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Just wanted to thank this thread for recommending Queen of Versailles. Incredible film. It was weird hating that woman and sort of pitying/admiring her in some way at the same time
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2013 23:44 |
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# ¿ May 13, 2024 23:51 |
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To be fair, at least that 700 bucks a month isn't all wasted money. His kids will get a nearly free education at BYU if they so choose
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2013 21:49 |
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Yeah bad decisions + youth + predatory practices of for profit colleges is the stuff of nightmares. Those schools are probably the most corrupt and indefensible industry in America today.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2014 03:22 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:This is accurate compared to other truck engine alternatives, but purchasing the truck in the first place is probably stupid as heck. Yep. Financial morons everywhere buy trucks and justify it with things like "I'll need something to tow the boat I haven't purchased yet" or "it'll be great when I have to move some big stuff." I had a former coworker making 50k who used the latter justification for buying a brand new 45k Ford F-250. He uses it to move stuff maybe 2-3 times a year. I told him he could keep his paid off 2001 Accord and spend $19 to rent a truck from Home Depot when needed. His response was "THAT'S A RIPOFF"
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2014 22:08 |
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I know a guy who's an accountant for a big company and had been doing it for 10+ years. They background check when you apply for a job and sometimes post "incidents." The guy was making 120k and applied to another accounting job in the same company in a different business unit. He did this for a 10k raise, and I'm assuming he knew he'd get a new background check. Sure enough he was up to debt in his eyeballs and after getting an offer on the new position, they rechecked his background. Now he's out of a job altogether
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 18:21 |
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Got background checked when applying for a 10k increase job change at his company. Had lots of debt. Lost his job. He wouldn't have been checked had he stayed put.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 21:45 |
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Harry posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/287dju/my_engagement_ring_was_not_acceptable_apparently/ Good lord. If this leads to him breaking it off with her, you could consider this good with money. The almost certain divorce lawyer and alimony would be waaaaay more than 18k. Also he could save the diamond for the next girl who would appreciate it.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2014 17:40 |
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Yeah it's terrifying the disconnect from people's salary to car price. I make six figures and it still scares me that I bought a 12k Kia.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 04:26 |
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People who have kids and buy pickups for a daily driver are, themselves, literal children. Jesus
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 01:49 |
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I understand why people commit all sorts of thieving crimes, except: 1. Stealing a cheap bike 2. Breaking one of those small triangular windows (a ~$200 repair) in order to jack a car stereo worth $20 gently caress you if you do either thing. I've had a car stolen and an iPod stolen on top of the previous two things and neither made me as mad. I guess it just is more infuriating if the crime costs you way more that the benefit gained by the thief. Also one time I got a credit card stolen and used to buy premium gasoline before it was turned off. I'd have been a lot less pissed off if you had just filled your car with regular, rear end in a top hat
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 04:31 |
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Gabriel Pope posted:and the people are even nicer if anything. Look how dumb you are. People from the Pacific nw are insufferable cunts and I'd rather deal with Bostonians. Des Moines is a pretty cool places, as is Omaha and Iowa City. There are several pretty nice places in the Midwest. Still would rather live in Seattle though
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2014 05:32 |
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Me neither but you'd think "Put 70% of it in one of those 2055 targeted retirement funds and the rest of it towards college" would be simple enough
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 06:47 |
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quote:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/12/investing/buy-gold-market-fear/index.html?category=home I was going to delete the interstitial links/ads but that Winklevoss one is too funny
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2015 16:54 |
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My wife and I are certain to inherit a pretty good amount of money when our parents die but being responsible sucks because it's not like I'll ever be able to spend it. I intend to leave more to my kids than what was left for me dammit. Sometimes I actually get jealous of people who can throw caution to the wind and drive giant trucks and get expensive electronics and vacations that are hilariously out of line with their annual incomes. I almost had a breakdown a few months after I bought a $12k car which i could easily afford and budget for. I just can't imagine what goes on in people's minds as to what they'll do when they can no longer work
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2015 05:22 |
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Haha haha holy poo poo how are any of you defending that idiot redditor drinking at a work lunch? That's not a cultural norm, no one else was drinking and his boss specifically forbid it because it affected his ability to keep government contracts. I would've fired him on the spot in front of everyone
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2015 02:58 |
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Most of your specific arguments are lovely but I kind of get what you're getting at. The kind of person who thinks it's ok to "show up" their boss by googling something and parading it around like a know it all jackass surely would show some of those behaviors in any sort of comprehensive interview.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2015 06:12 |
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Powerlurker posted:I'll be making sure to tell my hypothetical future child not to major in chemistry like I did. Any number of easier majors have better career prospects and don't require you to go to grad school. I hear that. Except I would've gone to a marginally harder degree in ChemE. 30k a year starting with no prospects of major improvement vs 70k starting and tons of room for growth
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 06:07 |
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SiGmA_X posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2zm5pd/22_year_old_in_us_in_decent_amount_of_debt/ Yeah these weed shops in Denver try to get away with that kind bullshit too. Contractor wages were common in some of the dispensaries. Either that or they pay just over minimum wage with less benefits than McDonalds. Every single weed shop owner probably votes democrat but when it comes to their business they're just as lovely as every big business owner. On another note working at a pot shop is really loving bad with life/money. Want to get a job in another state or industry? lol try to explain your budtender job or the massive unemployment gap because you couldn't put "bud tender" on your resume
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 06:00 |
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If you're poor and Mormon tithing is no joke good with money. Say what you will about their politics or MLM schemes, those people will rally around you when you are down on your luck, especially if you've been in good standing with the church
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 22:53 |
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That guy is dumb with money but the insurance companies are the true villans of that story. They hosed so many people out of legitimate claims even those with flood coverage. I want to get into that business (insurance). Profit off of peoples paying you for risk mitigation but when you've arbitrarily decided it's too expensive to cover the risk you profited off of in the past tell your customer to gently caress themselves with the full backing of the us court system. Selling insurance is good with money
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# ¿ May 12, 2015 21:58 |
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This idiot: http://www.vice.com/read/what-happens-if-i-dont-pay-my-student-loans-182?utm_source=vicefbus Lives in NYC? Check Master's Degree in Liberal Arts? Check Over 100k in debt? Check. Encourages others to pursue a masters degree? Check Works for a known Sweatshop publication (Vice) making nor more than probably 45k? Check Student loans in the US are hosed, but I certainly can't feel too bad for people like this
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2015 22:36 |
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You guys need to stop writing "BWM" because I keep seeing "BMW" and I can't seem to wrap my head around how some of these non car chat posts are about cars
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 03:26 |
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On second thought the two acronyms are basically synonymous so I'll allow it
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 03:27 |
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mastershakeman posted:It seems like every person thats over 6'0" thinks they're wilt chamberlain and cant fit into a normal car This poo poo cracks me up. Like the dude in the bad car loan thread who needed a BMW or whatever for his 6'2" massive size. I'm 6'5" and drive a Kia Forte. I find it more comfortable than truck/SUV driving. People use lots of excuses to be bad with money
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2015 05:17 |
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Does anybody have that link for the investment forum with the people melting down after that potential apple supplier's stock plummeted?
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2015 16:52 |
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Holy poo poo. Apple absolutely raped GTAT on that contracy. Looks like the company management and those "investors " both made the same basic mistakes lol. http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/10/30/this-is-why-apple-did-not-want-its-gtat-contracts-made-public/ tldr: GTAT made furnaces to melt rocks and minerals into lenses and glass and poo poo. Apple came to them initially with the intention of buying a shitload of furnaces. Then Apple came back to the company later and were like "you know what gently caress that we don't want to buy these furnaces. How about instead you guys buy them and make a factory despite the fact you have no experience building components for consumer electronics. We won't pay any capital costs but we'll cosign for you on a giant loan. After that we might consider using you as a supplier (but we'll have no obligation to do so). Oh and also you can't sell any parts from this plant to anyone but us" And GTAT signed that contract. hahahahahahhaaa oxsnard fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Oct 9, 2015 |
# ¿ Oct 9, 2015 04:48 |
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Don't read the D&D climate change thread. It's terrible. They (rightly) yell about people ignoring science but then pounce on ever single doomsday theory or hypothesis as if it's peer reviewed science. Also there are a bunch of human caused environmental issues that will gently caress us well before climate change does.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 12:20 |
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Dawncloack posted:Hey, I totally don't want to derail, but can you give me a bucket list of those issues? (I assume ocean acidification is one?) Running out of clean water, fertilizer runoff, acid mine drainage in developing countries. Disease is a biggie with the irresponsible use of antibiotics and close human contact with exploding population growth in the third world Ocean acidification is about a billion times scarier and much more "model-able" than warming. Honestly though a phosphate shortage and mass starvation is probably the scariest thing I can think of right now. Most phosphate is dispersed throughout the biosphere and earth's crust with the exception of like 2 places in the world where its mined. Meanwhile the US government pays farmers to grow excess corn which we inefficiently turn into combustible fuel and lose the phosphate to the groundwater and open water forever.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 17:26 |
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How else? Lobbying. Also American farming has been treated this way since FDR Also note that Iowa has a huge role in selecting the president due to primaries and mentioning cutting subsidies to corn is political suicide in that state
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 17:39 |
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People are advertising on that Kanye GoFundMe with $5 "donations" and pleas to check out there more deserving GoFundMes. People are the worst
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 04:52 |
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This is amazing you guysquote:An Open Letter To My CEO https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.cr3agenea People living as slaves in SV is sort of sad but also kind of hilarious. You could work at a McDonalds in a decently fun midwestern, say Des Moines and have a waaaaay better quality of life. But this delicate flower, like millions of others like her, are drawn to the big dreams of a place like San Fran like moths to a flame.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 15:40 |
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# ¿ May 13, 2024 23:51 |
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Its almost like US labor laws/wages can be hosed up AND this girl can be an entitled, BWM moron at the same time!
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 07:16 |