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cinni posted:I hate how those bikini coffee stops keep getting shut down over 'indecency'. Its just a bikini folks, and go to Starbucks if you can't handle it hot in the morning. I think its a great business model if the girls are having fun and not getting too much poo poo from nice guy patrons, but those nimby old ladies can't handle a little sugar in their cuppas. Around here they tend to get shut down more for "being fronts for prostitution" rather than "indecency"
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Scarecrow Video was what I grew up with in Seattle, virtually any video you could want, the original binge-watch promoter with 7-day rentals on TV seasons, unlimited SUBTITLED anime, and a pretty big Hentai section, it was the only place a 16yo could find Neon Genesis Evangelion in 2006. It's still around, pretty sure is circling the drain.
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Oct 16, 2019 07:08
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cinni posted:But anything can be a front for prostitution really, don't get down on the girls for making money. I know they are probably connected to a lot of sleazy capitalist based abuses which is sad, because I wouldn't mind getting a coffee from a bubbly, busty lady. They need work too! But yes, no ethical consumption under capitalism. Creeps, weirdos, and greedy folks ruin so much in this world. I'm a supporter of legalized sex work, but that's not the current law, and if your business model is 1000% likelier to he a front for prostitution than anything besides an ASIAN MASSAGE!!! Parlor, you're gonna face some legal issues.
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Oct 16, 2019 07:12
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I don't think the thousands of abandoned scooters thrown in the river when Lime et all go belly up are going to be a net positive. Plus they're not a car replacement, they're a walking 5 blocks from your car in downtown replacement.
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Oct 22, 2019 04:57
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Beachcomber posted:Never been to a HEB. Publix has delicious subs, and Wegmans is just completely awesome. Their union(s) are completely loving gutless and worthless, I worked in Seafood and had to be part of both the Grocer's union and the butcher's union, their dues more than cancelled out the $0.15/hr above minimum wage I made, and netted me less than minimum wage, with no benefits of any sort. Thanks Unions!
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Feb 1, 2020 03:18
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It's so weird how every time America goes "we did a socialism because we had no other choice" and it works out super awesome, it's always in deep south conservative America, see the Healthcare exchange in KY, this in FL, a bunch of weird socialist programs TX runs, especially specifically for vets. It's like when we elect Bernie and go full gay space communism, we're going to have to make the worst capitalist overloard assholes run it, and it's gonna be great.
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Feb 5, 2020 07:21
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If the US nationalized retail it'd probably give most of the decision making power to the individual states, and that could get real bad real quick, like "sorry honey, this is a Christian state, we don't sell birth control or condoms in our stores" bad.
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Feb 5, 2020 15:59
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How are these little colleges failing when tuition are at record highs? Where is the money going? And why can I go to like 15 Liberal Arts colleges in my area, but there's exactly one (the most prestigious university in the State, public) that offers an engineering degree, when the job market is begging and screaming for more engineers?
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Feb 14, 2020 07:10
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So do these colleges just not have a successful business model? Why are they failing if they're charging students $25,000 a year to listen to profs that they pay $60,000 a year? E: I might sound stupid, but I'm genuinely interested since I'm setting up to go to finally attend college at 32 in a couple years, so I've taken an interest, and I'm not terribly excited to attend a school with 45,000 18-22 year olds, but literally no other schools in the area offer a degree that makes sense with my engineering background. Elviscat has a new favorite as of 07:41 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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Feb 14, 2020 07:37
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It's a shame CCs degrees aren't worth as much these days, my dad got a job as an Electrical Engineer with a major utility with his Associates in the '70s, that's not possible anymore, I have seen a ton of CCs transition to just "colleges" usually offering a narrow scope of degrees, like nursing.
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Feb 14, 2020 08:07
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Pssst, hey, guess what, different people have different shaving needs and facial hair and different products work worse/better for them. It'll be our little secret.
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What was that? Oh, you said stock buy-backs? Sounds great!
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Apr 2, 2020 16:00
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I hope those fucks stay closed, forever.
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Apr 3, 2020 23:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kind of a pity we don't have drive-ins much anymore, because suddenly they're perfect. I have a drive-in theater about 5 minutes from my house, it was great during the first big round of restrictions, shelter-in-place closed it down though  . I have an electric car too, which are perfect for drive ins because they can power the heat and radio and all that without any wasteful emissions.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:29
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At least around here people are actively ordering takeout more in an effort to prop up local restaurants. That combined with giant drive-thru lines, take-out booze in a lot of cities might have helped offset the losses somewhat. My girlfriend has been bringing my roomates and I like a gallon of cider every weekend in an effort to support our local cidery's taproom in a one-woman effort to keep them afloat, since it's her favorite place to go out and have a couple drinks at.
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May 18, 2020 02:08
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My local drive-in is doing classic movies! I might get to watch Airplane! On the big screen!
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Jun 19, 2020 07:56
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Quiet Feet posted:Surely, you're joking! I am serious, and don't call me Surely.
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Jun 20, 2020 05:14
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Biplane posted:The funeral industry totally should go under though. Cremate everyone and dump the ashes in a communal pit. I used to be real gung ho on cremation, but now they have those cool services that let your body rot and decompose naturally. It's weird that the Army guys weren't wearing masks for the Flag Ceremony, the DOD has a pretty strict face covering mandate in place right now, it must go back to the weird "covering your face at a funeral is disrespectful" thing.
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https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/burial_grounds_cemeteries.html
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I used to be very frustrated by the fact that I needed to wear a men's large shiry to fit my large frame, but they were always a couple inches short because I'm also tall, the rare Large Tall designation was a godsend. I fixed that problem by getting fat, so XLs fit me appropriately now. I still can't find cheap pants that fit my giant thighs without going several sizes too large in the waist, some niche bodybuilder brands make do for nicer pants that fit my legs without being skintight through the thigh, or potato-sack-held-up-by-a-belt at the waist. Weirdly dirt-bike pants do an ok job sizing large around the thigh, which is a lucky coincidence, 'cause those are expensive before you get into specific body-type clothing.
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Jul 28, 2020 05:05
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BigDave posted:Turn them over to COMSUBPAC and COMSUBATL for target practice. gently caress yeah, been awhile since an American sub got tonnage. You could also park them, and allow them to turn into damp, rusting, disease ridden symbols of man's hubris, and the high cost of capitalism.
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Aug 4, 2020 05:58
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JnnyThndrs posted:Yeah, my parents have rented boats for a couple weeks each time in Ireland, Belgium, and Germany at different times and basically cruised the rivers, stopping at whatever looked interesting and tying up each night whatever small hamlet was convenient. It’s a fantastic way to see the countryside and interact with actual regular folk. I've done a couple day-long Fjord Tours up in Norway, the multiple day ones kinda appeal to me. Otherwise gently caress cruises, I've spent enough time in my life stuck on boats TYVM.
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brugroffil posted:David Foster Wallace's take on cruises is still pretty good. Which book? Because that is exactly the sort of thing I'd be interested in.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Title essay of the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Ah, the essays always make my brain hurt, I'll have to give them another try.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have a Wawa credit card that gives me 5 cents off every gallon of Wawa gas. I don't own a gas guzzler or drive that much. Essentially Wawa pays me a few bucks a month for my customer loyalty, and that's enough. I'm loyal to any business that is willing to shell out even a pittance to buy my loyalty, many people are, and more corporations need to learn that. I was stuck in the Philidelphia Airport Hilton for work for a week, had a rental I could drive to dinner, but don't want to drive just for that, plus hotel had a free drink happy hour from 5-6pm. Only things in walking range were Applebees, the Hilton Restaurant, and Wawa, drat right I ate Wawa sandwiches for dinner every night. Only bad thing about it was that Wawa doesn't sell beer, because Pennsylvania is a stupid commonwealth hellhole, so I had to drive to get beer. I also ate at a famous Cheesesteak place every day for lunch, and I'm STILL trying to shed the ten loving pounds I gained that week.
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I drive an EV, and I pretty much only stop at gas stations for beer. Except the once a month I gas up the truck and dirt bike. It's great.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I was gonna test out my IK buttons and change the thread title to Companies circling the drain: I can't even find a picture of grandma's old cooter preparation kit on the internet Just send it.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:We didn’t actually get any pictures, though. That makes it dishonest and click-baity. Now, if someone were to provide pictures of the aforementioned cooter stretchers, that would be a different story.   Also, argggh. https://collectmedicalantiques.com/gallery/instruments-for-women
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Trabant posted:Silence_kit isn't wrong though: Amazon's not a monopoly, at least not yet. Through some combination of convenience, price, and selection -- and whatever tradeoffs between the three the customer's willing to make -- they became the big e-commerce gorilla. Bezos, and Amazon's management team are smart and cagey as gently caress though, and I guarantee they have teams of lawyers analyzing every business decision to see if it violates antitrust laws, that's not to say that makes their business decisions fair or right, just that they're good at skirting the legal line, they don't want to be Ma Bell'd. I bet you if Musk and Bezos switched places Musk would tweet himself into an antitrust lawsuit in weeks. Volcott posted:Is there an actual, proven engineering solution to the latency issue re: a satelite backbone that has spacex leaning into it so heavily or nah. They're super loving close to Earth, and there's a fuckton of them. That's how they get good latency compared to other satellite internet services, and destroy the field of astral photography. Groovelord Neato posted:At one point will we not be able to leave orbit because of all the garbage we've shot up there. All the garbage we shoot up there returns eventually. (Earth's orbit specifically, not space in general)
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"Oh, I just have that very specific mental illness that forces me to cunningly defraud hundreds of people, corporations, and the U.S. Government" "What mental illness is that?" "It's called capitalism, your Honor" She should have just gone in to Defense Contracting, that kind of thing's legal there.
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Soylent Pudding posted:They did try to sell to DoD. Yeah she had Mattis and a few others totally on board. But healthcare is different then weapons systems, and you have to sell like, a couple, working products before you can just grift expensive vaporware to the DoD, while blaming their constant need to change the contact requirements for the failure of your product to perform as advertised.
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Picnic Princess posted:I 100% have a fake voice when talking to customers at work. It's literally called "customer service voice". Mine goes much higher pitched and more musical than my regular speaking voice. I can totally see a woman in a business leadership role dropping pitch. She's unlikely the first and if she wasn't a scammer, no one would be fighting over it like this. It's been noted by my peers that my voice changes significantly while talking on the phone, and when talking on the phone to loved ones it changes so much that it's shocking to third parties. It's wholly unconscious though FWIW.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Applebee's has kind of the reputation for being the lowest rung of the chain restaurant, but I think TGI Fridays is a dark horse candidate I spent a week in a hotel in South Philly last year, and though I'd never usually eat at Traplbee's, it was the only restaurant in walking distance. Food was surprisingly decent, priced well, drinks were good, and it had no-poo poo fantastic service from the bartender. I was pleasantly surprised.
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DrChu posted:There are literally no Applebee's in South Philly, and that part of the city is packed with restaurants, so I have no idea where you think you were. Um, upon further review, it was the Ruby Tuesday's near the airport, and not, in fact, an Applebees. Soylent Pudding posted:Waffle House is a thing of beauty: https://bittersoutherner.com/waffle-house-vistas I've looked out the vista portrayed in #411 many times.
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Iron Crowned posted:I miss being able to go to Waffle House At Waffle House you get fresh ingredients prepared for you for an insanely cheap price, right in front of you. In Select States you might be lucky enough to watch your Chef de Cuisine season your smothered hashbrowns with freshly smoked cigarette ash, while you smoke and drink coffee yourself. That last paragraph might seem like a sarcastic critique, but let me assure you that it's a whole-hearted endorsement. Seriously, one of America's foremost food critics was astounded by their quality.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A number of reasons, probably, including deterring trespassing and theft. Plus you'll destroy your building if you don't leave the HVAC systems running, mold, moisture, etc will ruin the structure, once you have that it's a pretty small sum to literally keep the lights on. Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Here's a question I've asked in a thread or two before: They just built one 5 minutes up the road from me, I'd be tickled if I could have a robot pop in the back and hand me my package for sure. Serious answer for why it's not done is likely the warehouses have bulk quantities of products, so you may live near the one that has nothing but Kitchen Aide appliances and cheap Chinese made USB-C cables, the the Fulfillment Centers get trucked bulk quantities of this stuff, but only as ordered, so there's no stock of stuff for you to swing by and pick up. Honestly I can't think of any advantage to swinging by a Fulfillment Center that the Amazon Locker system doesn't have.
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Paper Tiger posted:From charitable to less charitable: I don't think that's uncharitable, it's not a good idea to let people wander around warehouses, the same way a Jiffy Lube Lubetech needs to escort you to your car, there's hazards implicit in that environment you need to be aware of. I've gone back to look at stuff in the backend of customer-fronting warehouses for Industrial and Electrical supply places, and there's always someone present.
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Mustached Demon posted:That doesn't work well with a bunch of utilities about to be shut off or rent past due. In regards to dollar store food deserts, paycheck to paycheck is more like miss a paycheck and become homeless. It's an interesting and depressing topic how dollar general feeds off of the corpses of communities long forgotten. Not to mention a lot of people that rely in dollar general don't have a traditional paycheck, many of them rely on temporary labor, scrapping, sometimes even pretty theft or drug dealing, they're not working for a large corporation that hands out steady pay, the wealthiest of them are remodeling kitchens and doing handiwork, they're also the quickest to get ratfucked by an evening downturn, since they're often ineligible for unemployment if they're doing cash under the table.
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Silly Burrito posted:Screw that. I will gladly pay taxes for libraries. For all the other crap our taxes get wasted on, libraries are actually useful and benefit many people. If you don't use it, that's truly your loss. But then people vote down small taxes on public education because "Well I don't have kids in school any more, why should I pay?????" They're getting to be the only place with a clean restroom homeless people can take a break from the cold, take a poo poo and wash up in, in a lot of communities. That dumb gently caress that wrote that article also glosses over the free internet access they provide, which is literally invaluable for a lot of poor people looking for jobs and applying for services. That's all on top of also providing services to the rest of the community.
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Platystemon posted:Maybe the hedge fund managers are the ones who need training wheels like an broker that won’t let them trade on margin. Maybe we should rip the stupid rear end system that allows this apart, and replace it with a planned economy. Or at least regulate it to a level where it works something remotely like it's "supposed" to. A bunch of broke hedge fund managers would be a good starting point I guess.
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