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SA these days is probably the most normal a website has ever been because I find social media much more full of horrible poo poo than this forum nowadays. This forum is basically a sanctuary in 2019 where we have 8chan shooters.
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It's because everyone else are proletariats who couldn't afford the ten bux and got radicalized by fascists. The real bourgeois was us all along.
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May 13, 2019 08:17
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what fates could have been avoided if the forums never opened... mysteries
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May 13, 2019 08:42
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asaf posted:what fates could have been avoided if the forums never opened... mysteries HRC would have won, for start
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May 13, 2019 08:54
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The Pandora's Box of the Internet. Now we're all hosed.
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May 13, 2019 08:56
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Whoever made this training, literally kill you'reself. e. Capital W Welcome.
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May 13, 2019 09:27
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'Valued Partner Induction Training', goddamn.
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May 13, 2019 10:18
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I’ve always viewed SA as the premium lounge at the airport: sliding doors that only open with a  bill, sound-proofing so you don’t hear the chaos, large one way mirror walls, and an enthusiastic bouncer.Every so often I sign up to a different forum for a specific question, but I always end up regretting it bc the internet is full of super angry men. Not to make it seem like I need a Safe Space (TM), I just want a chill place to hangout.
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May 13, 2019 10:36
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Elevator music playing in all threads.
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3kwb/jeff-bezos-is-a-post-earth-capitalistquote:Thursday night, ultra-billionaire Jeff Bezos—whose net worth is in excess of $157 billion—outlined a vision of an “incredible civilization” with trillions of people living in space, at a small, invite only event in Washington, DC. quote:Bezos argued that space “colonies” are a solution to humanity’s “long range” problems, like energy availability and ceilings on capitalist notions of unfettered, limitless growth. Space colonies, Bezos said, are a way to expand the human population and offset the impacts of agriculture and industry on Earth. This strategy, according to Bezos, leaves Earth an idyllic paradise: a place to go on vacation, a place to go to college—in other words, a place for the elite. Can't wait for the future where my descendants will toil in the amazon asteroid mines to ensure a healthy annual growth for octillionaires who survive for hundreds of years in orbital palaces thanks to cryogenic storage and the blood of the young.
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May 13, 2019 11:16
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Guillotines don't work in zero-g.
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May 13, 2019 11:27
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They can be fired into the sun. No cleanup required that way too.
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May 13, 2019 11:35
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Elman posted:Guillotines don't work in zero-g. counterpoint: motorized array centrifugal guillotine
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May 13, 2019 11:56
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Elman posted:Guillotines don't work in zero-g. what if you attach tiny rockets to the blade to shove it towards the neck
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May 13, 2019 12:07
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big magnets
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May 13, 2019 12:15
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:big magnets the other suggestions are good but this one is the best because goddamn
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May 13, 2019 12:47
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all of my searches for electromagnetic guillotine were guillotines being slowed down as they reached the chopping point by magnetism. i want to see a loving MRI with a steel bladed guillotine attached to the top. gently caress off gravity, we're accelerating faster than that wait actually you make an MRI where as the magnets wind up once they reach a certain speed a blade is released that flies through the center and decapitates the person laying in the middle
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May 13, 2019 12:53
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I worked at Best Buy for about a week back in my early 20's, the training was atrocious. It was ~50% bullshit like this and 50% ways to push their lovely protection plans on customers. You would get called out for every single purchase if you didn't sell one. One day I wore a dark brown belt instead of a black one and was pulled aside by three different managers telling me why that is against the dress code, and I did not come back the next day. for actual content, not an image but relevant to the thread: A year or two ago I read about this company that was offering free coding classes to former coal miners in Appalachia, in which they would be paid while studying and promising them jobs once they completed the class. They got a $1.5 M grant from the state to do so. Turned out to be a total fraud - they didn't actually pay the students anything, so a bunch of people who quit their regular jobs and purchased laptops were hosed, and only one person actually got a job afterwards but was fired after a few months. There was supposed to be a big project everyone was going to work on once they graduated, but it turned out to be a website for a small business owned by the founders' parents. Meanwhile the founders spent the money traveling the world and throwing parties. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html
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May 13, 2019 13:37
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gey muckle mowser posted:I worked at Best Buy for about a week back in my early 20's, the training was atrocious. It was ~50% bullshit like this and 50% ways to push their lovely protection plans on customers. You would get called out for every single purchase if you didn't sell one. I worked at Best Buy one Christmas season and can confirm this is a thing. Multiple managers each day would come by and ask why I was having such a hard time selling the plans and they wouldn't have a good reply to "because every time I bought it you guys screwed me over when it came to using it"
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May 13, 2019 13:40
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Len posted:I worked at Best Buy one Christmas season and can confirm this is a thing. Multiple managers each day would come by and ask why I was having such a hard time selling the plans and they wouldn't have a good reply to "because every time I bought it you guys screwed me over when it came to using it" The only time I've ever bought a best buy protection plan was when my Wii controller stopped working so I bought a new one with a protection plan and the next day returned the broken one.
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May 13, 2019 13:49
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The Nastier Nate posted:The only time I've ever bought a best buy protection plan was when my Wii controller stopped working so I bought a new one with a protection plan and the next day returned the broken one. this doesn’t work anymore because they check the serial numbers now
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May 13, 2019 15:01
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DrManiac posted:this doesn’t work anymore because they check the serial numbers now Switch the stickers, or are they embedded?
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May 13, 2019 15:23
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Tashilicious posted:I mean literally /pol/ is what happens when the horrible poo poo gets kicked off SA I think lowtax or someone said "flush a turd and it goes to the sewers"
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May 13, 2019 15:31
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Socks4Hands posted:all of my searches for electromagnetic guillotine were guillotines being slowed down as they reached the chopping point by magnetism. i want to see a loving MRI with a steel bladed guillotine attached to the top. gently caress off gravity, we're accelerating faster than that happy death day 2 had a magnetized mri death, it was cool
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May 13, 2019 17:51
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THIS! THIS loving THINGSPIGGGAAAAAAHHH! I work customer support and our regular training would be these. And there would also be one loving question that would be vague or open to interpretation. So it could be multiple answers. We complained so many years about it. But nothing was done. They only stopped when the department was cut in half, now they cant even get a single page of rules completed on time.
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May 13, 2019 18:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX1x7pfH8fw&t=4s
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May 13, 2019 18:09
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happyhippy posted:THIS! THIS loving THINGSPIGGGAAAAAAHHH! When I started at my last job they gave me some test on how to powerpoint, except it was automated and not actually powerpoint but screenshots of powerpoint that had click maps on them. So you had to do stuff like: "Save the Document": Ok, I'll just hit Ctrl-S and- WRONG ENTRY DETECTED, YOU HAVE ONE ATTEMPT REMAINING ... o...kay, I'll just hit the floppy disk icon in the toolbar then- WRONG, YOU HAVE FAILED THIS PROBLEM The entire thing was like that, and I failed most of the babby's first program questions like that one because I don't do things in the absolute least efficient way possible so it marked it as wrong. Meanwhile I got all the more complex questions (which have only one real way to do them) right  At least in my case, I was the last person to ever have to take that test because it was so goddamn worthless, but I assume if the company were any bigger everyone would still be taking that to this day or something.
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May 13, 2019 18:13
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3kwb/jeff-bezos-is-a-post-earth-capitalist Capitalists get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, 'Mine.'
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May 13, 2019 18:14
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The Nastier Nate posted:The only time I've ever bought a best buy protection plan was when my Wii controller stopped working so I bought a new one with a protection plan and the next day returned the broken one. I was about to ask " but what about the 2 year warranty" but then I remembered I'm in the EU and Best Buy is a North American thing. Lol
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May 13, 2019 18:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was about to ask " but what about the 2 year warranty" but then I remembered I'm in the EU and Best Buy is a North American thing. A lot of the things Best Buy sells also come with their own warranties, best buy sells ~insurance~ on top of that through deceptive sales practices and makes something like a 5000% margin on it. e: In this particular case, they probably could have gotten the thing replaced via warranty but this way they scammed best buy in the process 
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May 13, 2019 18:45
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Elman posted:Guillotines don't work in zero-g. pnuematic press guilotines.
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May 13, 2019 18:49
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Shame Boy posted:A lot of the things Best Buy sells also come with their own warranties, best buy sells ~insurance~ on top of that through deceptive sales practices and makes something like a 5000% margin on it. that's praxis also I'm in favour of using MRI guillotines, those things are the best example of something that really should be a death machine given it's design, but then doctors went and made it an anti-death machine. If you're putting super powerful magnets around my brain it should be to explode the iron in my blood or something e: Crassus idea: magnetized gold pieces + MRI
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May 13, 2019 18:55
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ruddiger posted:pnuematic press guilotines. how about just the pneumatic press? the gallery can all do the kids in the hall "im crushing your head" bit for added levity
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May 13, 2019 18:59
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satellite mounted orbital railguns that shoot tungsten guillotine blades with perfect accuracy anywhere on earth
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May 13, 2019 19:02
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gey muckle mowser posted:I worked at Best Buy for about a week back in my early 20's, the training was atrocious. It was ~50% bullshit like this and 50% ways to push their lovely protection plans on customers. You would get called out for every single purchase if you didn't sell one. lol like pretty much all 'coding camps' are frauds -- most of the time they amount to employer training but they make the employees pay for it and in the end they only have to take the people that they like on as actual employees this one was just an even more sinister one
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May 13, 2019 19:49
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https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1127936541165346816
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May 13, 2019 19:50
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yeah thats definitely an example of one of those 'smart-person-for-dumb-people' type quotes
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May 13, 2019 19:51
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More like stamp a label on it that says "50% more glass BONUS!"
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May 13, 2019 19:52
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redesign the glass so it holds less water but charge the same price for it 
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You can totally design a glass to look like it's bigger than it is. I had some drinks with some friends one Summer and was really confused because we all had the same number of schnapps but I ended up a lot more drunk. Turns out that despite not looking like it, my schnapps glass was 2½ times the size of the ones everyone else was drinking out of (because I didn't have enough of that type).
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