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Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Accretionist posted:

I honestly think he's too right wing and too much of a toucher

He campaigned for the GOP in the mid-terms. In the '18 midterms in Michigan, he took $200k to do a campaign speech for a Republican. This was an anti-lgbt, anti-ACA theocrat who then narrowly beat the Democrat. Thanks, Joe!

And have you seen the more recoil-inducing clips of him being touchy? There's one of him pulling a six year old girl into his hip/crotch for a few minutes straight while he stands there talking to the parents, refusing to let the girl get away while he sort of has hold of her head, intermittently playing with her jaw line and ear and hair.

Biden'll sputter out as soon as anyone goes at him hard.

But... but... his electability! White dudes like him so much, that means he's the best candidate!

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 15:51

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:49

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Petr posted:

Bad news, that won't get any air until the general

I don't think any Democrat is winning the general, honestly.

And seeing the moderate, establishment candidate get beat again might finally put to bed the myth of centrist electability.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 15:59

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

T-man posted:

Yo this is page 420 post some ganjapenours.

Well... you can't tell me drugs weren't involved in this (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKFZJU7bvaw

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 16:03

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Shipon posted:

the cool thing about this is that by being depressed and posting all the time, you contribute less to the economy and thus acclerating the collapse of this evil regime. post harder and do less work, together we can collapse this awful economy

Shitposting to save America. :911:

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 21:46

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Len posted:

Oh someone did that. They went "Len we found you a new chair" and gave me one that was more comfortable to sit on but also had a busted hydraulic. Then they tossed my old one in a dumpster.

In order to get a nonbroken chair I need to wait for someone to point out first because the only free chairs are broken and I'm lowest on the totem pole.

The old boss is just an awful person who likes making people miserable. And even though she isn't out boss she still runs the office because new boss has no spine.

Take the old boss' chair and put it at the new boss' desk.

# ¿ May 1, 2019 06:45

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Mill Village posted:

https://twitter.com/foxdefeated/status/1123551372534845441?s=21

gently caress yeah. Flood them with practice interviews.

# ¿ May 1, 2019 17:18

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Coolness Averted posted:

dude is worth over 7 billion dollars (up over 1 billion ytd) he's sitting on over a quarter of what it would cost to effectively end homelessness in the country. There is no problem in the world my net worth is a quarter of the way to solving. Hell you could leave him with hundreds of millions of dollars, and still be over a quarter of the way to ending homelessness.
"How do we solve this problem?"
"Could maybe you and 3 of your buddies settle for owning only a thousand times more than the average US household?"
"no"

hell gently caress HIM for donating less than 3% of his profits so far this year and getting a handy for it from the media.

Don't forget that he gets to deduct that, so really it's probably only about 18 million of his money, and 12 million in government funds.

# ¿ May 1, 2019 21:31

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

etalian posted:

Going through the joyful US employment pre-screening process and it's hilarious how invasive the process can be.

Like how they want to give over the salary info for all your previous jobs going back 10 years but companies never tell you upfront the pay range for the job.

Apparently background screening companies have also expanded their services to include monthly employee monitoring on things such as social media.

If you're working in the private sector, a lot of your previous employers just won't disclose your salary information (public sector it's frequently Googleable), and unless you're doing, like, defense contracting or something for the government, it's not illegal to lie about that. They can fire you if they find out later, but that's pretty long odds, and really, they can fire you for just about anything (or nothing), anyway.

You can also just say that your previous employer(s) doesn't/don't allow you to disclose that information.

# ¿ May 5, 2019 17:15

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Subjunctive posted:

pretty easy to see through that one, since it�s illegal to restrict people from talking about their compensation. maybe it�s worked for you, though!

I like that you think employers want to tell their future employees that they can freely talk about compensation and benefits, and organize with their fellow employees.

# ¿ May 5, 2019 20:19

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Fast Company puts the global subscription box market at 2.6 billion, which is interesting if Americans alone are spending 30 billion, like USA Today is claiming:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90248232/inside-the-2-6-billion-subscription-box-wars

# ¿ May 8, 2019 13:03

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Honestly, I'd rather have the 401(k) than the pension. Some hedge fund is going to buy out the company, and either loot it for assets, or declare bankruptcy and restructure the debt. In either case, they're going to default on their pension obligations, and if you're relying on that pension for retirement, you're hosed.

Also, union dues should be a percentage of income, not a flat rate; that is total loving bullshit, and one of the reasons a lot of American unions are poo poo (but almost always better than not having a union).

# ¿ May 9, 2019 19:18

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

grah posted:

Yeah you drink the vodka and fill the bottle with gasoline. Do you think people are tossing bottles of everclear around?

Seriously, gasoline is way cheaper, and way more flammable. Why would you water booze on Molotov cocktails?

# ¿ May 14, 2019 23:24

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Speaking of school shooters... The teen who sacrificed his life to help stop the Colorado school shooting will be honored by hundreds of Jeeps

quote:

Castillo, the teen who was killed while trying to stop a gunman during the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch last week, loved all things Jeep. He saved up his money to buy his own Jeep. So a local Jeep enthusiast group plans to honor him by escorting his family to the church in suburban Denver where the memorial service will be held.

The Colorado Jeep Girls put the word out on social media, and so far more than 800 "Jeepers" say they plan to take part in the special procession.

Good to know companies other than gun manufacturers are finally starting to recognize the revenue opportunities school shootings provide.

# ¿ May 15, 2019 18:24

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Shame Boy posted:

Afghanistan is full of foreigners and no American has ever actually been there so there's not much enthusiasm about occupying it, hell it might not even exist. If the west coast seceded we'd have a restored draft and world war 2 level industrial base ramp up within 6 months to counter those communist terrorists who want to hurt the poor rural Oregon cattle ranchers or w/e.

While we'd like to imagine their job is watching a dot on a screen and pressing a button to cause another dot on the screen to move towards the first dot and explode, modern drones have super-good optics and the missions are generally more like "go to this place, zoom in real close on these guys so you can see their faces and confirm it's who we want to kill, then blow them the gently caress up in full HD, then loiter around the area long enough to make sure any of them still crawling around with their legs blown off die of blood loss, and that you also kill anyone who comes to help them"

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

Those poor drone operators, just murdering innocent people left and right; why does nobody think of how that makes them feel?

# ¿ May 16, 2019 17:29

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Shame Boy posted:

I mean I'm not saying they're blameless, hell I'd support putting them on trial for war crimes, but maybe y'all should direct your rage at the system in place which grinds up people's brains to feed to a machine that is used to kill other people rather than at the people with the thoroughly ground-up brains doing bad things.

It's weird, every time I think I've tapped into the last of my anger, I find that I do, in fact, have the capacity to feel more anger. I think if there were a limit, I would have discovered it post-November 2016.

# ¿ May 16, 2019 18:35

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

bike tory posted:

So my first response to that uber headline was that surely it's just a feature that lets you indicate a preference for a quiet ride or not, which is a reasonable preference and nothing more.

but lol y'all haven't even seen the worst bit about this new Uber feature:

You can literally call Uber from the back of their car and get them to silence the driver. What kind of entitled loving rear end in a top hat would want to do that?

It's the web 2.0 version of "I want to speak to a manager."

# ¿ May 17, 2019 22:00

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Taintrunner posted:

literally a manmade addiction epidemic and everyone in politics is too much of a loving coward to put these fucks on trial and sentence them to a brutal death

You're just being mean to poor Joss! She's just trying to run her socialite wine-slash-activity club! She's an innocent entrepreneur!

# ¿ May 24, 2019 03:48

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

The real solution to the sidewalk bicycle problem is wider sidewalks.

# ¿ May 25, 2019 20:15

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Enfys posted:

It's not resistance; it's spreading contagious illness on purpose among innocent people

It's not just her boss that gets infected (or any coworkers who come into contact with her "biological warfare") - he's going to infect other people because common viruses like colds and flus are highly contagious and have reproductive ratios greater than 1. Your average person will spread the virus to 2-3 other people (depending on the specific virus - can be as high as 5 for some rhinoviruses).

That includes people vulnerable to infection or with compromised immune systems, other people who can't afford to or aren't able to take time off work, and just random unconnected people whose lives are made shittier by getting sick and who will also then spread it among friends and family and co-workers.

Having to go into work when sick is terrible and hurts people, but choosing to intentionally spread that illness so that others are put in the same situation is just as hosed up and selfish. One of the biggest reasons why making people work while sick is bad is because it spreads contagious illness faster and wider among the public, and she's actively supporting that.

Not everyone is a healthy adult, and most people who leave their house will have contact with people who aren't healthy adults. It's not edgy or cool to deliberately spread contagious viruses; it's being an rear end in a top hat to random people.

I hadn't considered that by spreading the cold, I could be hurting elderly people.

Definitely not calling in the next time I'm sick.

# ¿ May 29, 2019 23:37

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

More whiny, snowflake Millenials.

# ¿ May 31, 2019 23:21

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

mycomancy posted:

...what is it?

It's an Apple monitor stand. And it is, apparently, real.

I suspect they may be hosed. They have no new ideas, their sales have been going down, and because of stock buybacks, they no longer have the massive cash reserves they used to.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2019 04:35

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Shear Modulus posted:

apple doesnt need to make new products or have new ideas. the newest iphones are twice the price of the ones from a few years ago and they absolutely dont cost as much more to make so thats mostly pure profit. they take 30% or 15% of every sale on the iphone/ipad app store which is an insane margin for doing basically nothing but operating a toll booth.

The app revenue on that may be coming down, as they're appealing a court case re: their monopoly status. People haven't been buying the new phones in the same numbers, and they can't just sit on their laurels on their current revenue stream and expect their stock price to keep going up.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2019 06:13

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Outrail posted:

'Brand loyalty is a mental disease'

The walled garden is real, yo.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2019 15:38

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Dr. Killjoy posted:

yes because unlike Jedi and Troopers, Boba Fett is a worker

Part of the gig economy.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 05:35

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

That's better than the NHS but maybe the Icelanders haven't been deliberately starving their health service for most of a decade

You could fix both your NHS and your Brexit problem by excluding everyone over 60 from NHS.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2019 22:58

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

bike tory posted:

Christ how long until the only people earning any money at all are CEOs and the small number of IT devs who maintain their automation software.

...Is this not pretty much where we are right now? Everyone else is drowning in debt.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 23:29

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

bike tory posted:

Idk, New Zealand still has a fairly sizeable proportion of the population that can be considered middle class. That's mostly bouyed by a property market bubble/boom so not necessarily sustainable but our median household net wealth is 340k

Sorry, I was referring to the dystopian capitalist hellscape that is modern-day America.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2019 00:42

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Eat This Glob posted:

i also paid the tsa $100 fee to be harassed less when going through security. for that i should be guillotined, but i have some serious anxiety and queuing up for customs makes me look super suspect lol

I did the same. Four lines of TSA Pre-check and one line for the plebs the last several times I've been to the airport. I sold out.

Eat This Glob posted:

me too. I had to put it on my credit card at 24% interest and wait 8 weeks for my goddamn job to reimburse me. I'm still waiting because my trip doesn't end until the 23rd and I have to front another 700 for hotel plus whatever meals I eat.

my wife just had to borrow $1500 from her mom so she can get a plane ticket to go work for free for two weeks in Africa as a graduation requirement.

capitalism can suck my balls. at least we had the available credit for one of our two required trips?

Have you considered being a baby boomer? There are huge discounts for college tuition if you do that.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 22:48

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Fried Watermelon posted:

They also want to increase their retirement savings 300K in the next 3 years which is incredibly hard for the average millennial to do, if not outright impossible.

They spend $10k a year on travel, which means they have to be pulling in at least $75-$80k gross each, right? Yeah, not really an option for most millenials.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 17:11

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Len posted:

So we got a new site manager this week and his first change is to add onto our No Fault Point system. Under the current system you get a written warning at 4 points, verbal at 6, suspension at 8, and termination at 10.

A point lasts a full year before it falls off. You get 1 point for missing over half a day. 1/2 for missing 6 minutes to half a day. 1/2 for being less than 6 minutes late.

Well now if you have over 5 1/2 points you get no raise. Instead your raise gets cut up and distributed to everyone under that score

So... if you're going to be six and a half minutes late... you should just stay home until noon?

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 16:18

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

hobbesmaster posted:

This is actually illegal.

And you can probably count the number of times it's actually ever been enforced on one hand.

Ham Equity has issued a correction as of 03:16 on Jun 25, 2019

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 03:11

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

The Nastier Nate posted:

“I dunno, they don’t tell me anything”

I feel like this should be our corporate motto.

That, or "vision without execution."

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 03:50

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Jel Shaker posted:

I�ve spoken to some retired people who honestly believe that they should not pay tax for education because they�re not using it

until the boomer population swell is worked out this will continue to be a huge issue

My taxes shouldn't pay for Social Security or Medicare because I'm not using those.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 17:13

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Warmachine posted:

One thing I always chuckle about as a mathbrain person is how nakedly pointless fines like this are. It would be easy to set the fine as a function of the cost to actually comply with the law, but lolnope.

Actually i don't chuckle about it it makes me angry.

Yeah, but if you set the fines as a function of ability to pay or gain from violation, wealthy entities wouldn't be able to ignore them, and poor ones wouldn't be entirely hosed over by them. How is that American?!

# ¿ Jul 5, 2019 19:25

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Malachi Constant posted:

Don't be afraid to donate poo poo or throw it away folks. (although I do kind of wish I had kept the first several years of Nintendo Power I tossed out).

I posted my Nintendo Powers to a gaming forum that someone happily paid for shipping for (I think I had the first 150-odd issues). Before I moved out of my hometown, I let my friends take all of my books they wanted, then donated the rest to the public library. Still have my comic books at my parents' place in storage, which I will probably donate somewhere as well (been meaning to look into that for the next time I visit my parents).

I miss none of this stuff, and if I ever expand from a 600' two-bedroom apartment that I share with a roommate, I won't know what the gently caress to do with all the loving space.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 00:58

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Dunno where else to put this, but just had a review for a year where I had 200% the output of my two colleagues who do the same work and was told I�m a tremendous asset but unfortunately HR guidelines mean a 1% raise this year in a company that had about 10% growth in revenue and profits last year. Good times.

Given the CPI growth rate of 2% in 2018, that represents a 1% pay cut.

You should aim to be doing about 99% of the work of either of your two colleagues.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 20:21

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Subjunctive posted:

I guess they were really close to the line if saving 5 days of salary made the difference between profit and loss!

IANAAccountant, but my guess is they were using a method of accounting that counts future salary and benefits as a liability. So, getting rid of that liability increases shareholder equity in the immediate-term.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2019 21:25

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Coolness Averted posted:

I'd imagine it's a projections trick. "We were profitable even with the dead weight we just cut, so that means we'll be even more profitable next quarter!"

The thing about firing the worst-performing 10% of your employees is that it's much easier to sabotage other people's performance than it is to improve your own.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2019 22:19

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

The King County Labor Council fought a head tax on big business, endorsed the same mayoral candidate as the Downtown Seattle Association and the Chamber of Commerce, and fought for a contract that overturned a bunch of police reforms designed to hold pigs accountable, and get the city out from under a constant decree.

Sometimes, the CHUD is coming from inside the union.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2019 20:50

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:49

Ham Equity: Apr 16, 2013; The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.; Grimey Drawer

Not a Children posted:

My brother got me a hot sauce subscription box and I really enjoyed it

At least food subscriptions can get eaten, and aren't garbage you have to keep on a shelf for all eternity.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2019 19:16

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