FuglyDuck

FuglyDuck , 2 days ago

Oh… that’s definitely a dragon.

Better drop your grilled fish and all your gold.

FuglyDuck , 2 days ago

Can we just hand these two dueling sabers already?

FuglyDuck , 2 days ago

Cursed Seuss

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

I thought OP liquified their toebeans for second…

(Pretty sure that’s pastey-snack stuff)(or it’s brain barf)

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

What’s hilarious is some of the crisis- at least in the commercial real estate space- was created by the banks.

when you take out a loan for commercial real estate- like office buildings and such like- it’s somewhat abnormal for the building to be monolithic in tenancy- most spaces are a leased out like apartments. The glaring exceptions to this are mega-corporate HQ’s like Amazon’s or Google’s or Apple’s.

The value of the property is then usually described by minimum lease per square foot. The owners/property management are then locked into keeping rates above that minimum by the lender as terms on the loans. When there was a comercial real estate boom in the late teens to early 2020’s… the value of commercial real estate skyrocketed… and so did this minimum.

when covid hit, the values plummeted and continue to fall. Demand has changed and fallen with remote work… and the rates are too high because all the corporate places dumped their offices and now the people wanting offices are more the start ups or professional types that don’t need massive amounts of space, and don’t want to or can’t spend 30-50/sqrft/month.

the landlords are going to go tits up because everybody always assumed property value would go up.

*Part of the change in how we use office spaces is now being more “social”- with office buildings adding in features you might expect to see in apartments; things like gyms, seating/booths/meeting spaces in lobbies, tenant lounges; rooftop patios, which also chews into the amount of revenue because that all takes up space.

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

Because I didn’t read the article.

NYT’s has paywalls for days… I deal with a lot of property managers and this is more or less what they’re talking about. the banks could ease the problem by waiving the terms, but they’re electing not to.

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

the CRO isn’t there to stop risk, in the same way that HR/ethics-and-compliance people aren’t there to protect people.

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

Sucks to be a CRO, heh.

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

Or selling off illegally settled real estate out of a synagogue…

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

Hooched awn Foniqs Werked phone mini!

In any case I’d be shocked if handwriting wasn’t used for something other than note taking.

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

… how do you debug?!?

How do you copy and past everything from the broad shoulders of those who’ve come before?

FuglyDuck , 3 days ago

I could think of a few elections where I’d vote for that shit stain.

“Which Texas senator do you want to accidentally air dropped outside of Darfur?” Comes to mind.

The good news is there’s a lot of places American politicians probably don’t want to be air dropped, so plenty of elections…

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I’m not sure if he’s trying to help biden… you know… by making it sound like Biden actually did the right fucking thing here and cut off the genocidal maniac… or trying to fuck biden; because we all know that Biden will ship harder for Netty-Boo

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

“have you tried modeling this with something more flexible?”

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

Is it sort of like the friend zone?

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

Chances are he was more like a cult leader it wasn’t until a decade or two after his death that things really got into full swing, so chances are the actual Jesus would be quite surprised by everything “he” did.

But there were a lot of Jewish mystics cropping up at the time so it’s not impossible or even implausible for some one vaguely matching the description to have existed.

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I’m a DM and I’ll allow it. This time.

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I kinda woulda assumed that with all the infrastructure there they’d be able to get people water, at least.

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

Shit.

Now I’m gonna have to change the joke about where they go to work when they can’t make it in politics…

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

And when you fail at politics….

(Used to make jokes about OF….)

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

Gravy… and catnip sauce??!

You like hitting the sauce, huh? :)

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I’m guessing “enthusiast” really doesn’t mean “goes hiking all the time”, but rather “likes the idea of going hiking all the time”,

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

C’mon, just enhancing the rust-punk feel,

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I was trying to figure out wtf people were doing in Spore (the video game.)

FuglyDuck , 5 days ago

Maybe it’s Maybelline, but maybe it’s make believe.

Doesn’t seem too ugly though. Just needs a shampoo and a trim.

FuglyDuck , 4 days ago

I’m sure there’s a gain fan of Halloween who looks at Sam and falls in love. Some sugar free ketchup or strawberry syrup… and he’ll fill any role perfectly. Victim or monster, creeper-from-behind…friendly door man.

I also seem to remember his people saying that he’s very sweet and affectionate.

FuglyDuck , 5 days ago

Surprised that they having to go to court. Like “we pay your repair bills, some for the lawyer. Everyone wins.”

FuglyDuck , 5 days ago

For the record, if you go to carpet stores you can frequently get discounts by getting discards, or like, broken packs of the tiles.

The trouble is, the scraps aren’t always what you’re looking for.

FuglyDuck , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I have a timeshare cat (I watch him when his family goes out of town,) whose ordinary as standoffish as they come.

Unless you happen to be one of like 3 people. It’s fun watching him figure out which one to harass with his aggressive affection,

FuglyDuck , 5 days ago

Do I need to click? (Nope), Congrats OP!

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

I feel like Archie needs an orange ascott. Just saying.

A very dapper fellow.

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

insults aren’t illegal, and spam mail isn’t generally illegal either. as far as I know, there’s no law against sending an occasional email even if it is spam. the general exceptions are for commercial/businesses types and that’s generally only really illegal when it breaks the email carriers.

besides which, the OP is talking about opening a ticket on Reddit’s customer service system, not actually sending an email. Spez won’t even see it.

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

Hmm.

Now I’m hungry.

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

Something diabolic, then refused to die?

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

So… the back story here was that the article was done to highlight fake news or something. I forget which, but it wasn’t… you know… somebody’s lunch stuck on Webb’s sensors. (That… that would be awkward…)

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

do… I want to know how the Jade Emperor is constructing that wetland? (well, I assume the guy at the top is the jade emperor, given sun wukong.)

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

They banned it from us government devices in 2017, it’s been slow in coming.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Claims he encourages concerned employees to speak up.

So they can know who you are and retaliate.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Question… do you realize how fascist this sounds?

You might mean well, but all you’re doing is changing who’s being discriminated against.

Not cool.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

I remember going to the zoo, they had some endangered wild horses from Asia, iirc, as breeding program.

The zookeeper was explaining to some parents that they males were rocking back and forth to masturbate. Also, that they had given them things to make them horny as fuck.

Nobody asked about the giant piles of jizz everywhere.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

No. You’re just saying we need to label religious professionals.

Because that’s a thing literal Nazis never did

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Most people are born into their religion, as a matter of culture. Frequently, religion is integral to their culture, and even if they do choose to leave that religion, it likely will leave an indelible mark- good or bad-

Their purpose is to other-ize religious scientists, exactly like what the yellow star was used to do to Jews by Nazis, (and at other times and places.) I think we all know what Nazis did to those they otherized.

The rhetoric is absolutely the same kind of justification for forcing it is also the same. When non-Jewish Germans started sympathies with Jews, do you think they admitted it was to encourage discrimination and bigotry, or do you think they said things like “we know it’s difficult, but they do shoddy work and you should know that you need to keep an eye on them.”

Couching it in the rhetoric of atheist enlightenment doesn’t make it okay. It’s still bigotry, and while the OC might not realize that, meaning to or not, it’s still advancing bigotry.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

And, do you think, that a scientist who happens to be LGBTQ, doing a study on monkey sexuality, is able to be not biased by their worldview?

That because they seem to agree with you they’re immune from bias and are therefore totally trustworthy?

How pedantic do you want to get?

Either the science is good or it’s not. Either the study was conducted to minimize bias, the data is clean, and the conclusions come from verified evidence, or it’s not. We don’t need to know what particular flavor of human someone is- everyone is biased. Most studies are funded by private interest, and opening people up to rampant discrimination isn’t going to change that.

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

Yeah. So. To clarify, you’re okay with discriminating against people, so long as they’re the right people?

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

I mean… If I was gonna.,… I’d use triton, too.

We can hope they fall behind maintenance schedules, though. (Also, the last one was their own fever dream… made of CF. Just saying.)

FuglyDuck , 6 days ago

For anyone curious Here is Triton’s website

And photos of few. The first is meant to go straight to the bottom.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/126b13f3-c087-4fad-8cea-402ff0cfc123.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/df489a7c-ac9a-4d26-9609-37ab8390bce9.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3b9ff75e-4e6a-4a07-9d30-74a3a09d7620.jpeg

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

And we’re back to… one or two people… Maybe a few suppliers for the virus/drugs/whatever. But that can be obtained in places that don’t ask too many questions, and Boeing has the resources to do that. They don’t even need to be black market.