OPEN BAR: I see you've come to PD. I too like to live dangerously

[Cain]

Also, whoever mentioned not liking the redesign of firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/

It's not perfect, but it does allow for further and better customization.

[Suu]

I love the Student Loans Company.  They're like some sort of totalitarian monster, something Stalin would've dreamed up had he gone into the world of business.

No less than three days after getting a new job, I get a letter "reminding me" that should my earnings fall above the threshold, I will be making repayments.  No numbers, no new information.  Just a creepily fast reminder that the SLC and Treasury talk all the time.

Isn't that an incentive to just never make money over that threshold?

Oh yes.

To be fair, the threshold is about £15000, which is just above what most charities estimate to be the "living minimum wage" in the UK.  But yes.  I know at least one person who earns exactly £14999 per year and never intends to pay his loan back.  He does live in Wales, however.

Come to America, where the student loan corporations will hunt you down until the day you die, harass your loved ones for money, garnish your wages, and make sure to destroy your credit rating so much you will never be able to be employed or own property for the duration of your adult life. Because they want you to default so the federal government will give them money for it. Meanwhile, I just put Sallie Mae into a panic attack when I took my $30,000 worth of undergrad federal loans out from under them and returned them to the federal loan company to manage. I just cheated them out of interest and possible default subsidy. Awww...

No really, they were sending me emails daily, calling me pleading to keep my loans with them offering all new "incentives," and telling me how much of a bad idea it was. I told them to get bent, and that I will be paying off the old private loans I have with them as soon as money allows.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't dislike conspiracy theorists because I'm afraid of the reptilian boogeyman. I dislike them for half-assing their critical thinking. Like, yeah, you question authority. Of course. That's the first step. But it's just the first step. Not listening to what the government tells you doesn't give everyone else that wants you to believe something carte blanche to root around inside your cranium and plant woo-selling mystical bullshit marketing memes. My problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they're too paranoid, it's that they're not paranoid enough. They're too gullible. Too addicted to exclusive knowledge and fitting into their little fan clubs to genuinely give a shit one way or another about the truth. I piss on your Alex Jones, and your David Icke, and both of their piddly little "secrets". Think for yourself, schmuck.

So goddamn true, and so well put! I find a particular troubling irony in those who are rightfully skeptical of the intentions of our profit-driven corporate system, yet completely abandon skepticism when it comes to the multi-billion-dollar alternative health market.

[President Television]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't dislike conspiracy theorists because I'm afraid of the reptilian boogeyman. I dislike them for half-assing their critical thinking. Like, yeah, you question authority. Of course. That's the first step. But it's just the first step. Not listening to what the government tells you doesn't give everyone else that wants you to believe something carte blanche to root around inside your cranium and plant woo-selling mystical bullshit marketing memes. My problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they're too paranoid, it's that they're not paranoid enough. They're too gullible. Too addicted to exclusive knowledge and fitting into their little fan clubs to genuinely give a shit one way or another about the truth. I piss on your Alex Jones, and your David Icke, and both of their piddly little "secrets". Think for yourself, schmuck.

So goddamn true, and so well put! I find a particular troubling irony in those who are rightfully skeptical of the intentions of our profit-driven corporate system, yet completely abandon skepticism when it comes to the multi-billion-dollar alternative health market.

Which is itself a part of the profit-driven corporate system. It amazes me how much branding alone can do to make something palatable to the new-age crowd. It kinda all clicked into place for me a while back when someone (it might have been you) was talking about anti-vaxxers and the fact that it seems they're perfectly aware of the health risks and simply choose not to vaccinate as a result of social pressure.

[Sita]

Also, whoever mentioned not liking the redesign of firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/

It's not perfect, but it does allow for further and better customization.

Thanks for that. Though they say it's untested for those that like to use themes or personas, so probably won't end up using it.

It's starting to grow on me, anyways. Think my reaction was just because it was such a drastic change (and it updated right before I went to bed, so being tired probably had something to do with it to)

[Suu]

It should not be so much money to upgrade your phone plan for a few goddamn days in Canada when they use the same equipment we do just on the other side of a damn border. I'm going to Montreal, not Montserrat.  I swear, if it wasn't even MORE expensive to NOT have coverage and roam, I wouldn't care at all, but since it's our SCA Crown Tourney, and I expect to get barraged with text messages clamoring for updates and constant pings on Facespace, I have to change my plan. I mean seriously, $30 for 120MB of data, or $15 per MB while roaming. WHAT?! Rogers and AT&T practically sleep together. I swear this used to be cheaper.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't dislike conspiracy theorists because I'm afraid of the reptilian boogeyman. I dislike them for half-assing their critical thinking. Like, yeah, you question authority. Of course. That's the first step. But it's just the first step. Not listening to what the government tells you doesn't give everyone else that wants you to believe something carte blanche to root around inside your cranium and plant woo-selling mystical bullshit marketing memes. My problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they're too paranoid, it's that they're not paranoid enough. They're too gullible. Too addicted to exclusive knowledge and fitting into their little fan clubs to genuinely give a shit one way or another about the truth. I piss on your Alex Jones, and your David Icke, and both of their piddly little "secrets". Think for yourself, schmuck.

So goddamn true, and so well put! I find a particular troubling irony in those who are rightfully skeptical of the intentions of our profit-driven corporate system, yet completely abandon skepticism when it comes to the multi-billion-dollar alternative health market.

Which is itself a part of the profit-driven corporate system. It amazes me how much branding alone can do to make something palatable to the new-age crowd. It kinda all clicked into place for me a while back when someone (it might have been you) was talking about anti-vaxxers and the fact that it seems they're perfectly aware of the health risks and simply choose not to vaccinate as a result of social pressure.

Exactly. These people somehow manage to simultaneously reject the advice of their own doctors because "they're in the pocket of Big Pharma" but embrace the advice of people like Mercola and Weil because they're "independent".

It apparently doesn't occur to them that Mercola and Weil are multimillionaires because of the books and supplements they sell as a result of their campaigns to scare people away from conventional medicine. Compare their incomes to the average take-home of a family doctor in the US, and, well, ask which one is profit-motivated.

[Ben Shapiro]

Fuck this guy! Fuck him and Nostalgia! CAIN give me address so I can wire you money to set him on fire.

http://blog.petflow.com/this-is-a-video-everyone-needs-to-see-for-the-first-time-in-my-life-im-speechless/

[Suu]

I feel like I'm being deliberately set up for negative feedback on an order on Etsy because this woman got pissy when I moderated her on another group I'm a part of. Or, I'm about to get a piece of "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" for some reason.

Bitch, please. If you want to post links to a fucking fabric site over and over again in order to try to make money from referrals, fine, but do it somewhere else. And don't fucking tell me I'm doing anything wrong. This is how I make the dress you want, this is how I finish my seams, this is what it costs after you take away all of my beautiful hand embellishment than I'm known for and give you a boring piece of linen. For 85 fucking dollars you're lucky I'm even considering taking the order when my normal price with all the embroidery right now is on sale for $350.

[minuspace]

Worst day in a long time. 

[Suu]

If you want flat-felled seams, you have to fucking PAY FOR ME TO DO IT. YOU GODSBEDAMNED ASSHAT OF A C-U-NEXT TUESDAY SHIT FOR BRAINS.

MOTHER OF GOD. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL JULY.

[Salty]

Comforting thought of the decade:

Marriages come and go, but divorce lasts and lasts.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fuck this guy! Fuck him and Nostalgia! CAIN give me address so I can wire you money to set him on fire.

http://blog.petflow.com/this-is-a-video-everyone-needs-to-see-for-the-first-time-in-my-life-im-speechless/

You know, this is definitely something I'm not going to click on unless I know exactly what it is, because if it's traumatizing outrage porn I don't, in fact, need to see it.

[Suu]

Comforting thought of the decade:

Marriages come and go, but divorce lasts and lasts.

Yes. But they also become a thing of the past.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Fuck this guy! Fuck him and Nostalgia! CAIN give me address so I can wire you money to set him on fire.

http://blog.petflow.com/this-is-a-video-everyone-needs-to-see-for-the-first-time-in-my-life-im-speechless/

You know, this is definitely something I'm not going to click on unless I know exactly what it is, because if it's traumatizing outrage porn I don't, in fact, need to see it.

It's more KIDS THESE DAYS WITH THEIR SCREENPHONES AND TWITTERGRAMS bitching.