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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
A lot of people are in a constant state of burning themselves out to exhaustion with random activities and it's a crapshoot whether they have any energy at any time

But some people are also just jerks who don't value anyone else's time or even feel the need to make everyone have to wait for them

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

The337th
Mar 30, 2011


there's also the weird pseudo-fulfillment of social interaction via social media that makes it easier to just shut down and stay at home

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7-QbfpKwQ

The local amusement park had a swimming pool that could be chartered by community groups. When desegregation was mandated by law, they filled the pool in and told black people to go gently caress themselves. We eradicated our third spaces because black people might use them. God drat America.

my suburbia childhood pool disappeared too. went to check it out a couple years back and its now this.



but better than nothing right? well the nimbys there now want it gone i guess because the "inner city kids" that use it are too gosh darn loud

Comrade Merf
Jun 2, 2011

Malloc Voidstar posted:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
'
This entire thing is both amusing and horrifying but man "“Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving the company." Is perfect.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



in what world is this a growth strategy

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.
if all your friends are flaking on you that means nobody likes you

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

wtf 401k will even let you buy options

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


slave to my cravings posted:

if all your friends are flaking on you that means nobody likes you

good, I don't like any of them

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



lol at holding that bag for 24+ hours

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



hes still up if he sells... will he sell? he will, right???

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...

Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



Guh

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

https://x.com/moetkacik/status/1773424979016614090?s=46&t=q1yioAlNJ1Wnv5VQrEw_AA

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

https://x.com/moetkacik/status/1773450962998296578?s=46&t=q1yioAlNJ1Wnv5VQrEw_AA

Also lol if they pick Larry Culp. GE has been totally stripped mined by him.

There has to be a CEO that came up through some sort of engineering department right?

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
boeing needa culpa

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



wow a retard went all in 3 days after the IPO

same old story

either they'll be on the streets in 6 months, or they'll be the next Mark Zuckerberg in 8 years when RDDT miraculously discovers they can blackmail their own users porn habits to squeeze income out of them

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Raccooon posted:

https://x.com/moetkacik/status/1773450962998296578?s=46&t=q1yioAlNJ1Wnv5VQrEw_AA

Also lol if they pick Larry Culp. GE has been totally stripped mined by him.

There has to be a CEO that came up through some sort of engineering department right?

lol, the problem with boeing was it wasnt killing enough people fast enough to make shareholders richer

Truniht
Jan 10, 2019

https://www.curbed.com/2024/01/real-estate-fund-single-family-homes-midwest-top-school-districts.html

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
peep dat weight

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

SKULL.GIF posted:

either they'll be on the streets in 6 months, or they'll be the next Mark Zuckerberg in 8 years when RDDT miraculously discovers they can blackmail their own users porn habits to squeeze income out of them
probably nto on the streets but i figure most speculative gamblers are like people blowing through their granny's estate inheritance, student loan pool of money, or daddy's trustfund allowance. or just make yospos money and throwing it away is nbd

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Xaris posted:

I try not to post loss porn but lol someone put their entire 401k into reddit



he's still up though?

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Xaris posted:

peep dat weight


yeah but

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

Raccooon posted:

https://x.com/moetkacik/status/1773450962998296578?s=46&t=q1yioAlNJ1Wnv5VQrEw_AA

Also lol if they pick Larry Culp. GE has been totally stripped mined by him.

There has to be a CEO that came up through some sort of engineering department right?

ge is late on every single engine they sell to boeing lol

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

SKULL.GIF posted:

wow a retard went all in 3 days after the IPO

same old story

either they'll be on the streets in 6 months, or they'll be the next Mark Zuckerberg in 8 years when RDDT miraculously discovers they can blackmail their own users porn habits to squeeze income out of them

my biggest class struggle is not hoping these idiots eat poo poo. Like every crypto bro that loses their rear end is undeniably a victim of our lovely society but at the same time I am acutely aware they would be the worse person possible if everything worked out and they struck it rich on something they'd never retroactively acknowledge was a gamble.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
it's really funny how badly california legal weed industry is eating poo poo, they can't even put on a 4/20 festival that they've had for years

quote:

There will be no 4/20 cannabis festival happening in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park next month, the city’s Recreation and Park Department and event organizer Sounds Bazaar announced Tuesday.

The city could not afford to staff the event due to a budget crunch, and the organizers had a hard time getting sponsorship, they said, due to economic challenges within the cannabis industry.

It was supposed to be this big new ~economic engine powerhouse~ and was mostly a wet fart. now, a lot of dispensaries are closing up and just staying vacant retail apocalypse. amusingly, a lot of people have been burned trying to gamble invest in on all this legal weed stocks as the next new Neo-Gold Rush and was big buy-the-news when the initial deschedule 'being considered' was announced (which is never happening) only to flop. also that 'bipartisan legal weed banking bill' was a big buy-the-news and looks dead

no lube so what
Apr 11, 2021

Xaris posted:

peep dat weight


rib eye steak is cheaper per pound

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
Cereal is the human version of dry dog food.

palindrome
Feb 3, 2020

That's true, but I bet your dog would be excited if you poured a bunch of cold oat/skim milk into the dogfood bowl. well, actually maybe not that sounds like it might be worse

selec
Sep 6, 2003

Busch made dog beer you could give to dogs. My dogs weren't into it. Lame loving Mormon rear end dogs.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Xaris posted:

it's really funny how badly california legal weed industry is eating poo poo, they can't even put on a 4/20 festival that they've had for years

It was supposed to be this big new ~economic engine powerhouse~ and was mostly a wet fart. now, a lot of dispensaries are closing up and just staying vacant retail apocalypse. amusingly, a lot of people have been burned trying to gamble invest in on all this legal weed stocks as the next new Neo-Gold Rush and was big buy-the-news when the initial deschedule 'being considered' was announced (which is never happening) only to flop. also that 'bipartisan legal weed banking bill' was a big buy-the-news and looks dead

on the plus side, inflation has left weed prices alone due to the supply glut

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

I had a dog that loved beer to the point he’d bump tables and stuff hoping to knock precariously placed cans off so he could lap that poo poo up

He was a good boy

It’s pretty funny that the legal weed market on the west coast is so glutted that the only money to be made is the black market stuff going out of state

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Xaris posted:

it's really funny how badly california legal weed industry is eating poo poo, they can't even put on a 4/20 festival that they've had for years

It was supposed to be this big new ~economic engine powerhouse~ and was mostly a wet fart. now, a lot of dispensaries are closing up and just staying vacant retail apocalypse. amusingly, a lot of people have been burned trying to gamble invest in on all this legal weed stocks as the next new Neo-Gold Rush and was big buy-the-news when the initial deschedule 'being considered' was announced (which is never happening) only to flop. also that 'bipartisan legal weed banking bill' was a big buy-the-news and looks dead

Phillip Morris is finally stepping in.

We'll have Marlboro Greens (or whatever they come up with) soon.

Smoking is coming back baby.

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

PoundSand posted:

my biggest class struggle is not hoping these idiots eat poo poo. Like every crypto bro that loses their rear end is undeniably a victim of our lovely society but at the same time I am acutely aware they would be the worse person possible if everything worked out and they struck it rich on something they'd never retroactively acknowledge was a gamble.

it's like that dude in WV who won one of the first huge Powerball jackpots, he was already a construction contractor or something and had a shitload of money but that jackpot ruined his loving life

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

skaboomizzy posted:

it's like that dude in WV who won one of the first huge Powerball jackpots, he was already a construction contractor or something and had a shitload of money but that jackpot ruined his loving life

didn't he ruin his life because he lived in some shithole podunk town where everyone got in his business and got jealous of his money?

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

Shipon posted:

didn't he ruin his life because he lived in some shithole podunk town where everyone got in his business and got jealous of his money?

there was a little bit of that but he just went off the rails and spent tens of thousands at a strip club, on more lottery tickets, drugs, booze, his granddaughter got some of his money and spent it to OD on drugs, there was some business about him building a brand new church that went bad, etc

the popes toes
Oct 10, 2004

Retromancer posted:

I think a factor in hobbytalk no one has mentioned yet is that a lot of hobbies require other people to enjoy and lol at trying to get even 3-4 adults in a room someplace consistently if they're not getting paid.

Well, that's Americans for you. Oddly, every loving German I've ever met had a hobby, and it was usually associated with a club, like a place you go to practice your hobby. Painting miniatures, trains, singing, legos, weird card game clubs. You name it. The Germans have that hobby poo poo down.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

PoundSand posted:

I can't speak to everyone else but I hem and haw over buying a game that's on sale on steam for a handful of bucks despite probably enjoying it so the idea of going out to whatever trendy brewpub opened in the area and spending 30 bucks for a beer and basic entreee is both the most common invite and something I'll 100% ghost on when it comes up. Hanging out is expensive.

There's stuff that's cheap or free and I've certainly done it with new work acquaintances, but it's rare because there's a cultural element that makes inviting someone over to share variety pack and play bonanza or w/e a substantially weirder ask then agreeing to drop a couple hours worth of wages each on a mediocre outing.

Yeah, I feel like everyone I know has a story that's some variation of "I went out with some work people and it cost me $100 and now I don't do that anymore."

I think it's just that as you get older people self-select into groups a little more aggressively and the group that doesn't value just generically going out looks flaky because they don't want to openly say it's too expensive/they don't want to.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Retromancer posted:

I think a factor in hobbytalk no one has mentioned yet is that a lot of hobbies require other people to enjoy and lol at trying to get even 3-4 adults in a room someplace consistently if they're not getting paid.
I think the topic is interesting but yes I think this is definitely a component. I think it's a combination of a lot of things. also, media has trained Americans, and particularly dangerous things like YouTube and instantgratification, cooking/craft competition shows/etc, is that americans expect themselves to suddenly be as good as people they try to emulate and get frustrated whenever their hobbies don't turn out Pinterestagrammable Perfect on the first try or aren't showing gratification-level improvement quickly enough.

I started doing pottery about 4 years ago and I still suck rear end at it but very slowly creeping toward gitting gud (but very very slowly cuz i don't practice nearly enough, which is on me). in that same time-frame, I've seen so many other beginners show up and wash out after not immediately delivering great british bakeoff or whatever stuff

so yes, cost, alienation, lack of skill, lack of feeling good about lack of skill, depression-level self-loathing to not even try, etc all adds up.

I will say out of most of the first world-countries (or even otherwise), Americans writ-large seem to be the least talented dullard group of people i've ever met. well okay, maybe brits are worse or tied.

Xaris has issued a correction as of 05:58 on Mar 29, 2024

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

america just german enough to have the banality of evil, not german enough to get seriously kitchy

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