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Bernie Panders posted:gently caress small business tyrants but i feel sad for owners of little restaurants and poo poo don't, i live and work in food service in a city with a ton of locally owned restaurants and it's so bad that we even have a dedicated twitter to post about how loving lovely all of these owners are also the owner of the bakery i work for told us we were coming back or they'd report us to the state and gave us less than 24 hours to decide if we wanted to come back or be poor; this seems to be the rule rather than the exception
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Egg Moron posted:i think everyone posting in this thread agrees that decriminalizing prostitution is a positive thing to do otoh we already had one sexual revolution and zero workers revolutions in the past 50 years so if i have to bet one one happening,
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May 15, 2020 19:03
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Pick posted:the "sexual revolution" (there have been a number of periods where this term is thought to apply, including post-HIV) has a complicated legacy that is fair, but i also feel like destigmatization of sex work is something (relatively) simpler to work for than the end of capitalism and equating the two just feels like typical leftist “well middle america will never go for it”, throwing up hands, and going back to fantasizing about what they’ll be doing in the vanguard after the revolution
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May 15, 2020 19:15
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Zudgemud posted:Microorganisms give good yield at low cost for most proteins in biotech and proteins of medical interest more often requires post-translational modifications on proteins which plants can't produce. For those proteins suitable for plant production there are frequently other plants with higher yield per acre. The basics are still sound though. they have the infrastructure in place and tobacco has been dying for good pr since the 70s
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May 15, 2020 19:21
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Egg Moron posted:I can see the through line in this argument for sure since we've all seen attitudes around sex change so much in our lifetimes and things were already radically different 30 years ago than they were 50 years ago but unlike homosexuality or other forms of sexual expression which are independent of the economy, I don't think you are ever going to get to a place where most parents will accept that their kids will be prostitutes. I am sure many people said this about homosexuality but prostitution and things like homosexuality are categorically different. well it’s like that famous quote, it’s easier to imagine the end of my parents not supporting my onlyfans than the end of capitalism
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May 15, 2020 19:38
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Trabisnikof posted:communism could get rid of janitors if that was what was best. just make office workers clean up after themselves food service people already do this
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May 15, 2020 19:39
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oxsnard posted:i didn't see this, seems bad trade war trade war TRADE WAR TRADE WAR fuckin bring it let's watch this fucker burn
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May 15, 2020 21:37
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BeefThief posted:why should any of these big companies bother providing a product or service at all if the government is going to give them trillions of dollars for nothing can i underbid boeing on doing loving nothing? 20 year contract for 1.4 million, i promise you i will produce exactly the same amount of plane sales that boeing did last quarter and i'll even personally call the president to tell him that we're working on a jet that can transform into optimus prime
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May 15, 2020 21:47
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Dolphin posted:i just thought about how the national debt used to be something people worried about and i laughed the national debt is only an issue when we drive it up for things that don’t produce value, like healthcare or services, but is fine when we use it as a bank loan for thriving companies like boeing or cruiselines
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May 15, 2020 22:51
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oxsnard posted:Aldi prices haven't changed, but less specials on meat. Walmart is up quite a bit and HEB is up maybe 10% across the board with big moves up in meat prices. The Indian grocery has more expensive produce but packaged goods unchanged yeah i noticed lidl stopped offering dumb sales on chicken thighs which is good because dummies were buying it up en masse and those'll cowards don't even like dark meat i typically buy pork shoulder and bone in skin on chicken thighs neither of which is an especially popular cut of meat amongst the laity at the regular degular grocery stores i go to; in total i spend about $30 for what amounts to 10 pounds of meat pre cooking
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May 16, 2020 05:35
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:also im sure this has already been posted itt but im gonna post it again because lol and retailers thought they would see an 8% drop in sales mnuchin but that’s not what happened now is it bud
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May 17, 2020 03:31
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investment bankers are too rich to be talking about time to die
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May 17, 2020 08:24
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Rutibex posted:what if all the people who cant pay rent make a gang. then this gang can go to anyones house who is being evicted and make them not evicted any more. no need for rent! anti-landlord aktion
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May 17, 2020 23:08
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haha gently caress off i'll just buy a cashier's check at kroger you fool
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May 18, 2020 02:05
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i for one think it's very cool that every two weeks every american household will be asked to do a mini brewster's millions
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May 18, 2020 02:30
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oxsnard posted:I didn't know he was a sex pest (of course he is I guess). He's just like if a regular douche lucked his way into being a billionaire. Most of them are blood drinking ghouls instead of bad people will too much money and an inflated ego his sporting team the dallas mavericks were under investigation for an organization wide sexual harassment problem for people who don’t follow sports i can get how it’d be overlooked because everyone involved has since tried to sweep it under the rug poty posted:https://twitter.com/marynmck/status/1262374710425378817 thank you nyt very cool
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May 18, 2020 16:08
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B B posted:it's an "attendance strongly suggested" situation run into your door really fast to give yourself a concussion or lie and say you did if you're good at lying
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May 18, 2020 21:10
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SKULL.GIF posted:the restaurant where I work at is opening back up and I don't think I have a choice about going back unless I want to completely bottom out all my savings and then start all over again at somewhere else that's quite likely going to be a lot worse than the close-knit family place I work at. gonna own getting covid then watching them go under when we get the second wave of shutdowns. gigantic same the worst part is that the restaurant i work at specializes in dessert so it’s even more loving pointless to open er up
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May 19, 2020 02:45
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The Alpha Centauri posted:so should i buy a bunch of property? poor people are not allowed to come out ahead in a recession if you’re already rich go ahead
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May 19, 2020 16:30
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Relevant Tangent posted:I couldn't decide if it was that, using his 401k for the down payment, or paying $3500 a month on 450k that was the biggest fuckup. what is that, a 15 year mortgage? at the height of the housing bubble? whew lads
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May 19, 2020 17:30
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Torpor posted:so that Silicon Valley episode was right? which came first? the episode of silicon valley, although rather than a specific pizza or even food issue but general capitalist/valley “let’s buoy our revenue while taking a loss and hope that nobody knows what arbitrage is” economic sleights of hand this is just one of those happy coincidences
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May 19, 2020 20:24
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Pick posted:Imagine, for a moment, someone who works at a background check company, and whether they are really really really committed to the job, and give a gently caress it’s mostly robots doing the hard work of throwing your resume in the trash because you didn’t figure out their boolean logic puzzle and rewrite your resume for each and every job posting, but if you make it through then you get to interview with a brainwashed stooge who wants to know why you love this corporation, like the world’s neediest boyfriend, and they’re not gonna check your references and they’re especially not gonna hire someone to do it unless it’s a huge corporation that’s got one in house
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May 19, 2020 20:26
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btw i’ve worked in food service for years and the interview process for that is “please don’t openly do drugs in the interview this industry is a meat grinder the fact that you showed up for the interview is amazing please work for us” one time i interviewed a lady who showed up for the interview in a crop top and leopard coat and she stole the salt shaker from the table while we were interviewing; she still got the job
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May 20, 2020 00:07
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i've done hiring and applied for jobs both in the last calendar year and anyone who tells you that the hiring side is "equally as bad" or even anywhere near as difficult is loving lyyyyyyying or hasn't applied for a job recently enough to remember how much succ there is in the processdead gay comedy forums posted:if there is a Lenin amongst Americans now it is their time to start shining no lenins only gorbachevs
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Spime Wrangler posted:god what a terrible loving program the whole point is for them to bring people back too early in order to save the economy and more importantly to run out the clock on cares benefits so these uppity poors don’t get used to having nice things
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May 20, 2020 20:49
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it’s more technocrat garbage that puts the onus of a livable wage on employees for picking the wrong career and then provides them $4000 (won’t even buy you a semester at an in state public 4 year college) to bootstrap themselves up into coding or whatever
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May 20, 2020 21:05
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the other thing worth mentioning about that tax credit: most states don’t allow you to seek vocational training or education while on unemployment, so you’d either have to get approval in advance (unlikely, given how most employment commissions are loving buried with all the new claims currently being processed) or you’d have to give up your cares benefits while you went back to school
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May 20, 2020 21:15
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dads friend steve posted:im trying real hard to imagine a possible fig leaf lib justification for this. “they’re students now - go take out loans” ??? it’s entirely possible that amy klobuchar just doesn’t loving understand how “entitlements” work
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May 20, 2020 23:51
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etalian posted:Bernie get $600 benefit each week and causing small business owner meltdowns was his only good deed in 2020. they actually are forcing people back to work by threatening to report them to the state employment commissions (which is okay because PPP requires them to do so!) it is very cool and good that small businesses are a fiefdom imo
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May 21, 2020 23:45
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they passed cares to get something out there, then they passed ppp after all the restaurant workers lost their jobs, and restaurant owners are using it as a cudgel to force unruly employees to come back to work for less money in the middle of a pandemic it is very cool imo
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May 21, 2020 23:49
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:bernie's 600 bucks is probably the only thing holding american capitalism together atm, gonna be real Cool when the republicans get rid of it honestly my work told me they're delaying opening by 9 days and that's another 2 unemployment checks i can cash and the amount of euphoria i feel is frankly depressing
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May 22, 2020 01:14
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Crunchy Black posted:Georgia will never shut down fully again without Federal Enforcement which, lol. virginia shutting down again (which is inevitable if they ever stop cooking their books which they will so they can paint the protests in a bad light) will be super cool since it’ll make the president mad AND i won’t die in a bakery
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Jun 29, 2020 16:21
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oxsnard posted:so uhh, I spoke to a HF analyst I know who works for one of the very big funds. They think still employed Americans are deferring payments to things like mortgages to buy stocks to the tune of billions of dollars per week true patriots
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Jun 29, 2020 17:18
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Top City Homo posted:i don't know what any of this means but sounds fun! it’s pretty fuckin dense but the core of it from what i’ve read so far is that everything the fed does to stimulate the economy is actually weakening the dollar and allowing the ccp to slowly accumulate assets to leverage against the us economy in hopes of destroying western democracy and bankrupting us, and by continuing to mortgage the future in the name of Line Go Up, we’re actually digging our own graves in terms of the global economy
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bawfuls posted:I lauged at this when everyone else did as well. So lets check in on that log projection. Looks like that chart projected total travelers in late June would be around 640,000. disco record sales up 400%
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Jun 30, 2020 23:41
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90s Solo Cup posted:As I understand it, the relentless upward march of NUMBER is gonna lead us to a gloriously Chinese future where the RMB eventually becomes the world's preferred reserve currency while the USD turns into Zimbabwe Bucks? What's that gonna do for the average poor bastard on the ground? i’m not that well versed in economics but i don’t think it starts getting bad for citizens buying domestically until we reach weimar levels of brrrrr
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Stereotype posted:lol 1.35 million more unemployed, which by the way is still a pre-covid record, but also the BLS also admitted they were counting people who were in industries that were entirely closed, like movie theaters or concert arenas, as "employed" because even though they weren't getting paid and there is no timeline for when they might actually work again they still technically had a job. The survey was also conducted the week of June 10th when things were the most "open." Next month is going to be a shock. i work for a specialty bakery (i won’t give away much more than that because with other posts i’ve made someone could probably figure out where i work, suffices to say we are definitely not necessary and serve luxuries) business is loving booming (gross earning is a little down from the pandemic but so is overhead since we’ve cut 90% of front of house staff and in terms of amount of items we’re moving we’re actually busier) and people are buying mass quantities of stuff with maybe a weeklong shelf life; average customer receipt is somewhere around $40 which is insaaaaaane (used to be half that) anyways all this is to say that people are operating in a weird bubble where they know SOMETHING is coming but don’t have the means or knowledge to quantify it, snd they have no way of coping beyond nihilistic consumption; the industries that are opening back up to capitalize on this are gonna get totally crushed between a second wave and a huge economic downturn
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i am harry posted:So you're saying lowtax is spending the last of his money on bulk goldbelly purchases? probably not since he doesn’t have a job anymore lmao but basically yeah the average american is lowtax minus the crippling oxy addiction although statistically speaking if you’re in the northeast you probably have that too
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thalweg posted:People with money are definitely still spending with abandon. A friend of mine works for a major hot tub manufacturer, and said they can't keep up with demand right now and it's never been this busy. Meanwhile I've lost weight during quarantine because I've had to buy less groceries to save money. it’s pretty loving insane my friend works at guitar center and i understand that a little more (people want to be creative while they’re stuck at home) but there are dudes dropping 4k (read: financing) on an electric guitar for funsies right now like money ain’t poo poo
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