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Axiom posted...

Tc says former drug dealer like I cant walk into a store these days and buy weed lmao

my mans USED to sell snow flakes by the OZ

USED TO

Off Minor - Punch for Punch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mKmaSO3p_k

Don Caballero - Don Caballero 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2hpoblBIs

Don Caballero - Fire Back About your New Baby's Sex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl0uk12hmmg

Operation Ivy - Bankshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3arEYZxrzI

Tera Melos - A Spoonful of Slurry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8V9bI9i39o

Orchid - Trail of an Unknown Body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZoZpzIxVw4

Husker Du - Dreams Reocurring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWRAmOKiGY

Faraquet - The Missing Piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07OB67UZm0c

His entire second term would be him trying to or talking about punishing people with no governing going on.

i find the fodder jedi kinda weird.

like jedi are known for being badass. but if you aren't the one in a hundred I guess you're about as useful as freaking stormtroopers.

i thought they were supposed to be rare

I took this picture at the park near my house, and i like it. I have four different variations of the same scene.

The first is the original from the infrared camera. It was really sunny which is key to making the colors pop. In some cases, there is a nice contrast between the organic(grass, trees) and inorganic(pavement) elements, and that it present here. Exposure is a little too dark, but I like that. Better to be underexposed rather than over, I suppose, for this type of photography.

https://imgur.com/MMSkYmF

The second image is after I went into GIMP and changed the color channels to convert the reds to blue and blues to reds. This kind of inverts the colors. The grass(green in real life) goes from a blueish yellow to a yellowish blue, the trees turn yellow, and the sky turns a dark blue.

https://imgur.com/dfxES0N

The third image is some messing around in GIMP. I took the color swapped image and changed the white balance to auto(original was 2500K) in the settings, not sure what this would do. This turns the scene into something much more lifelike. The trees and foliage were green in real life, but this doesn't look too off. Habitable.

https://imgur.com/3tf5vVn

And now for the strangest of them all. I didn't think changing the WB to auto in GIMP would do anything cool, but since it did I took the original non color channel swapped image and changed the white balance and we have a monochromatic scene with aqua foliage. I'm not sure what to make of this

https://imgur.com/rWnhEs4

I am not really sure what to make of all this, but I am pleased with the results. If it's super sunny out and the subject is good(interplay between infrared absorbing elements and non) there is always potential.

I don't know. The closest I can say is i've listened to probably all of Fugazi's The Argument the past week but not all at once.

Anyways, I only have experience with unions in retail, which I am for. Why?

The companies that are speifically anti union, such as they make you watch anti union videos during training aren't known for actually treating their workers well, so i'll take the chance a union might. Dollar Tree is anti union, but their stores are ran like shit and also their employees get hardly anything, so...what's exactly the bar here? I see non union places looking like shit, so certainly a union couldn't come in and make things somehow worse?

The biggest complaint about unions I see in this topic is how they protect bad workers. That is kind of true, but the flip side is, if you are a good employee, they protect you from bullshit. At my store(I am the GM), nobody could say I stole missing inventory without 100% factual proof. If somebody claimed it and pushed the matter, I'd call the union and they'd help me out. But since that is always a looming threat, that doesn't even tend to happen in the first place.

I worked for wal-mart as a cashier and went from 8.90 to 11.01 in 7 years. I quit there and started my current job working in a unionized liquor store as a cashier(same thing I did at walmart) where wages were around 11.50 starting, but through union contracts and such being negotiated the basic wage is now 16 bucks. I don't know what wal-mart hires at now, but in 6 years I essentially went from 11 bucks(after 7! years) to automatically more, and then contract negotiations that beat out any single raise I got from wal-mart. But, I became a GM and moved up so I make even more now. I cannot say how this would have played out if there was no union.

Lokarin posted...

ONE of those things is bad, a union should have no say on how you vote politically....

In the US they don't. The unions will make suggestions and talk to you about candidates, but ultimately, since voting is a private affair, you vote for who you want. And if you don't say anything, they wouldn't know who you voted for unless they broke to law to acquire that information.

wanderingshade posted...

I dunno why I could get into Don Cab but not like Piglet and Hella. Something about old US mathrock seems really hit or miss for me. I should get more into Covet and CHON tho.

Hella is math rock for people with zero attention spans. I don't mind Hella though. Heir first album was dope I need to listen to the others.

Don Cab invented a lot of shit. They had a good mix of complexity, weirdness, soundscapes and hooks. A lot of bands seemingly have tried to do it again but they either forgot you need hooks and nothing seems all that deep. They aren't really too similar to Don Cab but they are instrumental. Save us From the Archon. Talented and neat to listen to but it's missing one or two layers beyond technical prowess at instruments to wow me.

But not everything is a missing match. Covet is dope. Piglet probably is but I haven't listened to them yet.

Oakland isn't spending money, which is actually great for them. If you're going to be a trash team like them, at least do it cheaply.

The White sox are currently paying Andrew Benintendi 17 million this year, the biggest contract in team history, and he currently has -2.3 WAR and is worse in some ways(On base percentage, slg, ops) right now than that one awful Chris Davis season in 2018. Davis had -3.3 war in 28 games. Benintendi is one point behind through 51 games.

Doe posted...

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/06/03/nyse-technical-issue-impacting-some-stock-prices-incorrectly-showing-berkshire-hathaway-down-99percent.html

I was going to say, one of the first articles i saw was from an hour ago about shareholders descending on Omaha for the annual shareholders meeting.

I was like "uhhh, do they know?"

I want regular people to make money off of this. I don't know what the current narrative around GME is, but if you have some GME stock and could make a lot of money off of it, please sell. Though I know a lot of this is the long game but it would suck to see somebody with a meme stock portfolio with millions of dollar in it reduced to nothing because they didn't sell, because "hodl" or getting back at the short sellers or whatever it is.

Like, I have some Dogecoin. If it gets high enough I can make a decent chunk of change off of it, I am selling. There is no reason to "hodl" in the potential scenario it goes well beyond a dollar and I have millions on the line.

Ratchetrockon posted...

I didnt find music appealing till I was in 8th grade when I got introduced to Battles from littlebigplanet lmao. Then went down a mathrock rabbit hole (ik battles isn't really considered mathrock but was labeled as such). Anyway im glad mathrock stuff is more popular these days among the younger gen z crowd lol. my younger sister and brother seems to like it at least.

Do you listen to Don Caballero? The founder of Battles was in that band before and they're just as awesone

The supreme court handed the election to W Bush in 2000, I'm not really sure their argument holds much water.

The right keeps wanting to ask "what about Clinton/Obama/ Hillary Clinton/ Biden" why havent they been charged for...

But I am not sure why they are asking us left leaning members of the general populace, they need to ask their house and senate representatives.

stop pushing the deal on me i ONLY want to spend .69 cents.

look goddammit i don't want a deal i just want to buy something for a nice number of cents

Hello do you guys have anything available for....69 cents?

I'm personally loyal to Yam.

Bruce's FTW

the first step in any successful appeal is one hell of a guilty verdict.

Dang hit. We'll least it's warm in here.

Out

My two favorite fast food burgers I've had are 5 guys and in n out. 5 guys I'd awesome but expensive. Nearly that same price gets you a burger from a more formal restaurant. I go once in a blue moon because I like it.

In n out is fantastic but also cheap. They edge out 5 guys by a hair but it's one of the best values anywhere.

People on r/conservative are elated Trump raised 30 million a day after the verdict, but I am wondering:

How much of this money has come from people who have not voted for him or donated in the past? So, entirely new people not previously connected to him

and

how much of this is just going to go to legal fees?

This doesn't really seem like a win, but I also do not know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fqHr_KGPY

thats why i dont get that rhetoric.

do you want the rich and powerful to be above the law? because that's all I hear, not that i should be worried, just that the rich should be above the law. If Trump goes down for using campaign funds to pay off a porn star I would absolutely expect to get in trouble for financial mishandlings as a normal person, too. But I mishandled funds in this scenario so...whats the problem?

remember folks, if they can do it to a president, they can do it to you

the problem is, i wont be using campaign funds to pay a porn star probably ever in my life, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I kinda already knew that because it's so obvious and not fooling anybody.

The guy just got bored heavily at the libertarian conference, and they are "centrists" (yeah I know libertarians but they're "supposed" to be "centrist") a d he got booed heavily.

For the most part when a genre gets huge, the bands that came before are in most cases better and more interesting than what's popular.

Screamo is a prime example of this. Saetia, Orchid, Off Minor are legendary bands that until I had heard them didn't have much interest in the genre because what was popular and being paraded around by Hot Topic didn't really interest me for the most part.

Grunge is another example in some ways. I find a band like Husker Du far more interesting than Nirvana but without Husker Du who knows if Nirvana would have come around or what they'd sound like

Yeah its kind of silly. They were never Biden or undecided voters in the first place so this didn't sway their opinion.

I just can't see anybody undecided seeing guilty on all 34 counts making that the deciding factor. They'd either go Biden or stay home

He may not be French but be is the Shah of Iran so that HAS to count for something, right?

R/conservative seem convinced this will help his polling numbers and buy him votes. I do not see how, but I also cannot say it won't because things are weird. Yelling wrong(Howard dean?) Used to get you canned from consideration 20 years ago.

The right are going to go hard on how this is a politically motivated sham trial. Maybe that will sway people? I don't really see how but I also don't know

I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread but one of the undercards is Taylor vs. Serrano II, a rematch of this fight that was considered by many fight of the year when it happened. These two beat the absolute shit out of each other.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Taylor_vs._Amanda_Serrano

This is a more important fight in several ways.

Well I guess it is correct grammar and I was pronouncing the company name wrong.

I think it may have been on Steam. Anyways, this struck me as bad grammar, but it made me think I don't know how Ubisoft is pronounced.

I've always said EW BEE SAWFT. Though I guess somebody could pronounce it YOU BEE SAWFT

which one is it?!?!

Oh shit, Don Black.

This is probably my favorite wikipedia article of all time based on the title alone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Black_(white_supremacist)

Good, I like that.

the worst part about buying a car is that if you don't haggle, you're gonna get hosed. The dealership expects people to haggle. The hagglers think they're getting some sort of huge deal, when the dealership is still coming out ahead, so this just makes it shittier for everybody else just trying to buy a car.

I was at a local video game store the other day and I asked the guy if he had a USB rock band guitar. He did, and he wanted $100 for it. Now, first thing I did when i left is went to ebay and 50-75+ shipping is what they seem to be going for. But the man expects the haggle. Maybe I could have gotten it for 50 or 75 if I tried, but fuck that, he gets no sale.

The funny thing about the e-mails is that when they came out, Hillary basically owned up to it. She didn't hide from them, and basically said if there is anything in them of importance the people should know.

There was...nothing? in them. Like, they had a huge effect but overall it was kind of nothing she completely owned making it kind of silly.

I actually am, but it's for a seasonal position that only extends until september. I do not have any permanent part time or full time spots available.

To me that's the main thing I like about it. Since it isn't corporate, I don't have to worry about any of that shit for the most part. I can actually do a good job because I want to and like to, not because some faceless higher up will yell at me for not getting enough credit card applications. The union part of it a good for several reasons, the main being job security if somebody decided to pull some bullshit over on me.

Not just union, but a government job. So there is no real corporate. No credit cards to push. No rewards system. A lot of the bullshit in corporate retail doesn't exist where I work and it's great. I don't even have sales metrics I have to hit, individually or as a store either.

Hillary Clinton was not the best candidate, that is true. She barely lost to Trump, because enough people figured he was worth taking a chance on. One awful presidency, insurrection, 2 impeachments, 800 lawsuits and court cases later, yeah, totally worth it.

Ive been in retail, not as a manager, but when you are constantly running around because a quadrillion dollar megacorp chooses to staff you the bare minimum all day. It wasn't always like that, but at some point in my 7 years working for megacorp it became that way. Skeleton crews all around. That's a corporate decision. Do you think the store manager actually wants people to wait in line all day?

I am now the General Manager of a liquor store which I like a LOT better, but it's a gov't job(control state) and I am in a union. THAT'S what it takes, I guess, for retail to not suck completely. But I am happy.

I have no advice, but hopefully some day you do find a job that makes you happy.

It's one of my favorites. Raiden is also awesome imo. I never played mgs1 beyond the demo so I wasn't super attached to snake so I didn't care when you find out for 85% of the game you don't control him.

I couldn't even tell you what half the shit was I disabled or got rid of, I figure if a curmudgeon like BTB says it's gotta go, I'm down with it.

I forgot what version of windows I even had until a couple of weeks ago, because it doesn't annoy me much and mostly functions as just an OS.

It's W10, but the real reason for this was that a couple of years ago BTB created a program that would just get rid of all the shit, so I used that and It mostly functions as I'd like. So when people say modern Windows is shit, I get confused but then I remember I don't even know the depths of how bad it is because I haven't seen it for a while.

Yeah but I always wondered wouldn't the credit card companies save a ton of money in their fraud departments if there was a simple passcode needed every time to use the damn thing?

I don't see what the benefit to not having a PIN on a credit card is.