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Joey Freshwater posted:Maersk leased the ship but a company in Singapore owns it. A company in BVI in turn owns that company. Chaos option - they have no contract in place 
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JPrime posted:The Football Funhouse Chat Thread of 2024: Thanks for the fart update, babe.
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Leperflesh posted:thank you for spelling tenterhooks correctly braks You're welcome! I am putting that associates degree to good use. Also, y'all don't tell anybody about my farts. I have a bad bitch rep to maintain and if people knew about my butt trumpet, I'd have to do some serious damage control.
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Braksgirl posted:You're welcome! I am putting that associates degree to good use. Eh, it’s more like a kazoo.
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Bad bitches have thunderous flatulence that they unleash to establish dominance in the office space. You look your supervisor right in the eye as you're speaking, unleash hot_chocolate_high_velocity.mp4, and continue as though nothing happened.
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Silly Burrito posted:Eh, it’s more like a kazoo. yeah, compared to SB and his entire symphony.
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Silly Burrito posted:I mean, what are they supposed to do, have a huge bake sale or sell World's Finest Chocolate to raise funds? Yeah I think they do kind of think this. But fully 45-50% of voters either misunderstand the role of government or believe in its outright destruction so  An old partner of mine was pretty conservative and her dad had a small business (CPA I think) and she got way pissed about Obama’s “you didn’t build that” thing and I was like dude your dad didn’t run utilities and build roads, stop being so butthurt. But they’ll never get it because it’s all grievance and insecurity.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Fart once if you're okay. No no, it goes Farting at night, you'll be alright Fart in the morning, sailors take warning
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Disability company has reached out to my wife’s doctor for a 4th set of questions after not talking to anyone about anything for two weeks. They’ve now also decided to request her position description from her job (two months in???) and are reaching out to her therapist as they want her session notes. Absolute insanity and holy Santa Claus poo poo I didn’t think it was possible to hate insurers more.
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Go figure I joke about farting and somebody rips off something so vile on this MAX train I think they actually poo poo themselves. I meant I could hear it over the podcast I was listening to, and everyone nearby quickly beat feet to the back of the cabin. Good thing I am a constant mask wearer now thanks to the pandemic that this is just a minor inconvenience.
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Speaking of farts, I saw a thing about dead hangs helping release upper back/shoulder tension. I have a ton of it, so I thought I'd try it. Thankfully I was at home because after about 30 seconds, I ripped a fart so loud and strong my dog turned and looked at me judgingly.
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Got the weirdest spam text just nowquote:I apologize for any inconvenience. I am the recruitment manager at LinkedIn. It included a link I deleted so no one here would accidentally click it and be hacked or something.
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Air Skwirl posted:Got the weirdest spam text just now it's a scam to get you to fill out an 'application' with social or other PII. the folks in the global south that do this are scum.
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I like the premise that LinkedIn is so hard up for help in this conveniently unspecified role that “the recruiting manager” is desperately cold calling randoms with no relevant skills or experience begging for 30 minutes a day of your time. Just lol But also yes gently caress scammers forever
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Scam texts and calls are so common and annoying that I would vote for Trump if he presented a realistic plan for ending them.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Disability company has reached out to my wife’s doctor for a 4th set of questions after not talking to anyone about anything for two weeks. I had a girlfriend apply for disability years ago and it was the stupidest act of government incompetence I've ever seen. I know they have plenty of people trying to milk it but for someone who truly was suffering and needed help, that was a long 2 or 3 years of waiting and giving lawyers their cut.
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SundayMoney posted:I had a girlfriend apply for disability years ago and it was the stupidest act of government incompetence I've ever seen. I know they have plenty of people trying to milk it but for someone who truly was suffering and needed help, that was a long 2 or 3 years of waiting and giving lawyers their cut. I think the number of people trying to milk it is vastly overstated to make it even worse for people who need it. Maybe there was one woman once who was collecting welfare while driving a Benz, but I don't think it was justification to destroy a giant social safety net that made life possible for hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. This is obviously less of a problem than someone with a disability needing money so they can buy food, but I needed new underwear and went to target and the underwear was locked behind glass and I had to call over an employee to unlock the underwear. We live in a society where people feel the need to steal underwear and our solution to that is "lock up the underwear."
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SundayMoney posted:I had a girlfriend apply for disability years ago and it was the stupidest act of government incompetence I've ever seen. I know they have plenty of people trying to milk it but for someone who truly was suffering and needed help, that was a long 2 or 3 years of waiting and giving lawyers their cut. we threw out the baby with the bath water on that because it helps poor people. now, when it comes to giving businesses money via PPP loans... It shouldn't matter, we should all want a dignified existence for everyone in the country regardless of income level. it's what jtown would've wanted.
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Docjowles posted:I like the premise that LinkedIn is so hard up for help in this conveniently unspecified role that “the recruiting manager” is desperately cold calling randoms with no relevant skills or experience begging for 30 minutes a day of your time. Just lol It felt like this is how Amazon recruiters acted during the pandemic. https://twitter.com/jtannady/status/1573393501630648320
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I lol'd recently at an Amazon recruiter that tried to get me to apply to a PM position for a set of warehouses in Germany, Poland, and Czechia. Requires EU citizenship. Sure Hamit, I mean as an American whose only German vocabulary is Rammstein lyrics and the only Czech I know is from casting couch videos, let me get on that
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Air Skwirl posted:I think the number of people trying to milk it is vastly overstated to make it even worse for people who need it. Maybe there was one woman once who was collecting welfare while driving a Benz, but I don't think it was justification to destroy a giant social safety net that made life possible for hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. Yeah, I’m a lazy gubermint employee now, and it actually pisses me off that people just always chalk poo poo up to government incompetence. Which, there absolutely is, but to your point, a big part of it is intentional: a competent government sector makes the Capital/wealth classes’ lives harder across the board, so how do you prevent that? You underpay and understaff the public sector, such that someone has to often be willing to take a pay cut to move to the public sector, if they are actually qualified for the position and want to try and help/make a difference/whatever. So how do you prevent “freeloaders” from “abusing” a social safety net (aka actually minimize how much you help people in general)? You underfund it to begin with, and also limit the salary and positions, so that you’re not getting great candidates to fill those roles, they’re getting paid poo poo to do the work (translates to apathy, which makes people upset and earns the “lazy government” title), and they’re overworked (which delays how long someone gets benefits, until they hopefully give up). This then brews contempt for government, and the cycle repeats. And of of the guys I work with, was recently at some public outreach meetings about some improvements at some of the city’s facilities, and there were questions from the (old, white, boomer) local residents about what the city is doing with these improvements to eliminate homelessness, and when the city answered how it was trying to help them to line up places to stay, find work, provide food, etc., one of the residents apparently talked about how he worked at a local store and saw someone buy chips and a soda with their food stamps, and how that’s an example of the waste in the system. Chips and a drink! Heavy forbid someone eat something when hungry and thirsty. And right now, the team I’m on can’t even fill two positions, because our starting salary offers are below what even minimally experienced candidates are expecting, but HR won’t approve offering more because in reality, they’re trying to delay filling positions due to pending revenue losses because Arizona’s state government gutted rental taxes and eliminated huge funding sources for the cities. I sit in water resource planning meetings, because it’s like hitting my head against a brick wall because all management cares about is “growth growth growth” and development, because everyone is talking about trying to maximize growth and incoming revenue before the state falls off a cliff (into a dry Grand Canyon), and before they all retire. I took a decent pay cut when I went to the public sector for my mental health/well being, but I could make at least 60% more if I went back to the private sector, and might not even have anywhere near the current workload I do, but I’d be back to always working nights, working on weekends, and always living in fear of a recession causing work to dry up. Which is what got me on anxiety/depression meds and counseling in the first place… 
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dirty shrimp money posted:I lol'd recently at an Amazon recruiter that tried to get me to apply to a PM position for a set of warehouses in Germany, Poland, and Czechia. Requires EU citizenship. A long time ago I was interviewing with Google for a position on a team that spanned several continents. Didn't end up getting the job but I sure as hell was gonna try to get transferred to the group in the Zurich office if it worked out. Paid relocation to the Alps, yes please
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I'm government, but largely because wages for private where I'm at are atrocious. We have a massive shortage of young attorneys now on Guam, because the combination of middling government salaries plus absolute poo poo wages/hours for private associates meant that all the young talent left for the west coast. Our bar association just had a meeting where they overwhelmingly voted to exempt older attorneys from having to take on indigent defense appointments, and then overwhelmingly voted to mandate government attorneys to take on indigent defense appointments (despite the obvious problems with conflicts, and the laws against it, but whatever), because the pool has shrunk drastically due to all the partners at firms dragon-hoarding their profits. 65% of the people at the meeting will be dead/retired in 10 years.
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Air Skwirl posted:I think the number of people trying to milk it is vastly overstated to make it even worse for people who need it. Maybe there was one woman once who was collecting welfare while driving a Benz, but I don't think it was justification to destroy a giant social safety net that made life possible for hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. The one thing i can believe is how many people are actually trying to scam the system. I was a admin director at a branch level of a county ngo non profit community center who ran financial aid for it's members and we constantly had people trying to game the system. And while it wasn't common, I can remember several instances of people rolling up in a Lexus wearing Prada wanting to get a discount on their membership for no reason other than they didn't want to pay. So while I agree that isn't enough justification to destroy such programs, I can't imagine how much it's attempted at a national level given how much I saw at a county level. It was hard not to get a dead eyed cynicism after looking at another application of somebody lying their rear end off wanting to get the same rate as a single mother of three with a newborn who just got laid off but still wants her kids to know how to swim. TLDR people suck and ruin things built for people who genuinely need it.
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Joe Lieberman died, and I can't think of anyone since Reagan who had such a negative impact on how things are now due solely to his decision making so hooray and drink like Kissinger died again, because this time it was due to a fall and ahead of schedule.
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swickles posted:Joe Lieberman died, and I can't think of anyone since Reagan who had such a negative impact on how things are now due solely to his decision making so hooray and drink like Kissinger died again, because this time it was due to a fall and ahead of schedule. Good. Joe is gonna be forced to play the SNES version of Mortal Kombat for all eternity in hell.
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Vice presidential nominees barely swing voters towards a candidate , but a bad one definitely can work against you. Lieberman did Gore no favors.
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Rest in Piss, Lieberman
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Its Rinaldo posted:The one thing i can believe is how many people are actually trying to scam the system. I was a admin director at a branch level of a county ngo non profit community center who ran financial aid for it's members and we constantly had people trying to game the system. And while it wasn't common, I can remember several instances of people rolling up in a Lexus wearing Prada wanting to get a discount on their membership for no reason other than they didn't want to pay. I stopped posting there regularly so I forget the details (cool story bro) but there was an IT goon in SH/SC who worked for the Florida social security office. He had crazy stories from his coworkers of the scams people would pull. It sucks all around. I would much rather see the government optimize for helping people first and stopping scams as time allows. But there’s also plenty of politicians who would love to kill any and all social safety nets. So I get not wanting to give those ghouls ammo in the form of “$agency paid $5 million of YOUR TAX DOLLARS to lazy scamming $slurs last year!!!!!” Sure this amounts to like 25 cents per person but by god we gotta end free school lunches over this atrocity LeeMajors posted:Rest in Piss, Lieberman 
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Android Apocalypse posted:Vice presidential nominees barely swing voters towards a candidate , but a bad one definitely can work against you. i voted for nader in 2000 because of lieberman granted, it was in a very safe blue state
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swickles posted:Joe Lieberman died, and I can't think of anyone since Reagan who had such a negative impact on how things are now due solely to his decision making so hooray and drink like Kissinger died again, because this time it was due to a fall and ahead of schedule. Wow I actually get busy and do a ton of work and this happens.
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swickles posted:Joe Lieberman died, and I can't think of anyone since Reagan who had such a negative impact on how things are now due solely to his decision making so hooray and drink like Kissinger died again, because this time it was due to a fall and ahead of schedule. I can think of someone. Two someones actually. Eight, come to think of it. No, eleven. Wait, I forgot one. I can think of a solid dozen. Thirteen if Rupert Murdoch qualifies. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I can think of someone. Two someones actually. Eight, come to think of it. No, eleven. I’m trying to think of what level of party I want to throw when Trump finally chokes on a hamberder. Thinking Adrian Peterson birthday party tier
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General Dog posted:I would question how I’ve spent my limited waking hours of life if I realized I’d actually committed nonzero mental bandwidth to being mad about someone as inconsequential as Joe Lieberman. It's understandable that you would consider him inconsequential.
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Its Rinaldo posted:TLDR people suck and ruin things built for people who genuinely need it. I understand that it’s frustrating but I’d rather pay out 500 scammers to make sure every person who needs assistance can get it. The government clearly doesn’t give a poo poo about grift at scale (like defense contracts or PPP loans) so I can’t be bothered to give a poo poo about some assorted lower class folks skimming literal peanuts from the till. Make billionaires pay their goddamned share, then we can spend some time discussing it. Otherwise it’s just fluff to justify gutting programs and means testing everything to pieces.
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Air Skwirl posted:Scam texts and calls are so common and annoying that I would vote for Trump if he presented a realistic plan for ending them. I have been getting non-stop texts for Dem fUnDrAiSiNg for like a solid year now. Not a single conservative or Trump text or spam call. Dems gettin reeaallll close to brute force annoying me out of my vote lol
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