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Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1140 on:** June 11, 2019, 04:04:24 PM »

Dropping the boulders directly onto the homeless may seem harsh to some, but I see it as a sign of hope.

curly · « **Reply #1141 on:** June 11, 2019, 06:49:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/komacore/status/1137692054899908608

Nintex · « **Reply #1142 on:** June 11, 2019, 07:01:52 PM »

https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1138490223741026308

Tripon · « **Reply #1143 on:** June 11, 2019, 10:18:23 PM »

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup

$1200 for a bunkbed.

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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.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1144 on:** June 11, 2019, 11:37:32 PM »

DISRUPTING THE MARKET!

benjipwns · « **Reply #1145 on:** June 12, 2019, 12:30:34 AM »

Quote from: Crash Dummy on June 11, 2019, 01:05:14 PM

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!

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Great artists steal.

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toku · « **Reply #1146 on:** June 12, 2019, 12:37:13 AM »

https://twitter.com/threeteeth/status/1133414477955624960

Kara · « **Reply #1147 on:** June 12, 2019, 01:22:03 AM »

Quote from: Crash Dummy on June 11, 2019, 02:33:55 PM

just for some filthy "both-sides" fun
https://twitter.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/910172132830740480

"Our young people go to America today and they say, 'Look! They have communism there!' And I say, 'Yes, but at what cost?'"

VomKriege · « **Reply #1148 on:** June 12, 2019, 03:20:41 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on June 11, 2019, 07:01:52 PM

https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1138490223741026308

FBI should inform themselves and read some classic webcomics about how that nice fast food manager that got fired because of feminazis found a good wife in Southeast Asia.

Kara · « **Reply #1149 on:** June 14, 2019, 02:58:31 AM »

https://twitter.com/findomearle/status/1138898636916580352

team filler · « **Reply #1150 on:** June 14, 2019, 03:51:46 AM »

https://www.statesman.com/news/20190611/gov-abbott-signs-save-chick-fil-a-bill

toku · « **Reply #1151 on:** June 15, 2019, 12:42:33 PM »

https://twitter.com/Iiboharz/status/1139542609209303045

Tasty · « **Reply #1152 on:** June 15, 2019, 01:18:32 PM »

Kara · « **Reply #1153 on:** June 15, 2019, 02:40:39 PM »

https://thetakeout.com/inside-black-market-vintage-kool-aid-packet-collectors-1835123510

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1154 on:** June 15, 2019, 11:15:26 PM »

Quote from: Kara on June 15, 2019, 02:40:39 PM

https://thetakeout.com/inside-black-market-vintage-kool-aid-packet-collectors-1835123510

Sometimes I'd find a koolaid packet that had fallen behind the bread box and was probably like a year or two and I would mix it up anyway and it'll be all clumpy and wouldn't dissolve fully. I can only imagine what those packets are like now.

VomKriege · « **Reply #1155 on:** June 16, 2019, 04:00:58 AM »

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“If you can get past the idea that we’re collecting expired food, Kool-Aid is an ideal thing to collect ”

team filler · « **Reply #1156 on:** June 16, 2019, 05:20:30 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #1157 on:** June 16, 2019, 07:35:46 PM »

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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.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1158 on:** June 16, 2019, 09:44:56 PM »

Today in late stage capitalism:

Elon Musk posted some fanart of 2B from Nier Automata on Twitter and people told him he should credit the artist but he didn't want to and was a jerk about the whole thing. I can't be bothered to find the actual tweet or whatever, so just imagine it in your head.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1159 on:** June 16, 2019, 09:48:45 PM »

Not even bothering to find the tweet and therefore forfeiting likes is late stage like capitalism.

shosta · « **Reply #1160 on:** June 16, 2019, 09:51:20 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1161 on:** June 16, 2019, 10:09:36 PM »

Thank you for posting the 2B art so I could look at it without looking through Elon Musk’s twitter.

curly · « **Reply #1162 on:** June 16, 2019, 10:14:29 PM »

He changed to an all black avatar because people were being mean to him about not crediting the artist

Reddit nerds think this guy is gonna save the planet

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #1163 on:** June 16, 2019, 10:38:02 PM »

Dude's got thinner skin than Trump.

curly · « **Reply #1164 on:** June 17, 2019, 02:42:43 AM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1165 on:** June 17, 2019, 10:58:17 AM »

LGBTPQ

toku · « **Reply #1166 on:** June 17, 2019, 11:39:50 AM »

https://twitter.com/AyeshaASiddiqi/status/1140369526338412544

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1167 on:** June 17, 2019, 11:54:40 AM »

^ I do the same thing.

Kara · « **Reply #1168 on:** June 17, 2019, 01:54:48 PM »

That reminds me, that Independent Group - Change UK councilor I talked about in the international politics thread who said that Labour's job is to keep people employed at Lehman Brothers used to work at HSBC.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #1169 on:** June 17, 2019, 01:59:19 PM »

Thanks for paying my 401k!

Tripon · « **Reply #1170 on:** June 17, 2019, 05:04:30 PM »

Quote from: curly on June 17, 2019, 02:42:43 AM

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Is this saying Cops are gay?

toku · « **Reply #1171 on:** June 17, 2019, 05:36:51 PM »

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1172 on:** June 17, 2019, 05:52:26 PM »

I love trashy documentaries, so I watched True Evil The Making of a Nazi - Herrmann Göring.

The documentary made the planned economy responsible for the Germans losing the arms race and their meddling with private companies was responsible for the lack of innovation.

BisMarckie · « **Reply #1173 on:** June 17, 2019, 07:08:09 PM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/business/uber-eats-deliveroo-glovo-migrants.html

Delivery drivers outsourcing their gig economy jobs to desperate migrants.

team filler · « **Reply #1174 on:** June 17, 2019, 07:30:31 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #1175 on:** June 18, 2019, 09:33:49 AM »

https://twitter.com/joakim_holmer/status/1140496441003204608

VomKriege · « **Reply #1176 on:** June 18, 2019, 09:39:34 AM »

Quote from: Tripon on June 18, 2019, 09:33:49 AM

https://twitter.com/joakim_holmer/status/1140496441003204608

benjipwns · « **Reply #1177 on:** June 18, 2019, 11:58:00 AM »

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janebradley/tony-robbins-punishes-followers-by-making-them-drink

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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.