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Doe posted...

this reads like a Family Guy plot...

I mean, there was the episode where Homer befriends an ACTUAL terrorist. But South Park did the B-plot of that as a main plot of one episode, with microtransaction filled games.

Homer realizing he was the guy on the pop art and his brain insulting him.
"I'll fix you!" *downs a beer*
Brain: "Oh yeah! I'll fix you! Go drive a car!"
"Yes master...." *wanders off with a keyfob* "Come here car! Come here boy!"

indica posted...

Definitely. Wasn't he Roma? It seems any oppressed minority is considered "mystical"

Well, the difference here is that Rasputin was a fraudster who convinced the Tsar's wife he was able to heal her son.

catfan2008 posted...

the point is that it's entirely optional to use the service

The fact that they make you pay to remove it says that even Snapchat doesn't think it's positive service. A company DOES have a duty to provide their customers products they'd stand behind. And saying "bribe us to get rid of it" is damn near the exact opposite of that.

catfan2008 posted...

Don't like it? don't use it
that simple

which will hold up in court

I'm amazed you could pry yourself off the corporate rod you're clearly fellating long enough to type that.

Noname12 posted...

tbh no. Maybe its me. But Im the first one out the door. Im already sprinting to my car while every one else is still changing. I want to go home to my family, or the gym, or Xbox friends. I like my work people, theyre all coming to my house tomorrow for a party in my bar. But not everyday

That's fair, and makes perfect sense to me. "I don't mind seeing you, but I have a social circle outside of you."

That feels like blackmail/extortion. Actually, it legally may be considered that given they're charging you to remove a feature rather than add it in.

Noname12 posted...

tbh, I dont think so lol. I was watching this dude on FB who made a series of following workers from different jobs. It all seems to be the same. They get up early as fuck, work the full 8-10 hours with a measly break somewhere. Then, for whatever reason, all the workers hang out and drink/eat at a restaurant until 9-11. Hell no

The one dude changed into a suit in the morning, just to WALK to work. Then changed into a work uniform

It is slowly improving. The stereotype is based more on the 80s than now, but it still isn't great. As for hanging out for 2 hours after work, you never got a drink after work with co-workers? But as the Wikipedia link says, it's because they foster a "family" atmosphere. Except, unlike in America, they put some effort into it beyond lip service during your hiring interview.

Ricemills posted...

Wow, what insensitiveness.
You think the only work in Cambodia are sweatshops?

No, there's also being a tour guide, scrapping electronics, fishing, gem mining, rice farming, construction, and presumably, like every other nation, military and bureaucratic services.

Ricemills posted...

I think everyone exaggerated the work conditions in Japan. It's not an Utopia obviously, but it's also far from being a Dystopian.

Ask anyone from 3rd world country, would they work in Japan and 99% will answer yes.

Well, yeah, Japan has AC in the offices, as opposed to the Cambodian sweatshop making Nikes.

Japan's work culture is allegedly improving, but back in 2015 a lot of them still felt "work-life balance" wasn't an important concern. Remember, a stereotype just starts as an exaggerated fact. And stereotypically, in Japan, "Work is life, therefore, no need for balance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_work_environment#Working_conditions
An interesting takeaway from that is, despite the long hours, they rank badly in productivity, however. Thus telling us what we knew all along. "Take the vacation for your own sake, and unplug from work."

DKBananaSlamma posted...

dont have to worry about guns in Japan!

No, you just have to worry about stress induced heart attacks from being overworked.

whateveroh posted...

I'm glad I closed my Twitter account when that bozo bought the place because it's been complete shit since.

lmfao implying Twitter was any good BEFORE Elon bought it.

Wait. Why does the city's Department of Environmental Protection handle water utlities?

Second worst Epstein to ever live right here folks.

AceMos posted...

the video is calling out how youtube helps grow fascist alt right views by allowing ppl like geeks and gamers and the qaurtering ect to spread there hateful views targeting geek culture

the only way to counter that is to spread truthful information

so yes if you want to stop the growing fascism problem watch the fucking video

Tl;dr

Xatrion posted...

The fuck? They even have window bars in the back? Is this for real?

It's probably a government surplus vehicle, the wheels scream "government leo fleet"

SHRlKE posted...

True. They ever reference it in their Book of Mormon musical. I dont believe its part of their doctrine anymore.

Neither is polygamy for mainline mormons but they still get ceapped on for it.

They hold stockings up.

I've used shirt that do the opposite. That is, hold shorts down.

Aressar posted...

I bet all branches of Christianity consider themselves to be the only true Christians left on Earth.

Not really. All the Protestant Denominations get along fairly well. And the Great Schism of Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism is more political than doctrinal (aside from some really dumb bits). At least one Pope met with an Orthodox Patriarch, I believe it was the Russian Orthodox Patriarch. But they all consider Mormons to not be true Christians. You know, because of the whole Polygamy thing.

Because I'm a man and don't particularly want to wear near sheer tights. Also, I work an actual job that involves labor. Durability is tied with comfort when I buy clothes.

loafy013 posted...

Sounds like the fairest of nexts to me. Already was given 2 chances and looks like he didn't learn either time.

And he was still violent IN prison. Honestly, keep him behind bars.

Dakimakura posted...

Id still marry AOC

She's not really all that. She's okay looking but the only reason she seems so attractive is because she's young enough to be the average House member's daughter.

If I've made it this far with her, this shouldn't be a surprise to me.

GS4Life posted...

Taking Fuck Them Kids way too seriously

I think that's the Catholic Church actually.

... I regret nothing.

Only one of these I can really find a leg for is the selling food one. There are a lot of regulations for selling food, for a good reason. I mean, playing loud music is annoying as hell, but I've never seen a noise ordinance enforced where I live ever.

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Remember when people were doing tik toks of getting out of their moving cars to dance and lip sync some song? I'm of the opinion every single person who uploaded a video of that should spend a month in jail and lose their driver's license for such a stupid and dangerous stunt.

Smallville posted...

Compared to it being mostly warm in most parts of the u.s. , today.

Okay, part of that was how far North the Titanic was running. At the latitude it was at, parts of the US still have snow. Even today. Not the same snow obviously.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Imagine an eleven-thousand member House, and a 100-menber senate.
That's what Article 1 planned.

I'm imagining nothing getting done. Though honestly, 80% of the time that feels like it would be a net positive.

Fair enough. I can see how it comes to exist though. You need someone in charge of enforcing a law you set out. Say "all milk must be pasteurized for sale." So you create "the milk pasteurization task force" to enforce that. Then you say "all meat must be prepared for sale based on these requirements" and then you make the "meat preparation task force". And so on down the line, and eventually someone goes "We could probably merge a bunch of these to save time and money on redundant functions". And then the US Patent office has an agricultural division, and then it gets so big it becomes the US Department of Agriculture.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If you look at Article 1, the House should be 11000 by now.

Yeah, I think at some point the House decided they were just going to reallocate rather than add, which seems wrong on its own.

The best I can say is we're more on top of it than parts of the UK are. Stories about a small village of 7 people keeping seats in Parliament allotted to them because they never put a system in place for dealing with population changes spring to mind.

Questionmarktarius posted...

I'll argue why a regulatory bureaucracy should exist, but it does, and the same SCOTUS that did Dobbs is defining Dobbs.

There's some flippancy in my statement. I would agree the FDA needs to exist, and generally there aren't that many good reasons for the courts to throw out their decisions.

Most of my arguments against regulatory bureaucracy stem from them seeming to forget their job is to enforce laws, not redefine them.

Sufferedphoneix posted...

I honestly don't think we should have reps anymore. Have the senate draw up bills or whatever and we the people directly vote on them. Also allow us if enough people sign a petition be able to draw up bills ourselves.

I think you over estimate how much the average American cares about politics.

Questionmarktarius posted...

All of the this. It's just a second House with six-year terms.

Yeah, and in theory the fact that they serve longer means they can look to a longer term when they debate bills. Which never happens. They put just as much on getting re-elected as House members.

Honestly, term limits would probably help there. But of course, the people that would be voting on term limits for Senators and House members are...

Choco posted...

also this is cringe. i want a girl who beats the shit out of me

Go to ask people who bailed on their Borderline Personality Disorder girlfriends and ask for their ex's contact info then.

I'm moderately bothered by this, not even out of any sense of the abortion argument. But why have an FDA if a judge can go "Naaaaah" and throw out the decisions and research of the people who are supposed to approve that drugs are safe?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Senate being state-appointed is the only real reason the US senate exists.
Direct-election just makes it a second House, with grossly-dissaproriated representation.

You know what, that's a good, simple answer. The Senate in theory is supposed to give someone in New York as much representation as someone in Alaska. In practice it's just another level of pointless bickering.

Questionmarktarius posted...

There's been 27 amendments, and 16, 17, and 18 are the ones I don't particularly like.

Okay, I'm with you on 16, 18 should never have been a constitutional issue in the first place, but why are you against the direct election of senators?

It's not the only right worth using violence to defend. They're all worth using violence to preserve. It's just that the 2nd is the one under the most visible attack.

whateveroh posted...

I was told to fuck off.

At least you got an answer. I got ghosted and she quietly changed her status to "in relationship" for a few weeks.

I'll take two.

OP, the pic you shared looks like she got her clothes off a homeless person who someone mistook for a billboard.

DipDipDiver posted...

It's also wild that there used to be someone who delivered ice to all the houses

They used it in place of refrigerators. Given that the refrigerator wasn't invented. The ice was used to keep food fresh. Of course, the Amish in PA dug a big hole in the ground under a big shed for a similar reason.

I think Milk bottles were more like a pint or a quart. You weren't getting a whole gallon delivered daily.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Long as you aren't drinking the abomination that is chocolate milk.

You take that back. *racks shotgun*

Another_Voice posted...

Why did musicians lose so much cultural relevance in the past decade or so?

They didn't. You just got old.

Ar0ge posted...

that it's just a theory.

The issue is it is a theory. But in science a theory can be pretty damn iron clad, because it depends on evidence. Hell, I've read some scientific theories are more immutable than laws. An example would be the Law of Gravity and the Theory of relativity.

In science, as long as you keep proving the theory, it stays true. If actual compelling evidence came out that we evolved from jelly fish, the theory would change. However, school education sucks at actually explaining the difference between scientific usage of words, and laymen usage of words.

A_Good_Boy posted...

There's something very wrong where the cost of $3.3m in medical debt has a value of $15k.

They sell the debt to collectors cheap to recoup some of the losses, then the collectors badger people with calls until the end of time.

It isn't just medical debt they do it with either.

cjsdowg posted...

That Jemimah was hard to get around. Ben's a name. What the fuck is Jemimah. ( am leaving this here just people won't think I knew the next part off hand).

Well it seems to the be a daughter of Job in the bible. I don't know how it game bad into a racist stereotype.

That's a fair point. I think I'd go with something like "Jemma's". It's not a common name, or a common spelling, but it's close enough, as opposed to "Pearl Milling Company."

cjsdowg posted...

Now they know how I felt when they fired Uncle Ben.

I have to give them credit, they found a way to remove the racism while still having some brand recognition. Unlike Aunt Jemimah.

Ah the old days of the internet before everyone over shared their lives, and before Doxing was a serious concern so everyone laughed at the guy who suddenly started screaming "I'M GONNA TRACK YOU DOWN AND MURDER YOU AND FUCK YOUR MOM!"

I feel so old.

Shoot_FTH posted...

Seems like a downgrade from, you know, NYC.

I imagine Scotland is cheaper to live in.

And not having to pay to be kept waiting for six hours to see your knife wound attended to makes Edinburgh a huge upgrade over NYC.

So, the wild thing is, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is based around a rivalry between Cadbury and Rowntree's in the 1920s, complete with corporate espionage and elaborate machines.

So, between that and the idea of a chocolate bar costing a dime (in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory anyway), and the inspiration, the book presumably takes place in the 1920s.

The point being, the Wonka factory doesn't even live up to safety standards of 1920s Britain.