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The SFW image thread

Discussion in 'General' started by Biigoh, Mar 17, 2013.

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  1. Ragnarok

    Ragnarok Well worn.

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  2. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

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    I'm drinking La Croix water right now. It's quite enjoyable, though admittedly I'm also drinking it because I've been sick, and it doesn't upset my stomach.
     
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    Walkir Super Happy Awesome Fun Time On Vacation

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    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    I’m not entirely convinced it isn’t.
     
  6. 2 Hot Crown Subdues the Sinful

    2 Hot Crown Subdues the Sinful Aris

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    Astolfo: Went to the moon.

    Vegeta: Carries a pocket moon.


    Seems legit.
     
  7. FourthPear

    FourthPear Frequent Flier. Muted

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    I feel like you are making a few references I am not really familiar with, but good show.
     
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    2 Hot Crown Subdues the Sinful Aris

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    Astolfo literally went to the moon on the flaming chariot the Prophet Elijah once used to enter Heaven, in order to pick up a bottle containing the lost sanity of Roland/Orlando, Charlemagne's most famous paladin.

    Vegeta uses a pocket moon ball to transform into Oozaru & go apeshit.
     
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    FourthPear Frequent Flier. Muted

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    Isn’t that ball just a ki technique? Not a physical object? Or am I misremembering.
     
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    2 Hot Crown Subdues the Sinful Aris

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    Either way, it is a pocket moon.
     
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    Ostentatiousnessness First of his name, last of his kind

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    [​IMG]
    Holy shit, this made me laugh.
     
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    OverReactionGuy The only Sane one left

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    Bear_Mint The LewdBringer. The Breast Observer.

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    Literally anything shaped like among us can be sold for over 100k now.
     
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    Vladicus Sage of reason and incomplete information

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    Why are we spitting straight facts here? We're here to laugh, not cry at the state of our world
    Where's the horrible part?

    Again, this is the laugh if you're a horrible person thread, we're not here to reinvent the Bible.
     
  16. OverReactionGuy

    OverReactionGuy The only Sane one left

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    This is the safe for work image thread. Your thread is sadly in another castle.
     
  17. Vladicus

    Vladicus Sage of reason and incomplete information

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    Damn it, that's what I get for having so many tabs open.
     
  18. Czlyydwr Llrngwl

    Czlyydwr Llrngwl "Sell ya a door Learn gull" Czly/Celly for short.

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    My brother!

    And so this isn't 100% content-free, here's one for people who thought that battle damage paint on Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege toys was awesome but didn't go near far enough:
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    I don't know if Amazon listings will actually allow hotlinked images to be embedded, so here's the source:
    https://www.amazon.com/N-W-Optimus-Prime-Black-Convoy/dp/B0963WHFQV
    (Note, I have nothing to do with this item or seller, and think anyone who wants one belongs in the Laugh If You're a Horrible Person thread for that matter)

    edit: An example for those not familiar with recent TF lines is Siege Soundwave
    The link is to a review of him by one of those people, as the site it's hosted on... doesn't allow hotlinking. D'oh.
     
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    Ostentatiousnessness First of his name, last of his kind

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    Oh, my dude, we’ve all been there.
     
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    Ostentatiousnessness First of his name, last of his kind

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    Imma be real with you all: I don’t actually know who’d win that fight.
     
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    If it's a fight, Vegeta no question.

    It was more of a comparison picture I found.

    They have the same body weight and height but are so different.
     
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    Czlyydwr Llrngwl "Sell ya a door Learn gull" Czly/Celly for short.

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    But who would win in a COOKING BATTLE!? Now that's the question the masses want to know!
     
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    For a moment there your reply had me thinking maybe I had posted in the wrong thread after all.
    Because this
     
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    Winged One Not the Simurgh

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    I don't actually know who the other one in that picture is, but I'd give them the edge due to not being Vegeta. Even if Vegeta got over himself enough to learn how to cook his own food (which is at least in question), he'd probably mostly cook traditional Saiyan cuisine. And knowing Saiyans, their cooking styles focus mostly on getting the portion sizes up to what they consider acceptable and humans consider fucking insane.
     
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    Yeah, that'll work until compassion fatigue sets in, and the explosion of customers dies down. And it will be less and less effective for each new place that tries it, until businesses start cutting employees or going under and the rest of them have to drop the wages back to reasonable levels in order to meet the costs of overhead. The horrible part of this article is that a man is receiving praise for treating leukemia with cough syrup - solving the symptoms rather than the problem.

    EDIT: That's not to say that he shouldn't be praised for solving his problem, because he should. He stayed in business this year, and that's commendable. But the solution he chose is not a laudable one, or a sustainable model of business to be followed by everyone.
     
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    • Rule 8 warning. That is pretty much what I would call trying to start a fight about a system here. Pictures deleted.
    Man, do I feel sorry for you. You've been so thoroughly brainwashed by capitalism that the mere idea of paying living wages makes you break out in hives. You have my pity.

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    Winged One Not the Simurgh

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    Symptoms are how a disease kills you, though. I think the horrible part of the article is that it's genuinely a newsworthy ocurrance.
     
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    That's, uh, that's not capitalism to blame there. A business realising that they aren't getting applicants at a given wage level and raising their offer to get more interest is the free market in action.
     
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    Vladicus Sage of reason and incomplete information

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    This problem is created by the minimum wage tbh. Minimum wage across the entire country does 3 things, first is increase cost for the employer, second increase costs for the population at large, help businesses from outside the country that set said minimum wage.

    Companies need to make profit in order to function, this is basic economics. What is also basic economics is that profit= earnings- costs. A wage increase means a price increase for the end product, because wages are part of the costs of production, meaning that the buyers need to pay more.

    Now if all businesses did the same as that guy, what would happen? Costs would rise and they would rise by quite a lot because everyone would do it.

    Let us take a mall, as they're the most iconic monument of capitalism. A mall might have dozens of employees, each of them earning a set value of money, and now we increase most of their salaries by 50%. The costs of the company increase, but that is manageable and will directly result in only a relatively minor change in the final price.
    Now, how do malls work exactly? They don't produce anything, what they do is resell products they bought from one or several intermediaries who themselves bought from a producer. Those products also need to be transported, which increases the costs further. The only thing a mall does, is put those products in an easy to access place where the buyers don't need to go to several different factories or farms to buy their groceries every single day. Each of those intermediaries has employees which now will also have their salaries increased, which will result in higher production prices, which will result in higher costs for the buyers. Same happens for the producers with similar results.

    Each of those companies wants to at the very least maintain their profit margins, or actually increase it so now malls and everyone in this logistics chain are forced to make some tough decisions in order to reduce costs. The simplest solution is to reduce the number of employees, which can be done to a point, but this increases unemployment and if everyone did it, then there'd be fewer and fewer buyers for malls in the country. The second, is find a way to reduce the number of intermediaries, or find some producers with a much lower production cost and the cheapest way to do that is buy from places that have lower production costs, which means, places from outside the country or with higher automation. Now you either have higher costs or more unemployment

    Now on small scale this works out neatly, like the guy in the original image, but what happens when everyone has to do it? If you increase the minimum wage, then you inevitably need to increase all other wages in order to make it more attractive for possible employees, after all why would a trained professional want to work for a company that gives a wage comparable to the minimum one?

    The answer is they don't and so most other salaries increase as well. So far so good, but you have to wonder yourself, just how much are prices increasing and is the wage increase enough to account for it or at least make it break even?

    The answer I'm afraid, is no. Increasing minimum wages creates a small period of time in which things become better for those earning it or a little more, but eventually, even discarding other causes, costs will increase and so will unemployment and even for those who earned a lot more than the minimum wage things will get worse. The only real winner are the producers and transport companies that now have a place to sell their stuff for a higher price, and the biggest loser is the guy at the bottom.

    No decision and it's consequences live in a vacuum and when it comes to country wide repercussions most of the time it's the little guy that has to pay the price, even when told otherwise.

    The ice cream story is as far as I'm aware what happens when the little guy decides to improve their lot without assistance from the government, and I fully support it, but if the government decides to get involved as it always does, then things will just inevitably get worse for the little guy.

    Sometimes, but diseases have more than one symptom, and when you treat the disease you must treat all of them and the cause, unless you just want to waste your time.
    100% this.

    I'm quite frankly ok with the guy doing this. Companies by themselves and without government mandates trying to make their employees' lives better is something I 100% approve of, it's when the government tries to force them to do it, is when I have a problem, because they always fuck it up.