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I did a music video shoot at this house in Sacramento and they had a pet pig and it was a pain in the rear end trying to walk backwards while filming and then occasionally hearing the pig SQUEAL because I'd just stepped on its tail. Then I'd apologize to it and it would chill out because pigs are fuckin smart
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Citizen Tayne posted:Yeah, nobody here does first + last month, it's just first month + security deposit (almost always two months rent). i'd say half the places i've lived in over the last few years wanted security deposit of two months' rent + the first months' rent up front. I had to drop $2700 to secure a $900/mo room. Then it turned out the dude was overcharging me & another guy by $300/mo. He refunded the difference (the other guy he'd been doing it to for a couple of years) but the next month he gave both of us an eviction notice because his wife was moving back to SF and he wanted to share the apartment with her and his meth head babysitter he'd been having an affair with for threesomes with his 5 year old in the house. Legally he couldn't actually evict me, but I was out of there in 2 days.
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Dec 9, 2014 03:28
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Sagebrush posted:as an asu alumnus (lol), president crow is an ok dude in my book. yeah he's overpaid and cares too much about sports and fundraising. but when some group of batshit tea partiers tried to get a state bill passed to allow students and teachers to carry guns on campus to DEFEND ARE SELVES, he put out this press release 
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Dec 10, 2014 01:07
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qirex posted:Los Angeles and San Francisco are suing ride-sharing startup Uber for making misleading statements and breaking California law, the latest in a series of setbacks for the company. In a statement, the two cities' district attorneys say that Uber misled passengers about the effectiveness of its background checks, misrepresented fees for safety checks and airport tolls, operated in airports without permission, and did not get state approval for the system it used to calculate pricing. Must be fun for Gascon to have to convince Ed Lee to let him go after one of his buddies.
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Dec 10, 2014 01:08
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good dogs are good. good cats are good. hth
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Dec 10, 2014 06:54
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Pinterest Mom posted:The car-service company Uber has allegedly terminated more than a dozen Chicago-based community-support representatives, according to internal emails obtained by the Daily Dot. It's awesome that you can work full-time and companies will STILL find ways to screw you out of benefits.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:23
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Also great: Über will move ASAP and terminate 15 contractor employees for using a ride-share discount code, but the executive who threatened to destroy a female journalist for reporting negatively on uber is still employed. I'm going to bet he also gets benefits.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:30
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Yeah uber issues drivers car phones because apple won't certify their app for the app store because it's a giant piece of poo poo.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:56
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friend of mine whose husband works for Facebook flew to New Orleans for a "plantation" style wedding got so upset at the way the staff and guests were treating the black servers that she got up and left and everyone got mad at her
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Dec 13, 2014 05:56
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:i like the part of the thread where people said that laptops werent portable there was a time when laptops came with built-in printers because they were so loving huge that why not
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Dec 14, 2014 23:30
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Surge pricing doesn't even do what it's supposed to do anyways. If there's a lot of demand, then the "incentive" to get more drivers out is the fact that if you're a driver, you're more likely to get a fare so more people will start driving anyway.
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Dec 15, 2014 19:14
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Yo is great because this slew of "one-button" apps really are the wave of the future. I have a different one-button app for everything that I want. So for example if I want to send a message to my friend all I have to do is open my folder for messaging app folders and then go to the folder with the messaging app for the particular message i want to send and then open that and then open the app and then go to their name and then tap it and boom only one click to send a message
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Dec 16, 2014 20:25
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qirex posted:I'm paying less than that for a 1br in a good building i'm going to say 'same' and 'holy poo poo that is insane' I paid $900/mo for a room 2 blocks away from alamo st park and moved into my own place last april and it's still less than what people are paying for a room. H.P. Hovercraft posted:naice my place is literally a block away from UCSF. my landlord actually rented to me because he wanted someone who'd live in the building for more than a year
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Dec 16, 2014 21:27
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the whole area around UCSF, mostly the inner sunset, is starting to get a lot of notice precisely because it was mostly untouched by the gentrification hitting all the other major SF hoods. so of course everybody is trying to move to the inner sunset as a result edit: someone did a write-up of hipsters & techies moving to the city, i forget how it was phrased, something like "they move to neighborhoods in search of culture and then push culture out in favor of amenities"
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Dec 16, 2014 21:40
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Jonny 290 posted:the best part about talking about india and the tech scene is that you can't really say much about 2014 india without sounding a little racist. they unified as far as work ethic goes and now you're a terrible racist if you point out that they have institutionalized academic fraud and a 'do just enough to get paid' culture they are learning a lot from America
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Dec 16, 2014 23:32
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Misandrist Duck posted:Gawker musta got spooked. Expect A Gentler Valleywag In 2015 I dunno, I would be happy with less lascivious "gossip" stuff and more "hosed company" stuff. Valleywag has the right idea and the right target but I definitely think who's loving who, regardless of whether or not it's a perfect microcosm of silicon valley's hosed morals, should be left to its own business so long as it's consensual. Shine all the lights on Uber sexual assaults but Eric Schmidt's sex dungeon I could care less about so long as everything's consensual.
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Dec 17, 2014 05:11
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Metrication posted:i eat my computer every night same but rear end
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Dec 18, 2014 00:32
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all those kidnapped nigerian girls could use the OLPC laptops to post help messages to Facebook
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Dec 19, 2014 01:37
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qirex posted:modern corporate structures are anathema to empathy, especially when their CEO has said that not wanting to use your full legal name for everything shows a "lack of integrity" their full legal name policy would make sense if it was consistent, but when executives let their friends use fake names, you have a problem
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Dec 29, 2014 21:51
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Jonny 290 posted:no, thats me. what are we supposed to do here? recoil in horror? i mean its a loving computer you cant get mad at it for being Rude it isn't about getting mad at the computer for being rude so much as a bunch of tone-deaf coders who are trying to create a one-size fits all approach to their user base because they're thinking of Facebook users as walking collections of data and not millions of individual human beings, some of whom may have had a terrible year
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Dec 29, 2014 22:50
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waiting in line for food is dumb as gently caress and the people who do it are more interested in being seen at the venue than they are in the food
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Dec 29, 2014 22:51
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Ricky Bad Posts posted:yeah but for most people facebook is an easy way to live out fairy tale lives devoid of problems. Facebook is just catering to their main user base. people who want to smile like it's all good. it is p sad that guy had to see something like that but what the hell else should they have done lol. I would have probably coded in something that checks the names/users and posts associated with them for keywords like "cancer" or "death" or "hosed my best friend" and then have it leave that person out of the video
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Dec 30, 2014 00:45
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Jonny 290 posted:what if their year consisted of celebrating the fact that death almost hosed their best friend, but they successfully beat the cancer it's a lot harder to get mad about the good things that weren't included in your free video than the bad things that were
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Dec 30, 2014 02:37
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Shifty Pony posted:all the tech idiots thinking things will end up more star trek and less brazil is pretty indicative of their lack of exposure to how actual humans act when backed up by unquestionable edicts, regardless of if they are issued by machine or not. Star Trek is cool and all but they also have the ability to create matter out of literal thin air and anyone who thinks we're going to have a utopia while capital is still in finite supply has chosen to simply gloss over the single most important piece of technology the show has
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Dec 31, 2014 17:41
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Sagebrush posted:what, like live in a cube underground in antarctica and use the transporter whenever you want to go out on the town? i think people would still fight over the actual real estate somehow i doubt people would really care all that much about where they live if they get everything they need for free and can instantly travel anywhere they want to go
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Dec 31, 2014 19:00
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my dad was in the air force and got pretty mad at me when i turned down a full ride for officer's school, then forgave me when 9/11 happened a few months later
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quote:"There should be some regulation on the numbers of drivers you allow to Lyft," another commenter wrote. "Otherwise it may seem that you are taking advantage of the fact that we are not paid salaries, and you reap the benefits regardless if it effects us." gosh
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and the replacement bridge is quickly turning out to be a poorly-manufactured piece of garbage, I feel safer using BART to cross the bay than drive
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Jan 4, 2015 17:11
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i took my driver's test right before christmas and my driving instructor looked just like santa claus and even said "Ho Ho Ho!" when I passed well that's my driving test story hope you enjoyed it he also remarked it would have been easier to take the test in an automatic rather than the manual i had but i'm a boss shifter so it was all good
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Jan 5, 2015 19:19
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books are a marvel of the technological age IMO. they require no power, and all you have to do to gain access to all the data inside is simply gain physical access to the device
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Jan 5, 2015 22:02
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when I moved the battery to the trunk on my old mustang I put the kill switch behind the license plate which could fold down and I considered putting a spring there to push the plate down if I ever felt like committing crimes
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Jan 6, 2015 16:18
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quote:Bill Gross, the former manager of the world’s largest bond fund, said prices for many assets will fall this year as record-low interest rates fail to restore sufficient economic growth. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-06/gross-says-good-times-are-over-with-markets-set-to-fall.html come on come on come on come on come on
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ayn rand hand job posted:so they won't give it to the tlc of course not. god mode is for THEM to play with, not the plebs
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Jan 7, 2015 21:49
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currently in a burrito coma and can concur
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Jan 8, 2015 05:27
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"we can't come up with a name for our bleeding-edge brand-new social media company so we'll take the name of a decades-old company that failed." brilliant. way to convince your base that you're fresh, new and successful, than to license the name of an old, failed company
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Jan 8, 2015 21:10
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i don't care if your fancy train goes under water unless it's lit at the bottom and you can look out the windows and see whales and poo poo like bioshock
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Jan 10, 2015 00:56
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killing black people is bad, just in case,FYI, etc
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Jan 10, 2015 06:39
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Sagebrush posted:when this all comes to a head and uber gets charged with tax evasion or workplace safety violations or whatever...what argument will the government use to claim that uber is an employer of taxi drivers and not just a service facilitating like-minded *pffrrrtfrttttt* or whatever they say? uber's "income guarantees" for drivers where they have to take 90% of pings and do one trip every hour and be available from 9pm to 5am will probably put them much closer to the fedex "these are actually employees" model. I think the fact that uber determines the rates and handles the money might be a part of that as well. i think the government, both federally and locally, has more than enough stuff to come down on uber if they want to, the question is, do they want to?
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Jan 11, 2015 20:29
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I just love when white people want to explain why others shouldn't be upset over their noble-savage white man's burden
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Sagebrush posted:there is literally nothing offensive about that story aside from the noble-savage angle, and if that really gets you like this, you bunch are wound up too tight. this is why there aren't more black people in tech
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