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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
broke: getting paid to poo poo

woke: getting paid to cum

working from home is good

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Nov 15, 2003

ugh reminds me of the time my bitch daughter gave me a picture she drew with crayons and paper that I BOUGHT FOR HER

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Nov 15, 2003

The Nastier Nate posted:

i am so triggered today cspam....i'm loving livid

i decided to treat myself to my favorite burger place for lunch today and they've replaced all the god fearing patriot loving plastic straws with some betacuck paper poo poo. I'm only on my 2nd refill and look at this thing...it's falling apart. time to go yell at the assistant manager folks



you could take off the single use plastic lid and drink from the single use plastic cup

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
:wooper: the earth is dying because the american consumer made the wrong purchasing decisions :wooper:

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
"just say no" to the multi-billion dollar industry devoted to manufacturing desire

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Nov 15, 2003

Spazzle posted:

That's right, you are a blameless slug who is entirely controlled by hidden capitalist forces. Rest assured your complete lack of agency will absolve you from having to do anything at all.

the hidden capitalist forces? you mean the neoliberals who came up with recycling and told everyone to do it while deregulating industry?

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Jul 20, 2019

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
The deal about plastic straws isn't about energy use or carbon emissions its about feeling bad about the plastic in the ocean, and apparently plastic straws are the most likely thing to end up in the ocean.

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Nov 15, 2003

Sedisp posted:

This isn't true. Most of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from plastic that is improperly disposed IE littering. The US breaking every other norm of our garbage fire country is less than one percent of the waste generated through this.

Edit: This doesn't mean the US doesn't have a massive plastic problem it just doesn't happen to end up in the ocean. It ends up in a landfill.

oh. so it's 100% a PR stunt.

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Nov 15, 2003

fart store posted:

the carton is designed to be folded open at the top to form a convenient little spout that pours cleanly. its really easy for kids of all ages to drink from so the straw seems extraneous/gratuitous/nonsensical. maybe you already know that, maybe not. idk. this reply is not meant to be an attack on your character.

you cant make chocolate milk bubbles without a straw you goddamned idiot

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Nov 15, 2003

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

oh wait no here's what you're supposed to do to become a millionaire and retire: be white collar DINKs and live like monks until you can win the stock lotto. then you get to live out of your suitcase



So the couple decided to nix the house hunt. Instead, they enlisted the help of well-known Toronto financial adviser Garth Turner and invested their $500,000.

They put 60 per cent in stocks and 40 per cent in fixed income investments like corporate bonds. That ratio shifted when the market turned volatile. The two also continued to live modestly and invest every penny they saved.

By late 2014, Shen and Leung say they doubled their money to $1 million.

They live on $30,000 to $40,000 a year, money that largely comes from dividend payments generated from their stock portfolio.

Unlike owning a million-dollar home, says Leung, "if you have a million-dollar portfolio, it pays you."

Their investments continued to grow so the two decided to ditch their jobs last year. They don't even pay rent now because they're always travelling.

Just imagine if everyone did this!

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Nov 15, 2003

Ebola Roulette posted:

Lol wtf that's less than the median household income. Enjoy spending the next 40-50 years of your life in miserable poverty frugality.

That's the "travelling" part. They "live" in countries where the cost of living is very low and hotels are cheap.

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Nov 15, 2003

anonumos posted:

So I've been working to moderate my 4 year old's use of YouTube. First of all, YouTube Kids is not available on the Amazon store (he has a Fire 8 "Kids Edition" using a parental control launcher called Freetime). You'd think the Fire "Kids Edition" would include Google's own walled garden app for YouTube, but...

Hey stop laughing, dammit!

So then I tried to turn on Restricted Mode in his YouTube account (before discovering that this is an account-blind, app-level setting, so I only succeeded in putting YouTube on my phone in Restricted Mode, leaving the YouTube app in Amazon Freetime completely open).

STOP LAUGHING!

So I turned on Restricted Mode on the tablet. Since he's been watching some Minecraft jerk who drops f-bombs and griefs other players pretty bad, I did a search for kid friendly Minecraft videos. There is literally a channel called "Family Friendly Minecraft", but it's filtered by Restricted Mode. Guess who isn't filtered by Restricted Mode? The jerk who swears.

Seriously. Stop. Laughing.

Then I went looking for a way to block access to the jerk's channel, but discovered there is literally NO mechanism in the YouTube app for hiding, ignoring, blocking, or filtering channels. It looks like neither Amazon Freetime nor YouTube itself provide the resources to curate my son's experience, beyond "all or nothing".

I'm a little hopeful about something Google offers called Family Link, but it looks like I'm going to have to ditch Amazon Freetime (possibly the entire Fire OS) to really use it.

You can laugh now. We're hosed.

I, too, moderate my child's use of youtube.

It's called blocking youtube.

I bought her a $70 chromebook off ebay. First thing I did was install some netnanny poo poo that blocks porn and stuff. Then I added facebook, youtube, instagram, whatever other social media bullshit I could think of to the blacklist.

The chromebook is for the stuff available through her school's webportal, wikipedia, whatever is NOT social media. If she's watching youtube, it's because we pulled up something specific on our computers or the tv.

Don't let your kid just watch youtube.

You know in the 80s, when child-targeted programming like He-Man was fairly new, parents put up a lot of resistance, worried about what values their children were learning and poo poo. That's why all those shows have lessons at the end, like, "In this episode, we found out the lady with the incredible quads was adopted. Being adopted is ok!" or "If you have a nosebleed, pinch and tilt your head FORWARD, not backward!" This is also why the opening miniseries for most of these cartoons had significantly higher production values than the rest of the season; parents were expected to sit down with their children and watch it with them to make sure it was OK to watch before letting them watch the cartoon by themselves.

Fast forward to today: parents implicitly trust ALGORITHM. That peak loving capitalism right there.

Don't let you kid watch youtube.

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Nov 15, 2003

Ghost Leviathan posted:

this is basically boomers.txt. See also: social media.

I remember a meme going around about how fox news did to boomers what they insisted video games will do to us

If rock music did cause kids to murder their parents for satan, it would (aguably) be a bad thing. At least outside of C-SPAM. But it doesn't.

If Facebook does cause not just kids but everyone to feel more depressed, more anxious, more unhappy, it would also be a bad thing. It does, and it is.

This is without even going into the also real evils of surveillance capitalism.

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Nov 15, 2003

Ghost Leviathan posted:

And literally every authority in the position to police it at all is just going to take any excuse to censor LGBT content and leftism and actively promote white supremacy more.

That said though, it's not the internet that created an entire generation of alienated, atomised, socially maladjusted young white people who grew up promised the world and got ended up with less than nothing.

Yes and many people abuse drugs not because of the drugs themselves but because they alienated, atomised, socially maladjusted, and so on and so on.

It is still a good idea to lock the medicine cabinet lest the kids accidentally try the red pills.

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Nov 15, 2003

Zzulu posted:

We took on a lot of refugees in Sweden and all it really did was empower the local nazi political parties to actually become big in our government.

:thunk:

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Nov 15, 2003

that's good skillet

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Nov 15, 2003

Doggles posted:

What a coincidence that we were discussing private vs public scooter/bike systems earlier today:
Uber sues Chicago for exclusive bike-share deal with Lyft


Jump is Uber's bike company. They're mad that the city turned down their generous offer of the city having absolutely zero oversight or control over the bikes littering the sidewalks throughout the city.

i was just thinking that cities should pick just one company and regulate it. but lol this is america if you do that a competitor will sue you for desecrating holy competition.

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Nov 15, 2003

autism ZX spectrum posted:

Doors in schools are typically steel and fire rated for an hour or something equally absurd. I think those brackets have a U-shaped catch that holds the bottom of the door to prevent it from being pulled open, at least I'd hope so because otherwise why even bother?

How about a fcukin mortise lock?

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
LEGO is for children. Lumber is for men. No woman would object to her man spending a similar amount of money to build her a chair or a table or a deck. That nets brownie points, bro.

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Nov 15, 2003

Rarity posted:

Real men build life-size replicas of the Millenium Falcon out of a Norwegian forest :colbert:

Girls would gently caress you in it if you did that.

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Nov 15, 2003

Rarity posted:

No we wouldn't

Hold on, the lounge area with the chessboard doubles as a sauna.

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Nov 15, 2003

Elman posted:

How do they enforce this, exactly.

Are they going to fire their entire workforce if everyone goes on strike?

Sometimes they fire them. Sometimes they fire at them.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 has issued a correction as of 14:44 on Aug 18, 2019

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

as always industry is blameless and government is nonexistent

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Ahahahaha TRUMP!

I am a misclassifiied independent contractor so this is especially wonderful.

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Nov 15, 2003

comedyblissoption posted:

thankfully no one was misclassified under the obama era NLRB and the obama FEC was on the ball to enforce campaign finance regulations

coworkers who should have definitely 100% been hired as fulltime workers and not independent contractors totally did not happen at my last job under the obama administration nosiree

At least Obama's NLRB was baby steps in favor of labor. Of course, that's liberal ideology, if you set course for good, it doesn't matter how fast you go, because theoretically you can say you would gotten to a better place, some day.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
Oh so much work to put meat in the oven and take it out again.

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Nov 15, 2003

grah posted:

How do you feel about employer funded pensions, given that most large employers with pension funds invest those pension funds (because they really don't give a poo poo if the pension fund goes bankrupt and the retirees are hosed)

Pensions are compensation. How they are funded is this employer's problem. Nothing wrong with getting a pension. If there weren't pensions, those employees would have been paid more while they were working.

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Nov 15, 2003

T-man posted:

This got lost in the Mao chat, but [citation needed]

The origin of the pensions is in compensation negotiations between labor and management. You demand X, but what if we paid you Y + an annual Z later?

A pension is agreed compensation, by both parties. Removing a pension is a reduction in compensation. The alternate to the pension was more up front pay.

We're talking about the past, of course. Removing pension and benefits are of course thinly veiled pay cuts taking advantage of weakened labor.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

lol obviously the volunteer military is propped up by the poor and the Sanders agenda will probably destroy our armed forces for this reason alone and the empire will crumble

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Nov 15, 2003

Taintrunner posted:



it’s water. in a can. just canned water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceNsojnMf0

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

"neighborhoods we occupy"

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Nov 15, 2003

The Nastier Nate posted:

I get being upset but my kid likes Blippi and I’d just get nosebleed seats and not tell him...it’s not like he’s gonna know

You hosed up.

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Nov 15, 2003

Doctor Jeep posted:

this could be the plot of a curb episode, except larry wouldn't get persuaded against it

larry becomes convinced the child is a terrorist, turns out the kid was fixing his iphone

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

yes but wheres my antifa punisher skull

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Nov 15, 2003

Shame Boy posted:

They have a summit lmao

Who's going to DaddyCon this year

lol all this could be achieved through redistributive tax policy without literally getting hosed we are a garbage society

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Nov 15, 2003

World War Mammories posted:

sounds like you’re a lovely capitalist :smuggo:

he wasn't a capitalist. you need employees to be a capitalist. he was an artisan.

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Nov 15, 2003

Serf posted:

one of the key tenets of communism is the abolition of the family

that's a lovely tenet

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Nov 15, 2003

V. Illych L. posted:

nah there's a real current in radical left thought that goes along the lines that the nuclear family is an inherently conservative institution which undermines solidarity etc. small family groups have a whole bunch of awful effects from inheriting wealth to patriarchal poo poo to ghettofication as those with means move according to school district so it's not surprising that people start thinking of alternatives. the kibbutzim did lots of experiments with communal child rearing, fascinating stuff - but the state socialist solution would likely be simply pushing the family out by providing subsidised creches, full-day schools etc

The creche system doesn't abolish the family. It's daycare4all. Where do the kids sleep in this society? If don't they sleep near their parents, I'm not interested. If they don't wake up near their parents, I'm not interested. If they spend a large part of the day with other children and other adults who are not closely related, that's great. But that's just daycare. gently caress boarding schools. The British do that, it doesn't work.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
so Brave New World without the alcohol

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Nov 15, 2003

etalian posted:

Not surprising places like Canada or Denmark address this by having the country help out with things like daycare costs.


Why aren't millennials cranking out more kids? Where are the grandkids we wanted demand the boomers.

"Where are the grandparents?" reply the millennials. Still in their own houses. Out of state. Because their children had to move for work.

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