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AlbieQuirky posted:Karma is the greatest comedian. It comes and goes.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:10
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jivjov posted:I kinda see where this is coming from. A lot of major industries now are not focusing on creating goods or providing services directly, but rather on bringing those with goods/services together with those who want to buy. Not sure about calling bitcoin a bank tho. Even if it were, and even if you could liquidate all of the Dunning-Krugerrands at the current price (hint - you can't, a movement of less than 0.1% moves the price 10-15%), it still wouldn't make it into the top 5 banks in the UK, let alone the world. The rest of the measures are similarly bullshit: - Taxi companies tend to be regional, Uber aren't the largest in any market that I'm aware of - I don't even know how you measure "most popular media owner", not least because Facebook don't actually own any media, just license it from their users - Alibaba aren't a retailer and if they were Amazon would swallow them without chewing on actual trade volume (their market cap is massively, massively hyped at the moment, and I think I'm beginning to detect a pattern here) - Airbnb are big but as they're just non-exclusive listings they're not competing against Hilton and Holiday Inn, but the likes of expedia and hotels.com who absolutely dwarf them in terms of rooms available and bookings So what's actually happening is we're hitting the peak of Dotcom Boom 2.0, where this time instead of the bubble at least having the pleasant side-effect of funding massive infrastructure and technological improvements, it's disappearing directly up the noses of people with stupid facial hair (and into the pockets of legislators because the business model of all but Facebook is "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do <thing that already exists> but not have to actually obey any of the laws governing that thing?").
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Sep 20, 2017 18:13
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One of the top replies in that twitter feed is another gofundme from a week ago or so, so it’s screaming scam.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:16
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It is with a heavy heart I must report that the Google memo guy is at it again https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/910541338961108993 https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/910547650407055360
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Sep 20, 2017 18:20
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That take is undergoing fusion
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Sep 20, 2017 18:24
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/emma-kelty-british-kayaker-brazilquote:Posting on social media on 10 September, Emma Kelty joked about a warning she had been given about the stretch of the Amazon river she was about to enter. “So in or near Coari (60 miles) I will have my boat stolen and I will be killed too,” she wrote. “Nice.”
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Sep 20, 2017 18:31
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Man white people really don't ever think their privilege might not apply huh?
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Sep 20, 2017 18:47
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Man that's sad but holy gently caress, everyone told you "do not go there. The people there will steal your expensive white girl poo poo, shoot you, and dump you in a river" and then she went there, and they stole her poo poo, shot her, and dumped her in a river.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:51
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quote:After Kelty’s distress call, authorities had launched a search operation involving 60 people, including divers scouring the riverbed Quite an effort for a missing foreigner.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:52
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That's not sad, that's hilarious.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:52
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tyblazitar posted:That's not sad, that's hilarious. I try not to take pleasure in people being robbed and murdered in terror, even if they brought it on themselves by being idiots. I don't always succeed.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:53
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tyblazitar posted:That's not sad, that's hilarious. Ah I remember being an edgy teenager. gently caress off, mom and dad
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Glagha posted:Man that's sad but holy gently caress, everyone told you "do not go there. The people there will steal your expensive white girl poo poo, shoot you, and dump you in a river" and then she went there, and they stole her poo poo, shot her, and dumped her in a river. You know, best case scenario was that she paddles through without incident and gets to  "well, looks like all you people saying it was dangerous were wrong" but the reality is that if she had gone through without incident those people weren't wrong, she was just incredibly lucky.This happens all the time in online discussions around climbing/canyoneering where someone will boast about some practice that is super unsafe and can be made 500x safer with an extra 4 seconds or with correct equipment/training. Some idiot will say "well, I've done that for 20 years and I'm still alive". Then whenever there's a fatal accident their weepy family will tell the newspaper that they were so experienced and they just got unlucky and it was a freak accident etc. etc., when 98+% of the time they screwed up badly and obviously in a way that actual experts can recognize right away.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:03
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canyoneer posted:You know, best case scenario was that she paddles through without incident and gets to Someone post the photoshop of the Canadian Mt. Everest lady.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:12
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Seriously, why bother to hire a guide if your response to their warning about dangerous river pirates is "lol *mimes jacking off*"?
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Sep 20, 2017 19:18
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canyoneer posted:This happens all the time in online discussions around climbing/canyoneering where someone will boast about some practice that is super unsafe and can be made 500x safer with an extra 4 seconds or with correct equipment/training. Some idiot will say "well, I've done that for 20 years and I'm still alive". This happens with every hobby with any sort of dangerous factor to it. After 80 years of using a tablesaw my grandpa shortened his thumb up a little bit. He'll still tell you the way he does things is ok.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:24
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canyoneer posted:You know, best case scenario was that she paddles through without incident and gets to Yes this is an old tale. Like when you see a show about some extreme biker riding on the guard rail on a mountain bridge and you can already see the future interview with his mates "He was always so careful and knew what he was doing"
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Sep 20, 2017 19:33
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OK you can walk on this left path for an hour which has a 1 in 800 chance of serious injury or death but is about 2 minutes shorter than the right side path. Or you can take the right side path that has a 1 in 800,000 chance of serious injury or death. "Pfftt, pussies. I am experienced and know what I'm doing"
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Sep 20, 2017 19:38
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mds2 posted:This happens with every hobby with any sort of dangerous factor to it. After 80 years of using a tablesaw my grandpa shortened his thumb up a little bit. He'll still tell you the way he does things is ok. Well he's already cut off the part that was in danger.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:42
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What're you gonna do, steal my boat and kill me?
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Sep 20, 2017 19:46
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There is certainly the schadenfreude aspect of her publicly mocking the warnings on social media.
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Sep 20, 2017 19:56
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Sarcopenia posted:Someone post the photoshop of the Canadian Mt. Everest lady. I got ya.  As I've said in the Everest threads, this image is a particular type of ridiculous. She photoshopped herself into a location that's an hour and a half from a major international airport, 15 minutes from the main highway in the country, to a lake with paved wheelchair access year round. To prove she was set to climb Everest. She wasn't.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:09
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Henchman of Santa posted:It is with a heavy heart I must report that the Google memo guy is at it again It's not for nothing that Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Klan in the 1940s, compared KKK members to children pretending to be spies: both groups invent complicated systems of mysteeeerious codenames and counter-signs so they can feel like they're part of something important. The main difference - besides the racist terrorism - is that the children know deep down that they're playing a game, but the "adults" in the KKK think they're doing something real and meaningful.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:11
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I remember a friend of mine knew a girl who's father had a yacht somewhere around India (Can't remember exactly where) and she wanted to get some of her friends together to sail the boat down the east coast of Africa around the horn and up to Spain. These were all supposedly intelligent college students with minor outdoor survival training. Pretty rich and privileged (To use the parlance of our times). My point is, none of them were S.A.S. or Delta force operators. I remember asking my giddy excited friend if he was a total moron and after 3 tries he managed to guess the country on the east coast of Africa that was known for piracy. But it took an insane amount of arguing before he would admit I had a point. (very little training, the fact it would take months, harbor, fuel, protection and all that good poo poo. Despite my warnings and asking him to tell her to call the embassy in at least one of the countries they would be passing to ask if they thought it was safe. They still went on as if they were planning a convention. Thankfully in the end her father put the kibosh on the whole farce. But it amazed me at the time how so many supposedly educated intelligent people could be so stupid and reckless. They would have gone ahead with it (or tried) if her father had not stepped in. They had the money. The kinda sad thing about the woman on the Amazon is that she has been through a ton of survival poo poo before and I wonder if it was pride more than anything else that stopped her from popping smoke and getting the gently caress out of dodge. I mean, it still amounts to stupidity. But her motivation must have been "I won't let them scare me" eh, sorry love. That's why fear exists. I always remember that underwater cave that has the grim reaper sign outside and has killed nearly triple digits of divers or something and last year or so some rear end in a top hat brought his sons there. (They all died) Lonos Oboe has a new favorite as of 20:16 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 20:13
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Dejawesp posted:There is certainly the schadenfreude aspect of her publicly mocking the warnings on social media. I think we can probably feel sorry for her murder and feel horrified at her foolhardiness at the same time? Hope others will learn from this, at least.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:18
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What an important lesson that'll hopefully resonate with every other stupid person wanting to do poo poo like that. Naah.
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Henchman of Santa posted:It is with a heavy heart I must report that the Google memo guy is at it again need to adjust my behavior accordingly
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Sep 20, 2017 20:44
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canyoneer posted:You know, best case scenario was that she paddles through without incident and gets to The parallels are uncanny.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:45
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Picnic Princess posted:I got ya. did she die?
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Sep 20, 2017 20:46
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Punkin Spunkin posted:can someone tell me once and for all...is this because of TOO much bullying or NOT enough bullying? Not enough. The problem is we stop bullying after high school.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:48
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Punkin Spunkin posted:can someone tell me once and for all...is this because of TOO much bullying or NOT enough bullying? It's actually severe, late stage irony poisoning
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Sep 20, 2017 20:51
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CommonShore posted:did she die? Very much so.
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Picnic Princess posted:Very much so. I reverse image searched the photo to find an article and google identified it as Lake Louise. Fuckin' lol. my sympathy to her family oh poo poo CBC even used that image in their articles about her: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/everest-team-moves-toronto-woman-s-body-lower-down-mountain-1.1198741 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/everest-victim-s-husband-says-family-not-seeking-government-help-1.1246000 CommonShore has a new favorite as of 21:00 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 20:55
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CommonShore posted:did she die? btw when you die on everest your body will stay there (because no one has the energy to spare to carry the body around) and not decompose (because of the cold) 
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Sep 20, 2017 21:06
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Goa Tse-tung posted:btw when you die on everest your body will stay there (because no one has the energy to spare to carry the body around) and not decompose (because of the cold) Not if you're willing to pay! quote:[She] had standard repatriation insurance that should help cover the cost of the recovery attempt, which some have estimated could run as high as $50,000.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:btw when you die on everest your body will stay there (because no one has the energy to spare to carry the body around) and not decompose (because of the cold)
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