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@Poj took this before leaving for chad in the uk !friendsofpizzashill !incels !truecels
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Niru is a very famous MapleStory streamer who became the first person to ever reach 299 lvl. Ever since then a huge amount of people in the community have been watching his streams and waiting for him to get to lvl 300, even the devs were watching him. In his final stream, he managed to get 299 99.99% and immediately logged off the game and started shit-talking the devs right in front of 20k viewers on Twitch
What's even funnier is the fact that the official Maplestory account on Twitter had already made a tweet congratulating him
https://twitter.com/MapleStory/status/1783562860108316936
The devs even promoted the stream through in-game banner but when he started ranting the banner instantly disappeared
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To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what's to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot's ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.
โBalaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I've ever met,โ wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji's 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji's ideas in two previous stories about Network Stateโrelated efforts in Californiaโa proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco's government.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined โSilicon Valley Roused by Secession Callโ described a speech in which he โtold a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become โthe Microsoft of nations': outdated and obsolescent.โ
โThe speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,โ reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.
Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tanโthe current Y Combinator CEO who's attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Franciscoโparticipated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting โdie slow motherloversโ at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in โmoderateโ politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.
โWhat I'm really calling for is something like tech Zionism,โ he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (โspiritual fatherโ of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. โAnd if you see another Gray on the street โฆ you do the nod,โ he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. โYou're a fellow Gray.โ
The Grays' shirts would feature โBitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos โฆ Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.โ Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly โpoliceman's banquetsโ to win them over.
โGrays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,โ said Srinivasan. โWhat does that mean? That's, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman's son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.โ
In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: โDid you want to take the sign off of Elon's building?โ
This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the โTwitterโ signage from the building's exterior. But in Balaji's dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).
Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and โmerge the Gray and police social networks.โ Then, in a show of force, they'll march through the city together.
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Ted, 62, Austin TX
Career/Personal
Retail Manager
$21 an hour, at least 40 hours a week
time and a half overtime
Around $3000 a month
No benefits, he's on his wife's
Wife makes around $3500 a month
"retail management is not my endgame"
Spent 14 years working for Texas "Commission on State Emergency Communications"
- Got a Master's degree because of this?
Went to Art school at some point
Went through a bankruptcy 6 years ago
- All of this debt has accrued since bankrupcy
Wife has probably the same number of credit cards timestamp
He has $17'000 saved for retirement
Financials
"Why is there so little invested?" timestamp
- Boomer ramblings and deflection
Self-scored - 5/10 timestamp
150k or so left on his mortgage
Credit Card 1 (CreditOne) ($811) timestamp
$20 in new purchases, $20 in interest
Paid $75 on this
Minimum payment 30
Why Spend on his card?
- "Our expenses are higher than our income"
Credit Card 2 (Apple) (2115) timestamp
Minimum payment 67
$41 in interest accrued
Puts his life insurance payments on his card?
Credit Card 3 (Discover) ($4196) timestamp
$69.50 in new purchases
Made a $100 payment, also made $100 purchase?
Minimum payment $84
$57 in interest
Lots of mobile games micro-transactions on this card (company called "Zynga")
- "I was able to quit smoking, and drinking, but I can't quit this"
Credit Card 4 (eBay) ($1'487) timestamp
Made a $75 payment
Minimum payment of $30
Credit Card 5 (Lowes) ($535) timestamp
Made $50 in payments
$12 in interest accrued
$30 minimum
Credit Card 6 (JC Penny) ($1'591) timestamp
Made 75 in payments
$40 in interest charged
$57 minimum payment
Credit Card 7 (Venmo) ($753) timestamp
$30 minimum payment
$102 in new purchases, made $30 in payments
$15 in interest
Eating out and microtransactions on this card
Credit Card 8 (Walgreens) ($441) timestamp
"I think that's the one that started it all, they had this display when you walk into the store"
$29 minimum payment
$12 in interest
Credit Card 9 (Verizon) ($1'290) timestamp
He wanted to take advantage of the discount on the phone bill using the card to pay for it
$48 Minimum payment
$34 interest accrued
Made a $100 payment
Credit Card 10 (Upgrade) ($1'272) timestamp
- $72 minimum monthly payment
Credit Card 11 (Upgrade) ($9'260) timestamp
Thinks he has two Upgrades because traveling?
$126 interest accrued
$474 minimum monthly payment
"Uhhh I I uh I run a non-profit"
"Some of these now that I think about it might have been expenses"
"Performing Arts Venue" - He's the president (doesn't get paid)
Credit Card 12 (Sitco) ($378) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$10 in interest
Credit Card 13 (Chevron) ($128) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$71 in purchases
50 in payments
$2 in interest accrued
More mobile payments on this one
Playing "Empires and Puzzles" and a couple others
Credit Card 14 (Ally) ($228) timestamp
- $28 balance
Credit Card 15 (Amazon) ($580) timestamp
$29 minimum payment
$14 interest
$50 payment made
Credit Card 16 (At Home) ($45) timestamp
- "Why wouldn't you just pay off $45?!"
Credit Card 17 (Alta) ($0) timestamp
Synchrony ($656) timestamp
$30 minimum payment
Made a $50 payment
Made $12 in purchases
- It was Starbucks
$14 in interest accrued
Credit Card 18 (didn't catch name) ($28) timestamp
28 minimum payment
70 cents in interest
Credit Card 19 (NFL) ($1'474) timestamp
$39 in interest charged
Made $43 in purchases
$54 minimum payment
More in-app purchases
Credit Card 20 (MGM) ($242) timestamp
"We went to Vegas"
$5 interest accrued
Student Loans ($229'000) timestamp
he's in forbearance, doesn't know why, Caleb can't figure out why
7.6% interest, 17'000 a year in interest if they ever start back up
"Yeah, I'll never pay that off"
- "You're right"
"That servicing company is under investigation or something, it's in the news"
"Well it doesn't matter much I'll be dead before that's paid off... so I don't even consider that a debt"
Mortgage ($122'205)
3.8%
$1'268 monthly payment
Synchrony Bank is where most of his cards are from timestamp
Car
Doesn't have one, wife has a car, not paid for, newish because of a car accident that wrecked their old one
Used to have two
Both worked at home but he got laid off then when to retail
Checking Account timestamp
3'240 + 8'111 - 10'094 -> 1'259
Lots of eating out
A $100 Verizon payment here, not using the Verizon card since it's maxed out ]
More microtransactions
"That's how I pay my daughter, we give her money to help her live" timestamp
She's finishing up her undergrad
Boomer gets testy when question about this
Wife debts itemized timestamp
- Not even going to try writing these out, 28 different ones
$906 in interest is accruing a month (not counting Student Loans)
Should he consider bankruptcy? timestamp
- Total $379'000 ($122k of that is the mortgage), includes the student loans
Income/Spending Pie Chart timestamp
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"Calvin and Hobbes is Le most wholesome conic strip ever made!"
I'm not even being ironic or trying to troll. This shit was so unbelievably bland.
Can't believe people actually shill this shit lmao I read a few years worth of strips today and it was the most basic slop I've ever seen.
DAE society and technology bad? - a 6 year old sperg with no friends
Did you know Fattershit never licensed any mercy or tv show??? Based anti-capitalist!!
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ah yess freedom is measured by laws on your sexuality๐คกhaving laws on your sexuality&having to show it off is whats actually oppressive๐.No one care about your sexuality. Just keep it private cause its intimate. u can be gay just dont start being a sponsor n a woke preacher.
— Hamza (@Hamzah96AJ) April 26, 2024
This may have been too far lol
Screenshots of the entire thread in case I get ban hammered
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Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair. pic.twitter.com/oGgCzdrmDf
— The author, Sรฉamas O'Reilly (@shockproofbeats) April 26, 2024
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About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent, handing Biden the presidency. We know this because the people who committed the fraud have admitted it in a new poll. pic.twitter.com/fxHL9hT4sw
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 26, 2024
someone ping nonchuds