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Paradoxish posted:American homes and structures just aren't made to run without some form of climate control. The (brand new, extremely expensive) apartment building that I was in in 2018 after a house fire would literally send a maintenance person to your apartment if your AC was off for too long in the summer because they were so concerned about mold. I live in concrete apartment for 33 years in a tropical rainforest climate without AC and I have never seen mold
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im on the net me boys posted:working at CVS and having to stock shelves full of plastic imported seasonal bullshit that didn’t sell really cracked my ping. it’s astounding how much landfill bound bullshit we import Part of my anti-consumerist psych strategy is to think about about how much extra clutter and dust I would have to handle if I bought something new
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Jun 16, 2021 14:16
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Nice and hot piss posted:All that matters in this world is having a sick rear end car and spinning rimz.. If you have that then you have achieved peak success in this world Boringshit
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DoomTrainPhD posted:
Every free market advocate ever
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Jun 18, 2021 17:38
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Why are they using the same tactics we use! It's not faiiiiirrr!!!
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bob dobbs is dead posted:singapore had really cheap housing prices for decades cuz 90% housing was nationalized. still is nationalized, just that they figured out a way to speculate again so prices went up It's called "loving boomers"
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Relevant Tangent posted:lol 20 mpg at best good christ More like 12 mpg in the real world
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Jun 19, 2021 15:42
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Last time I watched Twitched was in 2013 for Shoddy Battles
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Centrist Committee posted:youtube recently made some change that broke a lot of ad blocking and made things much shittier, capitalism is so stupid it will eventually make even the endless frontier of the Internet unbearable Exhibit #1: Group tabs in mobile Chrome shoved down your throat
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Jun 21, 2021 07:13
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cool av posted:yeah but .05% is an insanely high interest rate if it’s applied in full over a day, like 20% annual return risk free to the point where no other investment makes any sense at all if that’s true. makes much more sense they’re getting 24hr worth of an annual .05% If I could have that 0.05% per day right now I would instantly retire at the age 33.
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Jun 22, 2021 15:10
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cool av posted:he believes in the tech, and if it just happens to also make money, great! if not, at least he did something good and he's a part of the future. That's a lot of words to spell "greed"
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Jun 23, 2021 10:44
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Thoguh posted:Bitcoin miners are gonna own themselves when they get multimillion dollar power bills for using electricity during a shortage because they are from a country with a functioning power grid that doesn't randomly spike to 100x cost. This was a CCP plot all along?
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Jun 23, 2021 12:45
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OK baizuo posted:I was gonna say I hoped that the mean ol' commies confiscated the Bitcoiners hardware but letting them send it all to Texas is much more funny Incoming NYTimes op-ed: CCP unwilling to seize crypto hardware. Is the CCP losing power and abandoning it's environmental mandate?
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Zmej posted:https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/ Transitory is short form for "we hosed you over hard, will continue to do so and you will like it"
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I doubt they did but it’s incredibly obvious that they’re not going to find anyone else alive Who cares, muh rugged individualism
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Jun 26, 2021 03:08
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silentsnack posted:no matter which direction they point the emergency money hose to fix poo poo, they always somehow end up flooding rich asshats' portfolios instead. Method can be mind boggling complex but the aim is always simple
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:The TrueAnon series on Musk is really good. I'm not a fan of everything they do, but they laid out really well the Tesla shell game. At the end, Liz said that Tesla's fall was a matter of when, not if. What if it's not and TBTF is a new paradigm for the next stage of capitalism. A sort of techno-feudalism where there's a founder class that can only fail upward, but the peasants are also invested in their success because failure of the founders' shell game companies would mean the loss of the peasants' jobs and savings. One class can afford to lose a fortune, and the other can't afford to lose even the crumbs they have, so the founders don't even have to defend this system, the peasants will do it for them. If the bubble looks like it'll pop, no worries, the workers will immiserate themselves further to keep it going. I already seen my share of management taking on obvious loss-making projects just to pad their resumes then leave before the losses get accounted for lol
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Jun 29, 2021 12:21
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Rutibex posted:it was an inside job. the cargo was picked up by pirates who were waiting nearby pirate steel cant melt jet cargo
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Jul 2, 2021 16:51
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Rectal Death Adept posted:This kind of mentality explains how I've had the same conversation with managers at different facilities probably 100+ times. Yup maintenance is always the first casualty in capitalism
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Jul 3, 2021 10:09
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Lmao even low-tier public housing already broke $100K after subsidies in Singapore by mid-90s.
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Jul 5, 2021 13:29
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Real hurthling! posted:someone will just make stuff with no chips in it like they used to and sell it i guess ECUs for cars now already seems insanely overengineered for what they should be doing
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Stereotype posted:it also cost as much as the budget shortfall for schools that the city closed by cutting teacher salaries Don't you love uplifting stories of principals working at Walmart to keep their schools running
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:on the subject of shrinkflation: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin Anything claiming to be for the environment lights up the cynical bullshit processing area in my brain
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super sweet best pal posted:And US companies aren't? Just they have the Fed give endless trillions to them and call the whole thing free market meritocracy
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Bar Ran Dun posted:crews sizes are mandated by treaty, as specified by the safe manning certificate, they can’t really just have less people on the ship. From what I read, crew sizes for cargo vessels are down to half of that in the 90s and they also get much less rest since ports are so much more efficient
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Mr Hootington posted:Lmao hell yeah. Everyone is
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Jul 29, 2021 16:44
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overmind2000 posted:At this point they'd be better served by buying their own ships and building an Amazon port on the west coast served by Amazon Rail Good luck with economic parasites laying down actual productive capital
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Jul 30, 2021 11:42
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Paradoxish posted:I actually gave up cycling (sold my bike even) a few years ago because I had to rent a vehicle to haul a bunch of stuff on really short notice and I ended up with an insanely overpriced Yukon because I couldn't get a van or pickup from anywhere. At one point a cyclist literally vanished from my field of view. Like I knew where he was because I saw him, and then he was gone into a blindspot. I'm 6' 1" and always drive with car seats way up in the oldest man position, and I still could not loving see this cyclist that I was passing. At one time I couldn't even see a motorbike in my van's blind spot while explicitly checking for the latter.
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Rutibex posted:the government doesn't even need to do anything. If they just stopped paying police to evict people the landlord problem would solve itself How many years before cops outspend the annual budget of the entire Chinese military...One?
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spacetoaster posted:I posted a while back about my local home depot not being able to re-stock hammers. They got some in, but it wasn't enough to fill the rack. Shelves still have stuff on them, but there's a lot of gaps. US now only holds just 18% of the China's export market. World trade as a whole isn't exactly caring much for the US even before US domestic supply troubles. In particular, SE Asia was a bigger trade fish to fry than the US for China even before Covid happened.
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Mr Hootington posted:Luckily Powell said these high prices will be here to stay! Economists: We ain't hacks, just everything is transitionary
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yr new gurlfrand! posted:I think you’ll find the industry term is Housing as a Service (HaaS). of course the service is having a roof and maybe four walls, don’t expect any actual service or maintenance as it decays around you Amazon Housing Services when
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fanfic insert posted:But the law firm also suggested that a larger unit would prevent the paper from attracting and retaining talent. Lotsa talent required to ctrl + C/V from CIA handlers
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Stereotype posted:wow that system sounds super robust and i am confident that it will continue without problems forever If we fed people well enough we wouldn't be able to extract GeeDeePees from preventable chronic health conditions
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Chinese Social Credit played on an IMAX projector
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Rutibex posted:i went though my amazon list of all the supplies i have been hording throughout 2020 and i'm feeling pretty good about buying those screws right now T R A N S I T O R Y
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Xaris posted:inshallah What if the goal of (D) is to not win
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readingatwork posted:Remember, stocks are a reflection of the wealth hoards of the wealthy (since at a certain point you can't spend anymore so you just stick it in stocks). The actual explanation isn't necessarily that a crash is imminent (though it might be) but that Covid is accelerating the transfer of wealth up the food chain. There probably won't be a crash until some major event (perhaps a pullout of a war that ends a bunch of profiteering?) costs rich people a ton of money and forces them to sell. Though our government seems committed to just printing money to solve those kind of issues so it might not happen even then. 80% of all stonks are held by just 10% of the populace The bottom 20% of the US population has zero or negative net assets
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Mr Hootington posted:I agree. It should be interesting. We are supposed to get Fed meeting notes from Jackson hole this week and everyone assumes it was talk about or announce taper in 2022. So much Afghanistan nation building vibes
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Minrad posted:lol that like exactly matches my casual observation of fast food prices last week but have you considered the other zillion widgets that didn't had their prices raised which you will never need checkmate commies
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