Wolfsheim posted:Basically men are garbage and that's a far better reason not to send one a pic of your breasts than poor iPhone security or whatever. That sounds like victim-blaming to me.
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Discendo Vox posted:That sounds like victim-blaming to me. I'm not saying I approve, just sharing my anecdotal experience about society being terrible and women getting the worst of it as per usual!
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Sep 1, 2014 21:17
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Your anecdote is more enlightening regarding the company you choose to keep rather than giving a good impression of what men are like.
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Sep 1, 2014 21:21
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Randler posted:Your anecdote is more enlightening regarding the company you choose to keep rather than giving a good impression of what men are like. You sound like a virgin
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midnightclimax posted:You sound like a virgin You sound like you hang around some lovely people too
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midnightclimax posted:You sound like a virgin So your response to someone recommending another be more discrete with the company they keep is to...insult their manhood? Hm.
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Randler posted:the company you choose to keep
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Randler posted:Your anecdote is more enlightening regarding the company you choose to keep rather than giving a good impression of what men are like. I do find it genuinely difficult to form meaningful relationships because the cross-section of people sharing my general interests, being tolerable and finding me tolerable is pretty small even before you factor in the different lovely misogynistic/racist/etc views they can have 
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Raskolnikov38 posted:During the Cold War congress made September 1st Labor Day and may 1st something like American loyalty day to spite commies and unions. Not just that, they made it Loyalty Day, Law Day and (on some years) National Day of Prayer. 
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Sep 1, 2014 23:30
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R. Mute posted:i only use carrier pigeons instead of using my phone. it's safe and at least i'm not to blame Slightly related but the last known carrier pigeon on Earth died in captivity last month
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mooyashi posted:Slightly related but the last known carrier pigeon on Earth died in captivity last month I guess its time to use typewriters and hand-deliver the message.
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uhh there is more than one type or sub species of pigeon that does the homing thing so I don't think they're extinct quite yet
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mooyashi posted:Slightly related but the last known carrier pigeon on Earth died in captivity last month Can you throw up a link in reference to this because 'carrier pigeon' is just a term that refers to a pigeon that is used to send messages. Given the number of pigeon racing groups that still exist, and that the most common species for carrier pigeons is your run of the mill rock pigeon, I'm not really sure what this could be about. Maybe something to do with Passenger pigeons? Cause those went extinct like a century ago. edit: A quick check shows that it was a century ago to the day, so maybe that's it?
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Went to a Labor Day rally today. Ate a cheap burger. Listened to a socialist from Brooklyn with unkempt hair.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:edit: A quick check shows that it was a century ago to the day, so maybe that's it? Woops, yep. Sorry, I like a nice gin when I read the Sunday NYT.
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Joementum posted:Went to a Labor Day rally today. Ate a cheap burger. Listened to a socialist from Brooklyn with unkempt hair. In Wisconsin, I presume? E: I can't imagine a burger that isn't overpriced in the NYC area. My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:In Wisconsin, I presume? Pretty certain he's referring to Bernie Sanders, so Vermont.
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ahahaha we're all so hosed when baby boomers retire it's going to be a disaster when a generation retires on $700 a month with no savings
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Sep 2, 2014 02:28
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guys the last running dog died today. true story
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i just checked and my dog runs
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:ahahaha we're all so hosed when baby boomers retire like i can't even be funny about this it's gonna be a catastrophe
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at least the people about to retire theoretically have kids who work wait another decade
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:at least the people about to retire theoretically have kids who work I studied in grad school on the economics of this gerontological shift. Its...quite something. Some demographics do better than others. Some demographics die younger than others at a statistically significant rate. Ultimately, as the boomers retire is when you'll see wider shifts in American political framing. Right now, the worst-off demographic for boomer retirement is white middle-class male, and best-off is black middle-class female.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:i just checked and my dog runs well you better go and catch him
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:ahahaha we're all so hosed when baby boomers retire This actually gives me hope for America's future 
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If any generation will respond well to heightening the contradictions it's the one that came up with the concept in the first place.
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What happens when the Boomers all die off and we have a huge medical sector aimed at caring for dying Boomers?
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Joementum posted:This actually gives me hope for America's future I predict an increase in homemade crafts and barter. Also, white nationalism
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Pope Guilty posted:What happens when the Boomers all die off and we have a huge medical sector aimed at caring for dying Boomers? Congress loosens the procedure for obtaining a medical tourism visa for Chinese.
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SedanChair posted:Also, white nationalism No fair, that's always a safe bet.
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Chantilly Say posted:No fair, that's always a safe bet. Ok, how about a more precise bet? Since middle-class black females are the demographic more prepared for boomer retirement than any other, reduce benefits that disproportionately accrue to middle-class black females, say, civil servant pension funding. My prediction: Gutting the pension funds and pension commitments by the "very serious people" in the name of "fiscal restraint."
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Thankfully the boomers entered a world where pensions were a common thing for workers and ensured that it would stay that way for future generaahahahah it's always fun to watch people call forced savings ponzi schemes
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Dreylad posted:Thankfully the boomers entered a world where pensions were a common thing for workers and ensured that it would stay that way for future generaahahahah I have this whole theory about how Boomers were born into the strongest economy the world has ever seen and decided that rather than being born to the benefit of a hundred years' work to create that economy, they just assumed God made the world Just Right for them. Then I remember that generations are a fake and stupid thing, but it's satisfying for a brief moment.
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Dreylad posted:it's always fun to watch people call forced savings ponzi schemes It's a ponzi scheme because the people who benefit are in the future. I'm here now! And I want to be a semi-pro drag racer! <--prosperous boomers
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SedanChair posted:It's a ponzi scheme because the people who benefit are in the future. I'm here now! And I want to be a semi-pro drag racer! <--prosperous boomers Are you saying there's something wrong with being a semi-pro drag racer? 
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it's true that it took an intergenerational effort to get where we were -- many boomers opposed these changes as much as they approved of it, but it's still not hard to feel that you didn't get to even try to have a say in how things like austerity were implemented
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Have folks encountered The People's History of Tattooine? It's like a concentrated dose of DnD in twitter conversation form.
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StandardVC10 posted:Are you saying there's something wrong with being a semi-pro drag racer? Exactly, but you want to tax my Nova and tax my rental properties that I bought with my two hands
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Discendo Vox posted:Have folks encountered The People's History of Tattooine? It's like a concentrated dose of DnD in twitter conversation form. That is actually pretty funny, and I like the idea that Kenobi was just a space racists.
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Discendo Vox posted:Have folks encountered The People's History of Tattooine? It's like a concentrated dose of DnD in twitter conversation form. Wrong. If it were a concentrated dose of DnD, a third of it would be pointing out that it's Tatooine, not Tattooine.
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