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hawowanlawow posted:Texas heat doesn't count as ~~dry heat~~ My hometown says fuckin lol Texas is big Some of it is in the west
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Guy Goodbody posted:
The states are already basically little separate countries. What did you think they were?
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Jul 12, 2018 01:07
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Solice Kirsk posted:The states are already basically little separate countries. What did you think they were? They aren't separate countries, we've got all these loving Californians coming here, driving up housing prices. And they aren't the good Californians, they're the lovely Californians who couldn't hack it in California. If we were separate countries, we could put strict quotas on immigration from California.
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Jul 12, 2018 01:11
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Have you tried HOA's?
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Guy Goodbody posted:They aren't separate countries, we've got all these loving Californians coming here, driving up housing prices. And they aren't the good Californians, they're the lovely Californians who couldn't hack it in California. If we were separate countries, we could put strict quotas on immigration from California. Are you sure they're actual Californians? I imagine a lot of them came from other states then realized California isn't as great as advertised so they tried somewhere else.
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Jul 12, 2018 01:12
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If you’re talking the people immigrating to Texas and Colorado, yeah, they’re native californians.
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Jul 12, 2018 01:13
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Don’t California my Texas. You hosed up your own state, you don’t get to just leave and gently caress up others. Fix your own.
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Jul 12, 2018 01:14
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I’m just playing. I know it’s not a black and white issue like that
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Jul 12, 2018 01:15
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Seriously tho gently caress California
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Jul 12, 2018 01:15
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Because the current Star Wars movies take place after them, the original Star Wars trilogy now count as prequels too.
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Jul 12, 2018 01:16
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oldpainless posted:Seriously tho gently caress California People sometimes ask me why I, a software developer, have no interest in going to Silicon Valley. I just say "$4,000 studio apartments." It has never been an inadequate answer. I'd rather not live in a place where people pay $900 a month to live in a tent on somebody's porch, thanks.
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oldpainless posted:Seriously tho gently caress California More like oldalamoforgetfulnessless?
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Guy Goodbody posted:
the mormon empire will one day rule america, and you will drop to your knees when you see its glory. ToxicSlurpee posted:People sometimes ask me why I, a software developer, have no interest in going to Silicon Valley. why the gently caress cant they put their companies in small towns. Y'ain't gonna just make broke people move to a town they cant afford to live in and then wonder why it's all falling apart
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Jul 12, 2018 01:55
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spit on my clit posted:the mormon empire will one day rule america, and you will drop to your knees when you see its glory. The tech sector has gone completely insane. It's a complex thing, though; everybody associates Silicon Valley and Seattle with tech so that's where the investor money goes. There's also some ancient tech companies that have been there basically forever that aren't going to leave. Of course some of the big ones have been creating satellite offices elsewhere. New York is also kind of a tech hub but not quite as much as the other coast. Though I think New York is more fintech focused than general. The defense tech sector is also weirdly distributed around D.C. Anyway, Seattle has been actually dealing with the insane housing issues while California has some laws that make it effectively impossible to actually deal with the housing crisis around San Francisco but all the cool tech bros are going to Silicon Valley because it's Silicon loving Valley, dude!!! That's where it all started and where all the cool poo poo is happening, maaaaaaaaaaaan. Because a good enough programmer can make six figs right out of college it isn't seen like that big of a deal to pay $50,000 a year in rent in many minds. Of course the other snag is that if you want to do something like, say, get married and make babies a studio apartment isn't the best for that and this is a sector not exactly known for being the most family-friendly. Entirely too many companies want people who view home as a place to sleep and mostly hang around the office. If you're that type (and unfortunately many fresh grads eager to change the world and disrupt everything are) it can be awesome. Well, if you can also deal with the sanity-damaging traffic. Me, my thought is "bump that noise." I'll keep my 40 hour a week job that never has 40 hours of stuff for me to actually do in a week where I can easily afford a two bedroom all to myself and don't have to drive 90 minutes to move 10 miles. I could make a lot more there but my thought is "not worth it. At all." ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 02:02 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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spit on my clit posted:the mormon empire will one day rule america, and you will drop to your knees when you see its glory. I give them three generations before the terminal rot and humiliation of waning empire sets in.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Because the current Star Wars movies take place after them, the original Star Wars trilogy now count as prequels too. As long as it's understood that Star Wars is the first movie, and that it's called Star Wars, not Episode 4 or A New Hope.
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Jul 12, 2018 02:57
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spit on my clit posted:why the gently caress cant they put their companies in small towns. Y'ain't gonna just make broke people move to a town they cant afford to live in and then wonder why it's all falling apart Especially with how widespread high speed internet is now, it makes no sense to centralize industries in a handful of big cities. I'm not saying companies should start moving in to rural towns of a couple hundred people because that wouldn't really make sense and would make recruiting people harder, but why not smaller cities where you don't get laughed at if you ask your coworkers about the housing market there? It's not even like these hubs are nice places to live anymore even if you can afford it. The 6 figgy salary (barely over 100k) is attractive on paper to most people, but if you want to live in some actual degree of comfort it's the equivalent of probably making ~30k anywhere else when you factor in cost of living (which is of course doable but you aren't going to be living some glamorous life like you're charlie sheen in Wallstreet). I think the only way to force companies to spread out is to make it financially difficult to start a company in SF/NYC/Seattle/etc by jacking up corporate tax in major cities and offering favorable rates in smaller ones. I think this is done to some extent already but clearly it's not severe enough to be effective yet. Related: venture capitalists in general are a big part of the problem. The idea of venture capitalists is good because it gives people the opportunity to start their own business, but who they give their money to lately just seems wrong. They seem to care more about whether they can make a profit by a company being acquired later instead of whether the company can generate a profit by being a good business. There is no sane world where a "company" like snapchat should be valued at tens of billions of dollars. They don't do anything of actual value, and the revenue they actually generate is nowhere near that amount and never will be. It's a drat phone app - if I had hundreds of millions of dollars laying around I think my bar of whether I would want to invest in a company would be a lot higher than that. It's a drat phone app, that's not a company, it's a product. At least have more ambition than just expanding your userbase by running at massive losses until someone buys you out.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think the only way to force companies to spread out is to make it financially difficult to start a company in SF/NYC/Seattle/etc by jacking up corporate tax in major cities and offering favorable rates in smaller ones. I think this is done to some extent already but clearly it's not severe enough to be effective yet. You've accidentally discovered how local governments work. Cities with booming economies extort as much money from their chief industries as possible while cities that aren't doing so well will happily give millions of dollars to anyone willing to open a business there. At best, it results in companies located in big cities moving their call centers and warehouses to the middle of nowhere.
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lavaca posted:You've accidentally discovered how local governments work. Cities with booming economies extort as much money from their chief industries as possible while cities that aren't doing so well will happily give millions of dollars to anyone willing to open a business there. At best, it results in companies located in big cities moving their call centers and warehouses to the middle of nowhere. My point was that while it's being tried to some extent already, it's clearly not working if that's all it is doing. Maybe they aren't being extorted enough.
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Jul 12, 2018 07:35
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There are many movies based on books that are better than the book they are based on
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Guy Goodbody posted:There are many movies based on books that are better than the book they are based on That is true even for a lot of good books. I mean sure Der Schatz der Sierra Madre is a very good novel but it's even better with Rutger Hauer who apparently dies but comes back as a space samurai because ??? The film with Bogart ain't bad either.
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Jul 12, 2018 12:40
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Jurassic park Congo The shawshank redemption My unpopular opinion is books are stupid and a dying medium. If its fiction then they'll make a movie which will be a better experience and if its factual its probably out of date anyway. Books are good for power cuts and sitting by the pool on a holiday. Also people who take pride in still reading books are tossers. If you want to read them that's fine but if you mention it out loud you just want credibility.
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Jul 12, 2018 12:43
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I kind of enjoy the Twilight movies. Thy’re so overtly stupid that they’re good and you can tell the cast knows how absurd it all is. Also, I talk about books bc other people also enjoy reading and we take about our favourite racist paranoid horror authors.
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Jul 12, 2018 12:46
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lavaca posted:You've accidentally discovered how local governments work. Cities with booming economies extort as much money from their chief industries as possible while cities that aren't doing so well will happily give millions of dollars to anyone willing to open a business there. At best, it results in companies located in big cities moving their call centers and warehouses to the middle of nowhere. The other side of that is that call centers and warehouses don't exactly need highly trained, educated, expensive labor. The way things are now people still living in rural areas are having more and more trouble finding jobs as the manufacturing, agriculture, and whatever has basically all left. Factory farming is basically the main thing now so there isn't much labor needed there while the factory that the town grew up around either doesn't need nearly as many people or is a rusted, abandoned husk stripped of anything useful. So you have this big, desperate pool of cheap labor that'll happily do any job at all for minimum wage. Land is cheap, workers are cheap, and it doesn't matter where the call center actually is.
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It’s dumb to write off genre fiction as trash. A story can be good and also involve elves or spaceships or cowboys. Of course it’s kind of a self-perpetuating thing because every genre has authors churning out trash for audiences who don’t give a poo poo about quality, while anything good gets just called “fiction.”
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Jul 12, 2018 15:03
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CrRoMa posted:Jurassic park Counterpoint: the abomination known as the dark tower movie. How could a movie with that cast be so trash that you can honestly say it would have been better if you stuck closer to stephen king's source material?
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Jul 12, 2018 15:07
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They made Roland waaaaay nicer in the movie than he was in the book. I was waiting for him to sacrifice Jake and it just never happened. Should have just followed book one.
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Books are better at doing an internal monologue and at getting inside the head of a character than basically any other artform, and they'll remain important until that stops being the case.
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Jul 12, 2018 15:35
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Yeah Game of Thrones could never match the exquisite details about lemon cakes from the books
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Counterpoint: the abomination known as the dark tower movie. How could a movie with that cast be so trash that you can honestly say it would have been better if you stuck closer to stephen king's source material? I'm not sure mate, ill never read the dark tower books and from the 1:30 trailer I did see i had zero interest in watching the movie so yeah it maybe sucks if you are an invested fan but if you just blink and pretend the dark tower doesn't exist your prolly not missing much.
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Jul 12, 2018 15:48
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I've just not bothered with them and never will. Which is not a dig at LotR, those are incredible movies (and chronically boring books). Don't get me wrong I was interested given I enjoyed the book of The Hobbit when i was 12 but as soon as I heard they were going to make it into 3 films I made a mental note not to bother.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Counterpoint: the abomination known as the dark tower movie. How could a movie with that cast be so trash that you can honestly say it would have been better if you stuck closer to stephen king's source material? Hollywood. They don't give a poo poo about making good movies. Just buckets of money.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Hollywood. They don't give a poo poo about making good movies. Just buckets of money. And being rapists/pretending not to be rapists
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Jul 12, 2018 17:54
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John Oliver’s current events-themed comedy show does better investigative journalism than any north american news network.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:John Oliver’s current events-themed comedy show does better investigative journalism than any north american news network. It's depressing how true that has been for like a decade. The daily show kind of started that I think.
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Jul 12, 2018 21:46
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:John Oliver’s current events-themed comedy show does better investigative journalism than any north american news network. It's annoying because he presents it in such a smug way I want to hate him even if he's telling the truth. At least he's aware that China isn't our friend which is a major plus for me. Putin isn't great either but the chinese are a bigger threat to us right now.
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Jul 12, 2018 21:56
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"I don't feel so good mister ____" was barely funny right after the movie came out. It's just annoying now. Who gives a poo poo about spiderman anyway he didnt do anything important in the avengers movie except be "young guy who tragically dies".
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yeah I eat rear end posted:"I don't feel so good mister ____" was barely funny right after the movie came out. It's just annoying now. Who gives a poo poo about spiderman anyway he didnt do anything important in the avengers movie except be "young guy who tragically dies". It was something that was forced to happen by Disney, no one can convince me otherwise.
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