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legendary_zell posted...

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just preempting the "millennials don't have basic life skills" argument this could lead to.

tbh it didnt occur to me that would be a response so I apologize for being defensive
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legendary_zell posted...

Faxes are mostly used in medical and legal work and never in real life. It makes sense that your average person isn't gonna know how to use one. It's no longer a basic necessary skill, even in an office setting.

who said it didn't make sense? it's still an interesting thing
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why can't board games use beautiful word smithing like poetry?
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Aeriis posted...

MaverickXeo posted...

Ive worked in retail, and I did not get tips for answering the phone or 'taking' orders. I should've complained every time!

Not to mention, when I did cook, I would have to cook multiple orders at once, and get the servers to take out the food. I deserved tips!

lol I wasn't saying take out deserves tips...

I only said it was harder than serving, which it is.

I've heard this so many times, can you explain why is that? How exactly is the server involved in the process for a take-out order?
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eh I dunno tbh. I don't have big moral concerns over age of consent like many people do, really, my main thing is that I can't imagine how I would get into contact with a high schooler as an adult. and going out of your way to find one seems hella sketchy. I guess if I worked retail or fast food maybe?
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Questionmarktarius posted...

D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

But based on casuals tastes, it seems they'd rather just play QTE movies than actual games so maybe that's the way we are heading.

Meanwhile, in 1983...

what is your point, though? after people got over the animation quality, these sorts of games were total flops. literally only Dragon's Lair was commercially successful. even Bluth's other stuff (i.e., Space Ace) were not successful
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Two_Dee posted...

I've been taught that fax machines should be avoided since they csn easily violate HIPAA guidelines

Fax machines have all but disappeared in most industries, but continue to thrive in health care.

Part of the reason is tradition, as many older doctors simply feel comfortable with the technology and refuse to let it go.

It's also considered safe and secure under today's privacy laws. HIPAA, the federal regulations that govern how patient health records are shared, specifically state that fax machines or mail are acceptable methods for doctors to transmit a medical record.

Health care has also been slower to digitize than other sectors.

Until recently, most patient medical records were stored on paper. It took a huge investment of federal dollars to incentivize doctors to adopt digital systems, known as electronic medical records. But it remains a challenge for doctors to share patient information, especially with hospitals that use a different electronic medical record vendor.
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like, will an average block buster ever be as good as a short story by Nabokov or an Updike?
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I don't understand the comparison. They are two different formats.
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/10/milllennial-doctors-forced-to-use-fax-machines-causing-puzzlement.html
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yeah that is exactly the problem. only with my gf it is more like looking for deals (while I try to explain to her that you're not saving money if you're buying something you wouldn't buy or use otherwise especially since we still need to get this list of things we agreed on)
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I just don't like going with my gf. When I'm alone it is a much quicker process.
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that damn turtle van
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Scotty_Rogers posted...

Lol

Alexis Texas
Rachel Starr
Lisa Ann
Ava Devine
Sara Jay
Kristina Rose
Jada Stevens

I'm surprised if any of these 2000s pornstars are still in the business. Like, who cares? lol

jada stevens looks much better now than she did 10 years ago
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andel posted...

in mississippi it is possible

most people in MS make that much or less, in fact

the median household income in MS is like 35k
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why that is old af
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nice
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REMercsChamp posted...

Are you talking about California?

San Francisco specifically, yeah.

The salaries are higher, but not necessarily to the extent people think that they are. I make roughly 50k in central arkansas and I would argue that I am more affluent than someone making 100k in the NYC/SF metro areas due to the additional costs in those places, for instance.
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REMercsChamp posted...

Well, when you put it that way!

It's 1/4 of a big salary though. So there's $75k of gross left over after rent. That's significant.

but if you wanted to live in a good part of the city it would be more like 3.5k a month, or like 45k a year

yeah I agree that these people aren't poor but also it is true that they face big cost burdens

even if you move then you just replace housing costs with transit costs. and you gotta deal with traffic on 101 for like 3 hours a day.
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btw that isnt considered a good part of SF
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REMercsChamp posted...

>Makes 100k, lives in a good sized apartment in a good part of the city, eats out whenever he wants, has good car, has money to spend on hobbies, defers compensation to 401k and still has savings left over

I mean even in the tenderloin average rents for a 1br are over $2000/month

that is 1/4 of your gross pay if you make 100k.
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my take on this is that people consider 100k rich to the extent that people making 100k consider themselves poor or lower middle class

neither thing is true
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DoctorVader posted...

From outside NYC, which doesn't include the other 4 boroughs and the number was from 2011, so it might be slightly different now.

oh, yeah, that number is closer to 600k as of ~2013/2014 I think
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chrono625 posted...

NYC is the boroughs, not just manhattan. You can't just not use the other boroughs because it doesn't fit your point.

I mean, the municipal level here is pretty irrelevant to the point he is making, though. If we had the time and inclination we could get this down to the census block or at least zipcode level.
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DoctorVader posted...

Only 800k or so commuters even come into the city every day, and the day time population is like 9 million.

twice that many people commute to Manhattan alone dude
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1.6 million people commute to Manhattan from another county, and the other boroughs account for about 1 million of that. New Jersey is another 400k.
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Antifar posted...

COVxy posted...

Antifar posted...

median household income is 103k

Median is much lower, that's the mean.

No, that's median for SF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_locations_by_income#Counties

SF is a consolidated city-county, so the county median is the same as the city median. It is $78,378 by this measure
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The Admiral posted...

Darkman124 posted...

SK8T3R215 posted...

Is Nate "molten" Silver still relevant after the 2016 election

more relevant, not less

the idea that nate got it wrong about trump is one of the most persistent, and most blatant, lies about the 2016 campaign prediction process

he outlined the exact path trump would need to win with, the probability of it happening (which he put at approx 30% EDIT: 28.6%) and noted that it would have to also be a case of winning the EC without the popular vote, because clinton had a lock on the popular vote.

the scenario he outlined as a potential trump win--ultra narrow victories in all the swing states--was the scenario that occurred.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

It was too little, too late. Nate came out hard against Trump, saying he had close to no chance early on:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/15/nate_silver_trump_has_about_5_chance_of_winning.html

He starting hedging himself closer to the election (which puts him above the idiots at HuffPo), but he deserves the criticism he gets after be hailed as some "election guru" who had insights that no one else did.

this is literally about the primary anyway

is it really so ridiculous to think Trump didn't have a great chance? that shook down more or less the way Nate Silver ultimately predicted as well iirc with the GOP establishment failing to ever coalesce around a single option allowing Trump to squeak by on the strength of a limited but passionate base

Remember, Trump only got like 45% of the primary vote too. He was a very beatable candidate, only Kasich and Rubio and Jeb! would not allow each other to take the lane
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vidya/deed
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I hope they do another season
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aw that's sweet
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Nice
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lamb and rice platter
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tag
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wackyteen posted...

farm work for your family or work where you got paid under the table because you were legally too young to work, doesn't count.

what if you got paid under the table for other reasons?
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rabbi_baby posted...

tag for later

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these lefty arguments against the UBI are very asinine and apply equally (or in even greater force) to every other form of public assistance

maybe it is true that they are all ways of pacifying the working classes (I would conceptualize it differently but it isn't necessarily wrong) but it's no less true for cash transfers than it is for, like, universal health care. except that market friendly people proposed the UBI so it's bad

I mean the logic behind replacing the some social services with the UBI was the same logic used in the ACA, reducing medicare spending down the road under the assumption that expanded health coverage would lower long term costs... which I realize is also a neoliberal policy to pacify the working class, but what isn't these days?
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emblem boy posted...

I should have been clearer in my post. i agree, adding the taxes outside of only federal taxes, total taxes can be really high. Higher than what most people think.

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just expanding on what you said. The responses itt attacking TC are really puerile.
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SageHarpuia posted...

Why is the north so touchy feely?

what the actual fuck

the south is way more like this than the north. have you ever even left arkansas bro
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I think what this topic actually proves is that people have no idea what the costs of the social safety nets they want* actually are tbh

*averagejoel gets a pass because he is consistent about disliking the nordic bloc countries and the way he conceptualizes these things is far outside the mainstream
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emblem boy posted...

MedeaLysistrata posted...
i guess i don't even know enough about taxation to have an informed opinion

flopic

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5a5e44bcf42149a3018b5183-1200/2018%20tax%20brackets%20for%20single%20filers.png

Then add in payroll taxes and state taxes if necessary

the 40%-60% rate is very reasonable (60% is on the high side) when talking about all taxes and not just income taxes (why would you just be talking about income taxes, anyway?)

also, it literally is true in other countries even just for the income tax:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/01/pf/taxes/top-income-tax/index.html

At 60.2%, Denmark last year had the highest top personal income tax rate among the 34 countries in the OECD, an organization of developed and emerging countries. And that 60.2% applied to income over roughly $55,000.
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idk who that is but nice
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too many cotillions tbh
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wtf is a 'tangential volunteer' ? as opposed to a volunteer that is right on the line?
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Is welching a New Orleans tradition too?

interestingly, yes

The City that Care Forgot has been used since at least 1938,[24] and refers to the outwardly easy-going, carefree nature of the residents.
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