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it's not possible to really do a genuine a/b comparison but i openly challenge any UBI haters to test me. fire me from my job of janitoring snippets of an obscure programming language meant to control a reverse proxy versus paying me enough to cover rent+bills and let me make 3 hours a day of youtubes about ham radio, home gardening and repairing that $700 motorcycle you bought on craigslist.
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Jonny 290 posted:it's not possible to really do a genuine a/b comparison but i openly challenge any UBI haters to test me. fire me from my job of janitoring snippets of an obscure programming language meant to control a reverse proxy versus paying me enough to cover rent+bills and let me make 3 hours a day of youtubes about ham radio, home gardening and repairing that $700 motorcycle you bought on craigslist. Sorry about your lua
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there are so many topics and fields that i am literally dying inside to just teach people about day in and day out and i cannot because i am so very tired at the end of the work day. one pays more. the other does more objective good. i'm not saying i hate my job, but i'd love not having it + not worrying about starving more
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The current date is 5 April 2020 There are 12 weeks until 1 July 2020 There are 87 days until 1 July 2020 There are 62 working days until 1 July 2020 I hate having my RSU cliff dangling infront of me like this. I'm over 3/4 of the way to it. I have 15 days of PTO available that I haven't touched so maybe I'm actually as close as 47 working days left where I need to maintain this facade
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One thing I keep hearing from people in real life is that they're hopeful the current crisis will give way to a new era of progressive policies. They think that this virus will cause socialist programs to fall from the sky into our laps. This is ignorant in my opinion. Socialist programs only come from hard work, direct action, organizing, and relentless effort. Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism.
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Salt Fish posted:One thing I keep hearing from people in real life is that they're hopeful the current crisis will give way to a new era of progressive policies. They think that this virus will cause socialist programs to fall from the sky into our laps. This is ignorant in my opinion. Socialist programs only come from hard work, direct action, organizing, and relentless effort. Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism. yeah not really looking forward to america trying to anschluss everything north of the 49th
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echinopsis posted:someone just came in the pharmacy and said her daughters can’t get any weed lol. they’re 27 and 33 aha
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Methanar posted:The current date is 5 April 2020 keep in mind that if you're thinking about moving jobs, if you're in significant demand you can ask for the value of the RSUs as a signing bonus at the new job. It's fairly common in the valley. The signing bonus is typically vested over X years but don't let RSUs keep you somewhere you don't want to be unless there's a huge fuckin lot of em.
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Salt Fish posted:Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism. "Can't someone else do it?" Turns out the answer is yes, and it's authoritarians.
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the great depression gave us the new deal and wpa, social security though. if this drags on significantly, the governments may look at the numbers and go "well poo poo, either we pass ubi or have a bunch of starving homeless people and mass riots". they pass things like that typically not because they're asked nicely by the working class, but because the circumstances demand it
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The Third Reich trilogy by Richard J Evans is really good if you want to learn about German fascism. One of the main themes in them is that the Wiemar Republic was really unpopular and unnatural and most in the civil service hated it and wanted to return to monarchy. This led to a super fast dismantling of the democracy and a equally quick replacement with a fascist regime after the financial crisis. It's a similar type of fuel that drives american fascism, but we seem to be heavier on the plutocracy and it's taken decades to pull apart the institutions.
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one of the most darkly funniest things to me is how modern conservative politicians, unlike the old school ones, will sell out for an abolutely inconsequential sum of money. like, if you're going to grift, GRIFT. get a couple million bucks. but we have all these idiot state congress members and lovely mayors selling out and wrecking their entire lives for like $18,742. it's shameful. respect the game at least jesus christ
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i think one of the overarching themes of the 2010-2020+ political era is that the evil is being done in an extremely incompetent and classless manner i realize this is a super blackpill take but, lmao at those idiots. you cant even get a pool liner replaced and a new ATV with those dollars
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i've given up on caring what happens to other people as long as everyone leaves me alone and stays out of my way
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i've given up on caring what happens to other people as long as everyone leaves me alone and stays out of my way kinda where im at. lizard mode. avoid Dying
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Jonny 290 posted:one of the most darkly funniest things to me is how modern conservative politicians, unlike the old school ones, will sell out for an abolutely inconsequential sum of money. its not just conservatives. Leland Yee did all kinds of insane gun running poo poo for fuckin trifling amounts of money, like 3-5k. Money that could maybe buy you a 15 year old accord with torn seats.
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Apr 6, 2020 07:46
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It's going to be called Pacifica guys.
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Stereotype posted:It's going to be called Pacifica guys. whatever it's called, I want in
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i don’t know if it’s comforting or frightening to think that maybe there was more that just hadn’t been discovered yet.
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im sticking near the great lakes, y'all can have your shark infested saltwater
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Salt Fish posted:One thing I keep hearing from people in real life is that they're hopeful the current crisis will give way to a new era of progressive policies. They think that this virus will cause socialist programs to fall from the sky into our laps. This is ignorant in my opinion. Socialist programs only come from hard work, direct action, organizing, and relentless effort. Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism. This is the hard part too. The biggest risk of giving people more time is that they will individually challenge the low-level municipal power structure and win because they have a base level of competence. This is the level where you both move up, as well rear end actually inference things. I successfully got both one of the largest commercial property owners on Oahu as well as the massive state Department of Education to make drastic and public concessions. I am in charge of a bunch of hawaii stuff because I showed up to the weird democratic bureaucracy meetings and volunteered for everything. Bernie was pushing "friend and family outreach" big here because it is actually effective to motivate action so hey guys go be your local party district president or neighborhood board chair and then work to be the state representative or city councilperson.
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Salt Fish posted:One thing I keep hearing from people in real life is that they're hopeful the current crisis will give way to a new era of progressive policies. They think that this virus will cause socialist programs to fall from the sky into our laps. This is ignorant in my opinion. Socialist programs only come from hard work, direct action, organizing, and relentless effort. Fascism is what naturally organizes itself from the failures of capitalism, not socialism. I completely agree, lots seem to think its time to sitback and smoke a bowl and just presume we're getting luxury automated gay space communism all on it's own. no work needed, just relax ya'll, corona-chan has got this. great depression was probably going to be worse in part due to less mega-ag and without the modern haber-bosch cycle processes, and unemployment in like 35%+ with even less things like snap/ue to rely on. people were also much more class-conscious with big unionization efforts in the factories, socialism was seen as good, and henry george wrote the best-selling economics book of all time that was very much read by a lot of people in their time and it was all about advocating socialism and destroying landlords lots of blood was shed (ford massacre and such), all that and what did we get out of it? some good and valuable stuff, but nothing like really revolutionary; basically mostly compromise fig-leaf things designed to make sure capitalism runs a bit smoother in the future, suppress the angry people from asking for anything that would upset the status quo, and ensured rich were not eaten while making sure they also still stayed insanely powerful and very wealthy. people didn't march and eat the rockerfellers, or jp morgans, schwabs, forbes, guggenheims, melons, carnegies, etc even when they were literally dying of starvation. and people are much less armed and much less inclined to do so today.
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Revolution is probably like, a 72 hour internet outage away.
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i expect what we'll get is means-tested ability to draw early SS futures today (forr less payout in the future ) to pay up to 60% of rent/mortgage. maybe another means-tested tax-credit advance. and also drop capital gains taxes to 0% and eliminate the top tax rbacket for good measure; gotta trickle down and all that. the pelosi/schumer mcconnell grand bargain
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Methanar posted:Revolution is probably like, a 72 hour internet outage away. 
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https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
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theadder posted:aha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGSLKWeVwE coronavirus version
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Jonny 290 posted:one of the most darkly funniest things to me is how modern conservative politicians, unlike the old school ones, will sell out for an abolutely inconsequential sum of money. maybe they're millenials and they just need a bit more money for a house deposit
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Jonny 290 posted:one of the most darkly funniest things to me is how modern conservative politicians, unlike the old school ones, will sell out for an abolutely inconsequential sum of money. i've thought about that before and i can only assume its because unaccountable money has more utility, ie it's easier to spend 10k in dirty twenties on hookers and blow than it is to spend 50k of IRS audited money that shows up on a statement
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rotor posted:100% behind secession. Balkanization has been the modern answer to cultural and ideological differences throughout eastern europe, the middle east and asia. I'm not sure why we're special.
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worked for Yugoslavia. I don’t hear about them much anymore, seems like it worked alright.
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I think it would be very funny if bits of the US starts succeeding as we force a one state solution in Israel/palestine.
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the trump SALT tax changes personally hurt me real bad so honestly I don't see anything more important than undoing those to get the economy rolling again.
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Stereotype posted:worked for Yugoslavia. I don’t hear about them much anymore, seems like it worked alright. 
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:im sticking near the great lakes, y'all can have your shark infested saltwater
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Uptime Sinclair posted:yes, and also for the actual balkans balkan at ur posts!
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Jonny 290 posted:one of the most darkly funniest things to me is how modern conservative politicians, unlike the old school ones, will sell out for an abolutely inconsequential sum of money. they make it up for it in volume selling a hundred votes at 20k each is easier than selling one vote for two mil
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thinking about flyovers as immutable solid red is some peak dlc third way brain the right, when confronted with demographic changes that would put them out of power, lies, cheats, and disenfranchises and then uses that to entrench power seeing this, the center-left shrugs and fantasize about isolating to ‘blue’ states which had partially or fully red governments as recently as the now-immutably red states were blue
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