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curly · « **Reply #960 on:** May 17, 2019, 03:48:30 PM »

Quote from: Kara on May 17, 2019, 02:08:48 PM

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.)

already happening on twitter

shosta · « **Reply #961 on:** May 17, 2019, 04:13:23 PM »

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/the-hot-zone/

seeing National Geographic do a tv dramatization of the ebola outbreak after having grown up reading their magazines cover to cover is gonna be a #latestagecapitalism for me

team filler · « **Reply #962 on:** May 17, 2019, 04:58:03 PM »

shosta · « **Reply #963 on:** May 17, 2019, 05:01:55 PM »

first off he won't have trouble finding another job because they grow on trees but second of all have you actually tried communicating with him on what he can do better to stop dragging down the team

jorma · « **Reply #964 on:** May 17, 2019, 05:06:22 PM »

Quote from: riotous on May 17, 2019, 04:55:30 PM

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.

don't throw your coworkers under the bus man, that's managements job
it's their time he is wasting, not yours.

shosta · « **Reply #965 on:** May 17, 2019, 06:13:07 PM »

Sounds like it's on him and you did your best

team filler · « **Reply #966 on:** May 17, 2019, 07:13:18 PM »

typical neolib class traitor

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #967 on:** May 17, 2019, 07:16:43 PM »

Maybe the true late stage capitalism was the co-workers we fired along the way.

Nintex · « **Reply #968 on:** May 17, 2019, 07:23:53 PM »

Quote from: riotous on May 17, 2019, 04:55:30 PM

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.

You did the right thing. Do not feel bad about yourself.
You saved everyone a ton of time. Time and attention are the most valuable commodities of our time.
You also didn't lie about his performance to management. You are officially Employee of the Month.

agrajag · « **Reply #969 on:** May 17, 2019, 07:24:39 PM »

https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-accessories/a27505097/gucci-indy-full-turban-cultural-appropriation-backlash-controversy/

with all this outrage we may never get the Urban Sombrero :'(

Kara · « **Reply #970 on:** May 17, 2019, 08:13:37 PM »

That's a tough situation, riotous. You're paid well to do what you do well and you know what doing it well entails. Your conscience is your own, but so is your #brand*.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

At this juncture I might be inclined to say that even the greatest consultants are fallible people who misplace,
forget, or otherwise make honest mistakes due to oversight no one could reasonably have seen at the time. In the inimitable words of one Peter Moore, y'know, things break.

[close]

*Unless a member of The Shins is trying to start a baby lifestyle brand with the same name.

team filler · « **Reply #971 on:** May 18, 2019, 12:15:25 AM »

Don Rumata · « **Reply #972 on:** May 18, 2019, 06:24:53 AM »

Crash Dummy · « **Reply #973 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:12:54 AM »

https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1129318920064786432

team filler · « **Reply #974 on:** May 18, 2019, 05:05:44 PM »

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/05/14/mcdonalds-austria-double-mini-u-s-embassies-tourists/3672262002/

team filler · « **Reply #975 on:** May 18, 2019, 06:25:45 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #976 on:** May 19, 2019, 09:37:56 AM »

https://twitter.com/holly/status/1130067626363838464

Tripon · « **Reply #977 on:** May 19, 2019, 05:05:24 PM »

https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129885613962997760

Tripon · « **Reply #978 on:** May 19, 2019, 05:19:22 PM »

https://twitter.com/9_volt_/status/1097886168992104448

Boner culture.

team filler · « **Reply #979 on:** May 19, 2019, 05:23:17 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on May 19, 2019, 05:05:24 PM

https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129885613962997760

https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129950730528415744

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #980 on:** May 20, 2019, 10:59:00 AM »

Quote from: Tripon on May 19, 2019, 05:05:24 PM

https://twitter.com/ZakDavid/status/1129885613962997760

#TacoAudit

VomKriege · « **Reply #981 on:** May 21, 2019, 09:57:49 AM »

Quote from: Esch on May 20, 2019, 09:26:41 PM

https://twitter.com/grahamorama/status/1130617806276440064

@ KK

shosta · « **Reply #982 on:** May 21, 2019, 06:01:35 PM »

On The World today

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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.

The Larry Summers Memo is real, baby!

team filler · « **Reply #983 on:** May 21, 2019, 07:24:56 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #984 on:** May 21, 2019, 10:10:56 PM »

bluemax · « **Reply #985 on:** May 22, 2019, 01:26:43 AM »

https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1130870467408072709

Rufus · « **Reply #986 on:** May 22, 2019, 04:56:01 AM »

You can't even use the scrip in the actual store?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #987 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:09:00 AM »

Yeah, but think of all the stickers you can get?

tiesto · « **Reply #988 on:** May 22, 2019, 02:29:04 PM »

Quote from: bluemax on May 22, 2019, 01:26:43 AM

https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1130870467408072709

Just tell them they're playing the forklift minigame from Shenmue...

team filler · « **Reply #989 on:** May 22, 2019, 02:55:58 PM »

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1130885877759205376

https://twitter.com/AmazonHelp/status/1130894275322023942

BisMarckie · « **Reply #990 on:** May 22, 2019, 02:57:59 PM »

Would have been a good Law and Order SVU episode.

jorma · « **Reply #991 on:** May 22, 2019, 04:03:54 PM »

Quote from: filler on May 22, 2019, 02:55:58 PM

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1130885877759205376

https://twitter.com/AmazonHelp/status/1130894275322023942

maybe that delivery guy just haven't earned enough scrips to buy an Amazon Vest yet?

agrajag · « **Reply #992 on:** May 22, 2019, 04:57:45 PM »

https://twitter.com/BurgerKing/status/1131243794203119621

team filler · « **Reply #993 on:** May 22, 2019, 07:41:52 PM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #994 on:** May 22, 2019, 07:45:07 PM »

That’s actually pretty clever. I lived in a building with an elevator and hated paying for that shit(maintenance and electricity) even though I never used it.

Rufus · « **Reply #995 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:53:15 PM »

...said a self-professed socdem.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #996 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:54:20 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on May 22, 2019, 08:53:15 PM

...said a self-professed socdem.

Seeheimer Kreis

Rufus · « **Reply #997 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:21:05 PM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #998 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:24:11 PM »

I guess we have established that I am the right wing extremist in this thread‘s overton window.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #999 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:25:51 PM »

Please don‘t quote out of context.

Kara · « **Reply #1000 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:27:41 PM »

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The group describes itself as "undogmatic and pragmatic" and generally takes moderately liberal economic positions.

Cold as Haagen-Dazs, Wikipedia.

Kara · « **Reply #1001 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:53:56 PM »

Social fascism is a big tent. Some of us are biding our time until the inevitable proletarian revolution, some of us are the children of white ethnostates doing whatever we can to ensure that we get to keep a fraction of the protection money postwar American puppet governments paid to our grandparents, and some of us think we need socialism help people start small businesses.

agrajag · « **Reply #1002 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:03 PM »

fascystys

team filler · « **Reply #1003 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:31 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #1004 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:55 PM »

GO RAIDAHS!

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1005 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:14:19 PM »

The good thing about being a moderate socdem is that when the proletarian revolution happens, you are not top priority and can spend some time playing vidya at home before you are sent to the gulag.

team filler · « **Reply #1006 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:22:54 PM »

eat the rich, starting with the butthole

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1007 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:25:21 PM »

Gustav Noske:Rosa Luxemburg was a biaaaaaatch.

Kara · « **Reply #1008 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:26:35 PM »

https://twitter.com/BillionMagazine/status/1131302046970372096

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1009 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:33:57 PM »

agrajag · « **Reply #1010 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:58:40 PM »

https://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-suspect-makes-deal-turn-15000-facebook-likes/story?id=63217465

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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.

filler, I have an assignment for you

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1011 on:** May 23, 2019, 01:01:50 PM »

Assuming that filler would help the cops.

agrajag · « **Reply #1012 on:** May 23, 2019, 01:42:23 PM »

https://news.clickhole.com/a-sensible-plea-viacom-is-urging-people-writing-erotic-1825122945

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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.”

shosta · « **Reply #1013 on:** May 23, 2019, 02:07:39 PM »

Clickhole but I thought it was real for like a full minute

agrajag · « **Reply #1014 on:** May 23, 2019, 02:12:36 PM »

Quote from: shosta on May 23, 2019, 02:07:39 PM

Clickhole but I thought it was real for like a full minute

me too, welcome to the austy club

Kara · « **Reply #1015 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:22:11 PM »

https://twitter.com/mashable/status/1130960778775977984

Tasty · « **Reply #1016 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:30:27 PM »

Amazon the company wasn't around when the rainforest was named.

The Amazon rain forest was around when the Web took off and registering domain names became a thing. The rain forest didn't assert their trademark when they obviously could and should have, and this is the result.

No backsies.

Tasty · « **Reply #1017 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:31:53 PM »

Article title is misleading -- it's not amazon.com ruffling feathers, but the entire .amazon TLD, which is a little more understandable.

Honestly I'm not in favor of any one tech corp controlling an entire TLD... .app and Google are the best possible marriage, but I still wish it were third-party.

benjipwns · « **Reply #1018 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:37:35 PM »

ha, of all the geographical top level domains they're simply the place name, except New Zealand which registered .kiwi instead

team filler · « **Reply #1019 on:** May 24, 2019, 04:31:24 PM »

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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?

News:

Author Topic: #latestagecapitalism (Read 359986 times)