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the posts using prose suited for a tale of storming the beaches on d-day when describing talking to a car salesman are a little ridiculous
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Apr 1, 2021 08:15
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Yesterday I had to get to a place, but I don't have a car, so I went to the tram stop and put some change in the ticket machine, then I waited 2 minutes for my tram and got in, and then I got to the place. I could have also taken a bus or a metro with the same ticket, but I didn't.
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Apr 1, 2021 08:30
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grate deceiver posted:Yesterday I had to get to a place, but I don't have a car, so I went to the tram stop and put some change in the ticket machine, then I waited 2 minutes for my tram and got in, and then I got to the place. I could have also taken a bus or a metro with the same ticket, but I didn't. It's a good story, I did the same except instead of fiddling with money i just waved my phone at the ticket reader thing. By which I mean this happened several months ago, the last time I was required to leave the house
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Apr 1, 2021 08:52
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yesterday I had to go from a place to a place so I walked
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Apr 1, 2021 09:00
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's a good story, I did the same except instead of fiddling with money i just waved my phone at the ticket reader thing. Wow, good ticket buying strats, now I realised I could have waved my card at it too
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Apr 1, 2021 09:18
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grate deceiver posted:Yesterday I had to get to a place, but I don't have a car, so I went to the tram stop and put some change in the ticket machine, then I waited 2 minutes for my tram and got in, and then I got to the place. I could have also taken a bus or a metro with the same ticket, but I didn't. Paying for public transportation is a capitalist scam though. It's all busywork to give accountants and ticket checking people something to do. Just finance it through taxes. Nothing is ever good enough for a true leftist. In real life I have a card that's tied to my credit card, so I just touch it to a thingie when I board a train or bus or whatever and when I leave it again. Pretty painless, but still busywork.
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Apr 1, 2021 09:59
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The last time I bought a car I spent three days texting dealers while they bid against themselves and only physically visited the lot after agreeing to the terms of sale also over text. Not a bad way to do it imo.
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Apr 1, 2021 10:43
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Viet Cong lives do matter
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Apr 1, 2021 11:25
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GotLag posted:Viet Cong lives do matter won't someone please think about the poor people burning barrels of saudi oil money to keep warm?
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Apr 1, 2021 11:56
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Shame Boy posted:You go back a few hundred pages in this thread and you can find people genuinely arguing that 9/11 was a cool and good necessity done by great dudes to further the goals of communism so like, whatever Wait are you trying to say 9/11 was not cool and good?
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Apr 1, 2021 12:10
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BonHair posted:Paying for public transportation is a capitalist scam though. It's all busywork to give accountants and ticket checking people something to do. Just finance it through taxes. Hard agree there. We do have a transit card that you can pay for once every three months and ride whatever public transport you want, even some trains within the metropolitan area. But I live smack dab in the city center, so I don't need it that much, mostly I just walk.
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Apr 1, 2021 13:14
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Charles Ingalls posted:the posts using prose suited for a tale of storming the beaches on d-day when describing talking to a car salesman are a little ridiculous yeah fair enough, i think I wrote that first when when I was high so it may come off a bit melodramatic. I stand by my point tho and I am also surprised at the number of losers here defending this institution. "sales" culture is so normalized that no one can see a problem with a person who's job it is to try and convince someone with as many psychological manipulations possible to buy something they don't want or need.
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Apr 1, 2021 13:25
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Soon as I saw a car post I knew it would be several pages of car discussion. loving cars.
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Apr 1, 2021 13:40
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Soon as I saw a car post I knew it would be several pages of car discussion. loving cars. I mean it's not like cars and gas and oil have influenced the last century of geo-politics or anything in a major way.
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Apr 1, 2021 13:40
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Yeah obviously dude this is CSPAM i don't give a rats rear end about a derail or many pages of discussing one thing that i can simply choose not to read (and have but uh thanks for the paragraphs guys). I love the consistency of it - you can mention cars in about any thread and it'll happen because cars are monstrously poo poo in every conceivable dimension
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Apr 1, 2021 13:42
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I love the consistency of it - you can mention cars in about any thread and it'll happen because cars are monstrously poo poo in every conceivable dimension 
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Apr 1, 2021 13:56
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As someone who has no driver's license and otherwise far removed from any car buying, it's been a fascinating insight and reminder to never change that. Thank Marx/Pio for acceptable city planning and public transportation It seems like all the bits that normally make customer service important don't apply to cars. The obvious points are: anyone shopping for a car is going to buy a car. It might not be right away, but once you're looking at cars, it's because you need one and you will eventually buy one. Add to that that you don't buy cars often, so repeat customers are not a thing. This means that the car shop doesn't need to leave a good impression really. In theory, they could get some referrals on being not terrible, but it seems like just having everyone be terrible is more profitable. And then you have the fact that it's a large investment, which means you feel more justified surveying m spending a lot of time on it too. And finally American consumer protection is either a joke or nonexistent.
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Apr 1, 2021 14:03
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https://twitter.com/rosscwinton/status/1377271362969088015
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Apr 1, 2021 14:42
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Charles Ingalls posted:the posts using prose suited for a tale of storming the beaches on d-day when describing talking to a car salesman are a little ridiculous The first car dealership I ever went to as an adult legitimately felt like I imagine D-Day did. Like they did the "take your license to the back to 'get some information' and then not give it back to you to keep you from leaving" poo poo, pushed real hard on a sale even though I was under no circumstances buying anything that day, even got out one of those four square con boxes. Also I am a soft middle-class white dude who has never actually been to war, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with anything.
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Apr 1, 2021 15:25
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Wait they didn't immediately pick up the loving rocket parts  When the Delta II exploded when I was growing up back in 1997 there was an intense effort to make absolutely sure every single little piece of the thing was recovered, both to help determine what the cause was and to make sure nobody accidentally came across something toxic, since rockets tend to have a lot of that on board in more places than just the fuel tank. I kinda assumed the NTSB or the FAA or someone would like, require you to do that, but I guess not??
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Apr 1, 2021 15:28
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Shame Boy posted:The first car dealership I ever went to as an adult legitimately felt like I imagine D-Day did. if this is not a joke you should perhaps reevaluate everything about your life
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Apr 1, 2021 15:54
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Did you know that war is very bad? Heh.. bet you didn't 
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Apr 1, 2021 16:01
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Shame Boy posted:Wait they didn't immediately pick up the loving rocket parts But SpaceX is able to explode rockets for much cheaper than competitors, I'm sure that doesn't come at the cost of anything.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:03
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Salt Fish posted:Did you know that war is very bad? Heh.. bet you didn't I dunno, it seems to be worth a lot of money.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:09
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Shame Boy posted:Wait they didn't immediately pick up the loving rocket parts They are probably designed to just explode and they don't really give a poo poo about making the rockets reusable
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Apr 1, 2021 16:10
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SpacePig posted:I dunno, it seems to be worth a lot of money.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:15
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machine gun bullets whizzing around your head while you watch your best friend die is not, in fact, comparable to being offered an unreasonable apr on a honda jazz
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Apr 1, 2021 16:27
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I once went to buy a car but I got shot in legs and drowned in the shallow water of the beach before I could close the deal. Oh well, at least I didn't get a Jeep.
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Apr 1, 2021 16:31
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Shame Boy posted:Wait they didn't immediately pick up the loving rocket parts just neoliberalism working as intended
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Apr 1, 2021 16:42
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http://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1377385419197739011?s=20
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Apr 1, 2021 17:13
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The Worst Guy You Know Just...Continues To Make Terrible Points
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Apr 1, 2021 17:17
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Just keep sucking that Bezos dick, who knows maybe one day you can join their Twitter army.
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Apr 1, 2021 17:49
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Capitalism breeds innovation so we can do away with R&D credits.
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Apr 1, 2021 17:55
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we need to remove any risks that would cause a company to lose value if we want them to continue innovating and providing minimum wage jobs also we need to give ceos and founders huge amounts of compensation because they are dealing with all these risks
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Apr 1, 2021 18:05
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I would argue that if the corporate tax rate is too high, then it would be better for the company if it spent all its profits on useless crap like golden ball pits rather than give money to the govt. For example if the corporate tax rate was 90%, then if the company paid taxes then the govt could have enough money to create a public competitor that drove the private company out of business.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:18
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research and development for a website that hasn't been updated since 1999 and selling server space like dozens of other companies incredible
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Apr 1, 2021 18:20
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Charles Ingalls posted:if this is not a joke you should perhaps reevaluate everything about your life I thought the last line would make it clear that I was being a bit facetious. Obviously I know that war is much easier than buying a car, you can just shoot the other dude and you don't have to argue with them.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:20
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:research and development for a website that hasn't been updated since 1999 and selling server space like dozens of other companies The massive R&D budget clearly went in to making those physical buttons that automatically buy more toilet paper or whatever
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Apr 1, 2021 18:21
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Shame Boy posted:The massive R&D budget clearly went in to making those physical buttons that automatically buy more toilet paper or whatever lmao, what a dumb idea that was.
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