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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:even the literal Nazis had universal healthcare for their citizens, yeah? in a sense
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Pick posted:in a sense Holy gently caress your new avatar
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Aw man, twitter is a great format for doin Mad Libs, can't believe assange was the first one to come up with the idea.
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Agnostalgia posted:Aw man, twitter is a great format for doin Mad Libs, can't believe assange was the first one to come up with the idea. Mad libs, I get it eheh
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Pick posted:in a sense pick are you a C-SPAM poster now???
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This would be even worse if it had the past 9 years on it
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safe bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KetNLp4f_2g SAFE BED!!! god drat america Taintrunner fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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lol the recovery after the recession was pretty lopsided for US cities, tech cities like SF/Seattle are doing well while other cities like Las Vegas didn't have the same luck https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/decade-since-recession-thriving-cities-leave-others-behind.html quote:As the nation's economy was still reeling from the body blow of the Great Recession, Seattle's was about to take off. Thanks Obama!
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1 Bitcoin equals 19399.99 US Dollar lol
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There was a GBS bitcoin thread when you could buy a gajillion for a dollar That's my 'one that got away' story holy poo poo edit: where → when Accretionist fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Accretionist posted:There was a GBS bitcoin thread where you could buy a gajillion for a dollar you wouldn't be able to sell them anyway
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the world has not frozen in time since 2013 you can sell bitcoin for actual money, as an American, fairly easily now
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You can always sell them on the Magic The Gathering Online eXchange and get dollars that way! It's safe and reliable!
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Agronox posted:the world has not frozen in time since 2013 but like any commodity it pretty much works by counting on the next wave of suckers to help you cash out on what is a imaginary fictitious asset.
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I’m not defending it, it’s $500 billion of malinvestment, literally burning coal to run a lottery but it’s kinda important to get the facts right. you can withdraw.
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a reminder this is the doomsday economics thread, not the bitcoin thread https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/941801290203410432
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Goon Danton posted:You can always sell them on the Magic The Gathering Online eXchange and get dollars that way! It's safe and reliable! is that guy still in japan prison
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SKULL.GIF posted:a reminder this is the doomsday economics thread, not the bitcoin thread lmao at 2001 - 2007
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:lmao at 2001 - 2007 
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:lmao at 2001 - 2007 at least republicans are refreshingly straightforward about how they want to steal from poor people instead of pretending like they dont democrat-style it makes it much easier to convince family members that rich people are evil when they dont have a charismatic bill cljnton or barack obama running interference for them
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its insanely good that republicans only run the evilest rich failson they can find, rather than the most convincing liar
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Best Giraffe posted:its insanely good that republicans only run the evilest rich failson they can find, rather than the most convincing liar Speaking of failsons, has anyone seen the movie W by Oliver Stone? Is it worth watching? For some reason seeing that picture of GW and Obama giving a wave made me start thinking about it again.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Speaking of failsons, has anyone seen the movie W by Oliver Stone? Is it worth watching? For some reason seeing that picture of GW and Obama giving a wave made me start thinking about it again. i liked it
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Speaking of failsons, has anyone seen the movie W by Oliver Stone? Is it worth watching? For some reason seeing that picture of GW and Obama giving a wave made me start thinking about it again. it vastly overdoes how stupid he his. dubya is no genius but he's not stupid
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Speaking of failsons, has anyone seen the movie W by Oliver Stone? Is it worth watching? For some reason seeing that picture of GW and Obama giving a wave made me start thinking about it again. You'd probably like the ending of it the best if you want the failson aspect of it.
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Babies are going to need that poo poo if they're going to grab a feral rabbit with their bare hands for the family to eat in about ten months
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Speaking of failsons, has anyone seen the movie W by Oliver Stone? Is it worth watching? For some reason seeing that picture of GW and Obama giving a wave made me start thinking about it again. stone rushed it out so that any attempt at a dubya biopic would, necessarily, be responding to an astonishingly unflattering portrayal that all but completely robs him of agency over his own life. its less "pee pee doo doo, bad man was president" and more "This dude is a child who just grew bigger, physically, and couldn't stand up to people demanding war and blood" it plays fast and loose with fact in order to preempt liberal rehabilitation of his fuckfail legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmwM9EXyczw its not the best movie but otoh nobody's tried to approach the subject from another direction, so its arguably successful in what stone was attempting to do
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Don't remember if I've introduced this thread to Scott Galloway yet but to anyone who isn't in the know he gave a talk a few years ago which went viral in which he gave a pretty even-handed analysis of the big four tech companies. The jist of it is that in an economy that's growing at 2-3 percent a year any company that's growing faster than that means someone else is shrinking and it's important to look at both the winners and losers to find out what's going on and why. You can see it here it's a pretty good watch. Anyways over the past two years as he's followed these companies he's been getting progressively angrier and angrier at their behavior and I guess he finally popped and is outright calling for the four horsemen to be broken up. His reasoning is extremely solid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyFRIgulPo This video starts off with essentially a five minute version of the earlier talk I linked earlier and then pivots into him laying out his case. Essentially he lays out the different ways these companies are all lovely (tax dodging, bullying competitors, destroying jobs) but are lovely in ways that are addressable by public policy and thus aren't good arguments for breaking them up. After that he goes on to make his case as to why they actually should be broken up. It's a good watch.
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Rex-Goliath posted:Don't remember if I've introduced this thread to Scott Galloway yet but to anyone who isn't in the know he gave a talk a few years ago which went viral in which he gave a pretty even-handed analysis of the big four tech companies. The jist of it is that in an economy that's growing at 2-3 percent a year any company that's growing faster than that means someone else is shrinking and it's important to look at both the winners and losers to find out what's going on and why. You can see it here it's a pretty good watch. This is good as hell even if I'd quibble with the particulars ("if the New York Times can save us with $100m" lmfao sad) It seems like there are a lot of folk proximal to tech--particularly facebook but it feels like all the big companies are dealing with backlash--who are "coming out" (always they phrase it in such sexual terms) to talk about the astonishingly forseeable problems with everything tech conglomerates do, desire, and stand for.
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Willie Tomg posted:This is good as hell. almost all of the tech companies in my general purview seem to A) be entirely parasitic entities off the big 4 and B) are consolidating or failing at an alarming rate its getting kind of scary because if you say, are a vendor for multiple clients, they're starting to dry up imo... like, say for example you're slack. you basically rely on a large ecosystem of clients to stay afloat. if there are more consolidations and failures and not enough new companies propping up, you're going to start losing business because you can't just start charging the fewer companies that exist more and more money, really...
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Willie Tomg posted:This is good as hell even if I'd quibble with the particulars ("if the New York Times can save us with $100m" lmfao sad) Yeah I think he's referring to when the nytimes website used to have a really toxic comments section, just like any public comments section, and they actually put in the time and money to have all comments curated for each article. He mentions it every now and then in his youtube channel but if you don't follow him that part could pretty easily fly over people's heads. His point when he brings it up is usually that it IS possible to filter out toxic elements of online communities but the company has to value that over profit. His follow up from that will be to point out the implication that facebook & crew therefore knowingly profit off of toxic communities.
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etalian posted:lol the recovery after the recession was pretty lopsided for US cities, tech cities like SF/Seattle are doing well while other cities like Las Vegas didn't have the same luck my favorite part of all this is cities like SF, Seattle, and NYC would all be much, much bigger if they actually built loving housing and made investments in their infrastructure.
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KaptainKrunk posted:my favorite part of all this is cities like SF, Seattle, and NYC would all be much, much bigger if they actually built loving housing and made investments in their infrastructure. yes, but then we would have to tax the wealthy, and *jazz hands* that's not pragmatic
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