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The Door Frame posted:Well, it looks the next stockmarket crash is finally beginning. I've personally lost 10% of my investmented money since valentine's day, I can't imagine how bad everyone with real money invested is getting hit. People are trying to play it off like today's stock jump was the end of it, but those were retailers'/wholesalers' stocks; there was a rush on supplies. That kind of thing can't support the entire economy indefinitely After watching the profiteering/incompetent GOP bozos repeatedly crash the economy and buy up all the now de-valued assets of everyone at the bottom panic-selling every 11 years like clockwork for 40ish years now, I have learned that the trick to being a successful middle-class American is: Die somewhere between year 6 of a Democratic presidency and year 3 of the subsequent Republican one, and buy as much Vanguard index fund when the market is 'Down' as you can.
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Ticketmaster doesn't set the prices, the artists do, Ticketmaster doesn't own the tickets, the artists/and promoter do. This is not a theory, it's how it works. Imagine any other retail operation selling you their merchandise at cost without any need to cover their overhead, and imagine any other retail operation having the ability to supercede the laws of supply and demand. These are things that do not happen in retail. But music lovers get extra excited about the thing they want to buy so this is the attitude that results.
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Look, I'm not here to defend Ticketmaster's policy of being a for-profit business. I just know for a 100% absolute fact that artists set the prices. Congrats on your indie ticket purchase having no fees though, sounds like it's not all bad.
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Mar 5, 2020 01:38
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MomJeans420 posted:Which is why I was talking about the bands being nice and pricing them lower than they could. I read an article about this on their fanclub website a few weeks ago when they were promoting the tour, which is why that little tidbit stuck with me. Kind of cool and seems to be a trend with bands doing verified fanclub things etc. with the idea of getting tickets into the hands of fans, not reseller/broker scum.
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Mar 5, 2020 02:02
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slothrop posted:Just watched Ford vs Ferrari on the plane and I though it was a pretty good film. Sure they take some dramatic license that I don’t necessarily agree with but overall well worth a watch. I liked it well enough but it was pretty predictable (even if you don't know the story lotttttta foreshadowing) and I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio would have been a better Shelby than Matt Damon, but that's only because Matt Damon is a terrible actor and looks like Matt Damon. Still worth the watch.
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Darchangel posted:LOL at any band being able to control a price in the secondary market. What are they going to do, send the police? The Pearl Jam tickets are only valid if used via the Ticketmaster app, no physical tickets will be accepted so if it's possible to control a price that's how it's possible. I guess obviously you can try and get someone to give you some cash in addition to you transferring the tickets to their account via the app at face value but that seems like a lot of work and won't really drive prices up the way arbitrary resale pricing can.
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Mar 6, 2020 01:17
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I am one step ahead of all of you and just cleared out the entire Immodium aisle. Who needs TP!
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Mar 7, 2020 04:13
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The CVS does not have a buttplug aisle though, or at least I'm not aware of it if it does. I'm getting this immodium practically for free with this CVS member discounts man!
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Mar 7, 2020 04:21
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Goober Peas posted:Your receipt can double as TP. And one CVS receipt is good for at least two shits worth of wiping. Not if you're eating as much BBQ as everyone here apparently is...
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I hope we all learned about why we don't click on popups today without hovering over them at least first. LOL.
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Mar 11, 2020 00:30
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Residency Evil posted:I'm going to be in LA in early April and I'll have a day or two to kill to drive around/Turo. Thinking of getting two cars. If you guys had to choose two: You'll have the most fun in LA in the 350R or the F-Type, the Alfa would be a good time in the canyons but also probably a little uninispiring in general driving conditions. LMK if you want some driving road recs.
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In a vacuum, the Lotus does sound fun as hell. However, Things that are good about driving in regular traffic in LA: Stoplight to stoplight power that can squirm the rear tires if that's your only chance of driving excitement. Engine note. Having the windows down. A modicum of comfort in between blasts on the accelerator. The ability to outpace most everyone that's not in a P85, GT-R or Hellcat (Corvette owners never, ever step on the gas in any situation.) Things that are not as good about driving in regular traffic in LA: Momentum cars. Smallness and the fear someone in a 7000 pound SUV is going to constantly merge into you. Fragile clamshells. poo poo-rear end pavement in a lot of places. I own a e92 M3 and a NA Miata, the Miata is fantastic on the right roads, the M3 is fantastic on all roads. If you're getting two of these get the Alfa and the F-Type. Unrelatedish, a couple interesting things that are now parking on the street in my neighborhood...   
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Mar 11, 2020 05:38
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On the up side, everyone boycotting restaurants and schools and stores and other retail operations for a month should do wonders for the economy that's already cratering into the loving core of the earth as it is, and once everyone loses their jobs they won't even have health care. Yeah!
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Mar 12, 2020 01:33
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Tom Hanks has it, and the NBA just suspended the season indefinitely. Seems like that's not, uh, good
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Mar 12, 2020 02:57
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LOL. A friend from work just went to Amsterdam for an ALLEGEDLY 5 day trip on Saturday to celebrate turning 30.  At least we have all the best people working on it here.
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Mar 12, 2020 03:41
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Rhyno posted:As I am paranoid as all hell over this, I'm urging the wife to cancel our September Disneyworld trip. Being grown adults, you should cancel it and go somewhere interesting instead, yeah
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The awkwardness of this tweet will be determined, in the future. By the robots.
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Today our CEO told everyone in the company who can to WFH starting immediately, until the end of March at least. Two hours later my idiot gang of work friends who are all not drinking for Lent (despite none of them being catholic, or even religious, or even from goddamn New Orleans) decide that tomorrow will be a cheat day and we should all go to the bar in Hollywood at 5pm? Good idea guys, get that coronaFOMO going
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like 2 days ago, when this was still a big DUMMYcrat hoax, President Natural Ability was tongue-kissing Jair Bolsonaro's aide who has now tested positive, so, Luckily coked up filet-o-fish slurping senior citizens live forever and are on the CDC's list of people who can safely ignore coronavirus.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Anyone else have any family and/or friends in complete denial? head in the sand people in denial Yeah, everyone I know who watches Fox News is convinced it's just mean democrats (including the ones that live in China and Iran) who are perpetrating this horrible hoax to hurt Daddy Trump's strong winningness. All the real people are taking it seriously though.
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Tremek posted:
Yeah, I don't see the problem either. She's proving you can do just fine financially and also not be a selfish shithead all the time. It's actually a pretty solid humblebrag but... chuds like to attack things that can't defend themselves so it's kind of a target for mad poor Trumpanzees who are any minute now gonna be billionaires. I used to see the circa 2010 opposite version of this all the time, the guy in the brand new $200k car going into work at 11am with the 'gently caress SOCIALIST OBAMA how are we ever supposed to get ahead???' bumper stickers.
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California is closing all bars/clubs/brewpubs and limiting capacity in all restaurants/no service at the bar. Gyms and all other entertainment venues are closed. I was just at the CVS and they're out of everything. Shuttering the 5th largest economy in the world to own the Cons. But yeah, it's the big gay ~*THE MEDIA*~ , a worldwide community that acts in lockstep, that is doing this to hurt poor strongdaddy trump like our resident Brain Genius was saying. I hate when reporters report true things I don't like also!
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It's going to be extremely hard on a LOT of people. My company has $2.5bn cash on hand and I'm an 18 year salaried employee who doesn't make more than I should for what I do, can do everything from home, and have a million high end allies in HR, Legal and Finance. I'm still making GBS threads myself. Imagine if driving Uber was your main gig. JFC.
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As we go into serious self-isolation mode here in Los Angeles, I haven't been hoarding but I've been stocking up. My Critical Rations Chart: Beers: 81 Vodkas: 1.5 handles Buzzballs (choctease): 6 Marijuanas: about half an oz of flower, about a gram of a vape pen, assorted edibles Milk: 3 gallons Toilet paper: 15 "Double" rolls Kodi: Yes Bidet: No Instant pot: Yes Food: Lots 401k: Down by a lmao amount President: A fucktard
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Amazon has 900 sheets of toilet paper for $14 in stock for those of you without a power outlet in your toilet-cubicle.
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meatpimp posted:How are y'all gonna spend your free government money? The Door Frame posted:A bidet addon for your toilet is only like $35 at Home Depot. How much socialism do you think we the regular people are really going to be getting with the world's stupidest man and his gang of poo poo-eating failsons in charge of things? I'm gonna buy Animal Crossing New Horizons on Switch with my windfall.
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Unless you and your tight team of bros has been seriously practicing some hardcore squad tactics, that gun y'all are twirling around your fingers right now is going to be good for one thing: Killing yourself before the neo-nazi militia that did shows up
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Things are looking up! Humans in 2150 will be slightly less bad off, hooray
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Charles posted:Li Wenliang, the ophthalmologist who first reported the coronavirus to his colleagues, was only 33 when he died.
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As long as he isn't taking up amateur helicopter piloting, it seems like a good idea. What motorsport broadcasters & driver talents from all disciplines should be doing, however, is going to the Nordschleife/Bathurst and driving wacky and rare cars around at top speed. Self-isolation, sport, it can be televised by random punters standing in the woods by themselves with $50 gopro knockoffs. The commentators can watch the TV and act like they're not watching it on TV like we are, like they do in every other sport and race. I will pay $100 a month for this service.
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On the plus side to the global economy dying completely, it's that credit card debt is now just "A suggestion". Let's loving go crazy, I say
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Galler posted:I was trying to get a move scheduled a couple weeks out and found out as of today the moving company I was talking to is temporarily shutting down due to virus concerns. They referred me to another company and I've got a move scheduled Monday. Not the way I had planned to do this but it seems like it's better to rush than wait at the moment. One year, on September 1st, my wife and I packed up our things into a NYC based moving company's van that was to cross-country and meet us there in 2 weeks, put our cat, computers & and some small personal things into my 1985 Volvo 240 and drove it to Los Angeles. We arrived here on 9/10/2001. Thanks to some silly poo poo & the ensuing shutdown/panic, 56 days later our stuff arrived  On the up side I managed to upgrade our TV since I wasn't waiting for THAT. So good luck!!
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It'll be interesting to see if California and New York (combined state populations: 60m; combined senators: 4) will have fewer deaths overall than the 20 red states that have a combined population of 40m (and 40 senators) simply because there's actual governance in blue states. Per capita it's not even going to be close.
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More people/higher density Voluntary self-isolation then reinforced/mandated by the state government Better hospitals Younger people Fewer people/lower density Licking each other's nostrils to Own The Libs No hospitals Older people I guess we'll see which is the better approach.
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I am kind of looking forward to the changeover from "haha look at me I'm so virusproof I'm on my recently booked supercheap vacation with all my new American friends here at the all-inclusive McResort down in Walmart, Mexico, gently caress the librul media!!!!" posts on facebook to "why oh why has AOC and evil bungler obama left us, white americans, to be in some hellhole quarantine camp at the border??? and they separated me from my parents  " posts These posts are from people in their mid 40's
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Confirmed Source Inside Government Says: Bodies, Bodies Everywhere - This is Our Goal
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Tremek posted:I remember not too long ago, maybe seeing a ladders.com commercial in the mid-late 2000s about how it was a site for 6-figure jobs and thinking to myself something along the lines of "welp, that's not for me." I too work for the best company I've ever worked at, we had a tremendously reassuring call with the CEO on Thursday. Due to the business we're in, we have outstanding insight into other highly-informed partner companies, and strong connections to legislative and regulatory bodies that have been able to fill in information that many other companies could not get in this time. Because our leadership isn't made up of Airline execs and other shitheads, we have saved a huge bag of cash instead of giving it back to the shareholders/doing stock buybacks/overcompensating our execs, and we've got enough cash on hand to weather the storm for all full-time employees for the entirety of 2020 even if we don't make another dime the rest of the year, our hourly employees are guaranteed paid through May whether they work or not with a possibility of that being extended through July, and we're working with other leaders in our industry to provide a fund for third-party hourly employees who help us do business but who are not our actual employees. Our stock price has no bearing on our ability to operate as a business. It's purely entertainment value at the moment. We are almost certainly all going to get a decent +bonus monthly in addition to our paychecks in order to help our people ride this out. As the industry leader in our field, we are committed as a company to Stand Tall and provide reassurance to our customers and the public that business and life WILL return to normal. Everyone in corporate got the 'WFH' call two weeks ago and only essential personnel that cannot work from home have been on premises. I work from home pretty much permanently anyway so I've been helping my more extrovert/socially-needy friends adjust to this change in lifestyle by setting up a permanent Zoom bridge for my close buddies to dial into whenever they want, and also a companywide Drinking Buddies Discord to let everyone be able to hang out/drink with after work as if life was going on as normal - even if it's just via voice chat and shared streams. Some other enterprising director level peeps (who like me have access to the elevated Zoom channels) have been using their company assets for the same uses. Of our thousands of employees worldwide, we've got 10 confirmed cases as of Thursday, and our CEO has promised that any employee who gets sick from this will have 100% of their medical costs and any other incurred costs covered in total by the company if it is not covered by insurance. I gotta say, between that promise and the pledge to help hourly employees who aren't even our employees it's the first time I've teared up during my weekly call with leadership. We're very profitable. We have record business years every year, and have for as long as we've been a public company and gotten that information given to us. I will celebrate my 18th anniversary in October, and I know literally dozens of people who have 15, 20, 25 years of service with this company as well, there's a reason for that. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. I hope that our company's confidence has a knock-on effect to everyone else who is feeling anxious and uncertain. We're all still feeling that too and I'm not trying to brag here I just want to share my good fortune of employment as a story of optimism that might give some comfort to you guys who don't have the same level of transparency with your employers. Stay safe out there everyone. Ether Frenzy fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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ilkhan posted:We have 350 million people in the U.S. How often should we test? Daily? Every other day? How many billions of tests do you want to administer? Even completely ignoring who is paying for them, or producing them, how do you expect to administer those tests? Who is administering them? Who is running the analysis? Why don't you go back to "It's a hoax", it's just as stupid but at least we don't have to pretend you're arguing anything in good faith. How did we drum up $1.5 trillion to toss into the shithole that is the stock market in order to staunch the bleeding for a whole 20 minutes? Where did that come from? Who's going to pay for it? Even completely ignoring blah blah blah
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Buy all the sports cars you guys can now, because. Well? Do I need to spell this out for you? Huge feel-good bonus if you rip off a scared and offloading boomer bigly. If it doesn't rain on Monday, I'm doing a socially-distanced Malibu canyon drive with anyone who's got a car who wants to keep up. I will ensure that there's 14 car lengths between you and my rear bumper - for safety - so let me know if you're in SoCal and I'll tell you the information to meet me and my stupid dumb friends who are all probably infected as poo poo.
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fridge corn posted:Meanwhile in the UK Boris has been giving daily pressers wherein he mumbles incoherently for a minute or two before passing over to someone who can say the same exact nothing but much more eloquently It's pretty impressive that someone said "Hey what if donald trump, but have Monty Python write the character to make it even more ridiculous"
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