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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Redditors do love simping for pharma corps in the comments lol
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In capitalism corporations are profit motivated sociopaths by design and mixing that with the fear of death leads to big pharma. How much contempt that particular dude should bear for being responsible for that whole system is debatable (it’s not zero, but you might be misdirecting a lot of your anger). Boycotting the wedding and taking any empathy and concern that the pharma bro has for your family member as signs that they’re a hypocrite is very weird. And if you borrow the dress you’re just as big a hypocrite, benefiting from the same pharma profits.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:09
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IOwnCalculus posted:With that said I'm pretty sure Tesla as a company doesn't do manufacturer-subsidized financing so you'll never see a 0% loan, and none of that matters when this dipshit thinks that just because a loving car salesman told him he can afford it that means it must be true. Dude is probably headed to a dealership now to get a great deal on a $40k Altima because that salesman said it was a great deal too. The one thing going in his favor is that Tesla doesn't deviate from MSRP. But there's no doubt he purchased every extended warranty they offered.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:34
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:In capitalism corporations are profit motivated sociopaths by design and mixing that with the fear of death leads to big pharma. How much contempt that particular dude should bear for being responsible for that whole system is debatable (it’s not zero, but you might be misdirecting a lot of your anger). I've worked in big pharma for years and for me it's much more gray than it used to be. Predatory pricing and general sociopathy at the executive level is a very real thing, but seeing people fight internally for lower pricing and drive themselves to make a better vaccine makes it difficult to drat all pharma people as a whole. Should big pharma be regulated? Yes. Is pharma as a system corrupt? Probably. Is every pharma person a soulless rear end in a top hat? That's much more complicated.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:40
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I've worked in big pharma for years and for me it's much more gray than it used to be. Predatory pricing and general sociopathy at the executive level is a very real thing, but seeing people fight internally for lower pricing and drive themselves to make a better vaccine makes it difficult to drat all pharma people as a whole. Should big pharma be regulated? Yes. Is pharma as a system corrupt? Probably. This guy is specifically called out as an executive, though the OP doesn't seem like the most reliable narrator. It's not a stretch to say that the leaders of an organization that prevents people from getting medicine to stretch their profits are immoral. That said, OP has no leg to stand on if she's taking gifts from them.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:47
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This guy is specifically called out as an executive, though the OP doesn't seem like the most reliable narrator. It's not a stretch to say that the leaders of an organization that prevents people from getting medicine to stretch their profits are immoral. I hate how you acquired that dress. Give it to me.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:00
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:That said, OP has no leg to stand on if she's taking gifts from them. I'm not keen on OP, but I don't accept 'don't take things from rich arseholes' as a principle. It's a great thing to do, as long as you don't give them anything in return. The pity is we don't club together and take more.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:03
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I would find it less hypocritical if the OP was taking it by force instead of receiving it as a gift.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:08
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Sisal Two-Step posted:AITA for punishing my stepdaughter after she refused to remove the family framed photos she put all over my house? I'll take "OP was the affair partner" for $200 Alex.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:19
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AITA for pursuing charges against the person who opened my personal packages and almost ruined my marriage?quote:I (29M) moved out of my apartment and bought a house with my wife (33F) a few minutes away 2 years ago. It's revealed in the comments he spent 4k in lingerie. I hope it's the good poo poo like agent provacteur and the like, those camgirls deserve nice poo poo.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:19
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value-brand cereal posted:AITA for pursuing charges against the person who opened my personal packages and almost ruined my marriage? If she's still his wife after this then she's gonna have a bad time.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:26
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limp_cheese posted:I'll take "OP was the affair partner" for $200 Alex. Comments reveal that they only met after the divorce but the relationship moved pretty fast. Lol at being called a motherfucker. Own that. This is an issue the mother should be spearheading since she’s the one who threw OP and daughter together.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:39
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value-brand cereal posted:AITA for pursuing charges against the person who opened my personal packages and almost ruined my marriage? Here's one too boring to be fake: Wife unable to take any action to fix marriage quote:My wife (32F) and I (31M) have been married for 4 years. We had our times or happy and conflicts during the marriage.
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Mar 7, 2022 18:47
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Dazerbeams posted:Comments reveal that they only met after the divorce but the relationship moved pretty fast. Lol at being called a motherfucker. Own that. This is an issue the mother should be spearheading since she’s the one who threw OP and daughter together. Well that's a surprise, everything screamed "affair" in that story. value-brand cereal posted:AITA for pursuing charges against the person who opened my personal packages and almost ruined my marriage? I really want to see the bf in this story get in front of a judge and explain why he can't stop opening someone else's packages. "But I thought my gf was cheating on me!" will probably not fly in a mail tampering case but I would love to see him try. Oh, and OP is obviously cheating on his wife or doing something else super sketchy. I'm sure its just slipped his mind to change the address lingere not meant for his wife gets delivered to. Totally understandable.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:00
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Megillah Gorilla posted:You idiot. Curious that this well off sober adult had apparently not done anything to make amends or apologize for his abuse now suddenly is eager to present a good face and offer money at the drop of the hat to the one person who shows any interest in talking to him.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:03
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:LOL, the reddit fake posters should spend more time making believable characters instead of contrived scenarios. This is just sad. quote:Yes I’ve been going by myself. We tried different ways of communication. I eventually resorted to written communication of my thoughts so that I can proof read it multiple times to remove all nuances and possibility of blame before sending it to her. But she turned down any sort of communication. She says I have to accept her as is and she doesn’t want to be in a marriage of clauses or conditions. I validated my requirements and texts with my therapist and he says they are very fair requirements in a relationship and that my communication was straight to the point and crisp without any blaming. But my communication is such that it forces her to take some responsibility in the marriage which has been my whole point. And that she recognizes and thus turns down.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:09
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"I reasonably assumed that packages delivered to my girlfriend's address belonged to her, and I have her permission to open her mail. Upon realizing the mistake the misdelivered packages were made available for the previous tenant to pick up, and here's all the text messages proving our communication attempts."
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Mar 7, 2022 19:09
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It's pretty hard to convict on mail tampering when the mail was addressed and delivered to the guy's place and he contacted the owner to pick it up. Generally opening up people's mail is a common enough occurrence it's not a crime.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:10
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:What everything is used, lol. so he's trying to forcibly sell poo poo he cant otherwise get rid of
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Mar 7, 2022 19:15
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its_my_birthday posted:everything is used, lol. so he's trying to forcibly sell poo poo he cant otherwise get rid of that’s amazing it’s like something only a genius at being an idiot could come up with
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Mar 7, 2022 19:18
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Wife unable to take any action to fix marriage I hate leaping to the "she's cheating" cliche, cause I feel like it's over-used. But I mean she's clearly given up on the marriage and probably has something else going on.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:18
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Captain Hygiene posted:AITA for applying gift tax on my [23M] friends? OP posted:EDIT2: Okay you convinced me. It seems that I was really wrong about the Oprah and tax thing. I'm gonna tell them to keep the gifts then without paying me anything. 
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Mar 7, 2022 19:22
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value-brand cereal posted:AITA for pursuing charges against the person who opened my personal packages and almost ruined my marriage? This story is fuckin stupid.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:24
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We had an idiot who didn't understand you need to update your address after moving. It's normal to still get spam mail and all the crap people don't really think to worry about, but we were also getting packages. Ok, maybe they were slow packages that they ordered before they moved? They kept coming. The idiots kept ordering poo poo to their old address. "oops sorry I forgot I needed to update my address in amazon!" "oops sorry I ordered some records and chrome had my old address saved". We kept getting important health and banking related poo poo too. We'd beg them to properly update their address with the post office and their banks and things. It finally stopped maybe 3 months in. Then like a year later we got some random package for them. Same poo poo, "oops sorry ordered from my wife's computer which still had our old address saved" I can't fathom how people can be so... blind? Dumb? Thoughtless? They never really apologized either. They'd only ever want to make sure we were keeping their packages safe and hoping we'd be home to receive them.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:33
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USPS also has a bunch of coupons you get when you set up (free!!) mail forwarding. If nothing else, do that! Also, at least in New York, if you have a license or state ID you're supposed to report your new address to the DMV within a limited timeframe.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:42
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I can see him opening up a package without thinking since I've done that too, its when it happens a few times I start to think the dude should start looking at who its addressed to. I'm not looking to die on this hill, I just thought it was funny the bf's defense is "What was I going to do, NOT open someone else's mail?"
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Mar 7, 2022 19:44
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Also, at least in New York, if you have a license or state ID you're supposed to report your new address to the DMV within a limited timeframe. I know that's pretty common, but I always wondered what happens if you just ignore it. Did the postmaster general order a precision strike on your new place? I've just seen so many people being profoundly stupid about dealing with their personal info, I'd have to imagine there are just folks out there not changing their address left and right.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:45
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I once accidentally opened a letter for the previous resident. The letter actually said something to the effect of "We understand that this is no longer your current address. Please update your address so that we can contact you." I poo poo you not.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:45
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dude was absolutely ordering to his old address on purpose thinking this would be a clever way to keep his wife from seeing the packages
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Mar 7, 2022 19:53
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limp_cheese posted:I can see him opening up a package without thinking since I've done that too, its when it happens a few times I start to think the dude should start looking at who its addressed to. I'm not looking to die on this hill, I just thought it was funny the bf's defense is "What was I going to do, NOT open someone else's mail?" According to her he has opened it intentionally because he wants to know if some guy is sending her stuff.
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Mar 7, 2022 19:54
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pentyne posted:I've never met a cat person who would think that leaving a housecat outdoors with a pile of food is at all a reasonable thing to do. I'm not saying they isn't room for her to still be an AH, but it all depends on whether the cat is an outdoor cat or an indoor cat. Some cats are used to being out of doors and can handle it no problem.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:08
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Keeping cats indoors is better for both the cat and for all the small animals and birds in the region
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Mar 7, 2022 20:10
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JosephSkunk posted:I'm not saying they isn't room for her to still be an AH, but it all depends on whether the cat is an outdoor cat or an indoor cat. Some cats are used to being out of doors and can handle it no problem. They mention it living indoors so I'm guessing it's not a cat that's used to living outside much. There's just no reason to chance it. I don't think most folks would even need to pay to board it, we always just put out extra cat amenities and found a friend who was happy to come over a couple times to change out that stuff. Cats are way easier to set up on their own for a bit than dogs.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:15
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I moved to a new place in July and I keep getting a ton of mail for the previous resident. I wrote "Return to sender" on a few things and they somehow just looped back to me, so I started blocking out the address, writing "Return", and mailing it from a different state. I also came home one day to one of those online food service boxes on my stoop full of fancy frozen nutritional shake stuff. It had sat there for 3+ days.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:18
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Captain Hygiene posted:I know that's pretty common, but I always wondered what happens if you just ignore it. Did the postmaster general order a precision strike on your new place? Only if you get pulled over and they run a check. Back in 2002?ish, had a big envelope in our mail box for a previous person who stayed in our apartment. It was from the DoD and looked really serious. We opened it out of curiosity, and it was them sending a letter saying they are considering the person on the letter to be AWOL. Good on them for not getting sent to the meatgrinder, but I'm pretty sure they were in deep poo poo.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:19
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Captain Hygiene posted:They mention it living indoors so I'm guessing it's not a cat that's used to living outside much. There's just no reason to chance it. I don't think most folks would even need to pay to board it, we always just put out extra cat amenities and found a friend who was happy to come over a couple times to change out that stuff. Cats are way easier to set up on their own for a bit than dogs. Yeah, they say "keep the cat indoors as usual," so outside of the whole inside/outside cat debate, this particular cat has minimal outside experience and is absolutely going to end up dead if left out for a week. And the boyfriend isn't even demanding boarding - he'd be fine with an extra litter box and timed feeder. She's risking her cat and willfully imploding her relationship because she doesn't want to handle a one-time ~$80 expense that could be avoided anyways by asking a friend to pop over.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:25
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Dr Strangepants posted:I moved to a new place in July and I keep getting a ton of mail for the previous resident. I wrote "Return to sender" on a few things and they somehow just looped back to me, so I started blocking out the address, writing "Return", and mailing it from a different state. That kept happening to us but we discovered that you had to block out the barcode too. The last few times we moved, it was always within the same building, so they always got rerouted correctly. Not sure when barcodes were added mail in the US.
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Mar 7, 2022 20:27
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StrangersInTheNight posted:dude was absolutely ordering to his old address on purpose thinking this would be a clever way to keep his wife from seeing the packages But then why send his wife to pick it up?
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Mar 7, 2022 20:29
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Not sure when barcodes were added mail in the US. Back in the 90's early-mid 2'ks, Microsoft Word let you print barcodes on envelopes so that it could conceivably get sent faster. Then that feature seemed to disappear or I can't find it anymore.
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[39/f] My boyfriend (41/m) quit his job to become a professional wrestler. How can i get through to him that this is a bad idea?quote:We both work full time but we don't make a lot of money from our jobs. We do make above minimum wage and both our checks are necessary to pay the bills. He's also very obsessed with wrestling, He watches it multiple times a week and often goes to Indy shows around us. He also blows a lot of money of crap, like buying actual gear the wrestlers wore in the ring. We also have 2 kids (17 and 7) lol
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