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Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

I already told you there's no reason to assume the dollar's value is just going to be poo poo and you're not giving me anything other than 'because it will be because they can just leave because the dollar will suck.'


Like take this rudimentary plan. Why would the dollar become worthless here?

That means we have to have factories here! Trump!

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Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

Ofc it won't happen in the USA because the state/people owning the means of production (the robots) like that is s-s-s-s-socialist!!! At least it won't happen here first.

Ok, we need the factories here first before they can be nationalized. We take this one step at a time.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Whats all this job shaming about?

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

a bone to pick posted:

I really love when posters try to make a point by completely belittling someone's profession, definitely makes them look like the good guy.

No, the Communists are for the workers don't you see

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

fyodor posted:

"I like that a self-professed rapist, con-man and all-around degenerate scumbag is president. It is morally pure. I bathe in it." -forums poster Spunky Psycho Ho

It was a lovely election with 2 flawed candidates, one just happened to be slightly better (less worse?) than the other

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

fyodor posted:

hahahahahahhahah you clearly made the right choice, brainiac!

One was talking hard economy and one was calling me racist, was literally a no-brainer

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

let me guess: you work in payroll

And you are a college student? I answered bud

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

I'm 32, didn't go to college

I work in the IT department in a position that actually occasionally gets up and does work that can't be accomplished with 19 y/o excel expert's macro collection

Okay you're ragging on me, and you work in IT, "DID YOU TRY RESETTING"

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

"Well, carl is going on vacation next week, so I'd better click approve on his request, and then send an email to our DL asking somebody to fill in for him with a link right to the internal company system that handles scheduling. I'll CC the client on it so they know Carl won't be the one they're talking to. This is a very hard and demanding job."

Lmao, I route 350+ orders in real time a day while I argue with an IT guy

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

there are programs that do your job automatically already and they've been paying dispatchers 7.50 an hour to do it ever since the last minimum wage increase :ssh:

But did you try resetting? Power off the modem, and then wait 10 seconds.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Our IT person is arrogant, and unpleasant to work with. I just google problems when they come up, because there's usually a video walk through

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Personally I don't even like working inside, I like outside and doing manual labor, which I did for many many years. If they phase my job out I have no problem digging ditches or whatever. Driving a fork lift, moving boxes all day.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

scrubs season six posted:

That doesn't really sound like middle management.

Well I manage employees and hire and fire people while not being the owner so I dunno

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

nah, that's totally middle management. most middle managers end up doing bullshit clerical work to fill their time. they could absolutely pay a guy minimum wage to do it, but they already pay this guy to hit approve a few times a day and reply to emails so he might as well add the dispatching to his list of responsibilities

This isn't what I do at all, but you change keyboards for a living lol

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Poetic Justice posted:

I've always leaned more left than right. I think some people get confused because I make fun of the left more now, but that's because it's currently a lot easier :)

Yeah, same. I don't think people get that the Dems pushed a bunch of people right this election cycle

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
The platform I would've really wanted to see in 2016 would've been "Revitalizing the American Economy Through 100% Legalized Drugs"

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

well, good thing you elected Trump, the person most likely to roll back all progress on the drug war and start jailing marijuana users again

in before "Well, actually, Trump said he was pro drug in..." while ignoring he picked Jeff Sessions as his AG

My hope was Trump's business intuitions and pragmatic approach to things would guide him to legalization

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

I wasn't talking to you???

Spunky Psycho Ho has been pretty upfront about voting for Trump, lol

I'm still not in a position where a total collapse would devastate me so I rolled the dice

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

proof of concept posted:

nobody thinks hillary ran a good campaign but how can you still be thinking about that when what's going on in the here and now is so drat bizarre?

This reality is the realm of chaos and we all deserve to be here from our sins

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Shayl posted:

So uh...I help write software that automates/simplifies the process of goods transportation. I think I might be one of the bad guys.

Yes. Yes you are.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mirthless posted:

you're one of the good guys, you're one of the best guys, because you're contributing to the final cleanup phase of the industrial revolution. Thank you for being on the forefront of progress.

Now if only the rest of the country would figure out the industrial revolution was over

Ah ha! Low level technocrat shows his true stripes

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Computer workers are always like "Do not resist Human. Be absorbed." Like straight Borg'n on everyone

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
If they want to automate this computer poo poo thats fine, I'm more than willing to grab a shovel so we can rebuild our infrastructure and build a glittering nation of the future

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Toadvine posted:

Your shoveling job has been replaced by a shoveling robot that doesn't embarrass the globo-corp by posting on gay forums during work hours

D'oh... Shovel-Bot ftw

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Yuli Ban posted:

When will Trump actually be hosed?

And as the first Pro-Trump crowd will say, there was no way he could have possibly prepared for what's coming. No one could have. Everyone's second-favorite Socialist Jew Carpenter couldn't have done gently caress all either. Clinton? She might have kicked the can down the road a bit, but probably not long enough to make it wholly the next president's problem.

The whole American system is a Ponzi scheme that will inevitably collapse, you just want something solid to exist there so it can rebuild after the POP

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Knight posted:

I hope it can manage that at the same time.
I'm having trouble reconciling the idea that things are really bad for you with the admission that a total economic collapse wouldn't affect you. It would make more sense to admit that you're bored so you rolled the dice.

I don't want this to happen, I want things to get better, but I don't have kids and I'm still healthy and kind of young so now is better than later

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Poetic Justice posted:

Looks like Alex Jones is right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N4g0YDbGPE


What an amazing world.

Alex Jones and Donald J Trump have changed human history irrevocably for better or worse lmao

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
People who own companies specializing in giant wall construction will be very happy

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Right now we have a ramshackle system of broken down fences. Imagine a giant, awesome wall down there instead. I mean, we all can agree that a big, kick rear end wall is way better than rusty butthole chainlink fences right

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Some lucky lady 3 years from now will be the first woman to receive a marriage proposal on the wall while visiting it on the Wall Tour with her rugged patriot boyfriend

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Just knowing that wall is there in the desert, looming high and mighty, will help me sleep snug in my bed

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Naw. Walls are cool. Big construction projects are cool. It's just like a huge wall would be cool to see. Like the Great Wall of China. But it will be the Great American Wall . Just a way to show that we can still get things done if we pull together. Team USA

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Sure. Do I really care about a wall, no. But after Obama and Lil Bush Jr spent 4 trillion dollars blowing up mud huts and ruining the world, do I care if they use 3 billion dollars builds a cool wall? At least its something instead of death

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

Yeah but you gotta admit that's kind of the attitude of a whipped dog a little bit. I mean it is understandable to feel like that after we just spent ridiculous sums of money exporting death all over the world under the last two presidents but it is still a stupid waste of money.

Don't you find the idea of a wall funny at least? I mean a wall to keep out Mexico? Lol... who would think of that.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
I honestly think it's 2 separate issues. 1 is building a sweet wall, like a wonder of the world. 2 is immigration which is solved in smarter ways like tightening up law enforcement and entitlement programs. If we can throw down a gigantic wall, it shows the government is still capable of actually accomplishing something great

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Knight posted:

Spineless cucks ITT who would clean Putin's dick off after he raped their wife.

"What, do you want to start a WAR?!"

Except the real rape victim was Russia from the fall of the Soviet Union, as multinational corporations and US banksters looted their country and left a husk

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
"We've always been at war with Oceania"

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Dead Cosmonaut posted:

You don’t hear Czechs or Poles whining about how great it was when they were puppet states.

The Fall of the soviet union wasn't bad, it was the smorgasbord of exploitation afterwards from outsiders that was bad

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

ikanreed posted:

Uh, but Putin is pretty much considered to be the single biggest national looter by a long shot and is possibly the richest man in the world

His people seem to love him though. Because he brought them back from the devastation wrought by global interests

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Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Knight posted:

No, Donny, these men are cowards

See, but the left is the pretentious freak nihilists and the right is the bowling playing working idiots with nothing to lose

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