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22 Eargesplitten posted:"Thank gently caress I don't live there anymore" is what I've heard from South African ex-pats in general.
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It's a hellscape of a nation. Wife's uncle in ZA had all the windows smashed on his car and had some stuff stolen out of it, including a coat. It was walking distance from the police station, and they never came to investigate. So he walks in to make a report, and the officer at the front desk is wearing the coat that was just stolen out of his car. He chose not to make a report.
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canyoneer posted:It's a hellscape of a nation. I understand that District 9, absent the aliens, is basically a documentary.
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Jan 30, 2018 21:22
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Splicer posted:Well maybe if he hadn't swam in it Don’t homeless-shame 
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Jan 30, 2018 21:24
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Panfilo posted:Ask / Tell > Bitcoin, Forex, and Candles > Bad With Money 2018: Imagine 4 horses rearing backwards over a cliff. Bitcoin works the same way.  MODS
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Yeah I would maybe try and address some factual, money-related content in this "gently caress you your country is a hellhole" shitstorm, but nah. I'll leave it as a (monetary!) exercise to the reader to determine whether the Department of Environmental Affairs or the Department of Water And Sanitation (previously Water and Forestry) had their budgets gutted post-Apartheid. http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/Budget%20Review%201993.pdf http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2017/ene/FullENE.pdf http://www.inflationcalc.co.za/?date1=1993-01-01&date2=2017-01-01&amount=230000000 For some discussion of the factors underlying the infrastructural debt in the South African water supply, this document is a much better source than the anecdotes of an angry old ex-pat and his internet white knights: http://wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/CSO-SouthAfrica.pdf Please enjoy this Derail Hornbill. 
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Jan 30, 2018 23:23
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Yeah, maybe you should have posted those rather than saying anyone who thinks South Africa is terrible is a racist old man? I was taking his word on the EPA being gutted thing, maybe there’s a different reason the water is terrible where he lived/goes back to visit. Posting your own derail bird after contributing to a derail should be considered trying to get the last word. Although posting a different type of bird related to the derail might be a different story.
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Jan 30, 2018 23:41
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Yeah I would maybe try and address some factual, money-related content in this "gently caress you your country is a hellhole" shitstorm, but nah. Like you addressing some factual details on someone being a racists?
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Also you’re the only one who mentioned post-apartheid when it came to the budget. There’s a lot more time for budgets to change than around the end of apartheid. You really want to make this about race, don’t you?
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Jan 30, 2018 23:50
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Dude your knee jerk multipost reaction of "tryna make it about race HUH" is honestly just as bad. Let it go
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Jan 31, 2018 00:01
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Did you know that hornbills and toucans are actually unrelated? Their somewhat similarly large beaks are a result of convergent evolution. 
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Jan 31, 2018 00:04
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KingSlime posted:Dude your knee jerk multipost reaction of "tryna make it about race HUH" is honestly just as bad. Let it go I hadn’t thought about that part until like 20 minutes later, after someone else had posted. If someone else posts I reply rather than edit.  The hornbill would be adorable if it wasn’t for the gigantic chunk of dried mango on its head. Can we at least agree on that?
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My partner was driving for Lyft, got in a minor accident, we have full coverage with Liberty Mutual insurance, but they won't offer any assistance since the accident occurred during a ride share. Not sure what to do now, or if this is the correct sub to ask for advice.https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7u21ak/my_partner_was_driving_for_lyft_got_in_a_minor/ posted:Expanded version: last Saturday night, my partner had passengers in her car when she got in a minor collision with another (ironically) Lyft driver who was between rides. My partners car had substantial damage, and was undrivable.
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Haifisch posted:My partner was driving for Lyft, got in a minor accident, we have full coverage with Liberty Mutual insurance, but they won't offer any assistance since the accident occurred during a ride share. Not sure what to do now, or if this is the correct sub to ask for advice. Working for Uber/Lyft seems BWM in its own right.
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Domestic Amuse posted:Working for Uber/Lyft seems BWM in its own right.
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I'm eagerly awaiting the tax return horror stories from people who don't understand how to loving follow the dot on the Uber app to find me, let alone the precarious financial situation they have opted to pursue Mostly because I personally withheld too little (from non Uber related income) and now owe 2K 😠
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Yeah, I haven’t looked into it, but from what I can tell you’re basically trading car value and your time for immediate cash.
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MMM actually had an article about this a few months ago. I'm usually ambivalent about his stuff(which tends to push copying his lifestyle and insulting you if you don't), but he's pretty on the nose here. There's also a terrifying bit about some parent trusting random Uber drivers to get their elementary and middle schoolers home.
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Haifisch posted:MMM actually had an article about this a few months ago. I'm usually ambivalent about his stuff(which tends to push copying his lifestyle and insulting you if you don't), but he's pretty on the nose here. There's also a terrifying bit about some parent trusting random Uber drivers to get their elementary and middle schoolers home. I might be one of the only ones here but I really actually quite like the way he writes. We don't live a lot of our life in accordance with Mustachianism but he clearly thinks a lot about these topics.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I might be one of the only ones here but I really actually quite like the way he writes. We don't live a lot of our life in accordance with Mustachianism but he clearly thinks a lot about these topics. Highlight from the article on how to make money on Uber, now you just need a cut of the downline: Use the referral and bonus system heavily. Actual driving doesn’t pay well, but I have seen bonuses pop up on my app offering between $100-$500 to refer other drivers. There are also “weekly guarantee” offers that come up occasionally, offering more pay in exchange for meeting a certain threshold.
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crazypeltast52 posted:Highlight from the article on how to make money on Uber, now you just need a cut of the downline: Yeah, there are people who earn money just recruiting other drivers and rarely if ever drive themselves. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-king-joseph-ziyaee-uses-driver-referrals-to-make-money-2016-2
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Your manager is just a racist old white rear end in a top hat, as are most of your "thank gently caress I don't live there anymore" friends. My entire family was heavily involved in anti-apartheid protests. My uncle was involved in a number of protests on the UCT campus leading to his arrest, he emigrated to the UK in the 1980s because apartheid is loving awful. My aunt and her husband emigrated to Australia also in the 80s also for apartheid is poo poo reasons. Her husband who was a nuclear physicist somehow got employed by the state but was never allowed to touch anything or do anything or know anything because of his very anti apartheid political leanings. My mom was very involved in the black sash organisation and I was dutifully dragged to all their charity raising events and so forth. We were also supposed to emigrate to Australia, also for apartheid is poo poo reasons but inconveniently my mom died of cancer so I ended up growing up and finishing my education in South Africa. And when your neighbors, and I am not exaggerating here, get broken into, tied up, and stabbed by screwdrivers and raped until dead (happened more than once, obviously different neighbors because of being dead reasons!), you get to be grateful that that isn't your reality anymore. Well done, you found the racists, good job!
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BattleMoose posted:stuff I though we had finally went past this derail as I was reading several actually interesting posts. But no......somebody has to keep beating that flipped over dead horse. If you haven't figured out that nobody is going to win here you av may actually be a picture of you.
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canyoneer posted:Yeah, there are people who earn money just recruiting other drivers and rarely if ever drive themselves. Do these people get money from their Speaking of, #LuLaLeaks is in full gear right now and poo poo's crazy. These are texts from LLR owner Deanne Brady (DL = Deanne LuLaRoe) to high status members of her empire.   Now why would Dear Leader encourage her potato sack saleswomen to get weight loss and plastic surgery in Mexico? Well the clinic in Tijuana happens to be owned by a cousin of Deanne, so the money from the surgeries gets funneled to her as well. e: bonus 
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LLR is really leaning hard into an "openly mock people with Down syndrome" campaign currently, it appears. I don't know how much of the blowback is that and how much is...oh yeah, they're still a goddam pyramid scheme (see, I had to tie this back to BWM somehow, you won't see ME contributing to a derail)  e: this thread title is an all-timer, I laugh every time I think about it ("Looks like she's upside down on her horse mortgage", for anyone reading this in not-January 2018)
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First page photo is absolutely perfect, too. This'll never get old.
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Domestic Amuse posted:First page photo is absolutely perfect, too. It's the rear legs on the horse that gets me every time. The way they are just straight out says that this is do or die for the horse.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I might be one of the only ones here but I really actually quite like the way he writes. We don't live a lot of our life in accordance with Mustachianism but he clearly thinks a lot about these topics. I like his writing and view the style as a sort of... act. It’s meant to get your attention. If it pissed someone off, it got their attention. I went with a friend to meet him in person and he generally seems like a pretty alright dude.
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Domestic Amuse posted:First page photo is absolutely perfect, too. Poor ol' freckles, thought of how much they cost their owner and died
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Jan 31, 2018 19:49
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 "BREE-ANNA! Get the Horse insurance claims adjustor on the line! We need to see if the Horse Mortgage lender will waive the interest while we process our claim or else I won't have enough money to cover the dog chef for the month!"
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Panfilo posted:
Dog chef? Is it our chef that cooks for dogs or the dog that knows how to cook? I can't give up both!
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DMCrimson posted:Dog chef? Is it our chef that cooks for dogs or the dog that knows how to cook? I can't give up both! Chef that cooks dogs? quote:Bali is a popular destination for Western and Australian tourists. Attracting both budget backpackers and luxury honeymooners, it’s the most developed Indonesian island.
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Google has been serving up increasingly depraved ads these days.
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Cheap, delicious meat and a way to resolve what is assuredly a large number if unwanted stray dogs? Sounds like Bali's GWM...
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Vox Nihili posted:Google has been serving up increasingly depraved ads these days. LOL "Put bitcoin in my IRA" is the "Pos my neg hole" of investing.
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therobit posted:LOL "Put bitcoin in my IRA" is the "Pos my neg hole" of investing.
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Vox Nihili posted:Google has been serving up increasingly depraved ads these days. At least this will keep some idiots from incurring withdraw penalties from their IRA when they dip in to buy crypto. So I guess its Better With Money while still being terribly BWM. DEMAG fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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Haifisch posted:MMM actually had an article about this a few months ago. I'm usually ambivalent about his stuff(which tends to push copying his lifestyle and insulting you if you don't), but he's pretty on the nose here. There's also a terrifying bit about some parent trusting random Uber drivers to get their elementary and middle schoolers home.  MMM posted:I was surprised that both companies immediately dismissed all of these suggestions, with a round of vague excuses. This was a disappointment to the Economic Libertarian in me, because it seems obvious that an open market between buyer and seller is the key to more efficiency.
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