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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.
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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. -
2016-02-20 at 7:23 PM UTC in Welcome to Texas mother fuckers
Being pro-gun doesn't make you crazy, I like you, but you're just spouting off liberal tier cuck rhetoric at this point.
Could you pack any more lame buzz words into there if you tried? Any suggestion that arming students is now "liberal tier cuck rhetoric"? Do you even know what rhetoric means?It's just here in Texas we believe the right to bear arms. And I know you're joking, but I still think its highly immature to compare college students (adults legally able to own guns) to primary schoolers as if there is any satirical correlation.
What's immature about it? I actually don't even mean it satirically (also that's not how you use the word "correlation"), we've known for a long time that, beyond adolescence, age is an inverse correlate with rates of violent crime (see, that's how you use "correlation") so arming one of the youngest adult populations in america may actually be worse of an idea than glocks for grade schoolers.Nice job adding nothing of value to this thread. I've owned several guns in my life and never used them irresponsibly. My parents own guns are very level headed people. But at the same time my parents grew up in a different time where it was perfectly normal to go to school and see gun racks in students trucks with loaded rifles, and school shootings were definitely not as common back then.
"Nice job adding nothing to this thread"
Yeah, because you anecdotal non-evidence is really contributing to the conversation. Wait, you mean a felon in texas is claiming he owned a gun (which was subsequently taken away by the police) and hasn't used it irresponsibly? Yeah, I'm totally gonna reconsider my stance on gun control now, because if that's not a knockdown argument for "give everybody guns" I don't know what is.Might as well ban knives, cars, power tools, and anything else that could be used irresponsibly.
Aaaand it's tired pro-gun recycled argument #327. See "social utility" or read any of the other literally hundreds of threads on gun control that have come up in the community for why that argument is a total non-starter. -
2016-02-19 at 7:50 AM UTC in Life Is StrangeAnyone played/playing it? I finished it recently. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I thought it was going to be 12 hours of cute/fragile marry sue in your face and I mean that was there to a degree but I think it did a lot of things really well. It was sold as one of those "your choices matter" games but I think most of them didn't. I mean clearly good decisions early on help in terms of gameplay but as far as I can tell there were one or two and a half choices (one being contingent on the other) that effected end-game state, all roads really lead to the same place. And the ending was clearly supposed to be like an agonizing choice but it didn't take me a second to choose.
IN SPITE OF ALL THAT I actually felt emotionally invested in the end. This is probably painfully obvious to everyone who played it but I didn't notice until you revisit the opening scene of the game. One of the first lines you get is "Hitchcock called film 'little pieces of time', but he could have been talking about photography" and the clear fourth-wall-penetrating implication is that videogames are the same. With that as a mission statement I think the game made a lot of sense, it wasn't really about making choices, it was about capturing a moment in american history, framing some of our cultural anxieties, and hopefully providing some catharsis thereby. And I thought that was something it did really well. Almost all of the gameplay was trivial (at times tedious, ala the "evidence board" minigame thing, that shit was stupid) but there was something about being gently coerced into participation that lent reality to characters. Even if it was, for the most part, a series of token gestures the act of making choices did a good job of making the subjects seem more real. -
2016-02-19 at 6:23 AM UTC in Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive
Fair enough. Usenet has its fair share of problems these days, and always has (primarily spam) but I still find it very interesting. My biggest draw for paying for access is the small technical forums. It feels like there are still people around who give a fuck about discussing rather that shitposting for gr8 internet points.
Yeah, the comp.lang.* tree is surprisingly well informed/helpful although I haven't read any groups daily in years.I've never actually used it, oddly enough
aren't all the decent networks pay2play?
I think you can get all the discussion groups on free providers (if you're not too tin foil to use google groups, not sure what else is out there by way of a free service), and usually pay for the binary groups. -
2016-02-19 at 4:33 AM UTC in How does this phising site look?Yeah, sans the ads it looks the same. Generally you'd want to mirror the link targets as well, you'd expect a user to land, click through a forum/thread and not authenticate until they were ready to post it renders right on Chrome stable/OSX
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2016-02-19 at 4:28 AM UTC in Usenet is the only TOTSE-like experience still alive
Usenet is a decentralized network. Think of it like a forum that can be hosted by anyone. The best part about Usenet is getting the best scene release files, it's even better than torrents in some regards, although it has slowed down in recent years.
I wouldn't really call usenet decentralized. I mean sure, there isn't one central usenet server but there are (roughly fixed) N syndicated servers, entry into the network is not democratic and retrieval of user information is not significantly more involved than from a centralized BBS.
Also scene has always been shit, it's just before good private trackers popped up it was the least shit in a sea of super-shit. The majority of scene rules are just cool-kids-club tier garbage. They can't even beat screeners to the relevant private trackers anymore.
