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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fqHr_KGPY

thats why i dont get that rhetoric.

do you want the rich and powerful to be above the law? because that's all I hear, not that i should be worried, just that the rich should be above the law. If Trump goes down for using campaign funds to pay off a porn star I would absolutely expect to get in trouble for financial mishandlings as a normal person, too. But I mishandled funds in this scenario so...whats the problem?

remember folks, if they can do it to a president, they can do it to you

the problem is, i wont be using campaign funds to pay a porn star probably ever in my life, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I kinda already knew that because it's so obvious and not fooling anybody.

The guy just got bored heavily at the libertarian conference, and they are "centrists" (yeah I know libertarians but they're "supposed" to be "centrist") a d he got booed heavily.

For the most part when a genre gets huge, the bands that came before are in most cases better and more interesting than what's popular.

Screamo is a prime example of this. Saetia, Orchid, Off Minor are legendary bands that until I had heard them didn't have much interest in the genre because what was popular and being paraded around by Hot Topic didn't really interest me for the most part.

Grunge is another example in some ways. I find a band like Husker Du far more interesting than Nirvana but without Husker Du who knows if Nirvana would have come around or what they'd sound like

Yeah its kind of silly. They were never Biden or undecided voters in the first place so this didn't sway their opinion.

I just can't see anybody undecided seeing guilty on all 34 counts making that the deciding factor. They'd either go Biden or stay home

He may not be French but be is the Shah of Iran so that HAS to count for something, right?

R/conservative seem convinced this will help his polling numbers and buy him votes. I do not see how, but I also cannot say it won't because things are weird. Yelling wrong(Howard dean?) Used to get you canned from consideration 20 years ago.

The right are going to go hard on how this is a politically motivated sham trial. Maybe that will sway people? I don't really see how but I also don't know

I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread but one of the undercards is Taylor vs. Serrano II, a rematch of this fight that was considered by many fight of the year when it happened. These two beat the absolute shit out of each other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Taylor_vs._Amanda_Serrano

This is a more important fight in several ways.

Well I guess it is correct grammar and I was pronouncing the company name wrong.

I think it may have been on Steam. Anyways, this struck me as bad grammar, but it made me think I don't know how Ubisoft is pronounced.

I've always said EW BEE SAWFT. Though I guess somebody could pronounce it YOU BEE SAWFT

which one is it?!?!

Oh shit, Don Black.

This is probably my favorite wikipedia article of all time based on the title alone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Black_(white_supremacist)

Good, I like that.

the worst part about buying a car is that if you don't haggle, you're gonna get hosed. The dealership expects people to haggle. The hagglers think they're getting some sort of huge deal, when the dealership is still coming out ahead, so this just makes it shittier for everybody else just trying to buy a car.

I was at a local video game store the other day and I asked the guy if he had a USB rock band guitar. He did, and he wanted $100 for it. Now, first thing I did when i left is went to ebay and 50-75+ shipping is what they seem to be going for. But the man expects the haggle. Maybe I could have gotten it for 50 or 75 if I tried, but fuck that, he gets no sale.

The funny thing about the e-mails is that when they came out, Hillary basically owned up to it. She didn't hide from them, and basically said if there is anything in them of importance the people should know.

There was...nothing? in them. Like, they had a huge effect but overall it was kind of nothing she completely owned making it kind of silly.

I actually am, but it's for a seasonal position that only extends until september. I do not have any permanent part time or full time spots available.

To me that's the main thing I like about it. Since it isn't corporate, I don't have to worry about any of that shit for the most part. I can actually do a good job because I want to and like to, not because some faceless higher up will yell at me for not getting enough credit card applications. The union part of it a good for several reasons, the main being job security if somebody decided to pull some bullshit over on me.

Not just union, but a government job. So there is no real corporate. No credit cards to push. No rewards system. A lot of the bullshit in corporate retail doesn't exist where I work and it's great. I don't even have sales metrics I have to hit, individually or as a store either.

Hillary Clinton was not the best candidate, that is true. She barely lost to Trump, because enough people figured he was worth taking a chance on. One awful presidency, insurrection, 2 impeachments, 800 lawsuits and court cases later, yeah, totally worth it.

Ive been in retail, not as a manager, but when you are constantly running around because a quadrillion dollar megacorp chooses to staff you the bare minimum all day. It wasn't always like that, but at some point in my 7 years working for megacorp it became that way. Skeleton crews all around. That's a corporate decision. Do you think the store manager actually wants people to wait in line all day?

I am now the General Manager of a liquor store which I like a LOT better, but it's a gov't job(control state) and I am in a union. THAT'S what it takes, I guess, for retail to not suck completely. But I am happy.

I have no advice, but hopefully some day you do find a job that makes you happy.

It's one of my favorites. Raiden is also awesome imo. I never played mgs1 beyond the demo so I wasn't super attached to snake so I didn't care when you find out for 85% of the game you don't control him.

I couldn't even tell you what half the shit was I disabled or got rid of, I figure if a curmudgeon like BTB says it's gotta go, I'm down with it.

I forgot what version of windows I even had until a couple of weeks ago, because it doesn't annoy me much and mostly functions as just an OS.

It's W10, but the real reason for this was that a couple of years ago BTB created a program that would just get rid of all the shit, so I used that and It mostly functions as I'd like. So when people say modern Windows is shit, I get confused but then I remember I don't even know the depths of how bad it is because I haven't seen it for a while.

Yeah but I always wondered wouldn't the credit card companies save a ton of money in their fraud departments if there was a simple passcode needed every time to use the damn thing?

I don't see what the benefit to not having a PIN on a credit card is.

No, we don't actually and i find it maddening because it seems like such a small step to take to prevent heaps of problems.

credit cards have no PIN, and I don't know if you can even set one up. There is a large push for 2FA phone payments and other ways to pay so you don't carry credit cards around.

Debit cards(bank cards) do have a PIN, which would be needed at an ATM to do anything, but when purchasing items at a store you can bypass that entirely in a lot of cases, need no PIN. It actually makes no sense.

if I find a debit card on the ground and want to be shady, I can take it, go into a department store, buy $50 worth of stuff and when the POS reader asks for the PIN you can usually bypass it. It's pretty asinine.

SwayM posted...

They WHAT?!

Do yall not have PIN codes on your credit cards?!

what is America DOING.

I think yall would be amazed how easily its handled in Canada.

Some places have a POS system at the table or other places you pay in different ways, but your average sit down restaurant, if you pay with card, the waiter takes it to their POS system. I get the security risks. I have never had a problem with it though. That doesn't mean problems couldn't happen, but it would be a really easy way to get caught.

The main reason for that is how every area in every state has different taxes. In my state medicine, clothing, water and nonprepared foods are not taxed at all. In other places some or even all of those are taxed. But my county has a 7% sales tax whereas most are 6%. I've seen 10.5% in one area in another state. Some states have no sales tax whatsoever.

It would make sense for a locally owned business or small chain to factor it in, but for companies that operate within multiple tax rates(like a national chain like wal-mart) It makes sense because of the amount of work it would take to make sure everything is accurate since the types of items that are taxed vary from state to state and within the tax rates vary from county to county

You go to a restaurant.

Prices are on the menu, but they are just the price for that item. they don't typically include sales tax, tip, or anything.

you get your food, and eat it. The waiter brings the check to your table. The check has the cost of food + taxes on it, with a total. You either pay cash or card. If you pay cash, you get change, and you can leave a tip if you wish. If you pay card, the waiter takes the card to their POS system and runs it through, then you get another receipt you can add a tip to, if you want, and you sign.

It may not be the most intuitive system, but it is what it is.

Just to point out, tipping is optional in the US. I tip, and big, because I like to do so. But if you don't want to tip, don't. Nobody is gonna force ya.

This is why I skip over anything that labels itself AI. It's not nearly accurate enough now to not be a waste of time

They send these out to people record shows have not voted. But they can't know who people vote for. The goal is to intimidate people in to voting, but since they legally cannot find out who you vote or have voted for, it's a pretty hollow threat.

This is all bark, literally no bite. If I got that in the mail I would throw it out and forget about it.

People are right to have concern, but I just don't have the energy to do more than rip it up and throw it away.

These lists are stupid because they tell us nothing. This is just a random conglomeration of mostly decent/good mainstream albums of the past 50 years.

There is no point to discuss or debate. Opinions cannot be wrong, so its silly to say, but the nature of this list is silly in the first place so the overall discourse thst comes up when these lists are released is stupid.

Zareth posted...

What would Bligh do?

<img src="https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9716d595.jpg">

I enjoy hiking well enough but I am not a true outdoorsy person.

I've done those hikes where you leave at 4AM to drive 2 hours to get somewhere before it gets disgustingly crowded and while the whole ordeal is neat because of the grandiose scale, I live right next to a huge county park, such as that the trails directly connect to the end of my dead end street, so I can hike on demand, whenever I want on 22 small trails.

So I am very fortunate that I have that literally right in my back yard, because for me, I wouldn't drive to do it, but since I can do it all on foot, I walk semi regularly back there, maybe a couple times a month in good weather.

Yes. It looks overcooked for what I like, but there are plenty of ways to make it enjoyable, like experimenting with condiments and sauces.

the people who probably are bitching the least about it are the college graduates who got the money.

most of them probably don't care this is a PR stunt. Most of them don't care about how little a % of that man's wealth it is, and most of them probably know he could give them absolutely nothing.

so like, who really cares? guy gets some positive PR(I don't even know his name. I heard his name 5 minutes ago and it's now forgotten) and the students get 500 bucks. Not really seeing the downside.

"Money" by Embrace.

Embrace was a mid 80s band from Washington D.C., one of the first to be labeled "emo" or "emotional hardcore"

"Money has nothing to do with the value of life. But that's just common sense!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym5uHulzaNs

My local red lobster does not have a kids meal lobster but the most expensive thing on the kids menu is like 10.99.

imma crack open a 40 of st ides in celebration

Maybe i'm overselling it. I know they have the same fans as they are basically the same person, but she doesn't have "a billion dollars" and 50 years of "street cred" behind her name. She would actually lower his brand, imo.

I would love it because that would absolutely seal his loss in november.

the funny thing about gamespot is, at least to me, I haven't been in one in ages, but I remember they are kind of just a funk pop business with a little video games on the side now. Like, people were shorting gamestop because it didn't appear to have much value. People caught wind of this and people bought a bunch of gamestop stock, inflating the value. But who actually cares about gamestop? I only ask because whatever the trading price of gme stock is, it's more divorced from the reality of the business itself than most stocks.

The guy from super mario bros RPG

cringlelord for sure, but neat tower.

ah yeah. i keep getting them mixed up despite only owning the preferred.

I can't say for the ultra premium invite only rich person cards, but any decent card with a fee has ways to easily make more cash back than the annual fee. Chase Sapphire Reserve has an annual $50 hotel credit, so if you use that you only need to make back $45 in rewards(annual fee is $95), which isn't terribly difficult with normal spending with the rewards they give back.

It's always a balance between the fee vs you actually making back more in rewards. If you don't feel you can, it would be idiotic to get a card with an annual fee. If you can get more back because the rewards categories are something that interest you, you'd be letting free money walk.

I think it would be neat to see an AMEX centurion card or something similar, but I wouldn't care that much

No.

I watch porn and have no issue with it, but I go to dedicated spaces for it. I've never needed to use GF/Reddit/Tumblr/whatever for porn or sexy videos/images. So any time a community cleans that aspect up I generally say, "good"

Though with that said all of thee Fandom decisions are whack and killing the site, so this doesn't mean I'd want them to do it if I could pick, because of what that does spell long term.

edit: and yes, the overarching "definition" of hornyposting to include basic shit like kissing your girlfriend is also weak.

The body isn't saying that, unless I missed it.

"However, these taxes have been significantly reduced in recent yearsthe top corporate tax rate in the U.S. was reduced from 35 percent to 21 percent in 2018, and the estate tax now generates only a quarter of the tax revenues it raised in the 1970s, the Times noted."

"In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes, according to the Times. By 2018, America's wealthiest individuals paid just 23 percent of their income in taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom half of income earners paid 24 percent of their income in taxes."

The article is saying the percentage that the wealthy pay is down. Of course, their overall dollar amount is still going to be high, but we aren't talking about that. Nor is the article.

One time in an older FIFA(10+ years ago) I had fifty shots on goal and lost 1-0 on account of their only shot going in. Now, I know part of this is probably a skill issue, but dang back then and probably now, when EA wanted you to lose vs the CPU, you did.