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maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
https://www.awesemo.com/sideaction/dave-portnoy-speaks-sexual-assault-allegations-barstool-sports-bjs/

wow who could have seen this coming, davey portnoy is a predator and also can't shut up in this situation

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
:stonk:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1455730582130806785

$500 pay-per-view autopsies as part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and this body was donated by the funeral home to "medical research". It's a cousin to the "corpses used to test military munitions" a while back.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

facialimpediment posted:

:stonk:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1455730582130806785

$500 pay-per-view autopsies as part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and this body was donated by the funeral home to "medical research". It's a cousin to the "corpses used to test military munitions" a while back.

What the gently caress? This is like some Victorian era penny dreadful poo poo.

I mean, I'd be ok with that if the money went to my family afterwards (my current plan is to be cremated, the urn strapped to the biggest firework they can find, then shoot it off over the grand canyon and run like hell), but can you imagine the phone calls to get this thing arranged? "Hello, I'd like to rent a meeting room. By the way, do you have a policy for biohazard disposal? Is that covered by your arrangements staff or do we have to do it?"

e: hopefully it wasn't dinner and a show

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Also in feelgood news:

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1456281185827569665

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

:stonk:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1455730582130806785

$500 pay-per-view autopsies as part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and this body was donated by the funeral home to "medical research". It's a cousin to the "corpses used to test military munitions" a while back.

I swear to God I will die on the hill of thinking its extremely hosed up that everyone profits off of body donations except the family

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

I'll say it again, Ferengi death customs are the most utopian thing in all of Star Trek

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


maffew buildings posted:

Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good

:same:

Also, I loving hate it here.
https://twitter.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1456311827550384129


Though this reply was worth it.
https://twitter.com/ebplais/status/1456316381218189319

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?
So QAnon has figured out why JFK Sr. wasn't at Dealey Plaza on Tuesday.

Turns out he was busy with a prior enagagement at the Cotton Bowl.

Playing guitar for the Rolling Stones.

They think Keith Richards is JFK.

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/qanon-supporters-jfk-jr-rolling-stones-b1951467

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

maffew buildings posted:

Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good

Correct, but I will always laugh and feel better at variants of this story:

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

maffew buildings posted:

Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good

Everyone is cherishing wherever small consequences the commoners face because the lords are above the law.

Flashback to a year ago when liberals were convinced Trump would face consequences for his corruption once he left office. Like almost everything liberals predict, that hasn't happened, but there's no time for introspection - we're only a year from the next election day, and it's the most important election in our lifetimes

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

McNally posted:

So QAnon has figured out why JFK Sr. wasn't at Dealey Plaza on Tuesday.

Turns out he was busy with a prior enagagement at the Cotton Bowl.

Playing guitar for the Rolling Stones.

They think Keith Richards is JFK.

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/qanon-supporters-jfk-jr-rolling-stones-b1951467

If he sees his shadow, do we get six more weeks of deepstate control?

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

McNally posted:

So QAnon has figured out why JFK Sr. wasn't at Dealey Plaza on Tuesday.

Turns out he was busy with a prior enagagement at the Cotton Bowl.

Playing guitar for the Rolling Stones.

They think Keith Richards is JFK.

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/qanon-supporters-jfk-jr-rolling-stones-b1951467

This is just loving Conspiracy Mad Libs at this point.

Two weeks from now someone will spill the Wheel O' Names and they'll declare that Martin Short is... I dunno, RFK or something.

The Eyes Have It
Feb 10, 2008

Third Eye Sees All
...snookums

facialimpediment posted:

:stonk:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1455730582130806785

$500 pay-per-view autopsies as part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and this body was donated by the funeral home to "medical research". It's a cousin to the "corpses used to test military munitions" a while back.

Sounds like a job for...

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1456340033317838852?s=20

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.

facialimpediment posted:

:stonk:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1455730582130806785

$500 pay-per-view autopsies as part of the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and this body was donated by the funeral home to "medical research". It's a cousin to the "corpses used to test military munitions" a while back.

I guess Tales from the Crypt had to get the idea from somewhere.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Of Chris and Kyrie

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1456238641722888193?s=20

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005


Portnoy seems to have Complaints

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

This is just loving Conspiracy Mad Libs at this point.

Two weeks from now someone will spill the Wheel O' Names and they'll declare that Martin Short is... I dunno, RFK or something.

I mean, have *you* ever seen Martin Short and RFK together at the same time? :colbert:

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


As in all of these situations, probably not going to cheer about the Portnoy thing until something sticks. It feels like 2 years of people dancing around him being a creep.

e: He feels like a guy that watched Wolf of Wall Street and said he could do better.

SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Nov 5, 2021

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The guy that beat the NJ Senate President has Standard Republican opinions on Islam and so on, but he has also been horny on main:

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1456398200856879115

powerful new jersey energy

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

I feel like dems losing the average dumb horny pill popping idiot demographic is where they started their slide into irrelevancy. Morons like that are America and they're all republicans now.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


But what if the body actually is sexy? Powerful truth.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Horny alone moves the wheel of history.

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

facialimpediment posted:

The guy that beat the NJ Senate President has Standard Republican opinions on Islam and so on, but he has also been horny on main:

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1456398200856879115

powerful new jersey energy

That guy has surpassed the username/post combo with an on-the-nose real name/post combo

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

This sounds depressingly plausible, although will be interesting to see how it interacts with the recent attempts by rural areas to tempt high wage WFH jobs to move out to the low cost of living corners of the country.

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1456355165699665935

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


doubt that narrative is gonna hold up because a lot of the conservative anti-vax pushback is from people who say they're WFH, thus, they don't need the vax because they're not endangering anyone from the company

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

pmchem posted:

doubt that narrative is gonna hold up because a lot of the conservative anti-vax pushback is from people who say they're WFH, thus, they don't need the vax because they're not endangering anyone from the company

lol that's funny as poo poo

They can do both

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Milo and POTUS posted:

They can do both

I mean it makes sense as a republican stance.

- lovely old C-Levels thinking butts in seats is the best metric ever for "work"

- red necks mad at white collar middle/high education city dwellers for getting to stay at home instead of working a lovely 9 to 5

- owning the ostensibly, but not really liberal computer touchers.

Wrong Theory
Aug 27, 2005

Satellite from days of old, lead me to your access code
The loudest "Bring 'em back!" guy in my office says he is liberal. :shrug: Personally I think if you want to recruit and retain talent you are going to have to offer some form of WFH in the future.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Crab Dad posted:

But what if the body actually is sexy? Powerful truth.

Speaking of truth

https://twitter.com/edwarddurr1/status/1271446250177650689

NJ still is majority-Democratic by like 24-19 so really this will just lead to comedy as the QAnon truck driver that ran because he got denied a concealed carry permit suddenly has to do Legislative Things.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
the work from home culture war is going to go nowhere because it'll get bipartisaned quick as gently caress due to liberal boomer workforce leaders also believing people not in the office is a travesty

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

I'm going to fight it because I'm jealous of the insufferable homers who keep telling me about the new paradigm we surely find all of ourselves in together

For real though I wish it would stick because if I have to brave the covid mines I at least want the commute to be light.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


McNally posted:

So QAnon has figured out why JFK Sr. wasn't at Dealey Plaza on Tuesday.

Turns out he was busy with a prior enagagement at the Cotton Bowl.

Playing guitar for the Rolling Stones.

They think Keith Richards is JFK.

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/qanon-supporters-jfk-jr-rolling-stones-b1951467

How the hell are we supposed to rehabilitate these cultists? Mass distribution of Xanax packages relabeled as Emperor Trump's Patented Q Fuel?

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Kazinsal posted:

How the hell are we supposed to rehabilitate these cultists? Mass distribution of Xanax packages relabeled as Emperor Trump's Patented Q Fuel?


Legalize weed, provide mental and physical health services, provide low cost housing.

The % that remain brain washed after getting most of their basic needs met will solve themselves through a combination of horse medicine and bad gun safety.


This of course will never happen, because republicans need people to be full of vitriol to have voters outside of rich white people and democrats need the money of the aforementioned rich white people

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Kazinsal posted:

How the hell are we supposed to rehabilitate these cultists?

You can't - outside of doing what Def said in inundating them with more self-enriching pursuits to focus on. The QAnon poo poo is a net made out of fish hooks. Someone gets caught on the periphery, and any attempt they make to free themselves just gets them entangled in said net all the worse. The only way out is when they turn on each other, because any attempt to break them up from the outside just feeds into their martyr and persecution complexes.

It's a self-perpetuating conspiracy culture. The fact that there are so many of them make them feel like even if they're wrong, they're still a member of a ~community~. It's the same with the flat earthers. Their families and friends reject them because they try to ~convert~ them, so all they eventually have left are their fellow believers.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Nov 5, 2021

bengy81
May 8, 2010

Fallom posted:

I swear to God I will die on the hill of thinking its extremely hosed up that everyone profits off of body donations except the family

Yeah man, there is a whole closet industry around medical research, and it's super hosed up and needs to be regulated badly. There is a huge market for indigent people, basically these companies pay for basic body handling services in exchange for being able to use the corpse for medical research, then they lop the head off, quarter the torso, and sell the chunks to different companies. Also funeral homes can get kickbacks when Aunt Doris is convinced to donate her body instead of being buried.
I think whole corpses mostly go to universities, but I'm not that familiar with that side of the thing.

Also corpses can be sold for really cheap, like I think you can buy a quarter for like $500, and there isn't any regulation on how bodies are handled and disposed that I know of, most places I've seen at least treat the bodies like proper bioburden when they are done with them.
I really think the family should get some kick back or something when a body is sold.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Terrifying Effigies posted:

This sounds depressingly plausible, although will be interesting to see how it interacts with the recent attempts by rural areas to tempt high wage WFH jobs to move out to the low cost of living corners of the country.

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1456355165699665935

Yeah I def. see it being plausible that some notable idiots are gonna start throwing this around on Fox News and what not, but a lot of companies are already looking at it from a "Wait, we can save how much?!?" by not having to maintain an office space for every single employee.

Current employer has all but said it's going to be a permanent fixture once our merger goes through, and a rather large financial org I just interviewed with was hiring specifically for people to WFH.

It's gonna be a thing the usual suspects whine about, but it's too late to cram the toothpaste back into the tube with this one. The only places forcing everyone to come in 9-5 for pure office work with no real client facing roles are going to end up having retention and recruiting issues. Yahoo got away with it in 2013 because it was the exception, not the norm. Not anymore.

Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Nov 5, 2021

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

maffew buildings posted:

the work from home culture war is going to go nowhere because it'll get bipartisaned quick as gently caress due to liberal boomer workforce leaders also believing people not in the office is a travesty

It will depend on the industry. Tech is staying remote, there's no going back now. Any company that tries to go back on that will see an exodus of employees and they won't have any trouble finding another job that is remote.

Other white collar industries where workers don't have the same leverage, we'll have to wait and see. If some executives decide they want to see asses in seats, a lot of people aren't really going to have any choice but to get their asses in seats.

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Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Handsome Ralph posted:

a lot of companies are already looking at it from a "Wait, we can save how much?!?" by not having to maintain an office space for every single employee.
I can't wait until they realize that they could realistically get people abroad to deliver good enough results for a fraction of the cost, leading to what remains of the middle class in high cost of living countries being replaced by equally adequate foreign equivalents.

The main arguments this scenario that people give me are:

A) racist: "lol, no one from Bolivaria is smart enough to code"
B) "cultural" (still racist, just possible less overtly so): "companies look to create a unique culture that a worker in Bolivia just could never fit into because they're foreign and probably don't speak English well"
C) willfully blind about capitalism: "my country's tax code and regulation of international trade make this effectively impossible no, I've never heard of companies forcing through changes to the tax code or trade policy that advantage their bottom lines at the expense of the worker"

And sure, workers in high cost of living countries don't "deserve" a higher quality of life than their counterparts abroad, but allowing capital to destroy all the labor concessions in those countries by abandoning those employment markets en masse would lead toward one hell of a dystopian future.

I'm all for everyone having the opportunity to work from home as needed, but seeing all the enthusiasm for permanent remote work is like watching folks sprint jubilantly toward a cliff.

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