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  • edited 2020-12-08 15:20:55
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    What's The Plumber's Rule? Google is only telling me technical stuff about plumbing.

    Jobs that society sees as low brow, mainly those that don't require a tertiary education (including industries with apprenticeships and workman's certifications that take 6 months to a year), but that pay really well.

    For example, plumber's in the US make an average of mid five-figures for well... plumbing/installation work. This is a couple of thousand -about $2k- above the average wage ($51,688 according to this), and much higher than a lot of other service industries which are mid-low five figures.

    It's actually higher than some teaching and admin positions at certain universities.
    I don't understand why

    I like this one.

    Oh yeah this is an images thread.

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  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    In the same breath, programs that suck or drain more than they give back need to get cut. The government isn't just a tap of money.
    And on the flipside, the purpose of the existence of government isn't to make money.
    but the money is needed now
    I don't think a long term job in coal mining which pays more than the average wage (that is, even more than some cushy office jobs) qualifies for "desperate" on any level.
    It doesn't exactly matter what that job pays when the person looking for it doesn't have a job.
    than others who would take advantage of them when they are most vulnerable.
    Like the ones trying to subtly bully them to voting the right way?
    The way you took mental leaps to get the point of "bullying them to voting the right way" is amazing.
    I dislike how some jobs are seen as more or less inherently "better" than others based on some status thing
    Then maybe align yourself with images that espouse that viewpoint.
    Congratulations on complaining about minutiae and missing the point of the image.
    if they're compelled by circumstance to do it, that's another.
    We are not going to start requiring double-blind consent (or whatever this even suggests) to job interviews.
    No one set up this ridiculous strawman but you.
    Everybody can do a personal risk assessment about what job they'd like or endure (yes, endure). Anybody in Australia can fly or drive or hitchhike to Tasmania and work in mining. Most people don't, even with their financial situations.
    hitchhike
    lolwut
    It's possible to seek improvement to something without demonizing it.
    It's important to point out that not one of those soundbite factors in the image you posted was "my personal safety at work".
    It's important to point out that you took the mention of mining as some sort of insult to the dignity of miners, whereas that wasn't even the point.
  • edited 2020-12-08 16:23:09
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    And on the flipside, the purpose of the existence of government isn't to make money.

    That's not a flipside. Just because government doesn't make profit (which is what you meant) doesn't mean it should become a financially unsound tap of free cash for whatever programs you want.
    It doesn't exactly matter what that job pays when the person looking for it doesn't have a job.

    It frequently does.

    I've gone in every direction to explain how mine workers aren't desperate and now you're arguing "oh it doesn't matter that they're paid more than average Australians of every sort" in about seven separate nonsensical directions.

    I bet the person who made that image doesn't even know miners get paid that much and didn't even consider it being a possibility.
    No one set up this ridiculous strawman but you.

    I'm not the one arguing "mining jobs aren't ethically sound and it's a problem if somebody takes them aside from if they think 'I really super really want to work in a mine'" and we act as if money isn't a factor in determining what risk somebody is willing to take on (which you keep arguing is exploitative on the basis that the job exists and is more dangerous than average).
    whereas that wasn't even the point.

    The point remains "miners and others aren't voting the way I want and clearly it's because of their low-brow jobs."
  • edited 2020-12-08 17:25:09
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    The point remains "miners and others aren't voting the way I want and clearly it's because of their low-brow jobs."
    How the flying fuck do you jump to this point from that picture???
    I'm not the one arguing "mining jobs aren't ethically sound
    I'm not arguing that either but you created the strawman version of me that does so.
    as if money isn't a factor in determining what risk somebody is willing to take on (which you keep arguing is exploitative on the basis that the job exists and is more dangerous than average)
    as if just because something might not be exploitative all the time means that it can never be exploitative

    Because the point here is "people who are desperate are more easily exploited" and your counterargument is "but mine work isn't exploitation because on average they pay well!" (as if money solves all problems, and as if mining was even the point of this whole shebang). Plus "and you're saying that mine workers are lowbrow!" which is entirely irrelevant, not to mention wrong.

    Also something about how miners vote, which came out of nowhere.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
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  • Umm... at the risk of fanning the flames...
    How the flying fuck do you get jump to this point from that picture???
    "people who are desperate are more easily exploited"
    The point of the bottom third of that image is clearly about economic factors driving political discourse. Note how none of the issues the characters talk about pertain them (at least not visibly and not counting the vague "long-term issues"), they're not being exploited by the fact that those topics are ignored.
    I mean, the image has a problem with the fact that people's economic concerns are important and states that this is a "distraction", implying that these are not the "real" issues to tackle and that someone whose livelihood isn't as impacted by that would tend to be better politically-minded. I wouldn't go so far as to go from there to "low-brow jobs" but it's not coming out of nowhere.
    I think the issue is that you seem to be foocusing on the top two thirds, i.e. the jobs part, while wings is taking issue with the bottom third (and the miners thing), i.e. the politics part.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Oh, and I'm told there's a new fad in the 'States, can you guys confirm?

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  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Umm... at the risk of fanning the flames...
    How the flying fuck do you get jump to this point from that picture???
    "people who are desperate are more easily exploited"
    The point of the bottom third of that image is clearly about economic factors driving political discourse. Note how none of the issues the characters talk about pertain them (at least not visibly and not counting the vague "long-term issues"), they're not being exploited by the fact that those topics are ignored.
    I mean, the image has a problem with the fact that people's economic concerns are important and states that this is a "distraction", implying that these are not the "real" issues to tackle and that someone whose livelihood isn't as impacted by that would tend to be better politically-minded. I wouldn't go so far as to go from there to "low-brow jobs" but it's not coming out of nowhere.
    I think the issue is that you seem to be foocusing on the top two thirds, i.e. the jobs part, while wings is taking issue with the bottom third (and the miners thing), i.e. the politics part.
    Ah, fair enough.

    I took those to basically be examples of "long-term problems" or more generally "issues where citizens might be amenable to better policy on if they weren't having economic disasters looming over their heads".

    For example, a person who is (or whose kids are) starving might steal crops to obtain food, in a way that a person who isn't wouldn't. In their desperation, they could be convinced to take and/or support short-term measures that don't have good effects on society in the long term. We can extend this example further, such as staking claims to land (on which a person can farm) which might not be rightfully (at least legally, even if not necessarily morally, since the latter can be more complicated depending on the person and the land) theirs, and then defending their claimed land by force, and so on -- and laws that might enable such things, or the repeal of laws that prevent such things.

    Similar things can be said with the other things: for example, one could be convinced to support the position of "my business is doing badly, and demands for handicapped accessibility might cost me, so, down with any suggestions regarding that!", rather than "regulations like these can be a good idea so that handicapped people aren't screwed out of things being inaccessible, but care should be taken in implementing those regulations so that they don't unfairly burden businesses, such as businesses that are struggling, so let's try to find some way to accommodate different parties' needs".

    I guess fourteenwings seems to be interpreting this as some sort of compulsion to follow a political orthodoxy, whereas I don't.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    I guess fourteenwings seems to be interpreting this as some sort of compulsion to follow a political orthodoxy

    Doesn't he everything?

    Also, I did not intend to post anything like this, but I accidentally stumbled upon this picture while searching my memefeed for something to spice up this post, and this is just asking to be here:

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    So, now on to serious issues:

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    These two are about the best I could find. Folksies are too stoked up on this cyberpunk game. (Well, that and the fact I already posted whatever was older than a few hours.)
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Yeah I heard that they kinda messed up badly with the seizure stuff. Apparently they either simulated too well or accidentally came close to simulating actual seizure triggers.

    Meanwhile, what's the game with the giant map?
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Considered a pretty big classic in Poland. Nostalgic video game memes are either about this one, the Gothic series, or sometimes the Baldur's Gate series. Perhaps not coincidentally, all three had a really good localization.
  • edited 2020-12-09 06:29:05
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    I'm almost surprised "The Marriage of Batman and Batman" isn't real.

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    How the fork finnagler do you get jump to this point from that picture???

    First of all, I really don't appreciate profanity directed at me, especially in the context of a friendly argument.

    Mainly though I've explained my position about four or five times and even with your new post we're clearly just circling a wheel of disagreement so I'm going to let this go.
    Doesn't he everything?

    I'm not the one who has settled on repackaging Elizabeth Warren's signature "That's a Republican talking point." as if it's an actual argument.
    Aidan Smith

    There is no better twitter user than the guy who can't make his point unless he caps the article (or tweet) rather than directly linking to it (or retweeting/replying).

    Funnily enough the article is also Australian. Australia is causing us a lot of controversy this week.
    After big falls in 2020-21, private consumption, housing construction and private investment are also expected to lift.

    Wage growth is tipped to lag inflation out to 2024-25, with full-time employment to grow slower than part-time jobs for several years.

    Main point; economy recovery is confidence in the market returning putting market caps back where they were pre-March 2020. That's what the "growth" is. The rest of the economy operates on real amounts rather than imagined purchase prices, so it can't ever emulate that "growth".

    Little less snappy for the socialists, no?

    It also mentions how Australia apparently already takes in a lot of immigrants:
    The government is expecting net overseas migration to collapse by up to 85 per cent in 2020-21.

    Deloitte said this would translate into 250,000 fewer people living permanently in the country, a shortfall that would affect the economy for years.

    I understand that most immigrants are not refugees, but that makes the point quite wobbly (you try telling somebody who wants to immigrate to Australia that they should let somebody else have the slot).

    Well, congrats gacek, you gots me.

    Unrelatedly it must be annoying to settle on a URL and then in a few years some teeny-boppers decide "smh" is slang.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
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  • There is love everywhere, I already know
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  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I could respond to fourteenwings's post here, but before I do:

    Should I respond to fourteenwings's post here?
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    I, too, would rather prefer not to know how that shirt relates to politics.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    ...you win.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
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  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korwin-Mikke

    The dude is highly popular among... well, around here we call this segment of demographic "the ponies". Young, male, in high school or studying (typically engineering or computer science), fond of heavy metal music ("ponies" as in "ponytails"), fantasy literature, and video games, with a tendency for radical right-wing politics of various sorts... Generally the kind of folks you could call "gamers" or "incels" and you'd probably be right.

    (I wash my hands if someone feels this description hits too close to home.)

    At this point it's hard to say how serious it is; things have long passed the boundaries of Poe's law. (There's been a Shrek is Love-inspired video that against all logic was apparently meant to be interpreted as praising the guy.)
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    "ponies" as in "ponytails"

    No relation to Bronies then?
    I wash my hands if someone feels this description hits too close to home.

    I assure you I'm not an incel.

    This guy's insane and I'm kinda here for it.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    This guy's insane and I'm kinda here for it.

    I assure you, if you lived in here, had you come to One True Way any earlier you'd be all over the guy. Who knows, perhaps you'd be all over the guy anyway.

    As for the Brony angle, there is no relation, although I would not be surprised if plenty of them watched the show. (Presumably drawing interpretations along the lines of "Angry Birds is a metaphor of refugee crisis", but still.)
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    you'd be all over the guy.

    Going by my experience there has to be at least one of these guys who is at least built like a tank and posts gym selfies every other day.

    When you find me dakimuras of that guy I'll be sure to become a white supremacist on the spot.

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  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
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  • edited 2020-12-11 22:18:24
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    These were the only character designs in the Arpeggio anime that made me think "yep, those sure are shipgirls".
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Is that the Arpeggio movie?
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
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    "UNDRESS"
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    someone's probably turned on by that
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    I sincerely hope not.
    Is that the Arpeggio movie?

    Yup.
    "yep, those sure are shipgirls".

    Is that because the uniforms look slightly more totalitarian?

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  • This thread could make good use of Naas' animeposting.
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  • I sincerely hope not.

    Is that because the uniforms look slightly more totalitarian?

    I meant that "Japanese heavy cruisers = student council" is sort of in line with Azur Lane logic, especially since they're the Myoukou class, and AL's Myoukou looks like

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    On a vaguely relevant note, you can make Yukikaze into her Chinese version in Kancolle, but not in Azur Lane

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