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Jun 15, 2023 21:24
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spacemang_spliff posted:I get paid in the satisfaction of getting to read so many good posts day in and day out from the beautiful people of CSPAM
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Jun 15, 2023 21:24
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Hubbert posted:do somethingawful moderators and idiot kings get paid I got a few thousand dollars for a ik stipend but I hear they changed it to equity stake
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Jun 15, 2023 21:27
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Subvisual Haze posted:Real economic growth stalled out in the west during the 1970s. We've had a couple false starts and financial tricks since then to maintain the appearance of growth, but it feels like the bill is rapidly coming due. Just need another big war to keep it going, let's see who's on the list... Oh, our largest trading partner? Seems fine.
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Jun 15, 2023 21:31
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redneck nazgul posted:Detergent sheets were the super cheap lazy option available when I was in basic training. I've never seen the biodegradable ecologically friendly type, only the "DETERGENT, CHEMICAL WASHING TYPE" variety.
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Jun 15, 2023 21:33
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nothing has changed except your information diet trains derail all the time 
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Jun 15, 2023 21:34
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a hard days modding is its own reward
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Jun 15, 2023 21:37
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Hubbert posted:do somethingawful moderators and idiot kings get paid https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/cyber-operations-officer/
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Jun 15, 2023 21:43
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American Prestige did an episode on semiconductors and macro policy around it. Pretty good listen and explains what kind of policy irt things like export controls would look like if China/U.S. escalates further. Hint: It's not good and the U.S./EU sounds like it would go hard AF on China.
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Jun 15, 2023 21:44
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Norton posted:why is every thing turning to poo poo so fast? capitalism has been around for a long time and companies could have jacked up prices like they are doing now at any point in the past 100 years. i can't imagine our ruling class ever cared about poor people so it can't be they are just more evil now. There isn't much unrest to speak of in the West, consumer-facing corporations have correctly read the room and are squeezing people more because they can. Yes, financialization of everything, the perfusion of various sorts of digital business models and digital assets, and the de facto legalization of fraud via lack of enforcement/destruction of the regulatory state mean there are all sorts of wacky hockey stick get rich schemes that actually work. The rich in the US are heading back to gilded age ratios of wealth versus the poor. It's impossible to say if this trend will continue in the longer term, one would expect a reaction at some point. Countries are all doing their own things, the US isn't the only extractive player in the international market these days. The barrier to entry of starting a business is very low, but competition can be crushed using a variety of anti-competitive cartel practices. If you start a really good company that beats the odds and those practices you will typically be bought out by one of the big players and your business will be integrated in their model. Frictionless, instant communication between business leaders may makes price-fixing a bit easier, but it's not remotely a new practice. So far, environmental issues have had less of an impact on prices than things like war and trade war and flat out profiteering, in my view, but of course these things all feed into one another. Environmental destruction can actually lead to lower prices in the short term. Cheap Brazilian beef! Cheap Alaskan oil! Etc. Money printer definitely played a big role in the current inflation mess. Technology, systems, and society have changed. Capital just does its thing in the latest context.
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Jun 15, 2023 21:56
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https://twitter.com/sistinechaebol/status/1669380520281624577 This is the rear end in a top hat who wrote the NYT piece on instapot’s bankruptcy and neglected to mentioned the equity firm that owns them taking out $500 million and paying out half that in dividends as a reason why the company has so much debt. I really don’t understand the NYT anymore, it’s a garbage rag. They can’t have it both ways claiming they’re impartial and just reporting facts when they leave out huge facts like that. Their garbage “reporting” didn’t go unnoticed. https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1669450244399017986
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Jun 15, 2023 22:35
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:the rate of profit is falling to zero
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Jun 15, 2023 22:36
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Glumwheels posted:I really don’t understand the NYT anymore, it’s a garbage rag. They can’t have it both ways claiming they’re impartial and just reporting facts when they leave out huge facts like that.
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Jun 15, 2023 22:45
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blatman posted:lol that reddit is hiring scabs to break the mod strike even worse. they're finding VOLUNTEER scabs
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Jun 15, 2023 22:48
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My understanding is that the Reddit mod complaint is that they need the third party apps for effective moderation because the native Reddit one sucks. So even if they install scab mods they are still gonna make everything suck if they kill the ability to easily moderate a website that requires constant and aggressive moderation to even just be a baseline level of lovely.
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Jun 15, 2023 22:52
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Vox Nihili posted:There isn't much unrest to speak of in the West 2020 happened, they convicted ONE cop, and now the world is Back To Normal
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Jun 15, 2023 22:52
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Thoguh posted:My understanding is that the Reddit mod complaint is that they need the third party apps for effective moderation because the native Reddit one sucks. So even if they install scab mods they are still gonna make everything suck if they kill the ability to easily moderate a website that requires constant and aggressive moderation to even just be a baseline level of lovely. could have the effect of increasing users (bots) and activity (spam) numbers just for the IPO
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Jun 15, 2023 22:54
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Jun 15, 2023 23:03
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Glumwheels posted:https://twitter.com/sistinechaebol/status/1669380520281624577 This guy's job is to write bullshit human interest puff pieces, he's doing what he's paid to do.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:09
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Man that’s really got to mess with some egos. You join up expecting to be cyber James Bond and end up a professional shitposter.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:14
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:"coprophagic mistake machines" is a great phrase and I hope I get to use it at work some day
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Jun 15, 2023 23:16
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nothing has changed except your information diet I didn't read any of your posts yesterday so that's objectively untrue.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:18
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nexous posted:didnt SA and tumblr both ban porn. no way theyre getting mass adoption SA banned porn because chuds were buying accounts by the boat load for warez and porn and contributing nothing to the site. Avoiding mass adoption was the point.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:25
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:SA banned porn because chuds were buying accounts by the boat load for warez and porn and contributing nothing to the site. Avoiding mass adoption was the point. ah yes the lowtax school of business
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Jun 15, 2023 23:32
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Jun 15, 2023 23:43
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nothing has changed except your information diet imagine being such a dumb piece of poo poo
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Jun 15, 2023 23:44
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:SA banned porn because chuds were buying accounts by the boat load for warez and porn and contributing nothing to the site. Avoiding mass adoption was the point. I thought it was to avoid getting sued for filez but I’m not a forums historian. PYF had softcore porn threads for years after DPPH went away.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:50
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Thoguh posted:My understanding is that the Reddit mod complaint is that they need the third party apps for effective moderation because the native Reddit one sucks. So even if they install scab mods they are still gonna make everything suck if they kill the ability to easily moderate a website that requires constant and aggressive moderation to even just be a baseline level of lovely. Oops, all Nazis!
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Jun 15, 2023 23:52
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nexous posted:ah yes the lowtax school of business Like, it's definitely got a kind of business sense in that a core audience that keeps an attractive site is better than a shallow audience that burns through good will in a year and abandons the ashes. The people only after porn and files would never have backed his Patreon when he hosed is spine. This thread of all places on the forum know the cost of infinite growth
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Jun 15, 2023 23:55
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Nazis and pedos are an opportunistic infection. If you leave a web form with a post button on the open internet without moderation long enough they just set up shop.
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Jun 15, 2023 23:56
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1669472904805744641?s=20
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Jun 16, 2023 00:05
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nexous posted:ah yes the lowtax school of business pouring one out for dpph
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Jun 16, 2023 00:07
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nexous posted:ah yes the lowtax school of business i mean lowtax had the business acumen of a drunk gorilla on a whole bottle of ambien, but also in a lot of ways that's the big reason the site is even still around. iirc, Conde Nast actually wanted to buy SomethingAwful around early 00s for $$$$ and he said no, so they ended up buying Reddit instead. jeff can probably back that up with emails or something but most accounts that it was true. it would have been the smarter business decision to sell it off to Conde Nast, and a zillion other things, but also the site probably would be deader than the penny arcade forums if he did.
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Jun 16, 2023 00:11
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They should've stuck with the classics.
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Jun 16, 2023 00:11
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And when have traders ever been wrong?
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Jun 16, 2023 00:12
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priced in 
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Jun 16, 2023 00:13
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Xaris posted:i mean lowtax had the business acumen of a drunk gorilla on a whole bottle of ambien, but also in a lot of ways that's the big reason the site is even still around. iirc, Conde Nast actually wanted to buy SomethingAwful around early 00s for $$$$ and he said no, so they ended up buying Reddit instead. jeff can probably back that up with emails or something but most accounts that it was true. it would have been the smarter business decision to sell it off to Conde Nast, and a zillion other things, but also the site probably would be deader than the penny arcade forums if he did. ??? so what should have sold. making a good business isn’t about torturing yourself with what your could have had. get paid move on let the poors run the forums
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Jun 16, 2023 00:13
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Xaris posted:i mean lowtax had the business acumen of a drunk gorilla on a whole bottle of ambien, but also in a lot of ways that's the big reason the site is even still around. iirc, Conde Nast actually wanted to buy SomethingAwful around early 00s for $$$$ and he said no, so they ended up buying Reddit instead. jeff can probably back that up with emails or something but most accounts that it was true. it would have been the smarter business decision to sell it off to Conde Nast, and a zillion other things, but also the site probably would be deader than the penny arcade forums if he did. That's not a simile, that's just a description. He was a drunk gorilla on ambien.
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Jun 16, 2023 00:17
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Xaris posted:priced in Being wrong is priced in. Being right is priced in. Every eventuality is priced in.
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Jun 16, 2023 00:20
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skooma512 posted:That's not a simile, that's just a description. He was a drunk gorilla on ambien. We know. 
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Jun 16, 2023 00:21
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