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HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

euphronius posted:

just not the poor lawyers. where is our forgiveness ??

but yeah this was actually a demonstration of political skill which .. I didn’t think Biden possessed

the reason this took 2 years was because weimar joe didnt want to give a cent of forgiveness not because he has any political skill, also this is a move of possible making GBS threads their pants at midterms and a combo of using this a cudgel to never do something any remotely close to this despite being woefully low to begin with.

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Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1562712779437801472

running out of bread and they're getting real stingy with the circuses

lol go ahead and make the price $1,000,000 - there's no consoles to buy!!

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
well I think I found some actual slave traders, so I'm not bothering redacting the name of this person who works for a company she doesn't even name on her current LI or in this communication.

My original reply here ("laudable work") was naive as gently caress but the flipside is I have worked with a bunch of teams in the countries she names and while, yes, they always get less than US employees, these numbers are so far below anything involved in any project I have touched, it just seems like naked loving slavery to me

Cabbages and VHS has issued a correction as of 13:42 on Aug 25, 2022

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
again, this is a loving nameless company not even listed on her bio

that screams "we know this is immoral as gently caress and might actually be illegal"

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Cold on a Cob posted:

lmfao it easily costs 5k per person for office space where i work they should be paying me to work from home

There is literally no reason that I need to be in the office every day, the problem is that the engineering manager wants everyone in the office so he can feel important.

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

Shipon posted:

everyone*

*unless their job requires physical labor, or in any way needs any sort of hands-on training, or the people who work there might not have a living situation where they can separate a working space from home life

but of course goons think everyone is a computer toucher just like themselves so obviously if their jobs can be done from home than all can be

Yea it loving owns how half the people on this website think everyone on earth has bullshit make work jobs filling in spreadsheet cells like they do.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Cabbages and Kings posted:

well I think I found some actual slave traders, so I'm not bothering redacting the name of this person who works for a company she doesn't even name on her current LI or in this communication/

"... give them work and thereby prevent them from becoming refugees."

Boy, if that isn't ominous.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

salaries are based on cost of the employer but not the value the job produces . makes sense

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Source4Leko posted:

Yea it loving owns how half the people on this website think everyone on earth has bullshit make work jobs filling in spreadsheet cells like they do.

Excuse me, sir. Today's designated topic to seethe about is Dark Brandon and Dread Kamala giving everyone except you 20,000 10,000 dollars. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum
For me everyday is poo poo on WFH day.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Iron Crowned posted:

There is literally no reason that I need to be in the office every day, the problem is that the engineering manager wants everyone in the office so he can feel important.

my company only exists because the owners want to get out of the house for 40+ hours per week. one of them is like 70 and falls asleep in meetings all the time. completely unsurprised they were gung ho to get the office open again

euphronius posted:

salaries are based on cost of the employer but not the value the job produces . makes sense

true, though it does go the opposite way once in awhile and it's hilarious, like when one of my colleagues made a $3M fuckup at one company i worked at. they didn't fire her because she's probably made them 10x that much over the years but they took away half her bonus that year.

thechosenone
Mar 21, 2009
I mean from somebody's post about how Chinese build projects apparently differ from western ones in Ghana I'd say that it happens everywhere from one degree to another. If your country's economy is beat down (even if by the same people hiring you) and you do get a make work job your still gonna take it if it beats what else you could do I'm pay.

It's how capitalists have held on so long to support, but much of what people have in terms of like for capital is based on the past. They are cutting future support as a neutral consequence of refusing to share Ill gotten gains with the people near them to create more collaborators.

As they continue to ignore their own infrastructure and abandon more of the world they will experience increasing difficulty preventing socialism from resurging. There is nothing they can do to stop this as it is a result of their own success and every time they get out of the consequences of their actions it continues to build the circumstances that have been challenging them more and more.

There will always be enough for what people need if they can work together, or at least there will be for much longer than we'll have the resources to sustain capitalism at a level that can allow it to contain socialism.

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

SKULL.GIF posted:

"... give them work and thereby prevent them from becoming refugees."

Boy, if that isn't ominous.

holy poo poo

Amazon Climate Refugee Resettlement Warehouse Distribution centers are gonna start popping up, huh?

Built on a server farm so the AC for the computers can be re-used to keep the less valuable meat sacks alive

Cold on a Cob posted:

my company only exists because the owners want to get out of the house for 40+ hours per week. one of them is like 70 and falls asleep in meetings all the time. completely unsurprised they were gung ho to get the office open again

if I was in this situation and (presumably) hated my wife this much I'd just tell her I was going to work and go bowling all day, and learn how to bowl a 300 finally at the age of 70.

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

Number

BRAKE FOR MOOSE
Jun 6, 2001

Cabbages and Kings posted:

holy poo poo

Amazon Climate Refugee Resettlement Warehouse Distribution centers are gonna start popping up, huh?

Built on a server farm so the AC for the computers can be re-used to keep the less valuable meat sacks alive

if I was in this situation and (presumably) hated my wife this much I'd just tell her I was going to work and go bowling all day, and learn how to bowl a 300 finally at the age of 70.

Sponsored climate refugee resettlement is my strategy for maintaining security as a warlord around my Great Lakes Water Company autonomous zone.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Cabbages and Kings posted:

if I was in this situation and (presumably) hated my wife this much I'd just tell her I was going to work and go bowling all day, and learn how to bowl a 300 finally at the age of 70.

he leaves the house in order to be treated like a rich guy. presumably his family treats him like a human at home

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
The easiest way to bowl a 300 is give $300 to each person on your bowling team. They'll keep that secret until the wake, at least.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


it's been funny to watch the shift in the tone of the social media reaction to the student loan stuff.

first there was a flurry of Big Mad people ranting about how this is horrible and will cost Biden politically because everyone will hate it.

but that has gradually been overwhelmed by an absolute blizzard of "wait... is this real?! holy poo poo I'm going to be free!" reactions.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

And they stand still and watch the films float by, listen to the screaming franchises being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of IP slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

comedyblissoption posted:

And they stand still and watch the films float by, listen to the screaming franchises being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of IP slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
i'd rather watch a 90 minute Batgirl movie that's supposed to be really bad than a 3 hour Batman movie that's supposed to be really good

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

why isn’t it Bat woman . is there a comics reason .

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
I'd rather watch paint dry than a superhero movie.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

euphronius posted:

why isn’t it Bat woman . is there a comics reason .

yes, Batwoman is a different superhero lol (lesbian Batman)

goochtit
Nov 2, 2021



https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1562672884329631745

NYT Article posted:

The fertility rate — the average number of children born to a woman during her reproductive years — declined for the sixth straight year to 0.81 in 2021, according to Statistics Korea, the national statistics agency. Experts said it might drop below 0.8 this year, as rising housing prices further discourage people from having children.

By comparison, the fertility rate was 1.66 in the United States and 1.37 in Japan. A fertility rate of 2.1 is needed for a population to remain the same size without migration.

“How difficult must people find it to get married, give birth and raise children for this number to be so low?” said Lee Samsik, a professor of policy at Hanyang University in Seoul. “If we take this as a compressed measure of basic life, it’s a troublesome figure.”

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


finally some good news for the planet

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

yes, Batwoman is a different superhero lol (lesbian Batman)

Batwoman is a superhero who models himself on a batwo

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
they couldn't make a Batwoman movie that no one will watch because they already made a Batwoman TV show that no one watched. they recast the lead after one season

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


the only reason i want to watch the bat lady is because i cant watch it

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
At this point I'm starting to wonder if the Space Jam franchise is more profitable than the DC franchise at WB.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

yes, Batwoman is a different superhero lol (lesbian Batman)

Is there a gay batman?

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1562781481713274883?t=_AjLzMSIynlGrEZCkim8sg&s=19

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Iron Crowned posted:

Is there a gay batman?

Yes, Batman

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017



The Malthusianism on display is real fuckin' gross and problematic, potentially even cringe.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Iron Crowned posted:

Is there a gay batman?

no in fact he's a bigger ladies man than james bond according to the ending of this film (it's canon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzV02HlV0uw

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1562789228572200961?t=MLvmuqr2XrzSnVbLRj7i3A&s=19

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


https://twitter.com/adamkelsey/status/1562499371152785409?s=20&t=gkqpM4aqBT-TMBHbSX0vfg

How likely is this to blow up in people’s faces when the government puts in some kind of stipulation against it?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Pretty sure some posts a few pages back already said goons are getting back money.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Dr. VooDoo posted:

https://twitter.com/adamkelsey/status/1562499371152785409?s=20&t=gkqpM4aqBT-TMBHbSX0vfg

How likely is this to blow up in people’s faces when the government puts in some kind of stipulation against it?

None. It's part of the pause rules and Biden even mentioned it in his speech yesterday.

So far, most Goons who tried said it took no more than 30 minutes. It might take longer if everyone starts rushing the phone lines, though.

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Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

None. It's part of the pause rules and Biden even mentioned it in his speech yesterday.

I need to get one this then cause my greatlake loans I paid over 9k on in December of 2021 I’m pretty sure are DOE non-subsidized loans

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