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Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

I worked at EPCOT for a year and it was very bad. The "disney corporate happy family" thing is extremely creepy and weird. One of the managers where I worked was arrested for possession of child pornography. Another was a huge cokehead. And there were dozens of these lunatics in low to middle-management, each one worse than the last.And they were all trying to gently caress each other over as hard as possible at any given time.

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Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Orange Devil posted:

The US would be a better country if Hoover had been hanged by a mob.

That's true for about 99% of politicians everywhere.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Just read on twitter that mass evictions are starting in the US.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

bike tory posted:

but not the cool sexy kind where landlords and CEOs lose their heads

Maybe when a few tens of millions of families are put on the street by uncaring soulless capitalists we'll get the good kind.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Gross.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Ammanas posted:

being drunk isnt all that great
being high isnt all that great
being 'sober' aint all that great

Being high easily beats being drunk or sober. Remember to do drugs every chance you get, kids.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Can I ask why you quit? I bounce between the two worlds. I’ll stay sober for months and then drink 2-3 days a week for months. It does make me fat, though.

Personally I turned 26 and over night was unable to get drunk without being hungover for 3 days and just literally wanting to die. So gently caress it, if I wanna get hosed up I do drugs, which don't leave me feeling like whole rear end for several days after.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Fame Douglas posted:

Young person wants to do drugs and invents some reason he can't drink beer like a normal person? What a surprise!

I used to do drugs back when I was drinking too, friend. Of the two, alcohol has definitely treated me worse.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

AvesPKS posted:

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs, but I used to, too.

Lol drat. Accidentally almost made a famous joke. I'll most likely never almost make a funnier post.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Alcohol is a Bad Drug.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Fried Watermelon posted:

How many pieces of toilet paper do you use to wipe your wet rear end?

Does 1 ply work or should it be 2 ply?

I find 1 ply dissolves insanely fast if you get cheap stuff.

I thought 1 ply rear end paper was a joke, ubtil I moved to america and learned no joke could be as ridiculous as reality.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

I stick my rear end into one of those air dryers and spray poo poo into the air, wildly.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

I'm the boss's jokes, that everyone loves and respects

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

It has nothing to do with the thread but that reminded me, I found out the other day that there were certain kinds of Polaroid cameras that output the picture in a format where it was still kinda gelatinous for a few minutes, and if you squished and smooshed the picture you could do something akin to the photoshop smudge tool, except analog and in like 1975:



Looks a bit like lsd visuals, neat.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

T-man posted:

Yall motherfuckers paid $10+ to post here, sit your asses down on spending money on unrewarding drudgery

Every time I press post I get a brutal hit of the good brain chemicals. Each poo poo post is another electric surge of dopamine.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

Yeah that's why it's called relativity :aaaaa:

It makes a little more sense when you conceptualize it like this: the speed of light is constant, everyone in the entire universe no matter what they're doing will agree on the speed of light. In order to make that happen, everything else changes. The guy in the ship suddenly finds that the distance he has to travel is shorter and it only takes him 10 years to cover instead of 30, while the guy on Earth looks at the ship and sees that one second on the ship is taking three times longer than one second on Earth. They both agree that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, they just don't agree on what a "meter" or a "second" physically is.

Sounds pretty farfetched.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

inferis posted:

speaking of, rbg ruled that its legal to eminent domain a property and sell it to a corporation

Queen

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

In conclusion, never trust businesses.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Welcome back to the living Mr. Banks

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

anonumos posted:

No, that's how you marginalize a part of society to the benefit of another part.

Which is how you kill societies.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Amphigory posted:

Good thing Covid's smaller than a slight bump... :ohdear:

Just like climate change. And the upcoming energy crisis. The ongoing mass extinction of all animals on the planet. These are just some of the extremely small bumps that capitalism will easily triumph over

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Chamale posted:

That is one of the proposed plans for carbon sequestration. There's no profit in it, but if we were serious about reducing atmospheric carbon that's one of the more cost-effective methods. Much less effective than clean energy and raising less beef of course.

If theres no profit in it, it won't be done.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

The Nastier Nate posted:

probably be easier to load them on to a barge and dump in the mariana trench

Would depend on how much your mom charges.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005


I don't think I've ever seen something that proves people in marketing literally have no souls, to the extent that this does. Holy gently caress.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

bike tory posted:

Even though it was likely only ~800 years ago, Māori were the first humans in New Zealand, while pākehā settled on already-occupied land. That would be one of the key difference in NZ, anyway. The British justified their occupation of various parts of New Zealand by declaring it "terra nullius", which of course it wasn't. Māori people themselves trace their lineage (the Māori word is whakapapa) both to the land in New Zealand, to which they have a spiritual connection that is distinct from any connection that more recent arrivals have, and also to which waka (ship) their ancestors arrived on. The largest social unit in pre-colonial Māori society was iwi, which got/gets translated as tribe, but what defined it was having a common ancestor who came on a specific waka.

The point I'm making here is that colonial frameworks are what constructed Māori as a single indigenous group. Within Māori frameworks for understanding themselves the concepts wouldn't really be distinct, and they instead use the term tāngata whenua to refer to Māori (which means "people of the land"), pākehā to refer to white people and tauiwi to refer to all non-Māori.

Super interesting, thanks for the NZ posts! :)

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

spacetoaster posted:

What are you? Some kind of non-coffee drinker??

She's a tea-man

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Goons should give me $300 a month to not post.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

"Richest" "nation"

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Just try to steal anything you can from your employer, always, at any opportunity. Time, money, goods, whatever. You're 100% morally and ethically in the clear. I dare say you're even morally obligated to do so.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

I wrote up a post about US v euro racism, wanting to throw my 2 cents in the ring. Then, I thought to myself, "what in the gently caress are you even doing my guy" and deleted it all.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Americans have this thing where they think dick and dich sound the same even though they don't, at all.

Maybe YOUR dick doesn't sound like dich but mine does.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Danaru posted:

Why bother creating unstoppable walking humanoid deathbots when you can just build like, a cloud of small flying gun drones? Sure the resistance can shoot them down, but if they shoot, the drones will be able to triangulate the location of the shot using onboard microphones and zip over to put a mag into them. It would require connection to a network with strong computing power, but that's what Starlink is for.

Like christ the rich are poo poo at evil planning, you'd consider they'd be better since it's all they do

What planning? The hyper rich are literally the most incompetent people on the planet. The only reason they're still on top is the system, whose sole purpose is to grow these peoples number, is basically automated at this point.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Len posted:

Why did "side hustle" replace the term "second job" or "business owner"?

Google's been sending me a lot of articles to hate read recently with headlines like

"How I make $10k a month on my side hustles"


And it's always someone who started out doing like financial advising as a second job managed to turn it into an actual full time business. That's not a side hustle, that's your actual job at that point

Someone workin a side hustle: cool, entrepeneur, badass

Someone working two jobs: poor, scum, probably illegal immigrant (MS13???? OMG)

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Len posted:

I don't know how to link twitter threads but I think this is the right link?

https://twitter.com/FrINawq/status/1347821289793347584?s=20



People CHOOSE to starve to death

Acrually infuriating.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Literal Nazi Furry was banned for being a nazi a while back.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

World War Mammories posted:

so essentially you get a job that doesn't even entirely cover your rent?? loving christ

Yeah, what gives?

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Yes, thank you for that Main Paineframe, very informative and good post.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Literal Nazi Furry posted:

late, but i was banned for being a furry, not a nazi. sorry.

My bad.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Len posted:

So lemme see if I get this right

Bezos can't pay taxes because he'll take all of Amazon and leave the US with it? The warehouses the carriers the tech team?

I feel like that's actually not a thing he would do ever?

Of course he can't but that's (one of) the lies used to justify tax breaks etc as incentives for staying.

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Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

dex_sda posted:

Jesus christ

Maybe the rest of the serfs will be too scared to raise their voices again.

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