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WilliamAnderson posted:While Paul Ryan and Rand Paul seem like the same person, they are in fact two separate entities. They manage to both be incredibly lovely people in completely different ways! Captain_Maclaine posted:HOAs are the domain of the petty tyrants who revel in requiring unreasonable compliance with conformist NIMBY bullshit... Hey remember that time someone's child almost choked to death on some window blinds, and when the parents tried to replace the blinds with curtains, the resident HOA busybody objected and said "We have to have certain standards in the community"?
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Bobby Digital posted:You might say he got the...Wrong Paul Kill you're
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Captain_Maclaine posted:On the one hand, HOAs are the domain of the petty tyrants who revel in requiring unreasonable compliance with conformist NIMBY bullshit, but on the other Rand Paul is an insufferable rear end who's at best only a few steps removed from SovCit nonsense, so I'm calling this one a wash. HOA boards and Rand Paul deserve each other. Let them take each other to court, and then brick up the doors and windows with them inside.
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Goon Danton posted:HOA boards and Rand Paul deserve each other. Let them take each other to court, and then brick up the doors and windows with them inside. For the love of God, Goon Danton!
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Nov 8, 2017 23:56
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Yes. For the love of God.
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Nov 9, 2017 00:12
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Montressor really was in the right there because Prospero was on his property which means it's entirely OK to brick him into the wall.
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Nov 9, 2017 00:16
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God I love Cask of Amontillado references 
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OwlFancier posted:Montressor really was in the right there because Prospero was on his property which means it's entirely OK to brick him into the wall.
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If he wanted to survive he should have made a better offer for the sovereign air of Montressor's catacombs.
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Should’ve paid for a better DRO obviously
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HOA's are not a thing in the UK and that is one thing I am glad of on my rainy fascist island
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MikeCrotch posted:HOA's are not a thing in the UK and that is one thing I am glad of on my rainy fascist island I'm fairly certain they are a thing there in the same situations where they're a thing in the US - master-planned housing developments with all of the original land and houses having been sold by a single developer, who places membership into the deeds. Similarly condominium arrangements for housing will have such associations too, just as here.
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fishmech posted:I'm fairly certain they are a thing there in the same situations where they're a thing in the US - master-planned housing developments with all of the original land and houses having been sold by a single developer, who places membership into the deeds. Similarly condominium arrangements for housing will have such associations too, just as here. It's really not a huge thing, but something like it exists on a low-key basis. Here's a PDF from a local council in Scotland on how to set one up for yourselves. Often in London you instead have the function performed by the local council, when they previously owned the building (and can be utter shits about it too, but more bureaucratically, e.g. a friend who bought a flat and a few months later got hit by a bill for thousands of pounds for repairs).
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OwlFancier posted:Also what is a juicero except possibly a fad diet themed luchador? it was like a keurig for (ostensibly) juicing pulp in a proprietary bag, with the added feature that it has a QR code which allows the device to use the Internet to look up the expiration date, which is printed on the bag. it advertised 4 tons of force or something like that, but then journalists discovered you could just squeeze the juice bag with your hands and get more of it out so i guess they didn't get to go to the goddamn conference for subscription-based products that's happening in SF this week
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OwlFancier posted:Also what is a juicero except possibly a fad diet themed luchador? an incredibly over-engineered bag-squeezer with the advantage of being a weak point in your home's IT security through a totally pointless internet connection
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I used to think that the internet of things was awful bullshit that would never amount to anything worthwhile, but I was proven wrong when Silicon Valley made this:
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So this popped up on my feed today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6ci1xzxuQ Psst: His problem is that he doesn't see why the media is making such a big deal out of a senate candidate who sexually assaults children. Because really, what is the age of consent? Amirite?
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Caros posted:So this popped up on my feed today: Somehow I knew exactly who this was before I clicked. Never change, Stephen, you vicious loving imbecile.
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I'm mentally replacing every utterance of Republicans with "Meagan"
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And even if what Moore did is wrong, isn't it Moore's mother's fault for hooking up with his dad in the first place?
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theshim posted:God I love Cask of Amontillado references Oh really? Because I have some more down in my family catacombs. We can go share some if you'd like.
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Do you guys think Montressor went back to the party after he put in that last brick, or was his day just sort of over at that point?
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I imagine that wasn't even the first guy he bricked up with that trick that evening. Probably had time to get 1 or 2 more.
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Missed my chance, but HOAs are exactly the kind of government that libertarianism allows for. 100% contract based.
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Caros posted:So this popped up on my feed today: I couldn't even watch four minutes, but it's fascinating to see that even with all three branches of government under conservative control they're still afraid for western civilization.
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White Coke posted:I couldn't even watch four minutes, but it's fascinating to see that even with all three branches of government under conservative control they're still afraid for western civilization. I mean, as long as you understand what Western Civilization actually means
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I too would fear for a civilization consisting of nothing but lawmen, bandits, and put upon barkeeps.
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It's just got no hope at all of stability.
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paragon1 posted:Do you guys think Montressor went back to the party after he put in that last brick, or was his day just sort of over at that point? From the context of the story, it's suggested that he was done for the day after that, and that Fortunato was the only person he'd killed that way.
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Guys I need the classic posts about living in the glorious libertarian utopia, the one with beheading a Verizon man and glass shards in Oj
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Guys I need the classic posts about living in the glorious libertarian utopia, the one with beheading a Verizon man and glass shards in Oj https://imgur.com/a/cxFT5
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I can't find the drat chicory one anymore. Maybe I should refine it Don't mind me, i'm just progressively editing this post as an outline Morning - Chicory - Slave girl - Rumbling tank shifts bowels - poo poo-b-gone - stop by neighbor's burning house for warmth house - dribbling hose - relief, freedom isn't free Commute - gold cubes in the toll road bin - gladiator pit - deagles - late for work, chewed out by boss - rejection of monopoly of force (or is that later?) - store - i paid extra last month, you know? - beheading Back Home - pet tiger ate neighbor child or dog - self-defense of home with kill booth - war circle - tiger casually kills someone else Cave - post office worker Stinky_Pete fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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yo http://welp.gs/~harik/libertopia.html e: and more and links and stuff: https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B266OPeGFR5LUjY2OGk1R2tfUFk/edit Polygynous fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Nov 17, 2017 |
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Stinky_Pete posted:it was like a keurig for (ostensibly) juicing pulp in a proprietary bag, with the added feature that it has a QR code which allows the device to use the Internet to look up the expiration date, which is printed on the bag. I still don't get why people focus on the "you can squeeze it yourself!!" bit. Yeah of course you can, the whole principle of this kind of fake-health-food style of juice is that it must be squeezed only after being diced up into very tiny chunks to preserve the "life force". A toddler can squeeze the juice out of that. The important thing is that because it needs to "preserve the life force" the bags weren't airtight against the atmosphere and diced food rots pretty quick, so the bags would be full of rotting fruit within less than a week. That's part of why you could only order the juicer and the packs (which cost like $8 per 8 ounce serving by the way) in certain states where they could assure delivery in a certain timeframe, you would otherwise just get it rotted to unusuability.
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fishmech posted:I still don't get why people focus on the "you can squeeze it yourself!!" bit. Yeah of course you can, the whole principle of this kind of fake-health-food style of juice is that it must be squeezed only after being diced up into very tiny chunks to preserve the "life force". A toddler can squeeze the juice out of that. Probably because the machine cost a ton ($700) and if you can just squeeze the bags by hand what is the point of the device? At that point it was just the machine scanning a QR code to make sure it is fresh; which certainly does not require a $700 press. Of course the packs were also hideously expensive and dumb in their own right (the valve to allow gases from decomposition was especially funny as you point out).
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fishmech is pointing out that it's all a scam to trick gullible new age health food yuppies who are going to buy these things regardless
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fishmech posted:I still don't get why people focus on the "you can squeeze it yourself!!" bit. Yeah of course you can, the whole principle of this kind of fake-health-food style of juice is that it must be squeezed only after being diced up into very tiny chunks to preserve the "life force". A toddler can squeeze the juice out of that. The main reason people focused on the "you can squeeze it yourself" bit is that the machine was absolutely beautiful, but completely and impractically overdesigned in such a fashion as to be basically useless. Rather than squeezing the pulp at a single point by putting it through rollers or similar, they had the whole thing smashing two giant plates into each other, which meant that it was throwing around massively more force than it needed to, which further meant that the damned thing had to be overengineered. On top of that, all of the parts were made with multiple machining passes and some really beautiful precision work, none of which helped the price. Basically, they didn't have an actual manufacturing engineer on board and let their R&D team go hog wild without bothering to cut costs at any point. It's pretty much the golden standard for modern startups relying on techbros and disruption and not bothering to get anyone with any experience in launching a product.
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Dirk the Average posted:The main reason people focused on the "you can squeeze it yourself" bit is that the machine was absolutely beautiful, but completely and impractically overdesigned in such a fashion as to be basically useless. Rather than squeezing the pulp at a single point by putting it through rollers or similar, they had the whole thing smashing two giant plates into each other, which meant that it was throwing around massively more force than it needed to, which further meant that the damned thing had to be overengineered. On top of that, all of the parts were made with multiple machining passes and some really beautiful precision work, none of which helped the price. It's not a case of "nobody on board with experience launching a product". The founders were all from previous scammy cold pressed juice businesses, including the CEO who used to run a national chain. They also knew they were targeting only rich health food idiots like themselves, so it being expensive and overengineered are a large part of the point - after all, few people who can afford to spend nearly $60 a week every week to get a single small glass of juice per day can't afford a $700 juicer. And who also believed in the specific "cold pressed juice" pseudoscience, of course. If there was anyone who didn't have experience there, it was apparently whichever venture capital investors somehow bought the line they sold that eventually Juicero would expand to a mass market product. Cuz that simply would never happen.
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