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Xenocides posted:One night in Bangkok makes the poor man poorer How straightforward the game When one has trust in one's player
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Phanatic posted:Pretty sure being from Greece, a place where historically-significant and culturally-important sculpture abounds, and choosing to instead study that subject in England is BWM. are you sure? she wants to live like common people. she wants to do whatever common people do.
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crazypeltast52 posted:The brits stole a non-trivial amount from many cultures, including the friezes at the top of the Parthenon. Yep. I went to the British Museum a few months ago and their antiquities collection was amazing. Also, depressing knowing how it all got there
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canyoneer posted:Yep. I went to the British Museum a few months ago and their antiquities collection was amazing. Also, depressing knowing how it all got there Same. The British museum is probably my favorite destination of all time and there's a little ambivalence every time I visit. But then I remember that the entire modern world is laid on the foundations of some form of exploitation.
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Killmonger, right, etc etc.
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metallicaeg posted:the immensely insufferable eat faster ! Let's make one thing abundantly clear EAT FASTER is bad advice, but he has good advice.
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potatoducks posted:A BMW 7 series is a better car than a Camry. Totally understandable and great. spoken like a man who has never owned a BMW
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The car you like is actually bad. Subnote: NEVER go to the car subforum, it is the most depressing place on this entire dead website. Here's a fun quote from today, with bonus CryptoCurrency BWM 
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Aug 15, 2018 19:33
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I know a guy who was still dumping thousands into BTC at like 9,000 then 8,000 and so forth. All the while he’s been saying things like, “if you’re scared of a little price dip, this isn’t the market for you.”
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Aug 15, 2018 19:40
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:spoken like a man who has never owned a BMW Yeah I don't give a poo poo about cars, so I don't really understand the joke. I do own the Camry though!
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potatoducks posted:Yeah I don't give a poo poo about cars, so I don't really understand the joke. they break, like, all the loving time, and when they do it's expensive
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Aug 15, 2018 19:53
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:they break, like, all the loving time, and when they do it's expensive I feel like the least BWM luxury cars are probably Lexus or Acura, but I've never owned one so maybe I'm making too many assumptions about their Toyota/Honda heritage.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I feel like the least BWM luxury cars are probably Lexus or Acura, but I've never owned one so maybe I'm making too many assumptions about their Toyota/Honda heritage. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/car-brands-reliability-how-they-stack-up/ Take with a grain of salt, but Acura is pretty bad in comparison to other brands. Lexus is second only to Toyota, and Audi and BMW aren't far behind.
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The problem with Consumer Reports is that they don't consider the severity of a failure. For example, I have far less of a problem with a window switch not working than the engine deciding it needs another hole, but Consumer Reports doesn't account for that.
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Aug 15, 2018 20:35
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Dr. Eldarion posted:https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/car-brands-reliability-how-they-stack-up/ #5, BMW. Most reliable model - 2 Series  Also if this isn't literally you then you shouldn't even be reading about luxury cars 
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Annual depreciation on a new M2 Competition shouldn't be much more than the above Rolex question, so if you're making a luxury purchase to show off for assholes, the watch is a bargain!
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I have ReachNow and pay less to drive BMWs than most people pay for insurance on one.
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ReachNow seems like an awesome service. I especially like that they were competing at the exact same price point as Car2Go. Decisions, decisions
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BMW model numbers seem to be tailor-made to impress rich assholes and no one else. A previous boss bragged he had flown to Germany to buy his 530i (or whatever it was), and I'm like, ok? Should that number mean something to me? Of course, the answer is yes, it should mean that he spent more on that car than he pays me in a year and he wants me to know it. And then 2 months later the car is having issues and he's now complaining about the useless dealership, because the BMW being a finely tuned driving machine apparently just means it breaks all the time and is a huge pain to fix. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Aug 16, 2018 |
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Aug 15, 2018 20:55
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The redneck auto shop teacher I had called them "BMTroubleYous"
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BMW in the BWM thread is loving me up and making me have to reread everything twice.
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GWM? with BMW is to not buy it and never buy used.
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GWM with BMW is to have bought an E30 15 years ago and sell it now for 3x what you paid for it.
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[scribbling furiously in note pad] Buy low... sell.... High???
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I'm from Colorado, we're experts on that last part 
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GWM: buying an old BMW, doing all the preventative maintenance it needs, and enjoying driving the hell out of it. The key here is doing all the wrenching yourself, and buying a common model so aftermarket parts are inexpensive and readily available for the common failure points.
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Yeah, I think it was a masters in English or Creative Writing or something along those lines. The job is for a large university so after mandatory retirement contributions, SALT, and insurance costs I'm assuming I guess he's not left with much. I think the gross was 27k-ish a year for the salary?
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I keep reading BMW as BWM and have no issue with it
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FAUXTON posted:I keep reading BMW as BWM and have no issue with it 
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Could someone with some good soft skills in communication please explain to me why it is that humanities degree possessors are getting compensated worse than their STEM equivalents? I mean, they should be able to use their soft skills to persuade employers to give them a job better, and also to negotiate better pay, right?
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Dwight Eisenhower posted:Could someone with some good soft skills in communication please explain to me why it is that humanities degree possessors are getting compensated worse than their STEM equivalents? Is an MBA or financial management related stuff a STEM degree
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FAUXTON posted:Is an MBA or financial management related stuff a STEM degree No.
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FAUXTON posted:Is an MBA or financial management related stuff a STEM degree no
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No, but it is also not a humanities degree which is what that post and the prior discussion was referencing.
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high-paying STEM jobs (so, like, not a cancer researcher at a public university) are creating products that directly contribute to corporate profit
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Well, for one thing there are typically more humanities degrees awarded, so even if you think they are 'better' at soft skills there is the simple matter of there being more of them available to dilute the market. This is changing though, as the idea permeates that humanities degrees are expensive and don't have the return that an engineering or science degree may have.  The other thing (I am guessing) is that actually getting a job is about 95% networking. Most STEM programs are often more work or industry oriented, and it's pretty typical for an engineering college to have relationships with surrounding companies to specifically place coops or interns. Even if they don't, there is a strong drive for students to do some sort of similar work as part of their degree, and this is basically networking 101. Not that humanities degrees can't network, but its often less ingrained into the program so that you can complete a 4-year degree and not actually do a real work-placement semester, and instead fill it up with less optimal commitments. The humanities people I know that were aggressively networking during their programs did fine on graduation, the ones that didn't did much worse. This is also an institution thing, because there are universities that have a strong work focus across the board (like Northeastern) but I think its much more common for STEM than humanities and social sciences.
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stemlords get paid more but just lol if that's the only measure of success and happiness
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Dwight Eisenhower posted:Could someone with some good soft skills in communication please explain to me why it is that humanities degree possessors are getting compensated worse than their STEM equivalents? Once the big Philosophy factory opens up in Wisconsin it should tip the scales a bit. The answer is STEM degrees tie into jobs that are in higher demand (right now). Supply/Demand Curve means those people can jump jobs easier and drive up their wages, which in turn drives up wages for similar positions. People with humanities degrees can get on that curve, but its required that they acquire skills AND demonstrate those skills (which is what a degree accomplishes otherwise). Those skills aren't easy for many people to get and if they had the right interest/desire/skills they likely would have just gotten a STEM degree in the first place, though lots of people do switch industries so it's not that uncommon and the hurdles aren't that big. I posted before like a half dozen different jobs that pay really well that are staffed by people who have humanities degrees in a software company. Bigger answer is: KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:stemlords get paid more but just lol if that's the only measure of success and happiness
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:stemlords get paid more but just lol if that's the only measure of success and happiness To be fair, almost every other degree also gets paid more, not just stemlords.
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