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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:She said yes Nice!
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IOwnCalculus posted:I needed a loving ice scraper this morning. A couple years ago, a family of Americans moved in. We all crowded around, gawping at the foreigners, and then forgot about it immediately. They can pass for Canadian very well, you know. In October the snow began to fall and the patriarch of the family was confronted with a problem: ask his neighbours for a snow brush, or try to royally gently caress things up. According to neighbourhood scuttlebutt, my neighbour came out, and saw the dude going to town on the windshield of a lifted Tundra with an old credit card.
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fridge corn posted:BBC News - Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, stabbed at Poland charity event He just died. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46867286
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I am really sorry about your sister and also about your awful parents 
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Jan 19, 2019 03:53
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I never used to care about the NFL until Tom Brady arrived. Now I follow it just to watch the embarrassing moment when his career is finally ended and I can go back to only pretending to follow hockey at parties. gently caress, I hate him.
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Kazinsal posted:I'd hope that the contractor thing would disconnect her from any "corporate loyalty" bullshit, but... eehhhhhh. As a newbie contractor there have been times I would stab a child for a chance at a contract renewal.
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Jan 23, 2019 19:28
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slidebite posted:Make no mistakes HR is there to protect the company, employee assistance/protection is a distant second. Kijiji is so loving bad. I can only imagine how bad Facebook Marketplace is because that's even less friction for the mouthbreather caste. I could do with some blank 5.25" floppies, if you end up getting frustrated and want to part out your sale even further  . I don't know if the unlabeled ones I have here have something worth archiving on them, and haven't had a chance to set up my 1541 to check yet.
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Jan 23, 2019 21:12
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slidebite posted:Not especially "valuable", but the 1702 is a good quality, well made CRT and has what amounts to s-video inputs via RCA (Chroma/luma) and great for retrogaming which I why I want to keep it. They're also no stupid crazy heavy and have handles for portability which is kind of nice. Commodore made monitors better than they deserve to. Between the 1702 and 1804, they were excellent. Commodore signed crazy deals with all kinds of CRT manufacturers because I think their Japanese/European sales guys got bored and had no oversight whatsoever. JVC made the 1701/1702 (maybe a holdover from some work on the VIC-20), and I think Philips made the 1084. It is sort of funny how many corners they cut on the actual computer, but the high-margin peripherals are primo. I love my 1702 but it needs some work, maybe even a recap.
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Jan 23, 2019 22:27
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slidebite posted:Installing a central vac in an already existing house would suck all sorts of rear end. Even though I'm obviously a bit of a fanboy, unless it was roughed in when being built, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm pretty sure we were roughed-in for it. I have one wand port upstairs and nowhere else in the house 
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LloydDobler posted:There's a higher end outdoor mall near me that has a New Balance store. They have a line of sneakers that are 100% made in the USA. Last time I was in there they started at $225 and topped out at $600. Even my "rah-rah-USA-we only drive Fords and drink bud" friends won't buy them. Wage deflation is the core problem. Wages weren't cut in order to compete with Chinese manufacturing; Chinese manufacturing made products so cheap that wages could be cut and nobody would scream too much. Margins are better than ever, and that goes to management bonuses, buyouts to goose the growth numbers, and share buybacks. And for anything that has now genuinely become unaffordable because their manufacture does not see large boons from being exported to cheaper labour (new cars, houses) there's cheap crack-cocaine credit. China is rapidly becoming more expensive to manufacture things in, too. Pretty soon we'll be leaning on India and Vietnam. If wage growth had stayed the same way it was trending throughout the 1970s your hee-haw pals would absolutely be able to afford made-in-the-USA sneakers assembled by people who could also afford to have a family. I think there's a core of lazy cynicism at the heart of American manufacturing even at ideal times (as seen from 1970s General Motors, or Chrysler from any era) but Henry Ford was (surprisingly for him) right about being able to make his own workers afford the products they made. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jan 27, 2019 |
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