DrPossum posted:

pretty sure working on science experiments doing fundamental research isn't capitalism

comedyblissoption posted:

Many societies have historically banned loans with interest of any kind including under religious and moral pretexts.

Today, you get this stupid loving dreck being printed in the mainstream passing as insightful:
https://www.businessinsider.com/compound-interest-is-responsible-for-modern-civilization-2013-6

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The reason compound interest has is so revered is because the compounding property means you can either profit immensely or owe a massive debt.


Compound interest made agriculture possible and became a crucial part of humans forming cities.

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The guilt moneylenders felt due to their relationship to usury funded one of the most significant events in western civilization.

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The main opposition to compound interest — usury — was the notion that it was a way for the rich, who had capital, to indebt the poor, who didn't, and extract egregious sums from that.

That's a pretty valid concern, but pragmatically speaking the concerns of an emerging bourgeoisie quickly began to trump the concerns of the religious who were concerned with taking advantage of the poor.

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70% of Americans go to college and 60% use loans. The reason capital is available is lenders make money from compound interest.

Memento posted:

adults who get tattoos generally do so because they spend a lot of time beforehand thinking about them and confirming to themselves that they're for life

In short,

DrPossum posted:

pretty sure working on science experiments doing fundamental research isn't capitalism

actionjackson posted:

There are definitely people who regret their tattoos later, hence tattoo removal is a thing

Jerry Cotton posted:

If you get a tattoo and then have it removed, it is de facto a temporary tattoo like the ones you got from A-Team bubble gum packets or something, only it cost hundreds if not thousands to both make and remove.

Jerry Cotton posted:

If you get a tattoo and then have it removed, it is de facto a temporary tattoo like the ones you got from A-Team bubble gum packets or something, only it cost hundreds if not thousands to both make and remove.

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Did you get a mr T tat?

Jerry Cotton posted:

I think I had one of the van and then my mum scrubbed it off.

DrPossum posted:

pretty sure working on science experiments doing fundamental research isn't capitalism

Animated Nerd posted:

Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:

The capitalism.png thing about tattoos is that lots of people literally pay money to permanently brand themselves with corporate brands.

Makes sense, i guess because a lot of the history of tattoos was that they were used to brand slaves.

Tetracube posted:

comedyblissoption posted:

Don't worry it's enough just to misinform students about compound interest.

If compound interest is even properly taught so that students can actually understand its calculation, it's taught as a virtuous financial instrument instead of an oppressive tool of debt slavery crushing debtors with debts that cannot be repaid. Our modern economic profession teaches the wonders of compound interest and how these debts should always be repaid and shame onto anyone who says otherwise. This is also our modern economic system in practice.

In ancient babylon, students were taught that compounding interest results in debts that cannot be repaid because actual material production does not compound in the way numbers on a piece of paper can.

Alobar posted:

Pretty much this. I'm a chef and a punk rocker, and a way I generally tell how much of a poser they are by the extent of their tattoo's. Especially michelin chefs that I run into sometimes. It's just like, your loving mommy bought you those tattoos when you were taking a break from cooking school where you really only learned how to stick your nose up when someone's trying to look you in the eye. I loving hate servers, but I understand how they have the money to burn on tattoos. When a cook/chef is covered in tattoos? Unless they're getting stick and pokes or maybe have a friend with a tattoo gun, it's rubs me suspicious. Sometimes people ask me where my tattoos are when I say I'm into punk, and it's like, I got into punk because I like nonconformity and now it's conformity in some ways to get tattoos.

Intelligence is obviously not linked to tattoos, but they're definitely status symbols that say "I had a few hundred dollars and a few hours to wait for art to be put on my arm." I don't have a few extra hundred dollars, and if I had the loving money to waste I'd travel across the country to visit my family that I miss, a lot.

One of the 2-star michelin kitchens I've worked in (washing dishes for a temp agency, getting paid more per hour than the chefs) there was one chef who had a michelin star tattoo on the inside of his forearm. I forgot exactly how he phrased it, but I'm pretty sure he said something along the lines of me maybe wanting the autographs of the chefs there. This same shift, I was picking up some plates from where the servers drop them off, and I asked a server if he still needed a receipt that was on the plate. He said no, and as I was throwing it into the trash, I saw the bill was $3,000. I will never, ever forget that. Ever. I declined their offer to work on their line. Very nice chef, though. I wanted to ask her if she cares so much about the future, why are all the chefs in their kitchens serving the upper class? Why is there no general strike?

Tattoos are this counter-cultural thing that has become mainstream. I remember back in the 90's, if someone had a *single* tattoo, people would be like "whoaaa, he has a tattooooo." Now, it's like, soccer moms have full sleeves and face tattoos and poo poo.

HazCat posted:

If you want a tattoo get a tattoo. If you don't, don't. Being so concerned about what people will or won't think about you and sneering at people who made a different choice than you is what makes you a conformist.

There's also nothing punk about being a judgmental prick who is obsessed with how other people will judge you if you put one foot out of line. That poo poo is and always has been as mainstream as gently caress. You'd fit right in with the soccer mums gossiping about each other.

HazCat posted:

If you want a tattoo get a tattoo. If you don't, don't.

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

Chefs are pricks

Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:

States that require unit pricing information on the shelf labels own.

Picnic Princess posted:

The ratio of tattoo keepers vs tattoo removers is pretty significant.

Alucard posted:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/01/corporate-logo-font-typeface-digital-studio/

Zil posted:

Dr Incel will see you now.

Alobar posted:

It's literally not that simple and you missed the gently caress point. What are you, drunk? I don't care if someone has tattoos, I'm saying that in general they're loving posers. If someone has 3 tattoos (especially if they're done by friends like my previous post mentions), they're probably going through more of the struggle than someone who can afford to be covered in them. Sort of like you trying to tell me what's punk and not punk like I give a single gently caress about you or your decision to not post pictures in a picture thread.




In general, yeah. I'm usually picking up everyone else's slack working multiple stations because people in this country are lazy as gently caress. It really gets loving hard telling someone the same loving thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and then you get asked "how do you this?" and the answer is "WITHOUT SPILLING poo poo EVERYWHERE!"