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  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • I'll be damned, I've been reading about the tendrils of this scheme for decades. What's the skinny on its main organizers, are they explicitly identified as members of any particular named groups in a more specific than general way?

    Edit: Nevermind, there's a literal Wikipedia entry, they get zero points for their organization naming skills.

  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • 1972 biz roundtable plot

    I'd appreciate some illumination on this point, having never heard anything about any specific business reorganization in '72? America specifically, or was there some kind of global shift that I'm not recalling?

  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • Glad to hear that you made it out the other side as well. I'm worried about contemporaries stuck eating shit, or worse living back at home with Boomer parents eating shit.

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • This isn't my belief, it's the general state of affairs. The reason for its cost isn't rational in the sense that you're hoping for, they want for you to either produce the capital needed to push through the ceiling, or stay where you are. It isn't supposed to be fair, it's been purposely contrived to keep people "in their proper place".

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • Social infrastructure FTW, a far more respectable way to run the ship. I'll keep with the boat analogy to use another idiom; "a rising tide lifts all boats" society shows wisdom in encouraging the kinds of conditions where their citizens can succeed without significant barriers, and improve the whole of it afterward (instead of the banking institutions which extend predatory high-interest loans) with their success. Hats off to Sweden.

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • Fair point to feel a little harangued by the cost of education, but the incongruity isn't quite so irrational it seems. This has always been the way of things - dues must be paid, costs must be levied to keep people in their place, this is the order of things, and has been for a very long time. The idea of a free education at any stage is a relatively new concept, historically speaking, and even then public schools' cost to its users (kids, parents who decline to send their children to prestigious private schools for financial reasons) are levied via taxation instead of fees outright. It always costs money, but the amount paid, and the personal/professional advantage gained vary widely.

    Sort of broadly applied throughout history, it's a kind of way to establish and maintain the strata (see definition 3B) of society. You or your family must have the funds to send you to school, and if you can't pay to learn, you don't, and you go to work when you're deemed old enough. If you're lucky, you apprentice with family, if not you labour at any task which earns your bread, so to speak. The only real break in this system has been subsidy to ensure that less wealthy families' children can attend school to learn to read and basic math (as well as PE, science, literature, art, etc.), and people's ability to generate loans specifically tailored to post-secondary. It sucks ass, but please believe me when I say that it could be much worse.

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    How successful would a masked vigilante be in real life?

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  • Describe for me how far from a city center or incident you think that you would have to travel - minus the car/uber/taxi/bus/train. 5, 10, 15, 20+ miles until zero cameras and a Superman telephone booth costume change?

  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • Have you heard the expression 'pulling the ladder up after themselves' in relation to Booomers, and the housing/labour market?

  • Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?

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  • Lived experience and/or delusion. Many can't seem to absorb that the labour market didn't stop changing in 19-fucking-73, and it shows.

    I couldn't believe how dogshit so much of their advice was the last time I was searching for new work, and how irate they were that I wouldn't take it - because it was useless and/or hazardous to my financial stability in the situation at hand. That coffee drinks-avocado toast shit seemed like satire at first, but some of them actually believe it, and had I been spineless/stupid enough to allow them to push me into the courses of action they were insisting on I think that it might have killed me.

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  • Pre-19th century: would literally make out like a bandit, assuming they knew how to fight & had supernatural powers

    20th century: would make out like gangbusters until the invention and widespread use of CCTV

    21st century: without active electronic/optics countermeasures, it's all over, anonymity of secret identity impossible to keep

    Same scenario goes for villains, who were previously able to simply outrun/outwit pursuit by authorities, often within the same country. Wire services made this more difficult, depending on the pursuers in question, then moreso with radio, then moreso with telephony & TV broadcasts, then moreso with the advent of the internet. Current tech can analyze recording of subjects and lift face shots, as well as highly specific information like gait (now sometimes touted in the same way as debunked "bite mark analysis" circa the 1980's courts/justice system). A hoodie would be workable only under the loosest conditions, the second that anyone pulled off the hood, or the subject in question were photographed both with/without it on, it's all over.

  • How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this

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  • How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this

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  • 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.

  • This nug is going to be massive

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  • Better break out Bonzilla or one of those giant novelty Cheech and Chong rolling papers for this baby.

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • I feel seen, had forgotten all about that.

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • Classic elementary/high school scenario: "This kid is ahead of the curve... a little too far ahead if you ask me. I'd better accuse them of cheating, given that the rest of the class sucks ass at long division/algebra/calculus..."

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  • Haha, no just a quick little shitpost after seeing the sidebar on a dictionary site. Made me think of that town with the twenty syllable name in Wales.

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  • Subscribed to all five meme groups too, huh? Figured I'd spread it around to see where it gained traction.

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    Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg

  • Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again

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  • Zarf - Wikipedia

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  • OP says that the ornate Turkish coffee glasses are Zarf, but all that I can think of is Pinky & the Brain.

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    Radiator smell - cured meats

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    Radiator smell - cured meats

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    Omniscience vs. the mundane

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    Testosterone vs. IQ

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    Just eat less avocado toast