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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yeah well we industrialized that poo poo. Anything else on this rock ever built an assembly line?

Ants sorta I guess

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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

A classic:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


What the hell is going on with her legs

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Tetracube posted:



lmao forever

Make sure you click through on that one too and see that he was banned for sucking elon musk's dick

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Mtthnsly posted:

I feel like that isn't a crazy thing to ask for. If the government/corporations want to keep making money they need healthy wrokers to do it. Wanna keep making money? Keep your employees healthy and happy.

I think that's a dangerous thing to rely on because it's only true if there's not a surplus of workers or if the entire system can't be mostly automated.

Calling it now that we're going to hit the point where we're literally a post-scarcity society but still have to fight amongst each other for the last scraps of work because the means of production is still controlled by the wealthy and they've all hosed off to their space station or w/e

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

When I was 18 I convinced myself of the same thing, that the only logical course of action was to off myself instead of continuing to consume resources since obviously I'd never do anything useful with my life and everything was hosed anyway. A drug addiction, suicide attempt, rock bottom and therapy later and now I've managed to drag myself back up to the point where I'm helping others get through their depression, and can and do donate a significant portion of my time and income to helping other people. If I had been successful in offing myself back then I can tell you right now at least two people I know other than myself would, without a shadow of a doubt, be dead or dying right now.

Join the peace corps or another charity or something if you need meaning. Suck it up, you can do more alive than dead.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

This. People like to dump on nihilism a lot, but honestly not giving a poo poo is a good bootstrap to several different healthy worldviews. If you're so paralyzed by what a poo poo the world is that you can't function or want to kill yourself, guess what, you're never going to do any good at all. Stop caring so much and you can actually make a difference.

"Stop caring about anything so you can make a difference in the things you care about" seems like it's got a few problems

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

It's not. And what does some cartoon for children have to do with it?

It sounds like you're not a nihilist you're just super apathetic to global events. Like if you didn't care about anything why would you donate to charity, those people are just going to die eventually anyway who cares? Spend your money on hedonism instead and die a quick death during a drug orgy or something.

e: And like to be clear not being heavily invested in world events is fine, you can't be any help to the world if you're so paralyzed by global events that you can't function. Self-care is important.

Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 15:00 on Jul 16, 2018

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

jeffery posted:

no idea how there has yet to be a prison revolt. literally these people consume thousands of dollars of felony drugs, have sex, etc yet when one $15/hour rent a car employee yells at them they back down and obey

Pretty sure prison guards have like, guns n' poo poo.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

Basically choosing to care about things you can actually do something about is much better for your mental health than trying to care about everything that ever happens.

See now this is a heck of a lot more reasonable and yeah I totally agree.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


I know that in the UK "lad" is like, the equivalent of bro and not nearly as silly, but "lad bible" will never stop making me giggle every time I read it.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Like it makes me think of that berries and cream guy

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

I'm more interested in "I want a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad"

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Darth Walrus posted:

The Oedipus Rex musical was a blinder.

Wow it's way worse than I was expecting

quote:

When I was a boy my mother often said to me
Get married boy and see how happy you will be
I have looked all over, but no girlie can I find,
Who seems to be just like the little girl I have in mind,
I will have to look around until the right one I have found.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

ekuNNN posted:

"If you're against being on fire then you're by definition a firefighter" :rolleyes:

I mean yes, in that if there is a fire nearby I will put it out. I'm not a professional at it but I will do it because I'm not like, apathetic to fire consuming everything.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

Eh. I mean if I thought that did any good I would sign up. I just don't think beating up inbred idiots demonstrating is going to do anything. The problems are so much farther up the hill I won't be able to ever touch it.

That's the black bloc, Antifa is way more than that.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Like read up on it some time it does quite a bit more than just "scare Milo"

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Rarity posted:

No, it's cool. We did nothing when fascism showed up 80 years ago and that all worked out fine.

Yeah, Dr. Seuss even made a thing about it:



Everything's fine, who cares.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

If anything I'm the only socialist posting here. But eh. Whatever makes you feel good.

You know who else called himself a socialist

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Me, I did, hi

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


That's not capitalism that's just a fun party bull

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Thin Privilege posted:

These days my sketchy small ghetto bank denies your card if you have no money and only charges you $35 if there’s some autopay!

They only do that because they're legally required to now, and I guarantee you they hate that and are lobbying hard to get rid of it.

My favorite part is how banks immediately repackaged it and sold it as some kind of feature, like "With Super Overdraft Plus++ your card won't just be denied if you go over! How convenient! Sign up today!"

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Rarity posted:

If you think she wasn't getting poo poo from higher ups about staff attendance then you've never worked in management.

I'm other words, porque no le dos?

A friend of mine works the exact same lovely mcdonalds manager position as her and has a similarly lovely boss and manages to not be a loving monster to the people under him somehow :shrug:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


I've seen this chart so many times and I love it so much, like they clearly got to something like 30 hours and went "oh gently caress oh gently caress this looks terrible we need to add more poo poo... uhh... exercise? that counts as work right, ok good... personal appointments? yeah sure put that too..."

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


Speaking of, it's super loving weird that the worst mass shooting in modern US history basically fell under the news radar after like, 2 days, and I haven't heard it mentioned in months (until this bullshit). Like I can't even write it off as just america becoming accustomed to the new normal because other ones (Pulse, basically anything involving highschool kids) get brought up pretty often, yet not this one

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Nurge posted:

Why not? If I was the owner of the hotel I would try to get the families of the victims to pitch in on the cleaning costs.

I mean this is a pretty clear thing. I've spilled fluids in hotel rooms before and I had to pay for the cleanup. These guys made a huge goddamn mess all over the place. Sue their asses off.

If I remember right they weren't in the hotel they were outside, the only person actually in the hotel was the shooter.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

TACD posted:

this is either a troll or written by a markov chain fed on millennial tropes. the whole thing is over-the-top perfect.

Yeah why the hell would anyone pay someone else for a sugaring, it's what you do if you can't go get actual wax :colbert:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Picnic Princess posted:

I've seen some of them, they usually add like $50 to the price by putting on 20 cents worth of gold flake and claiming it's fancy now. The really expensive stuff is just regular food item plus a buttload of black truffle thrown on top. It's really unimaginative and they've all just copied each other's hipster bougie asses.

I always wanted to know if gold like, had a flavor that was added by putting gold leaf in food or alcohol in addition to just making it gaudy and for rich people, so I bought a small amount of it for like $5 and just ate it by itself and it just tastes like nothing. like you don't even get a metallic taste because gold doesn't react with anything in your mouth like other metals do, and it's so thin you can barely even feel it.

That's my gold leaf story thanks for reading.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Bonzo posted:

My go to saying for cancelling is, "I'm moving out of the country" which there really is no reply to other than, "Ok".

I just don't tell them why because it's none of their loving business and I don't feel like helping them with their analytics or w/e.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

actionjackson posted:

I want to die

There was also a long streak of ~funny prank~ donations a while ago (hell they're probably still going on) where someone would "donate" like $20,000 to a nobody twitch streamer using a credit card, they'd get all emotional and start crying because finally they can pay off some of their crushing debt or w/e, thinking some eccentric millionaire just saved their lives, and then the funny prankster would reverse it / cancel it.

Ha ha, you thought you could be free of your debt slavery and then livestreamed your hopes and dreams being crushed, funy prank

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

I, Tooter

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


😖uwu we did a widdle fucky-wucky in My Lai sowwy 😱

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Crosspostin' from yospos:

Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 23:33 on Jul 19, 2018

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

COMRADES posted:

Apparently the state gets it and puts it into a general fund and you can claim the money forever but you'll just have to pay taxes on it because you'll lose the tax bonuses the retirement account gave you

that's not nearly as bad as I was thinking, although still stupid.

With most unclaimed property they have to try to contact you a few times too before they give up and turn it over to the state so it's probably fine, still a stupid law though :shrug:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Amateur Saboteur posted:

Capitalism.....? Yea it's really good

for me to poop on!!!!

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


quote:

At the time, Pennsylvania was one of only two states that did not require notification.

lol

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Congrats at being worse than Florida at something, Pennsylvania!

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

EugeneJ posted:

I'm trying to figure out what the other state is that doesn't require notification

Yeah now I'm curious, I found a slideshow from 2013 that says "All jurisdictions except Pennsylvania now require due diligence" which just leaves me even more confused

e: Here we go

quote:

The exception to this requirement is Pennsylvania, where there is no due diligence requirement, and Delaware, where the due diligence requirement is limited to securities-related property.

So it's Delaware, with a big asterisk next to it

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Picnic Princess posted:

Investors deserve to be disserviced. Just like lobbyists. gently caress em all

Don't worry, anyone with a net worth higher than about half a mil has someone managing this for them so they'll never be affected, only poor people with a pittance of a retirement fund will.

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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

purple death ray posted:

"Hey! Why isn't this shopping experience more personalized?!"
Definitely words that any human being has ever spoken out loud or even thought.

I loving LOVE ENGAGING WITH MY FAVORITE BRANDS!!!!

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