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graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
i thought they told us the socialists were going to take your hambubgers away

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Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

why do you think wendy has red hair?

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

qirex posted:

we are approaching the enshittification threshold that may actually get people to do something about it: surge pricing on nuggets



man i loving hate the future so much

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

I'm glad I can afford to do the hipster "only shop at small local businesses unless absolutely necessary" thing but most people can't, or national chains already destroyed all the local businesses

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
I'm trying to find the will to keep on keepin on in this godforsaken nightmare society by finding joy in the little things. cooking, a walk when it's breezy out. drive on the curvy road in front of red rocks.

I dunno man. Everything's just getting so loving bad, and no, HaViNg a TeCh jOb doesn't magically make it all go away cause i don't have to worry if i can afford an occasional gadget. Just the massive naked disrespect for humanity and the entire concept of people-need-to-live-to-consume-your-poo poo-so-dont-take-away-their-loving-job-you-idiots

i am not looking forward to like 2030 or whatever.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


qirex posted:

I'm glad I can afford to do the hipster "only shop at small local businesses unless absolutely necessary" thing but most people can't, or national chains already destroyed all the local businesses

Small business tyrants are no better than big business tyrants and would do all that big evil poo poo in a minute if they could. gently caress 'em

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


A guy who owns a hot dog shop here got a homeless shelter near his business shut down so he could sell high and retire.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

despite the churning, ever-hungry machine trying to eat it, imo the world is largely good, as are most of the people in it. it's just hard to not focus on the capitalism engine when most of us work for some aspect of it

hubris.height
Jan 6, 2005

Pork Pro

Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

qirex posted:

despite the churning, ever-hungry machine trying to eat it, imo the world is largely good, as are most of the people in it

idk man did you see what i posted last page

Branch Nvidian
Nov 29, 2012



Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The city here was looking at building some small shelters for the homeless

https://www.publicsource.org/homelessness-pittsburgh-downtown-riverfronts-temporary-managed-communities-tiny-houses/

At a hearing this month, a prominent local injury attorney showed up to the hearing to say that it shouldn't be built because "it'll just attract more addicts." Dude doesn't even live in the city.

quiggy
Aug 7, 2010

[in Russian] Oof.


Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

quiggy
Aug 7, 2010

[in Russian] Oof.


Jonny 290 posted:

I'm trying to find the will to keep on keepin on in this godforsaken nightmare society by finding joy in the little things. cooking, a walk when it's breezy out. drive on the curvy road in front of red rocks.

I dunno man. Everything's just getting so loving bad, and no, HaViNg a TeCh jOb doesn't magically make it all go away cause i don't have to worry if i can afford an occasional gadget. Just the massive naked disrespect for humanity and the entire concept of people-need-to-live-to-consume-your-poo poo-so-dont-take-away-their-loving-job-you-idiots

i am not looking forward to like 2030 or whatever.

it's all so bad and getting worse every day with absolutely no sign of even slowing, let alone stopping or turning around. i'm fortunate enough to be well enough off to have a roof over my head and three square meals a day, but that comes at the cost of having to sacrifice five out of every seven days to capital. i shouldnt groan in misery when i wake up every morning yet here i am

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


There's been a resurgence of lovely dog-eat-dog mean-spiritedness in the past five or six years, just needless nastiness. e.g. the creation of a larger-than-ever cohort of homeless people due to squeezing housing, and responding to the created problem by saying that those people are just defective and should be institutionalized anyway. Good stuff,

AlbertFlasher
Feb 14, 2006

Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band

Beeftweeter posted:

man i loving hate the future so much

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

someone has to defeat it soon

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Beeftweeter posted:

america is the worst loving country

moonshine is......
Feb 21, 2007

Beeftweeter posted:

man i loving hate the future so much

DELETE CASCADE
Oct 25, 2017

i haven't washed my penis since i jerked it to a phtotograph of george w. bush in 2003
america is fine and the future is ok

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

why do you think wendy has red hair?

idk, she's adopted?

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

DELETE CASCADE posted:

america is fine and the future is ok

whats your evidence

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Jonny 290 posted:

whats your evidence

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1761917014535193000

DELETE CASCADE
Oct 25, 2017

i haven't washed my penis since i jerked it to a phtotograph of george w. bush in 2003

Jonny 290 posted:

whats your evidence

i, personally, am doing just fine :smug:

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
Nice. Hope that continues.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
if y’all weren’t watching, the defenses’ entire “good faith basis” for filing the motion for fani willis to be removed as prosecutor was based upon drunk speculation from a lawyer that just thought he was bullshitting with a friend. there’s nothing there, and the judge is likely to deny the motion following closing arguments on friday.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
the whole thing is obviously an attempt at character assassination anyway

i mean, there's obviously a problem with her hiring her boyfriend and giving him an excessive salary. but it's not a conflict of interest that's material to their case

at all

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
he didn’t get an excessive salary, though. wade is paid bog standard what all special prosecutors are and actually had over 1000 unbilled hours because there’s a hard cap to how many hours he could get paid for but the work took much more.

the whole pay thing was because trumper defense attorneys don’t understand how to read an invoice and wade was given the check to pay for 2-3 lawyers’ work by the city because they were partners. he left money on the by being a special prosecutor because he could have billed 100% of his time if he had been working on anything else.

they also weren’t dating when he was hired and he wasn’t the first choice. the first choice turned them down specifically because he didn’t want the heat coming from this type of prosecution.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Mr. Nice! posted:

he didn’t get an excessive salary, though. wade is paid bog standard what all special prosecutors are and actually had over 1000 unbilled hours because there’s a hard cap to how many hours he could get paid for but the work took much more.

the whole pay thing was because trumper defense attorneys don’t understand how to read an invoice and wade was given the check to pay for 2-3 lawyers’ work by the city because they were partners. he left money on the by being a special prosecutor because he could have billed 100% of his time if he had been working on anything else.

they also weren’t dating when he was hired and he wasn’t the first choice. the first choice turned them down specifically because he didn’t want the heat coming from this type of prosecution.

ah, well, thanks for this, i actually haven't been following this part of the trial, because as mentioned it's incredibly loving dumb and is not in any way a material conflict that would result in anyone involved being disqualified, let alone dismissal. like, the whole thing is pretty transparently a literal sideshow and fani willis' sex life is none of my business, so i've just been ignoring it

still good to know though

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



I take this to mean that the US will nuke everything before letting China assume a position of world leadership.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I take this to mean that the US will nuke everything before letting China assume a position of world leadership.

too late

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003


we've only nuked one country

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Mr. Nice! posted:

he didn’t get an excessive salary, though. wade is paid bog standard what all special prosecutors are and actually had over 1000 unbilled hours because there’s a hard cap to how many hours he could get paid for but the work took much more.

the whole pay thing was because trumper defense attorneys don’t understand how to read an invoice and wade was given the check to pay for 2-3 lawyers’ work by the city because they were partners. he left money on the by being a special prosecutor because he could have billed 100% of his time if he had been working on anything else.

they also weren’t dating when he was hired and he wasn’t the first choice. the first choice turned them down specifically because he didn’t want the heat coming from this type of prosecution.
I feel like the point here was first to attempt to get rid of her since nobody else would touch the case with a ten foot pole if she got removed, but the second is simply delay. I guess Trump's plan C here is having his hand-picked Florida judge intentionally gently caress with the schedule for the trial she's over to attempt to stop any of the other cases from going to trial in a timely manner.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
no, i mean, china is indisputably a superpower that has a position of world leadership

i don't think we're gonna nuke them though. they have too many aimed right back at us, and nuclear-armed submarines that can just get to either coast undetected

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Fabricated posted:

I feel like the point here was first to attempt to get rid of her since nobody else would touch the case with a ten foot pole if she got removed, but the second is simply delay. I guess Trump's plan C here is having his hand-picked Florida judge intentionally gently caress with the schedule for the trial she's over to attempt to stop any of the other cases from going to trial in a timely manner.

the attorney who first filed this really thought she had struck gold, but it looks like she just struck out.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Beeftweeter posted:

no, i mean, china is indisputably a superpower that has a position of world leadership

i don't think we're gonna nuke them though. they have too many aimed right back at us, and nuclear-armed submarines that can just get to either coast undetected

Our leadership will destroy everything on the way out rather than let another country take the throne. If they can’t have it all, no one can.

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Our leadership will destroy everything on the way out rather than let another country take the throne. If they can’t have it all, no one can.

i mean, maybe. you're not wrong but at the same time they're not completely loving stupid, so i guess the odds are basically 50/50

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I voted uncommitted to tell Genocide Joe to get hosed

oh also it was 72° here in Detroit, on the 27 of February

everything is totally awesome yessirree

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


FAT32 SHAMER posted:

I voted uncommitted to tell Genocide Joe to get hosed

oh also it was 72° here in Detroit, on the 27 of February

everything is totally awesome yessirree

The maple tree outside my window started budding two weeks ago. We really hosed this place up

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