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Church of the [chat]genius

EchoEcho ski-bapba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
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'Do What Keepeth Thou from Wilting, Shall be The Loophole iin the Law'

The Church Of The SubGenius is an order of
Scoffers and Blasphemers, dedicated to Total Slack,
delving into Mockery Science, Sadofuturistics, Mega-
physics, Scatalography, Schizophreniatrics, Morealism,
Sarcastrophy, Cynisacreligion, Apocolyptionomy,
ESPectorationalism, HypnoPediatrics, Subliminalism,
Satyriology, DistoUtopianity, Sardonicology, Fasciest-
iouism, Ridiculophagy, and Miscellaneous Theology.

"Researching The Public's Fear Of The Unknown Since 1953!"

The TriPrimality:

"Bob" is.
"Bob" becomes.
"Bob" is not.
Nothing is; Nothing becomes;
Nothing is not.

Thus: Nothing Is Everything.
Therefore: Everything is "Bob."
Abracadabra.

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There once was a novice monk named Bho Zho who asked the master, "Does a house burn up or burn down?"
The master set fire to the novice's house, after taking all his money.
As the house burned both up and down, the novice was enlightened.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Echo is trying to sell us energy drinks

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    jacob that effort post on page 100 tho

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Yawn

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Echo is trying to sell us energy drinks

    it's mostly just powdered waste testicles in bull urine

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hrm. Job offering a holiday savings club. You pay in each month and then next year they give you back your money with interest! 1% interest.

    They list some examples here. If you deduct 454.56 from your paycheck every month, after it ends you'll have 5000.00 in the bank. According to this, your check with interest would be...5025.00. I'm a little confused as to how that ends up as 1% interest but assuming my math is just bad, that still doesn't seem particularly worth it? Like, are they just doing this so they can make the interest on our money and pay us a tiny amount back? I'm confused as to what the point of this is.

    this sounds like a damn scam

    also

    uh

    if you're earning crappy savings account rates that money better be insured

    which I bet is isn't

    company goes tits up? lol you never get that money back

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    jacob that effort post on page 100 tho

    He's just trying to stop from pooping, so he takes dump in chat instead.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE

  • Captain UltraCaptain Ultra low resolution pictures of birds Registered User regular
    all y'all mods just keep posting after that little lamb says to stop posting.

    smdh

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    How much chump could a trump chump trump if a chump trump could trump chump

    Happiness is within reach!
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    From what I understand, Spotify's organizational paradigm is both entirely different from most companies yet extremely obvious (if you've read Peopleware or the Mythical Man Month).

    I've never worked there but my understanding is that instead of siloing people into traditional departments, they put people with complementary skillsets into teams.

    I mean, if you organized X-Com the way most companies are organized, you'd have a Sniper Department and a Grenades Department and if you needed an enemy sniped you'd have to put in a Sniper Request and wait while they get to you first-come first-serve.

    Spotify's model is more like... No, every team needs a networking person and a UI/UX person and so forth, so why not have them work together on the same team.

    I used to work in an organizational structure similar to that, many years ago, until the company decided that it was too hard to manage and restructured us back to the more traditional corporate orgchart. Unsurprisingly, employee satisfaction tanked.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • QanamilQanamil x Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Echo is trying to sell us energy drinks

    it's mostly just powdered waste testicles in bull urine

    the food coloring will shrink you balls.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hrm. Job offering a holiday savings club. You pay in each month and then next year they give you back your money with interest! 1% interest.

    They list some examples here. If you deduct 454.56 from your paycheck every month, after it ends you'll have 5000.00 in the bank. According to this, your check with interest would be...5025.00. I'm a little confused as to how that ends up as 1% interest but assuming my math is just bad, that still doesn't seem particularly worth it? Like, are they just doing this so they can make the interest on our money and pay us a tiny amount back? I'm confused as to what the point of this is.

    this sounds like a damn scam

    also

    uh

    if you're earning crappy savings account rates that money better be insured

    which I bet is isn't

    company goes tits up? lol you never get that money back

    I mean it's a charter school but uh

    Yes, you're right. If you pull your money out early there's a 25 dollar fee, there's no compounding interest, and if you pull your money out early you don't get any interest either.

    How is 1% for interest rates anyway?

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Echo is trying to sell us energy drinks
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      "Mom...stop that.  When are you going to      
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    I want to talk to you," his dad said as he
    ushered him off to the corner. "You need
    some money?"
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      "No dad. Well on second thought I could
    use a little, 'ncase I run out of gas or        * Humiliating put-downs that
    somthing."                                        will devastate women so
                                                      thoroughly they will think
      "No sweat, how about a $50?...That's            twice before ever molesting
    what I thought. Uh... Johnny, do you have         you again
    your party hat?"
                                                    * Rejections that don't 
      "Dad, nobody wears top hats anymore,            sound corny.
    c'mon..geesh!"
                                                    * Subtle reflex maneuvers for
      "No Johnny, what I mean is, well, uh...         diverting their grasp from
    Are you planning to fuck your date tonight?       your genitalia.
     
      "Oh. Yes Dad I have my Party Hat."            * Where all the "icebergs"
    Johnny couldn't believe it.  His dad, never       hang out
    acted like this before. "Prom must be
    something special," he said to himself as       * 101 uses for a properly
    he left to get his date. "After all, it           slung sidearm.
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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Church of the Subgenius though

    Proto-memes

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hrm. Job offering a holiday savings club. You pay in each month and then next year they give you back your money with interest! 1% interest.

    They list some examples here. If you deduct 454.56 from your paycheck every month, after it ends you'll have 5000.00 in the bank. According to this, your check with interest would be...5025.00. I'm a little confused as to how that ends up as 1% interest but assuming my math is just bad, that still doesn't seem particularly worth it? Like, are they just doing this so they can make the interest on our money and pay us a tiny amount back? I'm confused as to what the point of this is.

    this sounds like a damn scam

    also

    uh

    if you're earning crappy savings account rates that money better be insured

    which I bet is isn't

    company goes tits up? lol you never get that money back

    Shit I'll open a bank account right now and give you 0.75% interest if you drop 500 a paycheck into it.

  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    1% is OK for a savings account
    garbage for any other investment

    also ultimately so little it's really not worth it

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    HNNNNNGH
    Jacobkosh wrote: »
    So the other night I was half-sick and in a nostalgic mood on Youtube and was digging the old Taxi intro, which always used to make young me feel really wistful and kind of sad even though I was 4 and couldn't possibly know what those emotions meant:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23oaLAEUpo

    (also that cast omg)

    and it turns out that that tune wasn't recorded for the show but is named "Angela" and was composed by modern jazz artist Bob James. The "Taxi" producers' original choice for the theme was the same-titled first cut off of his 1978 album Touchdown:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS_k4E1vN_E

    and obviously the producers made the right call going with "Angela" instead, but "Touchdown" is a great tune and I ended up listening to the whole album that night and I guess now I am kind of into modern jazz artist Bob James, I guess? Also it turns out he is one of the most frequently-sampled musicians in history. See if you recognize this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVJx6WEoOms

    @Variable

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    eee the enormous kitten eyes

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Church of the Subgenius though

    Proto-memes

    the idea the 'memes' are a thing invented by the internet is it's own meme

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hrm. Job offering a holiday savings club. You pay in each month and then next year they give you back your money with interest! 1% interest.

    They list some examples here. If you deduct 454.56 from your paycheck every month, after it ends you'll have 5000.00 in the bank. According to this, your check with interest would be...5025.00. I'm a little confused as to how that ends up as 1% interest but assuming my math is just bad, that still doesn't seem particularly worth it? Like, are they just doing this so they can make the interest on our money and pay us a tiny amount back? I'm confused as to what the point of this is.

    this sounds like a damn scam

    also

    uh

    if you're earning crappy savings account rates that money better be insured

    which I bet is isn't

    company goes tits up? lol you never get that money back

    yes but maybe if you can get other people to put their money in, you get a higher percentage
    you'll want to get in at the ground floor

    AAAAA!!! PLAAAYGUUU!!!!
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hrm. Job offering a holiday savings club. You pay in each month and then next year they give you back your money with interest! 1% interest.

    They list some examples here. If you deduct 454.56 from your paycheck every month, after it ends you'll have 5000.00 in the bank. According to this, your check with interest would be...5025.00. I'm a little confused as to how that ends up as 1% interest but assuming my math is just bad, that still doesn't seem particularly worth it? Like, are they just doing this so they can make the interest on our money and pay us a tiny amount back? I'm confused as to what the point of this is.

    this sounds like a damn scam

    also

    uh

    if you're earning crappy savings account rates that money better be insured

    which I bet is isn't

    company goes tits up? lol you never get that money back

    I mean it's a charter school but uh

    Yes, you're right. If you pull your money out early there's a 25 dollar fee, there's no compounding interest, and if you pull your money out early you don't get any interest either.

    How is 1% for interest rates anyway?

    Meh. You can find 1.25% savings accounts with no fee and no minimum deposits.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    I wonder what the record is for "most posts made by mods after a [chat] thread is locked without realizing the [chat] thread is locked".

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    I really dislike the idea of saying "dubya" or "dub" etc for W

    yet, I do fully recognize how self-parodying and stupid it is when we read out an URL and go dobbeltvedobbeltvedobbeltve

    "dobbelt v" is excessive but double u is more than enough shortening

    ftOqU21.png
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Aioua wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Church of the Subgenius though

    Proto-memes

    the idea the 'memes' are a thing invented by the internet is it's own meme

    We are all nothing but sloshing meatbags acting as host for the memeplexes that ride us, tucked away in the back of our brains

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    eee the enormous kitten eyes

    All the better to watch me play Metal Gear Solid with

    Then walk across the bottom of the TV so I can't see my ammo count and/or jump at the screen because there's a dog on screen

    They liked the cardboard box, though

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Geth, the word "Trump" is forbidden.

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative Jacobkosh. "trump" is forbidden in this thread.

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Geth, set phasers to cook.

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative Jacobkosh. Setting force level to 'medium'.

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Sounds like those savings clubs worked out a deal with a bank and got like a 3-5% CD or something, so they pass the fines on to you and you get 1% of the returns, and they get their money by working with volume. So if a few hundred people sign up, that's a decent chunk just in the other 2-4% interest. Definitely not something you want to have employees sit around, you'll want to automate it as much as possible to avoid payroll costs.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    One hour to go and then I go home.

    Ugh today has been long.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    so we're looking at adoption again I guess
    Sure why not

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    it comes out kind of like "dub-a-yee-dub-a-yee-dub-a-yoo"

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    Well, there goes those two effort posts I was going to make about the card game Bridge and popular Hearthstone player Truuuuhhhhhhnevermind.

    vRyue2p.png
  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Well there goes my plan to talk about farting and Isaac Asimov short stories

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    though since this is through work and whatnot, if there is a way for them to pull the money out pretax and give it back to you tax exempt, that would significantly change the math here

    dlinfiniti on
    AAAAA!!! PLAAAYGUUU!!!!
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Irond Will wrote: »
    A lot of it is custom stuff developed in-house but the basic stack is java in a docker on Linux google cloud vm's with Cassandra backing stores. Most everyone develops on a mbp, google email, we're given free license to use whatever tools we need but most ppl use intellij IDE.

    For the last ~7 months I've been doing Go microservices running in Docker and shit's awesome.

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited October 2017
    Aioua wrote: »
    desc wrote: »
    Church of the Subgenius though

    Proto-memes

    the idea the 'memes' are a thing invented by the internet is it's own meme

    On the other hand, blaming the internet for their existence as a concept probably infuriates Richard Dawkins, and thus increases the net amount of good in the world

    Burnage on
  • aiouaaioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I really dislike the idea of saying "dubya" or "dub" etc for W

    yet, I do fully recognize how self-parodying and stupid it is when we read out an URL and go dobbeltvedobbeltvedobbeltve

    "dobbelt v" is excessive but double u is more than enough shortening

    we should either revive the character Ƿ, or at the very least steal its name back

    'wynn' is so much nicer

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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