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M_Gargantua posted:Fair, but the profit margins on a well done cafe are also anti-ruinous. The amount of customers you can service in a location like that is massive. True, but getting a new coffee place up and running would be incredibly hard anywhere. Especially nowadays where there are such shortages of restaurant staff you’d have to outbid established places. I mean you could do it but would be an uphill climb.
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Fivemarks posted:I work from home, and my employer micromanages our bathroom breaks. Anytime we have to go to the bathroom, that time is deducted from our break time, so if you have to go to the bathroom for a minute, one of your breaks is going to only be 14 minutes long or some poo poo. Dang even in Shawshank Redemption when Red was working at the grocery store, he was informed it was ok for him to pee when we wanted without asking permission.
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Mar 6, 2023 05:03
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bulletsponge13 posted:Does he think a Twitter coup would require them even approaching him? Does he think he is Twitter? I mean, I get delusional self importance, but what good are two Blackwater Dickheads when a coup starts on What's App with a Creed Bratton meme, and ends with some poor suffering fool locking him out of his authentications. Probably more than two guards, when Bezos cameoed in Star Trek: Beyond, Chris Pine mentioned there were at least nine bodyguards on set.
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Mar 6, 2023 22:13
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:When I left superyachts, one of the observations I made is that the owners were not buying a yacht so much as they were buying their own little kingdom. I can't help but feel that Musk feels the same way about Twitter, even down to the utter disregard for laws. But seeing all this in enormous publicity instead of on a secret little kingdom is just next level. Yeah, I remember from the book Superpumped about Uber that when their CEO left under a cloud of shame he walked away with billions and went to a friends super-yacht to relax and recharge for as long as he wanted. Stuff like that stands out in my mind whenever I see people trying to shame or “own” jerk tech CEOs, in how far beyond they are from consequences.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:13
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I thought that was a parody account, that’s a terrible way to phrase it. Comrade Blyatlov posted:That's.... very Children of Men. For a one off movie I can’t think of anything that does better world building. On my last rewatch picked up on how one of the Fishes at the farm seems to be a refugee with a strong medical background, but because of their awful laws despite a desperate labor shortage he’s unable to work, just another little detail of the terrible regime shooting itself in the foot.
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Mar 7, 2023 21:27
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facialimpediment posted:Still can't find good sourcing on the $100M because the Ueno acquisition by twitter didn't have disclosed terms. But Ed Zitron posts a good question: Lowtax did go to a non-extradition country, although I don’t think he was evading the law while in China.
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Mar 8, 2023 02:28
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Dude… we were one step removed from stormfront.org or 4chan with a $10 entry fee for a long time. Yeah, when Lowtax was melting down I thought the most likely outcome was gonna be him deleting the site out of spite and there was a scramble to try to move some subforums to discord but it wouldn’t have been close to the same. Even if the site had stuck around but became plagued with broken features and constant outages it probably would have gone into a death spiral. I don’t have any insider knowledge but Jeffrey seems to be doing fine as the jackasses of the internet are still chased off while the content flows. I’m glad he doesn’t try to make any big promises like bringing back the front page or weird monetization, just keeps the essentials functioning fine.
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facialimpediment posted:For once, Michigan has been a gold standard on what you do when you get a state trifecta (by only two votes!) for the first time in my lifetime. It's been a few months and the abortion ban is already gone (codifying the constitutional vote last year), right-to-work is about to be dead, and a background check law is about to go through. Whoa, good for them. Let’s check on a non-Dem controlled state: quote:Child marriage ban bill defeated in West Virginia House Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Hoping he goes to jail, but dang still absurd to step back and see that a former president is getting indicted for hush money to a porn star, and shrug and think yeah that sounds like him. It’s not even the lead story on all news sites.
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Mar 10, 2023 04:57
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Sacrist65 posted:Kind of like how my depression era grandparents saved aluminum foil, Greek citizens who lived through the last decade take precautions. Oh yeah, that was bizarre to read about how in the 20s banks would just close shop and if you had money there you don’t anymore. Definite reason FDR’s first fireside chats were to reassure citizens that banks were in better shape to stop runs and get stuff calmed down.
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orange juche posted:Isn't yang the VC dude who was running for president lol yeah then trying to become mayor of New York.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/popespeed/status/1634947915994247168?t=dG7NEk0aMfbLbYJQvXM4Ng&s=19 I remember reading about how someone was selling a Koch brother $400k in counterfeit wine, and think of it whenever someone the term “victimless crime” comes up. Dang it I looked it up and it’s dumber than I remember: quote:Con artists who foist fake wine on vulnerable collectors willing to pay huge sums for it have been a little nervous since Bill Koch got swindled. The billionaire member of the famous Koch family says he spent $35 million to find those responsible for the four bottles of wine supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson that cost him $400,000… quote:"I just had to have them," Koch told "20/20" in an interview conducted in the elaborate wine cellar of his oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. "Then I’d open it up and drink it and it was dish water or moose piss." quote:Like all con men, Kurniawan made mistakes. He created a 1945 bottle of wine from a particular vineyard that the chateau that produced the real wine did not use until 1982.
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Defenestrategy posted:What this is saying, is there was a time you could go and sell this man a bottle of piss, claim it was a bottle of Millard Fillmores bathtub gin and make a cool quarter million? lol. lol I say Yeah, kinda seems like part of the mistake was replacing it with terrible quality stuff he made himself that anyone could tell was off. If he’s grifting at that level why not get some $100 wine from Costco as the substitute? Still wouldn’t fool an expert but a plutocrat trying to show off would at least have something that tasted good and would feel less need to follow up.
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Mar 13, 2023 01:32
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facialimpediment posted:It says some things about my online-poisoned brain that *this* was the story to make me go "uh... what in the gently caress?" Lol whoa, I’ve wondered with those big stacks of gold what would prevent some of the bars in the center of the stacks from being replaced with lookalikes. Kinda assume that does happen and is hushed up or not found, as so much money to be made it’s gonna happen, like sports being rigged when billions are on the line.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Because Mayim Bialik was deemed better because (this space intentionally left blank). A buddy sees Ken fairly often when out on walks and receives polite nods, so Hollywood hasn’t gone to his head.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:I cannot stress this enough: if you haven't seen The Wire, you need to sit your rear end down and watch The Wire. 100%, I’m almost done with a rewatch and had forgot so much like how Hamsterdam had some good ideas but they didn’t ignore how Bunny (despite best intentions) really hadn’t thought it through. Or how the actor who played Gene on Breaking Bad is a recurring character in S5. If you haven’t already be sure to read The Corner & Homicide: Life on the Killing Streets, excellent stand alone books and give a ton of background on what went into the Wire. All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire is also fascinating, and has lots of fun stories like how locals blasting music would ignore the production, but would turn it down if Method Man asked. Or how Bubbles’ actor Andre Royo got annoyed when he’d be dressed and acting normally at events and be constantly congratulated for having kicked his fictional drug habit. Or how at the start of production Idris Elba wasn’t well known but by S3 women would be screaming at him from windows. We Own This City is also worth your time, it’s not a Wire sequel but is well done. Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:We Own This City was very good. Oh for sure, it’s fascinating how bad Baltimore politics were/are that didn’t make it into the show. One recent mayor got caught stealing gift cards for the needy, another made the city buy thousands of copies of her children’s book. And for the cops there was that drug officer who videotaped himself planting evidence because he didn’t read the manual for his body cam, and I think that led to tons of cases he’d worked on being thrown out.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I honestly think he'd be toxic to voters outside Florida. Guess we'll be finding out. Maybe but a candidate bragging about sexual assault on video should have been a turnoff to family values voters, or at least prompted an evangelical VP to quit the ticket and his wife to divorce him.
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Daughter of family friends is preparing to move from a Seattle suburb to Florida, not for political reasons but because “it has nicer weather” & proximity to Disney. They had lucked into buying a fixer upper a few years back and were in a good housing situation for the area, so this seems like a poorly conceived move and with their past history with selling Herbalife I don’t think they’ve thought out all the angles. Their parents aren’t thrilled two grandkids they adore will now be about a continent away.
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CainFortea posted:Oh I doubt that very much. There are places where "Official Executioner of Murderers" would be an advertisement Thinking of Dale Gribble signing up to fumigate a prison for free so he could be on the list of employees willing to carry out an execution, then fleeing immediately when inmates were let out for yard time.
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Zamujasa posted:so jaded my first thought is "now that i've worked 4 hours in their shoes i am qualified to say their current pay and benefits level is adequate and will not be improved and perhaps are even too generous" Seems like when Bezos showed up for a few minutes at an Amazon warehouse to “personally follow up on worker safety concerns,” imagining if one peasant unexpectedly approached to shake his hand it would be like the opening montage of Dawn of the Dead remake with the Special Forces team on the White House lawn.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1639586525825441792?t=On0iSSi71QmlNMGrsPwDqQ&s=19 By US standards our insurance company is tolerable but I’ve been going back and forth with them for nearly a year about a claim & every time I call the helpful agent gives me different info than the last. I’ve heard it’s not covered, it is covered but I need to appeal, no wait the doctor needs to appeal, now the hold up was that they thought the claim was for two medical items when there was only one, etc. One of the oddest parts was sending in an unrelated claim for something they 100% said wouldn’t be covered but to submit it anyway, and it sailed through without a peep. A buddy who used to work in insurance confirmed this is the norm.
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TheWeedNumber posted:im sorry, I started laughing when I saw your post and then what it was about. I thought about that dude Bales getting advertised accidentally and this just feels like yet another Army whoopsie Were those the ads playing nonstop during March Madness? Thought it was weird showing a Black guy walking among the US army at different points of history. There were reasons the British Army was four times more popular than the Continental Army for Black Americans, and I also don’t think the landing force at D-Day was desegregated. Midjack posted:owned Probably recast, they’re not gonna delay billions in ticket sales over this.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1640061666762059776 Is Netanyahu looking to be prime minister for life?
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Bored As gently caress posted:Holy gently caress. He plays Krang in the MCU. That villain choice would be much more fun and energetic than their actual choice.
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MA-Horus posted:you may get your wish! His home is currently being stormed by protestors. Whoa! I know little about Israeli politics but if he loses control of the riot police wonder if he’d flee to Florida, with the other deposed right wingers.
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Even Michael Bloomberg wrote an editorial opposing the judicial changes. That’s like Elliot saying Queen Deidranna has gone too far.
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Brute Squad posted:I binged it a few months ago and agree 100%. It's hilarious how little has changed. Oh yeah his meltdown at the convention where he keeps asking people increasingly deranged survey questions is gold.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Yes, let's lose a counter insurgency on our borders against an enemy with assets inside our country, and an enemy more monstrous and technologically advanced with modern C2. Yup, against a foe that already compromised Mexico’s minister of defense, where all the cartel management would take the opportunity to move assets and themselves overseas to a friendly non-extradition country for an extended vacation, while wrecking legitimate crossborder trade and tourism and making far more Mexicans desperate & prone to emigrate after we inevitably give up.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1641556384163438594?t=d9xWm4D0XKm6sSQvq6FhbQ&s=19 Lol TMZ gonna be paying five figures for photos of the fingerprinting maybe six if there’s video. facialimpediment posted:Finland was always the easy one, Sweden is the one that Erdogan has always been acting like a prick about. Still not real sure where that is, as there's some heavy diplomacy going on there. Guessing he’s shaking the tree to see what kind of payoff he can get. He was already looking vulnerable in Turkish elections pre-earthquake.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1642135642221027329?t=pVem5uwh8jaNTVhXsA_e6g&s=19 Was thinking of how Nathan for You went about putting a notice in a newspaper.
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