The quote block ends immediately before the sentence which clarifies that creators can still post adult content, so this seems more like a “rando fans can’t send dick pics” than OF not realizing they’re a porn platform. Why would investors and processor give one single gently caress about a dick pic
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Aug 19, 2021 22:42
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Coca Koala posted:The quote block ends immediately before the sentence which clarifies that creators can still post adult content, so this seems more like a “rando fans can’t send dick pics” than OF not realizing they’re a porn platform. It looks like they will allow nudity in certain situations, but that any penetration, masturbation, or sexually explicit content will be banned. I doubt many people are going to OnlyFans for artistic nudes or anthropology lessons. https://onlyfans.com/terms
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Aug 19, 2021 22:45
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I see many people are setting up their own version of what’s going to happen that touches only the stuff they think is bad and man are they going to get some cold water splashed on them
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Aug 19, 2021 22:47
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I feel bad for all the creators making a living by creating content and managing a fan/customer base via OnlyFans. This is why it's a terrible idea to have your business/livelihood dependent on a single internet service.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:52
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obi_ant posted:My understanding is that they were supposed to be a website for individuals to create teachable content like Masterclass or Skill Share. But the porn came and they never took it down. No, that’s Patreon. OnlyFans was specifically marketed to the people who want to get paid to make the adult content that Patreon doesn’t allow.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:57
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:lots of payment processors and VCs will just straight up not work with adult content providers. Kefit posted:I feel bad for all the creators making a living by creating content and managing a fan/customer base via OnlyFans.
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Aug 19, 2021 23:01
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Not having porn on your website is very bad with money since it is the only content people will impulsively purchase.
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Aug 19, 2021 23:12
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Aces High posted:From that point on I've always looked at mandatory service in the way of there are so many different service options we should not limit ourselves to just military. If someone wants to be a firefighter or a nurse, even police, we should have those be options. That way it is more palatable to everyone, people will have the opportunity to try out something that maybe they didn't think they could or were afraid they would have it turn into a lifelong commitment for any reason. I also felt/feel it would go a long way to get people to understand how goddamned difficult a lot of these services are that we take for granted. I gotta say, I did about a year of non-military national service working at a hospital and it was great for me(mostly I just helped with moving paperwork around, but it was still one of the periods of my life I remember happily). I can't say it would necessarily be great for everyone, but I feel like a lot of younger people who're unsure where to go in life might definitely benefit from being offered a selection of things to try out without having to struggle through writing CV's or waiting for open positions or potentially directing their entire life towards it in terms of education, etc. Hell, if I was offered a chance to try a similar program now, just to try out a job for a year, non-binding at the end, without having to deal with the loving job search circus, I'd jump at it. Elephanthead posted:Not having porn on your website is very bad with money since it is the only content people will impulsively purchase. Tell that to my Steam library.
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Aug 19, 2021 23:12
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Haifisch posted:From what I understand, the biggest reason payment processors dislike porn is that it gets a lot of chargebacks. Surprised that any company that touches adult content doesn't just stick with whiehver processors are willing to work with that, stuff, though. I’m honestly surprised that nobody has implemented a Fight Club-esque style chargeback scheme, in which, if you try to do a chargeback, they send a big envelope in the mail with information on the front saying something to the effect of: ATTN: John Doe of 123 Fake St, to confirm your chargeback at <well known porn site>, please acknowledge receipt of this email and confirm that you want to receive your money back.
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Aug 19, 2021 23:23
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PurpleXVI posted:I gotta say, I did about a year of non-military national service working at a hospital and it was great for me(mostly I just helped with moving paperwork around, but it was still one of the periods of my life I remember happily). I can't say it would necessarily be great for everyone, but I feel like a lot of younger people who're unsure where to go in life might definitely benefit from being offered a selection of things to try out without having to struggle through writing CV's or waiting for open positions or potentially directing their entire life towards it in terms of education, etc. steam's like a third porngames lol
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Aug 19, 2021 23:30
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Cacafuego posted:I’m honestly surprised that nobody has implemented a Fight Club-esque style chargeback scheme, in which, if you try to do a chargeback, they send a big envelope in the mail with information on the front saying something to the effect of: ATTN: John Doe of 123 Fake St, to confirm your chargeback at <well known porn site>, please acknowledge receipt of this email and confirm that you want to receive your money back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a06E2mfcuz8
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 did I get the movie wrong? E: oops, fight club was the dildo in the luggage, Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels was the dildo grift
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Cacafuego posted:I’m honestly surprised that nobody has implemented a Fight Club-esque style chargeback scheme, in which, if you try to do a chargeback, they send a big envelope in the mail with information on the front saying something to the effect of: ATTN: John Doe of 123 Fake St, to confirm your chargeback at <well known porn site>, please acknowledge receipt of this email and confirm that you want to receive your money back. I'm pretty sure the reason there are so many chargebacks for porn is because so often stolen credit cards are used for that sort of purchase
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This thread suggests OnlyFans knows perfectly well it is cutting off its own dick but the threats if they don’t roll over could include the executives losing credit card access not just the company itself: https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1428442523001831425
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quote:Pivoting away from porn when your platform is only known for that seems like a terrible idea. Very few things are guaranteed to sell quite like sex or funko pops.
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Sexy Funko Pops?
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Cacafuego posted:I’m honestly surprised that nobody has implemented a Fight Club-esque style chargeback scheme, in which, if you try to do a chargeback, they send a big envelope in the mail with information on the front saying something to the effect of: ATTN: John Doe of 123 Fake St, to confirm your chargeback at <well known porn site>, please acknowledge receipt of this email and confirm that you want to receive your money back. This reminds me of an old scam from long ago when people had to deposit checks in person. Magazines would have ads for sex toys promising discreet payment and shipping with an inflated sticker price but an 80% mail-in rebate. You'd order your dildo, the box and bank statement would say Acme Supplies or whatever. The rebate check however would say "Bob's Huge Dildos, Inc." and people would be too embarrassed to cash it.
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Ethiser posted:There was a bill going through Congress a month or so ago that would require every person to register for the draft, and not just men. With the insanity of the American political system I could at some point in the future see that being how someone tricks the country into having socialized medicine. Remember the GOP proposal to invest the Social Security fund in the stock market ? Wonder why that idea vanished from discourse ? Someone did the math and discovered that every publicly traded company would be government-owned in about 15 years. Good time indeed. e. PurpleXVI posted:Tell that to my Steam library. And my Kindle account. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Aug 20, 2021 |
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Aug 20, 2021 02:12
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there's a good BMW post in the r/relationships thread that I'm going to cross post here My wife (28/F) of three years called me (35/M) boring for my lack of ambition and being content in life. quote:I love my job. It's close to home and has flexible hours. The pay ain't bad either considering I have no degree. My wife and I with our income can afford a good living. We have two kids. A son and daughter. My son is 4 (we had a kid early on before marriage. Was a happy accident) and my daughter 2. Some context quote:Yes. She doesn't make much more then me. 10k ( I make 48k. She makes around 60k). She's a salaried manager at a big box retailer. Update: My wife (28/F) of 3 years called me (35/M)boring for my lack of ambition and being content in life. quote:Well, it's a divorce. We're just two different people going different directions.
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Ah yes a retail manager, the most free spirited job one can imagine
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So for OnlyFans apparently Mastercard has laid out new rules on their requirements for adult streaming services to follow or lose the ability to process payments. It includes having real time monitoring of every stream to ensure a minor never appears on it and to require age verification and signed consent of every person who ever shows up on camera. That's pretty much impossible to do just from a workforce standpoint so either the porn or the money goes.
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the sign of someone who hasnt met any actual plutocrats and their terrible lives
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AceClown posted:r/relationships Very few people are ever happy and content with what they have. Good on him. I mean, as long as his finances are in order.
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Elephanthead posted:Not having porn on your website is very bad with money since it is the only content people will impulsively purchase. I bought a $42 comb from an Instagram ad, but in my defense it's a physical object and also very sparkly.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Ah yes a retail manager, the most free spirited job one can imagine I suppose it’s a job that you should be able to get no matter where you go, but maybe there’s a glut of retail managers out there because of all the store closings. Definitely looks like having a kid at 24 was not a happy accident for her. Good for the dude though. Finding a job you like that provides good work/life balance is extremely hard to find. Dude isn’t taking it in, but he seems fine with that amount. Too bad it seems like he’s about to be a single dad since his soon to be ex doesn’t want to be tied down.
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AceClown posted:there's a good BMW post in the r/relationships thread that I'm going to cross post here Do these people not know that 60+48 > 100? Also lmao forever if you think "six figures" means a large house and a life of luxury with two kids in New York.
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Pekinduck posted:This reminds me of an old scam from long ago when people had to deposit checks in person. Magazines would have ads for sex toys promising discreet payment and shipping with an inflated sticker price but an 80% mail-in rebate. You'd order your dildo, the box and bank statement would say Acme Supplies or whatever. The rebate check however would say "Bob's Huge Dildos, Inc." and people would be too embarrassed to cash it. that's the dildo scam from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels that the dude a couple posts above you was referencing same movie also had a dude beaten to death with a dildo
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mrmcd posted:Do these people not know that 60+48 > 100? Upstate, near Buffalo or Albany maybe.
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