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I heard there were going to be strikes today, but haven't seen anything about it in the news. Did anything happen today?
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anime was right posted:yes, guess what! they were not covered. That was what I was afraid of.
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May 2, 2020 16:07
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actionjackson posted:I have to ask since it's been on my mind in regards to housing: is it just me or do most people have houses that are way too big? I see them everywhere, I live in a small (925 sq. ft) condo in a very nice neighborhood that has a ton of colonials and poo poo that all have 4k+ square feet and at least four bedrooms. What the gently caress is the point of these homes? Is it anything more than just conspicuous consumption? Yes. Several of our friends live in brand new homes (don't get started on cars) that are much larger than the one my family lives in. And I know what their jobs are, and how much they make. Everyone is just addicted to credit and paying their entire paycheck every month to the bank.
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May 4, 2020 02:34
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:the democrats completely suck rear end in every respect, but they are objectively less likely to do things that Wall Street wants than trump is. Yes. I remember the strong stand for the American workers that the democrats took when they held up the 4.5 trillion dollar stimulus gift to corporations.
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May 4, 2020 22:47
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:the democrats are materially indistinguishable from republicans on financial issues. Very true DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:the democrats suck complete rear end. Yeah.
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May 4, 2020 23:13
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:you think adding $600/month to unemployment benefits was on trumps agenda? Probably. Were there any dissenters?
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May 4, 2020 23:33
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Raskolnikov38 posted:what happened to cadet communism will win He was let go. He does a podcast now.
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May 5, 2020 02:14
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Sarsapariller posted:At the risk of sounding like a complete doomer- My wife was 12, and living in Russia, when the collapse happened. Her stories, backed up by mom and dad telling stories too, were horrific.
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May 5, 2020 18:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:lol what's Poland gonna do, invade?  I just sold all my stonks. I think I'll re-invest the money in a farm. They'll be going for cheap soon.
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May 6, 2020 17:33
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poopinmymouth posted:Has there been a discussion here about meat supplies? My husband was telling me there are shortages (we aren't stateside) so I asked multiple American friends and they confirmed there was limited or even no availability, but acted like it was no Biggie. I hunt/farm and don't usually buy meat at a store, but I have seen some strange stuff in the grocery that could point to problems with the supply chain. Saw a lot of whole chickens for sale for a couple of dollars. I'm not talking about one bin of frozen ones. I'm talking about all the bins + shelves full of whole birds wrapped in cellophane. This could be because the chicken plants are killing off all the chickens and are just trying to get some $$ for the meat. Also, gutting/cleaning a chicken and packaging it takes a whole lot less labor than cutting it up into it's constituent parts for individual packaging. This could be because there aren't enough workers. Also much larger amounts of ground beef for cheap. Like chickens, it could just be a way for them to try and get some money with a much smaller work force. My wife, who grew up after the fall of the Soviet Union, says that her family only got meat very rarely. And when they did it was always ground meat. So yeah, there could be supply issues. And someone, maybe in this thread (or the GBS corona one), said that their local McDonalds was actually out of beef patties.
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May 6, 2020 17:46
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Radirot posted:hire me i'll help bale hay. I absolutely would hire you. I don't need hay baled, I need just regular help with manual labor stuff. I need to have more kids. 
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May 6, 2020 17:48
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Lambert posted:Horse is pretty good, it's just not commonly eaten in the US for cultural reasons. Also for health reasons. Since horses in the US aren't raised for meat, you get old race/work horses that have been injected with every chemical known to man for their entire lives.
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May 6, 2020 20:01
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mila kunis posted:is it just me or does it feel like there's a news blackout on whatever the hell's going on out there It does feel that way. I would think our local news station would be reporting on stuff important in our community, but nope. They just report the exact same stories that are on the front pages of the national news coverage. You'd think that with a 24 hour news coverage cycle that there'd be more opportunity to talk about stuff.
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May 7, 2020 00:21
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High capacity mags are dumb tacticool stuff. Guns are designed with a standard capacity for their magazine in mind. When you expand it you get stuff hanging waay out of the gun, longer springs, lovely design, etc. My experience is that they cause a bunch of failures and jams. Just change magazines, it only takes a second, drat. Truga posted:it's gonna get a lot higher too as more people are forced to find jobs because they can't live off of oddjobs anymore since suddenly nobody has any cash to spare. And there's no jobs to find.
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May 7, 2020 16:06
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Chomp8645 posted:But in Call of Duty I... Call of Duty has been a boon for our military, as well as a problem. I'd say it's a wash, but holy poo poo is it nice to train a bunch of teens that already know exactly what a sight picture is and how it should look. GATES FOUNDATION posted:Some people won't even fill a 30 round mag all the way because of the spring I never have. My growing concern over China, and our relationship with them, led me to sell off all of my stock that had manufacturing there. I'm happy to say that my number went up. spacetoaster fucked around with this message at 16:22 on May 7, 2020 |
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May 7, 2020 16:20
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rump buttman posted:30 round revolver or bust Pretty sure that was an actual thing in the 17th century.
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May 7, 2020 16:45
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So talking about stocks. I'm thinking the pawn shops, and cash advance places, are going to have their numbers going up.
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May 7, 2020 17:22
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I recommend everyone invest in ISA Browns. I've got several and the returns are excellent.
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May 7, 2020 17:37
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FAUXTON posted:you arm yourself and I'll watch After the revolution you will regret this post. 
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May 7, 2020 18:26
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comedyblissoption posted:dont pawn shops need people to buy, a problematic proposition since people wont have money and people wont want to risk their health That makes sense. I guess the EZ money places only do well if people pay them back with interest too.
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May 7, 2020 18:51
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Zberan Madowinty posted:to me, this really makes for an interesting year of sports. Just do an "experimental" year where you adjust the rules to put more games in. You won't have crowds anyway, you're catering completely to a television audience, so do a 16 game nfl season, but do two games a week, and each game is just two 15 minute halves. Higher stakes in every play! For baseball, since you might play a lot of games at one stadium and you don't have to worry about travel, try doing round robin tournaments with doubleheaders like a college baseball world series thing. I'm seriously hoping Dana White gets an island to do a televised fight tournament. There's a lot of pay per view money to made on people fighting in cages (or other places, get creative!).
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May 7, 2020 19:10
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Shipon posted:
I don't imagine a lot of you spend a lot of time around "gun culture", but I shoot competitively (and hunt) and it's kinda shocking the number of church gun clubs out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAbmimbaFHE
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May 7, 2020 19:56
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Torpor posted:the Soviets fought a hideously bitter civil war with a gigantic army. yet the left in the US isn’t organizing in the military’s ranks. in fact it is the antithesis of the US Left. protesting and voting doesn’t do poo poo so I would say the structures of power are pretty secure. All the actual leftists I know are military vets.
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May 7, 2020 22:16
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Marx Headroom posted:just like those gun range people rose up against obama right? lol you've bought into their tough talk completely Why would they have risen up against obama? Yeah sure racism, but the dude murdered more brown people overseas, started more wars, and deported more from the US than anybody else. Obama even laughingly called himself a republican.
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May 7, 2020 22:27
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Chomp8645 posted:At the start of the Civil War it was a known fact that southerners by and large had some basic experience with firearms, while comparatively few northerners had ever even shot one. Same thing with horses, which were an important military asset at the time. The average northerner had no experience riding or caring for horses, while they were a part of daily life for many in the south. Logistics is a cold hearted bitch. However the south pretty much owns the US military now. It's overwhelmingly southern and rural. Hell, the state of Texas has the largest Army out of all the other states.
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May 7, 2020 22:35
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Prince Albert tobacco.
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May 7, 2020 23:08
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:lol. gently caress off. All troops deserve the wall. How to fight a troop, without becoming a troop? Makes you think.
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May 7, 2020 23:49
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I would still call for the entire lot to be strung up. gently caress those murderous baby killers. Where did you serve, brother?
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May 8, 2020 01:12
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:This disgusting poo poo is exactly why no one should let troops organise. Any criticism is deflected with accusations that someone couldn't possibly know how sad these fucks are at having killed innocents for profit without them having also murdered for empire. Guerillas don't need troops to teach them how to call in a drone strike on an ipad or how to plant guns on dead kids. You make a lot of sense. What should former troops, who have become leftists, do for the cause?
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May 8, 2020 02:08
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Meat chat: Went to the grocery this evening and the shelves are bare except for a couple of packages of stew meat (beef) that is 3 times more expensive than it used to be. My wife has been freaking out for days now because every little thing that happens reminds her of the collapse of the soviet union (which she went through).
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May 8, 2020 04:01
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Squizzle posted:not to downplay yr wifes ptsd but if it helps you can tell her that the cities where shortages hit earlier, they are already.......not totally back to normal, but mostly normal?? like meat is still expensive here but the shelves are overflowing w canned goods again, after a rough patch in which I l couldnt fuckin find chickpeas or kidney beans Yeah. She was pretty young at the time, but she distinctly remembers the day her parents went to the bank and it was just closed. No warning, no nothing. The higher ups were claiming everything was fine, and then one day just disappeared and everything anyone had in the bank was gone. She's got a ton of  stories, but I can't imagine that stuff happening in America, no matter how bad it gets.
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May 8, 2020 04:15
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Squizzle posted:my “no, i can never run out of this,this is vital and neither i not my neighbors can make it” thing is salt, so i buy a couple of things of iodised salt whether i need them or not on most grocery trips, unless i have a frankly ridiculous amount of salt at home Didn't ancient traders used to value it by weight, in gold? Good move.
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May 8, 2020 04:16
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cumshitter posted:fidelity is trying to sell people on their advisor program for actively managing people's funds but theyre right. when people panic sell they lose, and this is well documented in behavioral economics studies I panic sold a few things today. I made money (about 9% averaged). But I'm pretty sure the number will go down soon (cruise line and clothing store stocks). I was betting on this pandemic blowing over soon and people going shopping/vacationing. But I do not believe that will be happening now.
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May 8, 2020 05:41
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cumshitter posted:also dont feed the loving gator you loving idiot, you dont want to train an alligator not to be afraid of humans I pity the next guy that doesn't have a hot dog to throw at it.
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May 8, 2020 05:42
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anime was right posted:there isnt a ton of crime in my neighborhood but just had an attempted murder and someone breaking into every car in my buildings parking lot in a 2 day stretch! Katybar numbers are going up! Seriously though, get yourself one if you're wanting to be more secure. http://www.katybar.com/home-security.html I've had these things on my doors for years. When it's locked you are not getting through the door without taking out the entire wall first.
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May 8, 2020 18:18
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I don't know how much I'd trust something that clamps to a door frame trim held on by finishing nails. It's bolted to the actual framing of the wall/door. The door trim is cut out around the brackets for mine.
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May 8, 2020 18:28
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Real hurthling! posted:its gonna be so sick when my stocks are triple their 2019 value and everyone on earth is too dead to process my orders to cash out Or It's barely enough money to buy a loaf of bread.
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May 8, 2020 18:47
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Gringostar posted:it can’t be canceled/delayed because it includes a bunch of security upgrades for elected members What kind of security upgrades? Are they worried about something?
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May 8, 2020 21:09
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Is there any tracking of homelessness in the US by month? I can only find reports by year.
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bagual posted:people from the third world with actual political experience calling you out on your defeatist liberal bullshit I agree with the defeatist liberal bullshit, but I do not believe that Brazil is a third world country.
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