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SpartanIvy posted:I thought we were heading to a Demolition Man future after Schwarzenegger became governor, but now I see were veering from Back to the Future II towards Judge Dredd. A Judge Dredd future would involve less police brutality and more dirty cops being punished.
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Volmarias posted:Please explain Before the Internet that was where the porn was.
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DaveSauce posted:That's literally every conspiracy theory ever. You cannot argue against them, there's ALWAYS an out that they can take, because it's all made up in their heads. It is said that you cannot reason someone out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
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totalnewbie posted:Compare that to the Flex where I went from 1 directly to 3 and 4 went something like "...where the gently caress is all the room? Why is this giant car so tiny? drat, this thing is worse than I thought. Or the Corolla I rented from Zipcar for Thanksgiving. I'm 5'9", I should have some loving headroom in a 4-door sedan. I almost hit a bicyclist because they were behind the rear-view mirror and if they weren't wearing bright leggings I'd not have seen them at all. I had better visibility out of a Mini Cooper. Zipcar is my GWM flex. I only need a car a few times a year, so I drive when I need to and don't pay the loan and insurance on a vehicle that wouldn't get used regularly. I haven't run afoul of their alleged terrible customer service yet.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Ah, so it's just the old "mail me back the extra" scam? More formally known as the "advance fee" scam. It relies on the fact that instruments (checks, etc.) drawn on a reputable bank fully clear faster than instruments drawn on a bank working on the periphery of modern finance. Your bank releases the funds because it's two weeks and nobody's said it's a bad check, but there are some very important documents being hand carried to a tiny bank in an obscure location that will take two more weeks to get word back that it's a bad check. Meanwhile, you've sent them their $500, which clears faster because you're at a "real" bank, and spent the rest of your "windfall". Then you get the letter from your bank, you owe them the whole sum. And you do.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the euros legalized it cuz they dont have as many christian nutjobs in power They sent them all over here.
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canyoneer posted:Disagree, because they're in a climate where they can (and do!) use the pool 10 months out of the year Their insurance rates go up, and god help them if they have neighbors with kids. I'm not saying a neighbor kid will drown themselves in the pool, but the insurance company knows how likely it is and charges appropriately.
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Let's talk McDonalds again for a minute. I've got one conveniently located to my grocery shopping, so I go in occasionally. A double quarter pounder with cheese is now about $7. Compared to the old school dollar menu quarter pounders that's absurdly expensive. But it doesn't compare to the old dollar menu burgers. The $7 burger has a fresh bun, juicy patties, and, well, the cheese they told you they were going to give you. If you compare that to a $15 burger at a pub, that's a fair comparison. The $15 burger is going to be a lot better than even the new, improved double QPWC, but it had better be for the price. And on that scale, the McDonald's burger is a fair $7 burger. Get the app for access to deals and they're a fairly priced fast food place. They're not the nostalgic, cheap food that's sat under heat lamps for an hour, but they're a fair deal for good food.
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Feb 12, 2021 08:21
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Space Kablooey posted:My 2-year old MBP has inflated like an aluminium balloon Your battery is hosed, take it in for service ASAP. The big problem with Windows laptops and longevity isn't so much build quality as your average consumer installing all sorts of poo poo and the OS getting bogged down and corrupted. If you aren't willing and able to completely reload Windows every 2-3 years, it's gonna run like poo poo after a few years. Macs are much easier to manage and the OS won't crawl up its own rear end in a top hat and die nearly as often.
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Nofeed posted:Sure she's making good business in the temple allocating capital, but known socialist Jesus might be right around the corner, and I don't think he's happy... Always remember, when it comes to bankers and their ilk, it's not "what would Jesus do?" but rather "what did Jesus do?" Whipped some rear end, that's what !
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Feb 26, 2021 04:19
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Residency Evil posted:Iirc third base is a blowie, right? Have the standards slipped again ? First Base: hands above waist and over clothes Second Base: hands above waist and under clothes, below waist over clothes. Light frottage. Third base: Partial nudity. Hands below waist, under clothes. Anything with underwear on okay. Oral sex, or more, is home plate.
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At work we have some decent "espresso beans" and a coffee machine that grinds a small batch of beans fresh for every cup.Not bad at all. At home, it's Trader Joe's Bay Blend which is dark roasted, oily, dank beans. I grind them fresh, so every new pot is just pure dark coffee love.
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Apr 3, 2021 14:55
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Should I loan my father a firearm? I've got this sad sense that dad is only going to need one bullet. And with that medical prognosis I can't say I don't sympathize.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:They better not try this poo poo on the server though, tiles on windows server was an abomination. I"m just sick of seeing the Xbox services installed on LTSC systems running mass spectrometers.
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tomapot posted:We’ll you could live in a horse, just not for long. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside !
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Bird in a Blender posted:For the first one, how does that guy not realize that he has tons of useless middle managers hanging around? Those people really have nothing to do if someone isn't in the building? What the gently caress is even their job? The best part about this is he's planning to punish the people who do all the loving work.
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Space Kablooey posted:I admit it was way more effort to reach out across Slack to talk about whatever work issue I was having, but I feel if someone doesn't often reach out to other people via Slack (or whatever else), I don't think they would be too inclined to reach out over a cube (or whatever) either. Probably not. I also am a firm believer in creating safe spaces for junior people. I'm currently wrangling 5 contract techs for a really hairy Win10 migration project in the research labs. We've also got a Windows engineer from the consultancy that did the project planning. Someone made a Chat room for everyone on the project. I went and made another for just the me, the techs, and the engineer; no management. I also have a weekly call where it's just us - the people actually doing the work. On one of the calls I mentioned someone who almost joined the million dollar club at a manufacturing site, but got fired for covering it up. The contractors were stunned that we actually do have a million dollar club and you don't automatically get fires for joining it. Sometimes the SOP was ambiguous or wrong, sometimes your hand slips, sometimes you see a bug in a clean room and have to dump a whole batch. Own what you did, and at the very least you'll be thoroughly trained on what NOT to do. We had a slow stretch early in the project where we were very obviously giving them busy work. They were all obviously nervous with not nearly enough work for 5 people. I put a lot of effort into conveying the message that we're staffed for peak, not slack times.
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MrKatharsis posted:https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/238803-ive-decided-to-spend-600-a-month-on-the-gamewife-is-not-happy-but-we-made-an-agreement/ I've played World of Warships and I don't know how you'd manage to spend $600 a month on it. They must have added a lot of micros since the last time I uninstalled it. (Yes, I've paid for premium, that's single -digit $$ a month).
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Soysaucebeast posted:I can actually comment on this! I dispatch repair mechanics for semi trailers as a job, and I'd say about once a week we get someone who legit let the trailer get so degraded that the brakes caught on fire while they were driving. I actually had one last week that was so bad that the entire back half of the trailer burned away. We get the pictures sent to us from the mechanics when that happens, and it's always pretty gnarly. I don't know if the drivers get fired in those cases (my company just owns the trailers that are leased out and don't have contact with the companies our leasee's hire for drivers) but it's not uncommon. If you hire idiots then your equipment is going to get hosed, and a lot of companies don't care about hiring anything other than warm bodies to put in a cab. Using those ramps is way better than literally incinerating tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and inventory though. How about if you hire crazy people ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGLLIdYqa4 I caught this live. He was cruising around the Dallas suburbs for almost two hours after my local news cut to the live feed. This has the high points, but the whole thing was a high point. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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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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gently caress it, reach out to the US Mint to get a statement. Someone there should get a hell of a laugh about it.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Of the things I move first out of my parents’ house, the expensive porn collection is definitely the top of that list. I hope the parents at least had the decency to leave it scattered in the woods. This is the way.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Cons: Pro: GoPro footage of a dog stealing a pizza.
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DarkHorse posted:This one sounds more sad than bad decisions, though a the maxed credit cards and missed payments are kind of suspicious If it's any consolation, used car prices are through the roof right now.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I do something similar, but I stick that marinade between the skin and the meat. You can work your hand in-between the skin and the breast especially and just slather that poo poo in there. Comes out insanely juicy and flavorful. Do this with any poultry that comes with the skin still on. Even just chicken thighs or drumsticks benefit from seasoning under the skin (this seasons the meat, ot just the skin) and sage leaves or green onions. It's totally worth the small extra effort. I prep a small bowl with a salt & pepper mix so I don't have to grab my grinders with raw meat hands. Chicken breast, whole bird or just the breast, with butter and sage under the skin is amazing.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:if they gave you a day off Let's be practical here.
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Cerekk posted:....so you can take that into account for your estimated tax payments. Real question: who both draws regular pay with taxes withheld and also has to pay estimated taxes ? I thought estimated taxes was just another way the feds screw over self-employed people.
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LanceHunter posted:Speaking of outrage-bait STDH, some lovely cost-tracking app is breaking a lot of FTC rules with viral TikTok videos about “living on a $15k/month budget as a college student!” $15k triggers a memory. Way, waaaaay back in my freshman year at the University of Arizona I randomly ran into that exact sum. A buddy of mine and I were of our way back to the dorm from the pizza place (a flat-rate unlimited toppings slice and a soda for $cheap). Two girls pass us going the other way (I don't think they were going to the pizza place with the great deal) and one of them says, out loud in front of God and everybody, "I don't know how my father expects me to get by with a $15,000 a semester allowance." My buddy basically bear-hugged me as I turned back towards them and got a hand over my mouth. He was right to do so, I was 110% about to make a major scene. When my girlfriend/fiancé moved down she told me that the racks at the local thrift stores were overflowing with $500 items for $2, apparently all those scum with the huge allowances were wearing outfits a few times and dumping them at Buffalo Exchange or wherever. And as long as I'm on a roll... I was delivering a pizza to a frat house. I'm dealing with the guy who order, and I overhear his roommate on the phone. "I think I'm gonna drop all my classes and party all semester. My dad's gonna be pissed but whatever." The University of Arizona. The school you go to when even daddy's money can't get you into an Ivy League school. Off-campus apartment parking were full of Porsches, BMWs, and Mercedes. Someone threw a red cup full of beer at me from a car once. Cops didn't care, the suspect was last seen heading for Frat Row. Most of these people are now at the head of the line for the guillotine, so I take some solace in that. Cugel the Clever posted:GWM/BWL: spend Thanksgiving alone and splurge on a $4.50 duck breast to cook up. Big ups for the Better Bird Crew. I did a whole duck yesterday, slathered in a pumpkin-chipotle roasting sauce from Trader Joes. I usually ignore seasonal pumpkin flavored things, but the chipotle part caught my eye. It's loving delicious and would do well as the base for a barbecue sauce year-round. I stuffed the bird based on a Jamie Oliver video: ground lam, green onion, and diced green apple. Slaps. For the sauce I'm thinking equal parts that, oyster sauce, and sriracha - that's my house Three Bottles sauce, oyster, sriracha or gochujang, and something sweet. Try it with dumplings, it's a balanced salty, sweet, and spicy sauce.
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Fil5000 posted:God he was so loving good wasn't he? Andy Dick needed more than just the one rear end kicking.
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Admiralty Flag posted:If they're going to mix it with Coke just buy them 2 handles of Jack, which comes to around $70 with tax from some quick Googling, and put them in a wooden crate filled with straw or some poo poo like that. This and a six-pack of Mexican coke with real sugar.
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For a good sipping scotch, go to Trader Joe's and get some Lismore. $16.99 a fifth, very tasty. It's great for sipping and has enough body to be fantastic in cocktails. It's got a cinnamon-y spice kick to it.
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SpelledBackwards posted:Jesus, only $17? How peaty are we talking? My mom likes peaty scotch, but I prefer smoother and slightly sweeter Irish whiskeys. Somehow my dad likes both. Not at all peaty, you'd want the Finlaggan for that, it's only a dollar or two more last I checked. Also GWM at TJs, the Vodka of the Gods is a $9.99 handle that compares to Smirnoff.
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SpelledBackwards posted:The Texas laws are indeed mostly dumb. I think the big COVID legislative triumph was... letting her and wine sales at the grocery start at 11 AM on Sundays instead of noon Apropos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiAV4M4lVPE
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Midjack posted:The US generally prefers to use technology to provide a pretext to beat the poo poo out of brown people (self check scales, subway turnstiles) while Europe prefers to keep a human involved in selective enforcement (spot checking at self checkout, ticket inspections on trains). San Francisco's Muni system does both! They took the responsibility for checking fares from the drivers long ago, when they introduced an electronic payment card. The card replaces a lot of annoying bullshit you needed for public transit and bridge tolls, so it's a good thing. But they also have fare inspectors on surface buses and turnstiles at the underground stations. Thing is, they once published the data on tickets for fare evasion, including location. That got turned into a map, and if I'm not going near where the fare inspectors actually work, I ride for free (it's $3.00 for an adult fare). Before they actually hired the fare inspectors, they did a trial of fare enforcement using SFPD officers. I live near a university with a very heavily tracked light rail platform. You were supposed to buy a ticket at one of the machines, then walk up the ramp to the platform and wait for your train. Nobody ever did that, so when one day there were cops at the top of the ramp I got a ticket. Joke's on them, the cops didn't want to process several hundred tickets, so I showed up at the court date on my summons and wasn't on the docket. BWM for Muni, they had me dead to rights. This also led to the time I saw two cops facepalm. I was on the platform watching folks get tickets. It's early September, a week into the semester. Up walks this girl, might be 18 but I'd have bet on 17. The cops ask to see a transfer or ticket. She digs into her purse and comes up with what you'd expect; a lipstick, some change, gum, gum wrappers, safety pins, miscellaneous junk like that. And a dime bag of what looked like good weed. Cue the double facepalm. To make matters worse, what she didn't have was any form of ID, so they had to take her in. If they actually took her to the station instead of "working something out", that would have been a super awkward call to her parents. A lot of bystanders were trying to give her contact numbers, and other forms of checking up on the cops, but man...
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It's all nonsense, of course. Just raise taxes a bit and get rid of public transportation user fees. Immediately you recover all the costs from fare collection and enforcement, and it incentivizes more people using public transport which is almost always a clear public good. Local leftist organizations have started a fare-free Muni campaign. Bus fares are a regressive tax on poor people and poorly paid workers especially. The percentage of gross income paid by a minimum wage worker is <checks notes> 3.21%. Shows notes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M2-JgHoEjY6aDNkKDfuitnz6Anz8if_JpiO59QF-VJY/edit?usp=sharing
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nomad2020 posted:E: the answer is that knowing algebra makes tracking inventory way easier. Yup. And for everyone else, you do a really hard algebra problem every time you go grocery shopping with a budget to last you until the next check.
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Tomfoolery posted:Ads included in my wife's W2 at a reputable organization Not any more it isn't.
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HCFJ posted:The whole thing reads as "hehe, now they think I have 11 years of experience at big companies and they have no possible way of verifying it" Kind of like how everyone suddenly gained retail management experience after Circuit City went down. I had an arrangement like that with a buddy. The two places where we had worked together were long gone, so we agreed to be references and coordinate whatever story we wanted. It worked great for a long time.
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$16 an hour helpdesk work, drug test. Six figures as the site tech lead for lab support, no drug test. 
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