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Isn't encouraging hoarding of semi-perishable goods when the threat is so existential/low probability bad for the economy? Someone who knows about cars tell me about the gas going bad, so I can feel better about this tank truck I filled with nothing but fuel stabilizer.
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Thanks goodness all we need for booze is some old fruit, a plastic bag, and yeast.TVsVeryOwn posted:Isn't encouraging hoarding of semi-perishable goods when the threat is so existential/low probability bad for the economy? Hoarding does nothing as long as few people are doing it. But if everyone tries to drive around with a full tank of gas problems start. As for gas, The Walking Dead is full of poo poo with people driving around 5 or 6 years after a zombie apocalypse. Diesel might last longer, but gasoline would be worthless even with additives. I think the latest season has them using biofuels, which is at least plausible. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Nov 15, 2018 |
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Nov 15, 2018 20:34
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TVsVeryOwn posted:Isn't encouraging hoarding of semi-perishable goods when the threat is so existential/low probability bad for the economy? hoarding -> mass rot -> mass replacement purchases It is, in fact, good for the economy, if you consider "the economy" selling poo poo and nothing else
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Nov 15, 2018 20:35
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Nov 15, 2018 20:37
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Not a Children posted:hoarding -> mass rot -> mass replacement purchases What if I consider the economy PPP of a fulltime minimum wage worker?
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Nov 15, 2018 20:37
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Krispy Wafer posted:As for gas, The Walking Dead is full of poo poo with people driving around 5 or 6 years after a zombie apocalypse. Diesel might last longer, but gasoline would be worthless even with additives. 100LL (aviation fuel) has a hell of a shelf life. Like 10+ years. Not sure I'd want to FLY on 10 year old avgas, but it runs small equipment just fine. As for the rest on Walking Dead - the magical batteries that are all reaching their shelf life but are somehow still often charged, 5+ year old tires with nothing to replace them with (which are somehow still inflated on like every car they come across).
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Nov 15, 2018 20:49
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My friends work offers a sweet deal of paying $40 per pay period for 3 days of vacation. People actually bite and take the offer.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:01
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I personally invest in silver rather than gold because it has the added benefit of being helpful in werewolf, vampire, and certain other undead doomsday scenarios. Content: I need $1000 ASAP. What's the safest way to get fast cash without falling into the payday loan trap? quote:I need $1000 ASAP. What's the safest way to get fast cash without falling into the payday loan trap?
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Nov 15, 2018 21:09
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Tomfoolery posted:I personally invest in silver rather than gold because it has the added benefit of being helpful in werewolf, vampire, and certain other undead doomsday scenarios. Dude should hitch hike to Mexico.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:11
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Or ask some of these incredibly close friends who can afford a wedding in Mexico to spot him.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:15
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Buddy of mine posted on Facebook, asking for easy ways to make a little extra cash from home The majority of the replies were "trade crypto"
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Nov 15, 2018 21:22
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Constantine established the Solidus as a gold standard that survived the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:29
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Weddings are BWM. Destination weddings are slightly less BWM for the hosts, or at least a lot of people have tried to sell me on that. Problem is that even if they are cheaper to the host, destination weddings just put a bunch of extra cost burden on the guests. Especially in the case of those in the wedding party or super close family friends who are expected to be there.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:42
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wilderthanmild posted:Weddings are BWM. Destination weddings are slightly less BWM for the hosts, or at least a lot of people have tried to sell me on that. Problem is that even if they are cheaper to the host, destination weddings just put a bunch of extra cost burden on the guests. Especially in the case of those in the wedding party or super close family friends who are expected to be there. Teleconference your guests to your destination wedding.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:50
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TVsVeryOwn posted:Teleconference your guests to your destination wedding. Get those remote control video conference bots and have them all get stuck in the sand as they try to reach your beach nuptials.
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Nov 15, 2018 21:54
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Not a Children posted:Buddy of mine posted on Facebook, asking for easy ways to make a little extra cash from home Real answer: Do mind-numbing tasks on Mechanical Turk for sub-sub-minimum-wage
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BMan posted:Real answer: Do mind-numbing tasks on Mechanical Turk for sub-sub-minimum-wage Not gonna lie, I thought about suggesting it But then I decided I wanted him to not hate me
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wilderthanmild posted:Weddings are BWM. Destination weddings are slightly less BWM for the hosts, or at least a lot of people have tried to sell me on that. Problem is that even if they are cheaper to the host, destination weddings just put a bunch of extra cost burden on the guests. Especially in the case of those in the wedding party or super close family friends who are expected to be there. That depends pretty heavily on how many guests have to fly in anyway and how expensive the destination city is vs. how expensive the city that you live in is. All the relatives flying into some middle of nowhere state college town can be more expensive than a destination wedding somewhere way more fun.
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Nov 15, 2018 22:36
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George H.W. oval office posted:My friends work offers a sweet deal of paying $40 per pay period for 3 days of vacation. People actually bite and take the offer.
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Nov 15, 2018 23:04
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Wolfy posted:Are we talking like, $80 a month for the whole year for a total of 3 days of vacation? Yup
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Nov 15, 2018 23:18
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If you make over $40 an hour it works out in your favor.
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Nov 15, 2018 23:20
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Or, as suggested by multiple surveys and studies, people generally find jobs unfulfilling and a lot of people would gladly take a nonlinear pay cut to work less
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Nov 15, 2018 23:28
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Or, as suggested by multiple surveys and studies, people generally find jobs unfulfilling and a lot of people would gladly take a nonlinear pay cut to work less Yeah this happens constantly. Ask someone on a Friday at 4pm if they want to leave an hour early unpaid and they'll generally say yes.
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Nov 15, 2018 23:35
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Yeah after doing the math, that’s not a bad trade, depending on how much money someone makes. It’s a weird way to do vacation though. Context is important. What kind of money are people making there? Is this a supplement to a more standard vacation time arrangement?
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Nov 16, 2018 00:00
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We were offered that at a prior job and it's a nice deal depending on how much you value time off. I wish I could buy some vacation time at my current job.
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Nov 16, 2018 00:04
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My company allows us to buy up to a week of extra vacation time at our hourly rate (based on a calendar year of 2080 hours for those that are salaried) . It used to be 2 weeks and I wish it still was. I am happy to take a week less of pay per year to get that extra week off.
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Nov 16, 2018 00:33
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George H.W. oval office posted:My friends work offers a sweet deal of paying $40 per pay period for 3 days of vacation. People actually bite and take the offer.
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Nov 16, 2018 00:35
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Ixian posted:Not if it's made in the spur of the moment.
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Nov 16, 2018 01:05
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Thanatosian posted:Pre-tax or post-tax? The benefit at my company is pre-tax, since you are just agreeing to a reduction of your annual income in exchange for a corresponding amount of time off.
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Nov 16, 2018 02:00
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If this guy's savvy, this might turn gwm. Bitch that service manager up.one side and down the other about doing work that was specifically not authorized.
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Nov 16, 2018 02:37
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therobit posted:The benefit at my company is pre-tax, since you are just agreeing to a reduction of your annual income in exchange for a corresponding amount of time off. I might be misunderstanding how this benefit works, but isn't it the equivalent of just taking 3 unpaid days?
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Nov 16, 2018 02:44
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Umister posted:I might be misunderstanding how this benefit works, but isn't it the equivalent of just taking 3 unpaid days? Most places in the US call taking three unpaid days Job Abandonment and fire you for it.
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Nov 16, 2018 02:48
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Inept posted:Ah yes, $2k a year for a photo of your kid seems reasonable to me, said the out of touch person. It doesn't matter your personal feelings what a photo is worth, it will fly, and it is good with money to set your children up with a tax sheltered retirement account.
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Wolfy posted:Yeah after doing the math, that’s not a bad trade, depending on how much money someone makes. It’s a weird way to do vacation though. Context is important. What kind of money are people making there? Is this a supplement to a more standard vacation time arrangement? We had something like this at one of my old employers. You could trade one week of vacation for equivalent pay or vice-versa to increase your vacation time. It was all treated on a pre-tax basis and they just adjusted the pay accordingly. That being said, it was done at our exact pay rate and not a set value, so you didn't have to work out whether or not you were paying a premium to get a few extra days or not.
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Umister posted:I might be misunderstanding how this benefit works, but isn't it the equivalent of just taking 3 unpaid days? Yes, but the cost is spread over the entire year instead of having one short paycheck. Also, it would be a lot harder to justify taking 3 unpaid days without some sort of leave to cover it. Then it would be subject to manager approval, and if I didn't have a really good reason for it would be denied. I am basically guaranteed the time off if I purchase it through ther benefits program. My manager will start bugging me about it if all my vacation isn't scheduled by around August because we have a "use it or lose it" policy on vacation time, and they get poo poo from their managers if a bunch of their people have their vacation hours expire.
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wilderthanmild posted:I'm under the impression that most medication has a really long shelf life. A quick Google search turns up results claiming they are good for decades, but may begin to lose potency after the expiration date. If you rely on insulin... 
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wilderthanmild posted:I'm under the impression that most medication has a really long shelf life. A quick Google search turns up results claiming they are good for decades, but may begin to lose potency after the expiration date. This really, really depends on the medication and the conditions under which it's been stored. The expiry is based on how long of stability studies we have data to support in the filing (with the standard being 2-3 years based on FDA expectations and what a business cycle can deal with), but there are a lot of medications where the expiry either barely makes it to that limit. Basically, if you see a limit shorter than two years in a modern product, it means it. There's no way we'd have done shorter than two years unless that product was just going to poo poo beyond that. Older medications or medications that are OTC, less so the case with this because nobody's going to go back and do a five-year ambient study on something they can't sell for more than $2.00 anyway, or where re-opening the product for regulatory inspection might threaten the current approval state (older products under older standards, etc). Sundae fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Nov 16, 2018 |
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brugroffil posted:If you rely on insulin... This is the main reason why prepper, zombie, and post apocalypse poo poo is so insipid for me; I'm dead in a week regardless of anything. 
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Midjack posted:This is the main reason why prepper, zombie, and post apocalypse poo poo is so insipid for me; I'm dead in a week regardless of anything. Honestly probably for the best It's not like The Road is a world you'd want to live in
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Murderball posted:Prepper stockpiles are GWL because you can show your friends your cool stuff without having your wife and kids around to distract from it Because they don’t care or because they’re gone?
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