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FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



First floor

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Aug 16, 2012



Sigma X posted:

"ground floor"

No that was the last page, silly goose

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



holy poo poo :rip: Rhyno, may you eternally stick it to the man

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Pi's are great until you actually try to use them for something useful that isn't a SNES emulator

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

......

I dont think our Pi setup is used for SNES.

Thank you thank you i'm here all week

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



two years after getting married i still argue with stranger online far more often than i do my wife

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



As predicted, it doesn't look like the kids are coming out to the polls

Or they're taking their sweet time

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



He'll vote for trump as a joke or for sanders and his dank memes

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Bernie only has to get within cooee tonight.

The fact anyone's voting for Cruz is truly troubling tho. Trump is an asshat but he nowhere NEAR as scary as Cruz is. He is an oxygen thief.

Both will start a war, imho

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I think he started calling himself a democratic socialist, but either way

Hillary won Iowa by a coinflip, all sources point to NH being a bloodbath :kheldragar:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



bolind posted:

I just got word that my boss quit today. He represents 70% of all core knowledge about our rather narrow niche. This leads me to believe that my company is not very smart, as the smart thing to do would have been to keep him happy as a pig in poo poo.

:siren:ABORT:siren:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Enourmo posted:

oh goody, zero hot water pressure this morning

like you turn it to hot and it runs for a second before tapering off to a drip

Give it 0.4mg of flomax

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



In case anyone was wonder I have drank flint water in the last year so that explains a lot :rip:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



ilkhan posted:

Your post is a wonderful fantasy, but until we get to a literal post-scarcity world (and I mean literally unlimited energy on demand, cures for every disease/condition/trauma, unlimited land, and turning radioactive dirt into whatever goods/foods we want with 0 effort 24/7/365 anywhere) its just a fantasy. And even then humans will find something to fight over. There is no utopia just around the corner.

It's a "fantasy" that works very well in places such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark except they're real

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



i love rehab addict and that little lady is so nice! I got to meet her in person when she was doing a bunch of homes here in detroit

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Magnus Praeda posted:

Is she as ridiculously short as it seems?

Yeah, her head is approximately where my breadbasket is

shes really cute for her age too imo :3:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Grok also implies a level of understanding that isn't as explainable or is more like, idk, something that you understand because it comes naturally to you or because you understand it at a very deep level

It's a useful word that gets nerdshamed too often

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Fish mate you have been dropping the mic a lot around here

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



cage had been on point with the dry yet scathing burns as well

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Si-9gNnF7k

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



meatpimp posted:

Not many people had Dave Mirra in their deadpool.

:smithicide:

literally though

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



SAC have you considered getting out of the skilled trade business or moving to a different state to do it?

Especially with how it is on the east coast

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I only just realized how salty I still am that we didn't end up moving to Tampa :saddowns:

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Michigan is full of shitbird crazy right wing fuckos that used to vote for democratic candidates because of the unions but once Obama ran they all flocked to Mitt because "we don't want no ni**er in the White House it's called the White House for a reason" (-literally something a Facebook friend's father said on his status shortly before I deleted him)

Thank god we have a lot of left wing voters in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Troy because otherwise Mitt may have won

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



PaintVagrant posted:

Michigan is the most racist place i have ever lived. Multiple thriving cities were gutted by their only real industry picking up and leaving overnight, spiraling into poverty and white-flight. Said fleeing white people then blame the entire thing on black people because they are obviously the reason the US auto industry hosed Flint/Detroit/etc. into the ground.

Tea-party shitheads who vote red despite guzzling auto union dick have the nerve to bitch about Obama, despite him bailing their failing industry out. Then they have their pals clock them in at the plant for a week straight so they can go play golf and drink beers instead of working. But remember, black people are lazy and Detroit is their fault.

The economic/racial segregation around Detroit is very stark. The line between Grosse Point and Detroit is fascinating, I have lived here 7 years and I still can't get over it.

http://www.goobingdetroit.com/post/106819283061/by-plane-coming-up-the-detroit-river-you-can
This a million times. Older people and most of the right-wing millennials refused to move to Detroit because it was 87% black, then all the hipsters from New York and Portland started moving downtown and making it a cool place, so the rent has been skyrocketing and pushing the low income black families out to Pontiac.

Pretty much everyone complains about the large Yemeni/Lebanese/Arab Muslim community in Dearborn and will say poo poo even about the christian Chaldean people in Macomb (Saudi Heights, Mostly Chaldean College, etc). They're all kind and peaceful people, but people get hung up on the fact that many of them still do Old World stuff like haggle or whatever and it just makes things worse

Madison Heights/Warren/Clinton Twp./St. Clair Shores "used to be nice before 2009, before all the foreclosures made it possible for those people to be able to own their own home" and since then a shitload of the white people that lived there have been moving farther north to Rochester Hills or ironically to Royal Oak/Ferndale which are basically Hip Detroit Lite cities

A lot of people don't want to live in Oak Park/Bloomfield Hills because it's where most of the area's Jews live, and apparently antisemitism still is a thing

Thankfully that means most of the Boomers live in the same areas and most of the younger people/Millennials live in the same areas, but yeah holy poo poo is this one of the most racially divided places I've ever lived. As it is said

Citizen Tayne posted:

North: you can be uppity but don't live near me
South: you can live near me, but don't be uppity

Wasn't me that invented that, I forget who it was.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Raluek posted:

Do it do it do itttt. Not near as sweet looking as a same-year Chevy, but '37 was a good year for cars.

Hell yeah it was, here's my dad's '37 Ford

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



wallaka posted:

LOL if you believe that most people in the South, the home of state-sponsored segregation, are more OK with living near minorities. Half the time realtors won't even show houses in good neighborhoods to minorities, the other half the banks red-line them into lovely places.

Oh I'm absolutely sure that they do and I'm sure that statement was an over-generalization, but the big things I noticed when I spent time down south for the first time a couple years ago is how many more mixed race couples I saw compared to up here, and how many more black people I saw in the same area as all the waspy whites in the areas we were in. That could also just be because there is a greater concentration of blacks down south compared to whites, but I honestly have no idea and I'm not going to pretend that I do

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



The Locator posted:

Just finished changing the oil in the Focus. Every time I do this I wonder why in the hell we don't have cartridge filters on the top of the engine like my E36 had, that was so much neater and easier. Is there some functional reason that we use bottom filters that are impossible to change without getting hot oil all over your hand and arm?

for some reason General Motors/Saab thought it would be a fantastic idea to put the oil filter cartridge underneath the supercharger in my IRL so that you can barely get it out and if you can you've said more bad words than you really care to admit

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



nm posted:

It is funny that is still going on. In the mid-70's my dad went to Michigan for law school but he was from Davis, CA where that hasn't been a thing since ever (as it a California college town). He was quasi-Catholic (which would have also been a big deal a decade before) but our last name is often considered Jewish last name even though it is just German. In any event, he applied to a bunch of law firms in Detroit, but only really got traction with all-Jewish firms for that reason. He wasn't aware that these were Jewish firms as that just isn't a thing in CA. So he gets hired by a firm, and they find out he's a gentile when he shows up on Rosh Hashanah or something.
They then wanted him to join all the clubs they couldn't join to find out what happened there (and networking). None of the clubs would take him because of the firm he worked at, even with a baptismal certificate. I can't believe that poo poo is still going on in 2000 and loving 16.

Also, the stories about Detroit in the mid-late-70s are interesting. Than God he moved back to CA.

In all honestly I've helped a few Jewish customers that were very kind to me until they found out that my last name is Irish, not german-jewish, but it's not like they consistently do poo poo like that. Until I worked at the high-end mall in the area, it never even occurred to me that people might think that I'm Jewish based on my last name since I'm ginger, but apparently in Russia/Eastern Europe it's a stereotype that Jews are ginger. Who would have thought.

I think a lot of the older people have certain antisemitic feelings simply because of the stuff like you described from the 70's, but more people notice it and care more about the Arabs that do similar stuff (owning all the local party stores, most of the MD's in the area being Arabic, in general a good portion of the Arabic-speaking peoples here are much better off than the whites, similar to the Jewish community) because THOSE GOD drat TERRORISTS

it's all p hosed up and weird.

meatpimp posted:

And that even if you attempt it once, you get frustrated with it and take it to a dealer next time, instead.

Cartridge filters have no tangible benefit over traditional filters, other than increasing revenue for the manufacturer.

The tangible benefit is that they will eventually disintegrate and gently caress your motor beyond repair if you don't take care of it

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



kimbo305 posted:

You're saying they mistook your surname as German-Jewish?

yeah, it sounds like Klein, except it's spelled differently and comes from the Irish word for deceiptful

edit:
they were Hasidic Jews and they asked me if I'd been to Israel and if I had any family in New York or Israel, I said no my last name is Irish and I think they were more embarrassed than they were trying to be rude, honestly.

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Aug 16, 2012



nm posted:

Apparently his law firm was pretty cool about him not being Jewish. They'd literally never had a Gentile apply because apparently the "Goldberg" (or whatever, don't recall the name) in the name should have tipped them off that this is where the Jews were.

That's awesome, was it Bernstein?

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I think that that may be a very rare instance, because Welfare Kings/Queens are not nearly as common as many conservatives seem to think they are

Yeah, the guy in Tide's story is a giant idiot, and he deffo should not have told him that was the reason why he couldn't take it (position it as I need to work less to take care of the kids/my sick parent/sling drugs) but he does not represent everyone on the dole and I can guarantee you that 99% of other welfare recipients would have jumped on that gig

that's not getting into the fact that many dole recipients are PoC that do not have the opportunities or privileges of the whites on the dole who could better their situation

for instance last year I was on the dole, but then i got an internship on top of my retail job and ended up making a shitload of money that I stuck into savings. it worked out super well so

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Tide posted:

Out of curiosity, where do you live?

I live in Detroit.

e; well, just outside of detroit, but still.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Tide posted:

Suburb?

Anyway. The whole welfare queen thing is primarily a Southern thing, I think. And it's a matter of perception. There's an equal number of whites as blacks on the system. Blacks are just more...theatrical? LOL...Can't think of a better word, so the impression is different. The black welfare queen drives her blinged out leased Escalade with the rent-a-rims to the govt housing, the white welfare queen drives her blinged out leased Tahoe to his trailer park.


The 100K figure is his salary, plus what it would cost to buy/drive the company car, plus the cost of the insurance, and everything else. And it's probably a little bit low considering what our company pays for insurance for each employee. The total package. His actual salary would have been 58,273 before taxes, etc.


And what is Bernie Sanders proposing to do about this? Pretty much the entire tax code would have to be re-written. I'm all for simplifying the tax code and saying 'if you earn this, you pay this, done.'. But the majority of the income the wealthy have is generated in weird and strange ways to get around being taxed (or taxed much much later). And there is no way the tax code is going to be changed/simplified because too many jobs and money depend on the tax code being a mess. Simplify it and all those jobs go away.

Yes, suburb

We have a lot of immigrants (Albanian, Chaldean, Arabic) who supposedly get on the dole and work under the table at their uncle's liquor store and can afford BMW's and poo poo

When I worked in the pharmacy I saw everyone's insurance cards and in most cases the supposed welfare queens driving BMWs paid cash. Quite a few of them had food stamp cards and Medicaid, but it wasn't nearly as many as all the shitheads claimed

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



What's the reason you don't like him? I think he is kind of naïve but it's better than the corporate interest juggernaut that Hillary is

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



nm posted:

I honestly don't think he'll get poo poo done.
Hillary is a sellout, but at least she'll be able to people on the supreme court who don't want the gays to go to prison.
I also think she's maybe a bit more liberal than we think. She's historically be in favor of single payer, for example.

Meanwhile Rubio wants to eliminate the capital gains tax.

Hillary was a hyper-conservative who didn't support gay marriage until relatively recently when compared to sanders, though I do understand your position

edit:
Honestly I'd rather have a president who doesn't get nearly as much done than a president who will further the mega corps because they gave her table scraps and bought her the presidency with them

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FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



There is no such thing as a booze that is too smooth

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I have yet to have a hangover but honestly it takes a me a fifth of gin to get loaded and I'm 24 so I expect that super power to go bye bye

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I love that Reddit, the supposed bastion of free speech and libertarian ideals, bans people

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FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Today I spring cleaned the house with my wife and I vacuumed approx 2.2 rascals out of the carpet

thanks dyson

also today is sleepyheads 1 year birthday



happy birthday, doofus

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