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Doggles
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/JabariBrisport/status/1122515158574804992

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Cyber Punk 90210
Jan 7, 2004

The War Has Changed
Working at a marketing company and also having empathy is pretty hard, even as an IT person. I had to work on a video problem during a meeting and they were talking about expanding to more markets.

Key points that are totally normal:

"We want to make the brand appeal to that gay mexican immigrant" and "target that consumer that feels marginalized because they're black and listen to country"

The only thing in the room was white people and irony.

Maleh-Vor
Oct 26, 2003

Artificial difficulty.
Accenture is huge and has people all over the world working on international projects, which is great for your cv and experience if you're in a developing country as a developer. As far as I can tell, anyone I've met who's worked there has rarely lasted more than a couple of years, so that knowledge churn can't be great.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.


That's what you get when you try to get ad makers for $5/pop.

Prof. Lurker
Mar 10, 2015

I've got the fire of human liberty!

I'm setting fires everywhere!

And humans are turning on everywhere!
was deleted but lol:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Remember that time during the recession Chase took $20bn+ in money from the government secretly while publicly shaming other companies for taking money from the government and claiming that they're a stable rock that's going to help the government stay solvent and other dumb poo poo like that?

No idea why that memory just popped into my head right now, weird.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

Prof. Lurker posted:

was deleted but lol:



and just with that tweet poverty was solved

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

Shame Boy posted:

Remember that time during the recession Chase took $20bn+ in money from the government secretly while publicly shaming other companies for taking money from the government and claiming that they're a stable rock that's going to help the government stay solvent and other dumb poo poo like that?

No idea why that memory just popped into my head right now, weird.

i honestly dont remember that but it seems 100% on brand for a finance company

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/clump_maria/status/1122864192376266753?s=21

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

Helen Skelter posted:

Working at a marketing company and also having empathy is pretty hard, even as an IT person. I had to work on a video problem during a meeting and they were talking about expanding to more markets.

Key points that are totally normal:

"We want to make the brand appeal to that gay mexican immigrant" and "target that consumer that feels marginalized because they're black and listen to country"

The only thing in the room was white people and irony.

anybody who willingly pursues a marketing career doesn't have a soul. either it was sucked out or they never had one and they're just a shambling homunculus animated by a cynicism so violent and misanthropic it'd make even the most nihilistic death crew c-spammer uncomfortable

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Shame Boy posted:

Remember that time during the recession Chase took $20bn+ in money from the government secretly while publicly shaming other companies for taking money from the government and claiming that they're a stable rock that's going to help the government stay solvent and other dumb poo poo like that?

No idea why that memory just popped into my head right now, weird.

Ford did the same, they got a low-interest loan from the government to stay afloat but publicly advertised not having taken any bailout, unlike GM.

Sanguinary Novel
Jan 27, 2009

Prof. Lurker posted:

was deleted but lol:



https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1122954072867450880?s=20

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

okay warren is good now

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Helen Skelter posted:

Working at a marketing company and also having empathy is pretty hard, even as an IT person. I had to work on a video problem during a meeting and they were talking about expanding to more markets.

Key points that are totally normal:

"We want to make the brand appeal to that gay mexican immigrant" and "target that consumer that feels marginalized because they're black and listen to country"

The only thing in the room was white people and irony.

Its cool that highly paid marketing idiots dont know that theres more than the same 4 or 5 pop stars doing country music

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Taintrunner posted:

okay warren is good now

her biggest mistake (well, other than being a republican at one point in the past) was how she handled the native american thing, almost all of her policy stances are about as good as we can hope for under the current system

though i agree that bernie's better from a pure organizing standpoint, warren and bernie might be equivalent or warren even a little to the left of bernie on some things but sustained left momentum is going to require a movement of people, not just one person

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

if not for her "capitalist to her bones"-ness, 2019 warren seems like a pretty goddamn good democratic nominee tbh. id volunteer for her in 2020 if my Bernie! MyBernie! gets beaten by her in a non-ratfucky way. hopefully she pulls him even further left on those issues she is to the left of him

but bernie is gonna win, so whatever.

also, lmao at that lady wanting to turn her dead boyfriend into an ad. id haunt my wife so goddamn bad if she did that even as a goof

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

Shipon posted:

her biggest mistake (well, other than being a republican at one point in the past) was how she handled the native american thing, almost all of her policy stances are about as good as we can hope for under the current system

though i agree that bernie's better from a pure organizing standpoint, warren and bernie might be equivalent or warren even a little to the left of bernie on some things but sustained left momentum is going to require a movement of people, not just one person

Warren is a policy dork. which is fine.

the problem is we need to flip the senate to have any hope in hell of passing ANYTHING she proposes.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
But really, why are pencils yellow? Is the yellow meant to evoke the sunny cheer of back-to-school season? Is it so the pencils are easy to spot when you drop your writing utensils on the floor? Or is the yellow some sort of special anti-decay varnish? None of the above. As it turns out, there's actually some fascinating history behind the signature yellow color of No. 2 pencils.

"During the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. American pencil makers wanted a special way to tell people that their pencils contained Chinese graphite," explains a post on Pencils.com, an online retailer of writing supplies. "In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty and respect. American pencil manufacturers began painting their pencils bright yellow to communicate this 'regal' feeling and association with China."


lol sure

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

MRC48B posted:

Warren is a policy dork. which is fine.

the problem is we need to flip the senate to have any hope in hell of passing ANYTHING she proposes.

That's why we need to support one of those candidates who can pass laws WITHOUT the senate.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Weembles posted:

That's why we need to support one of those candidates who can pass laws WITHOUT the senate.

technically all presidents can

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Weembles posted:

That's why we need to support one of those candidates who can pass laws WITHOUT the senate.

Sheev Palpatine for president?

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Eat This Glob posted:

if not for her "capitalist to her bones"-ness, 2019 warren seems like a pretty goddamn good democratic nominee tbh. id volunteer for her in 2020 if my Bernie! MyBernie! gets beaten by her in a non-ratfucky way. hopefully she pulls him even further left on those issues she is to the left of him

but bernie is gonna win, so whatever.

also, lmao at that lady wanting to turn her dead boyfriend into an ad. id haunt my wife so goddamn bad if she did that even as a goof

I would be okay with it. If my fiancee were able to joke with a brand on Twitter about my ashes it would mean that she has somewhat composed herself after I died.

Or that she's incredibly broken.

Either way I'm dead whatever

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

Len posted:

I would be okay with it. If my fiancee were able to joke with a brand on Twitter about my ashes it would mean that she has somewhat composed herself after I died.

Or that she's incredibly broken.

Either way I'm dead whatever

fair point. if she was loving with a brand, i would be ok with it. also if she got into marketing. im dead so im confident i wont be watching her. id hate to be cucked from beyond the grave

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



hobbesmaster posted:

Sheev Palpatine for president?

They said without the senate, not AS the senate.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

If Warren doesn't win the nomination but Dems win, I sincerely hope she gets a high position in the administration. Her policy is really fuckin good

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
well she thinks big banks can exist but should be accountable, which any bank significantly big enough (coincidentally much smaller than any of our big banks) will resist with force

i like warren a lot, but she's got the michael lewis disease of believing in a kinder, gentler, more responsible capitalism.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

ScrubLeague posted:

well she thinks big banks can exist but should be accountable, which any bank significantly big enough (coincidentally much smaller than any of our big banks) will resist with force

i like warren a lot, but she's got the michael lewis disease of believing in a kinder, gentler, more responsible capitalism.

That describes every candidate tbh. You're not gonna find a presidential nominee who actually wants to transition away from capitalism.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Joe Biden will win by running on an appeal to the kind of boring normalcy that everyone has been starved of since 2016

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

Joe Biden will win by running on an appeal to the kind of boring normalcy that everyone has been starved of since 2016

until 2024 rolls around when the economy goes through a mega-recession again because no one changed a drat thing and we get someone smarter and far more evil than trump

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Shame Boy posted:

Joe Biden will win by running on an appeal to the kind of boring normalcy that everyone has been starved of since 2016

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Warren could make a good veep. She's almost a decade younger than Bernie, and it's probably worth having a safety net rather than putting all our eggs in one eighty-year-old socialist basket headed into one of the most stressful and assassination-prone jobs in the world.

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Darth Walrus posted:

Warren could make a good veep. She's almost a decade younger than Bernie, and it's probably worth having a safety net rather than putting all our eggs in one eighty-year-old socialist basket headed into one of the most stressful and assassination-prone jobs in the world.

sanders/warren would be one hell of a ticket for sure, i would just hope that someone similar to warren would replace her in MA senate because we need more people like her in the senate for sure

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

nah warren sucks

you want someone who isn't scared of the word socialism and isn't going to stand and clap at the sotu when trump says he's going to own socialism

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Shipon posted:

sanders/warren would be one hell of a ticket for sure, i would just hope that someone similar to warren would replace her in MA senate because we need more people like her in the senate for sure

Northeastern liberals don’t win Presidential elections. The last time one did was 1960.

it dont matter
Aug 29, 2008

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/29/tech-firm-apologizes-after-job-ad-seeks-preferably-caucasian-candidates

Had to double check the date on this one because it's hard to believe that in tyool 2019 someone put “preferably Caucasian” on a job ad.

quote:

Cynet issued an apology, saying individuals involved had been fired and the job post “does not reflect our core values of inclusivity & equality”.

quote:

Another listing from Cynet, for an account manager at a firm in Virginia, asked for a “female candidate only”.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Shipon posted:

until 2024 rolls around when the economy goes through a mega-recession again because no one changed a drat thing and we get someone smarter and far more evil than trump

Sooo..... Pence?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/29/tech-firm-apologizes-after-job-ad-seeks-preferably-caucasian-candidates

Had to double check the date on this one because it's hard to believe that in tyool 2019 someone put “preferably Caucasian” on a job ad.

I like the stock photo of a nonwhite person in case you forgot what they look like

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/health/mallinckrodt-whistleblower-lawsuit-acthar/index.html

quote:

Two whistleblowers at a pharmaceutical company responsible for one of the largest drug price increases in US history said the company bribed doctors and their staffs to increase sales, according to newly unsealed documents in federal court.

The effort, the whistleblowers said in a lawsuit against the company, was part of an intentional "multi-tiered strategy" by Questcor Pharmaceuticals, now Mallinckrodt, to boost sales of H.P. Acthar Gel, cheating the government out of millions of dollars.

The price of the drug, best known for treating a rare infant seizure disorder, has increased almost 97,000%, from $40 a vial in 2000 to nearly $39,000 today.

We need something more visceral and painful than a Guillotine IMO

anonumos
Jul 14, 2005

Fuck it.

Feed them through backwards...

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it dont matter
Aug 29, 2008


Have you seen Bone Tomahawk

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