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Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


sounds like a good idea

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Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


WHEN is someone finally going to put the homeless on the blockchain

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Larry Parrish posted:

its like saying you don't need to learn to cook or how to do basic sewing or basic first aid. only a middle class dork used to paying people to do stuff for him could possibly think that way

not sure how it's a great loss. most people live in cities and experience driving as sitting in traffic not doing anything

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Kommienzuspadt posted:

Yes, I agree with you entirely. That doesn't mean it isn't worth exploring the other structural problems with American healthcare and trying to solve those, too.

The American people deserve so much better than what we have been able to provide. This involves at looking at more than just nationalizing healthcare , but also fundamentally improving it in every way possible, from the social/cultural conventions in place to the kinds of care we choose to provide and not to provide.

guys i think he's just doing democrat voice

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

fukuyama is famous literalyl only for being wrong & eating poo poo for 30 years so its great that even he can get in on the campus SJW panic grift

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

So it's labour's fault America's health insurance system is hosed.

america would be way more socialist if its labour movement wasn't really really effectively co-opted during the war

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

qkkl posted:

only if the federal government is considered part of the market, it's not legal to hire a private contractor to burn down your neighbor's farm so your own produce fetches a higher price.

why wouldnt the government be considered part of the market?

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

the republican president may b e forced to confront globalist democrat do-nothing union thugs head on

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

uncop posted:

The idea that boomers hosed over millennials is just a "woke" version of the idea that foreigners hosed over millennials. It's just less obviously wrong because boomers actually vote & make more money than you. As if they got around a big round table to have a proper democratic vote on whether to transform the system to gently caress over their own grandchildren or not, and went for it.

its a joke people make on the internet

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Agean90 posted:

whole lotta temp agencys gonna get a boost in amazon business lmao

whenever some horrible poo poo comes out about amazon they always defend it by citing examples of employee benefits and then it turns out that nobody who works in any of the warehouses is an actual employee

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Neon Belly posted:

Is this the TV equivalent of talking about how music was so much better in whatever previous time period?

its the tv equivalent of pointing out how many bands just ripped off the velvet underground

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

the way most people udnerstand economics is just from inferred half remembered neoliberal propaganda where its ok to acknowledge that things are bad now but doing anything else is unthinkable

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

if the economy lasts another few months i hope its the uber IPO that does it

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

uncop posted:

Then, to someone who is completely immersed in advanced capitalist society and trained to see life as a series of commodity exchanges even where the commodities are completely metaphysical ("investing in yourself", "building social capital", etc.), doing favors is just another form of delayed exchange of commodities. Finally a light goes off in the minds of some who view favors this way, and they decide to make a favor bank, where they really do store favors as values in a computer database, and a bunch of other people are like "Whoa, why didn't I think of that? It was so obvious in hindsight!"

wait hold on a second this is just guanxi

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Modest Mao posted:

white people have this very special social privilege system that they call a "relationship" whereby individuals form close bonds and do favors for each other, often giving up their own advantages to help those they have a "relationship" with.

if you intend to do business with white foreigners you should do your best to form "relationships" with them and become part of their "relationship" network

the part where you have a favour spreadsheet and attempt to exactly match what you put in and out, i mean

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


lol there just wont be a media industry a decade from now will there

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

a cool thing to think about is that the thing we've gotten in return for facebook destroying our entire society is facebook

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

lmao https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1053253098750337024

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

imagine being the ceo of twitter and getting those numbers. pathetic

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Goon Danton posted:

Yeah, there won't be a zombie apocalypse style Big Day, it'll creep in so quietly you'll barely notice. And then one day you'll wonder to yourself when exactly the mall finally closed for good, and when fentanyl crossed over from being a deadly adjudicant to something people used on purpose for fun, and you'll realize that the end of the world has already come and gone and you just... missed it.

if you live in a rich first world country itll feel like you moved to brazil basically

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

buddy if you don't like how americans do business then maybe you should move to loving china

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

mycomancy posted:

Can't tell if you're serious. In case you are, :thermidor:

jesus christ

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Bushiz posted:

especially since every streaming service is incredibly counter intuitive to navigate because they have CuRaTeD tHe ExPeRiEnCe so even if you know what you want to watch you've gotta spend twenty minutes dragging through slow as poo poo menus because you can't remember which service it's hosted on.

the amount of effort netflix puts into hiding what they've recently put on the site from their own subscribers is insane

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

i feel like consumers must be getting tired of every single algorithmically driven platform thing being pointlessly redesigned to look different and be harder to use every six months

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Taintrunner posted:

Cernovich dug up some old poo poo from the Exile days in Russia decades ago and tried to paint him as some sort of awful nightmare creature, it's all crap. Taibbi's cleaned up his act and The Divide is one of the best books on modern nightmare America you could ever read. Also The War Nerd Illiad from John Dolan also of Exile fame is fuckin' incredible.

the exile articles were all satire too

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

if he hasn't put it all back in mcaffee has probably made really good money out of crypto stuff because he just uses his twitter to do pump and dumps and now there are a bunch of 4chan people who copy his trades to try to get in on it

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Epic High Five posted:

Suicide Squad exceeded expectations in the most important way - memes shared by Facebook addicted women highlighting how they're actually crazy when you get to know them, and reinforcement of the belief that some people identify a bit too much with the Joker and those people are probably budding serial killers

some times i remember all the pre release marketing about jared letos joker method acting and smile

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

mycomancy posted:

Could someone simply explain the dinar scam to dumb ol' me please?

people think trump will just make the iraqi dinar the same value as the us dollar through sheer force of will, so if you buy lots of dinars now you're set!

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

StashAugustine posted:

More sanely the pitch is that Iraq is a clusterfuck now so their currency is worthless so buy now and wait for American Democracy to make it a paradise and you'll make out like a bandit!
do any of the scams ever bother addressing that normal iraqi people probably have a few dinars on them

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


woke brandon wardell

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Poniard posted:

wrap it up everyone we've been figured out


wow the tankie/socdem split has finally made it to black twitter

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


excellent work, 47

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

discount retailer eating poo poo for only doing 20% off in a christmas sale its on boys

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

succ posted:

What is Asos?

really popular online h&m-style fast fashion retailer that sell ok clothes for cheap in the UK

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

triple sulk posted:

better quality than primark? their stuff from the small few that are now in the us seems to just be mostly garbage. i don't remember it being as bad when i was in the uk ones.

like a step above primark but very firmly below uniqlo and they also have other brands

Farm Frenzy fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 17, 2018

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007


yea i feel like writing that article about australia now is like writing the same article about japan in the late 80s lol

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

unlike bitcoin the fake ad industry is creating value for the ad industry which is in turn funding the entire internet so its good

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Marx Headroom posted:

Yeah I frequently encounter free market advocates who insist Scrooge McDuck level compensation is justified because they risk so much capital in starting the enterprise and deserve high reward for high risk, but every other day we see stories like Sears where executives buy a failing enterprise, can't turn it around in time, and loot everyone's pensions to recover 95% of their investment just in time to declare bankruptcy and not have to pay anyone.

And this is so common there are businesses like Bain Capital who specialize in the practice, and now we literally have an entire industry innovating and accelerating this process everywhere they possibly can.

So like, they're not risking capital. They get all or most of it back and in cases like Bain Capital actually profit from it. Yet they're still getting these incredible rewards, which enables them to keep doing it competitively. What the gently caress.

investors think that if you don't spend millions on the CEO then you aren't getting top quality talent, as measured by spending millions on a CEO

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Catboy Autonomist posted:


"if number does not go down, it will go up a lot"
is he wrong?

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Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

ugh anotbher classic SA thread gets ripped off by normies

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