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poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

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No one makes anything anymore because no one has time or money or space to buy tools.

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In college, I would trade my stolen goods for weed from my dealer that way we were both committing crimes and would be incentivized to not snitch on each other. Duh.

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Feb 18, 2005

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KoRMaK posted:

its good team building

2002 - 2006: Worked with 3rd party teams in different domains in order to maximize returns and fulfill business needs of partners.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Milk came in little plastic pouches instead of cartons in school. We had to watch an instructional video on how to insert the straw. This was apparently only a Louisiana thing. Did anyone else have milk pouches at school?

https://mobile.twitter.com/georgejones04/status/1224727773513764864

This tweet says late 80s but it didn't hit my school district until around 1992 or so.

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

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Jazerus posted:

what the gently caress

no, we had cartons as god intended

I thought every school in the country did this until my fiancee told me the other day she had to explain milk bags to her coworkers (we're in TX now). My mind is blown.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Plank Walker posted:

i heard rumors about milk bags being the norm in canada

Yeah, I heard you buy milk by the bag in Canada and slide the whole bag in a pitcher in the fridge. I also heard they ride moose to school instead of buses.

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Feb 18, 2005

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The Nastier Nate posted:

every time i go in to bed bath and beyond it seems emptier and emptier. like they take out an entire display and rearrange all the other ones and hope no one notices

i think the execs are winding down and getting ready to cash out, if not after this holiday season then probably the next one

rip bb&b

bb&b is good if you need a product from an informercial because that's 99% of the store.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Plank Walker posted:

bed bath and beyond is pretty nice for kitchen stuff, pots/pans/silverware. less bougie than a crate n barrel or williams sonoma

never bought bed or bath stuff there, beyond only

If you live near a city, there's more than likely a restaurant supply store where you can get nice pots, pans, and silverware way cheaper. Pro tip.


I predict some rear end in a top hat will come up with some sort of santa nft/coin where you mint your wishlist to santa on the blockchain but you have to use santacoin and it costs you hundreds of dollars somehow and melts the north pole.

poemdexter has issued a correction as of 18:01 on Dec 1, 2021

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Feb 18, 2005

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

NFT of a timestamp?

It's this. This is the stupidest thing.

If there exists at least one sucker willing to buy it, people will put in the effort.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Shame Boy posted:

also if there exists the perception that somewhere there might be a sucker willing to buy it

cuz 99.9% of NFT's are unsold, or sold to the person who made them to try to fake demand, or whatever.

Oh absolutely. I assume most of the actual NFT's sold are fake demand buying from yourself.

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

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I've worked at two different banks. Both times, people I worked with banked somewhere else (including me).

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Feb 18, 2005

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What a buildup to a perfect punchline.

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BonHair posted:

The extra fun thing about rising house prices combined with inflation is that boomer mortgages are getting hollowed out in real value. This means that they have more money to spend, which, you guessed it, further increases prices.

The silver lining is that that analysis is dependent on real wages increasing to match the inflation. Which may or may not happen in the boomer part of the job market.

Real wages increasing is something I never believe will happen under any circumstances.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Ham Equity posted:

They don't pay you enough for a new car, they pay you the cash value of your old car, which means you have to go from what is likely a reliable car that you know the ins and outs of to whatever you can get from a dealer.

Unless you had a loan for more than a car is worth, in which case rather than getting paid out and having a repaired car that you can drive, you have loving nothing, and have to start over again on the payments.

That's been my experience with two other insurance companies.

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

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Panfilo posted:

Insurance seems to run on the same algorithm that bookies do. Designed in such a way to guarantee a profit no matter the outcome.

They are called actuaries and yes that is their job. My grad level stats teacher said half his friends are actuaries and the other half are gamblers. The entire class was built around casino table games and odds.

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It's a weird industry where they make the most money for shareholders by providing the least amount of service possible. The majority of money spent in insurance is figuring out how not to spend money.

Like somebody mentioned before, the best outcome possible is that you pay them money and get nothing in return because nothing bad happened.

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Feb 18, 2005

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USAA is member owned so that's as close as it gets for socialized anything in the US.

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Feb 18, 2005

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I've worked at many large companies and never once had a meeting with an executive. Managers in meetings with executives without camera on are 100% loving around though. The rest of us are getting work done sorry C levels.

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Feb 18, 2005

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I have left my camera on during morning meetings so everyone can watch me make French toast and be jealous.

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Feb 18, 2005

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this definitely sounds like Amazon is making employees pay for their own water otherwise.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Professor Shark posted:

numbers aren’t even real

Have you seen anyone count from 0 to 1? I surely haven't.

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Feb 18, 2005

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I busted my rear end at a job I loved for 3 years and one day my boss took me outside and told me his boss wanted to fire me right there on the spot that day. My boss convinced him to let me have a month to find a new place to work. The reason was because someone else left the company and in their exit interview listed a few people they didn't like working with along with other company related reasons. The person who left the company and boss's boss were good friends outside of work too so boss's boss thought it would be sweet to get rid of the people who made his friend leave. That's when I stopped giving a poo poo about 2 weeks notice as a courtesy to the company because a company will absolutely remove you from working there for any reason without any warning or courtesy.

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30.5 Days posted:

That's pleasantly surprising, I feel like there have been so many people who, like that guy, have been put into unfireable positions by companies' unwillingness to raise wages. But for some reason, companies keep firing people anyway. The other day I read about some manager who was losing her poo poo because she'd "had" to close up because the the two teen girls she relied on to run the store on weekday afternoons gave her an ultimatum: let their boyfriends hang out near their register and chat with them or they quit. She decided to shut down the store.

Capital believes it should be able to control every aspect of your life and if you ever threaten that idea, they are more than happy to take their ball and go home.

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Feb 18, 2005

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How are all these bots not just responding with "I'm happy for you or sorry that happened."

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Feb 18, 2005

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the free market did a bunch of lobbying to get them to write the rules so maybe it is the free market to blame? but the government pretty much exists to let companies to whatever they want so maybe the government is to blame?

what I’m trying to say is we should all go vote about it.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Shame Boy posted:

Also the US actually has a federal firefighting service already it's just they're busy fighting never-ending forest fires

Are you talking about the prison slave labor firefighters?

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Feb 18, 2005

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HashtagGirlboss posted:

gently caress all the Stars

Trek, Wars, Topics, Comma Dancing with the, Anise, all of ‘em

I’m tossing Dallas Stars into this list and nodding.

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Feb 18, 2005

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Omnicarus posted:

Stargate was a far better show than the Trek/War/Babylon 5,s

Neither my father nor I ever were interested in sci-fi anything but both were super hooked on that show. It owned.

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Feb 18, 2005

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ABC is absolutely obsessed with game shows with giant pools.

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Feb 18, 2005

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TIL cops will put you in prison for refusing to profit from your business. Also if you ever ate at a restaurant and then didn’t make a profit in your meal, YOU MAY BE A VICTIM.

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I’m reminded of that tweet that said something along the lines of “I want my remains to be spread over Disney World. No, I do not want to be cremated.”

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Feb 18, 2005

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As always, the answer is get a bidet and then you barely have to buy toilet paper ever again.

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Home Depot Onlyfans when????

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Failed Imagineer posted:

There's a version of this where they use sensors to give the snake control over the legs, but this just seems to be a snake sitting inside a primitive robo-tube which is being controlled by a laptop? The former would have obvious potential application in robotics and prosthetics, the latter is just some nerd playing with some off-the-shelf servo components.

Not really a big deal either way, it's not like this dude was going to solve global warming if we took away his toys.

Twitter only exists for dunking on everything so I assume he went through all that trouble just so he could poo poo on CNN for sharing his video.

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Feb 18, 2005

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

What is an 8.555 bath?

It's a half bath but it has a bidet and 4 sinks.

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Feb 18, 2005

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He's holding the phone wrong.

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syntaxrigger posted:

Poem’ 10,000th post ladies and gents!! It is beautiful

Thanks friend. It's been quite a journey for sure and I'm glad I got to celebrate by tossing out a throw away one liner for a picture of a war.

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Feb 18, 2005

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tokin opposition posted:

I'm going to be the first vtuber to commit a warcrime on stream brb

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Feb 18, 2005

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Shame Boy posted:

Yeah here it is, I like that the chip comes in its own little individual condom wrapper:



I gotta admit, getting people to pay eight bucks for a single tortilla chip that is specifically designed to be impossible to eat is a pretty fuckin' impressive grift.

I like the idea of selling a box of jellybeans as a "challenge" where half of them will taste like poo poo. Beautiful way to offload some garbage stock to people obsessed with making content.

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gradenko_2000 posted:

I wake up at 5 am when I ride my bike so I don't get run over but I shower afterwards and I go back to sleep after

I wouldn't ever want to wake up regularly at 4 am just to work

she doesn’t wake up at 4 to work either

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