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Shame Boy posted:Actual unemployment went up to infinity percent so yeah it's not that surprising that a country where the average person's life savings is like negative four hundred dollars is suddenly finding out that nobody can pay rent if they miss even one paycheck. Chairman Mao did absolutely nothing wrong
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Thanatosian posted:Holy gently caress, really? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/32-...y.PostToTwitter
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# ? Jul 8, 2020 22:40 |
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Orange Devil posted:Stop being friends with radicalizing neo-confederates op those people weren’t my friends but the liberals were and it’s nice to see them move left the neo confederates were more of a “email their PHD program about their racist sentiments” relationship
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# ? Jul 8, 2020 22:42 |
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Source: apartmentlist survey data
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 02:02 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/io9/status/1280535262137901056
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 05:36 |
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1280974958202630149
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 09:29 |
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Shame Boy posted:Actual unemployment went up to infinity percent so yeah it's not that surprising that a country where the average person's life savings is like negative four hundred dollars is suddenly finding out that nobody can pay rent if they miss even one paycheck. Don't murder landlords. Evict their heads from their bodies.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 11:36 |
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What the hell I've never seen a plane crew care about anything like that. No one in the air knows what you paid or cares I mean aside from sneaking into first
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 12:46 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was passengers telling on one another.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 12:49 |
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The Bloop posted:What the hell You probably last flew more than 2 years ago. Making sure passengers suffer if they don't shell out is increasingly actual policy
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 13:16 |
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ikanreed posted:You probably last flew more than 2 years ago. Making sure passengers suffer if they don't shell out is increasingly actual policy I've flown more recently but on pretty full flights so I just may not have noticed anything not since Covid, mind you
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 14:05 |
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it's not even remotely what the intended post was, but dig that noose just hangin' there
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 16:35 |
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Mandatory momento mori in each relaxation zone
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 17:38 |
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Gross.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 17:43 |
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Who started the trend of goofy mouth open expressions on clickbait thumbnails. I'm sure there's some marketing company somewhere tells everyone to do it. What's annoying is even technical/science youtubers I follow are now doing the shocked/surprised face in their thumbnails. It feels cheap but I'm sure someone told them it would increase their engagement.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:12 |
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Marenghi posted:Who started the trend of goofy mouth open expressions on clickbait thumbnails. I think it was Linus Tech Tips that did a video about how he hated that style of poster frame, but the numbers were way in favour of it.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:14 |
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Marenghi posted:What's annoying is even technical/science youtubers I follow are now doing the shocked/surprised face in their thumbnails. It feels cheap but I'm sure someone told them it would increase their engagement.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:16 |
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It always makes me think of the creepy-rear end mascot of Coney Island: It's even got the weird unnaturally-blue eyes:
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:28 |
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Shame Boy posted:It always makes me think of the creepy-rear end mascot of Coney Island: okay, flanking that face with the words "SCREAM ZONE" is really on the nose
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:29 |
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I guess it could also be like, youtube videos natural selecting their way towards eventual convergent evolution of the Dreamworks face.
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World War Mammories posted:okay, flanking that face with the words "SCREAM ZONE" is really on the nose Haha I always thought they made that creepy thing up for Mr. Robot. Then again Mr. Robot ended by faceplanting on its portrayal of the rich so whatever
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:42 |
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Mameluke posted:Haha I always thought they made that creepy thing up for Mr. Robot. Then again Mr. Robot ended by faceplanting on its portrayal of the rich so whatever Oh no, it has a long history of being a weird creepy mascot. The guy that owned Steeplechase (the park it's originally from) is a pretty good entry in this thread too, when the park burned down he famously posted a sign outside the still-smoldering ruins the next day that said: quote:To enquiring friends: I have troubles today that I had not yesterday. I had troubles yesterday which I have not today. On this site will be built a bigger, better, Steeplechase Park. Admission to the burning ruins — Ten cents.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:51 |
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Waiting for that face with the caption "INSANE LIFE HACK FOR MANAGING DIABETES!!!"
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:53 |
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Also another fun friend shows up later in the park's history, which I completely forgot until I looked up the wiki article to get that quote:quote:[Fred] Trump demolished Steeplechase Park's Pavilion of Fun during a highly publicized ceremony in September 1966. At the demolition, he was said to have sold bricks to ceremony guests to smash the remaining glass windows on the Pavilion of Fun. Trump's dad selling bricks to literally destroy fun is pretty prophetic tbh.
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Marenghi posted:Who started the trend of goofy mouth open expressions on clickbait thumbnails. They're trying to appeal to children. Same reason why Mickey Mouse and the like have a permanent open smile.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 18:59 |
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Now this is some peak capitalism https://www.ft.com/content/bcebd77c-057b-4fd0-bd99-b97e0e559455 quote:Italian mafia bonds sold to global investors
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:00 |
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i had a random thought the other day that it would be pretty funny if ADHD was the result of a learned response to ignoring advertising gone too far. it's a constant arms race between the viewer, to develop techniques to filter garbage ad content out from "real" content, and the advertiser, to make ad content that is more focus-worthy than "real" content like in order to accomplish any task or even enjoy most forms of media, you have to filter out reams of information that is actively trying to get in your way. the brain has got to be developing long term strategies to facilitate that, but no filtering system will be foolproof, and an overactive one will be detrimental
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:04 |
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Uhhhhdouble nine posted:One bond deal purchased by institutional investors contained assets sold by a refugee camp in Calabria that had been taken over by organised criminals. They were later convicted for stealing tens of millions of euros of EU funds. Why is a refugee camp even capable of selling financial instruments?
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:07 |
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Plank Walker posted:i had a random thought the other day that it would be pretty funny if ADHD was the result of a learned response to ignoring advertising gone too far. it's a constant arms race between the viewer, to develop techniques to filter garbage ad content out from "real" content, and the advertiser, to make ad content that is more focus-worthy than "real" content Speaking as a person who has it, no that's dumb.
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:09 |
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Plank Walker posted:i had a random thought the other day that it would be pretty funny if ADHD was the result of a learned response to ignoring advertising gone too far. it's a constant arms race between the viewer, to develop techniques to filter garbage ad content out from "real" content, and the advertiser, to make ad content that is more focus-worthy than "real" content Please stop thinking you're bad at it.
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Shame Boy posted:Uhhhh funny you should ask. https://www.ft.com/content/8850581c-176e-4c5c-8b38-debb26b35c14 quote:Over the past two decades, the leading families of the ’Ndrangheta — pronounced “en-dran-ghet-ah” — have expanded operations far outside their small home region. Today they control a large part of cocaine importation into Europe, as well as arms smuggling, extortion and cross-border money laundering. Several hundred autonomous clans have been transformed into one of Italy’s most successful businesses, with some studies estimating their combined annual turnover to be as high as €44bn — believed by law-enforcement agencies to be more than all the Mexican drug cartels combined. quote:The story of how money looted from Calabria’s hospitals ended up being routed into the global financial system illustrates the sophisticated ways in which the ’Ndrangheta launders the proceeds of its crimes. Through interviews and the analysis of financial documents and Italian legal filings, the Financial Times has found how the clans made use of a vast financial conveyor belt. The proceeds of the horrors of the corrupted hospitals were unwittingly bundled up by intermediaries and mixed with other assets into debt products. These then flowed through the City of London, Luxembourg and Milan, eventually ending up in the investment portfolios of the clients of private banks and hedge funds. I'm putting a warning here for insane malpractice. quote:
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Shame Boy posted:Speaking as a person who has it, no that's dumb. T-man posted:Please stop thinking you're bad at it. fair enough, my apologies
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:46 |
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I like how a lot of the "Italian hospitals corrupted by mafia influences" reads exactly like "US healthcare system functioning as intended".
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 19:57 |
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Plank Walker posted:fair enough, my apologies There's a lot of like "gosh what if ADHD is just [thing]" going around that both completely ignores the actual experience of ADHD people and history and science done regarding it and trivializes the whole thing in the eyes of the public, ultimately resulting in making it harder for people like me to get meds or be taken seriously, so I kinda react a bit hard about stuff like this. I'm sure you didn't intend to do that or anything though so it's all good, and I really appreciate you taking a step back to reconsider and not just doubling down on it, thanks for that
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Shame Boy posted:There's a lot of like "gosh what if ADHD is just [thing]" going around that both completely ignores the actual experience of ADHD people and history and science done regarding it and trivializes the whole thing in the eyes of the public, ultimately resulting in making it harder for people like me to get meds or be taken seriously, so I kinda react a bit hard about stuff like this. I'm sure you didn't intend to do that or anything though so it's all good, and I really appreciate you taking a step back to reconsider and not just doubling down on it, thanks for that yeah i definitely i could have made my point that constant exposure to advertisement is probably not healthy without glibly trying to tie it into a known disorder with the above mentioned history of stigmatization and misunderstanding. no offense taken at your reaction, and thanks for clarifying the context around it
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More of a txt than png but it's still broken af. https://twitter.com/Fightfor15LA/status/1281681328648273920 Have a png as a palate cleanser
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 07:01 |
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Looks just like the level from Left for Dead 2 where you have to fill the racing car with petrol.
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Weatherman posted:Looks just like the level from Left for Dead 2 where you have to fill the racing car with petrol. It's the Rolling Acres Mall in Akron Ohio, which has since been demolished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zov7PEXdVZk
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