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Cuttlefush posted:is it all from fortnite A couple, but I pissed off all of YOSPOS and gbs.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:12
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Smythe posted:i once went to small claims over a car crash. some guy t boned me outside community college 9999 yrs ago and sued me for the max. for some strange reason my insurance company agreed with my plan to counter sue for the max also and theyd foot the bill. it was small claims so i represented myself amnd was like 20 years old. the judge thought it was really hosed up and pretty funny and awarded us both the full 10k so we just gave eachother 10k. well he gave me his real 10k and my insurance company gave him 10k. it got deposited into my bank account which i wired to the insurance company. it was really weird. my mom drove me to court. it was cool. the judge asked me if i wanted ot be a lawyer when i grew up. lmfao. anyways that was a long time ago. the guy also came to court with a walker and neck brace, neither of which he needed since he wasnt injured at all. Lol
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Mar 23, 2023 14:12
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Mr Hootington posted:A couple, but I pissed off all of YOSPOS and gbs. ohhh is that why that guy in the musk thread was mad at you? lol i post with avatars turned off so I forget that some people literally see you as glenn greenwald lol
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Mar 23, 2023 14:13
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I almost feel like there's some kind of institutional money protection bubble around Musk because of the SpaceX and Starlink poo poo. Like because so much of his 'worth' is tied up in the idea that he's a genius, they're not allowing him to have the kind of big public failure he should rightly be having by now. or maybe making it happen slowly over time so they can get that big government money elsewhere. He has defense and intelligence in roads yeah. Starlink has been found to be used by "rebel groups" in Latin America and was rolled pit for Ukraine.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:14
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https://twitter.com/keishaydavis/status/1636128095911530496?s=20 nobody wants to work anymore
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Mar 23, 2023 14:14
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Shear Modulus posted:facebook pays recruiters $190,000??? FAANG companies exist to give money to people with the right backgrounds (parents wealthy/white enough to get them into top ten schools) It's insanely funny that people think these companies are full of the best and brightest minds we have to offer. They're just support structures for the children of the biggest used car dealership owners in Waukegan or whatever
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Mar 23, 2023 14:18
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Man Roadhouse is a great movie
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Mar 23, 2023 14:21
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Iron Crowned posted:Man Roadhouse is a great movie The director of Roadhouse is from Pittsburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowdy_Herrington
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Mar 23, 2023 14:22
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The director of Roadhouse is from Pittsburgh Why do you have to ruin everything?
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Mar 23, 2023 14:24
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axgrap can we get data analysis visuals on posts mentioning "pittsburgh" and "outback"
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Mar 23, 2023 14:26
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private jet manufacturing seems to be going great https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1638894697052528640
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Mar 23, 2023 14:26
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It feels like a big chunk of SV tech could do layoffs and not materially impact unemployment/jobs numbers because so much of it was literally hoarding talent that will filter out to less insanely compensated position in other industries. Not great for upward mobility for workers but like even with all the fake job openings there is still a strong demand for talent, just not at FAANG compensation levels.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:29
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The biggest parts of the SV 'tech' economy aren't really tech companies. Google is an advertising company. Facebook is a box that turns grandma into a racist Amazon is a retailer
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Mar 23, 2023 14:36
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so who's the shmuck? the person paying off their credit cards in full every month? or the person doing the lowest monthly payments with ever greater debt till they die?
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Mar 23, 2023 14:37
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fits my needs posted:so who's the shmuck? the person paying off their credit cards in full every month? or the person doing the lowest monthly payments with ever greater debt till they die? you might think the latter is the smarter one, but only if they can correctly predict when they'll die
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Mar 23, 2023 14:40
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The biggest parts of the SV 'tech' economy aren't really tech companies. the most tech related stuff they do is designing and building the computing infrastructure they need to support their primary businesses, yeah. though in amazon's case i wouldn't be surprised if aws was their biggest source of income these days, so i guess they would qualify as a tech company then
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Mar 23, 2023 14:43
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:FAANG companies exist to give money to people with the right backgrounds (parents wealthy/white enough to get them into top ten schools) I wonder where the divide is between that and other forms of patronage. Are they the same people who go to Georgetown or West Point, and it's just a difference of personality that determines what stream they enter, or do different families send their kids to different institutions that do more or less the same thing, be they staff officers, academics, political staffers, consultants or FAANG based on region or something? I guess I'm asking if it's a Yankee/Cowboy divide?
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Mar 23, 2023 14:44
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Cuttlefush posted:is it all from fortnite lmao
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Mar 23, 2023 14:44
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i dont know of many people that can afford to pay off the cc balances entirely every monthly in fact i dont know of any
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Mar 23, 2023 14:44
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:the most tech related stuff they do is designing and building the computing infrastructure they need to support their primary businesses, yeah. though in amazon's case i wouldn't be surprised if aws was their biggest source of income these days, so i guess they would qualify as a tech company then aws is the only reason amazon still exists
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Mar 23, 2023 14:44
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anywhere between a third and half of the entire internet runs on it
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Mar 23, 2023 14:45
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Nothus posted:https://twitter.com/keishaydavis/status/1636128095911530496?s=20 we should probably make the education cost more so that it's seen as more valuable then people will flock
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Mar 23, 2023 14:48
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HallelujahLee posted:i dont know of many people that can afford to pay off the cc balances entirely every monthly in fact i dont know of any I know a family who does this because the husband made a decent living as a private pilot for a wealthy family. Until he had a rough landing and some other oopsies and the family dropped him and now he's doing other pilot stuff but not doing nearly as well and they are falling behind because they haven't adjusted their lifestyle at all. The wife just spends spends spends with no regard for anything because its all credit and he takes care of it at the end of the month, which won't be happening as easily now
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Mar 23, 2023 14:49
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All time highs
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Mar 23, 2023 14:50
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triple sulk posted:aws is the only reason amazon still exists yeah i just looked and it's the only division they have which is actually profitable. but i suspect they deliberately run the retail side of things at a loss to gain market share, so it could be profitable if they wanted it to be
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Mar 23, 2023 14:50
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I know a family who does this because the husband made a decent living as a private pilot for a wealthy family. Until he had a rough landing and some other oopsies and the family dropped him and now he's doing other pilot stuff but not doing nearly as well and they are falling behind because they haven't adjusted their lifestyle at all. The wife just spends spends spends with no regard for anything because its all credit and he takes care of it at the end of the month, which won't be happening as easily now i know someone that used to do this but they can no longer afford the whole paying them off at the end of the month
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Mar 23, 2023 14:50
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My wife makes a point to do it. I never understood it because credit card debt makes me sick to my stomach so I never use mine. She checks her credit rating a few times a week and makes sure to never carry a balance of more than 33% or something, but also makes sure to use her card often for things like packs of gum so she can pay it off at the end of the month. I don't know, I hate them, I don't know why people have them.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:51
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Frosted Flake posted:My wife makes a point to do it. I never understood it because credit card debt makes me sick to my stomach so I never use mine. She checks her credit rating a few times a week and makes sure to never carry a balance of more than 33% or something, but also makes sure to use her card often for things like packs of gum so she can pay it off at the end of the month. because the entire credit system is a way to keep people in perpetual debt thats the entire reason it exists and it gets worse and worse because almost no-one in the us has any disposable income
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Mar 23, 2023 14:52
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I almost feel like there's some kind of institutional money protection bubble around Musk because of the SpaceX and Starlink poo poo. Like because so much of his 'worth' is tied up in the idea that he's a genius, they're not allowing him to have the kind of big public failure he should rightly be having by now. or maybe making it happen slowly over time so they can get that big government money elsewhere. the only way this system can keep pretending it's possible to keep going like it has been is because of trusting "visionaries" like musk who want to pretend we can keep inventing new things that let us consume more and more and make number go up it's like the economists who say that the laws of thermodynamics don't apply because we can keep "decoupling" economic activity from physical production and consumption of resources - i.e. rent seeking of course all of the actual technological (even putting aside the more difficult political and social) problems that need to be solved are mostly beyond the ability or desire of the market to solve over the short term so they won't receive the resources they need to actually get done
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Mar 23, 2023 14:52
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Frosted Flake posted:I don't know, I hate them, I don't know why people have them. because it unlocks like half the perks of capitalism
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Mar 23, 2023 14:53
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HallelujahLee posted:i know someone that used to do this but they can no longer afford the whole paying them off at the end of the month the same way we drilled into people's head that you should not spend more than 33% of your income on rent, people should know that the minimum payment on a CC should never exceed 5% to 10% of your monthly income. Going above that means your getting further away from the possibility of ever repaying it. Instead people think: "I have X extra per month after paying essentials (rent, utilities and food), that means I can go up to X amount per month as minimum payments and still be ok!"
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Mar 23, 2023 14:53
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Frosted Flake posted:My wife makes a point to do it. I never understood it because credit card debt makes me sick to my stomach so I never use mine. She checks her credit rating a few times a week and makes sure to never carry a balance of more than 33% or something, but also makes sure to use her card often for things like packs of gum so she can pay it off at the end of the month. I put absolutely everything through credit cards and pay them all off at the end of the month, I get a shitload of free Amazon and Costco bucks from doing this. I haven't actually used cash or a debit card in well over a decade
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Mar 23, 2023 14:54
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Frosted Flake posted:I don't know why people have them. only way to buy an SA account or Steam Games at the time
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Mar 23, 2023 14:55
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The Amazon reward dollars are worthless now that Amazon is essentially a Aliexpress drop ship website, but hey
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Mar 23, 2023 14:55
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interviews are so poo poo right now if you can even get one with companies dragging the processes out to ridiculous levels. i have to self-therapy by reading r/recruitinghell and other places to get validation and try and not lose my mind i started with one place almost a month and a half ago and have had three conversations thus far, never mind that two of them were with c/vp-level people who should have been able to suss me out. i was supposed to get an update almost two weeks ago which turned into an update by two days ago because of how long they've supposedly been taking to "finish interviews." they might just be afraid to turn me down but at that point just don't even reply to my emails. the best part is that the job would likely be anywhere from a $20-30k cut from what i made previously because it's an employer's market and job seekers have zero leverage. america owns.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:55
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Ah the halcyon days of getting a free hat with a credit card signup
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Mar 23, 2023 14:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:only way to buy an SA account or Steam Games at the time lmao but u right
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Mar 23, 2023 14:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:you might think the latter is the smarter one, but only if they can correctly predict when they'll die yah i basically treat it like cash, always tracked it so i got good credit. plus nowadays they send you checks to take out cash loans against your credit card? Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I put absolutely everything through credit cards and pay them all off at the end of the month, I get a shitload of free Amazon and Costco bucks from doing this.  , well except at cash only places
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Mar 23, 2023 14:57
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:yeah i just looked and it's the only division they have which is actually profitable. but i suspect they deliberately run the retail side of things at a loss to gain market share, so it could be profitable if they wanted it to be Their advertising operations are distinct from AWS, right? I believe advertising has been successful for them too. Amazon used to be notorious for investing back into its infrastructure, which would be at the cost of retail business profitability. I'm not sure if that is still the excuse now. If e-commerce generally picks back up, the numbers might look better for that branch of the business. I'd like to know how much burning money on stuff like Rings of Power and sinking money into Alexa devices also eroded the bottom line.
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Mar 23, 2023 14:58
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If you have a cash back or travel point credit card, putting everyday spending on it and paying it off at the end of the month is fine. Just be aware the credit card companies are trying to trap you into carrying a balance.
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