[Mezla PigDog]

I just saw my first targeted ad for a menopause product.

Does it get any lower when you aren't even 40 yet?

[Malankazooie]

Abyss, on 06 September 2019 - 06:00 PM, said:

When the Caribbean food truck dude preparing your roti asks you how spicy you want it,
never, ever, ever, ever, ever. ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. ever, ever, ever,
ever, ever, ever, ever. ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. ever, ever, ever, say "surprise me".

Just don't.


If anyone needs me, i'll be in a washroom stall, drinking six litres of milk, rocking myself back and forth, and weeping softly.

[HoosierDaddy]

Allergies are exploding to near blindness.

[Nicodimas]

Does anyone get into these moods where they just realize tons of people are just very redundant ...

And the billionaires once they figure out a few bots, a tech singularity can just unleash a virus (Captain Trips)

Slaughter the majority , forgo the 1 in billion supergenius ..drive the population to thousands

I mean I’m sure they would feel sad and stuff, they isolate the terrible decision to a few , but the rest would like have kids and life would go on...yeah kids!!

All the have to do is trick the few you know ? Technology is neat that way

Then presto! Equilibrium with the environment and all the advancements of modern civilization.

Yah that was me today./ugg

[Aptorian]

I mean, that's a pretty positive scenario in my book but maybe that's just me.

[worry]

Obviously yes I think about that, and hope to help build a society that girds itself from the whims of any monster who thinks of people as "redundant." Regardless, the fact is those billionaires will be no more immune to the viral horrors released by the permafrost melt than the rest of us, nor unaffected by any other civilization-level shifts that are coming. That's why we should appropriate their billions, in order to create the most humane physical, social, and governmental infrastructures possible in preparation for those changes.

[Aptorian]

I think focusing on individual billionaires wealth is a red herring. Their fortunes creates a servere feeling of inequality but their wealth is a drop in the bucket of a country or the planets yearly taxincome and public spending.

We should be more focused on the businesses. Corporations, banks, investmentfunds, etc. That's where the power lies and that's where there's a discrepancy in what is earned and what is paid in taxes - and ultimately who should be blamed for pollution and corruption.

[Tsundoku]

Aptorian, on 11 September 2019 - 08:04 AM, said:

I think focusing on individual billionaires wealth is a red herring. Their fortunes creates a servere feeling of inequality but their wealth is a drop in the bucket of a country or the planets yearly taxincome and public spending.

We should be more focused on the businesses. Corporations, banks, investmentfunds, etc. That's where the power lies and that's where there's a discrepancy in what is earned and what is paid in taxes - and ultimately who should be blamed for pollution and corruption.

Get both corporations AND the individuals who hide the profits in order to minimise taxes or negate them altogether.

How about a flat (plucks number out of arse) 30% tax rate on all income - be it individual or corporate? No rebates, no deductions, nothing. Tax law becomes one page, no loopholes.

Shifting your money out of the country - sure, no problems. That will be double, thanks.

Corporations and the wealthy merely paying their fair share of taxes would totally solve all government funding problems. The real problem then becomes making sure the goverment spends it productively.

[worry]

Corporations are people, my friend.

[Maark Abbott]

worry, on 11 September 2019 - 06:48 PM, said:

Corporations are people, my friend.

From a legal standpoint literally any company is a person.

[Aptorian]

Which just goes to show that all CEOs are humanitarians

[Morgoth]

Maark Abbott, on 12 September 2019 - 07:17 AM, said:

worry, on 11 September 2019 - 06:48 PM, said:

Corporations are people, my friend.

From a legal standpoint literally any company is a person.

Noooo, unless common law has changed substantially since I finished my degree, there's still a distinction between a legal entity and a physical person.

[EmperorMagus]

Morgoth, on 12 September 2019 - 10:45 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 12 September 2019 - 07:17 AM, said:

worry, on 11 September 2019 - 06:48 PM, said:

Corporations are people, my friend.

From a legal standpoint literally any company is a person.

Noooo, unless common law has changed substantially since I finished my degree, there's still a distinction between a legal entity and a physical person.

That is still the case in Canada. I don't know what those funny people in the UK are doing though.

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 12 September 2019 - 10:45 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 12 September 2019 - 07:17 AM, said:

worry, on 11 September 2019 - 06:48 PM, said:

Corporations are people, my friend.

From a legal standpoint literally any company is a person.

Noooo, unless common law has changed substantially since I finished my degree, there's still a distinction between a legal entity and a physical person.

In English law, a company is a legal person - it's a sore point time and time again if I have to deal with anything involving loss of earnings for someone who is self employed but set up as a limited company, as they can only claim for their loss and not the loss of the company, despite that ostensibly they ARE the company a lot of the time. Claimant could get say loss of salary or dividend or something like that depending how they pay themselves but if the company itself has taken a loss it has to pursue that loss as an entirely distinct matter.

[Mentalist]

Just had a game rained out. We were winning 1:0
This was a re-scheduled game that got rained out earlier in the season, when we were winning 2:0 (that time we played a full half, this time less than 30 min).

Apparently, we are to play again tomorrow. But I'm supposed to go to a Uki festival and get hammered tomorrow.

The really ironic bit is that this is the last game of the season. If we lose, the other guys get the last play-off spot. If we win, our rivals get the last play-off spot (because they have a better head-to-head, and the league is using that instead of goal difference as tie breaker).

It's a lose-lose proposition, but what really sucks is that the team we're continuously facing is really bad (the first time we played them, we beat them 5:0). And yet they may still beat us tomorrow, since I have no clue how many ppl will actually show up for this 3rd attempt to replay the same game.

[Cause]

Mentalist, on 14 September 2019 - 02:46 AM, said:

Just had a game rained out. We were winning 1:0
This was a re-scheduled game that got rained out earlier in the season, when we were winning 2:0 (that time we played a full half, this time less than 30 min).

Apparently, we are to play again tomorrow. But I'm supposed to go to a Uki festival and get hammered tomorrow.

The really ironic bit is that this is the last game of the season. If we lose, the other guys get the last play-off spot. If we win, our rivals get the last play-off spot (because they have a better head-to-head, and the league is using that instead of goal difference as tie breaker).

It's a lose-lose proposition, but what really sucks is that the team we're continuously facing is really bad (the first time we played them, we beat them 5:0). And yet they may still beat us tomorrow, since I have no clue how many ppl will actually show up for this 3rd attempt to replay the same game.

Have you tired the duckworth lewis method???

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two-three weeks to go before I live and breath freedom. Murica!

[Traveller]

Is it possible to grieve for your children when they were smaller? I love my kids and seeing a 3 year old picture of my boy yesterday tipped me into a depressive state I can only describe as grief - for the time before they started school, the time we got to do things all day, for how reliant on me they were for everything, and just for being good at looking after them all that time. They obviously won't remember a lot of it like I do, and I realised yesterday that I really miss it, and them.

Hasn't gone today either, just stuck at work feeling more depressed than usual.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 17 September 2019 - 11:18 AM

[Tsundoku]

I'm getting all the hugs I can while it lasts, because it won't be too long before he will have as little to do with me as possible.

Yes, he will develop "taste".

[Cause]

Traveller, on 17 September 2019 - 10:47 AM, said:

Is it possible to grieve for your children when they were smaller? I love my kids and seeing a 3 year old picture of my boy yesterday tipped me into a depressive state I can only describe as grief - for the time before they started school, the time we got to do things all day, for how reliant on me they were for everything, and just for being good at looking after them all that time. They obviously won't remember a lot of it like I do, and I realised yesterday that I really miss it, and them.

Hasn't gone today either, just stuck at work feeling more depressed than usual.

I grieve for that short glorious month when my dogs were puppies and they would sleep all the time and they fit in my hand and they would sleep ontop of me and they would make cute little squeeky noises. Doesnt meen I dont love my big dog but I miss the tinyness

[Abyss]

Cause, on 15 September 2019 - 09:57 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 14 September 2019 - 02:46 AM, said:

Just had a game rained out. We were winning 1:0
This was a re-scheduled game that got rained out earlier in the season, when we were winning 2:0 (that time we played a full half, this time less than 30 min).

Apparently, we are to play again tomorrow. But I'm supposed to go to a Uki festival and get hammered tomorrow.

The really ironic bit is that this is the last game of the season. If we lose, the other guys get the last play-off spot. If we win, our rivals get the last play-off spot (because they have a better head-to-head, and the league is using that instead of goal difference as tie breaker).

It's a lose-lose proposition, but what really sucks is that the team we're continuously facing is really bad (the first time we played them, we beat them 5:0). And yet they may still beat us tomorrow, since I have no clue how many ppl will actually show up for this 3rd attempt to replay the same game.

Have you tired the duckworth lewis method???

Not nearly as effective as the Lennox Lewis method.