time travel wld do it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
kid shdve claimed to be a time traveler that really wldve been something to love about ny
best bagels. best space-time fabric manipulators. best pastrami sandwiches. what's not to love? i <3 NY.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
It's a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on virtually anything starting with the kind of seed money a regular kid from queens would probably have to play with. Like that sounds like it would have to be by far the most successful trading in history.
― man alive, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:11 PM (2 hours ago)
notttt really. i mean obv the reporters should have done a better job but as a reader it's not outside the realm of possibility. kid goes to stuyvesant, has super-rich parents, been playing with stocks since he was 9, it's believable
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
I thought they reported that the parents weren't super-rich, though.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
This reminded me of an old joke about robbing banks because that’s where the money is. Damir grinned. “My father has a quote,” he said. “It’s really dope: ‘You can rob a bank with a gun, but you can rob the whole world with a bank.’ ”
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
oh maybe they did
not that it's not far fetched, it's just the kind of thing where you're like "ok, if this were to happen it would be some asshole stuy kid with really rich parents". my girlfriend went to stuy and she rolled her eyes when she heard about this and was like "of course"
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
http://underdesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bankrobworld.jpg?w=700&h=345
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NF0XA7Tewdc/Ue0iW0jvbYI/AAAAAAAAIbM/GWtcMkKmeQE/s640/86.jpg
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtklYHiCYAAxHX6.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/20759987/disp/deaf16c3d2acd923ecd1937d4ba80eec.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.13971911.7556/fig,forest,mens,ffffff.u1.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
http://thewoodchips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Give-A-Man-A-Gun-r12-450.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/give-a-man-a-gun-and-he-can-rob-a-bank-give-a-man-a-bank-and-he-can-rob-the-world-white-house-this-way-homeless-people.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
~some lying ass kids dad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
note to self don't give a man a bank
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
helen hunt was doing so well
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
now she prbly makes about $66k as a credit officer I hope she has good bennies
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
give a gun a bank who knows how much robbing it'll do
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
and paul reiser is the loan officer of that bank
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
my dad said, "i gave a bank to rob. he meant the world to me"
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
you don't understand, bank is the name of my dog
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
a bankrupt bank robber robs a bank with a gun; a gunner banks rob and runs
-- robin banks
― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.robinbanks.co.za/
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
His provocative suggestion is that the authorities would find a self-consciously simulated (i.e. not real) bank robbery more dangerous than the "real" thing. The latter merely transgresses the law of property, which in turn reaffirms the ediface of the criminal justice system. The simulated robbery, however, makes visible the law of simulation; it exposes the absence of a basic reality and the constructed nature of the hyperreal.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 08:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Cwm9nWj.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad I've been to Cuba multiple times before the Starbucks and whatnot. I wish there was a middle ground between people having basic freedoms and not being rampaged by lots of Wal Marts.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A bit simply put, perhaps, but on point
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
just spitballin here but maybe cuba could be turned into a museum for americans disgusted at their economic system to tour multiple times
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
btw idk how starbucks became the symbol for the excesses of american capitalism but its inadequate to the point that it makes you think maybe people are just complaining about their consumer options
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I've seen one Walmart in my life. Until you get to about $15k GDP per capita most multi-nationals dgaf.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
walmart is fwiw a much better symbol of the problems w 21st century capitalism, anyway i heard a similar sentiment as van horns expressed multiple times on twitter today and it comes off mostly as a complaint about a big store ruining the view
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
is starbucks a bad corporation? i've never heard a lot shitty about them
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
would they sell Cuban rum at this Walmart in Pinar del Rio?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Starbucks brownies are good
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
they pay shit (but who doesn't). can't remember if they offer any kind of insurance or benefits. ime the worst aspect of working there was dealing w/ the preening fussiness of the customers.
― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
iirc they are known for offering pretty good insurance/benefits
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
the left-wing critique is usually on fair trade stuff / killing small businesses
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
They paid a total of $15m in tax over the course of 14 years in the UK, despite sales of about $750m a year.
Also known for predatory / anti-competitive tactics that haven't really worked very well.
Frappes are good, though.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
http://neilyoung.com/?frontpage=true
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
people fretting about this stuff at this moment need to take a seat imo
that said i've heard there's almost no coastline in jamaica that doesn't have a resort on it
― goole, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
No Starbucks though. Have to give them that.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
actual facebook post in my news feed today from a HS acquintance:
"Cozumel is the only place I can get Starbucks in the Caribbean. Hence, my favorite port. #itsthelittlethings"
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
I think Starbucks could also stand for wealth inequality and/or a kind of tourists/natives divide, IDK, do they have Starbucks in like tourist areas of DR?
But yeah concerns about capitalism and consumerism entering Cuba address more than just the sense that we'll lose photogenic old cars and rustic weather-beaten houses and buena vista social club or whatever
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
kinda depends on what you mean "on it" re jamaica and resorts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
*should address
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
ha marcos answered my question I guess
Cafe con leche, cortadito (especialmente con espumita) are the best ever -- Cuba don't need no Starbucks
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't really have a good sense of how much, say, Riviera Maya development really benefits *The Local Economy* as opposed to putting money in international investors' pockets while providing shit jobs to people who lost their fishing docks or whatever.
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
There's an unbelievably huge tourist / resident divide and dozens of large resorts in Cuba already. The tourists just aren't American.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
most ppl prob rather work at a resort than fish tho obvs thats not nearly the whole picture, the characterization of them at "shit jobs" is certainly debatable too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link