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Glumwheels posted:There’s the Richmond night market just over the border and I had planned to go there until I found it you had to pay for tickets to pay for food at food trucks most of the time the free ones are put on by some sort of private downtown business guild / chamber of commerce types who collectively fund some annual events to drive business to their shops. cop gang rackets are certainly insane though Xaris has issued a correction as of 07:13 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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Nov 23, 2023 07:02
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Paradoxish posted:Love that 19% that doesn't want a four-day work week. Real go-getters. Those people are going places. they're the ones who don't poo poo at work
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Nov 23, 2023 07:02
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1726976509603385359 i'm on a 9/80 schedule and i can confirm the alternating weeks i get a 4-day work week kick rear end. my TC day is also thursday rolling into the CDO Friday so I get basically a 4-day weekend every other week.
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Nov 23, 2023 07:04
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lol i'm on a standard 5 day 40 hour week and i get every single friday off because my bosses are all on 9/80
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Nov 23, 2023 07:19
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Paradoxish posted:Love that 19% that doesn't want a four-day work week. Real go-getters. Those people are going places. Nobody wants to twerk.
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Nov 23, 2023 07:32
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Paradoxish posted:Love that 19% that doesn't want a four-day work week. Real go-getters. Those people are going places. They want 3-day weeks. 
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Nov 23, 2023 07:32
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Paradoxish posted:Love that 19% that doesn't want a four-day work week. Real go-getters. Those people are going places. They want to quit
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Nov 23, 2023 08:00
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You know what the difference is between a Tesla and a Pinto? You need to hit the Pinto before it explodes.
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Nov 23, 2023 08:04
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Xaris posted:and the problem with American christmas (or any type) markets is there isn't really any boutique local craftmans industry at all anymore to any appreciable degree, like you'd find in european christmas markets. so like at least half is just dropshipped mass-produced stuff. and when there is mulled wine or whatever (if at all), it's like $10 vs $2 I think there are a few reasons you couldn’t have christmas markets in the US like in Europe. first, because our puritanical laws against drinking in public. second, the European christmas market vendors mostly sell a narrow range of traditional foods, but there are no American parallels of traditional christmas foods to sell. third, I’m guessing the climate in most major American cities is warmer than Europe during christmas with little to no snow, so it wouldn’t have the same vibe here. lastly, the fact that Americans cannot loving walk anywhere further than a block or two
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Nov 23, 2023 08:21
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In Training posted:They want to quit I mean yes I do want a zero-day work week so I guess I'm the 19%.
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Nov 23, 2023 08:23
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An extra two hours of work a day in a 40 hour work week is a small price to pay for three day weekends.DickParasite posted:I mean yes I do want a zero-day work week so I guess I'm the 19%. 
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Nov 23, 2023 08:27
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consumer/service economy will never get fewer working hours. maybe the WFHers will but suffering is baked into the american economy for the rest of us.
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Nov 23, 2023 08:37
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~20% of the stalls at your average Weihnachtsmarkt today in like Germany / Switzerland / Austria are Alibaba toys & trinkets. another 10% are like MLMs. Food is about 70% traditional. my local one has mexican, thai, indian, and greek food stands still an excellent vibe, but I'm a bit worried about the trajectory
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Nov 23, 2023 09:10
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tried to update my UBlock Origin and I keep getting this instead
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Nov 23, 2023 09:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xH1vBuDbBA HOLDING IS A USE CASE. It's called store of value. I see people post things like, "Bitcoin is meant to be used. If 70% hasn't moved, then it's not being used." A post like this assumes that Bitcoin's utility is only being met if it is spent to purchase something. But why would I use Bitcoin to buy something when I can use a softer currency like USD? I live in a major city. There are merchants around me that accept Bitcoin, but I still don't spend it. The only time I'll EVER use Bitcoin to buy something is if I've run out of fiat USD, or if the merchant ONLY accepts Bitcoin. So until then, it'll remain in cold storage. --- Bitcoin's properties are and always will be unique to bitcoin. Could another coin be created? Yes. But ask yourself, who would do the creating? Imagine you want to be the guy to create a new one. You clone bitcoin code, change some variables and names, and then put it out there. Or even get clever and write a new protocol from scratch, it doesn't matter. Then what? Who is going to use it? Nobody seems to care. So you assemble a marketing team or invite your friends and families to "invest" their dollars to bring you funds needed to get developers, servers and marketing to get the word out. Maybe you entice these friends by giving them some coins upfront before anybody in the public could have a chance to obtain them fairly. Still it's just you and a handful of colleagues running your nodes in a very centralized fashion, trying to entice the world at large to come play with you in a decentralized and leaderless way, despite being centralized with leadership. You see the problem here? You are a person or small group of people with financial incentives to "pump" your new coin to the world. And for what reason? So you can ultimately exit - i.e.. "dump" your coins on retail. Everything that's NOT bitcoin, was created in this way, with these motivations. A person or people who created the coin and remain in control of the coin or token with the intention of profit. Bitcoin was created and given to the world by an anonymous person before there was any monetary incentive, and it grew in a grass-roots way without any leadership, without any central authority or early/insider/unfair access to profits. This sort of "immaculate conception" can only happen once. All the imitators will can never share Bitcoin's best properties, in part because Satoshi Nakamoto is unique among crypto creators. It appears he/she/they acted without an interest in personal gain, considering none of their coins have ever moved. --- The dollar will continue to fall against Bitcoin Why? I can't speak to other nations, but I can guarantee you that the debt of the United States will be inflated away. In practice it will be a soft default, and the quality of pensions and entitlements will be inflated away. There is no need to cut spending, if you simply devalue it via inflation, and it's far easier politically to deal with it that way. I cannot recommend Nate Hagens two recent podcasts enough: Luke Gromen: "Peak Cheap Oil and the Global Reserve Currency" | The Great Simplification #91 Doomberg: "Our Fragile Energy Economy" | The Great Simplification #83 The dollar is clearly overvalued at the moment, but international trade is still reliant on it, which even hints at a deliberate printing of excess dollars, that are traded for international assets while time still is. This will only last so long. There is a few terminal events that have and will take place. When the US defaulted on bonds held by the Russian state with the war in Ukraine as the official cause, it in simple terms signaled to all US trade partners, that the US is willing to default on debt if they don't like you. China saw that, and the Chinese is divesting as bonds and treasuries mature. This is maybe the first nail in the coffin, as US dollars can be increasingly risky to hold if you are politically vulnerable. The question then remains on the extent that large countries and commodity producing countries are willing to increasingly hold other currencies than the dollar for international trade. Rather then saying that the dollar will be replaced, its possible we will see a bit of a multipolar currency regime, where rubles, yuan, dollars and the rupee will "normalize" their exchange rates. The value of the dollar will decline, imports will be more expensive and yes inflation will arise. And its possible that only way out for the Americans is war, which is the scary part. So yeah, there are domestic reasons for increased inflation, while international political shifts take effect as well. Whether the nominal debt is 10 or 100 trillion matters not. Nobody feels that. What matters is the future price of eggs, bread. potatoes, concrete, oil and gas in hours worked equivalents. All but a tiny few will feel that. --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy1TqiPpyJs           
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Nov 23, 2023 09:30
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webcams for christ posted:~20% of the stalls at your average Weihnachtsmarkt today in like Germany / Switzerland / Austria are Alibaba toys & trinkets. another 10% are like MLMs. Food is about 70% traditional. my local one has mexican, thai, indian, and greek food stands I mean, compared to here in Freedomland where I'd expect to see a $100 door fee to access a street with 50% Alibaba garbage, 30% chain restaurants that have marked everything up by 50% for the "event" and are refusing all coupons, and 20% food trucks that are just whatever happened to be around ("Come get your Christmas Frito pie!") plus maybe an ATM with a $10 withdrawal fee somewhere on the block and a random Bitcoin ATM because why not this country runs on scams, that sounds like a loving mythical wonderland.
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Nov 23, 2023 09:31
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Kreeblah posted:plus maybe an ATM with a $10 withdrawal fee somewhere on the block and a random Bitcoin ATM Kreeblah posted:Bitcoin ATM Kreeblah posted:Bitcoin 
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Nov 23, 2023 09:32
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1727607932995678633 this is just interesting to me because I live in the US and the symptoms I've had for the last day or so sound a lot like this "Mycoplasma pneumonia"
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Nov 23, 2023 10:24
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it's covid. nothing else is half as contagious as covid. the chance of getting anything else circulating is vanishingly small with that in play. they have covid. you have covid. everybody does.
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Nov 23, 2023 11:14
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Nov 23, 2023 11:37
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hmmm
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Nov 23, 2023 12:03
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maxwellhill posted:it's covid. nothing else is half as contagious as covid. the chance of getting anything else circulating is vanishingly small with that in play. they have covid. you have covid. everybody does. Could be. Then again, China has higher rates of Pneumonia than average and Covid does gently caress up your immune system
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Nov 23, 2023 12:12
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Could be a new strain?
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Nov 23, 2023 12:18
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1726976509603385359 Would not be surprised to see that of that 81% of people, those working from home are already putting in 10 hour days (no commute, lunch at a home office desk) so it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice.
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Nov 23, 2023 12:36
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Kreeblah posted:I mean, compared to here in Freedomland where I'd expect to see a $100 door fee to access a street with 50% Alibaba garbage, 30% chain restaurants that have marked everything up by 50% for the "event" and are refusing all coupons, and 20% food trucks that are just whatever happened to be around ("Come get your Christmas Frito pie!") plus maybe an ATM with a $10 withdrawal fee somewhere on the block and a random Bitcoin ATM because why not this country runs on scams, that sounds like a loving mythical wonderland. I remember the last time I went to a flea market 50% of the stands were selling Funko pops and the rest was literal rusted garbage. Otherwise it was the exact same as this Dogshit country
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Nov 23, 2023 13:56
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The internet just kinda replaced and destroyed flea markets now you can get literally any imaginable knick-knack, curio and merchandise just by ordering it online and having it shipped to your door, and you can even get all kinds of item custom made by commission. There's very little real obscurity anymore.
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Nov 23, 2023 14:00
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Yeah those places still exist but they've largely become hollowed out shells of what they were, occupied by a lot of vendors who sell like discounted shampoo or tools that probably fell off a truck. The only place you can find genuine oddities is to go directly to the source; yard, garage, block, and estate sales. Even those will probably die out after a generation or so.
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Nov 23, 2023 14:04
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Another American success story  https://twitter.com/buccocapital/status/1727479615873007736
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Nov 23, 2023 14:08
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last time I went to a flea market someone was selling a pretty nice clarinet for $50. should’ve bought it but I haven’t played in 20 years
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Nov 23, 2023 14:09
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last time i went to a flea market i got some boiled peanuts and a rice cooker in a dented box at a huge discount. also saw a vendor selling assorted ammunition loose in a plastic tub but forgot to get a photo
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Nov 23, 2023 14:12
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There will always be a knife guy and for that I'm grateful
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Nov 23, 2023 14:15
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last time I went to a flea market I bought a copy of Wizardry 1 original in box for the Mac II for 5 dollars because I liked the dragon on the box
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Nov 23, 2023 14:16
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Paradoxish posted:Love that 19% that doesn't want a four-day work week. Real go-getters. Those people are going places. They hate their family and work is an oasis
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Nov 23, 2023 14:38
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err posted:consumer/service economy will never get fewer working hours. maybe the WFHers will but suffering is baked into the american economy for the rest of us. hopefully it's on the table for tradies
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Nov 23, 2023 14:39
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Business Gorillas posted:Dogshit country
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Nov 23, 2023 14:41
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:There will always be a knife guy and for that I'm grateful knife guy ftw
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Nov 23, 2023 14:41
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War and Pieces posted:hopefully it's on the table for tradies if trade workers worked less hours the divorce lawyer industry would instantly collapse
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Nov 23, 2023 14:43
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They're going to be selling Trump merch at flea markets for the rest of our lives
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Nov 23, 2023 14:43
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Exodus1984 posted:Would not be surprised to see that of that 81% of people, those working from home are already putting in 10 hour days (no commute, lunch at a home office desk) so it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice. but that would lead to the ruin in our democracy of commercial landlords
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Nov 23, 2023 14:58
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War and Pieces posted:They're going to be selling Trump merch at flea markets for the rest of our lives idk if thats better or worse than confederate flags
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