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keykey posted:I understand being salty about being poor is kind of "your thing" and all, but go out there and do something about your situation: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2968008 lol, gently caress off shithead
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keykey posted:I understand being salty about being poor is kind of "your thing" and all, but go out there and do something about your situation: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2968008 The only worse choice than going to law school.
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keykey posted:I understand being salty about being poor is kind of "your thing" and all, but go out there and do something about your situation: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2968008 Are you advocating for suicide? Please don't.
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BraveUlysses posted:lol, gently caress off shithead
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Nov 26, 2018 19:58
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Are you seriously telling someone to go get loaded up with student loans while stupid crashes the economy?
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Nov 26, 2018 20:03
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When I think "easy routes to a career", I sure do think of loving graduate degrees
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1 poo poo head is but a single component, which is why we have 3 branches of government, it's not like a president is the god ruler of the universe or anything, if that were the case we'd be hosed every election cycle. In any case, I'm sorry I forgot the golden rule of the internet: social justice is good for everything, business is bad and is what screws absolutely everything up. Sorry for bringing it up. I thought we could have an adult conversation, you can go back to your regular scheduled AI now.
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BraveUlysses posted:lol, gently caress off shithead (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 26, 2018 20:19
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keykey posted:adult conversation lmao
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Nov 26, 2018 20:27
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Yep, the nation is awash in college graduates who can't afford to repay their student loans and have found out their degrees are effectively worth less than the paper they're printed on - but let's double down on that and saddle up to six figures of debt that can literally only be discharged via death. What could possibly go wrong?!?
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I wanna have a conversation but first let me humblebrag about making 200k+ a year
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Nov 26, 2018 20:29
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any time some poor idiot normal citizen says some right wing talking point about "Tax Brackets" like that concept applies to anyone who isn't making $3m+ a year I immediately can identify they know gently caress-all about not being salty poors.
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keykey posted:1 poo poo head is but a single component, which is why we have 3 branches of government, it's not like a president is the god ruler of the universe or anything, if that were the case we'd be hosed every election cycle. In any case, I'm sorry I forgot the golden rule of the internet: social justice is good for everything, business is bad and is what screws absolutely everything up. Sorry for bringing it up. I thought we could have an adult conversation, you can go back to your regular scheduled AI now. Stop being a poor; get a mba is not an adult conversation.
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keykey posted:1 poo poo head is but a single component, which is why we have 3 branches of government, it's not like a president is the god ruler of the universe or anything, if that were the case we'd be hosed every election cycle. In any case, I'm sorry I forgot the golden rule of the internet: social justice is good for everything, business is bad and is what screws absolutely everything up. Sorry for bringing it up. I thought we could have an adult conversation, you can go back to your regular scheduled AI now. "All right, now that I've given my hot take and gotten the last word in, you all can shut up" BraveUlysses posted:lol, gently caress off shithead
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Nov 26, 2018 20:36
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Ask me about having 3 college degrees which oops makes me unemployable in the town I live in (as a teacher) FML
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No degree, no experience, got a great job at 39. I know plenty of people with great jobs but they are saddled with crushing amounts of debt. Edit: now reading it's more than 15% of GMs total workforce. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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keykey posted:1 poo poo head is but a single component, which is why we have 3 branches of government, it's not like a president is the god ruler of the universe or anything, if that were the case we'd be hosed every election cycle. In any case, I'm sorry I forgot the golden rule of the internet: social justice is good for everything, business is bad and is what screws absolutely everything up. Sorry for bringing it up. I thought we could have an adult conversation, you can go back to your regular scheduled AI now. drat... and y'all think I'm insufferable.
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Rhyno posted:No degree, no experience, got a great job at 39. I know plenty of people with great jobs but they are saddled with crushing amounts of debt. When do we declare that the US Auto Industry is second-tier? I mean, aside from trucks?
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The Prong Song posted:When do we declare that the US Auto Industry is second-tier? I mean, aside from trucks? I think that was de-facto declared in the '80s when it was supplanted jointly by the Germans and Japanese. The Koreans have been added to the matrix lately.
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Rhyno posted:No degree, no experience, got a great job at 39. I know plenty of people with great jobs but they are saddled with crushing amounts of debt. I’m so sick of winning
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Rhyno posted:No degree, no experience, got a great job at 39. I know plenty of people with great jobs but they are saddled with crushing amounts of debt. Same, except I'm 35. What pisses me off is when I was finishing high school college was presented as literally the only career track, with a caveat carved out for military enlistment or other civil service volunteering so you could pay for college later. The concept of entering the trades or *gasp* teaching yourself enough to earn certifications outside of a formal classroom was anathema to almost all of my teachers. If someone had steered me in the right direction around the end of my junior year my career track would have looked substantially different than it has, and I likely wouldn't have been stuck in a dead-end job with no raises for the better part of a decade in the mid-late 2000s.
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Geoj posted:What pisses me off is when I was finishing high school college was presented as literally the only career track I teach this in class. I ask "how many of you were told that you have to do well in high school to get into a good college to get a good job?" EVERY SINGLE STUDENT raises their hands. They are shocked when I tell them that is a new construct and that wasn't told to students even 20 years ago. The system has generated this doctrine that everyone needs to see college as a path and that's just bullshit. College has its place. So do the trades and other service careers. At the same time this doctrine has arisen, the cost of going to college has, in many cases, tripled. It's some serious bullshit fuckery we're doing to an entire generation of students when they go from having to ask permission to go to the bathroom to making life-effecting decisions within moments.
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The manager at Lexus BEGGED me not to leave and offered me anything he reasonably could. No sir I'm going to college like a good boy. Always wonder what life would have been like. It was a good place.
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meatpimp posted:They are shocked when I tell them that is a new construct and that wasn't told to students even 20 years ago. My district must have been ahead of the curve - graduated in 2001, and I never heard more than lip service or some form of "you could get into a vocation BUT college is better because..." for alternatives to college.
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Adiabatic posted:Yay Mars lander made it! It owns. We're gonna find out what's up with Mars'(s?) core.
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keykey posted:social justice is good for everything, business is bad and is what screws absolutely everything up. Agreed unironically
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Rhyno posted:We're heading over in a bit to start scraping popcorn ceiling. Yuck. Considering doing that when we paint and floor the living room. I swear it was someone here who posted a video of a guy that made a DIY rig to make that lot less messy. Basically a big wide funnel attached to the scraper, maybe with a vacuum? I need to find that. What's ya'll's feelings on ceiling treatments? Knockdown, or just treat like a wall and patch & paint? Definitely no more goddamn popcorn. everdave posted:I’m sure it didn’t get national attention but a man 2 days from retirement was killed in his new GTR by some bitch rear end punk throwing concrete off the bridge in Nashville. Haven’t caught anybody. My wife caught a brick through the windshield of her rental car many years ago, fortunately on the passenger side. Rattled her (and me, when she called me) pretty badly. Most likely tossed off the overpass she was traveling under, but there was no real way to tell. edit: college would be a lot more effective choice if it didn't cost more than you could make in a lifetime while still eating and living indoors.
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Queen Combat posted:Are you advocating for suicide? Please don't.  meatpimp posted:I teach this in class. I ask "how many of you were told that you have to do well in high school to get into a good college to get a good job?" EVERY SINGLE STUDENT raises their hands. They are shocked when I tell them that is a new construct and that wasn't told to students even 20 years ago. 20 years ago is when I was getting that line of bullshit, but otherwise I completely agree. The costs of post-secondary education are loving astronomical, and the value of that education is arguably decreasing.
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Oh hey, a bazillion posts in the chat thread. Someone's gonna get probed. edit: there you go Have you driven a Ford....lately?
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Goober Peas posted:Oh hey, a bazillion posts in the chat thread. Someone's gonna get probed. Yeah, I bought one, it was a piece of poo poo and the dealership treated me like a piece of poo poo, both pre-purchased and post-purchase. I already whined about it in the hatchback thread and in my Miata build thread.
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Goober Peas posted:Oh hey, a bazillion posts in the chat thread. Someone's gonna get probed. This morning. It rattles a bit but it is fun.
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everdave posted:I’m sure it didn’t get national attention but a man 2 days from retirement was killed in his new GTR by some bitch rear end punk throwing concrete off the bridge in Nashville. Haven’t caught anybody. I saw that, the size of the concrete was big enough that anyone doing it should have realized they were attempting (and committing) murder. I mean, a rock sized piece alone could kill, but this was obviously going to serious mess up the car/and or person.
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I’ll allow it because let’s be honest, making an already gaudy Lambo even more gaudy is just playing the game.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I’ll allow it because let’s be honest, making an already gaudy Lambo even more gaudy is just playing the game. Burn the fucker to the ground and acid bath the earth the ashes fell to
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Goober Peas posted:Oh hey, a bazillion posts in the chat thread. Someone's gonna get probed. The newest Fords I've driven have been the Transit vans, which are honestly pretty great as far as vans go. I mean, they're vans, but they have some nice features. Speaking of, I dunno how many people here have experience with vans, but if one were to be shopping for one, in say the 2010-2015 range, would you choose Chevy/GMC or Ford? I'm kinda looking into them for...reasons, and it seems like E-250s or 350s seem to be cheaper. I've driven a few different variants of the Chevy/GMC ones, and while they're ok, In my experience they seem to have a lot of transmission issues or rear diff issues. Other than that they seem to be pretty decent, if very simplistic vehicles. I mean, they haven't really updated them in like 30 years, so I guess they're doing something right.
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