One of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley last year was Juicero Inc. It makes a juice machine. The product was an unlikely pick for top technology investors, but they were drawn to the idea of an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage.
Google’s venture capital arm and other backers poured about $120 million into the startup. Juicero sells the machine for $400.
But after the product hit the market, some investors were surprised to discover a much cheaper alternative: You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands.
The experiment found that squeezing the bag yields nearly the same amount of juice just as quickly—and in some cases, faster—than using the device.
The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said. The expiration date is also printed on the pack.
i dont get the title joke
I wasn't aware that bad investments were a recent development.
This is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat.as someone who just had to deal with that shit the other day, no it is not gone yet :maf
DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.
I wasn't aware that bad investments were a recent development.
Silicon Valley's particular brand of solutionism leading to hilarious (if dangerous in the case of Theranos) malinvestment is a rather specific phenomenon, though how much its existence can be seen as an indictment of capital over giving nerds any say in anything worthwhile whatsoever is something I am agnostic about.
The title is also a pun on late capitalism, but it wasn't clear to me if that was intended.
The intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.
At a certain high point this increasing concentration in its turn causes a new fall in the rate of profit. The mass of small dispersed capitals is thereby driven along the adventurous road of speculation, credit frauds, stock swindles, and crises. The so-called plethora of capital always applies essentially to a plethora of the capital for which the fall in the rate of profit is not compensated through the mass of profit — this is always true of newly developing fresh offshoots of capital — or to a plethora which places capitals incapable of action on their own at the disposal of the managers of large enterprises in the form of credit. (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch15.htm)
... If the rate of profit falls, there follows, on the one hand, an exertion of capital in order that the individual capitalists, through improved methods, etc., may depress the value of their individual commodity below the social average value and thereby realise an extra profit at the prevailing market-price. On the other hand, there appears swindling and a general promotion of swindling by recourse to frenzied ventures with new methods of production, new investments of capital, new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit which is independent of the general average and rises above it.
Are these just bags of juice? What is this?
marx just salty that noone liked him and that he was too conceited to accept the jobs offered to himQuoteThe intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.Quote from: Karl MarxAt a certain high point this increasing concentration in its turn causes a new fall in the rate of profit. The mass of small dispersed capitals is thereby driven along the adventurous road of speculation, credit frauds, stock swindles, and crises. The so-called plethora of capital always applies essentially to a plethora of the capital for which the fall in the rate of profit is not compensated through the mass of profit — this is always true of newly developing fresh offshoots of capital — or to a plethora which places capitals incapable of action on their own at the disposal of the managers of large enterprises in the form of credit. (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch15.htm)
... If the rate of profit falls, there follows, on the one hand, an exertion of capital in order that the individual capitalists, through improved methods, etc., may depress the value of their individual commodity below the social average value and thereby realise an extra profit at the prevailing market-price. On the other hand, there appears swindling and a general promotion of swindling by recourse to frenzied ventures with new methods of production, new investments of capital, new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit which is independent of the general average and rises above it.
marx just salty that noone liked him and that he was too conceited to accept the jobs offered to himfunds were what Engels was for
:success
so the only reason it's internet connected is to check the QR code? couldn't it like...use a satellite time clock?
The title is also a pun on late capitalism, but it wasn't clear to me if that was intended.
The intent of the title is to indicate that capitalism will not die in the chaotic flames of socialist revolution, but slowly drown in a sea of overproduced IoT junk designed specifically to appeal to venture capitalists and no one else.
circumlocutory translations...(more like that was marx in the first place smh)marx just salty that noone liked him and that he was too conceited to accept the jobs offered to himfunds were what Engels was for
:success
and translations I guess
I just buy stuff to get a momentary endorphin rush that I would otherwise have to accomplish something in order to achieve. Is that so wrong?
I don't know anything about how Soylent turned out, but at least there was something to its pitch. Maybe it's no better than drinking something like Ensure I guess.
Message from the CEOSo much :confused in this.
https://medium.com/@Juicero/a-note-from-juiceros-new-ceo-cb23a1462b03
:kobeyuck :crowdlaff
Still not as satisfying as the debacle known as Soylent.
Drinking Soylent is basically admitting that you have given up on trying to derive any actual joy from the act of living.but this is exactly why I find it so appealing!
Cue Cat! That's a name I haven't heard in forever. Back when Wired was my bible.
Drinking Soylent is basically admitting that you have given up on trying to derive any actual joy from the act of living.
This is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat.I had to look this up. :doge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat)
DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.
he CueCat was invented by J. Jovan Philyaw, who changed his name to J. Hutton Pulitzer.
This is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat.I had to look this up. :doge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat)
DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.spoiler (click to show/hide)Click the URLDOGE[close]
This is just Silicon Valley's latest Cue Cat.I had to look this up. :doge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat)
DMCA to protect ink jet cartridges are another idea which needs to be shot in the head. Is that gone yet? I want to know, but if I look, I'll rabbit hole for another hour.spoiler (click to show/hide)Click the URLDOGE[close]
Oh now I'm wondering how many other times the doge hid urls :ohhh
I'm offended that any man of taste would think Popeye's chicken would need anything added. Plus, how well does cocaine pair with hot sauce and slaw? For shame!
https://twitter.com/zjshearer/status/860673456588951552
https://twitter.com/evepeyser/status/861341348825358336
To our loyal customers and partners,
Since our launch 16 months ago, we’ve been grateful for the support you’ve shown toward our mission of bringing more fresh produce into people’s lives. Juicero has grown so much thanks to your loyalty.
However, today, after selling over a million Produce Packs, we must let you know that we are suspending the sale of the Juicero Press and Produce Packs immediately.
In order to fulfill our mission, we announced last month that we would shift our resources to focus on lowering the price of the Press and Produce Packs. We began identifying ways that we could source, manufacture and distribute at a lower cost to consumers.
During this process, it became clear that creating an effective manufacturing and distribution system for a nationwide customer base requires infrastructure that we cannot achieve on our own as a standalone business. We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission.
For the next 90 days, we are offering refunds for your purchase of the Juicero Press. Please contact help@juicero.com by December 1, 2017 to request a refund for your purchase. If you have an active Pack subscription, you will receive your final delivery next week (week of September 4th).
As we enter this new chapter, we also want to express the deepest gratitude to our employees who have poured their hearts and souls into developing, launching and growing Juicero over the past 3 years. Words alone cannot express how humbled we are by their commitment, ingenuity and talents; they have showed true care for each other, our amazing customers and our shared mission. While this decision will affect them personally, we’re committed to ensuring a fair transition for all. We could not be more proud of our team and are excited to see the positive impact they will continue to have in the world. If your company is hiring and has interest in talking with any of our employees, please contact us at jobs@juicero.com.
In a short period of time, you’ve validated that there is national demand for easier access to fresh produce and hassle-free cold-press juicing — thank you again for coming on this journey with us.
Thank you,
The Juicero Team
A tech startup...that hopes to replace mom-and-pop shops with unmanned boxes that rely on an app and artificial intelligence
So this is not a story about gentrification or "evil tech bros" at all. Nevertheless, CEO and co-founder of Bodega Paul McDonald had to go on the internet to apologize for the fact that people were just reflexively outraged for no reason. No, McDonald says, they're not trying to put corner stores out of business
https://twitter.com/moneyries/status/908009558735572993
lol at the mcdonald's sezchuan sauce fuckery
https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/923939193688154112
Shared Ownership provides an affordable, smart way to buying a new or resale home; you simply purchase a share in a brand new property - usually a minimum of 25% of the home's value – and pay a subsidised rent on the part you don't own. In future, if you wish, you can usually buy further shares until you own your home outright.
<---licensed robot prostitute
The phone will eventually cost $400...
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/969273297690079234
Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
(https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823464533)
"to automate the identification and classification of images taken by drones — cars, buildings, people — providing analysts with increased ability to make informed decisions on the battlefield"
These news reports don't mention reCaptcha explicitly, but it's been asking about a lot of cars lately. Whatever the source of the data that Google is using for this, it's disgusting that they're mining it from us without our knowledge or consent.
Google claims that "The technology flags images for human review, and is for non-offensive uses only". So, if a drone operator has a neural network that we all were tricked & coerced into training to identify cars and people helping to highlight them on their screen and center the crosshairs just right, and the neural network is not pressing the kill switch, is it being used for "non-offensive purposes only"?
Google has some legal advice that the AGPL source provision triggers much more often than it's commonly understood to. I encouraged them to make that legal reasoning public, so the community could address/debunk it, but I don't think they have. I won't go into details about it here, other than it seemed pretty bonkers.
Mixing in some AGPL code with an otherwise GPL codebase also seems sufficient to trigger Google's allergy. In the case of git-annex, it's possible to build all releases (until next month's) with a flag that prevents linking with any AGPL code, which should mean the resulting binary is GPL licensed, but Google still didn't feel able to use it, since the git-annex source tree includes AGPL files.
I don't know if Google's allergy to the AGPL extends to software used for drone murder applications, but in any case I look forward to preventing Google from using more of my software in the future.
https://twitter.com/BigPaulieDoyle/status/985894906404229122First paragraph: we’re not for or against war
I always wondered, how exactly do the people that shriek about the evil labor camps in the Soviet Union justify supporting sweatshops?
Former members of Tesla’s environment, health and safety team told Reveal that Musk doesn’t like the color yellow, a common color used to tell factory workers to take caution in certain areas. Instead, lanes in the factory are reportedly color-coded in shades of gray—a claim Tesla denies.
Roger Croney, a former supervisor at the factory, told Reveal that Musk wanted everything to be red and gray. Musk also reportedly doesn’t like a lot of signs or the beeping sound forklifts make to indicate they are backing up.
Former members of Tesla’s environment, health and safety team told Reveal that Musk doesn’t like the color yellow
"We have standard grams on the shelf at $4," Alport says. "Before, we didn't see a gram below $8."
The scene at Bridge City Collective is playing out across the city and state. Three years into Oregon's era of recreational cannabis, the state is inundated with legal weed.
It turns out Oregonians are good at growing cannabis—too good.
In February, state officials announced that 1.1 million pounds of cannabis flower were logged in the state's database.
If a million pounds sounds like a lot of pot, that's because it is: Last year, Oregonians smoked, vaped or otherwise consumed just under 340,000 pounds of legal bud.
That means Oregon farmers have grown three times what their clientele can smoke in a year.
send to me pls, ill handle it
Tesla might legitimately go out of business.
It would take some time but it’s a real possibility that they have to liquidate.
This whole thing reminds me of a story I read about Steve Jobs running Nexxt computer (or however it was spelled).
The company was going out of business and he’s trying to figure exactly which Pantone shade of purple to trademark for the paint on the assembly line.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/998926829829394432
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-dont-be-evil-code-conduct-removed-alphabet-a8361276.html
Context:
-My insomnia and general sleep issues over the last couple of months
-Constantly needing to work from home due to illness or exhaustion.
-Regularly working 10+ hour days
-Brain fog + being forgetful/slow/spacing out
-Not getting tasks done in a timely manner (right before 5pm) most days (Scrum/Agile [a productivity system designed for left brained CS majors developing software in the 90s...] or whatever has been a nightmare)
-Expressing the need to take a break from work to my Creative Director but, at the same time, feeling like I can't because I'm the only full-time production designer on staff since the other one quit a couple of years ago to have a cushy job as a "Graphic Communications Coordinator" at a private Christian school. Also, I have 6 years of professional experience under my belt and I know all our systems & client's quirks better than a temp designer or design intern would.
-We have more work/clients on retainer than ever before.
There's probably some stuff I'm forgetting but that's the gist of it.
Also, no designer in their right mind with 6 of experience or my skill level would work for "peanuts" ($33K~ a year) like I am. So I'm secure in that regard. They would demand $40K to $45K or more. Also, we just hired two new managerial peeps to help out with scrum and close something called an "AGI gap"? And I can't really ask for a raise until we close that gap... Basically we work too slow and we're not profitable because of it. But I'm already whipping up website concepts at lighting speed I can't imagine working fucking faster than I already am.
And sure you might say, "you idiot. find another job." but that would involve building a portfolio from scratch (since most of my client work is sub par imho) and moving to a large city (which I don't have the resources to do right now). So I'm kinda trapped.
Maybe this "sabbatical" will give me time to finally flesh out that portfolio...
We're upstairs at Zero Zero, a pizza and pasta place just a 10-minute walk from the begging mothers and the babies they cradle who sit on the sidewalks that connect the buildings that host GDC, the world's largest gathering of video game developers, a place thousands come to share, to learn, to network, and, occasionally - although I sense through gritted teeth - talk to press people such as me....Uh. :doge
Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
5.2MB → 500KB
They went from a load time of more than 45 seconds to 3 seconds, from 124 (!) JavaScript files to 0, and from a total of more than 500 requests to 34.
GDPR irritates me because I read it as GDR every time it's in an email subject line and get excited about der DDR being popular again only to discover it's some fucking nerd shit when I open it. :ussrcry
I have more than $100 in my bank account for the first time in a year
GDPR irritates me because I read it as GDR every time it's in an email subject line and get excited about der DDR being popular again only to discover it's some fucking nerd shit when I open it. :ussrcry
Neverthink app sounds rad for gettin lit and watching some tubes, sry not sry
Couldn't you just like...go to youtube and do the same thing?
https://twitter.com/jribas/status/1001840602571526145https://twitter.com/hailthenewflesh/status/1001914290805362688
We wanted to break the stigma of being homeless, and thus we developed a realistic simulator that will allow people from all ages and incomes to feel the heartbreak that is the day to day life of the impoverished and cognitively maligned. The game is an opus to every human being that has fallen through the cracks of society, only to be abused and subsequently forgotten by a world which values wealth above humanity. It is our sincere hope that this game will open the eyes of many to the ongoing oppression of their fellow humans, who are all too often met with a blind eye.
wait till that account starts spamming jacobin's inbox with pictures of dead Chinese kids
fake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Y8VF7ZKzY
In its 2018 budget, B.C.'s provincial government proposed to make property taxation progressive: the tax rate would increase along with property value. Current practice simply multiplies the property value with a uniform "mill rate." Starting in 2019, properties valued over $3 million will pay an extra 0.2% on the value exceeding $3 million, and a further 0.2% on the value exceeding $4million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Y8VF7ZKzY
rich people complaining about rich people 😒
Is progressive property tax a thing anywhere?
https://twitter.com/SaddestRobots/status/1013756757183692800
Is progressive property tax a thing anywhere?
Dipshit reactionaries capped property tax rates here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)
Rich people often have a large portion of their wealth in property. Land that just sits around and appreciates because there is a shortage of housing.
I'm okay with getting rid of property taxes if height restrictions on multifamily buildings is also removed.
I don't have a strong position on the subject, but property taxes are the major source of revenue for municipalities in Canada (I believe the same is true of counties in the US), as Canadian municipalities don't have power to levy direct and indirect taxes, such as corporate, income, and sales taxes. Sales taxes are more regressive than property taxes.Is progressive property tax a thing anywhere?
Dipshit reactionaries capped property tax rates here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)
Property tax is disgusting and only creates a bigger gap between classes.
Just like inheritance tax.
Small sums or single property owners should be exempt from this crap.
https://www.twitter.com/moongrudge/status/1015802785286279169
https://www.twitter.com/moongrudge/status/1015802785286279169https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOlXkj-RO-M
What's the tax rate on gifts? I've heard that rich peeps will give away a lot of their property near the end of their life to avoid estate taxes.
https://twitter.com/SaddestRobots/status/1013756757183692800
@SaddestRobotspersonally my main complaint is including the Korean border, since "warzone technically" :lol
Jul 3
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quite a few people are miffed that this single picture about the great green blob of "the West" as a big ol' gated community doesn't have like 300 other little red lines in South Sudan and whatnot.
to them, I say: uhh, yah.
http://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1019194088141262851
Algorithmic policing is going to bring down crime, guys.
This is the future Skynet wants.
One thing that particularly troubled him was that Americans had begun to remove the human element from the assassination process. One of the few things known about the Kill List is that it’s compiled in part by algorithm.
n 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”
According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”
(S)he added that Kareem seeks only “his birthright… a timely assertion of his due process rights under the Constitution to be heard before he might be included on the Kill List and his First Amendment rights to free speech before he might be targeted for lethal action”.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/planning-transport/britain-needs-more-slums
Sweeping deregulation is the only way to provide Britain with the slums it is crying out for.:gbcry
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https://twitter.com/hockey_brunch/status/1020841209080811520https://qz.com/1334123/forbes-deleted-an-op-ed-arguing-that-amazon-should-replace-libraries/
“Forbes advocates spirited dialogue on a range of topics, including those that often take a contrarian view,” a Forbes spokesperson says in a statement. “Libraries play an important role in our society. This article was outside of this contributor’s specific area of expertise, and has since been removed.”
Toxoplasmosis has been linked to a greater risk of "car accidents, mental illness, neuroticism, drug abuse and suicide,” Johnson and her colleagues wrote in their paper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
http://www.kctv5.com/story/38753295/bank-of-america-questioning-customers-citizenship-freezing-accounts
Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_or8biB1K4 :doge
Reggie is in this video with his Nintendo LABO
:dead
http://www.kctv5.com/story/38753295/bank-of-america-questioning-customers-citizenship-freezing-accounts
can you sue a bank for being compliant with local law/regulations?http://www.kctv5.com/story/38753295/bank-of-america-questioning-customers-citizenship-freezing-accounts
UPDATED STATEMENT:
"Like all financial institutions, we’re required by law to maintain complete and accurate records for all of our customers and may periodically request information as required by law and regulation. This is not unique to Bank of America. This type of outreach is nothing new and the information must be up to date. Therefore we periodically reach out to customers, which is what we did in this case.
Over time, we reach out to all customers to verify their information, not only specific customers. If we don’t hear from a customer in response to our outreach, as a last resort, we may restrict the account until we can confirm it is in compliance with regulatory requirements."
I hope they enjoy the freshly roasted scent of a class action lawsuit.
Once I hired a junk removal company to clear out my garage of all the things I didn’t want or need. It cost like a couple hundred dollars and took an afternoon. When I moved from a large house to a small house I had a garage sale like event except everything was free and everything was gone within an hour. What I’m saying is hopefully my family props me up on the side of the road with a “free” sign.Ooop.spoiler (click to show/hide)if you’re reading this and I’m dead, I’d actually really like to be disposed of at sea[close]
How much if you use a Folgers can?
there is no law that says you must be buried in a coffin in the UK. In fact, the body of the deceased does not have to be disposed of in a casket, coffin, or covered by a funeral shroud. These are all traditions. What the law does state is that it is indeed an offence to expose a dead body near a public highway. Exposure of a dead body in a public place or by a highway is an outrage to public decency. The body of the deceased must be covered in public. The way you choose to cover the body is entirely up to you however.guess we'll have to put a tarp over CatsCatsCats or something
In seeking permission for his court challenge in 2007, the High Court ruled that "the burning of dead bodies in the open air is not necessarily unlawful" and allowed Ghai to proceed. In February 2010, the Court of Appeal ruled that, as long as open air pyres took place within a structure of some sort, that the practice would be legal under the existing Act . . .
not necessarily unlawfuljudicial activism smh
(https://i.imgur.com/pc93Emk.jpg)I wanna be liquified and poured down a drain like the human waste I am. :aah
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Baker currently sells 500 to 1,000 diapers, which retail for $18 apiece, each month. “There's not a single state that I don't ship to,” Baker said.
In wealthy cities like San Francisco, chickens have even become an unlikely status symbol, with poultry owners going to unimaginable lengths to care for their pets. As The Washington Post reported in March, certain chicken owners have hired “chicken whisperers” to consult on their pets’ comfort (to the tune of $225 per hour). These nouveau livestock enthusiasts have also been known to invest in personal chefs for their birds, and some have even installed smartphone-enabled, motion-detecting coops that control ventilation, temperature, lighting, and security from afar (ballpark cost: $20,000).
“We spend an insane amount of money. We thought we’d feed them leftovers, but our chickens end up eating grilled salmon, steak, fresh lettuce and organic watermelon,” one chicken owner, Amina Azhar-Graham, told the Post.
And where indoor chickens go, diapers follow. Some chickens can be housebroken, but such is not an easy task, leaving poultry parents in densely populated areas to have to find ways to take care of the inevitable.
Chicken diapers work differently depending on the brand. Connecticut resident Traci Torres, the owner of My Pet Chicken, said that some of her diapers have velcroed-in liners that owners remove once soiled — usually around two to three times per day — and then replace with another liner. Other diapers are moisture-resistant, so that owners can simply remove the whole diaper, wipe out the excreta, and throw it in the wash. Other diapers are more lo-fi, recommending that a person place a paper towel inside the diaper and simply remove it once sullied. Most chicken diapers are machine washable and intended to endure for months (the industry is nothing if not sustainable).
Pampered Poultry pricepoint of $18 per diaper is fairly standard. Purely Poultry’s zebra, daisy, and pink camo designs go for around $17, while My Pet Chicken offers custom-made diapers for $30. FeatherWear retails their denim “FlockSuits” — premium diapers that are pitched as “Levi Strauss meets Calvin Klein” for nearly $38.
“The market is enormous and there’s lots of competition,” Traci Torres, the owner of My Pet Chicken, told The Outline.
Torres sold her first diaper in December 2007 after she kept getting phone calls out of the blue requesting them. Though Torres designs most of the diapers herself, she hired a seamstress to start sewing them; she estimates that she’s sold more than 5,000 diapers.
Baker has begun selling another upscale chicken accessory, this one without much of a function — the chicken dress. She currently offers $15 blue-or-purple tutus alongside more upscale nightgowns marketed “for the fashion-conscious hen.” Baker estimates that chicken dresses comprise 10 percent of her business, amounting to about 100 dresses sold per month. “You [used to] put a dress on your chihuahua. Now people are putting a dress on their chicken,” Baker said.
In the course of reporting this piece, The Outline contacted nearly a dozen chicken-diaper and-saddle vendors to ask about their sales figures. The numbers ranged from a dozen per year to nearly ten thousand — Colorado-based Chicken Armor, for instance, has sold around 50,000 saddles since its launch in 2011.
But even Baker doesn’t think any of this would have happened if chicken owners weren’t so eager to dress their pets up for social media photo shoots
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/895f29abf8b230394c58f5cc14b74c39/tumblr_pd5yrjppKt1rpzbo4o1_1280.jpg)one of the 23 secret ingredients is the gay agenda 8)
I was just thinking about the Desert Storm Trading Cards yesterday. What an "only 90's kids will remember" thing. Both Desert Storm and trading cards.
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I had the full set of these back then and thought they were super cool, although I remember being confused about the relationship between Saddam Hussein and King Hussein. The card makers could have thrown a "no relation" in there to clear things up, we didn't have Wikipedia.
My family's money was made in the arms industry so there was all sorts of Desert Shield and Desert Storm merch in the house back then (including these cards).This is without a doubt the best socialist origin story ever.
If I ever meet Dick Cheney and I don't have my waterboarding kit on me, I'll just get him to sign my Desert Storm card.wow, Dick and Lynne Cheney were the original writers for King of the Hill?
(https://i.imgur.com/8euSC6l.jpg)
What’s the worst anti-semitic OS?
For when you want to deeply insult a special someone.
I was just thinking about the Desert Storm Trading Cards yesterday. What an "only 90's kids will remember" thing. Both Desert Storm and trading cards.
(https://i.imgur.com/yx8KWei.jpg?1)
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I had the full set of these back then and thought they were super cool, although I remember being confused about the relationship between Saddam Hussein and King Hussein. The card makers could have thrown a "no relation" in there to clear things up, we didn't have Wikipedia.
There will be many improvements to life under socialism, but Megan McArdle having to get a real job and contribute to society will undoubtedly be the one everyone can celebrate.You lefties and your completely far-fetched impossible schemes.
Worse than that juicer that just pressed out cartons of juice :lol
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/procter_gamble_ftw.php
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Welp. :beli
http://longisland.news12.com/story/39055695/residents-crack-pipe-dispenser-found-near-busy-shopping-center-bus-stop
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He's getting people mad who think he's serious :lolTo be fair, he's not wrong. When you make it necessary to have something and mix government and capitalism you get exactly what we have now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1041532566656966661
I think he might be wrong that government ruins everything it touchesGovernment + Capitalism does eventually ruin everything it touches :ussrcry
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Oh my God, he's the Turning Point USA guy and completely serious.My favorite part about Mount Rushmore is that it was a backup job to get money/time to finish Stone Mountain, his real dream sculpture.
https://mobile.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1039342141158371328
:rofl
since we're on an HRC kick:I see she's already tanking the 2020 campaign.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1041774778439352320
Eric Schmidt has a 15 million dollar penthouse that he only uses for sex. If we expropriated it and sold it we could raise wages for some workers.
Race science going through the dialectic outchea.
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1043987634903814145
https://tribunemag.tumblr.com/post/178442272996/tribune-statement/maybe distributing your statement over Tumbler isn't the best way to restore confidence in your operations
Their response.
It probably has a trust endowment worth having access to. :money
I'm so done doing things the "right way". It makes complete sense why people turn to crime in this country.
If you're not one of the big boys on top you get fucked every which way your whole life and then die penniless in obscurity.
I'm so done doing things the "right way". It makes complete sense why people turn to crime in this country.
If you're not one of the big boys on top you get fucked every which way your whole life and then die penniless in obscurity.
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-kidney-emails-20181001-story.html
https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1048250576637714433You know, I understand that society considers things like IQ, income, 'college education or no' measurements of intelligence.
Remember when Swift took her music off Spotify cause she wanted a bigger cut. Bigger cut of what?
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Free marketing.
https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1048250576637714433You know, I understand that society considers things like IQ, income, 'college education or no' measurements of intelligence.
But I have to say that most hedgefunders and investors are fucking stupid.
Huge amounts of comapnies followed this same pattern though; Spotify will likely some day shutter it's Free service and fairly quickly become hugely profitable.
You'd be "fucking stupid" to judge a company based on meme tweets. Their free tier helped them reach their #1 position in the market w/o any reason to believe they'd lose that position; removing the free tier would only add more paid customers.
Kingv: What in the world are you talking about? I’m not talking about companies that haven’t figured out monitization I’m talking about Spotify. They are getting investors because they could become profitable overnight if they shutter their free tier.
Many of the most successful businesses lost money for years and had money thrown at them because the path to profitability was clear and near guaranteed. Spotify is one of those companies.
And I mean literally overnight; kill the free tier and they are hugely profitable instantly . They’d then in turn gain even more subscribers, boom, even more popular.
Hbo
Just like Snapchat, right? All they got to do is figure out how to make money from all of those users who aren’t paying them anything.
Just as likely, they get rid of the free tier and many people just go elsewhere like pandora or I heart radio or the amazon music tier that comes with Prime.
Maybe it will work the way you say, but it’s definitely not as guaranteed as you make it sound.... and to the best of my knowledge they weren’t profitable before the free tier, either.
You are seriously dumber than shit or something.
They have a TON of paying customers; more than enough to be profitable.
They are losing money because of the licensing spend on free users. They do not need to figure out how to make money from these people to be profitable; they don't need to KEEP these people either. If they cancel the free tier they will of course lose tons of "customers", "customers" who are losing them money. They will also convert many of these freeloaders into paying customers, and there's zero reason to think existing paying customers would be mad the free tier is gone.
Like seriously how are you this fucking stupid? Do I have to draw you a picture or something?
Premium Gross Margin was 26.9% in Q2, up from 26.0% in Q1 and 24.1% in Q2 2017. Ad- Supported Gross Margin was 16.3% in Q2, up from 12.7% in Q1 and 13.6% in Q2 2017. Ad- Supported Gross Margins are relatively strong in our developed markets and relatively weak in our emerging markets. As the emerging markets grow, margins should too.
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While making their way through a corn maze, a couple looks at their ADT front porch camera to see a group of neighborhood hoodlums approaching the house with intent to egg it. The mischievous kids think twice when they realize they're being monitored and are quickly scared away by the ADT scarecrow mode activated by the couple. ADT promises its Smart Security will help protect your home no matter where you find yourself.
https://twitter.com/legaladvice_txt/status/1059777533451870208
Jews, even. Imagine.
I think she is trying to highlight that the system is designed in a way that an average American would not have the financial resources to run, win, and get set up for Congress before the first pay check comes in. Obviously, she has a lot of support and could get a short term loan or set up a go fund me or something but that's not the point.
One of the more aggressive bids comes from Chicago, Illinois — a city that is prepared to let Amazon keep $1.32 billion of the personal income taxes paid by its workers annually. According to The Chicago Reader, employees would still pay the full taxes; but instead of Illinois receiving the money to use for civic infrastructure, Amazon would get to pocket it.
The result is that Amazon workers would essentially pay taxes to their own company.
The proposal to Amazon notes that the incentives are not a pure tax giveaway since the credit is only 50 percent, meaning “the state and our local municipalities benefit by an amount equal to the Amazon benefit,” the letter reads.tributary neofeudalism :lawd
Jerky prices are out of control.They have been increasingly so for like a decade now, yet Trump does nothing. :maf
Probably in the pocket of BIG JERKY.
https://twitter.com/stephemcneal/status/1064566495156539400
Probably in the pocket of BIG JERKY.
If only some tech bros would fall in love with jerky and disrupt the 6000-year old art of jerking meat, one meatshot at a time.
https://twitter.com/stephemcneal/status/1064566495156539400
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What will really blow your mind is he owns a car and drives it to work. Somehow. With no arms.I think no legs would probably be more impressive.
Jessica Cox (born in 1983 in Sierra Vista, Arizona to William and Inez Cox) is the world's first licensed armless pilot
"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane."
as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.
couldn't find her but this one beats her probably anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_CoxQuoteJessica Cox (born in 1983 in Sierra Vista, Arizona to William and Inez Cox) is the world's first licensed armless pilotQuote"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane."
maybe literally:Quoteas well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association.
I have seen one of those armless people cars.
They're fitted with all sorts nifty gadgets that change the way the car handles.
A steering wheel that you can operate with your knees, pedals adjusted so they're closer to your feet etc.
The same place also had a car that was drivable without using your legs (shfiters on the steering wheel etc.) .
Those were BMW's they had for sale but you'd have to either get used to the weird controls or have them returned to their original state.
A friend's spouse invited me to a surprise birthday party for my friend that's a "pop-up restaurant" set up at their house where the guests act as the staff.
Co-founder Noh Ji-Hyang said the mock prison was inspired by her husband, a prosecutor who often put in 100-hour work weeks.
“He said he would rather go into solitary confinement for a week to take a rest and feel better,” she said. “That was the beginning.”
“After a stay in the prison, people say, ‘This is not a prison, the real prison is where we return to,’” she said.
Quote“After a stay in the prison, people say, ‘This is not a prison, the real prison is where we return to,’” she said.
A friend's spouse invited me to a surprise birthday party for my friend that's a "pop-up restaurant" set up at their house where the guests act as the staff.is this a pilot pitch for a reality show? i'd watch it
In a country where cost of living is high and the chances of getting a credit card are relatively low, this new form of e-commerce has opened up a world of possibilities for a whole lot of Chinese millennials. Because it’s 2018, though, there’s also a dark side to the system. Sure, you can get a 475 gram box of Oreos and pay it back in monthly instalments of 41 cents over three years, or go jetski-shopping with peanuts to your name. But first you might have to send some nudes.
For many of her clientele, who are almost exclusively white right-wing men because she finds herself unable “to be even fictionally cruel to any other type of man,” that fetish is serving a powerful woman. Marbury derives her pleasure comes from forcing those men to see the contradiction between their love of powerful women and their support for political parties that actively work to limit women’s rights and empowerment. In her book, Dining with Humpty Dumpty, she detailed conversations with a man she said exhibited the “disgusting contradiction” of claiming to be both “a ‘female supremacist’ and a Tory.’”
“A lot of the book is about how people use political issues as a sexual fantasy and how that’s problematic,” Marbury explained in an interview with Centre Pompadour. “In the book, I decide to think about the power dynamic that exists between a dominatrix and her submissive. If he wants to really make me happy, which he says he does, what could possibly make me more happy than turning him into a socialist?”
A group of white supremacist YouTubers are using a new app to pay celebrities to create videos where they make coded anti-Semitic statements — and then the YouTubers use those recordings to promote hatred on the internet.
The videos were made using Cameo, where users can pay to have celebrities record a personalized message for them. Cameo launched in April 2018, and has become another platform that the far-right has seized upon in an attempt to legitimize racist messages — this time with seeming celebrity endorsements.
Cameo and representatives for the celebrities told BuzzFeed News they were unaware the messages supported anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. The two alt-right leaders behind the campaign bragged about duping the celebrities in a livestream on Wednesday.
The group behind the videos refers to itself as the GDL, or Goyim Defense League, using the Hebrew word for a non-Jew. The group is apparently run by two YouTubers who go by “Handsome Truth” and “Sway Guevara.”
In one recent video, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre — one of the NFL’s most legendary figures — addresses the group.
BuzzFeed News has viewed the videos but will not include them in this article, since the users who paid the celebrities have said in livestreams this week that they want the recordings to go viral.
“Brett Favre here with a shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys,” Favre says in the shaky video. “You guys are patriots in my eyes. So keep waking them up and don’t let the small get you down. Keep fighting, too, and don’t ever forget the USS Liberty and the men and women who died on that day. God bless and take care.”
When someone books a Cameo, they submit specific instructions to the celebrity for what to include in the video. The celebrity then reviews the request and either accepts or rejects it. If they accept, the buyer will get a video within the next few days. A video from Brett Favre goes for $500.
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Favre said that he is donating the $500 Cameo video fee to charities that combat hate and bigotry.
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Comedian Andy Dick also made a personalized message for another member of the GDL, who goes by the name “Sway Guevara” on YouTube. According to the prices on Dick’s Cameo page, it cost $99.
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Rapper Soulja Boy also appears to have inadvertently made a video for the anti-Semitic group.
“Shoutout to Handsome Truth and Sway at GDL,” he says in the video, before telling viewers to check out their new single “Name the Juice” on Soundcloud and to subscribe to Handsome Truth 14 on YouTube. “GDL for life, bitch.”
According to his Cameo page, Soulja Boy received $100 for the personalized message.
Cameo CEO Steven Galanis told BuzzFeed News on Friday that the app directly connects fan requests with the celebrity in question, eliminating intermediaries such as publicists or managers — and possible intervention — and making the messages more personal.
“It’s a shame that this group is taking away from a platform that is bringing so many people joy,” Galanis said.
“Shoutout to Handsome Truth and Sway at GDL,” he says in the video, before telling viewers to check out their new single “Name the Juice” on Soundcloud and to subscribe to Handsome Truth 14 on YouTube. “GDL for life, bitch.”:dead
We all need to pull together and help the police solve The Case of the Stolen Sega Genesis, Kenny. Are you doing your part?
We all need to pull together and help the police solve The Case of the Stolen Sega Genesis, Kenny. Are you doing your part?
ACAB :ufup
An Ivy League education doesn’t get you as far as it used to.
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THIS WASN'T EVEN AMAZON'S FIRST BEAR REPELLENT ACCIDENT
Two dozen Amazon warehouse employees in New Jersey were hospitalized Wednesday, one in critical condition, after a robot punctured a can of bear repellent, according to local reports.
Wednesday’s mishap demonstrates the many hazards that workers must contend with in Amazon’s sprawling warehouses, where almost every product imaginable may be in stock—including aerosol cans of irritating spray for warding off bears. This particular accident comes with an added dystopian layer, since it was caused by one of the robots Amazon hopes will replace many of its human warehouse workers in the near future.
But things get much stranger when you realize this isn’t the first time a can of bear repellent has exploded in an Amazon facility. In 2015, the fire department responded to an accident at an Amazon facility in Haslet, Texas, that was caused by a robot running over a can of none other than bear repellent, according to public records unearthed by Jessica Bruder for her book Nomadland, which chronicles the lives of the retail giant’s older, transient workforce.
The New Jersey incident wasn’t even the first bear repellent accident at an Amazon facility in 2018! One employee at an Amazon warehouse in Indiana told WIRED that a can ruptured in his facility earlier this year. The worker says that accident was caused by someone dropping the can, and they believe no injuries occurred. They think the way the product is packaged may be the issue; the employee adds that they, too, have dropped the repellent, though in their case it didn’t rupture. “It’s a clamshell that pops open when you pick it up,” the employee says. “What I can say is that our safety people are on it, and they are top-notch.”
Lighty, the Amazon spokesperson, confirmed in an email that an incident involving bear repellent did occur at the Indiana facility earlier this year. She also confirmed the 2015 accident in Texas. However, she added, "I do not have exact information on the root cause of either scenario, only that they were different."
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-first-bear-repellent-accident/QuoteTHIS WASN'T EVEN AMAZON'S FIRST BEAR REPELLENT ACCIDENT
Two dozen Amazon warehouse employees in New Jersey were hospitalized Wednesday, one in critical condition, after a robot punctured a can of bear repellent, according to local reports.QuoteWednesday’s mishap demonstrates the many hazards that workers must contend with in Amazon’s sprawling warehouses, where almost every product imaginable may be in stock—including aerosol cans of irritating spray for warding off bears. This particular accident comes with an added dystopian layer, since it was caused by one of the robots Amazon hopes will replace many of its human warehouse workers in the near future.
But things get much stranger when you realize this isn’t the first time a can of bear repellent has exploded in an Amazon facility. In 2015, the fire department responded to an accident at an Amazon facility in Haslet, Texas, that was caused by a robot running over a can of none other than bear repellent, according to public records unearthed by Jessica Bruder for her book Nomadland, which chronicles the lives of the retail giant’s older, transient workforce.
The New Jersey incident wasn’t even the first bear repellent accident at an Amazon facility in 2018! One employee at an Amazon warehouse in Indiana told WIRED that a can ruptured in his facility earlier this year. The worker says that accident was caused by someone dropping the can, and they believe no injuries occurred. They think the way the product is packaged may be the issue; the employee adds that they, too, have dropped the repellent, though in their case it didn’t rupture. “It’s a clamshell that pops open when you pick it up,” the employee says. “What I can say is that our safety people are on it, and they are top-notch.”
Lighty, the Amazon spokesperson, confirmed in an email that an incident involving bear repellent did occur at the Indiana facility earlier this year. She also confirmed the 2015 accident in Texas. However, she added, "I do not have exact information on the root cause of either scenario, only that they were different."spoiler (click to show/hide)*anti-Amazon activists begin ordering large quantities of bear repellent*[close]
Over the holidays, dual-CEO Jack Dorsey took a break from running Twitter and Square to try a silent meditation known as Vipassana for 10 days.
Vipassana— an ancient Buddhist meditation technique that frequently involves 10 days of silence — is gathering fans in Silicon Valley. The practice aims to calm and focus the mind through a strict code of silence and promises increased awareness, self-control, and peace. In a tweet, Dorsey revealed that he carried out the practice over Christmas and New Year's.
I despise violence...but what is the violence of all these people and burned luxurious cars, compared to the structural violence of the French -and global - elites
No one is going to pay you in real.life for putting on your clothesI mean your job might...
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/948625244645937154QuoteOver the holidays, dual-CEO Jack Dorsey took a break from running Twitter and Square to try a silent meditation known as Vipassana for 10 days.
Vipassana— an ancient Buddhist meditation technique that frequently involves 10 days of silence — is gathering fans in Silicon Valley. The practice aims to calm and focus the mind through a strict code of silence and promises increased awareness, self-control, and peace. In a tweet, Dorsey revealed that he carried out the practice over Christmas and New Year's.
If rich people live like me to unwind, then why am I so stressed :doge
https://www.cleveland19.com/2018/12/18/cleveland-man-alleges-racial-profiling-after-bank-refuses-cash-check-calls/
The company recently crowdfunded over $230,000 to manufacture the Flask Coffee Brewer, a relatively simple manual coffee maker, but they won’t end up shipping a single product. No refunds or late arrivals.
But it’s far worse for the company’s commercial customers. Alpha Dominche’s flagship product that launched in 2014, the Steampunk, is—or, was—an eye-catching $15,000 coffee and tea brewer designed for high-end cafes. And soon they’ll all stop working.
Flask Brewer backers are out eighty dollars, Steampunk-wielding cafes around the world are about to have a useless hunk of metal when the official servers go down, and Alpha Dominche’s brand new cafe in Brooklyn has turned the lights off.
https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1077645604107534336 (https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1077645604107534336)That's the same Crimea prosecutor meme girl.
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1077981717410078720
One of the most popular terms on Chinese social media is diaosi, which literally means penis hair but has become shorthand for anybody who feels they’ve failed at work, romance or life in general.
https://twitter.com/mmaltaisLA/status/1082380540584517632 (https://twitter.com/mmaltaisLA/status/1082380540584517632)
According to one survey, one third of Millennials believe President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Over 40 percent of Millennials have never heard of Mao Zedong; another 40 percent and 30 percent, respectively, are unfamiliar with Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara. Two-thirds of Millennials cannot identify Auschwitz, and 22 percent have never heard of the Holocaust, twice the percentage of American adults on average.
Millennials might not know much, but according to a 2016 Harvard survey, they know they don’t support capitalism, with 51 percent of young adults rejecting economic freedom.
According to one survey, one third of Millennials believe President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.What's the time frame though? Because in their lifetimes...
QuoteAccording to one survey, one third of Millennials believe President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.What's the time frame though? Because in their lifetimes...
https://twitter.com/razza699/status/1087425374894600192 (https://twitter.com/razza699/status/1087425374894600192)when this dlc come out?
Police received a tip about the situation and followed up with the teen’s guardian on Jan. 16.thank god for state informants
It did though, cross a significant line for us. We are a private business, we are not owned by the Government, FCA or ASA, and we will never be told what we are/are not allowed to say. If we want to campaign to put Batman on the moon, then that is our business, not the Governments. Naturally, we told them no, we wouldn't retract it. Who knows where this will now end up.https://www.quickloans.co.uk/quick-news/response-to-the-jail-for-debtors-article (https://www.quickloans.co.uk/quick-news/response-to-the-jail-for-debtors-article)
This is a massive concern for us given the nature of the next project we were going to launch in the UK. Avoid.com is going to be the world's first negative-only travel review website. It launches in March 2019 and was going to be based in the UK - a massive investment with hundreds of jobs.
We no longer have faith in the UK Quangos on the issue of free speech. For this reason, it will now be based in the States. I'll be out there in the next week to start laying the groundwork for it.
Late stage capitalism is when you're too poor to get an electric razor to shave your balding head, but can put up youtube videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugWFMqn-TA
But that’s not all that’s wrong here. The trend that the graph depicts is based on a poverty line of $1.90 (£1.44) per day, which is the equivalent of what $1.90 could buy in the US in 2011. It’s obscenely low by any standard, and we now have piles of evidence that people living just above this line have terrible levels of malnutrition and mortality. Earning $2 per day doesn’t mean that you’re somehow suddenly free of extreme poverty. Not by a long shot.
Scholars have been calling for a more reasonable poverty line for many years. Most agree that people need a minimum of about $7.40 per day to achieve basic nutrition and normal human life expectancy, plus a half-decent chance of seeing their kids survive their fifth birthday. And many scholars, including Harvard economist Lant Pritchett, insist that the poverty line should be set even higher, at $10 to $15 per day.
So what happens if we measure global poverty at the low end of this more realistic spectrum – $7.40 per day, to be extra conservative? Well, we see that the number of people living under this line has increased dramatically since measurements began in 1981, reaching some 4.2 billion people today. Suddenly the happy Davos narrative melts away.
Bellevue
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1087429657232842753 (https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1087429657232842753)
Noting that 1,500 people had travelled to Davos by private jet to hear David Attenborough talk about climate change, he said he was bewildered that no one was talking about raising taxes on the rich.
“I hear people talking the language of participation, justice, equality and transparency but almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share,” Bregman tells the Time magazine panel on inequality.
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.”
Industry had to “stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes”, he said, and cited the high tax regime of 1950s America as an example to disprove arguments by businesspeople at Davos such as Michael Dell that economies with high personal taxation could not succeed. “That’s it,” he says. “Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion.”
After the panel Bregman tweeted a link to a opinion piece he wrote for the Guardian in 2017, saying “most wealth is not created at the top, but merely devoured there”.
Bill Gates has done a lot of charity work and I don’t want to blow up his spot, but there’s something a little sickening about billionaires backpatting themselves because people are making $2 a day. I find myself agreeing somewhat with Harvey Danger in his 1997 treatise on inequality Flagpole Sitta, it’s a sin to live so well.https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1092212501901688832
Edit: Little Debbie deleted their tweet responding to Sunny D :(
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According to the superseding indictment, Burlakoff and the others ran a sophisticated scheme that used pharmacy data to identify doctors who prescribed a lot of opioids. They then bribed the doctors with offers of cushy speaking engagements to increase their Subsys prescriptions even further and to write a minimum number of prescriptions at a minimum dose to generate as many insured refill orders as possible "without regard to the medical needs of ... Subsys patients," according tot he indictment.
So...how much does that pay per hour? :thinking
35$ to sit around an hour?So...how much does that pay per hour? :thinking
$15-$35/hr.
Make lobbyists stand in line again. :american
So...how much does that pay per hour? :thinking
$15-$35/hr.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedUK/status/1095978957189464064 (https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedUK/status/1095978957189464064)This actually works: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xn4a4/how-kids-youtube-star-blippi-used-copyright-law-to-hide-his-harlem-shake-poop-video
:doge
BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos did not link to, embed, or otherwise share the Harlem Shake Poop video in her piece, noting that “an attorney for [Blippi] sent BuzzFeed News a cease and desist letter asserting copyright on the video.”
BuzzFeed isn’t the only company that got a legal notice about the video’s copyright. In early January, someone claiming to represent Blippi filed a copyright takedown request with Google, which previously had linked to a Russian website that host the so-called “Harlem Shake Poop” video.
“The copywritten work of ‘Harlem Shake Poop’ is of a NSFW video of one man defecating on another,” the takedown request reads. “This video was not authorized for use on the links provided. This Russian site is illegally storing the videos on their servers and your search results have indexed them. The information in this notice is accurate. I swear under penalty of perjury I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner that holds the exclusive right of the Harlem Shake Poop video that allegedly infringed.”
After reading Notopoulos’s article, I naturally went searching for the video. I Googled “Harlem Shake Poop” and found a series of YouTube videos of people reacting to Blippi’s original video (think of the 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction video genre), but not the original video itself. At the bottom of the Google search results, however, I saw a notice: “In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), we have removed 1 result from this page.”(https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1550259192348-Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-23239-PM.png)
lol she came prepared with the multi-layers move plus almost nothing to grab onto below the waste so the guy had to lift her up :delicious:trumps
https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/1109862601549377539
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1111085527577563137
Also your car will force you to use your blinker. :rejoice
German carmakers are shit man, after dieselgate I don't know if Id ever buy one.
Also EVs drive sweet af
My hybrid cant go faster then 180
Fugazi was effectively a startup from which valuable lessons in governance, business and sustainability might be inferred about the way an O’Rourke administration will approach the American economy.
Fugazi capitalism would be inclusive, consumer-friendly and ethical. It would favor the interests of small businesses over corporations. It would reject cronyism. As O’Rourke described MacKaye, he “really did represent this super-ethical way, not just of being in a band, or running a label, or putting on shows, but of just living.”
Eat my dust e-cigarillos :hehMy lancer does 0 - 100 in < 10 sec.
https://twitter.com/IRLSonGohan/status/1067819381743325184
https://twitter.com/TyTheRobot/status/1067455226075119616
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1112309578706886656Akshually I knew about this ages ago. :ego
Why did they use Lou Dobbs for the billboard tho
Earlier this month, the much-maligned pharmaceutical businessman and uber troll Martin Shkreli was put in solitary confinement at Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, Forbes has been told by two sources with knowledge of the situation. That came after the Wall Street Journal described how he was using a contraband phone to run his pharma business from behind bars.so now a dude can't work a job just because he's in prison?
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wouldn’t confirm that Shkreli had been placed in solitary confinement, saying it would not release information about “an individual inmate's conditions of confinement.” But it confirmed that the issues raised in the Journal article were “under investigation.”
“When there are allegations of misconduct, they are thoroughly investigated, and appropriate action is taken if allegations are sustained,” a spokesperson for the BOP added. Shkreli’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, declined to comment on his client’s status.
One source close to Shkreli’s legal team said the fraudster was in the special housing unit (SHU) a week and a half after the article was published on March 7, but the source had not received an update on his status. But according to Justin Liverman, a fellow inmate and ex-member of notorious hacker crew Crackas With Attitude, Shkreli was indeed put in solitary and was still there as of Sunday. “Martin is in the SHU,” Liverman told Forbes.
According to the Journal, Shkreli was operating his business, Phoenixus AG, via a cellphone. The company appears to be a reincarnation of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, which jacked up the prices of rare drugs to the fury of patients, doctors and insurers. In one of the worst examples, Turing increased the cost of a pill for patients with HIV/AIDS from $13.50 to $750. Shkreli plans to continue in the pharma game and even sees Phoenixus becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise with him as inmate-in-charge. Earlier this year he even fired the firm's interim CEO over the phone, though he let him stay on the board, according to Journal sources. This all came in Shkreli’s first year in Fort Dix; he was sentenced to seven years for committing securities fraud and securities fraud conspiracy.
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#latestagelikeeconomyPlumb venture like-ital funding any old garbage? :thinking
https://twitter.com/JoeyRyanOnline/status/1113140632409665536
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In Holland you get tax incentives if you hire people with a disability which works rather well.
https://twitter.com/BulletinAtomic/status/1114574487653982208
Expensive Pop-Up 'Dome' Restaurant Under Toronto Highway Prompts Protest
The $500-a-table pop-up dinner is being held just a mile away from the site of a former homeless encampment.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/zmajw3/expensive-pop-up-dome-restaurant-under-toronto-highway-prompts-protest?utm_source=munchiesfbus&fbclid=IwAR1hIs8cwtAX4dyyuE_ctxkJIhkCT8SCr0-8gQrFIvHAZ2jK7MC1cEAjMqQ (https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/zmajw3/expensive-pop-up-dome-restaurant-under-toronto-highway-prompts-protest?utm_source=munchiesfbus&fbclid=IwAR1hIs8cwtAX4dyyuE_ctxkJIhkCT8SCr0-8gQrFIvHAZ2jK7MC1cEAjMqQ)
https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1115746253403508743
You don’t hear people asking to watch “man movies”
Jamie Mosley is a successful entrepreneur, who started a company, and made a lot of money, selling a product you might not have realized there was a market for: E-cigarettes that are safe for jails.
Specifically, for his jail — or at least, that's how it started.
Mosley, a former state police officer who moonlights as a NASCAR driver, was elected Jailer of Laurel County Kentucky in 2012. Without the option to sell tobacco in his commissary, the jail saw a new set of problems emerge, like withdrawal issues, more inmate fighting, and an increase in black market trade of tobacco. Furthermore, Mosley found that corrections staff had one less thing to take away from inmates to discourage bad behavior.
"When I developed the product. It was really not with the intention of starting a company I was just trying to solve a problem within my own facility." Mosley told VICE News. So he got the idea to introduce a vape option to his jail, but all of the ones on the market were too easily turned into weapons. So he invented a solution.
"Everything out there had a metal casing or was a very very hard plastic, and could be hammered down into a shank," Mosley said, "We also wanted something with a very low voltage so that you couldn't utilize it for an ignition source to start a fire with."
Crossbar, as Mosley calls his product, is now in some 33 prisons and jails across the country, and is expected to do $3.5 million in sales this year.
It sells to prisons and jails for about $2 to $3, and the jails, in turn, sell it to inmates for between $10-15. One Crossbar e-cig is said to be the equivalent of about two packs of cigarettes, but inmates say they are still essentially luxury items. And while Mosley sells the ecigs to his own jail at cost, it’s not hard to see the excellent profit margins that would be attractive to other facilities. This additional revenue source is one of the main marketing points for Crossbar.
And while the e-cig trade has made Mosley a fairly wealthy man, he insists he has no plans to give up the job he loves: working at the jail.
#latestagecommunism
https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1120098877502365696
#latestagecommunism
https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1120098877502365696
https://nichegamer.com/2019/04/26/someone-paid-9000-to-get-breastfed-by-a-virtual-anime-youtuber/
If u want that real military equipment in the films, ya need to toe the line.
:rejoice
If u want that real military equipment in the films, ya need to toe the line.
:rejoice
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45860.msg2511431#msg2511431
Remember when Marvel announced a deal with an arms manufacturer and had to call it off due to fan backlash, then went ahead and formed a promotional deal with the US military instead and no one gives a shit?
If u want that real military equipment in the films, ya need to toe the line.
:rejoice
My screening of End Game had 2 direct ads for the US Air Force, and the preview shit before the trailers had 2 segments of trivia shit sponsored by the US Air Force. It was kind of weird tbh.
All the air force chicks I know have an ass.
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Remember when Marvel announced a deal with an arms manufacturer and had to call it off due to fan backlash, then went ahead and formed a promotional deal with the US military instead and no one gives a shit?
No DIAF or GTFO meal is an oversight.
we can't have more than a couple years left as a species
Someone called my car clean today. As in, yo that G is clean.
:gopnik
A single phrase made in passing made going into this much debt all worth it
In 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. As a result, budget and pay cuts have since pushed police officers toward better paying opportunities outside the city, and private security companies have rushed into the city.
Now, private security is a booming industry in Detroit. The largest contractor has reported 25% year-over-year growth since the city’s bankruptcy.
VICE News spoke to Dale Brown, an ex-army paratrooper, who began teaching his own brand of self defense in the early 90's and started his own Detroit-based security company called Threat Management Center in 2000. Brown says his 60-person VIPER force has more than 5,000 private citizens as clients along with 100 businesses. Altogether, the company brings in about two million dollars a year.
"Our goal is to create conditions where violence does not occur," Brown said. "We deter violent criminal behavior by projecting strength. So our vehicles have all white strobe lights. Our vehicles are black and chrome. There’s a strong sense that there’s a strong organization that’s protecting these people."
The impact of private security on the crime rate in Detroit is unclear.
"Do we think that security guards who are visible in neighborhoods deter crime? Yes," said Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who was appointed almost six years ago. "Can security guards replace police officers? No."
Went to sell the one physical game I had; Astrobot, to GameStop. Just to get cash, I had to show my ID, sign the card reader, then fill out a form with my signature, place of employment and my right thumb print. Good grief, GS, go fuck yourself. :doge
Police in several cities across the U.S. are trying to put a stop to the groups of men waging paintball battles as a part of #PaintballsUpGunsDown — an anti-gun violence campaign police are calling misguided.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the #PaintballsUpGunsDown movement has gotten out of control and could backfire if officers mistake a paintball gun for a real firearm.
The grassroots movement first gained traction on social media in early April as a proposed way to resolve conflicts with paint instead of bullets. Since then, participants from Atlanta to Detroit have engaged in full blown paintball wars on city streets, with as many as 50 shooters taking aim at each other at once, hitting innocent bystanders and marking up cars and homes.
Over the last week, police in Detroit started making arrests for destruction of property. Paintballers say they're being targeted for being young and black and that cleaning up paint is a lot better than picking up dead bodies.
It's 3:51 p.m., and chef Ashley MacNeil is busy planning how to run out of food. Sunday brunch service has ended at Toronto's Farmhouse Tavern, and she has already cubed and deep-fried the morning's excess biscuits into croutons to adorn tonight's house salad. Now she is fretting over an excess of shaved Brussels sprouts, which isn't something she wants to freeze. She sighs and hopes it'll be a big salad night.
MacNeil eyes the shimmering skin-on fillets of trout. Fourteen will be enough for tonight's Fish Dish entree, she decides, and she asks one of her cooks to double wrap and freeze six, which she'll later cure into gravlax. "You want to run out, but you want to make sure that you have enough of a selection so people come back," says MacNeil, 34. "It's a weird teeter-totter game."
Reminds me of...
https://www.theonion.com/arbys-now-charging-2-99-to-let-customers-go-behind-cou-1819573207
"Or why not try our Cheesy Grab-N-Go Meal Deal for just 75 cents more, and we'll let you use one of your hands to scoop as much melted cheese as you'd like from our Bottomless Cheddar Trough," Milne continued. "It's that same Arby's taste you love, but piled high in your own two hands.now they're speaking my Arby's language :mouf
(https://i.imgur.com/L5h57CK.jpg)
screenshotted (https://i.imgur.com/YTNmmjs.png) because there's no way that stays up :lol
As someone who's been mocked for wearing concealer I'm taking smug satisfaction in the fact that I was living in the future instead of the past for once. :smug
The Pentagon has built a new missile known as a 'ninja bomb' which deploys a ring of steel blades to kill its target rather than exploding.
The secret R9X missile is designed to destroy individual terrorist targets without harming surrounding civilians and could potentially kill a car's front seat passenger without harming the driver.
As someone who's been mocked for wearing concealer I'm taking smug satisfaction in the fact that I was living in the future instead of the past for once. :smug
A major military contractor about an hour from where I live hasn't had much work for over a year, but they don't want to lay anyone off for fear of making trump look bad. The same placed laid off hundreds 9 years ago because Obama didn't want another helicopter.
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1127678830825672704
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/999719206202544129
https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1128852407872630789
Wait, so is 75 a reasonable answer or not? What's our margin of error on the estimate supposed to be?Maybe it was a philosophy class on German philosophy and the student was supposed to explain a Kantian perspective of this problem? :gopnik
In relation to the infinite numbers that we have, 30 is really damn close to 45. :smug
Wait, so is 75 a reasonable answer or not? What's our margin of error on the estimate supposed to be?
Wait, so is 75 a reasonable answer or not? What's our margin of error on the estimate supposed to be?
Wouldn't 75 or 103 both be "reasonable" (or potentially correct) here because of how it is written ?
I can see how it'd be nice to be able to opt out of it in an indirect manner if you had crippling social anxiety or if you were a woman getting in a car with a strange man but we all know this feature isn't being added for those reasons. (Though I'm sure in this era of "socially conscious" capitalism it will be touted as a feminist breakthrough by some lickspittle or misguided soul.)
Feeling kind of fucked up today.
This guy just moved his entire family from India like 2 weeks ago based on the contract he's on; he's absolutely awful at his job to the point of taking away from the team greatly costing everyone time.
And I'm the one reporting that up to management basically; we are both contractors but I'm the trusted one and the manager doesn't like the guy as is, so he's basically looking for my validation.
Which is my job to do; it's my job to be honest that this guy sucks, that I've tried to help, etc. and it's not working out.
But what does that mean for this dude? Probably totally fucks his life, his wife, and his little kids who just uprooted from India.
:'( :'( :'( :'(
Thought this thread would be the right place.
Feeling kind of fucked up today.You did the right thing. Do not feel bad about yourself.
This guy just moved his entire family from India like 2 weeks ago based on the contract he's on; he's absolutely awful at his job to the point of taking away from the team greatly costing everyone time.
And I'm the one reporting that up to management basically; we are both contractors but I'm the trusted one and the manager doesn't like the guy as is, so he's basically looking for my validation.
Which is my job to do; it's my job to be honest that this guy sucks, that I've tried to help, etc. and it's not working out.
But what does that mean for this dude? Probably totally fucks his life, his wife, and his little kids who just uprooted from India.
:'( :'( :'( :'(
Thought this thread would be the right place.
https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129885613962997760https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129950730528415744
https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129885613962997760
https://twitter.com/grahamorama/status/1130617806276440064
Men and women, faces swaddled in cloth, hunch over steel furnaces. They melt down electronic guts ripped out of laptops and TVs. Under intense heat, gold and copper fused to circuit boards get soft and runny — and can be scraped into basins full of scalding, metallic sludge.
Once it cools, this sludge has value. There’s actually way more gold in 1 ton of computer scrap than in many tons of gold ore. But this process brings terrible costs, namely to human bodies.
As the workers scrape away, they are bathed in dioxin fumes that can cause lesions, brain disorders and cancer. Even those beyond the factory gates are vulnerable. The shredded remains of these electronic devices — chunks of plastic, glass and rubber — are chucked into an incinerator and ultimately disgorged through smokestacks.
Black ash is piped into the sky. This airborne filth can drift for miles and miles, stinging nostrils and killing plant life.
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1130870467408072709
https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1130885877759205376
https://twitter.com/AmazonHelp/status/1130894275322023942
...said a self-professed socdem. :goty2
The group describes itself as "undogmatic and pragmatic" and generally takes moderately liberal economic positions.
Authorities in Connecticut are asking for the public's help in capturing a suspect who teased police officers online with an unusual deal to turn himself in.
Police in Torrington, Connecticut, said Jose Simms, 29, reached out to the town's lieutenant on Facebook earlier this week, saying he'd turn himself in if a Facebook post with his wanted poster received at least 15,000 likes.
Viacom, which owns the television and film rights to the Ninja Turtles, released a long statement earlier this week calling for more verisimilitude in erotic fan fiction centered around the beloved action franchise, emphasizing that the turtles’ cumbersome shells allow for minimal versatility during sexual encounters. To maintain canonical accuracy in X-rated amateur narratives, Viacom explained that fans must recognize that the turtles’ immense carapaces preclude them from virtually any carnal acts except for gentle doggy-style intercourse and manual stimulation.
“Please remember that the turtles are carrying 120-pound slabs of protective bone on their backs that limit them from performing virtually any agile sexual maneuvers and that, if wielded recklessly, could seriously damage bedroom furniture or their own vital organs, and could even fatally crush their sexual partners,” the statement read, adding that any “Kama Sutra-type stuff” is absolutely out of the question. “It is critical that the turtles are never placed in a position where they’re lying on their backs and their partner is on top, as it would be nearly impossible for them to right themselves afterwards, and they would likely remain there flailing until they starved to death. Further, riding them in a cowboy or reverse-cowboy position would put intense, sustained pressure on the delicate plastron that covers their torsos, which could irreversibly damage their lungs and hearts.”
“If you want to have Michelangelo delicately penetrate a prone Splinter from behind, that would probably be okay, or if you want to have Donatello face-fuck Krang from a standing position, that would be fine, too—so long as there is a foam physical therapy wedge behind his knees to help support his weight. But anything involving Leonardo getting tag-teamed by Bebop and Rocksteady or Raphael 69-ing Hamato Yoshi atop a pile of filthy karategi would be perilous and highly unrealistic, and therefore should not be included in any fan-created sex scenes.”
Clickhole but I thought it was real for like a full minute :lol
This collectable coin made in the US celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in WWII and sells for $39.99. Isn’t there a flag missing?(https://i.imgur.com/ambiRQ1.jpg)
QuoteThis collectable coin made in the US celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in WWII and sells for $39.99. Isn’t there a flag missing?(https://i.imgur.com/ambiRQ1.jpg)
the comments :dead(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7WqQ_9UIAE9WcM.jpg:large)
Noah's Ark couldn't handle a little rain :doge
The lawsuit says the road has been rebuilt. The ark was not damaged.
it's not a seaworthy vessel
Neither is your mom but she still gets plenty of passengers
https://twitter.com/kyork20/status/1131928850642952193
https://twitter.com/kyork20/status/1131928850642952193
Kills Per Investor ?
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1132398183395536898
https://twitter.com/serkantoto/status/1132862328989294592
It's a good racket tbh, every cac would get like 15 different European Germanic states with various levels of dubious legitimacy to visit.
tbh the only remaining piece of the Holy Roman Empire is probably more legitimate than die Bundesrepublik.
tbh the only remaining piece of the Holy Roman Empire is probably more legitimate than die Bundesrepublik.
Kara, part of the real old school Reichsbürgerbewegung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsb%C3%BCrgerbewegung). 8)
https://twitter.com/turing_police/status/1133409434137387008what in the fuck am i reading
Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy.:american :american :american :american
...
I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world
what in the fuck am i reading
An editorial by someone?what in the fuck am i reading
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grabstein-cannabis-retail-deserts-ban-marijuana-california-20190528-story.html%3foutputType=amp
Read the whole article and note they describe her job at the bottom.
I find it strange that you guys take issue with this.
Tweet manipulate you guys, it’s not like they hid who she works for and nothing she said is wrong."a modern war of prohibition" is "causing 'cannabis retail deserts' to proliferate"
The irony is that bans on legal cannabis end up propping up the illicit market. Without a legal option, users have little choice but to turn to the most convenient local means available, the illegal market, where businesses don’t comply with the quality control standards of the regulated market. And of course, illegal sales mean losses in tax revenue for the state.
Communities that aren’t yet ready to license retail stores should welcome delivery businesses as a discreet and safe solution.
One is necessary to live, one isn't outside people with chronic pain disorders.
She doesn’t equate them. Stop being triggered by analogies. The analogous portion is they cause people to make harmful decisions.
California liberalism distilled.https://twitter.com/annarae_g/status/1097413471820341249
Residing in an Anime Waifu Desert, life has been very difficult for me.have you tried tweeting @RealDonaldTrump?
Lol riotous y u always here to fight?someone has to hold us accountable after etoliate, Jack Remington, Assimilate and The Walrus all disappeared mysteriously
$150 million will buy you like 5 feet of light rail line.:lol
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Franciscans may soon be able to bounce their way around town, if a Swedish-based mobility company has its way.
Earlier this month, start-up company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities to directly compete with electric scooters as a transportation option.
Cangoroo officials said they plan to first launch their pogo sticks in the Swedish cities of Malmo and Stockholm sometime this summer.
After that, they would deploy the sticks in both London and San Francisco.
On Friday, Cangoroo CEO and co-founder Adam Mikkelsen said his company chose San Francisco as one of its launch cities because of its reputation as place of innovation.
He added that Cangoroo could start deploying anywhere between 100 and 200 pogo sticks in San Francisco as early as late summer or possibly in the fall.
https://twitter.com/Doctor1Hundred/status/1134960823590359041
[Rep. Hunter] and his wife, Margaret, were indicted in 2017 on federal charges of illegally converting more than $250,000 in campaign contributions for personal living expenses. Both have pleaded not guilty and have their next court hearing scheduled for July 29. The trial is set for later this year.
GO RAIDAHS!
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/1135927510649233409
Gonna get one for sure.
Get roasted by AXE body spray on Twitter, brehs. :dead
My straight son and my straight partner have decided to no longer use your products, since you don’t support them. I’m glad, because I think @Axe smells like garbage.I think Jill won actually
Get roasted by AXE body spray on Twitter, brehs. :deadQuoteMy straight son and my straight partner have decided to no longer use your products, since you don’t support them. I’m glad, because I think @Axe smells like garbage.I think Jill won actually
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1134877455813087232Or genocide of the opposing side! :mods
https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137112716592631808 (https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137112716592631808)what's this "we" shit
:doge
https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137112716592631808 (https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137112716592631808)what's this "we" shit
:doge
Sugar Daddy website founder to pay for abortions of women who need to travel out of restrictive states:salute
'If lawmakers will not step in and help these desperate women, then I will,' says Brandon Wade
our media overlords castigate us for peeing bean water money down the drain while our president literally showers in liquid goldhttps://twitter.com/_lizharvey/status/462344079435526144 (2014 vintage, phew 👀 )
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1137464817738952704
(https://i.imgur.com/UCgWGHX_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/910076298516684801 (https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/910076298516684801)
For neighbors, it is more than just rocks. It is a sign of hope.
“We've been using these boulders more aggressively, we're probably going to be spending upwards of a million dollars in the Portland area to get these boulders in, which are really the most effective tool we have,”
How much does it cost for bare minimum accommodations in San Francisco—i.e, a bed and a roof?
In the Tenderloin, that’ll be $60 per night, or $1,200 per month. That’s what the Southern California-based startup Podshare charges for one of its “pods” at the company’s first San Francisco locale.
According to the company, “A pod is a hand-built, high-end bunk bed complete with your own flat screen TV and night light.”
Renting with Podshare buys access to the bed and the communal spaces in the building in what’s essentially a hostel-like setup—complete with a dearth of privacy thanks to the wide open, multi-pod layout of rooms Podshare offers.
https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/910076298516684801 (https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/910076298516684801)wow, I thought I was at least semi-original in directly making this kind of joke from an idea I'd seen slightly referenced before in the thread about ResetERA.com, but this tweet predates its creation!
just for some filthy "both-sides" fun
https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/910172132830740480 (https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/910172132830740480)
https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1138490223741026308 (https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1138490223741026308)
https://thetakeout.com/inside-black-market-vintage-kool-aid-packet-collectors-1835123510
“If you can get past the idea that we’re collecting expired food, Kool-Aid is an ideal thing to collect ”
(http://Why White European Tourists Are Visiting South African Slums (HBO))
Cape Town is the premier tourist destination in South Africa. Wine tours, beaches, and scenic hiking are all within easy driving distance.
But if none of that sounds appealing, you can take a guided tour of a slum.
Mzu Lembeni runs one of the many tour companies that takes tourists into Cape Town’s townships, impoverished areas that were first created when the Apartheid government forced nonwhites to live in segregated areas.
On his tour, tourists can walk right into people’s homes, drink homemade liquor, play with children at a local school, and take as many pictures as they like.
For some people, this sounds like exploitation. But Lembeni, who grew up in a township himself, disagrees.
“If there was no poverty ... I'll do the township tour, because [of] the culture,” Lembeni says. “I don't sell the poverty, I sell the culture.”
Most of Lembeni’s clients are white Europeans, who have come to see the “real” South Africa. Mzu says his tours are the best way to do that.
In a country where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and where the shadow of apartheid still looms over daily life, a township is a pretty good primer on what “real” looks like for a lot of people.
But not everyone who lives in the townships likes the tourists who are constantly wandering their streets.
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https://twitter.com/joakim_holmer/status/1140496441003204608
At high-pressure seminars, the self-help superstar punishes people who don’t measure up by feeding them a “gross shot” of unidentified brown liquid. His lawyers denied the mixture contains laxatives.
Tony Robbins punishes followers who fail at his self-help tasks by calling them onstage in front of large crowds and making them drink an unidentified mixture “designed to have a lasting effect for several hours.”
Video and internal documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News reveal that Robbins places “L” stickers on audience members’ foreheads and then, while the song “Loser” by Beck plays over the speakers, forces them to down a “gross shot” whose contents he does not disclose to them.
The practice is part of a pattern in which the embattled self-help superstar urges his followers to ingest potions while on their quest to “live a healthier, wealthier, more fulfilling, passionate and purposeful life.”
One former staffer told BuzzFeed News that audience members are deliberately led to believe that the “nasty” mixture contains laxatives. "I always felt that this was highly inappropriate and falls into the category of public shaming, which is common for Robbins," he said.
Two more former insiders said they had also witnessed fans being given drinks at other Robbins events, which they were told would have health benefits but made many people sick.
“Participants were throwing up all over the place, in public restrooms, hotel rooms,” said Gary King, Robbins’ former director of security.
Robbins’ lawyers denied that the “gross shot” contained laxatives –– only “pickle juice, apple juice, lemon juice, tomato juice and a dash of tabasco” — and insisted that no “formal report or complaint was ever made” about the drink.
Sir David Attenborough presses the launch button for the RSS Sir David Attenborough, which the public voted to name Boaty McBoatface
https://twitter.com/jkass99/status/1141005193019924480
Woman Named Marijuana Pepsi Earns Ph.D
https://twitter.com/WSJopinion/status/1143550643535273984
:lol
(https://i.imgur.com/FyrYN3O_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium):lol reminds me of that legendary song he made when people were mad he was pro-Hillary
https://twitter.com/WormDrivePRO/status/1143945911757758464i like the truck speeding away :heart
https://twitter.com/rysimmons/status/1144283018825277440Fuck, i didn't win the 100k.
https://twitter.com/bmyska/status/1144068103355162624
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1143864261036466176
i've got several puma shoes. :shaking
https://twitter.com/BRANDONWARDELL/status/1146230170468007936
We got about $1000 knocked off by doing it itemized instead of doing their package deal that was originally given to us, but they were cool with charging the extra grand for shit we weren't using and would have had we not asked it to be itemized. Really the craziest part to me is they need full payment immediately. Most people don't even have $500 on hand, let alone $5-12K or higher.
What happens when it can't be paid for? Do funeral homes just hold bodies hostage at that point?
Without subjecting death to the market how would we get innovations like *checks notes* lobbying state and local governments to require survivors to buy caskets before a body can be cremated.
iirc funeral homes are a duopoly and they often buy local homes and keep the name / appearance of remaining under the same ownership. This was years and years ago, though.
You might not have a personal experience with #latestagecapitalism until you get an itemized bill from a funeral home and see shit like:
$300 for an obituary in the local paper (something that was free for decades, just a death notice is $65)
$2100 for cremation, this doesn't include the urn or any services
$300 and up for an urn, even if you're using a temporary urn and will be using your own or moving the ashes to your own
Referring to the guest books/thank you cards as "merchandise"
Payments are due in full before services are rendered, which is really wild to me since you're expecting people who just lost a family member (who may have been the head of household and money might be tied up in the immediate aftermath) to have anywhere from $4000-12000 and up on hand immediately.
Shit is pretty wild, tbh
If only there were other ways to borrow money, or some sort of credit service, maybe one's with cards accepted by businesses that give them money in exchange for you paying it off over time or something.
I know I've been kind of boring lately, not even getting into arguments with anyone; I'll try to do better.
you should try taking a page out of MMaRsu's playbook
asking someone to emulate dutch forum posting patterns is irresponsible :ufup
If only there were other ways to borrow money, or some sort of credit service, maybe one's with cards accepted by businesses that give them money in exchange for you paying it off over time or something.
If only there were other ways to borrow money, or some sort of credit service, maybe one's with cards accepted by businesses that give them money in exchange for you paying it off over time or something.
Yeah so, that $8k I threw on my card for a few weeks for my grandma's funeral ago pushed it over the limit and now my credit's pretty fucked for the near future.
Scary part is that I was the only one with a limit high enough to do it, and we still ended up splitting off a part so someone else in the family could help.
I apologize if it came off insensitive.. I was raging along with you guys but didn't comment as discussing this shit is pretty triggering to me (laugh if you want, I have PTSD surrounding the death of my Mother).
But you really wouldn't want these assholes involved in any sort of credit arrangement is all I'm saying, as poorly as I came across that's all I meant.
I deserve the dunking, really not sure where my head was at there.
is it really just us poor mexicanos that do bbq fundraisers for every funeral? :dogeI think it's just latinos who actually honor their dead these days, white people put them in shitty homes waiting for them to die
is it really just us poor mexicanos that do bbq fundraisers for every funeral? :dogeI think it's just latinos who actually honor their dead these days, white people put them in shitty homes waiting for them to die
If only there were other ways to borrow money, or some sort of credit service, maybe one's with cards accepted by businesses that give them money in exchange for you paying it off over time or something.
Yeah so, that $8k I threw on my card for a few weeks for my grandma's funeral ago pushed it over the limit and now my credit's pretty fucked for the near future.
Scary part is that I was the only one with a limit high enough to do it, and we still ended up splitting off a part so someone else in the family could help.
It's kind of a weird thing to ask, imo, but have you tried crowdfunding with the funeral costs? When my mom passed a way, my sister's friends started a donation through Facebook, ended up collecting like $2,500. It ain't nothing. But like I said, I could never do that myself, I feel weird asking people for money.
We got about $1000 knocked off by doing it itemized instead of doing their package deal that was originally given to us, but they were cool with charging the extra grand for shit we weren't using and would have had we not asked it to be itemized. Really the craziest part to me is they need full payment immediately. Most people don't even have $500 on hand, let alone $5-12K or higher.
What happens when it can't be paid for? Do funeral homes just hold bodies hostage at that point?
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.
A five-year battle by Benedictine monks in Louisiana for the right to make and sell caskets is over, and the holy carpenters have won. The Supreme Court declined this week to get involved in the fight between St. Joseph Abbey and the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, letting stand a ruling that declared a state-enforced industry monopoly illegal.
The law in question required anybody who wanted to sell caskets to undergo funeral director training and set up embalming equipment, rules that have nothing to do with creating or selling fancy wooden boxes with which to store dead bodies, but everything to do with making sure the funeral industry controlled the marketplace. Reason's Damon Root had been following the case when the U.S. Court of Appeals struck it down in March, ruling "That Louisiana does not even require a casket for burial, does not impose requirements for their construction or design, does not require a casket to be sealed before burial, and does not require funeral directors to have any special expertise in caskets, leads us to conclude that no rational relationship exists between public health and safety and limiting intrastate sales of caskets to funeral establishments."
If only there were other ways to borrow money, or some sort of credit service, maybe one's with cards accepted by businesses that give them money in exchange for you paying it off over time or something.
What does it mean when Facebook says it wants its own currency? We explore the power, the potential and the pitfalls of Libra. How does Facebook plan to make money out of making money? Can anyone stop it? And does this represent a fundamental shift in the model of surveillance capitalism? Plus we consider some of the rivals it faces: Bitcoin, WeChat and the good old dollar.
Detroit-based rapper Tiny Jag pulled out of a Detroit, MI music festival this week after she learned that white concert-goers would be charged a higher price than people of color.
Jag, also known as Jillian Graham, told the Detroit Metro Times that she found out about AfroFuture Fest's pay model when a white friend reached out to her and sent her a screenshot via Instagram that outlined the pay difference. The early bird POC ("people of color") ticket was $10 while the early bird "non-POC" ticket cost $20.
"I was immediately enraged just because I am biracial," Graham told the Metro Times. "I have family members that would have, under those circumstances, been subjected to something that I would not ever want them to be in ... especially not because of anything that I have going on."
The organizers of the event are upfront that they are charging different prices based on race, including sharing artwork on social media with a caption about early-bird tickets that reads, “Early Bird POC Tickets are $10 & $20 for NONPOC’s & on sale until JULY 17th.”
WHY DO WE HAVE POC(PEOPLE OF COLOR) AND NONPOC(WHITE PEOPLE) TICKETS? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! EQUALITY MEANS TREATING EVERYONE THE SAME EQUITY IS INSURING EVERYONE HAS WHAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL OUR TICKET STRUCTURE WAS BUILT TO INSURE THAT THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES (PEOPLE OF COLOR) ARE PROVIDED WITH AN EQUITABLE CHANCE AT ENJOYING EVENTS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY(BLACK DETROIT). AFFORDING JOY AND PLEASURE IS UNFORTUNATELY STILL A PRIVILEGE IN OUR SOCIETY FOR POC AND WE BELIEVE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO RECEIVING SUCH. WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY TIMES ORGASMIC EVENTS HAPPENING IN DETROIT AND OTHER POC POPULATED CITIES AND WHAT CONSISTENTLY HAPPENS IS PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITING MOST FROM AFFORDABLE TICKET PRICES BECAUSE OF THEIR PROXIMITY TO WEALTH. THIS CYCLE DISPROPORTIONATELY DISPLACES BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING ENTERTAINMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. AS AN AFROFUTURIST YOUTH LEAD INITIATIVE THE VOICES OF OUR YOUTH INFORM OUR RESISTANCE. HERE'S WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY " IF YOU DON'T SEE MY BLACKNESS, YOU DON'T SEE ME. PERIODT!"https://twitter.com/AFYDet/status/1146573010247327744
Staff writer @TheAtlantic covering internet culture | Research affiliate @BKCHarvard | Visiting @NiemanFdn fellow Nov ‘19
I want to be able to wear a dress w/ a sweater to work in the summer and not freeze my face off
She's right, AC is necessary for some people in some places but it gets way overused because Americans are sexist hogpeople
US government: *bans Juggalos*
When juggalos are outlawed, only outlaws will whoop whoop.
When juggalos are outlawed, only outlaws will whoop whoop.In the words of history's greatest philosopher: "if you don't whoop whoop me back, you're no longer fresh, you're stale; the difference between fresh and stale is common sense"
US government: *bans Juggalos*They've actually been listed by the FBI as a gang since 2011. I know this because reason squeezed two videos out of the whole thing three years apart, the second of which is the one that contains the above immortal line about halfway through.
I’m kind of curious who is responsible for taking care of spiders. I would have thought pest control would fall to renters
I’m kind of curious who is responsible for taking care of spiders. I would have thought pest control would fall to rentersFrom the first result of a google search it appears to be a landlords responsibility (also good property management) BUT if it's determined to be due to the renters behavior (like leaving food all over the floor or whatever) they can apply penalties according to the lease, though this could vary by state. That does seem to make sense from just a logical perspective and thinking about stuff like smoke and water damage.
BAN ALL THE BANKERS AND KILL THEM
https://twitter.com/davegwitt/status/1149100995529662467I'll do it if they let me apply any editorial change i want, without appeal.
PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION FOR EXPOSURE.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1149260810222485504
Delphine said: “People like to make the joke that by 2019 they thought there would be flying cars, amazing medical technology, and other humankind forwarding ideas. I think stuff like that is happening constantly – but also people are buying bottled gamer girl bath water.”
...apply...to....high school? :confused
My guess is the homies and admission at said private schools won't actually give a shit lol. Very good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QCySNv7cxA Pay $4K a month to live like a college student, bruh.Are this the same people who hate the commies, because then they can't own shit? Paying 4 thousand dollars for a company to select a personality for you... :-\
And then again, maybe getting out of the car—out of view of the cameras—doesn't sound that bad after all.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1149260810222485504
Honestly a family Slack sounds much, much, much better than getting stuck in family group texts :rage
https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/1151475387567919105
https://twitter.com/Kotobukiya_EN/status/1151649031376003072
https://twitter.com/Kotobukiya_EN/status/1151649031376003072
Pinhead bishoujo statue :exxy
:wagPinhead bishoujo statue :exxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utsyWNoupM
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1153395615977672722 (https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1153395615977672722)
:doge
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1153695511385296896Someone broke the Masquerade.
Lol that’s kinda cute tho
So they’re buying super yachts for when the mass migrations make the mainlands unsafe or?
my favourite American snack is Slim Jims, a brand of cured meat and “cheese food product” manufactured in Illinois, packaged as two separate, foot-long strands.
https://twitter.com/robinlvalentine/status/1155206827887464450
It would be cool to have cyborg nipples.
With wild names like “Rhino 69,” “Black Mamba,” and “Mojo Nights,” so-called “natural” sexual enhancement supplements are a fixture behind the counters of bodegas, gas stations, corner stores, and delis across the country.
They're also at the center of a nationwide legal battle being waged by a Texas supplements company called Outlaw Laboratory.
Since 2017, Outlaw has sent legal letters to small businesses demanding they stop selling the supplements, and pay a settlement of as much as $14,000, or get sued.
And Outlaw has followed through, suing hundreds of stores, as well as several distributors, in at least six states, charging that retailers are selling dangerous and deceptively labeled “natural” sex supplements that may contain illegal pharmaceuticals that the FDA has issued public health notifications over. Outlaw is also claiming that its own sexual enhancement supplement, “TriSteel,” has been damaged by unfair competition.
“I remember seeing these products in liquor stores and just kind of didn't think anything about it,” Robert Tauler, a lawyer representing Outlaw in many of their cases, told VICE News. “But in reality it's a national criminal conspiracy taking place in front of everyone's face.”
But lawyers representing the small businesses say Outlaw’s tactics are nothing more than a shakedown of small businesses.
Lawyer Mark Poe is representing many San Diego stores and is fighting back against Outlaw with a class-action countersuit.
“As we started looking at that demand letter, it became clear to us that the demand letter itself was an instance of mail fraud,” he said. “The demand letter sets forth a number of false statements and then demands money from the stores. That's fraud. You cannot make fraudulent statements in exchange for demand of money.”
The worst is when you're at the gas station register with your sushi/tuna salad sandwich, tin of wintergreen Copenhagen, and boner pills and the mentally challenged attendant asks if you want a bag. ::)Yeah, an exit bag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag) would really complete that shopping list.
You're goddamned right I want a bag! jeezus
Explore the just-released collection of Holocaust records
It would be cool to have cyborg nipples. I have so many ideas for how you could use that.i'd take a self-cleaning cyborg bumhole with an air freshener
Need to charge your phone? No need to be tethered to the wall or battery brick.
Wanna consume something discreetly and directly into your bloodstream? BOOM. You're under all the influences.
Need to dial in your stroke/69 game, pop a sata cable on there and get realtime sex tips from each others nips.
Oh cool I was thinking the world needed a Bernie Sanders' asshole flavored ice cream :wow"open joyfully" :aah
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i got kicked out of a speed dating event cause i didn't pay for the tickets :fbm
“Alaska? You can’t be serious.”
It was a common reaction when folks on the South and West sides heard about a job opportunity in the fish processing industry in Alaska that was being offered to people in impoverished neighborhoods, including those with criminal records.
But 15 people showed up to hear more Tuesday afternoon at 6630 South King Dr., the headquarters of Project H.O.O.D., a non-profit dedicated to uplifting the disadvantaged.
Attendees watched a 15-minute orientation video on entry-level positions in the fish processing industry.
“This is challenging work, temperatures are chilly and you’ll be working around water as you prepare fish for canning, freezing or smoking, and you’ll be standing on your feet most of the time,” the narrator says, adding that work locations can be remote — away from cities and towns.
The job description: gutting fish for at least 12 hours a day for 90 days straight — no days off. Hourly wage is $10.25 — with plenty of overtime at time and a half. Room and board will be provided for $10 a day at a dormitory type setting.
Copper River Seafood is the employer and its officials are trying to fill seasonal jobs, said Tawanna Cotten, employment director at Project H.O.O.D.
“Will we be able to go out and see things in Alaska?” asked one young person after watching the video.
https://splinternews.com/equinox-has-always-been-bad-you-fools-1837064811/
:dead
The WashPost obtained an invitation to today's event, and reported: "Tickets are priced at $100,000 for a photo opportunity and lunch, and $250,000 for the package that includes the roundtable discussion."
Quote“Alaska? You can’t be serious.”
It was a common reaction when folks on the South and West sides heard about a job opportunity in the fish processing industry in Alaska that was being offered to people in impoverished neighborhoods, including those with criminal records.
But 15 people showed up to hear more Tuesday afternoon at 6630 South King Dr., the headquarters of Project H.O.O.D., a non-profit dedicated to uplifting the disadvantaged.
Attendees watched a 15-minute orientation video on entry-level positions in the fish processing industry.
“This is challenging work, temperatures are chilly and you’ll be working around water as you prepare fish for canning, freezing or smoking, and you’ll be standing on your feet most of the time,” the narrator says, adding that work locations can be remote — away from cities and towns.
The job description: gutting fish for at least 12 hours a day for 90 days straight — no days off. Hourly wage is $10.25 — with plenty of overtime at time and a half. Room and board will be provided for $10 a day at a dormitory type setting.
Copper River Seafood is the employer and its officials are trying to fill seasonal jobs, said Tawanna Cotten, employment director at Project H.O.O.D.
“Will we be able to go out and see things in Alaska?” asked one young person after watching the video.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/8/6/20757612/job-opportunity-offered-impoverished-communities-chicago-gut-fish-alaska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JziRQDdyjk
I think the solution is to punish people who are wrong on the internet
When you train and fund compradors so much they actually get better than you :dead
https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.businessinsider.com/us-special-operations-forces-compete-in-fuerzas-comando-rankings-2019-8
Media giants Viacom and CBS to merge in latest mega-deal
Won't somebody please think about the *checks notes* people looking in gas station trash cans for bottles to return.
:huh
Saying "YouTube recommended <x>" is technically true but disingenuous; it implies to the general public the YouTube corporate brass are deliberately handpicking this stuff, when really it's an unfeeling algorithm.
That said, YouTube should be taken to task over letting some of this stuff become as big a problem as it is. Although from a different perspective, YouTube corporate *is* now making recommendations -- or rather un-recommendations.
I mean it's Sweden, everyone's a robot.
An unfeeling algorithm written by quasi humans who may or may not have some approximation of human empathy (I've worked with enough programmers)
lol what a crock of shit
Yeah.... one thing to point out the chauvinism in tech workplaces / culture and another to call all programmers and admins sociopath robots.
Their business model is just dumb. They will never ever make money and will quickly go bankrupt if we go into recession.
Basically, the problem with their model is they are both an renter and a lessee.
They rent long term corporate leases (10-15 years) from people that own office buildings, then rent out to short term tenants that can leave at any time for a very slightly higher rate.
There just isn’t enough pricing power in the arbitrage they are trying to cash in on... and if there is ever a slump in commercial rent pricings or a dip in the startup economy, watch the fuck out because their renters can disappear overnight but they’re still on the hook for $4 billion/year in lease payments.
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1161478865279209472
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1161843369900949504
WeWork, which says in the offering document that its corporate mission is no less than to "to elevate the world's consciousness," is on track to lose $2.7 billion this year from its operations, up from nearly $1.7 billion last year.:doge
https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/sorry-android-users-these-iphone-snobs-wont-date-you/Reads like The Onion. But I suppose this works out for everyone. If someone is that off their rocker that they only date someone with the same brand of mobile electronic devices then it's best those two don't scurry out of their bubble.
yesss, good consumer, make daddy Apple©™™ proud
Their business model is just dumb. They will never ever make money and will quickly go bankrupt if we go into recession.
Basically, the problem with their model is they are both an renter and a lessee.
They rent long term corporate leases (10-15 years) from people that own office buildings, then rent out to short term tenants that can leave at any time for a very slightly higher rate.
There just isn’t enough pricing power in the arbitrage they are trying to cash in on... and if there is ever a slump in commercial rent pricings or a dip in the startup economy, watch the fuck out because their renters can disappear overnight but they’re still on the hook for $4 billion/year in lease payments.
There's an entire section of this prospectus that goes on, page after page, explaining all of the myriad deals that Neumann has with WeWork -- everything from his equity share, to the promises he's made to donate $1 billion with his wife to charity, to his habit of buying office space and then signing deals to lease the space back to WeWork, sometimes on the exact same day.
You forgot that he also is paying for these buildings using loans against his stake in the company that he later repaid with wework “stock”
You forgot that he also is paying for these buildings using loans against his stake in the company that he later repaid with wework “stock”
:rejoice
but they still managed to get goldman sachs and softbank to invest billions, and they aren't exactly distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed when it comes to money.. are they just banking on being able to dump this into retail when they go public?
sounds risky af with those numbers, but what do i know
The big tech bail out of 2021 is going to be fun
Yahoo bailed out for $200 billion as US tax payers cry themselves to sleep
The big tech bail out of 2021 is going to be fun
Yahoo bailed out for $200 billion as US tax payers cry themselves to sleep
Marissa Mayer leaves the company with a $400M golden parachute.
https://twitter.com/AmazonFCHannah/status/1161910397336768512Already posted breh.
Waves (Sunnyvale, CA) is a dating app for sexual fantasies
“It basically works like this: If you're into ropes, you put that in Waves, and all your potential matches are also people who are into ropes.” - Emerson
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wavesMy fetish is Disney+ account sharing.QuoteWaves (Sunnyvale, CA) is a dating app for sexual fantasies
“It basically works like this: If you're into ropes, you put that in Waves, and all your potential matches are also people who are into ropes.” - Emerson
https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1164233656799506433
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This reminds me that it has been about a year since I reported my dish washer broken and it still isn't fixed. I think there is black mold in there now.
what about gay fascists?leave mayor buttchug out of this! :lol
what about gay fascists?
Whatever this is, is gonna be amazing.
https://twitter.com/Dior/status/1167406614749446144
https://twitter.com/lazerwalker/status/1156274732309913601
more #cyberpunk than #latestagecapitalism but still
Whatever this is, is gonna be amazing.
https://twitter.com/Dior/status/1167406614749446144
This one didn't really grab me until I saw the name. The French :goty2
Also deffo not "#latestagecapitalism". :wag
Also deffo not "#latestagecapitalism". :wag
latestagecapitalism was always regular capitalism reheated, with a side of "inclusivity"
also thinking I read the shit thread :gurl
In some of their copy I think they talked about protecting/cherishing/partnering with indigenous cultures which is maybe a bit different from "inclusiveness" but in the same general spirit.
Whatever this is, is gonna be amazing.What was it?
https://twitter.com/Dior/status/1167406614749446144
It's a real shame the police wasn't called so she could spend some quality time in a Moroccan jail.
If she had assaulted people like this in her homeland, that's precisely where she would have ended up.
British police would have sent her to a Moroccan jail?
https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/1168983662370721799They should design it like Remedy's Control FBC or the Resident Evil Mansion.
https://twitter.com/FB_FilmAnalysis/status/1169696315879481344
The security industry responded, promoting and selling programs that schools and local law enforcement officers adapt with fake blood, menacing masked “shooters” and simulated gunfire. Last year at Short Pump Middle School in Glen Allen, Va., school officials staged an unannounced active-shooter drill featuring multiple fire alarms, loud noises and unseen people jiggling the handles of classroom doors.
Thinking it was a real attack, students wept and texted goodbyes. Afterward, parents were furious.
https://twitter.com/business/status/1169908818915950592
should go in the late stage feudalism thread ::)
https://twitter.com/kenradio/status/1170100080520704000:nope
Bench is covered with spikes that appear after you pay.:ohyeah
:nopeQuoteBench is covered with spikes that appear after you pay.:ohyeah
The bench with spikes was made by an artist [presumably to make a point about capitalism], but I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen this for real already.
https://twitter.com/LAController/status/1171121360770199555(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EECoqb2U0AItCu3?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/BurnACopCar/status/1171552746216013825
It's the Urwerk 1001, if anyone's curious. It keeps time up to tracking centuries and millenias.
Wear a massive chunk of metal on your wrist to own the poors.It'll make more sense once the 0.01% will be the only one able to afford the immortality serum.
Wear a massive chunk of metal on your wrist to own the poors.
It looks pretty cool. Has that creepy fucker Doug Stamper too, will probably give it a watch.
https://twitter.com/LAController/status/1171121360770199555(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EECoqb2U0AItCu3?format=jpg&name=large)
I see it's called "Camp". At least they aren't trying to hide where they got their inspiration.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7177/6892464735_f8a8c1d505_b.jpg)
https://twitter.com/OGBayArea/status/1171874597852966912
https://twitter.com/OffsetYRN/status/1171698130930323456
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1170055299811696640QuoteThe security industry responded, promoting and selling programs that schools and local law enforcement officers adapt with fake blood, menacing masked “shooters” and simulated gunfire. Last year at Short Pump Middle School in Glen Allen, Va., school officials staged an unannounced active-shooter drill featuring multiple fire alarms, loud noises and unseen people jiggling the handles of classroom doors.
Thinking it was a real attack, students wept and texted goodbyes. Afterward, parents were furious.
law enforcement morons turning school shootings into a grift is the most amerikan shit
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1172936577061965824
According to The Washington Post, the toilet could have been housed in the White House after the Guggenheim Museum offered it to President Donald Trump and Melania Trump. The couple requested a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, but were told that the painting they wanted, "Landscape With Snow" was "prohibited from travel except for the rarest occasions."
(https://i.imgur.com/hXMaWQA.jpg)
:-\
Devon McKenzie had less than a minute to enjoy life free from the threat of eviction.Totally legitimate transfer.
She had gone to the Landlord and Tenant Board on Wednesday to fight a personal-use eviction issued by her new landlord, a first-time homebuyer who had taken on the title after purchasing just one per cent of the house where she rents.
The landlord withdrew the application, only to moments later issue a new one — effectively beginning the months-long ordeal over again.
McKenzie was three steps from the hearing room door when the property manager, on behalf of the landlord, handed her the new N12 eviction forms.
“Are you f---ing kidding me,” responded McKenzie. She later told the Star she has no choice but to fight to stay in her home. “It still comes down to I can’t afford to live anywhere else.”
It’s a case she and her lawyer say showcases a potential abuse of legal process — first in using the sliver of ownership to issue a personal-use eviction in a city where a lack of affordable rental units and no limit on what can be charged for empty apartments serve as incentives for landlords to push tenants out; and now, using the option to withdraw the application to avoid a full hearing and a decision that might not be in the landlord’s favour.
A transfer document from the Land Registry Office dated June 18 shows that a couple who own the home transferred a one per cent interest to 20-year-old Jacky Bai Jun Liu, worth $9,000.
Soon after the sale, Liu sent notices informing seven tenants in two units that he would be pursuing his right as a landlord to evict them so he could move in.
George Chiang and Harriet Ho-Yin Chung who purchased the property for $230,000 in 2001, property records show. The couple are joint owners of 17 homes across the former city of Toronto, property records show.Of course they do.
I almost didn’t want to pick up my OG iPad on day one when I heard about that. But wanted to play with it and cringed my way out the store to applause.
https://twitter.com/Prestige_T/status/1174415349929824256
Wtf is bolt? Does the world really need a 3rd structurally unprofitable taxi company?For when the first two go under.
https://twitter.com/ScottMAustin/status/1175818192939151360
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1175877504164401152
https://twitter.com/ScottMAustin/status/1175818192939151360
Gizmondo has a recap and honestly the eccentricities are rather tame, either jokes or classic billionaire delusions. The most offensive thing is instituting that 20% of the workforce should be fired yearly.
Edit :
https://gizmodo.com/high-on-his-own-supply-wework-ceo-reportedly-wants-to-1838230138 (https://gizmodo.com/high-on-his-own-supply-wework-ceo-reportedly-wants-to-1838230138)
Statistics Canada says in 2017 the average total income of all tax filers rose 2.5 per cent compared to the previous year, while those in the top one per cent saw average income growth of 8.5 per cent.
The report says the top 0.1 per cent took home 17.2 per cent more income, and people in the top 0.01 per cent, who made at least $2.7 million, saw their incomes rise 27.2 per cent
https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/1176993857579470848 (https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/1176993857579470848)
:doge
Bitcoin is about freedom and it is in no-way dangerous to society
https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1171131177622786048
https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1171131177622786048
https://twitter.com/traemurray/status/1174470262030364672
https://twitter.com/BENJEYD/status/1176919319307005957
:doge
https://twitter.com/traemurray/status/1174470262030364672
"Okay sweetie just keep crying and hold it a little higher so mommy can take a picture."
There is, of course, only one kind of union. The ineffectual kind. Therefore, unions are bad.
Sterling analysis.
Bernstein rejects the “theory of collapse” as an historic road toward socialism. Now what is the way to a socialist society that is proposed by his “theory of adaptation to capitalism”? Bernstein answers this question only by allusion. Konrad Schmidt, however, attempts to deal with this detail in the manner of Bernstein. According to him, “the trade union struggle for hours and wages and the political struggle for reforms will lead to a progressively more extensive control over the conditions of production,” and “as the rights of the capitalist proprietor will be diminished through legislation, he will be reduced in time to the role of a simple administrator.” “The capitalist will see his property lose more and more value to himself” till finally “the direction and administration of exploitation will be taken from him entirely” and “collective exploitation” instituted.
Therefore trade unions, social reforms and, adds Bernstein, the political democratisation of the State are the means of the progressive realisation of socialism.
But the fact is that the principal function of trade unions (and this was best explained by Bernstein himself in Neue Zeit in 1891) consists in providing the workers with a means of realising the capitalist law of wages, that is to say, the sale of their labour power at current market prices. Trade unions enable the proletariat to utilise at each instant, the conjuncture of the market. But these conjunctures – (1) the labour demand determined by the state of production, (2) the labour supply created by the proletarianisation of the middle strata of society and the natural reproduction of the working classes, and (3) the momentary degree of productivity of labour – these remain outside of the sphere of influence of the trade unions. Trade unions cannot suppress the law of wages. Under the most favourable circumstances, the best they can do is to impose on capitalist exploitation the “normal” limit of the moment. They have not, however, the power to suppress exploitation itself, not even gradually.
Schmidt, it is true, sees the present trade union movement in a “feeble initial stage.” He hopes that “in the future” the “trade union movement will exercise a progressively increased influence over the regulation of production.” But by the regulation of production we can only understand two things: intervention in the technical domain of the process of production and fixing the scale of production itself. What is the nature of the influence exercised by trade unions in these two departments? It is clear that in the technique of production, the interest of the capitalist agrees, up to a certain point, with the progress and development of capitalist economy. It is his own interest that pushes him to make technical improvements. But the isolated worker finds himself in a decidedly different position. Each technical transformation contradicts his interests. It aggravates his helpless situation by depreciating the value of his labour power and rendering his work more intense, more monotonous and more difficult.
Insofar as trade unions can intervene in the technical department of production, they can only oppose technical innovation. But here they do not act in the interest of the entire working class and its emancipation, which accords rather with technical progress and, therefore, with the interest of the isolated capitalist. They act here in a reactionary direction. And in fact, we find efforts on the part of workers to intervene in the technical part of production not in the future, where Schmidt looks for it, but in the past of the trade union movement. Such efforts characterised the old phase of English trade unionism (up to 1860), when the British organisations were still tied to medieval “corporative” vestiges and found inspiration in the outworn principle of “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s labour,” as expressed by Webb in his History of Trade Unionism.
On the other hand, the effort of the labour unions to fix the scale of production and the prices of commodities is a recent phenomenon. Only recently have we witnessed such attempts – and again in England. In their nature and tendencies, these efforts resemble those dealt with above. What does the active participation of trade unions in fixing the scale and cost of production amount to? It amounts to a cartel of the workers and entrepreneurs in a common stand against the consumer and especially rival entrepreneurs. In no way is the effect of this any different from that of ordinary employers’ associations. Basically we no longer have here a struggle between Labour and Capital, but the solidarity of Capital and Labour against the total consumers. Considered for its social worth, it is seen to be a reactionary move that cannot be a stage in the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat, because it connotes the very opposite of the class struggle. Considered from the angle of practical application, it is found to be a utopia which, as shown by a rapid examination, cannot be extended to the large branches of industry producing for the world market.
I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. :idont
Why do you think stagnating wages and declining unions coincide?lazy workers, fortunately there's a solution:
I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. :idont
You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. :idontYou just can't help yourself including your flawed premise, huh? :larry
pray tell, if unions are carriages then what does the car represent?:juche
Just told my staff over the group chat they're getting new gadgets 8)Why do you think stagnating wages and declining unions coincide?lazy workers, fortunately there's a solution:
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1178429549689921536 (https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1178429549689921536)
An example in my field of work would be "TheFutur" a platform where creatives learn how to do business, ask more money for design and negotiate better.pray tell, if unions are carriages then what does the car represent?I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. :idont
I guess if I had taken an entrepreneurship class Kroger wouldn't have paid me $9.20/hr last year as a cashierEven if you had, your boss would have teleported someone across the border to do your job.
An example in my field of work would be "TheFutur" a platform where creatives learn how to do business, ask more money for design and negotiate better.
The key is a better educated workforce that understands how business works and can take care of themselves better and I'm in favor of UBI or the Freedom Dividend(TM) to vastly simplify the system of benefits and subsidies.
These two examples are from some highly talented people. Not the same dumb dumbs banding together. Take videogame journo's for example.
Would it make any difference if Imran Khan and Patrick Klepek negotiated their wages together instead of alone? lmao.
The idea of a union is based on the fact that human labour can be used as a bargaining chip in a negotiation and that's simply not the case anymore.
Because in a globalized world there's always some scrub willing to do it for way less.
Or workers/jobs as fungible as some like to pretend.idk man, just speaking anecdotally based on my own experience/observations large businesses tend to set up KPIs around cost cutting for back office functions so they don't really shed a tear axing an employee/teams/departments if they can get scrubs for cheap even if they are in another country and not especially competent. it's extremely shortsighted but ultimately these businesses will say they exist to maximise shareholder returns and value
Three weeks vacation a year lol.
https://twitter.com/MarketWatch/status/1178369905244229633
It's understandable but calling it struggling or expecting sympathy is ridiculous.
It's understandable because once you get a little bit of money there are a ton of social pressures to spend money; if you really are struggling with that kind of income you need to stop succumbing to those social pressures.
It's understandable because once you get a little bit of money there are a ton of social pressures to spend money; if you really are struggling with that kind of income you need to stop succumbing to those social pressures.Yup. My eyes glazed over after I read 24k preschool. Is there a pithy catch-all like there is for people on foodstamps? What's the "new iPhone every year" of this stratum of society?
It's understandable but calling it struggling or expecting sympathy is ridiculous.
It's understandable because once you get a little bit of money there are a ton of social pressures to spend money; if you really are struggling with that kind of income you need to stop succumbing to those social pressures.
3 weekly vacations a year and $500/month in Entertainment
It really sucks to be poor because you are saving 30 grand a year and have to buy a $2 million house.
Wait, you actually pay your student loan debt? :lol
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1179808512706256899
Sesame Street won't have new episodes on PBS? That's fucked up.
Fuck all the poor kids, eh? Not Amir0x style.
Episodes will air for free on PBS “at some point” after the episodes debut on HBO Max, Vulture reports
Ah OK. Not that little kids really have any clue if a show is brand new or not.
Ah OK. Not that little kids really have any clue if a show is brand new or not.
Unless they're using landline phones or something. :neo
WTF? Is that an actual union's twitter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UaJy7wb5kThe Cruise ship industry is also total shit. Most are chartered in countries with terrible labor protections and wages, allowing them to bypass sensible wage and employee protections.
tl;dw
It's a tax dodge.
https://www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-richGuillotines, then?
https://twitter.com/blinkist/status/1122901449997004800
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
is it not what Cliffnotes did?This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/1180617528806170624Don't worry Ivanka Trump has been granted trademarks to produce voting machines in China so the election is safe from Joe Biden, his crackhead son and their oligarch buddies.
is it not what Cliffnotes did?This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
is it not what Cliffnotes did?This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.
It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has seen a huge increase in visitor numbers in recent years as part of a growing global interest in dark tourism.:doge
And now, intrepid travelers be able to get inside the control room where the world's worst nuclear accident unfolded, Chernobyl tour companies confirmed to CNN.
Those who venture inside the highly radioactive area at the infamous Reactor 4 will be provided with white protective suits, helmets and masks for the brief visits. After leaving, they will be subject to two radiology tests to measure exposure.
is it not what Cliffnotes did?This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.
It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?
Some people have long commutes and can listen to hours long podcasts/audio books. There's a market created by urban and suburban sprawl and rush hour traffic that seems to extend past what rush hour should be.
"Almost a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a claim that would become famous. He said that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, thanks to the many loopholes and deductions that benefit the wealthy.
His claim sparked a debate about the fairness of the tax system. In the end, the expert consensus was that, whatever Buffett’s specific situation, most wealthy Americans did not actually pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. “Is it the norm?” the fact-checking outfit Politifact asked. “No.”
Time for an update: It’s the norm now.
For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax rate — spanning federal, state and local taxes — than any other income group, according to newly released data."
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1181651251139940352
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1181679344671952897https://twitter.com/FB_FilmAnalysis/status/1181752838306713600
:doge
I don't fully understand the situation other than reading this:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/List-Bay-Area-Locations-PGE-Power-Shutoffs-562515431.html
But I saw this part: "The outage will mark the largest preventative outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines."
And wondered why does this company have so many faulty lines? Is this much more common than I think it would be? The article points out these fires can be started by normal lines too by virtue of a tree falling into it. Ok, fair enough.
Before going all #latestage on this i guess it's quite possible that there are no trees that would fall into power lines in downtown San Fran and even if they did its not like suddenly 5 blocks would burn up in several hours. I'm guessing it's much more like any typical city. It's mostly a bunch of concrete with a splattering of greenery.
Of course, I'm ignorant not having grown up with constant fires breaking out every half year or so whetei have lived.
I don't fully understand the situation other than reading this:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/List-Bay-Area-Locations-PGE-Power-Shutoffs-562515431.html
But I saw this part: "The outage will mark the largest preventative outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines."
And wondered why does this company have so many faulty lines? Is this much more common than I think it would be? The article points out these fires can be started by normal lines too by virtue of a tree falling into it. Ok, fair enough.
Before going all #latestage on this i guess it's quite possible that there are no trees that would fall into power lines in downtown San Fran and even if they did its not like suddenly 5 blocks would burn up in several hours. I'm guessing it's much more like any typical city. It's mostly a bunch of concrete with a splattering of greenery.
Of course, I'm ignorant not having grown up with constant fires breaking out every half year or so whetei have lived.
PG&E made massive profits off of rate payers that didn't have an alternative choice. Instead of maintaining their infrastructure, they committed to stock buy backs and dividends for their share holders.
This is the logical outcome of years of advocacy for deplatforming by western journalists.No, it's the logical outcome of doing business in China.It's only a matter of time until a privatized social credit scoring system comes to the west.This is tinfoil hat nonsense by and large, but I'll play.
What I see coming instead, somewhat serious about this, are 'incentives' for better living from insureance companies. Sign up to have your lifestyle monitored for reduced rates. Misbehave? (Smoke, sedentary, etc.) Pay more. Everyone who doesn't sign up pays more by default.
having worked for a credit information company that is already experimenting with scraping every bit of information on the internet and trying to connect it with individuals, i can tell you that you are severely misinformed.
I love therapy, but I didn’t love my therapist. She was young, like me, and new – the best I could find with my cheap insurance. I was her first real client, she was thrilled, I was broke and depressed.
I found the Los Angeles pro-domme Mistress Justine Cross by suggestion of a friend. (...) And for $150 an hour, she was going to help me.
I don’t lack the agency to think for myself, or work productively without direct supervision and instruction. I do, however, enjoy being told what to do, which is something I’d always been somewhat ashamed to admit. I love mean, beautiful women, and I love when they boss me around.
Unlike my previous therapists, my dominatrix life coach isn’t afraid to hurt my feelings – she’s brutally honest and has no time for my excuses.
https://irrationaleconomicsummit.com/"Gaylord National Conference Center" :teehee
The author's twitter lol
https://twitter.com/bitch__coin/status/1179797579422302208
Seems like good advice. :cac
https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1182290925109891073It's hilarious. Right-wingers love to talk about the oppressiveness of the other ISM, yet it's Capitalism that is responsible these press clampdowns lol.
On Friday, the company announced that another subsidiary, the for-profit private school WeGrow, would close next year. The school, which opened in 2018 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is led by Rebekah Neumann, Mr. Neumann’s wife.
Like its corporate siblings, WeGrow vowed to revolutionize its industry — elementary school — and pledged to be “elevating the collective consciousness of the world by expanding happiness and unleashing every human’s superpowers.” The class day includes traditional academic subjects as well as yoga instruction, and offers lunches made in a meat-free cafeteria.
Tuition this year at WeGrow, which has about 100 students, started at $36,000 for 3-year-olds.
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1182093408946532352
https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1179811656798556160
We're definitely in the death throes of capitalism. I do wonder if we can overcome all the mechanisms that enforce the controls, including apathy, endless amusement and entertainment, and so on.
https://twitter.com/turing_police/status/1185683491041640448
https://twitter.com/JaniceForBART/status/1185209025148751873In a sense yes, since the class struggle was something that Marx discussed thoroughly, which includes the breakdown of class solidarity. I highly doubt most NIMBYs are dominated by the traditional elites, as elites are way more secluded in their gated communities and cul de sacs. But the same strategy by the elites of creating clear divisions, knowing real change would only happen with stronger class solidarity.
NIMBYism probably isn't late stage capitalism, admittedly.
https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1185930313182134272https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1179162066432606208
Check out this great article on a formerly diverse neighborhood in NYC. Diverse not just in race but also in class. It's also a great example of how the elites have affected the urban environments, which were long-time bedrocks of the working class.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/09/what-happened-to-the-west-village/
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1186487339385872387
No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists
On March 20, Nancy Cooper, the editor in chief of Newsweek, sent an email to her editorial staff. The subject was “What is a Newsweek story?”—an odd question at an eighty-six-year-old newsmagazine once considered one of the “big three,” alongside Time and the US News & World Report. The email contained four requirements for any story published on Newsweek.com. One, it must contain original reporting. Two, it must provide a unique angle or new information. Three, the reader must care about it. And four, the news must be news.
These should have been reasonable requests, if not bare-minimum standards, for any journalist anywhere. But Cooper allowed her staff no time to meet these goals. A few months earlier she’d told reporters they’d have to write a minimum of four stories per day, and now they felt she was asking for more while giving less.
“We don’t want fewer stories or slower stories,” Cooper said in her email, “just to make every story we do better.”
Their first story is supposed to be filed by 9am, and before it can be written, the story must be pitched to an editor over Slack in the form of a headline. In theory, these headlines appeal both to a reader and to Google’s algorithms, but in practice the algorithm takes precedence. Editors sometimes suggest more viral headlines, or pitch headlines themselves using Google Trends or Chartbeat. (Lack of knowledge on a topic doesn’t stop them from assigning stories, which has led to Newsweek wrongly declaring that Japanese citizens want to go to war with North Korea and incorrectly reporting that the girlfriend of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was a polygamist.)
Newsweek, of course, isn’t alone in crafting its headlines for a search engine; not even the New York Times is above writing “Who Is William Barr” or recapping talk show monologues. But at Newsweek, the headline can dictate the news, instead of the other way around.
“The approach we were taking to headlines was something a lot of writers objected to on an ongoing basis. They were a point of tension,” says Kastalia Medrano, who wrote for Newsweek’s science desk until February 2018.
Cooper’s push for original reporting is in part about writing for Google News, which promotes original reporting higher than aggregated pieces in search results. For the same reason, Newsweek reporters are instructed that a story must be a minimum of four hundred words; to hit this number, one reporter says, he would pad an article about a movie by listing the cast members or summarizing an actor’s previous film credits.
Another strategy to satisfy editors who demand new stories in as little as an hour: if two reporters are covering different angles on the same topic, the two stories might comprise largely the same summary, with only the lede containing new information.
“You’re chancing it half the time,” says a current Newsweek writer. “You’re being asked to write a story in two hours, and your editors are being asked to edit it in twenty minutes, and we’re all supposed to be experts on whatever it is the story’s about, even if we’re covering the entire world. It’s just not possible.”
Newsweek has tended to hire young reporters, many of them fresh from college papers or internships. In the course of my reporting for this piece, at least ten senior staffers left or were let go, their salaries freed up while Newsweek continued to look for “News Fellows,” contract employees working forty-hour weeks for $15 per hour, the minimum wage in New York City. (Job postings for Fellows have since closed.) Three former Fellows confirmed that they were expected to do the same amount of work as salaried reporters—a minimum of four stories a day, with no overtime—with the promise of being hired full-time after four months.
Until recently, a reporter could earn an extra $2,000 per month for stories that attracted six hundred thousand unique page views. Numerous current and former reporters told me that when interviewing for a job at Newsweek, editors told them not to worry about salaries between $35,000 and $45,000—about $10,000 less than the average entry-level reporter position in New York City—because their bonuses would earn them an additional $24,000 per year.
But the reality is that if you aren’t writing clickbait, the bonuses can be hard to get. And failing to get a traffic bonus, some said, puts a target on your back.
“The way the bonus was presented during my job interview was as a goal. It’s called a ‘bonus,’ after all. But as soon as I started, it became very clear that it was a minimum,” says Pereira.
A truer objective, I’m told, is a million uniques per month. Current and former reporters said that they felt less secure in their jobs when monthly averages fell below this figure. This summer, Newsweek’s publisher, Dayan Candappa, told reporters that he and management were considering raising the starting point for the bonus from six hundred thousand uniques to a million, alongside a base salary raise, noting that management wouldn’t allow raises without a concurrent change in the bonus scheme. Candappa noted at the time that he didn’t think a raise was in reporters’ best interest, since the updated bonus would be detrimental to their total compensation.
Then, in late August, new bonus payouts were indeed introduced. While the starting point for the monthly bonus stayed the same, at six hundred thousand unique page views, the payout was lowered from $2,000 to $400. Additionally, where before a difference of thirty thousand page views was the equivalent of an extra $100 in a reporter’s pocket, it now takes an extra hundred and fifty thousand page views to make that amount. As Candappa promised, the scheme was changed alongside a yearly base salary raise of about $10,000. Reporters who bring in a large amount of traffic can opt out of the change entirely, though their work will be held to higher quality standards that have yet to be defined. Offending stories won’t be included in the traffic count.
In an all-staff email sent September 9 announcing the change, Cooper explained, “The quality of our journalism is the essential consideration—whether on a substantial investigative report, a straightforward service offering or an entertaining lifestyle brief.” That same week, Google announced that its search rater guidelines will increasingly promote “original, in-depth, and investigative reporting” that “provides information that would not otherwise have been known had the article not revealed it.”
Last year, in response to complaints from reporters, Newsweek added group bonuses, meaning a news desk’s traffic-per-reporter was averaged and everyone could receive a small payout if certain goals were reached. The intent was for less popular but important beats, like climate change, to be balanced out by more popular stories in the same section. When the individual bonus system changed, these group bonuses were eliminated entirely, though editors can now nominate writers for bonuses based on journalistic excellence, regardless of readership.
Reporters at Newsweek are also ranked against one another on a shared Google spreadsheet that’s updated daily. The combination of the traffic reports and bonuses, along with Cooper and Candappa telling the newsroom that the company is broke, creates an environment where reporters feel as though their work isn’t valued except as interchangeable parts of a content machine. Most of the reporters I spoke to said they try to ignore the reports, but many former and current staffers say that the rankings are treated like a competition by those at the top, and that this is by design. Leadership spends significant time during staff meetings discussing who and what stories sit atop the spreadsheet.
This July, Candappa said during a staff meeting that story output can’t dip when reporters go on vacation, meaning that those in the office would have to write five or more pieces per day to cover for their absent colleagues. When New York bureau chief Jason Le Miere, who’d been at IBT, then Newsweek, for more than seven years, and Jen Glennon, deputy editor of entertainment and gaming, tried to defend their reporters, Candappa called them lazy. Le Miere and Glennon both resigned the following Monday.
Newsweek’s ownership has a history of finding unethical ways to avoid paying salaries. These allegedly include: illegally using foreign students for full-time work, subcontracting reporting for IBT’s Australian edition to writers in the Philippines, and paying its reporters once a month instead of biweekly, which is against the law. Last year, BuzzFeed News uncovered that IBT was running an ad fraud scheme. Fellows are tacitly made to work overtime, though their contracts say they won’t be paid for it, which is a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
These financial troubles are acutely felt in New York. Reporters have told me that they’ve come to work to find the phones disconnected, the Getty Images subscription suspended, and been told that Gmail would be locked. Computers run on Windows 8 and Newsweek uses a free version of Slack.
All of this is happening alongside an ongoing money-laundering case against Etienne Uzac, IBT’s founder and Newsweek’s former CEO, and seven alleged co-conspirators including Olivet University, an American college tied to The Community, a church once accused of being a cult. Uzac and other IBT Media leaders, who are members of the church, invented an accountant named Karen Smith to overvalue Newsweek in order to obtain $35 million in business loans. The money was supposed to be used to purchase computer servers, but was instead allegedly laundered through a fake equipment dealer and sent to Olivet. In order to pay off the original loans, more loans were taken out and the scheme was repeated in reverse, with money moving from Olivet to Newsweek and IBT Media.
Through all this, Newsweek has been publishing its print magazine.
The space freelancers once occupied has been partially taken up by new, inflammatory opinion writers like Ben Shapiro, Nigel Farage, and Newt Gingrich, who wrote the magazine’s May 10 cover story about China. These writers, I’m told, do get paid. Other recent Newsweek writers have included Charlie Kirk, discredited provocateur Andy Ngo, and former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who wrote a thinly veiled advertisement for his new TV show about UFOs.
half the facebook ads that show up in my feed seem like farce:
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What's unfortunate about that VICE piece is that it focuses entirely on FACEBOOK. And treats it as some kind of special thing, when that's incredibly common. One of our favorite companies, Disney has been admonished multiple times by state officials for not making clear that their security forces do not have police powers despite being listed as employees of Reedy Creek which is wholly owned by Disney.
Almost any company with a footprint the size of Facebook has this kind of agreement. Although generally not the full control that Facebook seems to be using.
Hell, any university does. University police are often not granted complete police powers yet operate as if they have them. Even off-campus.
Sorry, not to defend it, just that was a long article so I kept scrolling hoping they'd mention it. But instead it was just more Facebook garbage.
https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1188079883664154625
https://twitter.com/ChrisCaesar/status/1188020244364890113
The sheriff's office said members of the Kreimeyer family were experimenting with different types of explosive material Friday and Saturday in an attempt to record a gender reveal that could be posted on social media.You're not allowed to post gender reveals on social media without explosive materials involved? Transphobic as fuck.
https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1189173501292351493 (https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1189173501292351493)spoiler (click to show/hide)tfw LMAO is already in the tweet :fbm[close]
https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1189173501292351493 (https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1189173501292351493)spoiler (click to show/hide)tfw LMAO is already in the tweet :fbm[close]
I can’t think a bigger failure of bitcoin than to say it’s easier to embezzle money using steam
. Like the only thing BTC is good for, and people are like “wait, I want to manually approve everything in the steam mobile app instead.”
https://twitter.com/hannibalburess/status/1189281031427411970
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb
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Nosferatu has been public domain for decades. Literally anyone can post it on Youtube for free. In fact, they have. There are dozens of uploads of Nosferatu on the platform that Google wants you to pay $4 for :lol
"https://twitter.com/kirkpate/status/1191406719911563271"Digging through some of the images on that account. I love how some bitter fuck sent this to her. Would be fitting for the Wankdad thread.
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I mean.. isn't $10 like $7 USD?
Still slightly more expensive but not dramatic. I think that's comparable to the prices where I live ($15 minimum wage.)
YouTube is a private site, not an archive.
People should use (and donate to) Archive.org if they really care. archive.org/donate (https://archive.org/donate/)
https://twitter.com/subi_lawal14/status/1191353291994796032
https://twitter.com/SophiaTesfaye/status/1193616642564976641
https://www.tmz.com/2019/11/11/popeyes-employee-makes-chicken-sandwiches-over-trash-can/Above the rim, so it's fine.
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I like how even that fake robot looks stressed out at its job
Local woman Namya Gupta, the fiancé of indie-rock band Oxford Drama’s songwriter and guitarist, fully believes she is the inspiration behind the musician’s love songs, several concerned sources have confirmed. “Maybe it’s a little tacky to use his song, but nothing could describe our connection more perfectly. I’m so lucky to be spoiled!”
When asked about the allegedly romantic lyrics, Marcus vehemently denied the allegations.
“Those songs are clearly an allegory for the fall of modern capitalism,” Marcus said. “I’m building worlds with my music! And if they were written about someone special, I guess you could say I’m writing lyrical love ballads to an egalitarian economic system. Anyone with any reading comprehension can understand that the songs are a collective call for the embrace of a transparent system of basic human decency.”
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1195210149394288642
:society
https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1194358398621376513
WeWork is set to lay off at least 4,000 employees from across its workforce and could do so as early as this week, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
WeWork’s main business of subletting office space would lay off 2,000 to 2,500 employees, a source told the news outlet, while an additional 1,000 employees will leave as the company sells off or closes other businesses. Another 1,000 employees in building maintenance will reportedly be transferred to an outside contractor.
The combined layoffs amount to roughly a third of the company’s 12,500 person workforce that it employed at the end of June.
A source told The Times that the layoffs could rise to as many as 5,000 to 6,000 WeWork employees.
https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1194358398621376513
Amazon wrote "AI" (not AI) to help them find more varied candidates for jobs. But they used the resumes of all existing employees as the training data, so of course their AI turned racist and sexist just like their hiring managers.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G
https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1194358398621376513
Amazon wrote "AI" (not AI) to help them find more varied candidates for jobs. But they used the resumes of all existing employees as the training data, so of course their AI turned racist and sexist just like their hiring managers.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G
Logistic regression is not AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/capitalism-children.html
Global Capitalism to blame for the Baby Bust.
TLDR:
Student loans
Shit wages
Expensive housing
Cutthroat competition for the best schools from Pre-K to Grad school
Anxiety-ridden professional class that works long hours and has no job security
No extended families anymore due to relocations to job centers, so no help with kids outside of hiring pros.
No shit that many are opting out of having families even if they want them. Fuck global capitalism.
I have no doubt that the cost of housing and education are lowering fertility rates, but the author does not support this (or her other claims) with data, and then she shoehorns climate change into the discussion (and not how climate change will actually influences the fertility rates of those experiencing the direct consequences of it). Is there any evidence birthstrikers--a demographic that doesn't have children anyway (liberal, non-religious city dwellers with 4+ years of post-secondary education)--are having any meaningful impact on fertility rates?
How is this theft :lol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/21/uk-metal-detectorists-guilty-of-theft-after-concealing-3m-treasure-hoard
How is this theft :lol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/21/uk-metal-detectorists-guilty-of-theft-after-concealing-3m-treasure-hoard
https://mobile.twitter.com/fyeahmfabello/status/1196581296564256768
Turn personal relationships into customer service transactions, brehs
Don't really like weighing in on emotional labor discourse but:
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https://twitter.com/reason/status/1197953655577538560
https://mobile.twitter.com/fyeahmfabello/status/1196581296564256768I like how it's just another grift to sell books and blog on the internet
Turn personal relationships into customer service transactions, brehs
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1197953655577538560https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1198295017686806536
I'm sorry to report that the brands are at it again. Coming soon to an ERA thread near you
https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1198152361417396224 (https://twitter.com/Halo/status/1198152361417396224)
https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1201609734773710849 (https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1201609734773710849)
But the money-saving recommendations the consultants came up with made some career ICE workers uncomfortable. They proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees, according to interviews with people who worked on the project for both ICE and McKinsey and 1,500 pages of documents obtained from the agency after ProPublica filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.This is peak corporate fuckery :doge
McKinsey’s team also looked for ways to accelerate the deportation process, provoking worries among some ICE staff members that the recommendations risked short-circuiting due-process protections for migrants fighting removal from the United States. The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations — actions whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.
“Well it obviously isn’t ideal to have a contractor tell us what we want to ask them to do,” the contracting officer replied. But unless someone from the government could articulate the agency’s objectives, the officer added, “what other option is there?” ICE extended the contract.:dizzy
Capitalism without theft would rule
https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1202599046356987904
https://twitter.com/hotpockets/status/1202682789654597632https://twitter.com/UPS/status/1202778926155751426
https://twitter.com/Groupon/status/1202696143601389568
https://twitter.com/AXE/status/1202699486637805581
https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1202675019668742144
https://twitter.com/bostonmarket/status/1202740751295270913
https://twitter.com/paquichips/status/1202716733074821121
https://twitter.com/PopTartsUS/status/1202784922139811840
https://twitter.com/TMobile/status/1202688569308930049
https://twitter.com/hgtv/status/1202782611942387714
https://twitter.com/IMDb/status/1202697701327982592
https://twitter.com/BestBuy/status/1203000980188651520
https://twitter.com/kumandgo/status/1202759600686030849spoiler (click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/RTSnyderCut/status/1202796165022044160[close]
How do we refute these free-market fanboys when they bring up Norway, Sweden, and all those regions? They're technically capitalist and have rather free markets.
I guess my response is if that person asking the question thinks that countries like Norway, Sweden, the Nordic Countries in general are well run and if they want the U.S. or whatever country they're from to be run more like the Nordic countries. And then go from there.Predictable responses of why the US can't have what they do:
(https://i.imgur.com/8ppiyEl.jpg)https://twitter.com/davidsheen/status/1203557666448125952
:thinking :usacry :supergay :cop :thinking mayo buttchug :lol
The volume of stuff is increasing, but the volume of good stuff among the stuff, if you will, is declining.
Who can afford to buy a goldfish in this economy? Just rent one.Gotta downsize to a Silverfish, or even a humble Copperhead.
What makes this late stage capitalism?Next you'll tell me American Indians aren't from India.
By the way, Red Pandas aren't actually Pandas, they are unrelated.
I saw one in a zoo a while ago and looked it up.
While business investment has historically climbed when borrowing rose, companies now are increasingly using that credit to return money to investors.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> on Thursday abandoned its goal of winning approval this month from the Federal Aviation Administration to unground the 737 MAX after Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg met with senior U.S. aviation officials.
The announcement came after a congressional hearing on Wednesday in which numerous lawmakers prodded the FAA to take a tougher line with Boeing as it continues to review the plane that has been grounded since March after two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said on Wednesday he would not clear the plane to fly before 2020 and disclosed the agency has an ongoing investigation into 737 production issues in Renton, Washington. He added there are nearly a dozen milestones that must be completed before the MAX returns to service. Approval is not likely until at least February and could be delayed until March, U.S. officials told Reuters.
Muilenburg and Boeing's commercial airplanes chief, Stan Deal, met with Dickson and "committed to addressing all of the FAA’s questions," the company said, adding it will work to support the agency's "requirements and their timeline as we work to safely return the Max to service in 2020."
When savings are meager, it might be time to unretire(https://i.imgur.com/AMXpZYZ.jpg)
https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1206712118705176577 (https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1206712118705176577)
:trumps
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1207028149873082368A Spanish art historian uncovered the first use of modern art as a deliberate form
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1207028149873082368
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1207028149873082368A Spanish art historian uncovered the first use of modern art as a deliberate form
of torture: Kandinsky and Klee, as well Buñuel and Dalí, were the inspiration behind
a series of secret cells and torture centers built in Barcelona in 1938, the work of a
French anarchist,Alphonse Laurencˇicˇ (a Slovene family name!), who invented a form of
“psychotechnic” torture: he created his so-called “colored cells” as a contribution to
the fight against Franco’s forces.1 The cells were as inspired by ideas of geometric abstraction
and surrealism as they were by avant-garde art theories on the psychological
properties of colors. Beds were placed at a 20-degree angle, making them near impossible
to sleep on, and the floors of the 6-foot-by-3-foot cells were strewn with
bricks and other geometric blocks to prevent the prisoners from walking backward
and forward.The only option left to them was staring at the walls, which were curved
and covered with mind-altering patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines, and spirals
which utilized tricks of color, perspective, and scale to cause mental confusion and
distress. Lighting effects gave the impression that the dizzying patterns on the wall were
moving. Laurencˇicˇ preferred to use the color green because, according to his theory
of the psychological effects of various colors, it produced melancholy and sadness.
seems like accounting is just evil, no offence accountants of the bore
seems like accounting is just evil, no offence accountants of the bore
https://twitter.com/Inartica/status/1209593346403921920
https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1210629354046316545
https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1210629354046316545
first i was "hey, what's up with the xenophobia", and then i was "oh, she's a murican ree-merchant" :lol
and if she's gonna blame a bunch of 20 year olds for the vietnam war, she's also on the hook for a whole bunch of things that won't be absolved by posting twitter hot takes :hmph
20 year olds? The screenshots are about Vietnam war veterans.
There's one veteran pictured, and according to the actual article:
A) He was drafted.
B) He was not a foot soldier.
C) He did not return forty years later. He returned to Vietnam in 1992 to help refugees.
D) His marriage is not of convenience to "reap the benefits of the socialist government." He and his wife have two children.
E) He is semi-retired now. He appears to be on the board of several Vietnam charities.
Another vet is mentioned who returned in 2008 to be a volunteer English teacher for rural high schools. Now he's teaching at a Vietnamese university.
They are the only vets mentioned by name and they both seem to be net contributors to the country.
https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1210629354046316545https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1211762858431832067
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1207028149873082368
Love this!
https://twitter.com/StevenFulop/status/1212472280514748416 (https://twitter.com/StevenFulop/status/1212472280514748416)they're already telling us what to do. "Go clean that spill up on aisle 5, lil bitch human!"
This is what the killer robots will look like
Probably just front loaded expenses of setting up regulatory bodies but hur dur guvment is so inefficient.
https://twitter.com/LadiSpeaks/status/1212060099281379334 (https://twitter.com/LadiSpeaks/status/1212060099281379334)
I am drawing a blank on early morning urine?For workplace drug tests, I think.
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1212496748654088199 (https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1212496748654088199)
:lol
Those numbers that came out last week, that $42 million loss, only goes to March 31, 2019. So, it really has all the startup costs baked in and none of the bricks and mortar retail numbers that started, actually, the next day on April 1st, 2019. It's got a lot of startup costs, limited online sales and then we'll actually start to see the numbers turn around this year starting April 1st as more stores came online.
from article - though this is a ceo with invested intrestsQuoteThose numbers that came out last week, that $42 million loss, only goes to March 31, 2019. So, it really has all the startup costs baked in and none of the bricks and mortar retail numbers that started, actually, the next day on April 1st, 2019. It's got a lot of startup costs, limited online sales and then we'll actually start to see the numbers turn around this year starting April 1st as more stores came online.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pot-sales-rosenthal-1.5286351
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — People living in Midtown Sacramento are getting an earful from a nearby McDonald’s that’s blasting nonstop bagpipe music.
It’s supposed to keep the homeless away, but residents say it’s driving them crazy.
This story is not about music to the ears. CBS13 asked three managers about the bagpipe music blaring from loudspeakers and they replied, “What bagpipes?” The fast-food restaurant at Broadway and 24th is open 24/7, and some neighbors were moved to complain about the sound coming from its walls.
“The first couple of days they had it on 24/7. If we wouldn’t have said anything or reported it to the police, they would have had that thing going on still,” Arnold Phillips said.
“It actually penetrates through the walls. We can hear it [when] I’m trying to watch TV or whatever and it’s going through that,” Phillips said.
So for $45,001 I could get a womb and some breast milk? :thinking
https://twitter.com/dailydot/status/1213892670101299200 (https://twitter.com/dailydot/status/1213892670101299200)
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https://twitter.com/LadiSpeaks/status/1212060099281379334 (https://twitter.com/LadiSpeaks/status/1212060099281379334)
What's the average donation for something like that, $20?
So she has a team of people reading the 350,000 DMs she's gotten tabulating the results?
(*cough* sounds like BS *cough*)
It's nice people donated, but she already has nudes on her twitter.
It's nice people donated, but she already has nudes on her twitter.
Well then we all saved the planet for nothing!
What's the average donation for something like that, $20?
So she has a team of people reading the 350,000 DMs she's gotten tabulating the results?
(*cough* sounds like BS *cough*)
What's the average donation for something like that, $20?
So she has a team of people reading the 350,000 DMs she's gotten tabulating the results?
(*cough* sounds like BS *cough*)
Yes she claims she hired a team to parse her DMs.. screams bullshit to me, but whatever marks.She hired a team of people and likely pays them with promises of more nudes. :teehee
"This Twitter Thot explained it all to the media when she contacted them!" - Punk ass marks.
Yes she claims she hired a team to parse her DMs.. screams bullshit to me, but whatever marks.
"This Twitter Thot explained it all to the media when she contacte them!" - Punk ass marks.
https://twitter.com/Toyota/status/1214307946395525124SimCity 6 looks no better than the last one wtf
For the design of Woven City, Toyota has commissioned Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels, CEO, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). His team at BIG have designed many high-profile projects: from 2 World Trade Center in New York and Lego House in Denmark, to Google’s Mountain View and London headquarters.
The masterplan of the city includes the designations for street usage into three types: for faster vehicles only, for a mix of lower speed, personal mobility and pedestrians, and for a park-like promenade for pedestrians only. These three street types weave together to form an organic grid pattern to help accelerate the testing of autonomy.If there's a master plan, how is grid "organic"? What they should really do is build the city with no streets at all and wait for dirt paths to form - then pave over the dirt. I've got a story about Michigan State if anyone wants to hear it.
Toyota plans to weave in the outdoors throughout the city, with native vegetation and hydroponics.Hydroponics has a notoriously bad runoff problem that pollutes the environment. "Weaving" this through the city would be a major health issue and perhaps even a cancer risk.
autonomous Toyota e-PalettesThis is an abuse of the "e-" prefix.
why is there a fog machineHarder to target in case the US wants to bomb it.
why is there a fog machineHarder to target in case the US wants to bomb it.
We did it fam
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There's no dog parks in Toronto?
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Company scrip :lawd
crushing the poors with capitalism but woke 8)https://twitter.com/ai_valentin/status/1215156413447708672
https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1214365201920876544
Related:
The average price of detached house in Toronto (this includes Scarborough, North York, the old city of Toronto, etc.) is $1,363,357. The average condo price is $656,233.
In 2015, the median total income of individuals age 15 and older in Toronto was $30,089. In 2015, the median total household income in Toronto was $65,829. Yes, those figures are higher now, but not by much.
Toronto is dysfunctional.
I've got at least 2 dog parks within 4 blocks of my place. There are a lot in Toronto.Related:
The average price of detached house in Toronto (this includes Scarborough, North York, the old city of Toronto, etc.) is $1,363,357. The average condo price is $656,233.
In 2015, the median total income of individuals age 15 and older in Toronto was $30,089. In 2015, the median total household income in Toronto was $65,829. Yes, those figures are higher now, but not by much.
Toronto is dysfunctional.
I'm going to be living in my 1 room rent-controlled appartment until I die or get kicked out.
Instagram deleted a post by Iranian journalist Emadeddin Baghi, a critic of Iran's government, who had nevertheless wrote Soleimani's killing was "contrary to the principles of international law.”:phil
Instagram says: "it was complying with US sanctions law."
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Wages for men were hit particularly hard, especially in cities that bore the brunt of the decline in manufacturing jobs, such as Toronto, Oshawa and Windsor. Between 2000 and 2015, men’s wages were flat or in decline in those cities
I honestly don't trust economists on rent control.
I honestly don't trust economists on rent control.
They have this assumption that the state can only do rent control instead of rent control in conjunction with building high density housing, investigating / prosecuting international money laundering, expropriating slumlords or absentee landlords, et cetera. It's unlikely to be a panacea on its own, at least after decades of neglect.
Sorry how is building high density housing not logically connect to rent control?
There's no dispute that rent control causes shortages so it doesn't need to be studied. Kara's point is that rent control is maligned on that basis alone without acknowledging that there are policy combinations which include rent control and can still have a positive effect on housing.
The state can build high density housing whether or not there is rent control on private rentals, but a workable policy of rent control can not be done without state building is what I got from Karas post. So it's not about economists testing for the effect given current policies it's about them not even testing potential policies and thus their effects due to bad assumptions.
But, again, those policy combinations do not require rent control. The question would then be which creates more affordable housing: rent control plus those policy combinations or those policy combinations without rent control?You're missing the temporal aspect here. The question isn't which housing policy produces the most affordable housing. A supply shortage's one and only solution is investment in supply (with the government helping that along or not). But development can only go so fast and so rent controls prevent the renters from being bled dry in the meantime. Even in situations where rent isn't intolerably high, rent control laws are a safeguard that can prevent a sudden migration boom from adversely affecting lower class rents while development catches up.
https://twitter.com/QualiaRedux/status/1220061293287301120
traffic laws when picking up passengers on busy roads? not sure
What law are the drivers breaking?
https://twitter.com/QualiaRedux/status/1220061293287301120
But, again, those policy combinations do not require rent control. The question would then be which creates more affordable housing: rent control plus those policy combinations or those policy combinations without rent control?You're missing the temporal aspect here. The question isn't which housing policy produces the most affordable housing. A supply shortage's one and only solution is investment in supply (with the government helping that along or not). But development can only go so fast and so rent controls prevent the renters from being bled dry in the meantime. Even in situations where rent isn't intolerably high, rent control laws are a safeguard that can prevent a sudden migration boom from adversely affecting lower class rents while development catches up.
Edit: I have an obligation here I think to elaborate on that final sentence because clearly rent control laws could prolong that catch-up period... but this dovetails quite nicely with Kara's point and your question about why the state has to be involved in the building. Since investors have no idea where to build (because the profit rate is arbitrarily equalized between municipalities), the state has to step in to receive complaints about shortages or analyze vacancy rates. It could then either subsidize building costs in impacted cities (the market solution) or it can simply build its own housing (the public housing solution). Thus even in the market case the state has a central role to play.
My neighborhood has dumb restrictions like, any new building has to have the first floor have retail and the build is capped at 4 floors (Can't have people on the hill losing their view of the ocean!). So buildings where the biggest place probably topped out at $3k are getting replaced with stuff where you can't get a 1 bedroom for $3k.
STARE MIASTO, Poland, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Henryk Kaminski has responded to a hike in Poland’s minimum wage by automating some roles at his family’s plastics factory, illustrating the risks of a policy that aims to raise living standards but could push up prices and stifle jobs growth.
At Kon-Plast, the factory at Stare Miasto near Konin in central Poland where the Kaminski family produces plastic containers, a newly purchased printing machine will replace two staff members on each of four teams that work shifts.
While Kon-Plast pays all its staff more than the minimum wage, it has raised salaries as a result of January’s hike.
Kaminski does not plan to shed employees at the moment but said the shift to automation means an increase in the workforce of about 15% to meet demand will not now be needed.
According to our estimates these strong minimum wage rises should add 1.2-2.2ppt to average salary dynamics in 2020 and maintain this elevated growth in following years. Each 1ppt of wage growth adds 0.3ppt to CPI.So the 15% increase in minimum wage will add 1.2-2.2ppt to overall wages. This seems small, but see here:
Evidence for Canada is provided by Fortin and Lemieux (2015) who find, based on panel regressions on provincial annual data, that a 1 per cent minimum wage increase leads to a 0.67 per cent increase in the 5th percentile of the wage distribution that year, a 0.31 per cent increase in the 10th percentile, and a 0.08 per cent rise in the 15th percentile. Above the 15th percentile, the impact is statistically insignificant.
“I get more at work, for me it’s 500 zlotys (a month),” said Daniel Nowak, 23, standing behind the counter of the Warsaw supermarket where he works.
“I can buy more things ... but also the price of goods has gone up so it’s like I don’t feel it all that much.”
Developer Chris Elsey of Elsey Partners . . . plans to build two apartment buildings in San Francisco's Mission District that would each include two basement-level floors with 88 so-called "sleeping pods," measuring about 50 square feet each, just a little bigger than a king-size bed.
In the basement-level floors, the sleeping pods are stacked on top of one another, like bunk beds, with one side opening to a common living space. It has a feel similar to a youth hostel or college dorm. A curtain could provide privacy in the sleeping pods
The sleeping pods would rent for $1,000 to $1,375 each
that's kind of cool actuallySpend the $1,375 on a flight to Sweden.
yeah, but the pods have a curtain that can provide privacyAccording to the article, no sex is allowed in the pods. The other place has unlined Swedish sausage.
https://twitter.com/nottoowarmplz/status/1222019331577405445
New York (CNN Business)Chipotle agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine for more than 13,000 child labor violations at several of its Massachusetts locations.
kinda weird that the genocide guy knows so much about the Holocaust
https://twitter.com/ran_lpl/status/1222103940545773568
https://twitter.com/nottoowarmplz/status/1222019331577405445I like how instead of Nazi they use the politically correct NS regime.
:nsfwLooks like Demi’s present.spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.redd.it/qkujkfsdord41.jpg)[close]
The future :noah
Anyway, using the likeness of dead people to market stuff is hardly new or capitalist.
https://twitter.com/chrisjacobsHC/status/1222874181945241601
Under #Obamacare, however, employers can impose waiting periods of no more than 90 days. (Statutory language below.) So @ebruenig would face (at most) a three month wait until her @nytimes coverage kicks in...while her kid has an ear infection... no rush.
The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2005 and became known for its unique model of providing free, ad-supported health-records software to independent doctors.
Technically lagestagesocialism but whatevs
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721 (https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721)
https://twitter.com/allahliker/status/1224430949548601344
Morgan Richards admits she recently did nothing when someone patronizingly commended her for adopting her two black children, as though she had saved them. “What I went through to be a mother, I didn’t care if they were black,” she says, opening a window for Rao to challenge her: “So, you admit it is stooping low to adopt a black child?” And Richards accepts that the undertone of her statement is racist.
On Tuesday, a special condo sales event is being held in Toronto where invited guests will be able to purchase pricey downtown condo units for as much as $8 million and get a chance to spin a wheel for prizes that include a new Porsche, a Rolex watch, ultra expensive Hermes Birkin handbags and shopping “sprees” at Holt Renfrew.
The Lunar New Year party, set to take place in the evening in a third-floor ballroom at the upscale Shangri-La hotel on University Avenue, is being hosted by the people behind the planned King Toronto project, a luxury condo development slated for the King Street and Spadina Avenue area.
https://twitter.com/node_modjuuls/status/1223852021800980480
Moreover, the average selling price in January was up by 12.3%, driven by the detached and condominium apartment segments in Toronto.
https://gfuel.com/
gfuel really is the perfect drink for gamers, cause it exceeds safe levels of lead :lol
https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1227053715254804481
remember to take care of yourselves, loyal employees, here are some tips from the CIA
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1227638516403843074
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1225041773535399936
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1222560630735101970
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1227519542538035200
It's official: The long-rumoured, 95-storey-tall residential tower at the base of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto is a go. Get ready to crane those necks.
apartments ranging from 520. . . .
Prices start at "just over $800,000," according to Pinnacle, which makes sense. . . .
https://twitter.com/allahliker/status/1224430949548601344
I must admit I'm a bit lost on what the Gwyneth "Goop" Paltrow image is supposed to add to that Twitter thread.
An Australian court has ordered Google to identify the person behind an anonymous bad review of a dentist.
Dr Matthew Kabbabe, a teeth-whitening specialist in Melbourne, sought the order so he could sue for defamation. He claimed user CBsm 23 had damaged his business by telling others to "STAY AWAY" from a procedure criticised as "extremely awkward and uncomfortable".
The ruling forces the hand of the tech giant, which has previously defended allowing negative reviews on its site. Under the order, Google will be required to pass to Dr Kabbabe any personal details such as any names, phone numbers, location metadata and IP addresses linked to the account.
International law allows for people to seek documents from overseas parties that they need for their case.
https://twitter.com/LucasJHann/status/1228503559219613696
remember to take care of yourselves, loyal employees, here are some tips from the CIA
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1227638516403843074
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1225041773535399936
https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1222560630735101970
https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/1228409113912082434 (https://twitter.com/SarahNEmerson/status/1228409113912082434)
Time to level up Benji
The group that represents realtors said in a release on Friday that the average price of a Canadian home that sold in January was $504,350. That's an increase of 11.2 per cent from the same month a year earlier.Note: The places with the lowest averages have the fewest jobs (mining etc excluded). This is about twice the American average (I'm not correcting for currency because Canadians are paid in Canadian dollars, and make less than Americans, on average).
62 per cent of brokers surveyed in major Canadian cities are seeing buyers priced out of their market; however, 75 per cent of brokers agree that their market is undervalued
Emerging trends like co-ownership with friends and family have become common in hot markets such as Vancouver and Toronto, in order to overcome the hurdle of high housing prices. In regions such as Brampton, Edmonton and Ottawa, sharing a single-family home between two families, dividing the floors between them, or children seeking financial support from parents for down payments are becoming more common practices.
https://twitter.com/LucasJHann/status/1228503559219613696
this tweet violated twitter rules. LEARN MORE HERE
:lol
Tourism I guess?
For the first time in decades, recent college graduates are more likely to be out of work than the population as a whole, according to the New York Federal Reserve. And for the lower-earning half of college grads, the wage premium is shrinking fast.
More than four in 10 recent graduates are working in jobs that don’t usually require a college degree, the New York Fed says. And roughly one in eight is working in a field where typical pay is around $25,000 a year or less.
Chinese government backs Fruit Ninja-style game about killing viruses amid coronavirus outbreak
https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3051176/chinese-government-backs-fruit-ninja-style-game-about-killing (https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3051176/chinese-government-backs-fruit-ninja-style-game-about-killing)QuoteChinese government backs Fruit Ninja-style game about killing viruses amid coronavirus outbreak
LMAO
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1232130604231254017
It’s all-too-often that people end up in a situation where their car is worth a lot less than their loan balance. This is called being “underwater” and there’s no easy solution for it. Some dealers are offering what seems to be a quick way out by telling these buyers simply to stop making the payments, as noted by a new in-depth report in The Wall Street Journal. Unsurprisingly, this works great for dealers and is horrible for everyone else.
The trend is called “kicking the trade,” as investigated in the WSJ. How it works, essentially, is the buyer is so underwater the dealer can’t make the math work for the next transaction, so the dealer tells the buyer to sign a contract for a new car, and soon after contact the lender on the old car for a voluntary repossession.
What is often not explained to the buyer is that when the bank takes the car, the bank will try to sell it to recover its own costs. If the car doesn’t sell for the remaining value of the loan, the borrower is on the hook for the balance.
A hypothetical would be good to help understand what’s going on here, so let’s consider a hypothetical buyer who comes into a dealer with a car worth $10,000 but their loan balance is $18,000. Often that is too much negative equity to roll over into the next loan. The “kicking the trade” dealer will tell the buyer to buy a new car and essentially have two car notes. The buyer will then contact the bank for their old car and inform them they will no longer be making the payments and to come take the car. When the bank executes that voluntary repo, they will send the car to the auction. If the bank only gets $10,000 for it, the bank will then come after the borrower for the remaining $8,000 balance. Usually, this person doesn’t have the cash to cover the difference and this causes a massive drop in their creditworthiness. In summary, the only party who really wins here is the dealer.
Imagine having your toilet hacked by Russian hackers. :existential
When you're at such a late stage of capitalism you don't even know where you are anymore :brain
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1232773322817122304
I've never seen any match interrupted over half a stadium calling someone a monkey or nword but this had to be nipped in the bud. I hope that UEFA Say No To Classism campaign is coming soon :rash
:doge
most english speaking german football pundits/fans make it out to be some sort of utopian football league :trumps
https://twitter.com/FOXSoccer/status/1233798066211176448Disgusting double standards.
:rofl
Dietmar Hopp - SANCTO SUBITO!
They didn't care when players and other club people like Hoeness and many more got called son of a bitch, but when it's Hopp they're stopping everything.
Crude insults are a part of football culture whether you like it our not and as a public figure you just have to deal with it, as long as it's surface level insults like son of a bitch. Who gives a shit? Especially if your net worth is around $15billions.
https://twitter.com/BorussianMyth/status/1233801665662390273
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1234367156718100480
(https://i.imgur.com/w3xZ5xA.png)This makes for an interesting electoral map
Wtf is dutch porn :rofl idiots, you're all just WHITE
Wtf is dutch porn :rofl idiots, you're all just WHITE
Wtf is dutch porn :rofl idiots, you're all just WHITE
Average Toronto condo price over $700,000, to $722,675 in February. 18% YoY change. Everything is great!
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Average detached house is just shy of $1.5 million.
I'm not saying Toronto is alone, but it affects me--me!Average Toronto condo price over $700,000, to $722,675 in February. 18% YoY change. Everything is great!
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Average detached house is just shy of $1.5 million.
You should check Sydney and Melbourne prices. Very similar
Mr Delgado said he was offered a large-print sentence to read, which he could not, being totally blind.
He was told during the test to go and get a doctor's note to prove that he was blind, but he could not afford to do so because he does not have health insurance.:dead
dudes sure make you go :holeup when you watch them turn on a dime to defend what makes peepee hard, like this with this story
https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1235988444020498432
hentai: ethical, non-exploitative smut, it's what marx would've wantedYeah, animators are never exploited. :lol
White House officials are alarmed at the prospect that numerous shale companies, many of them deep in debt, could be driven out of business if the downturn in oil prices turns into a prolonged crisis for the industry. The federal assistance is likely to take the form of low-interest government loans to the shale companies, whose lines of credit to major financial institutions have been choked off, three people said.
Trump and advisers have been taking calls since Monday from concerned energy sector allies, who have voiced concern and at times exasperation not only about oil prices, but also privately warning against the administration supporting any sweeping paid sick leave policy, according to a major GOP donor and a White House official familiar with the discussions. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss private conversations.
https://twitter.com/CityofAtlanta/status/1237780462287884288
https://twitter.com/AlexesHarris/status/1237943015961817088
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https://twitter.com/sjcasey/status/1237438753012092929QuoteWhite House officials are alarmed at the prospect that numerous shale companies, many of them deep in debt, could be driven out of business if the downturn in oil prices turns into a prolonged crisis for the industry. The federal assistance is likely to take the form of low-interest government loans to the shale companies, whose lines of credit to major financial institutions have been choked off, three people said.
Trump and advisers have been taking calls since Monday from concerned energy sector allies, who have voiced concern and at times exasperation not only about oil prices, but also privately warning against the administration supporting any sweeping paid sick leave policy, according to a major GOP donor and a White House official familiar with the discussions. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss private conversations.
You thought bailing out big bank was as bad? Well prepare for bailing out big oil.
Corporate socialism for me, crony capitalism for thee :jeb
Corporate socialism for me, crony capitalism for thee :jeb
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amazed americans turned this man into an idol of sorts but simultaneously eradicated his political stances from public knowledge
https://twitter.com/gordonmaloney/status/1239825450974818305
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedUK/status/1240695782879006721My heart goes out to all the narcissists in these trying times.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedUK/status/1240695782879006721
Maybe after this our society will turn away from celeb worship a bit
Can't believe that car companies are already running ads about how great a deal they're providing with their low interest/no interest rates on a $20k vehicle in the midst of a worldwide pandemic with the US economy completely shut down.
https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1241837999236636672U.S. centric view. :wag
https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/1242174110035214338
https://twitter.com/seagoat800/status/1242476489129353216
https://twitter.com/taintberner/status/1242117190754721792
https://twitter.com/seagoat800/status/1242476489129353216
britney>xtina
nyaa~
https://twitter.com/lizrhoffman/status/1241104933476282368
https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1243922171145211904
>LMAO Wet Markets, Bat soup, WTF China?!duh, a virus couldn't live in those overly processed deli meats and yoga mat bread ::) :D
>Eats at Subway.
:hitler
>LMAO Wet Markets, Bat soup, WTF China?!duh, a virus couldn't live in those overly processed deli meats and yoga mat bread ::) :D
>Eats at Subway.
:hitler
https://twitter.com/nick_w_estes/status/1244795542695116800
https://twitter.com/nick_w_estes/status/1244798586912567296
Emergency room doctors and nurses many of whom are dealing with an onslaught of coronavirus patients and shortages of protective equipment — are now finding out that their compensation is getting cut.
Most ER providers in the U.S. work for staffing companies that have contracts with hospitals. Those staffing companies are losing revenue as hospitals postpone elective procedures and non-coronavirus patients avoid emergency rooms. Health insurers are processing claims more slowly as they adapt to a remote workforce.
“Despite the risks our providers are facing, and the great work being done by our teams, the economic challenges brought forth by COVID-19 have not spared our industry,” Steve Holtzclaw, the CEO of Alteon Health, one of the largest staffing companies, wrote in a memo to employees on Monday.
The memo announced that the company would be reducing hours for clinicians, cutting pay for administrative employees by 20%, and suspending 401(k) matches, bonuses and paid time off. Holtzclaw indicated that the measures were temporary but didn’t know how long they would last.
https://www.propublica.org/article/coronavirus-er-doctors-nurses-benefitsQuoteEmergency room doctors and nurses many of whom are dealing with an onslaught of coronavirus patients and shortages of protective equipment — are now finding out that their compensation is getting cut.
Most ER providers in the U.S. work for staffing companies that have contracts with hospitals. Those staffing companies are losing revenue as hospitals postpone elective procedures and non-coronavirus patients avoid emergency rooms. Health insurers are processing claims more slowly as they adapt to a remote workforce.
“Despite the risks our providers are facing, and the great work being done by our teams, the economic challenges brought forth by COVID-19 have not spared our industry,” Steve Holtzclaw, the CEO of Alteon Health, one of the largest staffing companies, wrote in a memo to employees on Monday.
The memo announced that the company would be reducing hours for clinicians, cutting pay for administrative employees by 20%, and suspending 401(k) matches, bonuses and paid time off. Holtzclaw indicated that the measures were temporary but didn’t know how long they would last.
Malissa Cordova, a recent high school graduate from Los Angeles, has found viral fame after crashing multiple classes on Zoom and uploading the results to TikTok.
The project, which Cordova started as a way to cope with quarantine boredom and even learn from online classes, evolved into mass coordinated crashes with her followers who provide her with their courses' Zoom codes.
"Zoombombing," as the trend has come to be called, is becoming popular beyond the high school setting, and college professors are reporting disruptions to their classes.
Cordova's Zoom TikTok account was banned on Wednesday evening, but she has short-term plans to continue crashing.
https://twitter.com/ShaunGalNews/status/1245829203385143296
https://twitter.com/ShaunGalNews/status/1245829203385143296
Give away the milk to whom? The welfare Dairy Queens?!
https://twitter.com/ShaunGalNews/status/1245829203385143296
Give away the milk to whom? The welfare Dairy Queens?!
The U.S. has a long standing tradition of government cheese.
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A SUV seems like a decent MadMax car, to mod out.All the covid based commercials and marketing schemes are hitting hard rn, capitalism is wild
Yeah and they're so wild to me....like these car companies thinking people are going to pay $20k for a new SUV right now, but they're doing their part and will make the interest super low or zero for a certain amount of time. Because right now what's important is your new ride.
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Too bad you can’t kill brown people with a cloth mask or toilet paper.
https://twitter.com/Ad_Inifinitum/status/1247218093870497792
i bought pepsi max at the store today so whatever they did works :-\
https://twitter.com/billclitton/status/1248009462293483520
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1249054382479597568Can't brrrr the food printer. :fbm
Now, He’s Fighting for Disney’s Life???
QuoteNow, He’s Fighting for Disney’s Life???
nyt pretending disney is on the verge of bankruptcy from a couple theme parks being closed for a month :lol
Many millennials are cheering for a housing market crash on Twitter. They say it will help them afford a home.
. . .
There’s a way for millennials to afford a house of their own whether there’s a housing market crash or not. Work for it.
A Housing Market Crash Would Wreak Havoc
If there’s another housing market crash in 2020 or 2021, it will send ripples throughout the entire economy with effects that last for years.
Firstly, it would displace millions of Americans from their homes. In the 2008 housing market crash, some 10 million Americans lost their homes.
A Better Solution For Millennials
Last November, CNBC interviewed a millennial journalist– living in expensive New York City– who paid off $102,000 in student debt in six years while working a job with a $40,000 salary.
In the home stretch, she paid off the final $32,000 in eight months while paying the rest of her living expenses.
She says she did it by sacrificing some personal time outside of work. Instead of loafing on the couch with Netflix or socializing, she took up side hustles. She did dog walking, cat sitting, babysitting, and freelance writing.Just have FIVE jobs Millennials--should be easy to get during the Great Depression 2.0. After six years, you'll
Any millennial with ambitions to own a house shouldn’t be cheering for a housing market crash, even if one is imminent. They should be working as hard as they can so that they can save up to afford the house of their dreams in whatever market they find themselves.Did you watch the video of the Millennial interviewed by CNBC? She doesn't fucking own a home! She took six years just to pay for university. A generation or two ago, she could have gone straight from high school to the workforce, and bought a home as a blue-collar worker. Now, ten years after graduating from high school, she has fucking nothing. Ten years, four years of university, five jobs and she's in the same position as a high school grad.
Don't need to buy something you already own."Investment" properties. 40% of Toronto condos are not owner-occupied.
Didn't realize "own" has such a restrictive meaning in this context. :BDon't need to buy something you already own."Investment" properties. 40% of Toronto condos are not owner-occupied.
Peter Coffin is such a lucky dude even if he can't get Contra-level views.
Booking.com is about to go up in flames
Profit in 2018: +5 billion
Then they cut a deal with the Dutch government evading 1.8 billion in taxes
Balance in 2019: 8 billion debt
Why?
- They bought their own stock and handed out dividends and bonuses to the CEO's and investors
Now:
Bookings down 85%. They've managed to secure an 'expensive' emergency loan of 4 billion to scrape by for a few months.
So now they're asking our government to chip in to help finance the joint as they employ 19k workers in total.
(note this information was leaked to a Dutch newspaper from a video call with employees announcing that lay offs were imminent)
If you have something lined up at Booking.com cancel now. This thing is about to crash like the Hindenburg and you should try for a refund when there's still some money.
For the tech heads, the whole thing is built in fucking PERL :lol
You seem to have no idea what you are talking about.
The numbers were reported in a left leaning Dutch newspaperBooking.com is about to go up in flames
Profit in 2018: +5 billion
Then they cut a deal with the Dutch government evading 1.8 billion in taxes
Balance in 2019: 8 billion debt
Why?
- They bought their own stock and handed out dividends and bonuses to the CEO's and investors
Now:
Bookings down 85%. They've managed to secure an 'expensive' emergency loan of 4 billion to scrape by for a few months.
So now they're asking our government to chip in to help finance the joint as they employ 19k workers in total.
(note this information was leaked to a Dutch newspaper from a video call with employees announcing that lay offs were imminent)
If you have something lined up at Booking.com cancel now. This thing is about to crash like the Hindenburg and you should try for a refund when there's still some money.
For the tech heads, the whole thing is built in fucking PERL :lol
You seem to have no idea what you are talking about.
Do you know what a balance sheet is?
Assets = Liabilities + Equity
I looked it up. As of December 31, 2019 Booking Holdings had $21.4bn worth of assets, $15.4bn liabilities. That means an equity of $6 billion.
I assume you looked at this and didn't understand what equity means? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booking_Holdings
Please tell me you have nothing to do with finances or running any company.
Opmerkelijk genoeg gaat Booking Holdings gebukt onder zware schulden, dit ondanks de jaarlijkse miljardenwinsten – in 2019 nog bijna 5 miljard dollar. Tegenover 6,3 miljard dollar aan contant geld stond eind vorig jaar 7,6 miljard dollar schuld op de balans, blijkt uit het jaarverslag.
Surprisingly enough Booking Holdings is in debt despite the billions of dollars in profits they made over the years - in 2019 almost 5 billion.
While they had 6.3 billion in cash their balance showed a debt of 7.6 billion dollar. According to the yearly report.
Some landlords are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak, soliciting sexual favors in lieu of rent payments from economically vulnerable tenants, according to advocates.eight of the reports were connected to something called "The Bire" with ties to "Dutch Directness"
Khara Jabola-Carolus, executive director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, said her office has received more reports of landlords sexually harassing their tenants in the last two weeks than it had in the two years since she started working there, including cases of landlords offering to move in with tenants and sending sexually explicit photos to them after they communicated concerns about paying April rent.
While the number of cases wasn't necessarily astronomical — the commission received 10 reports about nine landlords — Jabola-Carolus said they were especially notable given such cases go "vastly underreported."
"Landlord coercion has always been a reality, but we've never seen anything like this," Jabola-Carolus said.
landlords offering to move in with tenants and sending sexually explicit photos to themMaybe they used their charms in those messages and send the wrong signal?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/landlords-are-targeting-vulnerable-tenants-solicit-sex-exchange-rent-advocates-n1186416QuoteSome landlords are taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak, soliciting sexual favors in lieu of rent payments from economically vulnerable tenants, according to advocates.eight of the reports were connected to something called "The Bire" with ties to "Dutch Directness"
Khara Jabola-Carolus, executive director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, said her office has received more reports of landlords sexually harassing their tenants in the last two weeks than it had in the two years since she started working there, including cases of landlords offering to move in with tenants and sending sexually explicit photos to them after they communicated concerns about paying April rent.
While the number of cases wasn't necessarily astronomical — the commission received 10 reports about nine landlords — Jabola-Carolus said they were especially notable given such cases go "vastly underreported."
"Landlord coercion has always been a reality, but we've never seen anything like this," Jabola-Carolus said.
https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1251885744081326081
https://twitter.com/Plipster/status/1251869245543264258
latestage simpalism
https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaw/status/1251897045763284992
https://twitter.com/AdrienneLaw/status/1251897045763284992https://twitter.com/Strangelloh/status/1251905996269727745
https://twitter.com/AaronJa44968029/status/1251900839209373696
Shhh, don't let nudemac see that :shh
https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/1252313054877974529
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https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/1252843802122833923
Not a #boycott person and extricating yourself from everything that could possibly add to systematic barbarism is impossible but it would be so easy for GitHub to say "sorry, your use of our software violates our terms of service". The size of the contract is a drop in the bucket compared to their annual revenue.
You just can't handle the
Google "forum for democracy immigration race" for extra context on Nintex's post.
geert still the true heir to dutch direct democracy 8) no half measuresIf only Pim wasn't shot by the deep state :tocry
https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1253081332881797122
https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1253081332881797122
Neolibs gonna neolib
https://twitter.com/JimmysSeafood/status/1251694131669327873
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1255180678670540801
https://twitter.com/JDespland/status/1254838210171211776
This tweet could go in like 11 different threads :lolall threads are basically the same now. Biden, Corona-Chan, Trump Direct, TLOU2, Kim Jong Un
This tweet could go in like 11 different threads :lolall threads are basically the same now. Biden, Corona-Chan, Trump Direct, TLOU2, Kim Jong Un
The concept of NSFW doesn't even exist anymore
HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITY PROJECT
This tweet could go in like 11 different threads :lolall threads are basically the same now. Biden, Corona-Chan, Trump Direct, TLOU2, Kim Jong Un
The concept of NSFW doesn't even exist anymore
HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITY PROJECT
lol, I should post some vids of "bikini baristas" I took years agopost that big white cock first :drool
(https://i.imgur.com/HPOdopB.jpg)Straight out of Watch Dogs 2.
Xeni Jardin born Jennifer Hamm,
(https://i.imgur.com/HPOdopB.jpg)Xeni Jardin?
We are entertained by:smughomicidal lunaticssenior presidential advisors who threaten to eat our asses.
https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1255180678670540801No longer behind a paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-bargain-with-the-devil-bill-comes-due-for-overextended-airbnb-hosts/ar-BB13k3T4?li=BBnb7Kz
Jennifer Kelleher-Hazlett of Clawson, Mich., spent about $380,000 to buy two Michigan properties in 2018. She said she and her husband cashed out their financial investments and borrowed $100,000 from employers to furnish them.
The 47-year-old expected to net up to $7,000 a month from Airbnb after mortgage payments, supplementing her income as a part-time pharmacist and her husband’s as a schoolteacher. Before the virus struck, the couple was considering buying more homes. Now, they can’t make mortgage payments because no one is booking, she said. “We’re either borrowing more or defaulting.”
It's been 2 years since 2018 girl... what have you been doing with the +$7k a month after mortgages?
That sum would provide little relief to hosts such as Jennifer and David Landrum of Atlanta. In 2016, they started a company named Local, spending more than $14,000 to outfit apartments with rugs, throw pillows, art and chandeliers. They grossed about $1.5 million annually, mostly through Airbnb, Ms. Landrum said, renting the 18 apartments they leased . . .
The couple has been able to pay only a portion of April rent on the 18 apartments they lease and can’t fulfill their obligations to pay three months’ rent unless bookings resume. . .
“It’s scary,” said Ms. Landrum, who said she has discounted some units three times since mid-March. The Landrums have negotiated to get some leniency from apartment owners on their leases. If not, Ms. Landrum said, they would have to sell their house.
It's just been a little over a decade since the last time the housing market completely collapsed and left thousands of people underwater. :snoopAirBnB was basically considered free money by mostly the GenX'ers and Boomers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ga7ae4/during_lockdown_my_wife_has_been_suffering/
https://twitter.com/APSouthRegion/status/1255933513959866371
https://twitter.com/APSouthRegion/status/1255933513959866371Cool then it would be like GTA2 instead of GTAV
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1257679131317338112
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https://twitter.com/APSouthRegion/status/1255933513959866371
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1258797162684653568
https://twitter.com/baraGodzilla/status/1258682943716782080
:titus
Please post socialist/communist literature for someone that has read the Manifesto and Einstein's socialism essay. I guess Das Kapital?
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1258728377273458690
Please post socialist/communist literature for someone that has read the Manifesto and Einstein's socialism essay. I guess Das Kapital?
(https://i.imgur.com/WbFGTQq.jpg)
I remember saying this in grade school, "why should I do homework if they not paying me?" :mynicca
he threatened you with a good time ;)
https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1261284668160253953spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/uX2Qpqb_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high)[close]
Well, I think it’s of note that they’re replacing migrant workers with child workers :lol
i rarely look good anyway ::)
but as the bigger man i'll apologize. occam i'm sorry your crippling social interaction issues led you to only be able to date children but the loss of your favorite toy store gave you nowhere to easily steal them from their parents.
Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-02/spotify-s-newest-pitch-to-labels-and-musicians-now-you-pay-us)
‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ Launches Exclusive Partnership with Spotify (https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-05-19/the-joe-rogan-experience-launches-exclusive-partnership-with-spotify/)
*right click > open in incognito window*
eat shit mini mike :pimp
that doesn't work anymore. Guess I'll use the Outline Chrome extension :thinking
https://twitter.com/UrgentAlertNews/status/1262906162460209153
infrastructure week :trumps
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Is Giving Andrew Yang $5 Million to Build the Case for a Universal Basic Income (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twitter-jack-dorsey-giving-andrew-090025479.html)
https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1265367974019567616
:money
https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1265367974019567616
:money
I'm semi-seriously, but not really, thinking about doing a startup doing fake news and abusive language detection. And seeing this makes me think the actual business model I have in mind is pretty valid.
https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1265367974019567616
:money
I'm semi-seriously, but not really, thinking about doing a startup doing fake news and abusive language detection. And seeing this makes me think the actual business model I have in mind is pretty valid.
edit: I should read the thread
edit: I should read the thread
I need space ships.
God needs a space ship
Converse should start tweeting about how the protesters are paid by George Soros.
https://mobile.twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1266724633916694529Corporation senpai are so brave :uguu
Can I take a knee in game now?
Sketchers being quiet as fuck because they’re Karen shoes.
Can I take a knee in game now?
Why yes. Just before the goaline instead of scoring to let the clock run down for strategic reasons. That is what you meant right?
https://georgefloyd.io/
they're just showing thanks to george floyd for the economy being great again like trumpy told us :doge
lolSurprised Poland is on board.
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I just wish the people writing news stories about AI knew something about what AI actually is.
I don't think I've read a single good news story about an AI replacing human decision-making.
https://twitter.com/PNickCurran/status/1271904837572100096 (https://twitter.com/PNickCurran/status/1271904837572100096)The [corporate] cucks jokes write themselves.
While the IRS says checks sent to jail inmates also should be returned, the sheer number of jails and detention centers across the U.S. makes it difficult to tell if many are following those instructions.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/minimum-wage-workers-cannot-afford-rent-in-any-us-state.html
Walmart Canada will start charging a set of new fees to its suppliers as a way to recover some of the costs associated with its $3.5-billion modernization plan — a move that has some manufacturers “absolutely furious,” according to an industry rep.
In a letter to its more than 3,000 suppliers on Friday afternoon, Walmart characterized the new fees — up to 6.25 per cent of the cost of goods — as a reasonable trade-off, since the multi-billion-dollar upgrades to stores and e-commerce will lead to sales growth for suppliers.
Captain EO
Wait...to fight systemic racism, she made her new title LEO?Kitchen Admiral.
Does this mean chefs also need to get a title change? It would be funny to go to a haute cuisine restaurant and ask for the Cook's Special.
Captain EO
Captain EO
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I don't think that really is the same as identity politics proper, I think that's an example of the business class trying to adjust to a new cultural landscape - like it's always done. The political changes themselves are consequential. anyway you're yuropeon so opinion automatically discreditedhttps://twitter.com/Phillipasoo/status/1287356351358939137
Lamborghini has just unveiled a new supercar, known as the Essenza SCV12, that owners won't be able to legally drive on public roads. That's why, if you buy one, Lamborghini recommends you let the company keep it for you in a special garage at the company's headquarters in Italy.
Owners will have access to a secure web cam feed so they can look at the car whenever they want. If they want to drive the car, Lamborghini will arrange for it to be transported to almost any racetrack in the world and the owner will be able to drive it there. Lamborghini will also provide a professional racecar driver to provide coaching in how to get the most speed and enjoyment from their V12-powered supercar. The company will host a few special events throughout the year to let Essenza SCV12 owners get together and enjoy their cars as a group.
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https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1289548280108523520He added: We at Microsoft suck at developing them but have you played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Witcher 3? Now those are games MLK would be proud of.
"We will take applications based on merit" means no kids with learning disabilities or any of that crap. Just give us the smart kids that can figure it out with the least amount of attention.
https://twitter.com/LosAngeleno/status/1287171475842138114
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1290529936994795520
:brain
You need at least 6 core subject teachers for one student in middle and high school.
https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1290529936994795520
:brain
You need at least 6 core subject teachers for one student in middle and high school.
https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1290397460913885185
it's fucked...How's the crypto?
we're all so fucked...
I'm gonna become a monk
fuck everything lol
oh dude, I sold that shit a loooooong time ago. thank fuck I made back my losses. :dogeit's fucked...How's the crypto?
we're all so fucked...
I'm gonna become a monk
fuck everything lol
The unusual practice of living and working in indoor spacesJust need a fan though, no need for AC.
:wut
The unusual practice of living and working in indoor spacesMe staying indoors to play video games on a hot summer day :dice
:wut
Weren't you a graphic designer of sorts?oh dude, I sold that shit a loooooong time ago. thank fuck I made back my losses. :dogeit's fucked...How's the crypto?
we're all so fucked...
I'm gonna become a monk
fuck everything lol
The unusual practice of living and working in indoor spacesJust need a fan though, no need for AC.
:wut
Bloomberg - Americans Aren't Making Babies, And That's Bad For The Economy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/coronavirus-pandemic-americans-aren-t-making-babies-in-crisis?utm_source=pocket-newtab (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/coronavirus-pandemic-americans-aren-t-making-babies-in-crisis?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
This is basically why we need immigration from an economic standpoint.
Saw this for sale on FB marketplace:
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https://mobile.twitter.com/betamax3000/status/1301177589176901633
:existential
https://twitter.com/Chiquita/status/1347569588674965504
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Isn't that basically Total Recall :lolOr Animal Crossing :umad
Isn't that basically Total Recall :lolOr Animal Crossing :umad
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EraAGv4WMAQaPh1?format=jpg)The struggle of 50% of Italian comedians in 2012.
A hacker took control of people's internet-connected chastity cages and demanded a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin to unlock it.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7apnn/your-cock-is-mine-now-hacker-locks-internet-connected-chastity-cage-demands-ransom?__twitter_impression=true (https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7apnn/your-cock-is-mine-now-hacker-locks-internet-connected-chastity-cage-demands-ransom?__twitter_impression=true)QuoteA hacker took control of people's internet-connected chastity cages and demanded a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin to unlock it.
:heh
https://twitter.com/ATLHawks/status/1350152080393183233Pope here just begging for another Lutheran reform.
Leading semiconductor manufacturers reassigned capacity from automakers last year after the pandemic slashed car sales, instead shipping chips to companies that produce smartphones, gaming systems and other tech gadgets that remained in high demand.And because PS5 SoC yields are what they are half of these go in the trash :lol
https://mobile.twitter.com/vanreanalyst/status/1351920123955748865
I thought Vancouver was the one with insane prices.
The average cost to purchase a detached home in Caledon climbed ever upwards amid the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring 43.8 per cent in the past 12 months.The average detached house is about 15x the median household income of Caledon.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) reported an average sale price of $1,068,608 for detached houses across 36 sales in December 2019. That average closed out 2020 at $1,536,355 [median $1.4 million] over 55 transactions. . . average for all types of dwelling climbing . . . to $1,321,989.
New theory on wsb that the hedge funds have been printing counterfeit shares which is why the brokers are setting buy limits.
We hold boys
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l9rk78/sec_doj_60_minutes_public_data_suggests_massive/
https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1356316391868047360
:noah
https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1357052014014980099 (https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1357052014014980099)
:doge
https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1356316391868047360
:noah
https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1357388719158919168
did they really have to call it the megacycle :lol
citing "algorithms being introduced to speed up rates and force workers to work faster"
with the hacker hijacking the mouse and opening various applications to make the change. The operator on duty immediately reversed the changes made.:titus
Muskopolis here we go.
https://mobile.twitter.com/davyz/status/1357731735522447360
https://twitter.com/JonathanCohn/status/1360196637264662534
This is what $2.5 million gets you in Vancouver.
https://mobile.twitter.com/StephenPunwasi/status/1361511469838385152
If the outside of the house in any indication, maybe they didn't just walk away, maybe they were killed by The Chooper. :mike
https://twitter.com/SaintsCrossing/status/1361908911838666753Elections have consequences :trumps
https://twitter.com/SaintsCrossing/status/1361908911838666753Man that sucks for him, but i'm not tipping 5€ if i'm ordering a 10 or 15€ meal + 4 to 5€ of delivery on top of that already.
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https://twitter.com/SaintsCrossing/status/1361908911838666753Man that sucks for him, but i'm not tipping 5€ if i'm ordering a 10 or 15€ meal + 4 to 5€ of delivery on top of that already.
Granted i rarely order out because it's too expensive in the first place, so it's usually for "emergencies".
Also i hate tipping culture in general, it's a rotten concept, and i hate how its creeping its way here because of these companies and general Americanization. :doge
I'm not about to not tip as protest ofc, because the bottom line shouldn't be the one to get fucked over it, but my problem is more with companies coming in and using that model, that finds ground thanks to tipping being such a cultural element in movies and media (from the US).https://twitter.com/SaintsCrossing/status/1361908911838666753Man that sucks for him, but i'm not tipping 5€ if i'm ordering a 10 or 15€ meal + 4 to 5€ of delivery on top of that already.
Granted i rarely order out because it's too expensive in the first place, so it's usually for "emergencies".
Also i hate tipping culture in general, it's a rotten concept, and i hate how its creeping its way here because of these companies and general Americanization. :doge
I'm sorry, we're part of the problem. My fiancee was insisting on giving tips when we visited there in 2019.
https://twitter.com/AndrewLaFleur/status/1367188633518751744This is money laundering, right?
You'll change your tune once you start monetizing Bore posts
Nintendo’s Finally Third-party
"I have a very high regard for the police," says Baker, who identifies as a Christian conservative. "I'm very grateful for them." But she remains skeptical of their tactics that day: "I thought it was a bit over the top," she adds. She tells me she in no way supports calls to "defund the police" but she sees a need for reform.
Baker, who identifies as a Christian conservative. "Is this a gender now :dizzy
https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1369329139258335232 (https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1369329139258335232)
https://twitter.com/alexnpress/status/1369751421189521412
:foxx
Gotta get some of that new new :mouf
deepkarens
SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme (https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/ubiome-richman-apte-sec-filing-charges-fraud-16042042.php)
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371264750852530178
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371264750852530178
Turns out that the free market is the most efficient way to make memes :fbm
https://mobile.twitter.com/katiedrumm/status/1374359971350056963
The bumbling bear is part of an effort by U.S. Cyber Command to make Russian hackers look uncool online. “We don’t want something they can put on T-shirts, we want something that’s in a PowerPoint their boss sees and he loses his shit on them,”
QuoteThe bumbling bear is part of an effort by U.S. Cyber Command to make Russian hackers look uncool online. “We don’t want something they can put on T-shirts, we want something that’s in a PowerPoint their boss sees and he loses his shit on them,”
(https://russiandefpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/putin-touring-the-ntsuo-photo-mil-ru.jpg)
"What's that Comrade Gregor?"
"That's a secret weapon deployed by the Americans sir. The bumbling bear losing candy. We found it during the Capital raid"
"Is that a cyberweapon or a liberal arts project?"
"We don't know sir but they think it makes us look 'uncool'"
"Are we winning"
"Definitely sir"
"That's not pee, that's just powerade!"
"Prove it, take a sip"
"No problem at all!"spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/YqueDuG.jpg)[close]
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExF6ZFwVgAgPfvI?format=jpg)Athlete/teacher?
Congratulations everyone kiddo's want to be corporate shills instead of Michael Cohen
what the fuck"led to an accident"
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1375881068847509504 (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1375881068847509504)
You can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
In the Meme-Stock Era, Even Bad Voltswagen Jokes Are Worth Billions (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/volkswagen-should-leave-the-jokes-to-someone-funny)why is this guy :rethread ???QuoteYou can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/02/05/41249774-9429523-image-a-22_1617338455918.jpg)
Please..kill me now
Or let me earn 1 mill by making dickpicks or something man fuck.
Yes im jealous, women will never spend this type of money lookin at guys
I doubt the gay population wants to see my ugly ass
But I need some dough man :maf :'(
In the Meme-Stock Era, Even Bad Voltswagen Jokes Are Worth Billions (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/volkswagen-should-leave-the-jokes-to-someone-funny)why is this guy :rethread ???QuoteYou can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
the voltswagen stuff is 8)
In the Meme-Stock Era, Even Bad Voltswagen Jokes Are Worth Billions (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-31/volkswagen-should-leave-the-jokes-to-someone-funny)why is this guy :rethread ???QuoteYou can’t blame VW for wanting a little bit of Tesla’s glamour. But its April Fools’ Day calamity shows the dangers of trying to be cool and funny.
the voltswagen stuff is 8)
https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1381242399343718402"Could be worse, lol". :)
:klob
https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1381242399343718402
:klob
With the emergence of the Chia cryptocurrency, miners in China are reportedly frantically snatching up every hard drive and SSD they can find. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, you don't mine Chia with a processor, graphics card or ASIC miner. Instead, you farm Chia with storage space, which is where hard drives or SSDs come in. Chia isn't officially available for trading yet, therefore, it's too early to start hoarding hard drives or SSDs.
it was mark davis :deadhttps://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1384680703858782208
https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1384650781672939521
my team always finding new ways to embarrass the fans :mjcry
team is in las vegas, bud :crowdlaffhttps://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1384650781672939521
my team always finding new ways to embarrass the fans :mjcry
Oakland has historically been a community with rebellious attitudes towards authority so the home team showing solida...
Oh wait.
:goty
team is in las vegas, bud :crowdlaffhttps://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1384650781672939521
my team always finding new ways to embarrass the fans :mjcry
Oakland has historically been a community with rebellious attitudes towards authority so the home team showing solida...
Oh wait.
:goty
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1387487051923300353 (https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1387487051923300353)
Enjoy recyling your tea bag to 'save the environment' folks :kermit
Someone might need to inform me about, "exactly what they were doing", because I don't get it...
Lighthouse did not discuss what the virtual assistant will help users with.
https://twitter.com/loftipixels/status/1400223208171843589 (https://twitter.com/loftipixels/status/1400223208171843589)No, the other rich.
:bernie
https://twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1399667471439826945https://twitter.com/PrimeVideo/status/1399756678396973059
https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1405270760994709505 (https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1405270760994709505)
https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1405271951740784640 (https://twitter.com/sapna/status/1405271951740784640)
:crazy :aloy
another one:
https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1408539462133497859
(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/cMiLy23sWu.jpg)They forgot low taxes
:science
Do one for a caste system with annexed slavery.(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/cMiLy23sWu.jpg)They forgot low taxes
:science
In 2020, Josh Dzieza at the Verge outlined the various ways artificial intelligence, software, and machines are managing workers at places such as call centers, warehouses, and software development shops. He described one remote engineer in Bangladesh who was monitored by a program that took three pictures of him every 10 minutes to make sure he was at his computer, and a call center worker who learned to say “sorry” a lot to customers in order to meet an artificial intelligence-based empathy monitor. A web of technologies has enabled the management of every minute of the working day.
(https://i.imgur.com/ue3neEh.jpeg)
Making :nsfw a thing of the past. :bow2
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
KABUL, Afghanistan — Digital rodents and abandoned Pokemon presided over the streets of Bagram Airfield on the day news broke that U.S. troops had left the base.
All U.S. forces have left Bagram, which for much of the past 20 years was the largest military base in Afghanistan, U.S. defense officials announced Friday. But the animated critters and some of what’s left on base are visible in digitally animated form through the game app Pokemon Go.
The game allows players to walk to real-life locations and catch or battle digital monsters, who can be found using the app’s barebones version of Google Maps. Some of the Pokemon left by U.S. soldiers remain at their posts.
Screenshots of Bagram after the troops left show low-level Pokemon, normally easily defeated, stuck guarding locations, perhaps indefinitely. A tiny Lotad has defended the former Warrior Chapel at Bagram for 10 days, while a lowly Aron has defended a memorial to a fallen servicemember for about two weeks.
Still, Sutter said he assumes someone from Afghanistan will take over his gym, someday, if they haven’t already.
“I’m sure somewhere in Afghanistan, some kid is bragging about how he took control of an American Pokemon gym,” he said.
http://twitter.com/taylormcfayden/status/1413347725589065730
https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/american-express-tells-its-workers-capitalism-is-racist/
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1425486490822344704
https://mobile.twitter.com/WSJ/status/1426446034910199810
:playa
Uber’s cash reserves declined by $4.7b in 2020 and $937m more in the first half of 2021. They’ve got $6.7b in the bank, down from $14.6b in 2019. To increase the appearance of a pony under this shit, Uber’s invented a new field of accounting: “Adjusted EBITDA profitability.”
EBITDA is “earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.”
“Adjusted EBITDA” is “bullshit.”
…
The company has committed another $100m to a Prop 22-style ballot initiative in Massachusetts, which will formalize worker misclassification, ban unionization, and destroy workers' lives. The sooner Uber dies, the better.
they not going anywhere :lol
uber deez nuts imothis is no way for a global moderator to be talking :ufup
The series is produced by Global Citizen — the international education and advocacy organization working to catalyze the movement to end extreme poverty that produced the recent Vax Live: A Concert to Reunite the World — CBS and Deviant Media.
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Should be done on the bore too tbh :kermit
https://twitter.com/RobTheRich0001/status/1437707707000176641
says they haven't been paid in 3 months. you think they didn't try other methods before it got to this point? sometimes you gotta smash shit to get their attention.https://twitter.com/RobTheRich0001/status/1437707707000176641
Now nobody has any trucks, so nobody can do any work and generate any money.
The poorest just dragged everyone else associated with that company down to their level.
Classic socialism.
I mean yeah, that's the idea, when you're being ignored?https://twitter.com/RobTheRich0001/status/1437707707000176641
Now nobody has any trucks, so nobody can do any work and generate any money.
The poorest just dragged everyone else associated with that company down to their level.
Classic socialism.
Now how they going to get paid? They could have tried to seize the trucks or sell them off, now they got no job, no trucks and they definitely aren't getting their money.says they haven't been paid in 3 months. you think they didn't try other methods before it got to this point? sometimes you gotta smash shit to get their attention.https://twitter.com/RobTheRich0001/status/1437707707000176641
Now nobody has any trucks, so nobody can do any work and generate any money.
The poorest just dragged everyone else associated with that company down to their level.
Classic socialism.
https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-toilet-with-butt-recognition-technology-2020-4
:drudge :drudge :drudge
wear a mask on ur butts too :Phttps://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-toilet-with-butt-recognition-technology-2020-4
:drudge :drudge :drudge
Me: I'll wear a mask so the goobermint can't track me. :brain
NSA: Activating butt recognition software.
https://twitter.com/variainayurt/status/1438997113006874627 (https://twitter.com/variainayurt/status/1438997113006874627)
I had no idea Nvidia was so valuable. Weren't they about to go under a few years ago or something?Nvidia is big in AI, cars and the combination of those things.
I had no idea Nvidia was so valuable. Weren't they about to go under a few years ago or something?Nvidia is big in AI, cars and the combination of those things.
They're probably the most advanced AI company in the world.
https://twitter.com/CBSSunday/status/1442911995343224833Can i buy it as an NFT?
They expose the secret offshore affairs of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers and heads of state. They also shine a light on the secret finances of more than 300 other public officials such as government ministers, judges, mayors and military generals in more than 90 countries.
The world is controlled by crooks and liars.:pika
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1444710662169575425 (https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1444710662169575425)QuoteThey expose the secret offshore affairs of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers and heads of state. They also shine a light on the secret finances of more than 300 other public officials such as government ministers, judges, mayors and military generals in more than 90 countries.
A condo in Brooklyn's fashionable Williamsburg neighborhood sells for $2.15 million. Along with Sub-Zero appliances, 13-foot ceilings and a rooftop sun deck, it comes with a lucrative perk: an annual property tax bill of just $157.
Fifteen miles away, in the Bronx’s Throggs Neck neighborhood, a condo in a white building dotted with window-unit air conditioners goes for $234,840. Its annual property tax bill: $3,917.
The details of this particular comparison are stunning: The Williamsburg condo had an effective tax rate of 0.007% on its market value, while the Bronx condo's was 1.7%—more than 200 times higher. Yet across New York’s residential real estate markets, unequal tax bills are commonplace, and they stem in large part from a flawed process for determining property values for tax purposes. City officials have acknowledged some unfairness, but they're far less forthcoming about what causes it.
How do you do fellow kids; having fun watching "Squad Game"? Us too!
https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/1450171265575129100He deserved Facebook-prison at the most. :fbm
:doge
The quotidian cruelties of prison life abounded. Baker had to plead for weeks to get vegan meals; as a Hare Krishna, he does not eat meat as a point of respect for human and nonhuman life and is lactose intolerant.
First this is bullshit and this man needs to be freed but other than that all I took from this and the fact that the january 6 trespassers got off lightly is that Dan needed a better lawyer :trumpsWhy would an anarchist want a lawyer?QuoteThe quotidian cruelties of prison life abounded. Baker had to plead for weeks to get vegan meals; as a Hare Krishna, he does not eat meat as a point of respect for human and nonhuman life and is lactose intolerant.
:badass
Jason's stepdaughter Trisha got stuck in the dryer the other day. Just as his wife called over their bull Jerome.Don't tease me like that Nintex. Give me more :mouf
*help help*QuoteJason's stepdaughter Trisha got stuck in the dryer the other day. Just as his wife called over their bull Jerome.Don't tease me like that Nintex. Give me more :mouf
*help help*QuoteJason's stepdaughter Trisha got stuck in the dryer the other day. Just as his wife called over their bull Jerome.Don't tease me like that Nintex. Give me more :mouf
"Wait? What's going on? Trisha? What are you doing baby?"
"I'm stuck in the Dryer Jerome, please help. I need help"
"Hnngggg...."
"Oh yeah, you gotta help me"
"Just a bit further baby"
"Ooh yes"
*FWUMP*
"There you go, I swear you were spreading your arms on purpose"
"Oh Jerome... wait you pulled me out? Ooohh You are my hero..."
"Hey now Trish, you gotta learn to have some self-respect. Put some pants on. Stop fooling around and get back to university.
I know it's hard with your stepdad being a cuck and all but you have to promise me you'll look after yourself and stop playing tricks"
"*sniff* thanks Jerome.... I don't know what got over me"
"Say, you know your fathers password, I wanna check the score of the game"
"Yeah, it's hilldawg"
"Goddamn, I should've known... let's see here..."
:aah"WHAT THE FUCK"
In June, the UK tabloid the Mirror published a story about a TikTok video that discussed “the four biggest dating app red flags,” according to a creator named @sydneyplus, who said she worked at a dating site. Said red flags include standing in front of a fancy car (likely not their own), describing oneself as an “entrepreneur,” or being weirdly obsessed with their mom. The article is a typical hastily written web post capitalizing on trending content in order to drive pageviews, and was later picked up by the New York Post. The only problem was that @sydneyplus doesn’t work at a dating site, because @sydneyplus doesn’t really exist.
“Sydney,” a broke, blonde 20-something who lives on her sister’s couch and works in customer service at a dating site, is the invention of a team of writers, one actress, and a technology/entertainment/media company called FourFront. Co-founded by a former screenwriter named Ilan Benjamin, the company has so far launched 22 “stories,” or character arcs, eight of them ongoing since the spring. Sydney’s “story,” for example, was that she found out that her sister’s fiancé was cheating, while Ollie, a trans man, discovers that his father also transitioned.
“We’re basically creating an MCU-style universe of characters on TikTok,” says Benjamin.
Last week, Sydney, Ollie, and the rest of the characters — Tia, who discovers her boyfriend is African royalty; Carmen, a self-described sugar baby and bimbo; Chris, a father and Army veteran; and “Billy Hundos,” a “finance fuckboy,” among others — convened IRL in Los Angeles, ostensibly to participate in a contest to win a billion dollars. This also acted as FourFront’s “big reveal,” in which the characters hosted a live Zoom event and showed that they all exist within a single universe.
the characters hosted a live Zoom event and showed that they all exist within a single universe.:info
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/qd5jq8/costco_warehouse_in_the_movie_idiocracy_2006_vs/This is how you also built in Sim City and City Skylines.
Idiocracy, predictive as usual.
so just make a second mario that's identical in every way except his moustache is one hex value lighter so technically unique
:confused
The plan: In 2016, Munger announced he would donate $200 million to the university for a student dorm building he would design — and name after — himself.
His solution to the housing crunch? Stuff more than 4,500 students into an 11-story warehouse-size building in which the overwhelming majority of the units — about 94% — do not have access to natural light or fresh air.
In lieu of windows, students in Munger Hall would instead use a knob to manipulate the degree of artificial light illuminating their cells ... I mean, rooms. And because that isn’t enough dystopia, the whole fake lighting system was inspired by the artificial portholes that Disney devised for its cruise ships. (Don’t let the renderings, which feature lots of exterior windows, fool you; the building is designed at such a massive scale, the bulk of the square footage is largely internal.)
It probably comes as little surprise then that the renderings of Munger Hall on UCSB’s website show only the exterior and daylight-saturated common areas. You’ll have to dig into the university’s website, into a post by the Office of Strategic Asset Management, to find a link to a presentation by the executive architects — Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh — to see the prison-cell layout of the residential floors.
In lieu of windows, students in Munger Hall would instead use a knob to manipulate the degree of artificial light illuminating their cells ... I mean, rooms
I would accept a slightly cheaper housing bill in exchange for taking an interior room :idontIf you stay outside a lot it can work, so for a student that only comes back to sleep and watch anime in bed.
I close the blinds anyway
QuoteIn lieu of windows, students in Munger Hall would instead use a knob to manipulate the degree of artificial light illuminating their cells ... I mean, rooms
You mean dimmer switches? Yeah, I hear that's what they force the cons to use in Sing Sing.
they can in fact pay me in passion :doge
European souls are not necessarily more fulfilled, they just find more eco-friendly ways to shut out the darkness — like going on a bike ride
QuoteEuropean souls are not necessarily more fulfilled, they just find more eco-friendly ways to shut out the darkness — like going on a bike ride
https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1459535689922621452 (https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1459535689922621452)
https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1459535741516759047 (https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1459535741516759047)
These takes are getting worse and worse. :doge
where's the video ???Don't go chasing waterfalls filler
where's the video ???
Brass Against is a collective group of musicians who share the goal of creating music to inspire social and personal change. The band curates songs from a variety of influences from Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Run the Jewels as well as their own compositions in a heavy brass filled symphony.They're a cover band.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1460963425987829767You can shower three times a week if you stay home the other 4 days, maintain social distance and wear a mask to cover the odor... So what we've been doing these past two years.
Are you an ideal citizen?spoiler (click to show/hide)They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.[close]
nintex gets to be the dutch waterworld :lawd
https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1460963425987829767
Are you an ideal citizen?spoiler (click to show/hide)They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.[close]
Proportionality aside though, it's not wrong to point out that a couple of billionaires flying in private jets aren't the problem, as much as mass industrialized production and general 21st century life style.You can take my Tesla, but you'll never take my novelty plastic dog shit!!!!!!!
You can have Elon Musk take a bus, but if you still keep producing a hundred trillion tons of dogshit i doubt it's going to make much of a difference.
heineken ???nintex gets to be the dutch waterworld :lawd
He already drinks pee.
I was a homeless heroin addict for three years. I can honestly say, this looks better than the treatment I received the entire time i was homeless in California.
This is amazing. I wish they would do this here in Canada!
As someone who recently lost a family member to an overdose I can only view this in a positive light.
We’d need to do this in UK
16 cents, imagine the savings.That's the price of a Ubisoft game 2 weeks from launch, not bad. :thinking.
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1466425702543151107thigh meat domination is here at last :rejoice
https://twitter.com/litcapital/status/1467594914556956672 (https://twitter.com/litcapital/status/1467594914556956672)
:dead
(https://i.imgur.com/rmvPwrl.jpg)That movie is like a window in the future. Are we 100% sure the writer wasn't a time traveler?
Why are we doing this again?We're not though. Some weird tech bros in California are pushing this and the general public is just a bit bemused by this thing that no one asked for and no one outside of those weird tech bros cares about.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1468634035308085250 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1468634035308085250)
Why have the graphics not improved. Did GameFreak make this?
Think guest lists that number in the thousands. Gift registries that feature NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Maybe even destination weddings in space.
“They’re going to take their friends on a space rocket,” Ms. Hammer said
Literally...
I mean, I can excuse 14 year old kids for abusing that word and using it in incorrect ways, but journalists?
https://twitter.com/business/status/1470099908808134668 (https://twitter.com/business/status/1470099908808134668)most people are doing this without choice already :american
CONSOOOOMM
https://twitter.com/AnnieTodd96/status/1469823181150203904 (https://twitter.com/AnnieTodd96/status/1469823181150203904):lol :lol :lol
https://twitter.com/AnnieTodd96/status/1469835599809028100 (https://twitter.com/AnnieTodd96/status/1469835599809028100)
https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1469725668648779776
https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1469725668648779776Wisdom from The Dick Wolf. Amazing name.
https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1473212892505800706
I'm starting to feel alienated.https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs/status/1473212892505800706
https://twitter.com/Eli_Navvy/status/1473302706693545986
:neogaf
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1474169034337923082
https://twitter.com/stereogum/status/1459581059029426176
where's the video ???
https://twitter.com/jaydetbh/status/1459024486188072965
:piss :piss2
(https://i.imgur.com/2wiH06q.png)
1. Wait, this is a lady doing the pissing?P.S. these dudes are responsible for the awful end credits Rage Against the Machine cover in Matrix 4.
2. Why does this sound like RATM?
3. Why is there a trumpet?
4. Of course the volunteer is a fat old white guy in Florida.
5. Holy shit that's a lot of piss.
10/10.
I love that in 2021 it's just up on twitter.com instead of having to go to the dark web or liveleak. I also find it incredibly hilarious and fucked up that(although mostly harmless) this is going to follow these people around forever. Like how do you live that down after it goes viral like that?
Wow, i'd love to have a virtual lady comment on everything i buy!
"Didn't you buy Nutella last week, you fat fuck?"
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :doge
Sure, they're ironing out the technical issues, but they are making no progress on the social and practical issues inherent in VR for gaming and for other purposes.
I may live to regret this opinion, but VR and the whole meta verse thing is just nerds with unlimited money trying to live out their 90s cyberpunk fantasies. It's dead in the water for mainstream adoption because the practical purposes are inherently terrible compared to other ways of doing things.
Wow, i'd love to have a virtual lady comment on everything i buy!
"Didn't you buy Nutella last week, you fat fuck?"
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :doge
(https://i.imgur.com/dMI8kHT.jpeg)Wow, i'd love to have a virtual lady comment on everything i buy!
"Didn't you buy Nutella last week, you fat fuck?"
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :doge
"I've detected you already have enough milk, you ought to put that back," she admonishes me as I add gallon after gallon, far more milk than one man requires. The physics-enabled jugs slide around and two of them bounce out of the cart. She doesn't seem to know how to react, and I decide I am done.
We finally visit the electronics department. "Ah, I see you saved the best for last, we can get that TV you wanted!" she says excitedly. My hand hovers over the "purchase" button, but I pause. Suddenly I reach into the cart to pull out one of the gallons of milk, and her face falls. I unscrew the virtual lid, and while solemnly locking eyes with her, I pour virtual milk all over the virtual TV. Silently and with commitment, I do this again and again, until my cart is empty and jugs lie strewn about the ruined electronics department. My work complete, I turn and teleport out of the store without making a purchase.
Gimme that virtual anarchy all over my face :moufWow, i'd love to have a virtual lady comment on everything i buy!
"Didn't you buy Nutella last week, you fat fuck?"
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :doge
"I've detected you already have enough milk, you ought to put that back," she admonishes me as I add gallon after gallon, far more milk than one man requires. The physics-enabled jugs slide around and two of them bounce out of the cart. She doesn't seem to know how to react, and I decide I am done.
We finally visit the electronics department. "Ah, I see you saved the best for last, we can get that TV you wanted!" she says excitedly. My hand hovers over the "purchase" button, but I pause. Suddenly I reach into the cart to pull out one of the gallons of milk, and her face falls. I unscrew the virtual lid, and while solemnly locking eyes with her, I pour virtual milk all over the virtual TV. Silently and with commitment, I do this again and again, until my cart is empty and jugs lie strewn about the ruined electronics department. My work complete, I turn and teleport out of the store without making a purchase.
For sure, i mainly look at VR for gaming, both arcade and immersive sim kind of thing, not as an alternative to do completely mundane tasks.
It's just the wrong interface.
In general, anything involving gestures is a failure when it comes to mundane usability, which is why Minority Report in bullshit.
If i have to be in front of a computer 10 hours a day, i'd rather move a mouse in a 10²cm area, rather than wave my arms around like a Goalie.
Oh yeah Google Earth VR is already very cool to use for that.For sure, i mainly look at VR for gaming, both arcade and immersive sim kind of thing, not as an alternative to do completely mundane tasks.
It's just the wrong interface.
In general, anything involving gestures is a failure when it comes to mundane usability, which is why Minority Report in bullshit.
If i have to be in front of a computer 10 hours a day, i'd rather move a mouse in a 10²cm area, rather than wave my arms around like a Goalie.
VR is definitely gonna grow in importance in medical and military processes, virtual tourism, sex... not so much mundane tasks or work conferencing.
Oh yeah Google Earth VR is already very cool to use for that.For sure, i mainly look at VR for gaming, both arcade and immersive sim kind of thing, not as an alternative to do completely mundane tasks.
It's just the wrong interface.
In general, anything involving gestures is a failure when it comes to mundane usability, which is why Minority Report in bullshit.
If i have to be in front of a computer 10 hours a day, i'd rather move a mouse in a 10²cm area, rather than wave my arms around like a Goalie.
VR is definitely gonna grow in importance in medical and military processes, virtual tourism, sex... not so much mundane tasks or work conferencing.
https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1478794691634155523 (https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1478794691634155523)That's actually a really good social media campaign for something that, at its core, is unlikely to get much attention. Particularly for a government organisation which is subject to so much oversight and restriction when it comes to social media.
That's actually a really good social media campaign for something that, at its core, is unlikely to get much attention. Particularly for a government organisation which is subject to so much oversight and restriction when it comes to social media.https://twitter.com/ZacharyZillman/status/1479270405328150528
The message is positive, funny and a bit silly. It takes advantage of dumb internet culture and turns that into eyeballs on their new consumer protection website. It also attracts a demographic which is notoriously difficult to reach for something like consumer complaints.
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1479469656989646857
Belamire was visiting her brother when he loaded up QuiVR, an “archery Castle Defense game” for the HTC Vive that’s currently in pre-release alpha. While playing, Belamire had “never experienced virtual reality that felt so real,” she recounted in her Medium piece.
Only three minutes into multiplayer, Belamire encountered BigBro442, a floating helmet, bow and free-floating hand. Avatars look the same in QuiVR, but Belamire’s voice gave her away as a woman. Here’s what happened next in her words:
"Suddenly, BigBro442’s disembodied helmet faced me dead-on. His floating hand approached my body, and he started to virtually rub my chest.
'Stop!' I cried . . .This goaded him on, and even when I turned away from him, he chased me around, making grabbing and pinching motions near my chest. Emboldened, he even shoved his hand toward my virtual crotch and began rubbing."
Belamire said that the alleged virtual groping, while not real, is still “scary as hell.” BigBro442, she said, followed her as she ran away. When she couldn’t take it anymore, she took the headset off.
“Women are allowed [in VR], sure, but the BigBro442s of the world will make sure you never want to come back,” Belamire concluded.
QuiVR’s developers Jonathan Schenker and Aaron Stanton didn’t realize that Belamire’s essay was about their game at first. Their hearts sank when they read that QuiVR was the scene of the alleged groping. In an Upload VR post yesterday, Schenker and Stanton took full responsibility for what happened.
“This had happened in our game; this had been on our watch,” they write. “We should have prevented this in the first place.”
ABSTRACT
This paper examines key discussion points among VR-interested Reddit users regarding a
controversial case of VR groping reported in 2016. Through a mixed-methods approach
that includes qualitative thematic analysis and quantitative coding, this paper identifies four
key discussion themes: 1) Conceptualization—what is the act of groping? 2) Ethics—what
is (un)acceptable about the act? 3) Action—what should be done about it? and 4) Vision—
what does this act mean for the future of VR? Within these themes, most comments were
dedicated to the questions of whether the act of groping in VR constitutes sexual assault or
sexual harassment, whether it is the individual’s responsibility to respond to this act, and
whether this act causes harm. These results assist in the formation of a framework for
understanding and addressing concerns related to unwanted sexual behaviours in VR and
other digital play spaces.
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1480556854862389251WTAF is that?
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1479469656989646857One of the better pieces I've seen about the Zuck was from a woman who interviewed him several times over many years, and she observed that he doesn't realize the impact of the kind of large scale decisions he's making. This is also likely true of anything being developed primarily by engineers without actual test runs going on, prior to wide release.
how do you delude yourself into thinking you've provided the perfect orientation and viewing angle/fov for cows that isn't giving them a cross-eye or blurry image
:duh
Why?
how do you delude yourself into thinking you've provided the perfect orientation and viewing angle/fov for cows that isn't giving them a cross-eye or blurry image
:duh
He's too busy fucking them to care.
(https://preview.redd.it/zj44abujchb81.jpg?width=388&auto=webp&s=e84ef29c2eadd86845d24e60e8a863d76fecee2c)Is management one person or did they make them accomplices?
http://twitter.com/hodayum/status/1458598871471374337 (http://twitter.com/hodayum/status/1458598871471374337)That's kind of capitalism working though...to an extent.
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1483179177037676544:biden
Climate activists put out that easy? Wtf I love the environment now.
Climate activists put out that easy? Wtf I love the environment now.
Only if you're a hot cop with a cockney accent. :(
https://twitter.com/moveincircles/status/1483069874020753411
https://twitter.com/moveincircles/status/1483069874020753411
ngl, i took this seriously for a second :lol
https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008 (https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008)Labour laws are a state responsibility, so it would be up to them to individually lower those laws, not the federal government. Morrison can suggest it though.
------ is about to get more “inclusive,” with the maker of ----’s announcing its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more “nuanced personalities.”
-----, Incorporated, the company behind the colorful, -----, announced Thursday a “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.”
As part of the new mission to increase the “sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025,”----- said the ---- characters — who serve as mascots of sorts for the brand — would be receiving fresh, new looks.
The ------, previously seen in ads posing seductively and strutting her stuff in white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers. A description for the ------- on the --------- website says she enjoys “being a hypewoman for my friends.”
“I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles, so I’m happy to take on the part of supportive friend when they succeed,” the ------- said on the promotional site.
Another character, the ------, described her motto as, “Not bossy. Just the boss.”
----- said in announcing the refresh that ------ — which were first released in 1941 — will have “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester, wit and humor.”
"As one of the world's most iconic ------ brands,” Cathryn Sleight, -----’s Chief Growth Officer said in a statement, “who better to commit to a world with more moments of fun by increasing a sense of belonging around the globe than ------ ?"
I just imagined a bunch of 8 year olds driving fork lifts and thought it was pretty funny.https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008 (https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008)Labour laws are a state responsibility, so it would be up to them to individually lower those laws, not the federal government. Morrison can suggest it though.
Going by that jouro's hair and the way she's phrased that tweet, I'm going to assume she has a pretty serious left agenda.
EDIT: Lol, just checked the source of the image and it's The Guardian Australia. Far left shitrag.
Quote------ is about to get more “inclusive,” with the maker of ----’s announcing its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more “nuanced personalities.”
-----, Incorporated, the company behind the colorful, -----, announced Thursday a “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.”
As part of the new mission to increase the “sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025,”----- said the ---- characters — who serve as mascots of sorts for the brand — would be receiving fresh, new looks.
The ------, previously seen in ads posing seductively and strutting her stuff in white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers. A description for the ------- on the --------- website says she enjoys “being a hypewoman for my friends.”
“I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles, so I’m happy to take on the part of supportive friend when they succeed,” the ------- said on the promotional site.
Another character, the ------, described her motto as, “Not bossy. Just the boss.”
----- said in announcing the refresh that ------ — which were first released in 1941 — will have “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester, wit and humor.”
"As one of the world's most iconic ------ brands,” Cathryn Sleight, -----’s Chief Growth Officer said in a statement, “who better to commit to a world with more moments of fun by increasing a sense of belonging around the globe than ------ ?"spoiler (click to show/hide)https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/590560-mms-characters-to-become-more-inclusive[close]
Nooooooooooo, the Ess Jay Dubyas ruining my milk chocolate candy by making the making the mascots less horny. We used to live in a society, a proper society. :notlikethisThere's nothing they won't try to take from us, Joe. #RESIST
Nooooooooooo, the Ess Jay Dubyas ruining my milk chocolate candy by making the making the mascots less horny. We used to live in a society, a proper society. :notlikethis
Let the Green M&M Be a Nasty Little Slut
The recent push to rebrand corporate logos to be more inclusive has, for the most part, been a good thing. Making Barbie more body-positive? Great. Renaming Aunt Jemima syrup? About damn time. Yet in brands’ fervent quest to capture youth audiences and capture the woke zeitgeist, they may be going just a little bit too far. Case in point: the slut-shaming of the green M&M.
Essentially, this is what happened: the CEO of Mars Wrigley, the company that makes M&Ms, announced today that it would be revamping the characters to make them more “current” and “representative of our consumer” (presumably, people united by their willingness to ignore the fact that they’re eating shittier Reese’s Pieces). How do they plan on doing this, you ask? By replacing the characters’ footwear.
This distinction is pretty negligible for the male characters (CNN goes into detail about the changes, but frankly they are men, and thus I don’t really care). For the female characters, however, the changes are apparent and formidable. The brown M&M’s heels have been lowered to a more sensible Alexis Neiers-esque kitten heel, while the green M&M’s signature go-go boots have been swapped out for non-descript white sneakers, the kind that Melanie Griffith’s character in Working Girl changes into at her desk to signal she’s a Girlboss with a head for business and a bod for sin. Let the river run, ladies! (Mars Wrigley did not immediately return a request for comment.)
For those familiar with the iconography of the green M&M, this change is nothing more than tectonic. I imagine it is similar to how the people of Wittenberg must have felt watching Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses of the Protestant Reformation to the church door. But it is also a major error on Mars Wrigley’s part, because the green M&M being a dirty slut, as signified by her iconic white go-go boots, is precisely what has engendered her a devoted fan base, particularly among similarly libidinous women and gay men who have embraced the character. Consider, for instance, this ad where she does erotic ASMR for no reason other than to give the male M&Ms a massive boner, then feigns ignorance at the impact her performance has. Can we, or should we, attempt to put a cap on such virulent, untrammeled female sexuality? Can you stop the wind from blowing? Can you prevent a dog from vomiting after eating too much cheese? Can you keep Twitter libs from being self-righteous about adhering to COVID protocols? No, you cannot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDoJNymbU1Q
The green M&M has spent decades building her brand as a horny, sexy bitch, and for what? For her creators to give her Larry David footwear in the name of feminism? For Mars Wrigley to give themselves pats on the back and big fat fucking raises at the next corporate retreat in Palo Alto? Guess what: the green M&M is a feminist, and she’s a dirty slut. We are real, and we exist, and we refuse to tolerate this disgusting attempt at erasure. We are given so little, and we have tolerated so much. Let the green M&M keep her go-go boots. Let her get blackout and suck dick in the bathroom at Acme on a Wednesday. This is what we want. This is what we deserve. This is what she deserves.
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :dogehttps://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1485470169795342338
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! :dogehttps://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1485470169795342338
John Lennon's eldest son Julian is selling several pieces of music history from his personal collection.
However, he will keep the physical items as each piece of memorabilia will be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT).
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKTUrplX0AAbYGY?format=jpg&name=small)new emoticon pls :rash
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1487547625670946818Is this a cry for help?
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1489013450244337672
what could go wrong
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Based on a new discovery by Jane Manchun Wong, though, Twitter is working on a new feature that would cater to the needs of those who want to share their thoughts on the website in one lengthy article.
Manchun Wong, known for finding experimental features within apps, discovered the existence of a "Twitter Articles" tab. The name itself signifies a long-form format for the social network that has long only allowed people to post bite-sized text messages, but its exact nature is a mystery for now. It's also unclear whether it will be available to everyone, if it does make it to wide release, or if it will be exclusive to Twitter Blue subscribers.
The thinking behind the combination of the telecom giant and movie and TV studio was as follows. AT&T sells lots of phones, and Time Warner has a lot of movies and TV shows. What if… you could watch Time Warner content on your AT&T phone? For some reason, no one involved in the deal admitted you could already do this, and thus the main justification for the deal made no sense. But that was the thinking.
At the press roll-out, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson breathlessly argued the deal would let AT&T deliver content on mobile phones, leading to “the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry.” This Epcot-style fake futurism of stuff that was already commonplace was probably not the rationale for the deal - Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes’s $400 million golden parachute had more to do with it.
[...]
It’s been three and a half years since the deal closed, and what happened? Just moving away from the antitrust questions for a second, the answer is that it didn’t work out, at all. In fact, this week, AT&T got shellacked by Wall Street because it is cutting its dividend and undoing the merger, splitting off its content arm from its telecommunications service. So by any metric, the merger was a waste of time, money, and creative talent.
Of course, when it comes to whether the merger would reduce competition, it’s now clear the deal should have been blocked. To assuage the judge and enforcers, AT&T made many commitments on which it didn’t follow through. CEO Randall Stephenson, in response to government allegations he would raise prices, said “On its face, the premise is absurd.” The claim “literally defies logic to me,” he added. Naturally, AT&T immediately raised prices on DirecTV after the deal closed, which so enraged DOJ lawyers that they began calling the price hikes the “Leon tax.”
That’s not the only broken promise. AT&T also made Time Warner content exclusive to its own paywall, which is something it pledged not to do. It said it would add workers, but since the deal was announced until 2020, AT&T reduced employment by 41,000. The firm killed the cheap $15/month deal for pay TV promised in the trial, and sold anime service Crunchyroll to Sony, which helped create an anime streaming monopoly. And the vaunted ability to compete with Google and Facebook didn’t work out.
[...]
And AT&T-Time Warner is the rule, not the exception. Big mergers rarely work out, even for shareholders. Financial analysts Taiki Morita and Nick Schmitz recently looked at all 268,350 mergers in CompuStat from 2000-2021, and found that “corporate acquirers in the US generally tended to underperform the market. And the bigger the deal, the worse the returns. The firms in the 10th decile generated a -23% premium relative to the market in the subsequent year.” In other words, the government enforcers trying to block the merger had a keener sense of the interests of AT&T shareholders than Judge Leon or the CEO of either AT&T or Time Warner.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jherrerx/status/1488957981547020288
:doge without jobs
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UNEXPECTED ITEM IN TEA BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE
have you no morals, joe ??? then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it :rejoice(https://i.imgur.com/gKhXDeL.jpg)
LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.
have you no morals, joe ??? then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it :rejoice(https://i.imgur.com/gKhXDeL.jpg)
LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1491443638160994304
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLFhDZxVcAI-VbZ?format=jpg&name=small)UPDATE:spoiler (click to show/hide)For clarification, what this "company" apparently does is subscribe to YouTube Music as you or I could, then download the music, issue a NFT to "claim ownership" and then re-stream it from their own servers.[close]
You know they have teeth right?
Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates; revenue forecast light (https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-misses-ad-revenue-user-growth-estimates-revenue-forecast-light-2022-02-10/)Giving a bunch of lunatics blue check marks and allowing them to make the place a toxic shithole is not helping with growing your userbase?
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Forcing user to pay for access to a 60-second fake "edit" (actually just a time delay) isn't working out???
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I think it's more like SmarterChild with some bad CGI slapped over top.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLe7259XwAsSwKE?format=jpg&name=900x900)
So it's Tamagotchi.
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How many times the average user ejaculates per day?https://twitter.com/VlCTORIANCHILD/status/1493072507385036800
I ran into this ad today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbllvQZRyh0
:info
(https://i.imgur.com/dCCv9V7.jpg)Explains a lot, that.
Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”
It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished.
Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. He got the first-generation Argus I implant, made by the company Second Sight Medical Products, in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “I went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.
Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”
Ross Doerr, another Second Sight patient, doesn’t mince words: “It is fantastic technology and a lousy company,” he says. He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. He was thrilled to learn in early 2020 that he was eligible for software upgrades that could further improve his vision. Yet in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, he heard troubling rumors about the company and called his Second Sight vision-rehab therapist. “She said, ‘Well, funny you should call. We all just got laid off,’ ” he remembers. “She said, ‘By the way, you’re not getting your upgrades.’ ”
These three patients, and more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight’s implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget. One technical hiccup, one broken wire, and they lose their artificial vision, possibly forever. To add injury to insult: A defunct Argus system in the eye could cause medical complications or interfere with procedures such as MRI scans, and it could be painful or expensive to remove.
https://twitter.com/hollykmichels/status/1493398987474276352
It's like people who get into hospitality business after watching MasterChef or other cooking shows.https://twitter.com/hollykmichels/status/1493398987474276352
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:doge
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1494068088047902721
This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.
Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.
This is not a Pollyanna view of America. We want to make you a Civil War soldier. We want to make you feel what it was like to be a slave or what it was like to escape through the underground railroad.
— Bob Weis, Disney Senior Vice President (November 1993)
Peter Rummell, president of Disney Design & Development, stated the park was designed to be a one-day experience, and the goal was to make history "real but also make it fun." Rummell acknowledged that creating entertainment around historical events such as slavery and the Civil War could be controversial, but he elaborated that "an intelligent story, properly told, shouldn't offend anybody ... But we won't worry about being politically correct."
This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.
Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.
This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.
Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.
uh I don't know about that...if it had succeeded it sounds like it would be #cancelled todayQuoteThis is not a Pollyanna view of America. We want to make you a Civil War soldier. We want to make you feel what it was like to be a slave or what it was like to escape through the underground railroad.
— Bob Weis, Disney Senior Vice President (November 1993)QuotePeter Rummell, president of Disney Design & Development, stated the park was designed to be a one-day experience, and the goal was to make history "real but also make it fun." Rummell acknowledged that creating entertainment around historical events such as slavery and the Civil War could be controversial, but he elaborated that "an intelligent story, properly told, shouldn't offend anybody ... But we won't worry about being politically correct."
This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.
Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.
Killers of the Flower Moon is gonna shit over whatever disney pops out this year, i'm not worried about Scorsese losing to cartoons
https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/1499917897451380736 (https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/1499917897451380736)
The most popular young person was a French woman who was using machine learning (the most interesting thing of all) to help refugees (the most inspiring cause of all?). She called her idea “tech-fugees.”:doge
AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html?fbclid=IwAR10UoQxwQN6_CYraOdpe1yoMkpPe7d3aEO-l0UuCXYhmlqCuQz_vEW4Vqs (https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html?fbclid=IwAR10UoQxwQN6_CYraOdpe1yoMkpPe7d3aEO-l0UuCXYhmlqCuQz_vEW4Vqs)
Jeez, imagine deploying this to RE, it'll probably crash.
AI model detects mental disorders based on web posts
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html?fbclid=IwAR10UoQxwQN6_CYraOdpe1yoMkpPe7d3aEO-l0UuCXYhmlqCuQz_vEW4Vqs (https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-ai-mental-disorders-based-web.html?fbclid=IwAR10UoQxwQN6_CYraOdpe1yoMkpPe7d3aEO-l0UuCXYhmlqCuQz_vEW4Vqs)
Jeez, imagine deploying this to RE, it'll probably crash.
Employers across the US have been dealing with a historic shift in labor thanks to the pandemic. We know it as the Great Resignation, and the pundits have been falling over themselves to explain to us why employers are at fault. Now it looks like the Great Resignation may be followed by the Great Regret.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/20/great-resignation-great-regret-employees-quittingQuoteEmployers across the US have been dealing with a historic shift in labor thanks to the pandemic. We know it as the Great Resignation, and the pundits have been falling over themselves to explain to us why employers are at fault. Now it looks like the Great Resignation may be followed by the Great Regret.
That theory has been given credence by another study released this week by the job search site the Muse. Its study of more than 2,500 workers found that almost three-quarters of them (72%) experienced either “surprise or regret” that the new position or new company they quit their job for turned out to be “very different” from what they were led to believe. Nearly half (48%) of these workers said they would try to get their old job back thanks to a phenomenon that The Daily Muse is calling “shift shock”.
The key is in this sentence I think:(https://i.imgur.com/0HDJgfJ.png)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/20/great-resignation-great-regret-employees-quittingQuoteEmployers across the US have been dealing with a historic shift in labor thanks to the pandemic. We know it as the Great Resignation, and the pundits have been falling over themselves to explain to us why employers are at fault. Now it looks like the Great Resignation may be followed by the Great Regret.
I assume that this is here as an implication that late stage capitalism is desperately trying to retain workers with stories like this, but what they're saying is actually true, a lot of people don't understand what they've got until it's goneQuoteThat theory has been given credence by another study released this week by the job search site the Muse. Its study of more than 2,500 workers found that almost three-quarters of them (72%) experienced either “surprise or regret” that the new position or new company they quit their job for turned out to be “very different” from what they were led to believe. Nearly half (48%) of these workers said they would try to get their old job back thanks to a phenomenon that The Daily Muse is calling “shift shock”.
at the place I work there have been 3 or 4 people over the years who have left and immediately regretted it and tried to come back, one guy actually was able to come back but for most it's too late
one guy left for an IT position at a manufacturing plant, he got there and was told "oh we're a family business and we like everyone to understand everyone else's jobs here, so you're going to be working on the production floor for 2 weeks just to get a feel for what we do here"
:titus
Working for a small business can be rewarding, fun and more flexible than at a larger organization. But in the end, we’re just a business.
it's also worth mentioning that some of these places with "now hiring" signs and ads, are not hiring people who apply. I know someone who got turned away with the reasoning "overqualified" or some horseshit, and they had recently been working the exact same job somewhere else :doge
Apple, Microsoft top list of most ethical tech companies (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apple-microsoft-top-list-of-most-ethical-tech-companies/)
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I know Oracle, Twitter and Facebook are probably fucking the curve really badly, but I still got a laugh.
Apple, Microsoft top list of most ethical tech companies (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/apple-microsoft-top-list-of-most-ethical-tech-companies/)
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I know Oracle, Twitter and Facebook are probably fucking the curve really badly, but I still got a laugh.
http://twitter.com/askamanager/status/1509246642364588040https://twitter.com/eilanora/status/1509247487432925185
A 2016 state law prohibits marijuana edibles from being shaped like humans, animals, fruit or other objects that could attract children, and according to the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, Holyfield's chomped ear is just too damn attractive.
If a subclass of "the working poor" exists, you can't call yourself a first world country.
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize in Landmark Win for Labor (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/technology/amazon-union-staten-island.html)
@Bezos:
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Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/04/cops-take-dim-view-of-autonomous-vehicle-driving-with-no-lights-at-night/)
Maybe robots and humans are not so different after all.
Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/04/cops-take-dim-view-of-autonomous-vehicle-driving-with-no-lights-at-night/)
Maybe robots and humans are not so different after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKbF8khsrI
WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will unveil plans on Tuesday to extend the availability of higher biofuel blends of gasoline during the summer to curb soaring fuel costs and to cut reliance on foreign energy sources, senior administration officials said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aQgN_7oX0QI'm sure all those people who used to work in subsistence farming really hate what capitalism has done to work
I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.
I thought a yearning for the good old days before everything was ruined tended to be a conservative viewpointHave you been listening to today's so called lefties? Their politics is more than reminiscent of 70s conservatives.
(particularly the good old days of majority industrial jobs)
I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.
Let's face it, capitalism is probably the best thing that ever happened to work because it allowed many, many people to pursue their passions.
Without capitalism there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week.
How amazing were those working conditions in communist countries again?I was gonna say, some real hardcore historical revisionism in the first few mins of that video.I didn't watch any of it, but it's pretty easy to assume that person has some Rose tinted glasses on if they think work only sucks because capitalism ruined it.
Let's face it, capitalism is probably the best thing that ever happened to work because it allowed many, many people to pursue their passions.
Without capitalism there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week.
:lol :lol :lol :lucille
:hesrightOn review, I did leave some thoughts unsaid, so I've fixed it below:
I still wanted to call out the five-day work week thing, specifically.
Without capitalism, and the balance provided by unions within the captialist system, there wouldn't be an 8 hour work day and a five day work week. People would just be worked into the dirt by their bourgeoise/communist overlords and replaced by the next willing warm body.
prevent the practice, which has gained popularity in recent years
Living with other people :nope
A survey last September by review site Digital.com of 1,250 US employers found 60% with remote employees are using work monitoring software of some type, most commonly to track web browsing and application use. And almost nine out of 10 of the companies said they had terminated workers after implementing monitoring software.
The number and array of tools now on offer to continuously monitor employees’ digital activity and provide feedback to managers is remarkable. Tracking technology can also log keystrokes, take screenshots, record mouse movements, activate webcams and microphones, or periodically snap pictures without employees knowing. And a growing subset incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to make sense of the data being collected.
One AI monitoring technology, Veriato, gives workers a daily “risk score” which indicates the likelihood they pose a security threat to their employer. This could be because they may accidentally leak something, or because they intend to steal data or intellectual property.
Disney's writer wage theft, a year on (https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/disney-still-must-pay/)Quick, what's the next minority Disney can exploit to bury this?
Disney's writer wage theft, a year on (https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/30/disney-still-must-pay/)Quick, what's the next minority Disney can exploit to bury this?
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1522589983651074048 (https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1522589983651074048)
:pika
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We often have shortages because Chinese or others buy up the supply when theirs is poisoned.Same. There's whole businesses that do nothing more than buy Australian products like baby formula and stuff and send it to rich buyers in China.
The crypto party was as raucous as ever—and then someone turned on the lights. After a stablecoin crash wiped out some $400 billion in market cap last week, the crypto industry was left with shaken confidence and a massive hangover.
In the wake of Terra-Luna's collapse, another algorithmic stablecoin, DEI, lost its peg to the dollar and started to collapse.[64][65]
64. "Another Stablecoin Loses Peg as Algorithm Fails to Keep Pace". (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-16/another-stablecoin-loses-its-peg-as-algorithm-fails-to-keep-pace) Bloomberg.com. 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
65. Clark, Mitchell (2022-05-16). "More stablecoins are destabilizing, sparking even more shenanigans" (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/16/23075139/stablecoin-terra-crash-depeg-dei-fantom-usd-scream-defi-instability). The Verge. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
'Plan for the worst', Y Combinator tells startup founders as global markets go into a tailspin (https://www.cnbctv18.com/startup/plan-for-the-worst-y-combinator-tells-startup-founders-as-global-markets-go-into-a-tailspin-13548162.htm)
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1528838175891681280I wonder what he'd do if you took his anarchist philosophy to heart and just decided to steal all his shit?
:money
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1528838175891681280
:money
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(https://preview.redd.it/drmkzq82y5891.jpg?width=587&auto=webp&s=34ff51af1d344c67b5ca06bbcc22abd024225690)Signs you live in a broken society...
That's dumb.
I mean, it's not Beatles' Apple Corps vs. Apple dumb, but it's pretty dumb.
Hey Justin. This is Mike the founder of Liquid Death. Really sorry for this whole shit-uation
Anyone who thinks you stole anything as an artist is an idiot. You were just drawing cool skulls, same as Will Carsola who did our logo and a lot of our art, and same as Steiner just drawing cool skulls on his Insta. No one copied anyone. And it's my fault for this misfire on making a joke in public that started this whole pointless debate in the first place. NB can monetize the skull you drew for them however they want. We don't care and never really did. Hopefully they at least paid you well. And I was serious, would love to pay you to do a piece for the bottom of our case box. Your are is rad. My bad joke was not.
https://twitter.com/EA/status/1542706383694565378
Sometimes I'm afraid the NFT guys will actually be right and there will be a massive market for them just because they exist.How are Beanie Babies doing, now?
You gotta love how petulant some of these articles about an incoming recession sound.
You can tell the super tight labor market that shifted some power back to employees for the first time in years really got under some people's skin. There's a real "just you wait, you'll learn your place" tone to them lol (looking at you WSJ Op-Ed page).
—Netflix and shill: It’s hard not to see Netflix’s ad deal with Microsoft as a precursor to a possible acquisition (if the government would allow that after the Activision Blizzard deal). The combination of Xbox, all its game studios, Minecraft, and Netflix would be super powerful within the world’s third largest company. Netflix is relatively cheap these days, and remember, co-C.E.O. Reed Hastings previously sat on the Microsoft board.
Fuck China. Fuck communist scum.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1549790086656581640 (https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1549790086656581640)
:juche
Very soon the World Bank, WEF and IMF will point to China has a wonderful example of how to deal with the inflation and energy crisis.
"We can all learn a lot from China" the economic experts will say. The Wapo headlines: "China takes bold steps, when is Biden stepping up to the plate?"
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1549790086656581640 (https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1549790086656581640)
:juche
Very soon the World Bank, WEF and IMF will point to China has a wonderful example of how to deal with the inflation and energy crisis.
"We can all learn a lot from China" the economic experts will say. The Wapo headlines: "China takes bold steps, when is Biden stepping up to the plate?"
always so confusing to see the not-so-communist chicoms
“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said on the June 30th call, according to a recording obtained by The Verge. “And part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might just say that this place isn’t for you. And that self-selection is okay with me.”
Comments on Workplace, the company’s internal version of Facebook for employees, came flying in. “This is war-time, we need a war-time CEO,” one wrote. “Beast mode activated,” a second employee posted.
But Zuckerberg did deliver on the promise of transparency: his employees now understood how he really felt about them.:dead
“I think during a lot of the COVID period, I kind of bias[ed] towards more flexibility and convenience for people,” he said. But now, he’d noticed people making personal appointments in the middle of the day, making it hard for even the CEO to get everyone to attend a meeting.:trumps
https://twitter.com/prans_rocks/status/1553082138408669186 (https://twitter.com/prans_rocks/status/1553082138408669186)So many different types of wrong in that photo
Sri Lanka has a population of 21 million, how is that tiny? :snobIt's not that tiny. It has a population density below India, Japan, and the Netherlands.
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1558501622082412544 (https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1558501622082412544)
:yeshrug
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1558501622082412544 (https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1558501622082412544)
:yeshrug
https://twitter.com/PapaJohns/status/1559585787498340353
Man who lives in palace announces the "end of abundance".
No, this is not a time of "great upheavel".
Y'all are cowards that fucked up, that's the problem.
But upgrading dozens of aging treatment facilities could cost $14 billion, which would double or triple ratepayers’ water bills, White said in an interview.
“It’s a multibillion-dollar Bay Area issue due to stost that needs to be thought through very carefully, taking the science into effect,” she said. “There’s all of sorts of different treatments, and none of them are cheap.”
“If something as naturally decentralized as cheerleading can be monopolized so easily, it really demolishes so many Chicago School premises.” - Harvard Law professor Einer Elhauge
THE HEADLINE I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR:No wonder, Facebook advertising is just shit now.
Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html)
(http://www.thebore.com/forum/Smileys/default/rejoice.png)
The number of daily active users in the U.S. and Canada has fallen in the past two years, from 198 million in mid-2020 to 197 million in the second quarter of this year. Globally, user numbers are up about 10% over that stretch and are expected to increase 3% a year through 2024, according to FactSet estimates.
$1.2 billion Metaverse
30 users
:dead
https://twitter.com/Lum_/status/1580325993423642624 (https://twitter.com/Lum_/status/1580325993423642624)
We tried this with Second Life. It didn't work then because people who have time for this shit have no life in the real world and transfer that energy to the virtual world. Then the corporates tried to muscle in and anyone doing anything interesting left. The same thing is happening here.
Meta fucking sucks :rejoice
Meta fucking sucks :rejoice
The Winklevoss Curse
A natural outcome of allowing colors to be copyrighted.
Palmer Luckey, defense contractor and the father of modern virtual reality, has created a VR headset that will kill the user if they die in the game they’re playing. He did this to commemorate the anime, Sword Art Online. Luckey is the founder of Oculus, a company he sold to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion. This is the technology that Mark Zuckerberg rebranded as the foundation for Meta.
Luckey’s killer headset looks like a Meta Quest Pro hooked up with three explosive charge modules that sit above the screen. The charges are aimed directly at the user's forebrain and, should they go off, would obliterate the head of the user.
“The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it,” Luckey wrote in a blog post explaining the project. “Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.”
BERLIN (AP) — KFC has apologized for accidentally sending an automated push alert to its app users in Germany that appeared to urge people to order food to commemorate the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass” — when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
The company faced an outcry for the alert that went out Wednesday at a time when Jewish groups are warning of rising antisemitism. According to screenshots shared online, the app alert said, “Memorial day for the Reich pogrom night. Treat yourself to more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!”
KFC Germany said the notification was an “unplanned, insensitive and unacceptable message and for this we sincerely apologize.”
If you lived through the dotcom boom, it's really hard to feel sorry for any of these crypto scam people.
Exactly the same grift of selling a product that doesn't exist to investors too stupid or greedy to realise they were investing in nothing with any tangible value and then even more stupid people boosting the price to astronomical levels before everyone started asking the question they should have all asked before opening their wallets:
"What real world value does any of this have?"
people need to be able to send each other money digitally without it passing through a dozen monopoly services who each have to approve the transaction
Crypto in theory places even greater priority on keeping track of reputation. Nobody checks whether your local bank actually doesn't suck because they assume someone else is checking. Crypto solves the problem of knowing that the means of the transaction is secure at the moment of the transaction but it can't inherently tell you the reputation of the other person you're transacting with.
One reason the great mass leveling of reputation that was supposed to happen due to the internet and stuff like Yelp hasn't happened is because apparently humans believe that they personally are always an exception. If they want to dismiss a bunch of bad reviews because they want to think it will work out for them especially if they want what the other person is offering or claiming to be offering. eBay and Amazon have spent who knows how much trying to figure this out and one of the main takeways from their research is that providing reputation scores/user reviews mostly just gets people to rank who they will do business with not actually refuse to do business if all the options are reported to be bad. (And also anyone who gets a bad reputation will just rebrand with a new username.)
In the case of crypto I think all the calls to have it regulated like banks or the stock market to "legitimize" it for the mass public are missing the point so much that it's amazing that supposedly credentialed people continue to be willing to say it publicly. Why would people interested in anonymized transactions want the government to be able to go through the records of every transaction with every party identified at any time? :lol
I feel like I haven't been offered any legitimate, legal examples of what crypto offers the average person over the financial system they already know and has been embedded in society for hundreds of years.
Banks will now have to ensure that sellers have documented consent as well as age and identity verification for those involved in the content before being able to process payments, Mastercard said in a blog post Wednesday.Porn is the most obvious one you find stories about because the industry obviously sees this as an existential threat and the financial companies are willing to talk about it publicly but all kinds of random people can find themselves cut off or even prominent groups like Wikileaks. You get hit by one all the others will accept it on the word of the first one that bans you and it can often be global as lots of banks use the same list. And being on the list becomes evidence against you even though you can't find out what you did. There's not really any kind of appeals process for people to find their way back into good graces from what I understand. It's like the No Fly List.
“In the past few years, the ability to upload content to the internet has become easier than ever,” wrote John Verdeschi, the company’s senior vice president of customer engagement and performance. “All someone needs is a smartphone and a Wi-Fi connection. Now, our requirements address the risks associated with this activity.”
Banks will also be required to ensure that sites have a review process and a system for complaints that addresses illegal or nonconsensual activity.
...
Moody told The Hill that the requirement for a content review process prior to publication of adult content isn’t feasible for livestreaming on sites like Twitch or Charturbate, which she called “one of the best income sources for smaller models who are barely scrapping by.”
“This requirement would also force huge expenditures for sites like OnlyFans, Twitter and others that rely on a news feed style engagement,” Moody added, noting that being able to share content quickly is important for creators on such sites.
Mike Stabile, the communications director for the Free Speech Coalition, an adult industry trade association, noted that the regulations might dissuade social media sites from “dealing with adult content entirely.”
“If not, they risk not being able to process payments on their network,” he tweeted. “It’s hard to explain how short-sighted this is, and how devastating it will be to independent performers.”
The new requirements follow a decision late last year by Mastercard to stop allowing its cards to be used on Pornhub in the wake of a New York Times opinion story alleging the platform was contributing to sex trafficking. Visa and Discover similarly cut off payments to the site.
Sex workers have said those decisions made it difficult for them to rely on the platform, forcing them to pursue other, potentially more dangerous, sources of income.
I was just surprised at your take considering what the government tried to do to PGP! It's because I think highly of you, Tasty!
https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1596502017383759872
Crypto in theory places even greater priority on keeping track of reputation. Nobody checks whether your local bank actually doesn't suck because they assume someone else is checking. Crypto solves the problem of knowing that the means of the transaction is secure at the moment of the transaction but it can't inherently tell you the reputation of the other person you're transacting with.
One reason the great mass leveling of reputation that was supposed to happen due to the internet and stuff like Yelp hasn't happened is because apparently humans believe that they personally are always an exception. If they want to dismiss a bunch of bad reviews because they want to think it will work out for them especially if they want what the other person is offering or claiming to be offering. eBay and Amazon have spent who knows how much trying to figure this out and one of the main takeways from their research is that providing reputation scores/user reviews mostly just gets people to rank who they will do business with not actually refuse to do business if all the options are reported to be bad. (And also anyone who gets a bad reputation will just rebrand with a new username.)
In the case of crypto I think all the calls to have it regulated like banks or the stock market to "legitimize" it for the mass public are missing the point so much that it's amazing that supposedly credentialed people continue to be willing to say it publicly. Why would people interested in anonymized transactions want the government to be able to go through the records of every transaction with every party identified at any time? :lol
In a message released to the public, Xu offered 17 weeks severance and 2023 vesting as part of the severance package.
That guy is talking like an 8 year old
"The lights change, MIND BLOWING"
"It doesn't have a steering wheel breh just this giant prolapsed cyber anus you can tilt around to steer" :smug
They actually delivered
https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1605274314797883400 (https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1605274314797883400)
https://twitter.com/barrettjoneill/status/1605353033420148736 (https://twitter.com/barrettjoneill/status/1605353033420148736)
An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”:hesright
Assyrians had books :mindblownOrder my new novel today, it's about a young orphan boy who is really a magical chosen one, comes on 78 carved stone tablets that will be delivered over five years if no plagues or famines happen.
https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1617330841457414144 (https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1617330841457414144)
:dead
WHY IS ONE EYE OF HIS GLASSES SQUARE AND THE OTHER CIRCULAR? :existentialIt's to help with the ritual disembowelment
https://twitter.com/BayHomeowners/status/1629918778321694720If you read that and think the owner is the bad guy...
:miyamoto
https://twitter.com/matthieurouif/status/1639296117262123010 (https://twitter.com/matthieurouif/status/1639296117262123010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52uV507KXM
https://twitter.com/diamondmolar/status/1650169537944322048 (https://twitter.com/diamondmolar/status/1650169537944322048)
:lol
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-google-chrome-feature-broken-edge-1850392901
*sound of anti-trust lawyers in Brussels rubbing their hands*
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-google-chrome-feature-broken-edge-1850392901At least it doesn't force you to boot Redfall
*sound of anti-trust lawyers in Brussels rubbing their hands*
To celebrate the release of Marvel Studios’ "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," in theaters May 5, General Mills has teamed up with the film for this limited edition Walmart-exclusive kit. Inside the kit, you will find all the General Mills cereals your family already loves transformed into six highly collectable, limited edition cereal boxes, with exclusive dual facing designs. This collaboration themes each box to its own unique Guardian, bringing together the best of Marvel Studios’ "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" and General Mills equities, creating one-of-a-kind packaging that Marvel fans will be sure to enjoy. This exclusive kit includes one Family Size box each of Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Cookie Crisp, Trix and Reese’s Puffs cereals, as well as a 6-pin set, featuring the Marvel Studios’ "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" ensemble in their own branded box. Just pour a bowl of your favorite cereal and add milk for an easy way to start the day. Plus, every serving provides vitamins and minerals as part of a delicious kids breakfast. Enjoy these family favorite cereals any way you like. Serve your family some easy cereal treat bars made from Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Honey Nut Cheerios cereals for an after school snack. Dunk your Cookie Crisp cereal pieces into a glass of milk for that classic cookie and milk combination. Nibble from a bowlful as party snacks. Or display the limited edition cereal boxes for a "Guardians of the Galaxy"-themed birthday party. Explore all the fun creations you can make with recipes from General Mills, including cereal bars, snack mixes and many more. Whether you're looking for delicious kids snacks, trail mix ingredients or a breakfast cereal for the whole family, General Mills cereals spread goodness from tots to grown-ups.
Who’s the CEO of spanking? :sicko
I only tip at Subway because I support artists.
Maurice Hallett, proprietor of the airport eatery, Smokehouse BBQ, is offering the same combo for the low cost of $17.78 — yes, with a double shot of booze — at his Trenton, N.J., 1911 Smoke House Bar-B-Que restaurant. He’s dubbing it the “D Brooks Special.”https://www.instagram.com/p/CxeP0yZuEtr/
Hallett told the NJ.com news site that he can’t feature the deal at the airport itself because the rents are too high there.
Burgers run $17 to $18 at the airport, so Hallett said he suspects it was the alcohol portion of Brooks’s tab that made it so steep. “He must’ve been knocking back a bunch of drinks,” Hallett said.
Hallett and his team have clearly been enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. On its Facebook page, the restaurant even said, “Thanks Dave Brooks for the free publicity,” though it requested that the columnist use the dining spot’s hashtag (#youcantbeatourmeat) in any future references.