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2016-02-25 at 4 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionP.S. you mentioned a vendor on longecity or somewhere similar that was selling NSI-189, is that where you bought from? Seems like an interesting drug.
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2016-02-25 at 3:50 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionWow, getting lost in a national park without food for multiple days. That's bretty intense. Why didn't you bring food and more water though?
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2016-02-25 at 3:30 AM UTC in My co-worker started acting like a dickHonestly it sounds like you're more upset that DC cougar might not be as into you as you are into her than you're mad at your coworker. Which is understandable. It's inconsiderate to discuss something like that in an open venue but hardly any sort of betrayal. Cupcakes talking shit on you is. And being frank it's pretty clear you're hung up on her, or at least still think about her, you bring her up fairly often.
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2016-02-25 at 3:13 AM UTC in What drugs cure an existential crisis? Acid?
You don't learn about this so much as you grow into understanding as a consequence of mental/physical/spiritual evolution, like you grow into walking, talking, and sexual consciousness. This is not difficult to understand; if its meaning does not develop like music after some rumination, comprehension is simply impossible, so don't sweat it.
And what if others "grow into" a different understanding? Sorta like how I've grown into the understanding that the majority of your post are just empty platitudes. -
2016-02-24 at 6:22 PM UTC in Life Is StrangeWitcher 3 is bretty good. Like the two games that came before it though, the plot is a strange thing, it really presents itself as a "pick a side" kinda thing but then works really hard to make you feel like every choice sucks pretty much equally. I guess it's part of the grey/grey morality and uber-cynicism themes. Part of it too was that the player character had an actual personality which seems like a plus but it led to some strange situations, namely every player choice had to be shoehorned into something in-character and sometimes you just didn't get to pick your position because its "uh oh, it's characterize-geralt-as-a-gruff-badass-o-clock". I'm not really complaining, it was an interesting way of doing thing, I just usually play choice-based video games as an idealist and the dissonance between choices made and the logic behind those choices was kinda grating at times. Compare and contrast Skyrim (the game W3 always gets compared to) where your character couldn't possible be more nondescript. You pretty much pick your side in the opening sequence of the game, b-line for their fortress once that's done, and that's that. It's assumed you're ideologically aligned with the faction in question my merit of standing in the right place at the right time whereas in every witcher game the best you could do is stand on one side's sidelines looking grumpy you're not over on the other side.
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2016-02-24 at 3:37 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
It's happening. Soon you will begin to have to go outside less and less, and as society evolves, hardly ever at all. In fact, the psychological impact and pleasure from VR may drive you to a point where things you believed would always entice to go outside occasionally won't anymore.
Ye blood, shit's gonna get bad. I even sent a resume to a job that's work-from-home (I would actually prefer to work in an office, fewer distractions). One of these days I'm going to come home from somewhere and close my door and that's the last the world is going to see of me. Well nah, live music will probably never be replaceable in my lifetime but things are taking an innocuously dark turn.
Amazon doesn't deliver alcohol yet so at least there's that. -
2016-02-23 at 6:21 PM UTC in So this guy thinks he's Chris HansenArrange a meetup but don't send any pictures, then show up with more people and a record of the conversations but act like you the one playing the girl all along, and he was the old dude in the conversations. Quote his earlier videos while confronting him for bonus points.
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2016-02-23 at 8:31 AM UTC in Can Bernie beat Hillary?I'm surprised how well he's done too but I still don't think he has a real chance. It was a smart move to not harp on Benghazi, wins him points for looking like he took the high road while everyone else is doing his smear job for him. But it won't get him out of the primaries, the Clinton name carries too much weight, too much anxiety about how an old (especially with the possibility of Rubio on the other side) self proclaimed socialist will fare in the generals.
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2016-02-23 at 7:52 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionSo I'm trying this amazon fresh thing. Did the math and it pays off pretty quick, mixed bag with the selection. All the essentials but some things like sunseeds were absent. We'll see how the produce turns out. I also kinda want to use the "dash" or "instant" thing or whatever. Like the "press button get shit delivered" thing. I know it's a gimmick but it looks cool and I anticipate a certain pleasure in having someone attend to my needs at the literal press of a button.
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2016-02-23 at 7:15 AM UTC in I hate electivesI'm like 90% sure OP is joking. Most of it is lame /g/ memes
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2016-02-23 at 2:57 AM UTC in quentin tarantino is a cuck?and "cuck" to the list of buzzwords Bill Krozby uses without knowing what they mean
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2016-02-23 at 2:46 AM UTC in What are you hacking on?
Purty cool. Mind if I ask what are you using for networking? I've had good experiences with Python's Twisted library, but I'm aching to mess around with Elixir for networking purposes.
Just Java's wrapper around OS sockets. I'm probably the furthest thing there is from a "java person" but at work if you want to run something on a server it's a pain in the ass if it's not java. Well it's a pain in the ass if it is, but everything has to go through "architectural review" and most our dumbass architects can't read anything else so that's how it goes.
I've never been a huge fan of Twisted although I admit it's been a number of years since I've used it. Gevent, while not a networking library per se, is one of my favorite pieces of software of all time so when I need to do async IO in Python it's pretty much a no-brainer to go with gevent. Elixir does sound cool, I've been wanting to pick up a language from erlang-land for a while now. -
2016-02-23 at 2:36 AM UTC in Welcome to Texas mother fuckerskek, braj, chill. You're getting unreasonably worked up over a picture someone casually posted.
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2016-02-22 at 6:34 PM UTC in Gratuity Tips
They charge the card for the base amount and then later they charge the tip, causing it to overdraft.
Right, but the card company can reverse any given transaction, like they do for fraud or contested transactions or whatever. If the negative balance isn't paid off they may reverse it after some amount of time. Still, I wonder if it's long enough that a waiter could cash out their tips and make the restaurant eat the loss -
2016-02-22 at 6:20 PM UTC in Lanny - Do you know who seels CC around here? I cannot see any threads about it?nyck nuck nyuck
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2016-02-21 at 6:45 AM UTC in LSD is BACK!I don't really understand how drug dogs work. Like to they need to be trained separately for each drug? Obviously different drugs smell different, unless there's some super common filler or something that they detect. It couldn't even be classes of drugs right? Like if rover the drug dog jumped every kid with an adderall script no one would get through an airport ever.
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2016-02-21 at 1:25 AM UTC in LSD is BACK!Yeah, the problem here is LSD doesn't own a car and couldn't come up with something that funny.
He might have spotted the alliGAYtor on the side of the road while looking for drugs though. -
2016-02-21 at 1:18 AM UTC in Paying back student loans and a rant at the rage towards my dad
How does that process work? Can I pay as little as a hundred bucks a month? Do I have to sign up for a specific pay plan? I already know what my interest rates are, I mean, not at the top of my head but I have that information saved somewhere where I can access it.
The lower bound is usually that you have to pay at least the interest incurred each month, but of course you'll never scratch your principal so not ideal. Really, as with any debt, you want to be putting as much of your income towards it as possible. If doing that is going to take longer than 20 years for repayment or represents more than 10% of your income then you might be eligible for loan forgiveness, I don't know the specifics so you'll want to google for it.If anyone does have experience, did you finish paying them off? Gave up? Ran into hiding and created an alias? I know that one of my loans doesn't start collecting interest till after I graduate which I still have one more semester after this one. I'm really nervous about it. I've never had any other debt.
I paid off my student loans a week after I graduated . Too late for this now but unsubsidized loans (the kind where interest accumulates before graduation) are a bad idea unless you're going to literally starve or be homeless without them, they're just a money sink/poor tax. Student loans are one of the hardest to get out of (almost always survive bankruptcy) so it's not reasonably a problem you can ignore.I heard that if you move to a different country they can't find you to pay them back and you kinda get out of jail free that way. Is that true? I'm not saying I'm gonna flee the country but that just seems like a way too easy way to get away with it. I mean, If I take out 30,000 and have some leftover I could just use that as a plane ticket and something to keep me straight for a while till I found a job in New Zealand or something.
Do you have NZ residency? Immigration is a total bitch unless you're in investor (have and can prove you have a ton of money you intent to spend in the country), have a "needed profession" (there aren't many, I think doctor is the big one, lawyers and teacher are shit out of luck, unskilled labor is super-fucked), or have an employer that will sponsor you. Of course there are other countries are easier, but if you have a felony I'm not sure how many options you have besides like maybe mexico. You could try getting a student/visitor visa and overstaying but that makes it hard to get a real job and if you end up deported then you'll be doubly fucked landing back in the states with a pile of debt your ran from.Adulting is hard. I'm 25 years old and this is the first year I'll be filing my own taxes D: I didn't file them up till the age of 21 because my parents claimed me. Then I was locked up. Then, at 23 to ages of 25 I didn't work (pretty sure my parents still claimed me even though I was mainly living off my loans NOT them).
I told my dad since I had my own place with my bf for 8 months now that I was filing my own taxes and he got mad. Can you believe that??? He tried to lie and use the same excuse he did when I was in college 3 years ago "Well, we can still claim you because we pay for your school." BUT Dad, you LITERALLY DON"T pay for my school. "I do!" I told him. "Well, you can still let us claim you!" Uh, no Dad, actually I can't. God. He finally laid off when I told him I'm going to file so if he claims me there's gonna be most likely an audit. I wish I would have wised up when I first got out of prison and took out the loans (I was in school within about 2 weeks of getting out, had parents register for me while I was locked up so I'd be ready). I wish I would have wised up then when I was paying for my own school and they claimed me for those 2 or 3 years too. I didn't know much about any of that stuff though and was naive.
Taxes do blow but it's a lot easier today than even in the recent past. I just did my taxes online in like an hour, first year I was in school it was like a 3 day process of googling shit and calling my mom for advice. The upside is almost everyone who's not self employed gets a refund (put it towards your loans, don't blow it on dumb shit) and student loan interest is, I think, a direct deduction.
As for the dependent thing, declaring someone else claimed you as a dependent doesn't have a significant impact on your taxes, presumably you couldn't take the head of household deduction anyway and assuming your parents make more than you do more money is saved by them claiming you as a dependent than you claiming you're not. It doesn't really matter now though since you can't claim a child who is older than 24 as a dependent anyway. -
2016-02-20 at 10:22 PM UTC in Cooking Ethiopian for the First Time
There's an Ethiopian restaurant where I live. Never been there though. I ate at a German food restaurant here in town once because for our Communications class (required capstone course, def. not a comm major) we were required to eat at a restaurant that serves a type of food from an ethnicity that we'd never tried before. Well, it was shitty and fuckin expensive as hell. I didn't know it was going to be so much money till after we sat down and looked at the menu. It looked so homely from the outside. But, now after reading this, I wish I would have gone with the Ethiopian restaurant.
Yeah, I don't know what's up with German food. I've never met anyone who went to Germany and enjoyed the cuisine. I wonder if even germans like it. I actually kinda like sauerkraut but it's already kinda heavy and it seems like everything else is just like pure meat/fat/grease heaviness.You guys beat me to all the jokes.
I've never tried Ethiopian food though. I googled it and not much of it looks very appetizing. Maybe there are some great dishes out there though.
It's not visually very appealing because almost every dish is like a thick stew or paste but the flavor is great. Think like indian but less spicy (like hot-spicy) and lighter. Also Injera is hard to describe without trying it. Like "sourdough crepe" is the best I can think of but it's just like its own thing. -
2016-02-20 at 10:08 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Lanny, do you have any siblings?
Nope, only child.Also, I hate to ask and don't take this the wrong way, I'm just curious, but are you going to receive anything for inheritance? I don't recall you ever saying anything about your mom or any siblings. It would be pretty nice if you inherited a house or something, put it to good use.
My dad maintained a life insurance policy but he wasn't a wealthy guy so I don't expect a lot, plus medical and burial expenses need to be paid out of any benefit first of course.Definitely unfair, I wonder how your egalitarian ideals influence your view of this, but if you really wanted to, I'd trust you to put it to good use more than the overwhelming majority of people.
Well I'm not a big fan of language like "fairness", it's usually associated with deontological positions that I reject. I do think the wealth inheritance mechanism fails to maximize utility, usually people receiving significant inheritance don't have any pressing need for it. I certainly don't need more money or at least it wouldn't do me much good relative to what it could. But I'm not a morally perfect agent. One of the common criticisms of utilitarianism is that it sets the bar too high, a embarrassingly large part of Peter Singer's career has been directed at addressing the objection his position commits us to giving away all our wealth until we have a third world quality of life. Both deontologists and abrahamic ethicists have this idea that ethics is supposed to be this process, usually a framework of rules, that churns out a "you may" or "you may not" answer to any question you feed it, but the idea of moral action in consequentialist frameworks is entirely different. There is no sufficiency criteria, like "you have to be this good or else" mostly because there is no or else, each action just has some weight and many good actions, actions a person would be justified in taking, are non optimal which is OK. Anyway, I guess that's my round about way of saying I'll do the same thing with any inheritance I receive as I do with any money I receive above and beyond what's required to sustain my lifestyle: donate 10-20% of it to an effective charity, blow up to half of it on drugs/alcohol/comptuers/hobby projects, and put the rest in a rainy day fund.Also, where is the funeral being held? If it's close enough, could I come as a guest? It's good to have people you can relate to for emotional support. It's just something I'm interested in experiencing, particularly the eulogy.
In socal. It's going to be a family-only type thing, no big service or whatever, thank god.
