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People using the phrase "late stage capitalism", as if something so insidious and durable is just minutes away from collapse.The Moon Monster posted:I don't think I've ever heard this phrase outside the context of "Can you believe people in [place] use this weird phrase!?" I don't think I've ever heard the phrase before this thread.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I think it's meant the way one would refer to the late stages of a disease, but I don't know the origin of the term Maybe, but the term is over a hundred years old at this point and feels more like wishful thinking than a useful description.
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Apr 4, 2018 05:32
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Master Twig posted:This is more the fault of businesses and an environment where taking time off due to illness is punished. Yeah, though I've seen it happen in places with generous sick leave entitlements.
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Apr 4, 2018 15:11
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yeah I eat rear end posted:My least favorite is Pi Day. We get it already, you loving Love Science. 22nd of July is more accurate than the March 14th anyway.
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May 4, 2018 15:34
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Yeah I never really understood the parallels people were drawing either. Like yeah they are all militaristic societies following the orders of one leader, but beyond that it doesn't really fit. Hitler didn't die because saving the life of his son or because a band of small hairy people threw his ring in the volcano, he died because his empire was falling apart so he shot himself. The aesthetic choices shouldn't be cast aside lightly either. When you call the enemy troops stormtroopers and have the officers dress the way they do and shoot long sections of the movie like a WW2 film you are implicitly encouraging the comparison.
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May 6, 2018 00:20
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Master Twig posted:There's a new trend of responding to offensive or idiotic things on social media with a single sentence phrase correcting it, but with the clapping hands emoji after every word. At least it's a good sign to ignore the post.
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May 7, 2018 13:25
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MisterBibs posted:Sure, I'll be pleased if Lucifer manages to get picked up somewhere else, but it was a bubble show and getting too worked up over a bubble show getting the axe is a waste of energy and effort. To see such waste, wait for it, is a pet peeve. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, etc.
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May 13, 2018 04:27
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Peeve: Netflix (and people uploading to Youtube etc) deciding to crop 4:3 content into 16:9. it wouldn't surprise me if they're loving around with 2:35:1 stuff as well.
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Jun 6, 2018 08:54
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swordfish duelist posted:Accents are a pet peeve. Like Americans making "Graham" / "Graeme" / etc into "Gram".
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Jun 13, 2018 04:49
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And some great directors got their start in music videos.
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Jun 19, 2018 05:20
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Cowslips Warren posted:Does that ever work for anyone? I mean first impressions can be wrong easily, but are there really good shows or games that blow rear end in the start but after episode/level __ it is so worth it?
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Aug 1, 2018 05:34
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There is a reason that WoW includes a level boost with each new expac so that people can jump straight to current content.
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Aug 1, 2018 11:55
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Doing a raid with random people seems like an extremely hellish experience unless they have made them incredibly easy since lich king. Yeah, Raid Finder is that easy. It's also boring because of how easy it is.
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Aug 2, 2018 04:14
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Brawnfire posted:Complex semaphore is ideal for issuing children commands I know you meant it as a joke but yeah, kids can pick up some basic sign language before they can speak properly.
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Aug 4, 2018 04:30
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gently caress taking a 10+ hour flight without reclining seats.
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Aug 28, 2018 15:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:They don't even recline enough that it's comfy though, especially if you're sitting next to a stranger and need to not touch them. It makes it a bit easier to sleep.
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Aug 28, 2018 15:32
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The saucer of Picard's Enterprise is roughly the size of the Pentagon (where ~25000 people work) but the crew of 1000 have to share rooms.Tiggum posted:It's a mining ship though. It's probably mostly storage space. Yeah the largest bulk carriers are ~350m long and have a crew of a few dozen, and the giant Bagger excavators need a handful of people to operate. It's not that weird really.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Surely my conversation is more entertaining than that.
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Thin Privilege posted:Isn't astroturf that lovely green carpet?
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Oct 11, 2018 09:43
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Thin Privilege posted:So like this very very rich trust fund guy running for governor is pretending he's poor and understands what being poor is like? And that cause he knows what it's like, he's gonna ~change~ the poor communities and help them get jobs or whatever? It's when "Citizens Concerned about X" is really funded and organised by an industry or powerful figure associated with X. The Tea Party is a great example.
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Oct 11, 2018 09:56
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starkebn posted:how is the replicator any different to the transporter? I need a new unbroken spine, make a copy of a good one from an old transporter record. The replicator is less precise and just creates stuff in one spot. Jury rigging a replicator into a cheap-and-nasty transporter does happen though.
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Nov 12, 2018 01:18
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docbeard posted:There was a pretty good 90s/00s Outer Limits episode that had teleportation that explicitly worked this way (killed the original but created a copy with their memories) that was about what happens when the original, due to a malfunction, doesn't die. It's also the twist in The Prestige.
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Nov 13, 2018 04:18
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Tiggum posted:Because water doesn't taste like much of anything. It's nice to drink when you're thirsty, but what would you get out of slowly sipping it? You may as well have an empty glass. Skoling cold water isn't exactly pleasant though.
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I've only ever seen tomato paste in a sachet or a squeezable bottle/tube.
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If it's in a big thing here it's generally in a glass jar (which I forgot for some reason), and I'm sure there are cans around. Tends to be sold in smaller, more convenient packages though.
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quote:The ATO has made nearly 159 trips to Sydney's Chinatown in Haymarket
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A kiosk is a type of small structure. It can sell newspapers and magazines but it is certainly not whatever nonsense Tiggum is referring to. A kiosk can sell lots of things. Don’t tell me there is another australian here? We are everywhere.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:07
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Yep, you got it. Stop giving people who have no talent a boost by letting them get ad revenue they wouldn't get if it weren't for youtube. How much do you think most people earn from youtube ad revenue?
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Jan 18, 2019 04:51
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Shibawanko posted:I guess I also just use the position of the sun, if it's morning I know that it'll be roughly in the east, south at midday, west in the afternoon Last time I was in the northern hemisphere I spent half a day being every so slightly weirded out by the sun being in the wrong spot.
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Jan 21, 2019 03:14
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yeah I eat rear end posted:where they stretch the 16:9 format to fill a 4:3 screen instead of having the normal black bars on the top/bottom. Generally they cut off the side(s), while sometimes also moving around (panning) in what was originally a still image. It looks awful for 16:9 stuff and gets even worse at higher aspect ratios. E: you get the reverse nowadays when people chop the top / bottom off some things that were originally filmed in 4:3 so there aren't black bars on the side. It's loving garbage. Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I didn't know this, thanks. That always drove me nuts. I'm zooming in, not loving trying to rotate the thing. Why would you ever want to rotate it? Because orienting a map so that north on the map is pointing north (and that your direction of travel is facing away from you) is a pretty common thing to do when navigating. It's what Google Maps etc do when you're getting directions, for example. Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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"Forward is up" helps on paper maps when you don't have GPS and are trying to work out your location by landmarks.Brawnfire posted:Just a small digital readout at the corner of the rearview that says the direction. I have never seen or heard of that before.
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I swear I've been shocked more times in the past year than in the rest of my life thanks to toddlers on slippery dips.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:just order things by their generic name instead of brand name. Want some cola of whatever variety? Just say give me a liter of cola. What are you going to do, say "no" when they say "is pepsi ok?"? That's exactly what I'm going to do, yes.
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MightyJoe36 posted:All you "what's a cheese pizza/never cheese pizza" people need to take a field trip to NYC and get a slice of plain cheese pizza. Yeah it was okay I guess, cheap but boring.
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Memento posted:"anyway, here's the lasagna recipe you were looking for" A Maple Shortbread Recipe posted:Shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...
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Streaming services that don't show things in the original aspect ratio, especially when they convert 4:3 to 16:9 by just loving blindly cutting.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:but it's a scam. You shouldn't get money for something you'd do anyway. People don't tweet to make money, they do it because they feel like ejaculating their thoughts on to the internet. That shouldn't be monetized. It's worthless content. Have you considered setting up a Patreon to pay you for every post you don't make?
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Mu Zeta posted:gently caress twitter threads. If you have something to say that is a few paragraphs long then post it on any social media except Twitter you dumb bitch. It works well if you're using a lot of images or links, just not for text.
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Brawnfire posted:"You know that, right?" as a line in anything. It's great when you want to sound like a condescending arsehole.
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