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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Can't we theoretically make any amount of any element with nuclear processes? Then it's just a question of cost and safety.

It is hilariously energy intensive and gets worse the larger the atom you're trying to build.

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



joebuddah posted:

This seems like the best place for my question.

There is a new bank of America commercial about sending money to friends. In this commercial people seem to have trouble figuring their part of the bill.

Do restaurants in large cities not do separate checks? The ad makes it seem like figuring out what your part of the bill is super hard. What am i missing?

A lot of people can't do basic math, which is a small part of why this thread exists.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Risky Bisquick posted:

Not directed at you, but what is the point in blurring the handle of the public post if you can search for the content and thus get the handle? I mean, that is bad with internet all over it.

It discourages the lowest of low-effort drive by harassment, which it turns out is quite a bit of it.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



22 Eargesplitten posted:

No reason not to do it if you're already a member, though. They say you can do it, it just can't be with funds currently on deposit at the bank. Which I guess means you could pull current savings out at an ATM, go into the bank, and open the account? Or in what probably isn't quite fraud, take money out of the bank account, give it to a loved one, get a check for the same amount from a loved one, open the account with that check.

I was wrong on the APR, actually. 3.25% up to 2k. Which is better than a CD, especially at that balance.

They also had a deal where on Black Friday if you put in $2k you got $1k after keeping the money in there for four months, or something like that.

What bank is this so I can mark my calendar for next year?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




I'm everything in this picture but I'm especially the far left guy's hairline.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



"Getting sick or hurt is extremely bad with money" is the message I'm hearing here.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sirotan posted:

I clicked on this thinking it was a for some poor kid....holy poo poo

lol same.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



feedmegin posted:


That stuff does exist in the UK but I don't think it quite fits our culture as well. Pushing things on strangers is kinda uncomfortable for a lot of people for one thing.

A remarkable contrast from the UK's conduct through much of the last several hundred years!:v:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Pekinduck posted:

The "alternative financial services" (check cashing, prepaid debit cards, etc.) for the unbanked are astoundingly BWM.

I studied them a bit in college I might post more about it if anyone's interested.

Do it. We have a lot of folks knowledge but I haven't seen a detailed analysis of exactly how terrible they are. There are probably some undiscovered laffs to mine there.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Inescapable Duck posted:

I'm reminded of those 'bomb-detecting' scanners used by the US military and later governments in the Middle East, among others, that don't actually do anything. The US military finally stopped using them after spending millions of tax dollars on them, but a lot of other governments and probably airport security do.

While nobody can accuse the Pentagon of being GWM, US military never used the ADE 651, though a disappointing amount of aid money we gave Iraq went to paying for those dowsing rods.

Or are you talking about Itemisers and other IMS detectors?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Youth Decay posted:

This is a common sales tactic by these people. Both the God bit and the death/sickness. Most of the time the deaths are real and the hunbots are the assholes.






The Lord taketh, but #lululeggings giveth away!

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



VideoTapir posted:

Pretty much all of them have the downside of substituting for real treatment; see Steve Jobs.

Anything that sickens or kills large numbers of dumb rich people is cool with me.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



NancyPants posted:

Not helping is harming. If you were responsible for someone and they broke their arm, you rubbing an aspirin on them instead of getting appropriate treatment would be harming them through neglect. They want to insist in the same breath that their kids don't need any medication or treatment but that herbs and oils are the appropriate medication and treatment. It's horseshit.

Herbs and their essential oils aren't inert substances. Peppermint, wintergreen and eucalyptus are especially dangerous--even applied topically they can cause kids to essentially have asthma attacks and cardiac arrest even if they don't have asthma, they irritate the upper GI tract, and cause problems for people with heartburn or gallbladder issues if taken internally. Peppermint is the first thing these fuckers recommend for anyone with any GI or respiratory complaint. Lavender oil, which everyone likes to slather all over themselves for some reason, cause liver damage if taken internally and lavender "teas" are extremely popular with the menstruating and agitated crowd. Citrus oils cause photosensitivity and can leave someone with a severe sunburn from a surprisingly small amount of sunlight. Most herbs cause liver damage if ingested and some of our most potent medications and poisons are derived from them. Some of them cause poisoning through the skin, like camphor, while others just leave you with a nasty rash. Because essential oils are so concentrated, the risk of overdose is extremely high--we're talking half drop differences in some cases. These are not precision manufactured and dosed substances.

So it's like buying Chinese research chemicals off a darknet market, but NATURAL!

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



bob dobbs is dead posted:

there was a functioning holiday inn that the author talks about at length, didn't know that, lol. 50 marks per meal, "At night, the hotel resembles Casablanca." they had a deal with the serbs to not get hit try not to be in them

Yes, it was the one hotel in town for all the reporters during the war. Looks like a giant custard. It is badly decayed, no longer part of the Holiday Inn brand (kept the sign though) and seemed to be run by organized crime when I stayed there a few years ago.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




If anything it should bolster his case for mental disability benefits.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



SpelledBackwards posted:

How much did capital letters cost? I see you only smuggled one in for Casablanca.

Most of Eastern Europe has a chronic vowel shortage so they take what they can get.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Not a Children posted:

Some people mistake sympathy and/or holier-than-thou posturing for positive attention because they've never made a real connection in their life before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on_self?wprov=sfla1

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



gently caress, I wasn't expecting no poo poo unironic genetic determinism in the BWM thread. 2018 is delivering out of the gate.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Notarios P.U.B.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



computer angel posted:

It would be sick if Jesus materialized and started whipping banking CEOs to death.

That would be amazing for a number of reasons, some of which would even be theological.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



#fraudalert

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Alan Smithee posted:

What is your opinion on gas quality at cheap stations i.e. Arco vs places a dime more expensive

Sometimes better, small no name stations occasionally sell 100% gasoline but you're never going to catch Shell or Exxon doing more than 90% on a good day.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Konstantin posted:

With how popular bitcoin is, I'm surprised no scam artists have made a cheap version of the physical coins pictured in every bitcoin article and sold them to grandmas as "bit coins."

Would you accept Chuck E Cheese tokens? Maybe?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Spokes posted:

Dying -- BWM? GWM?

Good if you do it fast.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Moneyball posted:

drat, how did people miss this one?

Phanatic posted it last page.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Papa John Misty posted:

I was 2 or 3 years out of college when I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken to in as long, letting me know he was in my area and wanted to get lunch (and sell me financial planning services) so I guess that's an analog of MLM poo poo?

No analog about it, it's an mlm.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Square Peg posted:

That sounds like pretty standard MLM to me.

Cutco doesn't encourage their salespeople to recruit other salespeople by giving them a cut of their recruits' revenue, instead they recruit directly and just charge the recruit money up front. Encouraging you to recruit people and rewarding you for doing so is the distinguishing feature of the MLM.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



KingSlime posted:

ehh anything that doesn't pay you a steady base pay where you can easily break down money earned per hour, has you pay upfront for an intro package, and encourages you to burn all your bridges and alienate your friends is effectively an MLM even if the nitty-gritty varies

toss in buzzwords like "be your own boss," "the hustle,' "financial independence" to round out the package. As they say, if it talks like a bird, etc

All MLMs are bad companies but not all bad companies are MLMs. Cutco only has one level, therefore they are not a multilevel marketing company. I agree with you on the rest though and it's every bit as predatory, it just wants you to sell stuff to your friends, not sell the company to your friends.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



White Chocolate posted:

SACoins! When is the ICO?

When Lowtax gets out of the hospital.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



tomapot posted:

Reminds me of this scene from Go “It’s Confederate Products, it’s, it’s a different company, it’s a different quality of product.”

https://youtu.be/OkdLWuCRe0c

Back in the 90s I was involved in a MLM for IT consultants, they were a reseller of products; computers, accessories and components. It was called HandTech and I could have built a downstream but all I cared about was being able to purchase stuff at a discount and gaining some commission on sales. I still have an HP1100 Laserjet that I got from some of the sales credits. I only did it for a year or two and probably made a few buck, I don’t remember having to keep inventory or any of that stuff.

So would you say you had a...

HandJob? :haw:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Only if it actually happened and isn't an edited video.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




Please don't post war crimes in the thread, thanks.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:

Ban this piece of poo poo. I saw him circling around the crypto thread and told him to get the gently caress out, he promised not to buy any.

He's forums cancer.

Forums cancer is overstating it a little, his posts are still perfectly legible. He never learns and never sticks with anything so his threads are tedious repeats of bad situation/bad ideas/marginal improvement/wipeout of any gains. It's the same poo poo every time.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Krispy Wafer posted:

This thread isn't really for bank questions. It's more for making fun of people's financial decisions, so you're going to get grief as someone who is in financial straits trying to do anything other than taking the bus to ALDI to buy rice and beans.

Paying for porn is cool, though. I've paid for my share.

I don't know if pre-paid VISA cards work for those sites and I'm not about to Google that at work, but I'd look at that as a possibility. That would protect you from linking your basic necessities account with your kink account.

Last time I had to obscure the source of funds for an online purchase a prepaid Visa worked though I had to go to the Visa website and give it a name and address. Any name and address will do, especially if nothing is being mailed.

Edit

Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:


Prepaid cards don’t tend to work for sites like that because of... reasons I can’t remember from checking Google earlier but they made sense when I read them.

Vanilla cards are picky but the regular ones will work fine.

Midjack fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Feb 4, 2018

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



NancyPants posted:

Don't do that in front of a cop, you'll have a ticket on top of the repair bills.

The property owner can throw a trespassing charge at you too, depending on circumstances. Happened to a college roommate.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Virtue posted:

Ok but how much do you make if you have cleavage

Moobs won't help. Sorry dude.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Krispy Wafer posted:

And when you die they just bury you at sea.

Repatriation of corpses is a colossal pain in the rear end.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Elysium posted:

http://www.tampabay.com/sold-everything-to-sail-the-world-boat-sank-next-day

Sell everything, buy a boat, sail the world! Insurance? Who needs that! What could go wrong...

shiprekt

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



General Probe posted:

I thought the thread had previously already established that dying was GWM though?

Dying fast is good with money and life. Dying slowly is bad with both.

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



cowofwar posted:

If you’re afraid of fiat currency for some reason then why buy silver and not gold?

I mean geez have you seen how much more silver you get for your money??

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