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Frosted Flake posted:It comes back to MBA mindset where they see personnel as inefficiencies instead of required to do the unglamorous work at sea like scrub, oil and paint things. well and they contracted even out the scale and paint work.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:45
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Frosted Flake posted:It comes back to MBA mindset where they see personnel as inefficiencies instead of required to do the unglamorous work at sea like scrub, oil and paint things. look it's very simple if you depreciate your assets to nothing then number actually goes up when they get sunk by a cruise missile. checkmate chinailures
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Mar 23, 2023 17:46
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Don't eat product, eat real food.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:47
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Frosted Flake posted:inefficiencies you mean to tell me that you cannot feel this electricity?
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Mar 23, 2023 17:47
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Eric Cantonese posted:Their advertising operations are distinct from AWS, right? I believe advertising has been successful for them too. supposedly amazon's advertising business is actually kickbacks from amazon sellers https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1519812476010831872
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Mar 23, 2023 17:47
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i wouldnt worry about it, im sure the navy is in talks with the guys that made the roomba to make an autonomous deck de-rusting robot for a few billion
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Mar 23, 2023 17:48
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Mr Hootington posted:They are still yelling at that Chinese ceo? Lol livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjG7j6ukpQ
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Mar 23, 2023 17:50
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Who hell yeah. This Utah guy is comparing tiktok to a post "on AOL" and wants to get rid of internet protections lol
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Mar 23, 2023 17:57
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Bar Ran Dun posted:well and they contracted even out the scale and paint work. but don’t worry, the us is ready for war with china 😉
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Mar 23, 2023 17:59
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Malleum posted:i wouldnt worry about it, im sure the navy is in talks with the guys that made the roomba to make an autonomous deck de-rusting robot for a few billion I've posted about it elsewhere but the Reaganites finally forcing Admiral Rickover out on a BS technicality while he was single-handedly holding the line against General Dynamics bilking the Navy for 9 figgies on cost overruns for the Los Angeles class hulls was the end of the beginning of the end of USN quality control.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:03
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Blunt Rochester is a name from that Japanese baseball video game.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:04
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help, my trust in amazon has eroded!
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Mar 23, 2023 18:05
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lol I remember in like 2010-2011 there were a record number of Millennials living with their parents a number not seen since the great depression. but the fundamentals of the economy are strong and cool
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Mar 23, 2023 18:06
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pictures from a mall. very relevant.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:07
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where the gently caress is there a not-dead mall does it exist just for photoshoots like that
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Mar 23, 2023 18:08
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Mr Hootington posted:Who hell yeah. This Utah guy is comparing tiktok to a post "on AOL" and wants to get rid of internet protections lol is it the same utah guy that keeps it legal to sell any type of poison or heavy metals you want as suppliments or the new one
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Mar 23, 2023 18:08
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webcams for christ posted:more detail on the Wells Notice from yesterday
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Mar 23, 2023 18:08
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1637551722502529025?t=NWvVEO4YqxUJUAVcJ-iQmg&s=19 last good book before the slog
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Mar 23, 2023 18:09
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Tempora Mutantur posted:where the gently caress is there a not-dead mall The galleria mall in Buffalo is always busy because Canadians come there to shop, I imagine there's other malls near metro areas that have managed to stay alive for the same reason - not enough business to stay afloat from one population, but if it sits at the intersection of a few different large pops it might be enough to keep on trucking
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Mar 23, 2023 18:10
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Tempora Mutantur posted:where the gently caress is there a not-dead mall Malls are still thriving in affluent bubbles where a single professional income can maintain a household. Places like that have people with the time and money to leisure shop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Hills_Village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Park_Mall Both of these places are in $$$$$$ areas and are doing great. Everywhere else, they're pretty much dead.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:10
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Malleum posted:i wouldnt worry about it, im sure the navy is in talks with the guys that made the roomba to make an autonomous deck de-rusting robot for a few billion I feel like I saw something along those lines. A page or so ago people were talking about why Elon Musk is necessary for the stories the system tells to, and about, itself. Maintaining ships at sea has been a sailor's life literally since the Pharaoh commissioned warships made of reeds. Greek sailors used to have to drag their ships ashore on a beach each night and scrub them. Wooden ships of the line had to be rigorously maintained so the oak wouldn't rot. Hell, the reason they had to painstakingly scrub the decks was because otherwise they would become slick and incredibly dangerous. The work required with iron navies was all of that plus rust prevention. This is not new. But if you are shrinking the state and allowing people to extract rent in a way that is obviously damaging, I suppose you need to tell a story of why that's not a problem and you don't need to change direction. A robot to scrub ships instead of simply having more bo's'ns in the beleaguered deck department is obviously the direction they'll go in because I think, on some level, ideologically they're locked in. It's just another reason why the reasons they can't win a war with China are so deeply engrained into who they are and how they think. I seem to remember several of the Seventh Fleet's recent fatal accidents were because, by cutting sailors for the sake of efficiency, there are less people to stand watch and everyone is exhausted, all of the time. Combine those two things, and yeah what McKinsey promised would be some great benefit is actually causing real damage to the fleet. e: Yep "Greensea Systems Inc. has been awarded a 2-year Phase 2 option period contract by the U.S. Naval Office of Naval Research to continue developing technology for autonomous hull cleaning vehicles. This is a continuation of the work Greensea has been doing since 2018 through the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. While the first phase of the contract focused on designing the system, the second phase will focus on technologies that improve navigation and autonomy."
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Mar 23, 2023 18:11
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king of Prussia mall is still alive I think
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Mar 23, 2023 18:12
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i am a fan of dead malls in the middle of otherwise thriving commercial areas. just a giant husk of a mall surrounded by active businesses
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Mar 23, 2023 18:12
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euphronius posted:king of Prussia mall is still alive I think Also $$$$$$$$$$$
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Mar 23, 2023 18:13
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they aren’t useful for anything else. it’s great
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Mar 23, 2023 18:13
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The american style enclosed shopping mall only ever existed due to accelerated depreciation schemes to encourage commercial concerns to move out of the cities and out to the artificial gated whites-only developments the government subsidized after WW2. That scheme went away in the late 80s and with that went almost all enclosed mall development
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Mar 23, 2023 18:14
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our hometown mall looks like it's thriving but the farther you go from the front entrance (which has a nice Target and Macy's) you can see the Rot set in. there's a whole hallway with failed popup shops and empty retail space. but that's also where you have to go to use the bathrooms and the family play area and it's so eerie lol
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Mar 23, 2023 18:15
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"Mall" is actually a contraction of "Them All", as in "Which stores did you say were in that building?" "Them All. Themall. The Mall."
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Mar 23, 2023 18:16
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the best stage of a mall is when all the normal shops have already left but it's not quite dead and it has a bunch of weird shops that's just some person with an idea. it's like public access poo poo
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Mar 23, 2023 18:16
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19 o'clock posted:help, my trust in amazon has eroded! much like the actual amazon itself 
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Mar 23, 2023 18:16
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The american style enclosed shopping mall only ever existed due to accelerated depreciation schemes to encourage commercial concerns to move out of the cities and out to the artificial gated whites-only developments the government subsidized after WW2. That scheme went away in the late 80s and with that went almost all enclosed mall development There's malls in other countries that are pretty much the same thing though
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Mar 23, 2023 18:17
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they are not too much different from a basilica in function they’d be fine if they were properly supported with transit
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Mar 23, 2023 18:17
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Jon Irenicus posted:our hometown mall looks like it's thriving but the farther you go from the front entrance (which has a nice Target and Macy's) you can see the Rot set in. there's a whole hallway with failed popup shops and empty retail space. but that's also where you have to go to use the bathrooms and the family play area and it's so eerie lol Last time we were in the mall in my wife's hometown, the food court was completely rebranded with lottery poo poo and people were listlessly standing around doing scratch-off tickets. it was pretty disturbing
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Mar 23, 2023 18:17
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The american style enclosed shopping mall only ever existed due to accelerated depreciation schemes to encourage commercial concerns to move out of the cities and out to the artificial gated whites-only developments the government subsidized after WW2. That scheme went away in the late 80s and with that went almost all enclosed mall development Wasn't it envisioned by an Austrian Socialist or something who imagined it as an American market square?  euphronius posted:they are not too much different from a basilica in function Just like a basilica, as the empire declines I see more and more churches popping up in them as they fall out of use.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:18
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Cuttlefush posted:the best stage of a mall is when all the normal shops have already left but it's not quite dead and it has a bunch of weird shops that's just some person with an idea. it's like public access poo poo before getting demolished a mall near me only contained a dying sears, a normally busy boscovs, a dinosaur museum, one of those places you can get faux oil painting of baseball players, and a christian toy store
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Mar 23, 2023 18:19
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Beached Whale posted:There's malls in other countries that are pretty much the same thing though yeah, Russia had stuff like the big GUM building in Moscow that I guess was essentially a mall before the mall. The ones we know in the US were entirely dependent on tax scams for new development to get places to locate out by the new whites-only country estates though. There just wasn't enough population density out in suburbia to get stuff like that built organically.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:19
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:before getting demolished a mall near me only contained a dying sears, a normally busy boscovs, a dinosaur museum, one of those places you can get faux oil painting of baseball players, and a christian toy store Hell yeah. That's what I'm talking about
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Mar 23, 2023 18:20
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Cleaning is actually one of the things that robots are pretty good at. That said, I have no doubt that neoliberal profit seeking will make those robots expensive and disposable to maximize revenue.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:21
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:yeah, Russia had stuff like the big GUM building in Moscow that I guess was essentially a mall before the mall. The ones we know in the US were entirely dependent on tax scams for new development to get places to locate out by the new whites-only country estates though. There just wasn't enough population density out in suburbia to get stuff like that built organically. The downtowns of most North American cities already had market buildings, and high streets.  It's the move out to the suburbs, cars, and aversion to walking that got us where we are.
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Mar 23, 2023 18:21
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the mall about ten minutes away has officially become Teen Fight Club where all of the poorly behaved students go to gently caress around on the weekend and routinely get in fights. one kid even got stabbed. thus the mall is trying to crack down and literally ban unaccompanied minors
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