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Lightning Knight posted:Jesus loving Christ you nerds, go enjoy the holiday. Am working (well mainly sitting around watching the phone not ring) so I can get some (poo poo)posting in. Zwabu posted:How is it not their core business? If not retail what have they been making most of their money from? Surely not streaming a bunch of old movies? Google "Amazon Web Services" that's where they are making their bank. probably 90% of the websites you hit nowadays are on Amazon servers. Amazon's "retail" model is totally robber baron predatory evil and it deserves some very serious trust busting attention ASAP.
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Wilbur Swain posted:"Do not hesitate to bring up Trump. Sure, they may hate him, but explain why your family may be better off. Explain what more money in the family bank account does for them, personally. Explain what the booming economy and job market has done for the hometown and the neighbors they once loved." "explain what the fictional money that we keep saying is in your family's bank account does for them personally. Tell them to imagine what it would be like if it were real."
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Nov 28, 2019 20:13
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Wilbur Swain posted:"Do not hesitate to bring up Trump. Sure, they may hate him, but explain why your family may be better off. Explain what more money in the family bank account does for them, personally. Explain what the booming economy and job market has done for the hometown and the neighbors they once loved." Sure other people might be dying, but have you considered gently caress You Got Mine
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Nov 28, 2019 20:13
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Zwabu posted:How is it not their core business? If not retail what have they been making most of their money from? Surely not streaming a bunch of old movies? Quite a lot of the money they make is creating platforms that support other businesses. Thier cloud services (where they actually make money) is a good example. The retail business lets them develop other categories of services and platforms they can sell. A good way to think of it is this thier retail busines generates technologies, processes, and supply chain solutions they can sell to other companies. That's where the money is.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:14
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Wilbur Swain posted:"Do not hesitate to bring up Trump. Sure, they may hate him, but explain why your family may be better off. Explain what more money in the family bank account does for them, personally. Explain what the booming economy and job market has done for the hometown and the neighbors they once loved." Conservative Writer Rationalizes Why His Children Don’t Call Him Anymore. A new hit film from the creators who brought you Socialist Academics Confused Why Their Child Has Become a Neoliberal Politician.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:15
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:From eons ago, but: my parents have been coming at me super hard to get a ring camera installed and I continually refuse. They even bought me one, then installed it at their home (that already has cameras hooked up to the internet) when I gave it back. I work in IT, and it's pretty telling how myself and all the people I know who get excited about things like video cards and new USB standards, soundly say "gently caress that" when it comes to things like Alexa and Ring, because we understand the implications. I really, really wish your average person understood the horrible dystopia we're hurtling towards with tech like this.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:16
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Lightning Knight posted:Jesus loving Christ you nerds, go enjoy the holiday. I have cooking and flight school to do. Do the needful, good mod. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/jordanuhl/status/1200115420394663937?s=21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzuC8B46N_w&t=21s
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Nov 28, 2019 20:16
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Both my parents were truck drivers and I now work in logistics and I gotta say, to all you budding direct action organizers, activists, and revolutionaries https://twitter.com/celticanarchy/status/1199892221203537921?s=21 Think about this tweet every day for the rest of your life
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Nov 28, 2019 20:30
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Kerning Chameleon posted:They know, it's just white people consider the police being able to view their peep videos of black people in their neighborhoods whenever they want a highly desirable feature, not a bug. Yeah. I had a relative ask over dinner last night if I had a doorbell camera and what brand. I said we don’t have one because of the whole wholesale police involvement thing. The end of the conversation was “so which brand sends the videos to the cops again? I want to buy that one.”
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Nov 28, 2019 20:33
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Nov 28, 2019 20:35
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Why are you emptyquoting a six month old tweet?
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Nov 28, 2019 20:35
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 Delicious Goetze milk stout for Donald Trump presents: Thanksquivinq 2019!
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Nov 28, 2019 20:35
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Lightning Knight posted:Both my parents were truck drivers and I now work in logistics and I gotta say, to all you budding direct action organizers, activists, and revolutionaries This. The system is a lot more fragile than we've been raised to believe.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:41
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Lightning Knight posted:Jesus loving Christ you nerds, go enjoy the holiday. Yeah I think most people posting just consider it another day. I'm working till 8pm and already had Thanksgiving last week with my one relative due to the working. Having holidays off is like a weird elitist thing I hear about.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:42
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Well, that only took nearly three years. Brave!
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Nov 28, 2019 20:43
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1glitch0 posted:Yeah I think most people posting just consider it another day. I'm working till 8pm and already had Thanksgiving last week with my one relative due to the working. Having holidays off is like a weird elitist thing I hear about. I technically do have the day off, I just decided to go work at my second job instead. 
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Nov 28, 2019 20:43
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Lightning Knight posted:Both my parents were truck drivers and I now work in logistics and I gotta say, to all you budding direct action organizers, activists, and revolutionaries This is part of why you're seeing such a strong push towards automation for trucking. Majorian posted:This. The system is a lot more fragile than we've been raised to believe. Anyone who's worked retail or grocery is at the least dimly aware of this even if they don't think about it too hard. Storage in back is about 1/10th what we have up front in the customer-facing areas.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:50
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friendbot2000 posted:https://twitter.com/_ElizabethMay/status/1199734978990481411 There's a fair amount of research that the Salem Witch Trials were the result of the Puritan colonists looking for scapegoats to explain why the Massachusetts colony was losing the war against the Native Americans in modern day Maine. The Puritan colonists believed they were literally on a mission from God, that they were destined to prosper thanks to how God blessed them and their endeavors. And at the start, they were doing very well. With help from the local Wompanog tribe they survived the first few years, many of those Wompanogs converted to Christianity (further proof of God's Grace) and the Massachusetts Colony was founded using a word from the language family close to the Wompanog language. Things were good. Then Massachusetts colonists tried to expand into Maine. The local Native Americans did not want the colonists to expand into their land, and there were attacks in both directions. After the Colonists lost a town of 100 people in Maine, people back in the colonial capital of Salem were trying to find out why they lost. Remember, everything was examined through the lens of Puritanism. Their God-given right to expand into Maine was not proceeding as planned, and there must be a religious reason. The reason can't be that local Native Americans didn't want the Colonists to be there and were actually good at protecting their land, it must be something religious. They decided that The Adversary was stopping their expansion. You know, Satan. And Satan could only perform his evil deeds with a human element, the Witches. Who were the Witches? At first they were people who weren't fully supporting the expansion into Maine. Then it turned into people using accusations of witchcraft to settle old disputes. These are the trials most people hear about, with the whole "I saw Old Lady Prynne walking along the trail talking with Satan" stuff The trials started in Salem Massachusetts because Maine colonists were repelled by the Native Americans protecting their home against immigrants that wanted to impose their way of life. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:52
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Lightning Knight posted:Jesus loving Christ you nerds, go enjoy the holiday.   and I'm listening to the Bears tie up the game while riding in the jump seat.I did Turkey Day on Monday. Gonna be nice and pleasant to the nice people at Hardee's when I get dinner in a few.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:56
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1200058071642447874 Could this be considered money laundering? How much of political donations are basically being transferred to Don Jr. in this manner? Unless that doesn't really matter and they can just give a bunch of their money to him on a whim if they want to. I kind of wonder how much of these type of books are used as money laundering.
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TealShark posted:Well, that only took nearly three years. Brave! Lightning Knight posted:I technically do have the day off, I just decided to go work at my second job instead.  for my fellow Mod-Squadmate.
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Nov 28, 2019 20:57
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Lightning Knight posted:I technically do have the day off, I just decided to go work at my second job instead. You going to do another US Pol Thanksgiving AV? That was fun
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:You going to do another US Pol Thanksgiving AV? That was fun I’ll ask PPJ. My shift starts in about half an hour! CannonFodder posted:My work day starts at 4 I had thanksgiving lunch at IHOP alone because I was craving chicken and waffles and they’re the only place open. My food was 15 and I tipped her 12.50 and she looked like she was gonna cry when she picked up the receipt. I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to embarrass her, but at least she got one good tip this holiday.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:04
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Lightning Knight posted:Think about this tweet every day for the rest of your life Correct and not even a general strike would be nessisary.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:07
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Yeah if you’re eating out on the holidays tip your server well, odds are even higher than usual they just dealt with some bullshit.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:14
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SKULL.GIF posted:This is part of why you're seeing such a strong push towards automation for trucking. I just have to point at the tremendous amount of bullshit I see car drivers do and how I can anticipate their idiocy, and that I can drive in rain and snow. I can adjust for conditions like construction and coming up one wreck, like I did last night as some cars were on the side of the road while a side of pulped venison was on the other side. Automation is long long long way off.
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CannonFodder posted:As a trucker, my views on automation are HHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA I didn't say it was going to be a successful push  Bar Ran Dun posted:Correct and not even a general strike would be nessisary. All it takes is a few missed meals.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:20
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Wilbur Swain posted:"Do not hesitate to bring up Trump. Sure, they may hate him, but explain why your family may be better off. Explain what more money in the family bank account does for them, personally. Explain what the booming economy and job market has done for the hometown and the neighbors they once loved." I drove through my hometown the other day after not visiting it for several years. It was a tiny place of probably 500 people but from the count I did driving around just under half of the houses are either burned down or straight up abandoned, full of trash with doors and windows broken out. The store closed at some point, as did the hardware. The only businesses left running are the bar, the funeral home and the grain elevator. Lots of Trump 2020 flags hanging from the remaining houses though. rustbelt.txt
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Lightning Knight posted:Jesus loving Christ you nerds, go enjoy the holiday. Thread is pretty close to establishing that the US healthcare system is hosed up, which is shocking news. CannonFodder posted:Want to feel even worse? No. Happy Thanksgiving everybody
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Nov 28, 2019 21:24
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CannonFodder posted:As a trucker, my views on automation are HHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA They currently can't drive in rain and snow, but there's going to come a day when they can, and they're going to be able to do it more safely than you can. It's difficult to predict technological advances but I see no reason to believe that your profession is in anyway safe, even in the short term.
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Fart Amplifier posted:They currently can't drive in rain and snow, but there's going to come a day when they can, and they're going to be able to do it more safely than you can. It's difficult to predict technological advances but I see no reason to believe that your profession is in anyway safe, even in the short term. Where’s my flying car?
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Idahoant posted:Thread is pretty close to establishing that the US healthcare system is hosed up, which is shocking news. It's more that we're wasting our time trying to convince a libertarian of that.
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Libertarian shitposting? Did jrodefeld finally register another account after 3 years? Edit: I wonder if he ever chargebacked that  ?
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It goes beyond retail. Every single thing that runs on a supply chain is just in time. My management just stonewalled a deal I closed because I’d have a couple grand extra inventory left over that can’t be immediately liquidated into sales. There’s this massive corporate demand across the board to maximize GMROI to the point that it makes zero sense to do it in some cases but they’ll slap your hand with a wooden spoon if you don’t follow that orthodoxy. The problem is any time teamsters so much as breathe a word of strike it causes the entire industry to fall into a panic. I’d love nothing more than to see a mass general strike by all the teamsters unions across North America to demand better working conditions and pay in solidarity with working class Americans (and Canadians). Congress would convene a special session to force everyone back to work within 3 days.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:54
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Pollyanna posted:Mid-Thanksgiving here and I crave world death I love Thanksgiving. It’s the one day a year we stop laughing at chuds and freepers for being alone on Thanksgiving and remember that we spend it alone ourselves.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:57
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Craving some sad QAnon posts for dinner from people who alienated their whole family
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Lightning Knight posted:I had thanksgiving lunch at IHOP alone because I was craving chicken and waffles and they’re the only place open. My food was 15 and I tipped her 12.50 and she looked like she was gonna cry when she picked up the receipt. I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to embarrass her, but at least she got one good tip this holiday. Good man.
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