TrojanRoomCoffeePot
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- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 day ago:
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 day ago:
Well said. Much of the overzealous action by LEOs seen since the ICE immigration operation kicked off is notably similar to that seen during the Civil Rights era in the U.S. They can run people down in the street, club the everloving shit out of them, break their wrists and shoulders during arrest, and kick their feet up at home later that night without a thought of concern about catching charges.
The manner in which demonstrators have been engaged strikes a similar chord to that same mid-century era, where hippies/beatniks/peaceniks could be fucked up and railroaded any number of ways without a hint of worry about blowback (unless their parents were loaded, of course). Nothing meaningful will happen to make them scale back their abuses, legal or otherwise, maybe not even once Democrats are back in office.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 days ago:
Now we’re talking.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 days ago:
Needs more anchovies and pineapple.
- Comment on The crab housing market 5 days ago:
Feels like a good time to drop the snail vs. slug housing meme.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 1 week ago:
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
“Gen F, Gen G, Gen H, Gen Irrelevant Historical Event that disrupts sequence, Gen J…”
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
I’m Gen Y, and I hate the term Millennial more every time that I hear it.
Gen X --> Gen Y --> Gen Z --> Gen Alpha
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- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 2 weeks ago:
Watching in realtime, over the years, friends, acquaintances and strangers learn the exact same lesson. Retail is shit, its management is shit, the corporations overseeing the operations and staffing are shit, the work culture is shit, and nearly everyone working there is seeking an exit plan to better work without the non-stop bullshit, lies, and in-fighting/sabotage.
The span of time in which new fires eventually realize that they’re being denied 40 hrs./week as a strategy to withhold benefits afforded to persons working what’s normally ostensibly legally considered full-time. Imagine having a middle-manager cut 1 hour from your schedule right before the pay period where you would finally have qualified, then trying to play friendly as through they hadn’t kicked you in the back of the knees on behalf of the company’s bottom line.
- Comment on Here's a fun game. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Role play 3 weeks ago:
Ow.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 3 weeks ago:
My pleasure, best of luck.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 3 weeks ago:
Time, place, and status therein are what makes it. Were you a man or woman at the time? Who did you kiss in that time and place?
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 4 weeks ago:
Joke’s on them, I haven’t paid anything for an Xbox since late 2001.
- Comment on “THE FBI HAS FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THE SO-CALLED ‘CLITORIS’ EXISTS, AND HAS CONCLUDED THAT ASSERTIONS TO THE OPPOSITE ARE SIMPLY MORE FAKE NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE FAILING LIBERAL MEDIA!!!” 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Role play 4 weeks ago:
OP: Image
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 4 weeks ago:
This is the kind of quality content that keeps me coming back for more and more.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
My guess is that as much as the iPod can’t be used to make calls/text, using it separately for media is a good way to keep from draining your phone for those sometimes critical messages/calls.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 5 weeks ago:
Anyone have the variant with the pimp hat and cane twirling?
- Comment on discord 5 weeks ago:
Mods: Please don’t announce your gooning you degenerates
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- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 1 month ago:
Sweet Jesus, I can well imagine, except for the scale on account of some whales being school bus-sized. Rotten rodents don’t hold a candle given the 1000:1 or more ratio.
- Comment on It's almost here 1 month ago:
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 1 month ago:
I’ve never had the misfortune of dealing with it IRL myself, but the stories from cops who’ve had to retrieve bloated ‘floaters’ from shorelines or bodies of water are pretty daunting - describing ‘the deceased’ as sometimes coming apart in their hands like an overcooked pot roast (“fall off the bone ribs, $9.99 this Thursday at Al’s Cookhouse!”).
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 2 months ago:
I gotchu.
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 2 months ago:
Fucking too real. I can’t tell if they’re legitimately too incompetent to perform their most basic tasks at work or fucking with me.
- Comment on How does ads generate money for the ones who display it? 2 months ago:
Easy, the ones displaying the ads have been paid to do so. Magazines of yesteryear have been replaced by websites, TV still follows the same model, but has probably been outpaced by the scale of ads online. Billboards are probably the only one unaffected, and the people who lease the space to erect the billboard charge their customers for the right to have their ad displayed, just the same as any of the others above. Want your ad in my magazine, on my TV channel, webpage, Youtube? Pay for the privilege.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 2 months ago:
The cost of labour keeps increasing, so prices increase, almost as if the two were intrinsically tied. The “large increased amount” for the same service with no additional benefits is precisely the problem. Companies contrive to rake in massive profits for themselves and their shareholders at the expense of their employees and customers, a state of affairs which I’d argue has become intolerable.
As for your example of the washing machines, I’ve got news for you and it’s not good - they’re both shit, the above cited example isn’t an example of the washing machines purchased by our Grandparents which were built like brick shithouses. The unit costing $1000 more isn’t on par with the models and designs of yesteryear, not nearly. Add to this the shrinking pool of home appliances which are manufactured without tied-in computerization, another factor which will shorten their service life considerably (replacement chips will be in short supply once the model is discontinued, forcing owners to source a small pool of qualified repairmen who in turn will be unable to source parts or be forced to cannibalize other broken units). I seriously can’t believe that your example of high quality appliance is Speed Queen sold at Best Buy, is it the one that you bought, or could you really not think of a better one on the spot?
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 2 months ago:
how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator on the other side or conversely, how cheap would the non-human supported product/service have to be for you to choose it over the more expensive human supported option?
The fucking normal amount. These changes within the corporate world are not advantageous, they cut their overhead and operating costs without furnishing any decreased cost to the end-user (that you, me, and anyone else giving patronage to the business in question). A similar setup can be observed in the quality of ‘consumer goods’, where the materials used in manufacture (wood/aluminum/paint/lacquer/finish) were compromised with cheap, flimsy, shitty plastic. Some of it is literally garbage straight out of the box. Despite this, prices have not only not decreased, but normalized. Even worse, it’s become difficult to source products which aren’t worthless pieces of shit which cannot be repaired, at least not without considerable research - some of it also cannot be repaired without cannibalizing copies of the same device because no replacement parts have been manufactured.
People ‘vote with their wallets’ inasmuch as people on a raft in the ocean vote for beef instead of fish for supper. There is none available, of course they’re going to eat the fucking fish.
