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spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

Great trolling I'm loving pissed

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Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

SKULL.GIF posted:

What's defined as collapse anyway? If you're holding out for "the government dissolves" it's never gonna get to that point. But a lot of other measures of "collapse" England is already well on the way.

As long as security forces keep you in line, you haven't collapsed yet. Average life expectancy could hit 40, everyone who wasn't a noble could be destitute and poor, but as long as a cop is still there to mag dump in you, society lives on.

Popoto
Oct 21, 2012

miaow

SKULL.GIF posted:

What's defined as collapse anyway? If you're holding out for "the government dissolves" it's never gonna get to that point. But a lot of other measures of "collapse" England is already well on the way.

Declining and ever more disfunctional institutions is where I draw it as, after all they are what represents governmental strength.

A lack of government as you describe is what happens well past a complete institutional collapse and is usually catastrophic/apocalyptic.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Turtle Sandbox posted:

As long as security forces keep you in line, you haven't collapsed yet. Average life expectancy could hit 40, everyone who wasn't a noble could be destitute and poor, but as long as a cop is still there to mag dump in you, society lives on.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



sd6 posted:

I had to look up what a "one way interview" is, and lol

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



We tried video interviews once in my company and we :yikes:'d out of it immediately

UKJeff
May 17, 2023

by vyelkin
It’s funny hearing what the computer touchers and office denizens have to tolerate to get those figgies

Guess it’s worth it to be able to post all day though

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


sd6 posted:

I had to look up what a "one way interview" is, and lol

pretty sure they're just a way to do a racism / sexism / etc without getting in trouble

Lacrosse
Jun 16, 2010

>:V


One thing I've learned from watching history videos on YouTube is that poo poo can be bad for hundreds of years before the peasants revolt

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Popoto posted:

Declining and ever more disfunctional institutions is where I draw it as, after all they are what represents governmental strength.

A lack of government as you describe is what happens well past a complete institutional collapse and is usually catastrophic/apocalyptic.

You mean something like the Department of Transportation putting out a press release asking airlines to fix their poo poo and then shrugging when they're completely ignored?

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

SKULL.GIF posted:

You mean something like the Department of Transportation putting out a press release asking airlines to fix their poo poo and then shrugging when they're completely ignored?
Definitely signs that the material base is fracturing, it's like how cracks form in the load-bearing beams before it actually breaks

Saltpowered
Apr 12, 2010

Chief Executive Officer
Awful Industries, LLC
They might have to land on a skateboard but Delta just got me the gently caress out of Denver. I may have no bags but I’m no longer sleeping in the piss and poo poo palace that is Denver terminal B.

United is cancelling or delaying dozens of flights again today there. Thanks DoT for doing nothing!

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Lacrosse posted:

One thing I've learned from watching history videos on YouTube is that poo poo can be bad for hundreds of years before the peasants revolt

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Saltpowered posted:

They might have to land on a skateboard but Delta just got me the gently caress out of Denver. I may have no bags but I’m no longer sleeping in the piss and poo poo palace that is Denver terminal B.

United is cancelling or delaying dozens of flights again today there. Thanks DoT for doing nothing!

This is a capitalist country. You can't expect the government do anything about transportation other than make sure the companies have enough money for stock buybacks.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
sometimes you have to fall before you get up again

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
insiders are bailing out of zillow

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Saltpowered posted:

They might have to land on a skateboard but Delta just got me the gently caress out of Denver. I may have no bags but I’m no longer sleeping in the piss and poo poo palace that is Denver terminal B.

United is cancelling or delaying dozens of flights again today there. Thanks DoT for doing nothing!

your earlier post is still the only really detailed account ive seen of whats going on

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001



Zerohedge predicting no collapse means the collapse is imminent

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Xaris posted:

insiders are bailing out of zillow


:sickos:

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

your earlier post is still the only really detailed account ive seen of whats going on

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

pretty sure they're just a way to do a racism / sexism / etc without getting in trouble

There was an orchestra that did auditions with the candidates behind a screen, to prevent sexism from affecting the hiring decisions. The maestro didn't hire anyone that could be heard walking in high heels.

sonatinas
Apr 15, 2003

Seattle Karate Vs. L.A. Karate
in other supply chain news, this one is affecting what I do.


https://www.freightwaves.com/news/yellow-is-a-zombie-company-its-time-to-let-it-go


https://archive.fo/Lky1T

YRC might go bankrupt and US govt could liquidate.

they’ve been mismanaged for years imo and anybody who has been using them over the past 10 years can say that. they move a bit of my customers freight.

axelord
Dec 28, 2012

College Slice

Turtle Sandbox posted:

As long as security forces keep you in line, you haven't collapsed yet. Average life expectancy could hit 40, everyone who wasn't a noble could be destitute and poor, but as long as a cop is still there to mag dump in you, society lives on.

As the system loses legitimacy the Security Forces are going to demand more and more money. Eventually the Ruling class will either refuse, be unable to pay or the Security Forces get a better offer.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

Xaris posted:

insiders are bailing out of zillow


lol i wonder how many quarters they are gonna eat poo poo on their poorly thought out flipping excercise

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003




gently caress it, free money for any rear end in a top hat who owns a business

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:



gently caress it, free money for any rear end in a top hat who owns a business

Education is a loan, a business subsidy is a grant :allears:

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Xaris posted:

i think england will be the first western country to collapse. the imperial core has passed it by

funnier still: they voluntarily removed themselves from it because they forgot they aren't an empire anymore

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

its true, at least a collapse will kill the zombie economy

Thorn Wishes Talon
Oct 18, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

lol

dxt
Mar 27, 2004
METAL DISCHARGE

Xaris posted:

Well, yeah there's still going to be rampant fascist-style police state to try to quell dissent but basically rampant food shortages, no one can afford anything, wide-spread loss of utilities and collapse of infrastructure to sustain itself, and everyone has just psychologically given up waiting to die. it's cliche but Children of Men is an example of a liberal democracy that's "collapsed" but people are still riding the bus to work.

it's definitely starting. whole towns are basically in complete destitution and food banks are overrun with no end in sight

wow public transportation, sounds nice

Maed
Aug 23, 2006



lol this is just an excuse those things aren’t enforceable especially in California

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


accelerationism ftw

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

i dunno it just seems like there's a lot of room between

appropriate for children

appropriate for adults

and tentacle rapin games

figuring out where the line is costs money
vs
slapping the adult label on it and calling it a day

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

fits my needs posted:

sure, im sure glums daughter feels the same way, dad got a raise but he cheaped out on our vacation cuz its a 'better deal'.
im sure a child will understand and not resent her cheapo dad.

every child resents their cheapo dad they’ll live

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

pretending that Vagueness doesn't exist at all is a great bit. just naming example after example of things clearly at two opposite poles on a spectrum and getting really really mad when people ask where the line is

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Janitor Ludwich IV posted:

Ok, you've got me, there's no way to tell the difference between John wick and pornhub

it's odd that over the top violence is fine with you but consensual sex isn't, imo

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

webcams for christ posted:

regardless of any specific posters itt, do children understand the difference between "cheapo" parents and parents who can't afford the arbitrary desires of children? are parents beneath above a certain income threshold held to a different standard? do children from lower income families resent their parents more?

If you can't afford an annual Disney vacation you can't afford to have kids.

Harik
Sep 9, 2001

From the hard streets of Moscow
First dog to touch the stars


Plaster Town Cop

https://twitter.com/zubeialove54479/status/1674339771244761093

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Turtle Sandbox posted:

If you can't afford an annual Disney vacation you can't afford to have kids.

My family is being summoned for the family Disney vacation. Even with lodging and travel being paid for there's just SO MANY ATTACHMENTS to our travel things that we gotta get. So little room, so many logistics. We're actually buying diapers on site because that how the luggage math works.

Just sending the family patriarch the line item budget for summoning his pookie and it is astronomical. Still gotta do it tho, he's been Disney Hotel member since Walt was running poo poo, it's a good grandfather package that simply isn't possible anymore.

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Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
My MIL is a disney person and that will probably happen at some point but my wife and I are planning on having the kid go without us.

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