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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Cold on a Cob posted:

Could we maybe tax the businesses instead? No? Ok, guess we tried.

any form of tax that hits businesses selectively creates incentives for them to not do the thing, so they'd just start forcing people to come to work instead of letting them work from home

tax them all

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



cape grim indeed

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



IAMKOREA posted:

That sounds like a cool job how do I get into that? Do you have to own your own crowbar?

gotta use your teeh & fingernails

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




jfc lmao

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




i thought people born in 1924 used checks

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



fun fact: children who got allowance for taking out the trash count as employed for a full decade after their 18th birthday

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



PostNouveau posted:

Heard about these on Trash Future:

https://twitter.com/PeterHeadCBE/status/1326441478697193472

They are:

- A shoe subscription
- Made of beans
- You send them back after a month and they press them down into beans again and then make new shoes out of the beans to send to other people
- $30 a month

those are not your shoes

send them back

they are made of beans

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



The Bloop posted:

Uber and AirBnB could both be legislated out of existence very, very, very easily just by making them follow the rules for taxis and hotels

Not that they will be

it's possible

denmark made uber abide by existing taxi regulations, so they left the country. airbnb are staying around, but they have to provide the tax authorities with info on all danish rentals

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



indigi posted:

this isn’t the hot takes thread

where the lie

e: actually he's also good in the tomorrow movie, uh groundhog sci-fi

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



i dont even like the missions impossible :smug:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Amphigory posted:

Ah, is that true?

I'm in the UK and I'd always heard they couldn't put formula on offer because it might discourage breastfeeding...

I think it's the same in Denmark, at least from cursory googling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Marketing_of_Breast-milk_Substitutes
https://ammenet.dk/hvorfor-er-mme-1-tilbud-ulovlige (in Danish)

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



3D Megadoodoo posted:

According to Wikipedia, ansiosidonnainen työttömyyspäiväraha doesn't exist in English, but it might exist in Danish!

Yeah we don't have that in Denmark.

You get dagpenge for a year (used to be two years) via your union, adjusted to your previous income, then you go on actual welfare, which is poo poo. e: yeah this all is what BonHair talked about

I'm kindof in-between, being in a "flex-job", which is when you have a diagnosis that means you aren't able to work full time. So my employer pays me an hourly that's based on the same salary as they would a full time employee, and the city/municipality pays the rest on a percentage. It's a living wage for less hours, but it's a nightmare to get there. Only took about 8 years to get through the red tape, and the city is still trying to gently caress with me lol I'm just glad I managed to get it before they shut the whole program down in the name of austerity

also yeah we are sadly very racist

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




tenderman :o:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



3D Megadoodoo posted:

So, you do have it.

BonHair posted:

No, we have päivärahaa, not whatever long and convoluted poo poo you have.

Side note: it was cut from four years to two, I don't think it's down to one year yet, and my wife just got employed after said two years, so I have some feeling with it.

The period was also extended during covid, because our government of nominally leftist.

sorry i guess the translation i found was bad... i guess its still "up to" two years. i thought they cut it down to a year at some point, maybe not, you cant really tell when youre on it, the amount is so small that every day is a struggle and your horizon shrinks to a week at best.

im lucky that my parents were still working and could lend me some money, theyre retired now and it wont be possible if it happens to me again. im paying back to them for the next 30 years lol

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



seems candid. watched the beginning and he talks about gunships being cancer factories

if that poo poo helps people not sign up for the war machine, im all for it

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



also that the only possible situation is hard work, and the only way to deal with it is to be more gungho about it

like, work not sucking isnt an option in any of those, thats just the way things are

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




uh, the humans created the capitalism by paying the dolphins. the dolphins just realized that there is no ethical consumption and that humans are easy to scam

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Larry Parrish posted:

tbh in decaying modern California where every single strip mall is at best half empty that sounds like a good deal. I'll live in your lovely office park if you pay me

other way around. you pay rent for being the guard at some place and living there

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



there was a guy street over from me who let out a room in his apartment where part of the rent was cleaning the whole apartment

housing shortages are pretty hosed up

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



you only live in part of it, but you have to guard the whole thing. its like getting a job as the night watchman at a mall, but you get a room for free when youre not working, but instead of getting a paycheck, you have to pay rent

Fried Watermelon should fill in here, cause i only know it second hand

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



you do not gotta hand it to him

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



ugh i wish i was a total rube

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
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inferis posted:

e: lmao just checked and the shirt is $700 but since he wears them once and throws them away he only pays $400

:psyduck:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



i dont get how its cheaper to buy the shirt if you only wear it once and throw it away

pls explain it

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



jfc

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
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literally more than half the clothing produced worldwide are destroyed unsold

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
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skooma512 posted:

Also, why are they laying people off during a COVID surge when people are staying at home and getting delivery?

yeah thats weird

all of those services are losing money on every transaction, but are "making it up in volume" ie just getting big customer numbers that they can funnel vc cash into

maybe the vc funnel tightened?

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Zzulu posted:

The market exists for rich people to manipulate it. Might as well let the masses manipulate it too

lol if you think the masses are coming out of this with more money than before

maybe one of the rich guys makes a little less, but some other rich guys make a little more instead

its not the masses who make anything

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
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Dr Pepper posted:

It owns that a bunch of shitposters cost some big corporation millions.

ffs they didnt cost them anything

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
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Dr Pepper posted:

They tried to short a stock, the price went up, how did they not lose money.

by "them" i mean the capitalists in general. maybe a specific hedge fund hosed up, but the rich still got richer and the poor still got poorer.

you cant beat the market by daytrading

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Dr Pepper posted:

I was taking about a specific hedge fund.

well, this:

Shame Boy posted:

I guarantee that it will somehow turn out that everything was structured so the only people who lost money are a bunch of pension funds and grandma's 401k

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




jesus your country is weird and bad

i mean all countries are, but yall are so blatant

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
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i reported that for being misleading and wrote a personal comment to the moderator

idk if its satire but i got mad

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



gooncorp when?

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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looking forward to them declaring war on each other

e: ironically

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Probably "insurance" is cut off

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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man, even the total is lowballed

(450 + 150) / 12 = 50 gbp per month for the insurance, plus 40 for groceries and 10 for cell service is already a 100. even ignoring the presents (also listed at 50 per month), thats not exactly 90.

since he clearly lives at home, im guessing mum/dad pays the insurance too

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

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tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




:d2a:

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



BonHair posted:

Yeah, agreed. It's not a full on conscription though, men (NO WOMEN) get a physical exam, an IQ test and then you get to either volunteer (most recruits) or draw lots to see if you have to serve. If you get a service lot, you can refuse military service and you get to do some other service, which apparently is a good way into the entertainment industry.

When you join, you only get basic training and domestic service, any stationing or deployment is something you voluntarily sign up for afterwards, so it's no big deal. It's like a year max too, more likely 6 months I think.

Also you can be a conscientous objector, at least in Denmark

They really wanted me for the army, but I worked at a hospital for 10 months. You can also work at cultural institutions & such

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
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The Nastier Nate posted:

A navy vet and a BP agent who has served his country for decades

Now gtfo

he was in the Mexican navy too?

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