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elfenix

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  1. 3 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Seriously, why are they so fucking stupid and somehow fairly wealthy? 

     

    got to spend nothing on college, bent the economy to their wills as they were bigger than prior and later generations in the 80s and 90s, and really got a lot out of people deciding their homes were investments rather than places to live. 

    also, when you're old you've just had more time for compound interest to work. people in their 60s are wealthier than people in their 50s are wealthier than people in their 40s etc.

  2. I have an office, but I mostly work from home.  I have a kid home sick today.  I have been in the office at home all morning pretending to work but work is really dead right now.  Would it be a bad move to go out and turn the xbox on and fuck off the rest of the afternoon?  I don't want the kid to bust me and mom to think I do that everyday, even though I do most days.  Cause dear daughter would spill the beans.  And I am freaking bored.
    That's what surly is for. And Reddit GW.
  3. 16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    SOME people died.  There are around 90 e. coli deaths in the US each year.  In India, 380,000 a year die from diarrhea (including e. coli  and other illnesses -- it's not separated out). 

    food poisoning is so rare in this country that people getting ill makes national news.  not dying, just ill.  no one died from chipotle* and there were serious concerns if the business would ever recover.  chipotle literally closed all of its stores over it. 

     

    *i know this isn't the first time i've looked for this information and i just looked again and i don't find anyone actually having died. 

  4. ars on data caps (which aren't verboten under net neutrality but are just as bullshit):

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    OpenVault found that households that face data caps use 8.5-percent less data than un-capped users, suggesting that cable customers limit their Internet usage when they face the prospect of overage fees. According to OpenVault, the caps can help cable companies avoid major network upgrades.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/terabyte-using-cable-customers-double-increasing-risk-of-data-cap-fees/

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    Un-capped customers are, naturally, more likely to exceed a terabyte. "The percentage of flat-rate (non-UBB) households exceeding 1TB of usage was 4.82 percent, a full percentage point higher than the 3.81 percent of UBB households who exceeded the 1TB threshold," OpenVault said.

    people aren't thinking strategically.  when i didn't have data caps i was pulling about 600/GB a month.  once i was subject to comcast's 1 TB data cap, i started pulling 950-1000/GB a month (i'd cut it even closer but comcast's bandwidth usage meter is a fucking joke).  since the unused bandwidth doesn't roll over, it's use it or lose it, so i use it. 

  5. 5 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Also, why does Spanky travel with cans of soup in his carry-on?

    Where the fuck are you heating those up, brother?

    i had rotel in my carry on once.  i wasn't sure ohio had anything spicy and thought i might want queso for football watching, so i checked a bag with a couple cans of rotel in it.  ended up not using it and decided to carry on rather than check once i got to the airport.  forgot the rotel was in there. i only hope TSA took it home and made some queso with it.

    /csb.

  6. 15 minutes ago, M12BH said:

    I think I've found where most of the 36% live. The stupidity of some of these people never seem to amaze me. Rationale for why the government shutdown is good:   ""It kind of makes me question what they do on a day-to-day basis.  If I don't miss them, what were they doing?"  Yeah motherfucker, it's all about you.  Christ on a sidecar, of all the arguments you could make supporting the shutdown, this is what you're going with?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/20/trump-country-republicans-cheer-federal-shutdown/2549255002/

     

    And no, USA Today is not my normal reading material but I saw one in a hotel lobby in Bumfuck Florida and picked it up.  

    reminds me of my office manager who doesn't believe polls because she's never been polled.

     

    did mitch have jaw cancer from too much dip or something? 

  7. 23 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Trees aren't biodegradable? Color me shocked.

    stuff in landfills doesn't degrade.*  newspaper headlines dug up in a landfill from the 1930s shoulda told ya. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    *specially designed landfills can do it, but i'm guessing most operating landfills aren't those.  and since i'm starring things, yes, given a geologic timescale it degrades, but that's a uselessly long timespan for purposes of what we're discussing.

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