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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
good god
with the rapidly checked population number I found (340.1m), thatās 26.9%
perfectly normal, Iām sure nothing can go wrong here. and this wonāt be tied in with just the recent SNAP shit, either
whatās the german word for āthe feeling you get when you know the bolts on the rollercoaster are shaking loose incrementally and you can see the Unscheduled Rapid Disassembly Event coming upā?
Only good things can come of this.
right? for like 18~24mo now, the autoplag āboomā and the fucked up neo-credit-arrangements in real estate (again) have been my primary guesses for how this shit is all going to up in vapour
and then suddenly a surprise third entrant!
The word you are looking for is āTjaā.
I was mostly riffing on the Internet Meme of āwhatās the german word forā¦ā but you are not wrong
Itās so weird to see Klarna on that list, because I keep forgetting Klarna is now a huge juggernaut, not the little service that every etailer here in Sweden uses for checkout services
letās hope that the outcomes of this helps them become a weeeee teensy lāil curious financial service again š¶
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no bolts!
but otherwise? I mean, pretty close.
(yes I did upvote this post)
wasnāt sure if it was āschraubenā or ābolzenā that were used in roller coasters š
Iād be lying if I told you I knew! my most interesting interaction with technisch-mechanisch deutsche has been through the lens of shorthand column names in an oracle db (where truncated col name length limit caused applied). no, not kidding. that was an interesting project more ways than one!
(very Choose Your Own Adventure db schema too, and I suspect Iām still among the only in country who have strong knowledge about it today)
itās worse than that, you should probably take number of adults (as in, 18+) as base here, and itās 78% of them (267M), according to first random source iāve found, so itās closer to 34%
from what i understand, american anomaly is that they take debt like that even when not strictly necessary in order to pump up their credit scores which might be useful later, but even then, 9% of population relies on going to loan shark the app in order to get food, absolutely nothing to look at here, move along,
And most stats are flying under the radar because the Trump administration has made it impossible to get reliable data on things. But at least we live in a rational market system that optimally allocates resources, so Iām sure the decision-makers will handle this situation wisely andā
āIāve made a self-licking lollipop so the fun times will never end and I see no way this could ever go wrong.ā
yep, entirely correct. and the numbers will also only reflect for those that are loantakers/account holders (which implies an even smaller number), because only one person needs to take out the bnpl to groceries it up for family support
I just didnāt have the time to dig into the numbers properly this morning when I posted
itās all bad. just every single fucking part.
My clientsā billing systems now send me invoice factoring spam every month, which is basically the same trade as a payday loan or bnpl. I worry how many other freelancers are clicking that button and how this has become so normalized, itās bad enough out there already, without paying 2.5% per month.
jesus, that seems insidious
and unfortunately I speak enough ghoul that I suspect I know how thatās being sold, too! a way for companies to āmanage outflowā? and perhaps a dash of ācultivating a reputable $x baseā in there too?
nvm that these intermediation fuckers are going the standard Bridgetroll[0] route too, which is also a problem
[0] - rentseeker
Is that somewhat new in the US? I recall seeing ads for it here in Sweden for 15 years or more.
For me, I started noticing Taulia spam via a clients SAP last Jan, and Bill.com started doing similar a few months after. I think the new part is that these are now integrated into the platforms, like how Klarna bnpl is directly integrated into the ecom storefronts.