Shame Boy posted:

A while ago my cat had a tapeworm hanging out of his butt and I pulled it out because idk what else to do and boy that thing was long, didn't even get all of it because it snapped in half. Probably not the best idea to just tug on the thing but eh. Took him into the vet and got him de-wormed after, of course.

Also when your cat has a tapeworm, bits of the tapeworm containing eggs worm their way out of his butt constantly and wiggle around everywhere. Even though they're just segments of the larger worm, they keep wiggling for a long time after they detach, presumably so some creature thinks it's a tasty grub and eats it. That sure was a fun time

Shame Boy posted:

A while ago my cat had a tapeworm hanging out of his butt and I pulled it out because idk what else to do and boy that thing was long, didn't even get all of it because it snapped in half. Probably not the best idea to just tug on the thing but eh. Took him into the vet and got him de-wormed after, of course.

Also when your cat has a tapeworm, bits of the tapeworm containing eggs worm their way out of his butt constantly and wiggle around everywhere. Even though they're just segments of the larger worm, they keep wiggling for a long time after they detach, presumably so some creature thinks it's a tasty grub and eats it. That sure was a fun time

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Now, true that people might have to pay a little bit of interest, but the idea that it's paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea.

necroid posted:

I guess not because unless you take out the head it's going to replicate itself without issue, and those fuckers have hooks to make sure they never let go

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/mattyhoyeCNN/status/1088467960543539204


"Go into debt to work the job you're not getting paid for" -Economic advice from billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

Outrail posted:

Is that custom dildo thread still active? Asking for a friend.

Raldikuk posted:

His suggestion is to literally take out payday loans to cover the gap. And he says the pay is guaranteed but it might not actually be. What a fuckstick.

a capitalist posted:

Now, true that people might have to pay a little bit of interest, but

Raldikuk posted:

His suggestion is to literally take out payday loans to cover the gap. And he says the pay is guaranteed but it might not actually be. What a fuckstick.

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Payday lenders usually charge interest of $15-$20 for every $100 borrowed. Calculated on an annual percentage rate basis (APR) – the same as is used for credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, etc. – that APR ranges from 391% to more than 521% for payday loans.

RabbitWizard posted:

Isn't that just a regular 4-vaginas + 1 tentacle-rear end in a top hat fleshlight?

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Moridin920 posted:

I would bet money that he owns or has stake in payday loan places, too

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1088594851841622016

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“The banks and credit unions should be making credit available to them,” Ross said on CNBC. “When you think about it, these are basically government-guaranteed loans because the government has committed these folks will get back pay once this whole thing gets settled down. So there really is not a good excuse why there should be a liquidity crisis."

ElectricBlizzard posted:

boar guy posted:

that's the ceiling in an MRI or CT scan room and it's perfectly acceptable and actually helps a lot

Imagined posted:

I have done a lot of dumb poo poo with my money in my life. I've spent a winter with no heat boiling water for my bath on an electric hotplate because my gas got turned off. I've run up credit cards and never paid them off. I've pawned priceless heirlooms to pay the rent.

But even I knew never to gently caress with those payday loan motherfuckers. That is about as literal a deal with the devil as you can get short of owing a favor to the literal mafia. At least the mafia is upfront about what they are.

Better by far to sleep in your car and eat cat food than start that payday loan cycle. I was lucky in that during the most desperate times of my life I didn't have any kids to worry about. I suffered, but I didn't feel guilty about it. I can't imagine what it would be like now that I do have one. Terrifying. Trump and the rest of these vultures... I hope there is a hell so they can burn in it.

It's part of a long term plan to destroy the concept of government. What qualified person would go into Federal service after this? What Federal employee who could possibly get a private industry job won't be doing so, now? Why would they come back?

starkebn posted:

Isn't that how those rich as gently caress people live? Just taking out cash loans against their shares and assets? Probably have no idea what life is life for anybody who lives off their paycheck.

Imagined posted:

I have done a lot of dumb poo poo with my money in my life. I've spent a winter with no heat boiling water for my bath on an electric hotplate because my gas got turned off. I've run up credit cards and never paid them off. I've pawned priceless heirlooms to pay the rent.

But even I knew never to gently caress with those payday loan motherfuckers. That is about as literal a deal with the devil as you can get short of owing a favor to the literal mafia. At least the mafia is upfront about what they are.

Better by far to sleep in your car and eat cat food than start that payday loan cycle. I was lucky in that during the most desperate times of my life I didn't have any kids to worry about. I suffered, but I didn't feel guilty about it. I can't imagine what it would be like now that I do have one. Terrifying. Trump and the rest of these vultures... I hope there is a hell so they can burn in it.

It's part of a long term plan to destroy the concept of government. What qualified person would go into Federal service after this? What Federal employee who could possibly get a private industry job won't be doing so, now? Why would they come back?

lancemantis posted:

Street fight taught me all I ever needed to know about “payday” loans

poo poo is literally taxes levied by banks with a degree of separation that you’re trapped paying until you finally get a windfall to reset everything - they’re not a loan, it’s a semi permanent payday shift you have to pay out the rear end for

Away all Goats posted:

mehall posted:

No seat on my bus.
It's a double decker at just before 7am, and I now have 20mins on the motorway, standing.

Bert Roberge posted:

This is just bleak.

Spatial posted:

I've worked in a large company now for several years and I'm absolutely surrounded by capitalism.txt. I'll tell you a story.

For the last few years there's been a big medical hardware project with about 100 full time people on it and projected revenue in the high billions. It's part of a mega-sized project for a big customer which will bring in hundreds of billions for them over the next decade. With such big money involved there was a lot of eyes on it, and a lot of upper management eyes means a lot of middle management lies.

Initially the project goes well albeit slower than planned. By the time the expected completion date comes around the project is running late, about 75% done and mostly untested. This is bad because a lot of promotions are at stake - managers can't move to their next promotion earned from all those optimistic reports if the project is plainly unfinished, and the VP's bonus would be affected. So what happens? Congratulations everyone on a job well done. The project is now completed and released!

Unfortunately there is the slight problem that nobody has tested it and it's borderline unusable. But that reality can not be acknowledged in any way by management, who have already leveraged this great outcome to their benefit.

So everyone moves off the project and now it's in maintenance status. The other company is told nothing and as far as they know the project is continuing normally and the whole team is working hard. In reality there is ONE PERSON working on it.

A major and unthinkable complication arises: the customer begins to test the product prior to using it. Even worse the folks involved are highly competent and diligent. They find numerous major problems which could put their hundreds of billions megaproject at risk, there are no answers to give them, and soon there are calls being made to our senior management. Their team gets on a flight and to meet with our team so we can all work through the problems together in person.

Wait. What team? Since there is none, people are brought in to fill up seats in the meeting room even though they don't work on the project anymore or have never worked on it. It's a straight up potemkin village.

I worked on a piece of this project at a critical point and had personal contact with the leads on the other side which is why I still get front row seats anytime it comes up. The potemkin meetings have now happened several times. The VP has moved to a different department and the project is a multi-billion dollar hot potato nobody wants because they won't get credit for an already completed project. That one last guy has gotten fed up and is leaving the company. He is also the only one who knows how it works and the primary customer contact.

Then my 55 year old coworker says that companies are innately more efficient than government and striking workers should get a real job

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Did you know that you can access money from your life insurance policy BEFORE you die?

Most whole life insurance policies allow you to borrow money from the policy and pay it back using the death benefit automatically when you die. Any remaining benefit is then paid out to your beneficiary with serious tax benefits!

Owning such a policy can provide a significant amount of annual income after retirement!

Raldikuk posted:

It really needs to be emphasized again that he isn't just saying "oh take out a loan to get through", but he's suggesting to take out payday loans using paychecks they might not see for months as collateral. Depending on the terms of the specific loan they might be go into a different payment plan that will make it impossible to pay off. It isn't a solution at all and for people who have to decide between a loan or no paycheck it just means they kick the can down the road and once (if) they start getting paid again they'll be hosed.

Like look at this poo poo:


Even if we assume they were going to start getting paid again tomorrow, the very idea they are "government guaranteed" is horseshit unless the paychecks are put up as collateral. gently caress this guy.

EugeneJ posted:

https://twitter.com/2forme2foryou/status/1088817347102760960

Local Weather posted:

I was hired at a foreign subsidiary of a major American corporation to build a specialized software system. During my project one of the other projects going on, one with substantially more attention from the top falls behind, like way behind. To try and fix this the company takes my entire development team and assigns them to the failing project. They then tell me that I have to present my project to corporate review as complete, we pass the review and are now in maintenance mode. The dev team I have been working with for two years proceed to all leave the company so not only does my project come to a screeching halt, the other project gets nothing from it.

I am told to get my team back I have to go out and get customers to agree to a beta test project with the system. It is not finished, it is marginally functional, but I have to do this to continue on. I manage to get a beta site, I am told that I still won't have a dev team for several months, as to how I am supposed to deal with this I have to figure that out for myself.

In a week or two I will be in an office with people expecting to be able to do stuff in the system and frankly I will be pretty loving surprised if they don't throw me out of their offices.

The tech industry is so full of complete bullshit it's incredible that anything gets done.

Spatial posted:

I've worked in a large company now for several years and I'm absolutely surrounded by capitalism.txt. I'll tell you a story.

For the last few years there's been a big medical hardware project with about 100 full time people on it and projected revenue in the high billions. It's part of a mega-sized project for a big customer which will bring in hundreds of billions for them over the next decade. With such big money involved there was a lot of eyes on it, and a lot of upper management eyes means a lot of middle management lies.

Initially the project goes well albeit slower than planned. By the time the expected completion date comes around the project is running late, about 75% done and mostly untested. This is bad because a lot of promotions are at stake - managers can't move to their next promotion earned from all those optimistic reports if the project is plainly unfinished, and the VP's bonus would be affected. So what happens? Congratulations everyone on a job well done. The project is now completed and released!

Unfortunately there is the slight problem that nobody has tested it and it's borderline unusable. But that reality can not be acknowledged in any way by management, who have already leveraged this great outcome to their benefit.

So everyone moves off the project and now it's in maintenance status. The other company is told nothing and as far as they know the project is continuing normally and the whole team is working hard. In reality there is ONE PERSON working on it.

A major and unthinkable complication arises: the customer begins to test the product prior to using it. Even worse the folks involved are highly competent and diligent. They find numerous major problems which could put their hundreds of billions megaproject at risk, there are no answers to give them, and soon there are calls being made to our senior management. Their team gets on a flight and to meet with our team so we can all work through the problems together in person.

Wait. What team? Since there is none, people are brought in to fill up seats in the meeting room even though they don't work on the project anymore or have never worked on it. It's a straight up potemkin village.

I worked on a piece of this project at a critical point and had personal contact with the leads on the other side which is why I still get front row seats anytime it comes up. The potemkin meetings have now happened several times. The VP has moved to a different department and the project is a multi-billion dollar hot potato nobody wants because they won't get credit for an already completed project. That one last guy has gotten fed up and is leaving the company. He is also the only one who knows how it works and the primary customer contact.

Then my 55 year old coworker says that companies are innately more efficient than government and striking workers should get a real job