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mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Beached Whale posted:

there's tons of these random rear end white bros on instagram who all have huge followings posting about their mundane lives as consultants or whatever fake email job their dad got them. everything revolves around going to work, making dinner with zero seasoning, and watching the kind of tv you'd put on at 3pm to take a nap after a bender. completely mind boggling that they have hundreds of thousands of followers

https://i.imgur.com/xJCZd96.mp4

this guy looks way older than 25

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Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Knight posted:

I've heard people say TV's Doug was appealing because in its white bread way because it portrays a stable, boring life to kids whose home-life was chaotic.

I recall Doug quite fondly.


......poo poo. gently caress.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Knight posted:

I've heard people say TV's Doug was appealing because in its white bread way because it portrays a stable, boring life to kids whose home-life was chaotic.

HONK HONK!!!

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

mawarannahr posted:

this guy looks way older than 25

living like that has a way of aging you.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Xaris posted:

I might be assuming too much but I’m gunna mostly go out on a limb and say that most* people subscribing the boring NY banker guy on pinterestagrams are not living out of a mobile home with an antenna tv choosing between if they can afford cat food or insulin this month

while I have no idea what the median income is of the average Social Media Addicted Consumer is, i'm going to guess it's on the marginally higher percentile tiers than the lowest percentile tiers, not saying the average social media consumer is rich, but what I'm saying is I'd wager there is relative few bottom-rung of the percentile groups consuming it.

e: as another point I'd also say: look at the prevalence of all the Fast Food Review / fast vs frozen vs fancy food comparison / BEST new aldi/costco foods videos that dominant YouTube and stuff is not because people can't afford fast food (even poor people will buy fast food still). Seriously so there's os much fast food review or fast food championships or frozen food championships or whatever. Everytime taco bell or mcdonalds releases a new snackaroo, there's about 50 bazillion videos that spring up within 24 hours. Rather it's actually worse than that: they can't afford** friends or human companionship. A lot of social media is essentially a sickening social voyeurism. i hate teh word 'parasocial relationship' but it's sort of that -- friendship-by-proxy consumption.

i kind of wish david-foster-wallace was still alive because I think he'd be the perfect guy to write about social media voyeurism

** not necessarily in the monetary sense of the word

me and every otehr c-spam poster watch videos like that as voyeuristic poverty porn since we are all millionaire defense contractors who want to see how the little people live.

Ne Cede Malis
Aug 30, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

HONK HONK!!!

QIAUL; MAIN!

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Beached Whale posted:

there's tons of these random rear end white bros on instagram who all have huge followings posting about their mundane lives as consultants or whatever fake email job their dad got them. everything revolves around going to work, making dinner with zero seasoning, and watching the kind of tv you'd put on at 3pm to take a nap after a bender. completely mind boggling that they have hundreds of thousands of followers

https://i.imgur.com/xJCZd96.mp4

this guy looks like poo poo for 25

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say

Lowest since 1979.


quote:

Surveys suggest many U.S. couples would prefer to have two or more kids but see housing, job security and the cost of child care as significant obstacles to having more children.

“There’s something getting in the way of them being able to achieve those goals,” Mark said.

Hmm. What could it be? A true mystery...

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

mawarannahr posted:

this guy looks way older than 25


triple sulk posted:

this guy looks like poo poo for 25

what subway five times a week does to a mfer.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

You can’t start a family, but the important thing is that 60 top families made billions.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:


Brown. "I say, old man, who's that very plain elderly lady you were walking with—now sitting here?"
Smith (the impecunious, who has married money). "Oh, that's my wife."
Brown. "Your wife! But"—(lowering his voice)—"She has only one eye—and so awfully—I beg your pardon—but——"
Smith (pleasantly). "You needn't whisper, old man. She's deaf"

lol

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Paradoxish posted:

I watched that whole video waiting for a punchline because I was absolutely convinced it was a parody of this poo poo and the slow, awkward laptop pull and office lunch walk of shame just reinforced that the joke was coming any second.

But no. This is a real person. What the gently caress.

same!

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I decided I was tired of working at 3:45 PM and walked to the beer store to buy some beer, which I started drinking at 4:25 PM. Not a bad Wednesday.

ideal

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:


Brown. "I say, old man, who's that very plain elderly lady you were walking with—now sitting here?"
Smith (the impecunious, who has married money). "Oh, that's my wife."
Brown. "Your wife! But"—(lowering his voice)—"She has only one eye—and so awfully—I beg your pardon—but——"
Smith (pleasantly). "You needn't whisper, old man. She's deaf"
Lmao

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Germany's eating poo poo now so they can get their people used to it, war is coming, and the youth is ready for the AfD. Who needs growth, people need to make munitions.

Morbus
May 18, 2004

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Biden destroying the global financial system for... whatever reason this is... on par with decision making lately, but I'm not sure I fully follow. Why is helping Biden's poll numbers (???) worth risking the whole thing to the career people at the Fed?

The gently caress else are they supposed to do? The fed can't meaningfully draw down its assets, or stop buying treasuries, or otherwise reduce M0 (which has actually been increasing again for the last year lmao) because any kind of quantitative tightening back to the (already chronically pumped) 2019 baseline will obliterate the stock market,

On the other hand, they have to keep interest rates elevated because that is the only feeble tool they have to control inflation and it isn't even working.

We joked ITT back in 2020-2021 that they would end up printing money while also raising rates, and lmao that seems to be the only thing they are able to do.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

September. You've been warned. Divest before it's too late

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Nonsense posted:

September. You've been warned. Divest before it's too late

username post combo

ram dass in hell
Dec 29, 2019



:420::toot::420:

euphronius posted:

we are hard at work

stop cranking it at yr desk

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1783209705172787551

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

oh boy I bet their goose is cooked now! lol

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Nonsense posted:

Germany's eating poo poo now so they can get their people used to it, war is coming, and the youth is ready for the AfD. Who needs growth, people need to make munitions.
scat is the most popular porn genre in germany, so they always were

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002


finally some good news

Floor is lava
May 14, 2007

Fallen Rib

https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1783074516861874284

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

Hmm... should we give people enough of a financial cushion that they can afford families? What about enough that they could even start a family unexpectedly?

No? Alright, I guess we should just try to brutalize the birth rate into going up, I'm sure that will be good for the unwanted kids.

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002

every empire was built on the back of slaves, even wage slaves

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005


Dobbs isn't even having it's supposedly-intended effect, on net:

https://x.com/mattbruenig/status/1762846559874515417

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:


Brown. "I say, old man, who's that very plain elderly lady you were walking with—now sitting here?"
Smith (the impecunious, who has married money). "Oh, that's my wife."
Brown. "Your wife! But"—(lowering his voice)—"She has only one eye—and so awfully—I beg your pardon—but——"
Smith (pleasantly). "You needn't whisper, old man. She's deaf"

Mah wife.
/Borat

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

we've had text to speech transcription for like 10-15 years now but suddenly it's called Artificial Intelligence. shut the gently caress up. eliminating sick notes is good however (for the 3 sick days mandated by law lol)

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

3 sick days lol

Engorged Pedipalps
Apr 21, 2023

mawarannahr posted:

this guy looks way older than 25

no way in hell this dude is a day under 30

Twigand Berries
Sep 7, 2008

someone teach him how human beings smile

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1783466285302485092

Engorged Pedipalps
Apr 21, 2023

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1783091750703341890

Good news everyone, the ai energy problem is solved. Number go up

i mean maybe this turns out to be the huge leap forward we needed to keep computer science moving forward but the impression i get from any fringe superscience is that we are generally decades if not centuries away from it's implementation in a practical sense

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

if it were real he would have been murdered by the cia already

Rectal Death Alert
Apr 2, 2021

Danger Slut posted:

I listened to goon advice the summer of 21 , where common thread wisdom was that if someone did not buy a house now they would be locked out of home ownership forever . I’m now likely stuck in this house forever cause we can’t afford to move anywhere else.

its important to be cautious about any goon consensus because this forums demographic puts an extreme amount of weight on logical things happening logically and the world is insane

"Bitcoin is stupid, can never function as a currency and everyone who likes it is a comical stereotype so no one should ever buy this because it's stupid and could never be worth money"

I personally disagree with the current consensus on real estate because it's borne out of cynicism and frustration but is the same exact opinion all of the mentally retarded real estate bros have. "Housing is just going to double from here. Everyone missed their chance. Rents will be double in only 2 years. Home ownership has ended for private citizens. Should have bought for 100% markups in 2021 because it will be 1000% or 10,000% before long!"

There is a limit to price increases. In the economy where we have for-profit real estate as the investment the majority of the population is making a nation of landlords need some amount of tenants. People aren't really going to be paying $200 for a big mac and $5,000 for 1 bedroom apartments because there is simply not that much money among the tenants. Either everyone needs their wages risen 400% in 2 years or profit for someone falls somewhere.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Bitcoin ftw

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Holy gently caress lol

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1783474396490826076

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Buying Lockheed shares on Silk Road with Bitcoin before cashing in moving into my bosses Adriatic villa

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Acelerion
May 3, 2005

Hike the rate jay!

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