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VomKriege · « **Reply #900 on:** May 16, 2019, 10:59:25 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on May 16, 2019, 06:17:21 PM

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 ?

Kara · « **Reply #901 on:** May 17, 2019, 12:26:40 AM »

https://twitter.com/gayh0rney/status/1129197861831229440

team filler · « **Reply #902 on:** May 17, 2019, 01:22:11 AM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #903 on:** May 17, 2019, 08:57:25 AM »

Quote from: VomKriege on May 16, 2019, 10:59:25 PM

Quote from: benjipwns on May 16, 2019, 06:17:21 PM
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 ?

Common Core math can take your logical and correct answer make it incorrect for reasons.

Kara · « **Reply #904 on:** May 17, 2019, 10:30:38 AM »

https://twitter.com/KDKA/status/1129069016654503943

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #905 on:** May 17, 2019, 10:34:44 AM »

Time to check out Uber!

Kara · « **Reply #906 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.)

curly · « **Reply #907 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

team filler · « **Reply #908 on:** May 17, 2019, 04:58:03 PM »

jorma · « **Reply #909 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.

team filler · « **Reply #910 on:** May 17, 2019, 07:13:18 PM »

typical neolib class traitor

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #911 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 #912 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 #913 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 #914 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 #915 on:** May 18, 2019, 12:15:25 AM »

Don Rumata · « **Reply #916 on:** May 18, 2019, 06:24:53 AM »

Crash Dummy · « **Reply #917 on:** May 18, 2019, 08:12:54 AM »

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

team filler · « **Reply #918 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 #919 on:** May 18, 2019, 06:25:45 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #920 on:** May 19, 2019, 09:37:56 AM »

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

Tripon · « **Reply #921 on:** May 19, 2019, 05:05:24 PM »

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

Tripon · « **Reply #922 on:** May 19, 2019, 05:19:22 PM »

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

Boner culture.

team filler · « **Reply #923 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 #924 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 #925 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

team filler · « **Reply #926 on:** May 21, 2019, 07:24:56 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #927 on:** May 21, 2019, 10:10:56 PM »

bluemax · « **Reply #928 on:** May 22, 2019, 01:26:43 AM »

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

Rufus · « **Reply #929 on:** May 22, 2019, 04:56:01 AM »

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

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #930 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:09:00 AM »

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

tiesto · « **Reply #931 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 #932 on:** May 22, 2019, 02:55:58 PM »

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

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

BisMarckie · « **Reply #933 on:** May 22, 2019, 02:57:59 PM »

Would have been a good Law and Order SVU episode.

jorma · « **Reply #934 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 #935 on:** May 22, 2019, 04:57:45 PM »

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

team filler · « **Reply #936 on:** May 22, 2019, 07:41:52 PM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #937 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 #938 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:53:15 PM »

...said a self-professed socdem.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #939 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 #940 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:21:05 PM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #941 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 #942 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:25:51 PM »

Please don‘t quote out of context.

Kara · « **Reply #943 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:27:41 PM »

Quote

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

Cold as Haagen-Dazs, Wikipedia.

Kara · « **Reply #944 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 #945 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:03 PM »

fascystys

team filler · « **Reply #946 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:31 PM »

team filler · « **Reply #947 on:** May 22, 2019, 10:02:55 PM »

GO RAIDAHS!

BisMarckie · « **Reply #948 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 #949 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:22:54 PM »

eat the rich, starting with the butthole

BisMarckie · « **Reply #950 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:25:21 PM »

Gustav Noske:Rosa Luxemburg was a biaaaaaatch.

Kara · « **Reply #951 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:26:35 PM »

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

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #952 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:33:57 PM »

agrajag · « **Reply #953 on:** May 23, 2019, 12:58:40 PM »

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

Quote

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 #954 on:** May 23, 2019, 01:01:50 PM »

Assuming that filler would help the cops.

agrajag · « **Reply #955 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.”

agrajag · « **Reply #956 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 #957 on:** May 24, 2019, 03:22:11 PM »

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

Tasty · « **Reply #958 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 #959 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.

News:

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