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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Those over six feet should be shunned as freaks. the gently caress would i be buying my potato chips from Microsoft for?
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Microsoft is a terrible name for potato chips. Small soft potato chips would be terrible. Terrible! Everything about this is terrible!
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Dec 4, 2019 15:10
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Solice Kirsk posted:Microsoft is a terrible name for potato chips. Small soft potato chips would be terrible. Terrible! Everything about this is terrible! It stands for “popping corn.” Little known fact, they aren’t from the potato at all! M E: seriously though the PC “loads of” line of chips blows all the big names like lays and ruffles out of the water and I have a serious craving for some ketchup and some all dressed. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 16:33 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Dec 4, 2019 16:22
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have a serious craving for some ketchup and some all dressed. this is a worse take than the entire "karen took lowtax's kids" thread rolled up into one stinky divorce suit
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Dec 5, 2019 00:56
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We need to stop trusting companies to make things convenient for us. You are paying for a service and that's fine, but they benefit from you far more than you do from them. Like 23 and me...what are you people thinking? Why are you willingly giving out your genetic information to a company that is going to use it for profit? And amazon/apple can gently caress off too. You know how you can get by without their robots listening to you 24/7? Just google it. Hey alexa, frig off. I can type. We clearly can't control technology companies so we need to roll things back and limit technological growth. We should still be in the era of non-internet-enabled flip phones. We aren't ready for what we have.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:24
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Just  if you don't pack your phone's microphone full of super glue and powdered fingernail clippings so it can't hear your voice once you open the box.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:40
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You are paying for a service and that's fine, but they benefit from you far more than you do from them. yeah I eat rear end posted:Like 23 and me
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Dec 5, 2019 03:59
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Trapick posted:Capitalism is again the problem, yes. hahahahahahahahahahaha
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Dec 5, 2019 04:15
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spit on my clit posted:the gently caress would i be buying my potato chips from Microsoft for? You wouldn't, you'd be buying them from IBM
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Dec 5, 2019 04:35
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spit on my clit posted:hahahahahahahahahahaha It’s funny cuz it’s true
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Dec 5, 2019 04:50
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christmas boots posted:It’s funny cuz it’s true i guess once you pay ten bucks to post on a forum, everything seems like a ripoff
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Dec 5, 2019 04:51
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spit on my clit posted:i guess once you pay ten bucks to post on a forum, everything seems like a ripoff Only after having read your posts<<< heh
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Dec 5, 2019 04:53
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Do you often feel ripped off? E: ^nice
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Dec 5, 2019 04:54
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christmas boots posted:Do you often feel ripped off? Not a bit, ten bucks spent four years ago is nothing to me, but I'm not a person who has regularly poor spending habits. It seems like a lot of goons, in particular the ones who hate capitalism, have very poor spending habits. For example, imagine being one of Lowtax's patrons when you've already given the man ten bucks for services he hasn't been providing for years and years. That isn't a mark against you, I don't know if you're one of his patrons or not. Also, imagine being the kind of person who reregs obsessively like some select users on the forums. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Only after having read your posts<<< heh I have been owned online
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just fyi it's possible to be successful under capitalism and still realize it has many harmful outcomes (like companies selling your genetic info to your profit-driven insurance company)
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Trapick posted:just fyi it's possible to be successful under capitalism and still realize it has many harmful outcomes (like companies selling your genetic info to your profit-driven insurance company) You're right, it certainly does, but its usually treated as if it's a concept that doesn't work, and if it didn't work, it wouldn't be the standard for every first world country
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Dec 5, 2019 06:23
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spit on my clit posted:You're right, it certainly does, but its usually treated as if it's a concept that doesn't work, and if it didn't work, it wouldn't be the standard for every first world country kill you are parents
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spit on my clit posted:You're right, it certainly does, but its usually treated as if it's a concept that doesn't work, and if it didn't work, it wouldn't be the standard for every first world country Ah yes, if something exists it cannot be damaging. The current status quo is the best we can ever hope for. Large groups of nations have never done similar bad things at the same time while being economically successful. Things like slavery, imperialism, etc., etc. You are very smart.
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Captain Monkey posted:Ah yes, if something exists it cannot be damaging. The current status quo is the best we can ever hope for. Large groups of nations have never done similar bad things at the same time while being economically successful. Things like slavery, imperialism, etc., etc. Everything exists until it doesn’t
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Captain Monkey posted:Ah yes, if something exists it cannot be damaging. The current status quo is the best we can ever hope for. Large groups of nations have never done similar bad things at the same time while being economically successful. Things like slavery, imperialism, etc., etc. Thank you something awful user for doing the SA meme of taking what someone said in the worst possible way so you could look cool online. Nope, capitalism is not perfect, it has lots of things that need to be improved on by both our society and government, but the fact of the matter is that it's the best available option compared to bullshit like communism, which people somehow think we could seamlessly transition to in one of the world's biggest countries. And that is why we don't do politics outside of D&D, because any regular debate will be tainted with Goon Politics, which escalates in bullshittery and toxicity with each reply, because nobody on this shitheap of a site knows how to have a decent discussion. the LF bubble never should have been popped. Edgar Allen Ho posted:kill you are parents At least you understand not to engage in a serious manner. spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 09:08 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Dec 5, 2019 09:03
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Your fact of the matter wasn’t a fact at all. I demand a full refund
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christmas boots posted:Your fact of the matter wasn’t a fact at all. I demand a full refund here you go sir, your firstborn child
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spit on my clit posted:Thank you something awful user for doing the SA meme of taking what someone said in the worst possible way so you could look cool online. Nope, capitalism is not perfect, it has lots of things that need to be improved on by both our society and government, but the fact of the matter is that it's the best available option compared to bullshit like communism, which people somehow think we could seamlessly transition to in one of the world's biggest countries. I think it was Pick (maybe even in this thread) who said something like SA posters talk about capitalism like how devout Protestant women in the late 19th & early 20th century (or Bobby Boucher's mom in the movie The WaterBoy) talked about The Devil. Everything is blamed on capitalism/The Devil. SA posters commonly take what I think are more fundamentally problems with large human organizations or problems with human psychology and attribute them to capitalism.
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That sounds good and all but have you considered the guillotine and beheading rich people?
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I’m the interests of full disclosure, should I become rich please do not guillotine me
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oldpainless posted:I’m the interests of full disclosure, should I become rich please do not guillotine me Okay but you're not going to like the revolutionary baptism. (more like oldpainful) silence_kit posted:I think it was Pick (maybe even in this thread) who said something like SA posters talk about capitalism like how devout Protestant women in the late 19th & early 20th century (or Bobby Boucher's mom in the movie The WaterBoy) talked about The Devil. Everything is blamed on capitalism/The Devil. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 14:07 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Dec 5, 2019 14:01
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Being lovely is pretty solvable. Also mcdonald's fries reputation is from the time when they used lard for frying. Chicken nuggets were better when they ground up the whole chicken instead of using just white meat and some skin.
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Dec 5, 2019 14:37
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Capitalism killed the planet. What has communism ever killed?
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Dec 5, 2019 15:04
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Millions of people. Same as every other socio-economic theology.
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Dec 5, 2019 15:09
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Pfft killing millions is just a fundamental problem of a large human population.
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Agreed, and I think worrying about a few million people killed is the same as worrying about dropping a few nails when building a roof. Put up a memorial so people can pretend to care and keep building that roof!
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silence_kit posted:I think it was Pick (maybe even in this thread) who said something like SA posters talk about capitalism like how devout Protestant women in the late 19th & early 20th century (or Bobby Boucher's mom in the movie The WaterBoy) talked about The Devil. Everything is blamed on capitalism/The Devil. I disagree. I think goons are just as aware as a lot of other people that lust for material goods and the power that it translates to is what has caused a lot of problems throughout history. So capitalism is one of the fundamental problems of human organizations, from that perspective.
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silence_kit posted:I think it was Pick (maybe even in this thread) who said something like SA posters talk about capitalism like how devout Protestant women in the late 19th & early 20th century (or Bobby Boucher's mom in the movie The WaterBoy) talked about The Devil. Everything is blamed on capitalism/The Devil. Thats about right, honestly. Capitalism has a lot of holes, but people try to find additional holes in it that aren't really there, but instead are found with the society we've bred. The internet age was a big jump forward on that, we really didn't know what to do with being connected to every part of the country at once. We still don't, really. Everything sorts itself out as we go on, though, be it due to advancements in how we are as people, or how we understand the technology we work with better. Solice Kirsk posted:Millions of people. Same as every other socio-economic theology. Aphrodite posted:Pfft killing millions is just a fundamental problem of a large human population. Solice Kirsk posted:Agreed, and I think worrying about a few million people killed is the same as worrying about dropping a few nails when building a roof. Put up a memorial so people can pretend to care and keep building that roof! "So what if Chairman Mao starved hundreds of millions of his own people to death? He had some pretty good ideas" "Yeah, communists throwing any political dissidents into the gulags and generally being subhuman was bad, but it gave us the idea of Marxism" "Well, the Nazis did the most inhumane things known to man, but hitler was a good artist" "Capitalism is the source of all evil" tankies...tankies never change. spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 22:36 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Tankies is the dumbest term for a group of people ever imho. Which makes it perfect to describe the dumbest group of people ever....but I still don't like it.
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Dec 5, 2019 22:54
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silence_kit posted:I think it was Pick (maybe even in this thread) who said something like SA posters talk about capitalism like how devout Protestant women in the late 19th & early 20th century (or Bobby Boucher's mom in the movie The WaterBoy) talked about The Devil. Everything is blamed on capitalism/The Devil. Pick also once said that anyone worth less than $30 million isn't rich so I don't know if I'd trust her analysis on this one.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Modern westerners often take problems that stem directly from modern capitalism and attribute them to some unsolvable, time-immemorial attribute of humanity. This is true in many cases, but in the case of SA forums posters, I think often the opposite is true. For example, a common SA poster response to even kind of unrelated stories about the pitfalls of short term thinking or corruption is to blame capitalism. Blaming capitalism for every incidence of corruption, as SA posters are wont to do, is literally the same thing as calling capitalism the root of all evil or calling it The Devil.
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christmas boots posted:Pick also once said that anyone worth less than $30 million isn't rich so I don't know if I'd trust her analysis on this one. Sure, why not, I'll throw myself in front of the bus... I don't disagree with her. $30m is a bit steep, but I don't consider anyone that has less than....oh, say around $20m "rich" or "wealthy." But I work in high finance (as I believe Pick does as well) so I'm speaking more from an industry point of view. In reality someone with $1m in liquid assets is doing well enough that they can retire happily in their 50's or 60's if they don't do anything stupid and never worry about money or if you have around $2m any financial advisor off the street could draft up a plan to retire almost immediately. Doesn't mean you're "rich" though. I think of "rich" as someone that emails me at 3am on a Sunday with wiring instructions because they just decided to buy a place in France because they're drunk and want to vacation there every summer. And then I confirm with them on Monday morning and their response is "Eh, well I already told the guy I would buy it, so go ahead" and those hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars I just sent flying across the Atlantic matter about as much to them as accidentally buying a bunch of rounds of drinks for your friends does to other people.
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I live like I'd imagine I would if I were rich making under 100k by accumulating massive amounts of credit card debt, but it still feels kind of luxurious. With 20 million I'd just be dead within a week probably.
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