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The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

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Tanners
Dec 13, 2011

woof

Wtf

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


The Saddest Rhino posted:

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

i mean, it was based on things nestle is doing

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

PostNouveau posted:

Heard about these on Trash Future:

https://twitter.com/PeterHeadCBE/status/1326441478697193472

They are:

- A shoe subscription
- Made of beans
- You send them back after a month and they press them down into beans again and then make new shoes out of the beans to send to other people
- $30 a month

Better idea: After you sent them back they get sold to a foot fetish restaurant.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

lol that looks like a penis

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

Allowing the stock market to gamble on water because it might become harder to get seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

that call of duty spinoff was pretty decent iirc

Zenithe
Feb 25, 2013

Ask not to whom the Anidavatar belongs; it belongs to thee.

Rock My Socks! posted:

Gross Dick
Actually German for “good day”

I have forgotten almost all of my German but I'm almost certain this is wrong.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

The Bart, The!

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

Somewhere Michael Burry MD is watching his personal wealth quadruple like :spergin:

Zenithe posted:

I have forgotten almost all of my German but I'm almost certain this is wrong.

Yeah it means like "big thiccc"

Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

College Slice
It' gonna own when everyone in the Great Lakes region has to fight bands of mercenaries hired by corporations to secure our water for number

oh who am i kidding at least half of us will side with them lmao

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

“life-sustaining natural resource”

MBAs listened to lectures about the diamond/water paradox and smelled a business opportunity.

necroid
May 14, 2009

PostNouveau posted:

Heard about these on Trash Future:

https://twitter.com/PeterHeadCBE/status/1326441478697193472

They are:

- A shoe subscription
- Made of beans
- You send them back after a month and they press them down into beans again and then make new shoes out of the beans to send to other people
- $30 a month

it sucks that it's marketed as a trendy gimmick sold for profit instead of being a reasonably priced sustainable alternative because we need more stuff like this

too many people buy too frequently too much stuff that's mass produced in sweatshops and made of unrecyclable synthetic materials

there's some interesting stuff out there, like cactus leather



or mushroom leather

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Oh don't worry everyone, the intellectual overpaid fuckheads of the world paid to suck off the warmongering rapist white supremacist freaks in power have decided to host a pow-wow about just how brilliant and innovative and woke they are:

https://twitter.com/EurasiaGroup/status/1335609161581813761

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



PostNouveau posted:

Heard about these on Trash Future:

https://twitter.com/PeterHeadCBE/status/1326441478697193472

They are:

- A shoe subscription
- Made of beans
- You send them back after a month and they press them down into beans again and then make new shoes out of the beans to send to other people
- $30 a month

those are not your shoes

send them back

they are made of beans

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
smol bean shoes

Joe Rogan Bean Shoes

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

necroid posted:

it sucks that it's marketed as a trendy gimmick sold for profit instead of being a reasonably priced sustainable alternative because we need more stuff like this

too many people buy too frequently too much stuff that's mass produced in sweatshops and made of unrecyclable synthetic materials

there's some interesting stuff out there, like cactus leather



or mushroom leather



I don't want to wear cactus leather it sounds uncomfortable :ohdear:

Bouillon Rube
Aug 6, 2009


Zenithe posted:

I have forgotten almost all of my German but I'm almost certain this is wrong.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
What a fail rear end language

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004


Do they still call a cell phone a "handy?"

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug

Dick means thick, dich means you.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Ensign Expendable posted:

Dick means thick, dich means you.

Americans have this thing where they think dick and dich sound the same even though they don't, at all.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Americans have this thing where they think dick and dich sound the same even though they don't, at all.

Maybe YOUR dick doesn't sound like dich but mine does.

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

Carthag Tuek posted:

those are not your shoes

send them back

they are made of beans

deep cut

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Americans have this thing where they think dick and dich sound the same even though they don't, at all.

your dich: anonymous prick, my dick: synonymous with thick

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Weembles posted:

Do they still call a cell phone a "handy?"

They were already moving from that to just the english word "phone" or "cell" when I was learning german in highschool so prolly not.

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Plank Walker posted:

your dich: anonymous prick, my dick: synonymous with thick

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Plank Walker posted:

your dich: anonymous prick, my dick: synonymous with thick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRO1SVeU1p4

Malleum
Aug 16, 2014

Am I the one at fault? What about me is wrong?
Buglord
dich nuts

Giga Gaia
May 2, 2006

360 kickflip to... Meteo?!
dich i dich you dich

Greg12
Apr 22, 2020
the wall street california water casino is hilarious because

The futures will be financially settled, as opposed to requiring the actual physical delivery of water, and are based on the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index started two years ago.

oh, ok. it's not tied to any real world effects at all. it's purely a way to extract cash from governments and ratepayers.

the water is coming out of government pipes that are fed by government and utility reservoirs

the governments include the federal government (Bureau of Reclamation, ACE), the State, municipal water utilities and urban water districts (Hetch Hetchy, Owens Valley, others), and special districts like irrigation districts. There are also big public and private electric utilities and small companies with small hydroelectric dams that pump the water up and down, but it eventually ends up in a river that flows into an irrigation ditch or the delta intakes. None of these agencies and companies can make water. If it doesn't fall in the watershed, we don't get it.

water rights are based on who got there first, and reaganism made its way into the water system already, so farmers can sell their subsidized water allotment to urban water districts for 15x what they paid for it.

So... the sickos found a way to financialize and gamble on that.

edit: If you look closely you can actually pinpoint the exact moment poser greg12's mind shatters into a million pieces.

Greg12 has issued a correction as of 19:23 on Dec 7, 2020

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Can't wait for videos of children dying of thirst next to a thriving almond farm surrounded by barbed wire fences and autoturrets

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Shame Boy posted:

Can't wait for videos of children dying of thirst next to a thriving almond farm surrounded by barbed wire fences and autoturrets

Almonds destined for Almond Milk, because exploiting cows is immoral

Pre-emptive defense: I don't have any problems with vegetarians/vegans, just that it's ironic we'd deny water to people to avoid unethical treatment of cows.

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

skooma512 posted:

Almonds destined for Almond Milk, because exploiting cows is immoral

Pre-emptive defense: I don't have any problems with vegetarians/vegans, just that it's ironic we'd deny water to people to avoid unethical treatment of cows.

almods use significantly less water than cows, and depending on how they're grown can use even less.

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-villain-in-the-california-drought-isnt-almonds--its-red-meat-2015-4

tl;dr: kill all cows and make delicious beef jerky, then mandatory bimboveganism for all

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


"Handy" is what I got taught was German for cell phone and this was like 2-3 years ago, the textbook and professor were both a little old but not shockingly so

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

T-man posted:

almods use significantly less water than cows, and depending on how they're grown can use even less.

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-villain-in-the-california-drought-isnt-almonds--its-red-meat-2015-4

tl;dr: kill all cows and make delicious beef jerky, then mandatory bimboveganism for all

almods are made of meat

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1335729456481243138

lol quantum of solace is turning into a documentary

quantum of solace was based on a real world guy who did exactly the same thing, except in the movie he only wanted to double the price of water and in the real world he more than tripled it and got away with it

necroid
May 14, 2009

skooma512 posted:

Almonds destined for Almond Milk, because exploiting cows is immoral

Pre-emptive defense: I don't have any problems with vegetarians/vegans, just that it's ironic we'd deny water to people to avoid unethical treatment of cows.

vegetarians/vegans who drink almond-based milk substitutes are mainly idiots and most likely doing it just because it's perceived as trendy/healthy, almonds aren't very efficient

people who make their dietary choices based on ethics and sustainability avoid stupid poo poo like that, fyi

just lmao at the "because exploiting cows is immoral" thrown in there

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Unfortunately all the almonds being grown in the California desert aren't destined for local consumption they're to be shipped across the globe to China

Crazycryodude posted:

"Handy" is what I got taught was German for cell phone and this was like 2-3 years ago, the textbook and professor were both a little old but not shockingly so

It's what our textbook said but the teacher mentioned that's kinda on the way out and none of the exchange students who came to visit used it. Maybe it's a generational or regional thing though :shrug:

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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Red means "Really Edible almonDs" right

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