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So today I made the mistake of reading my local newspaper. Recycling quote:Liberals are for recycling all day long. By definition using fossil fuels is recycling. posted:The government gave the reason for no Social Security cost of living increase as low gas prices. Now wouldn't that mean you should not see any increased gas prices for a year? Yes would be the answer.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 18:50 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:09 |
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Yesterday I saw gas for $1.76, I dunno what he's on about. Gas is cheaper than it's been in like a decade.
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 19:34 |
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I remember Newt running on a platform of $2.50 gas, glad we got Obama because gas is now a lot cheaper than that here!
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# ? Nov 19, 2015 19:54 |
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quote:So people must find ways to fight this. I no longer tip; tips are gone for at least a year. i hate obama so much i'm going to be an absolute bastard to as many random people as i can. this is obama's fault, it does not reflect on me as a stingy or lovely person when i worked foodservice i always appreciated having a boss who would just absorb and forgive some level of complaints because sometimes you can just smell a sour old fucker like this as soon as they sit down and sorry buddy, i'm not going to waste my attention on you who has a 99% chance of screwing me over anyway when i can hustle a good table. walk in looking like you just murdered a dog and angrily order the cheapest thing on the menu, split half now and half in a to go box at the end of the meal? yeah, when i get around to it, i've got actual money to earn cranky poo poo
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# ? Nov 20, 2015 00:22 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Yesterday I saw gas for $1.76, I dunno what he's on about. Gas is cheaper than it's been in like a decade. Gas is like $3 in the heart of Manhattan and other places like that. Because if you manage to gently caress up badly enough to need to fill up there, you deserve to be soaked.
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# ? Nov 20, 2015 00:58 |
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Aren't prices set by the station owners? I don't understand why conservatives suddenly hate the free market when it comes to gas.
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# ? Nov 25, 2015 19:12 |
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from Roger Cohen at the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/opinion/world-war-iii.html maybe it's just me but I don't think it's physically possible to get any more insufferable and condescending than this. like literally using the framing of a parent talking down to a small child. holy poo poo gently caress you roger cohen. also with the Serious People beltway consensus that the US is in decline and has to dole out concessions to Russia, China, Iran, etc, RIGHT NOW or bad things will happen. what those things are doesn't matter just do it, quickly, no time to think quote:World War III icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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icantfindaname posted:from Roger Cohen at the NYT: I'm curious how the conflict in Syria is going to cause Germany to attack France via the low countries but whatever.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 03:16 |
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icantfindaname posted:from Roger Cohen at the NYT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DoM3sWkgfU
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:55 |
The New York Times (and to a lesser extent the Washington Post) for being the most liberal paper ever, is really the one that always reeks of Serious People making the Serious Decisions and I really hate them for it.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 14:24 |
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So is the child Roger Cohen who I guess thinks the Russkis are going to come across the Fulda gap as the Syria situation spirals out of control all 1914? I don't understand the point of this article. Can someone explain it to me, preferably by taking the role of the mother in a Socratic conversational style?
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 14:54 |
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A while back, this massacre happened in Kenya. While reporting, the local media made a comparison between this attack and the attack in Paris to Charlie Hebdo in terms of similar motivations. And possibly have used a similar hashtag to JeSuisCharlie to talk about it. It so happens that Carla Quevedo, "Right Wing Feminist" and GynmPlaine Smile Owner, wrote about that: quote:Polícia da indignação So yes, she wrote an Outrage Police piece on, all things, Kenyans mourning their dead. Saying that it devalues the losses on Paris in the beginning of the year. ... The best of all? You can poke around her archives and see her use JesuisCharlie standins for poo poo like a divorce or some actress not getting her part. I'd have to make an effort to find out worse stuff, but unfortunately (or fortunately) all is in Portuguese. Kunster fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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We can do comment sections, right? I think that counts as a letter to the editor at this point. The New York Times comment section is to the left of pretty much everything but Mao in most cases. However, the whiteness of the NYTimes comments are given away by their deathly fear of minorities of all stripes. Enter this article, for example. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/opinion/sunday/militant-jihads-softer-side.html?ref=world&_r=0 This is an exploration of the culture of young jihadi radicals. It turns out that they listen to a lot of musical poetry and like a good cry, and the article's overall point is illustrating certain ways in which radical culture indoctrinates new members. These people are in fact humans with feelings (that can be manipulated). That conclusion sounds a lot like thoughtcrime, though. quote:Thanks. I have been longing for an article on the lighter side of beheading. quote:The admiring tone of this piece makes me itch. quote:I nearly cannot believe what I am reading here, nor can I fathom some of the comments about understanding this culture. Frankly, the notion of "sensitive" murderers is nearly too much to bear, even for a progressive liberal, of which I am one. quote:I don't often write in response to articles even when I think they are interesting or inane. However, I must express my anger at your editorial staff printing this article. I don't want my subscription to the NYT to sponsor this sort of propagandist dribble whether intended that way or not. quote:How fun! Jihadists as hipsters. Is this some kind of joke? For shame NY Times. I can't believe my eyes. This is the lowest excuse for an editorial I have ever seen. This is actually fairly tame stuff compared to what happens when a piece on police brutality gets published. You see, police brutality doesn't matter because blacks are thugs who spend all their time killing each other anyway.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 05:28 |
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 05:36 |
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Allotments means those British community gardens here, right? Is he really complaining that women are gardening?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 05:43 |
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fishmech posted:Allotments means those British community gardens here, right? Is he really complaining that women are gardening? Yep, and yes.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 11:48 |
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Are we seeing more women as vicars? W-well y-ye-ye-n-n-n-no-yes-yes-no-no-no-yes-no-yes-p-p-perhaps...
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# ? Jan 6, 2016 16:19 |
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/laws-698065-new-stores.html It's since been removed, but the fine folks at the Orange County Register Editorial originally included the bold part: quote:AB202 requires professional sports teams to consider cheerleaders “employees under existing employment laws,” instead of independent contractors. It was proposed by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, a former Stanford University cheerleader, now cheering for excessive government. Being a cheerleader for a pro team obviously has fringe benefit lacking at other jobs, such as working closely with players making an average $1.9 million a year in the NFL and $5 million in the NBA. Six of 32 NFL teams don’t even have pro cheerleaders, meaning the jobs could be kicked through the goalposts of life. http://www.ocweekly.com/news/this-just-in-orange-county-registers-brian-calle-is-not-a-douche-6877118 http://jezebel.com/op-ed-cheerleaders-dont-need-to-be-paid-since-they-wor-1750989260
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 17:32 |
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Someone wrote a letter to the editor today, and they are upset about children not going hungry, lmao.quote:Editor, Times-Dispatch:
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# ? Jan 20, 2016 17:18 |
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A rare freeper who never bought a computer. I wonder how many crazy letters to the editor have become freep posts instead.
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# ? Jan 20, 2016 17:23 |
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Deport The Irish posted:I remember saying it pretty often as a kid (boy scouts maybe?) but the blank expressions weren't ELITE GOVERNMENT MEMETIC CHEMTRAIL MIND CONTROL. It was a bunch of kids being bored and wanting to get this bullshit over with. I have one memory of replacing the words in the Pledge with (what I thought) were humorous replacements, only to get hauled bodily out of my fifth-grade classroom by my teacher and read the loving riot act for DISRESPECTING THE FLAG . Good times.
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# ? Jan 20, 2016 17:31 |
I'm really glad I hate voted McAuliffe to spite the Cooch and not just because that it would have been living nightmare. He's been a lot better than I would have thought.
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Alter Ego posted:I have one memory of replacing the words in the Pledge with (what I thought) were humorous replacements, only to get hauled bodily out of my fifth-grade classroom by my teacher and read the loving riot act for DISRESPECTING THE FLAG . I have no doubt kids have been doing that since about five minutes after the Pledge was required in schools. From 1962:
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# ? Jan 20, 2016 17:43 |
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Jack Gladney posted:A rare freeper who never bought a computer. I wonder how many crazy letters to the editor have become freep posts instead. It's terrifying to think that there's probably a group of people out there even worse than freepers that are too old/ignorant to make their way to a place like freep. My grandma never really got to figuring out the whole internet thing beyond maybe email and reading her home page and stuff and I bet a lot of people in her generation are the same way.
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# ? Jan 20, 2016 18:10 |
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http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/1/uber-welfare-sharing-gig-economy-000031quote:In this presidential cycle, the “gig economy” has been under attack, notably from Democrats like Hillary Clinton, who said that it is “raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.” It keeps going.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 21:28 |
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The Dark One posted:http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/1/uber-welfare-sharing-gig-economy-000031 Am I on glue or is this actually advocating an economy with lovely, low-paying jobs that have no benefits? Also at the Uber shilling.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 21:41 |
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It's like somebody was reading William Gibson and thought 'Yes, that sounds like a perfect way to organize society!'
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 21:46 |
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It's a world of opportunity!
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 21:50 |
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The Dark One posted:http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/1/uber-welfare-sharing-gig-economy-000031 This sort of reminds me of this professor I had in college (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Sundararajan) who now spends all his time talking up the "sharing economy" as being the most amazing, "paradigm-shifting" thing ever and posting on Facebook (he was one of the professors who added a bunch of his students to Facebook; this might be common now, but not so much in 2005) about how awesome airbnb and various other similar businesses are. He's actually a really smart guy and was a good professor, so I'm convinced that he's mostly doing this for the publicity/financial benefits. The whole term "sharing economy" is bizarre; people aren't sharing jack poo poo. Sharing directly implies that you're letting someone use something for free. It's basically a buzzword for "a bunch of people more easily selling goods and services to each other by using the internet/smartphones as a platform." And there's definitely something interesting to talk about there, but it certainly isn't some brand new thing; it's just making an existing segment of the economy far more efficient. And it also isn't some universally good thing; it's super hard to regulate direct person-to-person sales of goods and - more importantly - services.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 22:35 |
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The Dark One posted:http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/1/uber-welfare-sharing-gig-economy-000031 Why haven't we guillotined these people yet?
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 22:37 |
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I just went through the TaskRabbit application process and apparently they accept 5% of applicants. Seems like an option for everyone.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 23:31 |
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zakharov posted:I just went through the TaskRabbit application process and apparently they accept 5% of applicants. Seems like an option for everyone. Uber won't let you use your own car if it's more than 5 years old.
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 23:37 |
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[speaking in 2050 voice] "but gig jobs that require you to have assets, established work history, 24/7 availability and a broad skillset were designed for high schoolers! of course they don't pay a living wage!"
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# ? Jan 27, 2016 23:44 |
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Actual title: "Kids would rather play Xbox than make money shoveling. It’s pitiful." There's so much of the "kids these days!" and "bootstraps! work ethic!" rhetoric that it borders on parody. quote:But on our Capitol Hill street, it was only the grown-up hustlers peddling their shoveling. The precious snowflakes called neighborhood children? quote:While the blizzard was still howling on Saturday, my boys and I suited up for the pre-shovel. quote:As school was closed for the big dig-out, I tried again to inspire some hustle in my little childlumps, whose only hustle was to get a sleepover going. Pretty fond of this quote: quote:All over social media, folks were telling kids to get off their Xboxes and get to work.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:16 |
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I can hardly believe that's a real article. My children are acting like children!
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:44 |
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author of that article is weak, and a bad mom. when i push my kids out into the street to earn cash i take a 50% cut when they get back, to teach them what the real working world is like and to defray their expenses. if they dont like it they can find another roof to sleep under, this is america, land of opportunity
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 22:48 |
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gently caress, I'm an adult and all I did during the blizzard was stay inside and play video games.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 23:33 |
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All I imagine is that Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation about how Child Labor laws are ruining this country.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 00:35 |
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Bernie supporter writes long, embarrassing letter to the FBI begging them to indict Hillary before the convention.
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# ? Apr 28, 2016 17:10 |
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Opinion piece in Marie Claire about masculinity. Why the modern man is having an identity crisis.quote:Have you stopped to think about the non-stop pressure on him to be a success at work (read earn eye-watering amounts to keep his status on today’s property ladder) and home (understanding boyfriend, killer chef, potentially hands-on dad, all while resembling a Men’s Health cover star)? quote:Men have never before had so little freedom to vent our testosterone, say what we want, and ultimately feel like men. And this is a problem. Today it results in lads wrapping cars around trees or taking sexual risks. quote:Today it’s all the more important given the culture so many men have to spend their days twisting their inner selves to fit into, one where the wrong type of compliment could land you in court for sexual harassment. Nothing affects a man’s mood like how he is doing in the workplace. Throw in an overly aggressive boss and you have genuine mental mayhem. One corporate guy I know feels nauseous before meetings with his line manager – a woman who tears strips off him, leaving him close to tears. Does he talk about it? Hell no. It’s no surprise many of us secretly hanker back to the Mad Men era – untouched by political correctness, technology and blurred gender lines. quote:If you look between the legs of our closest relations in the animal kingdom, on the spectrum between the small-balled monogamy of a gibbon and the rampantly promiscuous chimp with his whopping testes, the male human falls in the middle. In ape world, size matters, as an indication of sexual behaviour. And based on the size of our testes, we aren’t designed for monogamy. quote:Extensive research has convinced me that it’s time to recognise that while women are grappling with glass ceilings, for men it’s more like glass cages. Trapped in bodies barely changed since caveman days, we’re living through the most absurd and unchartered time to be a man – and that’s not just a ‘man’ problem, it’s everyone’s problem.
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