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Tyrphanax

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#1074900
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Explain Your Username / Avatar / Title / Signature
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Tyrphanax I invented many years ago because I had been using names I didn’t come up with up until then and it was a pain trying to find one that wasn’t already taken. Plus I wanted a unique identity for the Internets. The “Phanax” part I derived from old Gothic language and then I added “Tyr” because Phanax needed something else and Tyrannosaurs are cool.

My avatar is Iron Man’s Model 1 Mark III armor, an upgrade from my previous avatar which was the basic Model 1.

There are no titles!

I forget what my signature says, brb…
Oh okay, my signature is a MST3K reference which I felt was fitting for the wild west days of Star Wars preservation. The second part is a TRON quote that ends my messages.

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#1074892
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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dahmage said:

thanks.

also, i would like to bitch about the work i have to do tonight. i am always a procrastinator, so its no surprise that i find myself in this situation. but i have a crap ton of development and testing to get done before a customer call/demo tomorrow afternoon.

and this site isn’t helping things… :p

Why do work when you can not do work?

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#1074888
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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dahmage said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m super excited for everyone to learn about Watergate 2.0 for all the coming decades. Every day we inch closer to treason charges for the executive branch.

I could see a revolution before I can see your scenario.

i dunno, do countries with such low voter turn out really have the energy to pull off a revolution? Seriously.

Fantastic point. Half the country is pretty much unplugged (though I’m curious to see turnout numbers in 2018), so it’s just two minorities yelling at each other really.

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#1054688
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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CatBus said:

Well, we do have a nod-and-wink economy, and that’s a genuine problem. Huge sectors of our economy rely heavily on undocumented labor precisely because they’re undocumented. Undocumented means various legal protections afforded to documented immigrants are more flexible–wages, leave, insurance, workplace safety. Do they report abuses? Pfft, no. Immigrants come here undocumented because there’s a demand for exactly that. If they had legal status, the under-the-table economy wouldn’t want them nearly as much.

Like the drug war, the problem needs to be addressed at the demand side. It’s not a choice between undocumented on one side and documented labor on the other. It’s a choice between livable wages and decent workplaces on one side and cheap food and labor on the other. We’ve chosen the latter, via a two-tier economy, one for us, one for them.

Ding ding ding.