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Zero_Grade posted:Anyone buying a box of Mirage boosters for $10k (or hell $3k) was/is dumb as poo poo. It was a fun set back in the day and I do wonder how it is to draft, but power creep has completely eclipsed it. You aren't pulling that many LED to justify that price, come on now. It is annoying that so many other cards have retained their jacked-up price levels. It's not about power creep or playability. It's old, the company made a promise not to reprint certain things out of fear of losing customers that were buying product like crazy during the baseball card and comic collecting boom, and old sealed product commands a value. My asspull theory is all these geek collectibles that are worth a ton of money is to wash money of crypto.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 04:52 |
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Things are worth whatever you can convince enough losers to pay for them.
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PT6A posted:Things are worth whatever you can convince enough losers to pay for them. I mean, scarcity of video cards in 2017 because of a RAM shortage and rush to buy hardware to mine Ether drove the retail price of video cards through the roof. People who wanted to upgrade their hardware for current generation video cards were paying over $400 new from retailers when six months to a year before they were $200. PNY and AMD both recognized that we're all willing to pay two to three times the original retail price and kicked out new hardware for as high as they could squeeze people for. We're all fuckin idiots.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 05:04 |
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Early 2021 the NBA licensed a line of NFT's called top shots, and 180k people spent $45m on them in like 2 weeks And then the market evaporated to nearly nothing in a couple of months.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 05:11 |
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There are comparatively few people who actually want to own an NFT for its own sake. Virtually all those buyers were flippers hoping to get rich quick in a bubble
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 05:19 |
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Kalli posted:Early 2021 the NBA licensed a line of NFT's called top shots, and 180k people spent $45m on them in like 2 weeks Top Shots was my intro to NFT's, and my initial reaction was "what the gently caress is this poo poo and who the gently caress would actually be interested?" And it lasted as long as the NBA Experience in Disney did.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 06:33 |
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I just saw Biden salute to the British guards around Charles. I hope this isn’t gonna be the next scandal.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I just saw Biden salute to the British guards around Charles. I hope this isn’t gonna be the next scandal. Must have spotted an Irishman in the crowd or something
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 13:09 |
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I know fash are immune to charges of hypocrisy but it will be very easy to just show that pic of Trump saluting a North Korean general as a retort.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 15:30 |
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I think the people that were able to be swayed by crap like saluting the wrong person were mostly WWII vets and aren't around anymore. At this point if somebody complains about a president saluting someone it's going to be because of a pre-existing antipathy towards said president. So maybe you get a few days of RWM whining about it but it's pretty much completely inconsequential; nobody is going to be mad who wasn't already mad at Biden for a thousand other things.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 15:35 |
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It would be a bigger deal if Obama did it. I feel like RWM don't amplify meaningless poo poo like how low the president bowed or how they shook hands or whatever if it wasn't Obama doing it
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 15:52 |
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Obama's numerous scandals such as the dijon mustard, the saluting, the tan suit, really put into perspective his whole presidency.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 16:06 |
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Morrow posted:the saluting
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Madkal posted:It would be a bigger deal if Obama did it. I feel like RWM don't amplify meaningless poo poo like how low the president bowed or how they shook hands or whatever if it wasn't Obama doing it Saluting troops - all of whom, of course, are outranked by the Commander-in-Chief - is some stupid bullshit Reagan started anyway. Kind of funny that we're doing it with other country's troops now. You just gotta love troops! All in all, I would prefer if Biden didn't salute the silent-stonefaced-funny-hat guys who are loyal to a foreign monarch, but I also don't really care. (Maybe one of the guards was a Catholic Irish immigrant, and he could tell.) Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Shrecknet posted:which an actual marine put into perfect perspective ten years ago lol I can't even tell if this is satire Poe's Law man
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:02 |
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No today's invented Biden Scandal is that he's too mean https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1678407680514314240 This is literally like that one SNL sketch about Reagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8 He cannot be both of these people.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:04 |
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He's 146 years old, of course he's moody lol These dipshits are going to end up making me actually like the guy more.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:lol I can't even tell if this is satire Really I think any military member would be incredibly honored to hold the loving President’s umbrella, even if they didn’t vote for him.
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zoux posted:No today's invented Biden Scandal is that he's too mean I always thought the Hartman sketch was pretty flattering to Reagan even if the point was that he was an evil bastard.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:13 |
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I read that as dementia lampshading. People can get temperamental and lash out from it. The comments on record from staff are just PR.
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I don't think he had dementia in 2008.
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selec posted:I read that as dementia lampshading. People can get temperamental and lash out from it. The comments on record from staff are just PR. But I dunno - I mean, the tweet story about the intern is from 2008; I don't think anybody thinks Biden was demented in his mid-60s. And he's definitely always dropped f-bombs as liberally as he's legislated and governed. (He was memorably caught on a hot mic saying "this is a big fuckin' deal!" to Obama before he gave his address following the ACA passage.) I mean, if Zients was willing to be his Chief of Staff after getting blown up on, it suggests that Biden's anger is part of a somewhat coherent management style, and that it's tolerable to at least stiff-spined staffers.
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Mellow Seas posted:I feel like that story can be interpreted as Biden being a no-nonsense badass. It's certainly not nice, but does the president have to be nice? It's pretty hard to imagine that somebody could rise to that level without having the ability to really go off on people when they feel it's necessary. As long as it doesn't rise to the level of like, a hostile employment situation, then he can yell and swear as much as he wants if that's what he needs to do to get his point across. Oh it's for sure flattering in the result, that's almost what everyone was saying on twitter lol "This is just making me like him more". I don't think that was the intent. As an aside, the way Axios formats their articles makes me irl angry.
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Mellow Seas posted:Pretty sure it was a satire of the right wing reaction; I remember it being posted in the Political Cartoons thread. The author of that comic is a Marine but not a chud.
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Mellow Seas posted:I feel like that story can be interpreted as Biden being a no-nonsense badass. It's certainly not nice, but does the president have to be nice? It's pretty hard to imagine that somebody could rise to that level without having the ability to really go off on people when they feel it's necessary. As long as it doesn't rise to the level of like, a hostile employment situation, then he can yell and swear as much as he wants if that's what he needs to do to get his point across. One of the bigger surprises of the Nixon White House tapes was that, in private, he swore like a sailor, and this shocked American audiences for some reason. "Hot pants? Jesus Christ!" etc. Now obviously Richard Nixon did nothing wrong, but this kind of veneration of the position itself and thereby imbibing the person holding it with immunity to social mores probably wouldn't fly all that well with CNN audiences. If your boss cussed at you, to get a point across, that'd still feel uncomfortable, I imagine? And conversely, would you cuss at your co-workers, or your boss? I guess cussing in general is OK, yelling at a computer or venting about things seems more socially acceptable, but this specific invented scandal is about cussing at a subordinate which seems mean. If this random Axios story is true or not doesn't seem to matter, since your argument is specifically that the POTUS can cuss and yell at people because the POTUS doesn't have to be nice. Which, well, on the face of it fair enough, each of them have been war criminals since Truman, but I am not sure how to de-lineate a hostile work-place situation from people being cussed at for getting a point across.
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# ? Jul 10, 2023 17:30 |
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Why not? Delaware is a tiny state, so while you have less compition, you need to develop a good retail politics game ( so you create a chill public persona ) but you also need to be an ambitious bastard to climb the poltical ladder high enough to be the president. The questioning the staff is interesting to me, but that's only because I heard an interview on someone who worked in the Obama adminstration and the Biden adminstration, and he mentioned that he does more intense prepwork becausw Biden basically grills the staff every meeting about the policy they are in discussion about.
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Rappaport posted:...this specific invented scandal is about cussing at a subordinate which seems mean. If this random Axios story is true or not doesn't seem to matter, since your argument is specifically that the POTUS can cuss and yell at people because the POTUS doesn't have to be nice. Which, well, on the face of it fair enough, each of them have been war criminals since Truman, but I am not sure how to de-lineate a hostile work-place situation from people being cussed at for getting a point across. I wonder if part of what makes it "okay" is an employee being at the top of their field - anybody who is the Covid Czar for the White House is probably capable of saying "gently caress this" and going to get another job, probably with a pay raise. If a player can't stand his coach yelling at him so much, he can hold out for a trade or just retire with his millions. They have flexibility that your average worker doesn't have, and as a result there is less power differential between those kinds of workers and their bosses. Biden can be a dick to people like Zients but he also knows that they can walk if he goes too far. Twincityhacker posted:The questioning the staff is interesting to me, but that's only because I heard an interview on someone who worked in the Obama adminstration and the Biden adminstration, and he mentioned that he does more intense prepwork becausw Biden basically grills the staff every meeting about the policy they are in discussion about. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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It seems like these staff stories are completely partisan: Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Marianne Williamson, Biden now. We don't ever hear stories about how GOP figures are bad bosses, and I don't think it's because there aren't any bad Republican bosses.
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zoux posted:It seems like these staff stories are completely partisan: Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Marianne Williamson, Biden now. We don't ever hear stories about how GOP figures are bad bosses, and I don't think it's because there aren't any bad Republican bosses. All of conservatism is basically a psychological coping mechanism for "I love my dad but he was really mean to me." It's also interesting that those previous targets of this type of attack were all women - I feel like it's the kind of attack that, among the general public, would be much, much less effective against men, because misogynistic culture gives them more license to be aggressive. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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The quotes in that article from the Jeff Connaughton are from his 2012 book, so covering his time as a staffer for biden, then as a staffer for ted kauffman from working on financial reform.
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Mellow Seas posted:I feel like part of conservative ideology is that your boss is allowed to be mean to you, and if you don't like that, well, you should've thought of it earlier and worked harder so you could be the boss. So nobody gives a poo poo if Chip Roy is out calling his staff motherfuckers; of course he is. There could be more men, that's not an exhaustive list, just what I could remember off the top of my head. I would not be surprised however if it was overwhelmingly women. https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1678409240053006337 Rod, what are you doing man.
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nobody wants diet trump
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DeSantis pullin' off the full Liz Warren and losing his own state's primary, huh?zoux posted:There could be more men, that's not an exhaustive list, just what I could remember off the top of my head. I would not be surprised however if it was overwhelmingly women.
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zoux posted:It seems like these staff stories are completely partisan: Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Marianne Williamson, Biden now. We don't ever hear stories about how GOP figures are bad bosses, and I don't think it's because there aren't any bad Republican bosses. There were multiple books written and published about how terrible a boss Trump was.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:There were multiple books written and published about how terrible a boss Trump was.
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there's also another FL regressive politician having some ex staffers filing things. but yeah there's probably some cherry spear phishing happening.
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zoux posted:No today's invented Biden Scandal is that he's too mean That "get the gently caress out of the car" story has the unmistakable stink of diehard wonks who thought putting their whole careers into the political machine would bring them all sorts of personal benefits, only to be shocked when somebody tells them to act like an actual human being or gently caress right off. And my gut instinct was dead-on, because I've tracked down the source of that story, and his tell-all book describes a downright embarrassing list of complaints about Biden. quote:“Like Napoleon, Biden had captured his personal Toulon at a very young age,” Connaughton writes of the man who was elected to the Senate before his 30th birthday. Look at how hard his complaints center around the fact that Biden didn't do him any favors. He complains that Biden didn't use his influence to get him a sweet White House job, he complains that Biden never did anything for him during his lobbyist years, and he complains that the Obama administration's anti-lobbyist rules weren't fair to his attempts to cozy up to the new administration. Hell, he complains that Biden didn't give him (a junior aide at the time) a personal thank-you note for doing his fundraising work. Of course, that's not even a full accounting of Connaughton's faults. After all, it doesn't cover what he did between his first meeting with Biden in 1979 and when he "found his way" to the Biden campaign in 1988. Fortunately, there's other pieces that cover that period: quote:Connaughton didn’t immediately head to Washington. First, he went to the University of Chicago business school. (Biden had written a letter of recommendation.) It was 1981, and Time ran an article, called “The Money Chase,” about the vogue for M.B.A.s; the cover image showed a graduating student whose mortarboard had a tassel made of dollars. Connaughton, the son of a government engineer and a homemaker, had never had money, and Wall Street’s allure was almost as strong as that of the White House. loving embarrassing. An investment banker who got one of the firm's lobbyists to get him a junior aide job at the campaign after his bank got completely wrecked by fraud convictions, and has nursed a decades-long grudge over the fact that Biden never gave him any sweetheart favors during his lobbying days. Not exactly a shining beacon of reliability there.
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World Famous W posted:yep, the guy making it was a marine making fun of the people complaining at the time I read the article that came with the cartoon and basically he said: 1) It's a made up controversy and 2) if you think making a Marine hold an umbrella is humiliating, you don't know what Marine had to go through in basic. edit: I've staffed politicians before and either he wasn't suppose to be in the car or the staffer who told him to get into the car hosed up and should of made it right. Mooseontheloose fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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If I wrote a tell-all book about working with a President, I would simply not admit to being a sniveling little k street fuckface
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Every single person that guy has ever met either in IB or DC is the same so he doesn't realize it's bad.
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