# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/341 "2019-09-16T16:58:00Z")
This was starting to get fun, but now GIGO is making it boring again. Quick, someone else jump in and say something interesting! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/342 "2019-09-16T17:07:56Z")
Well, at least you have enough of a speck of self awareness to realize you, yourself, have nothing interesting to say. Baby steps… ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/343 "2019-09-16T17:13:30Z")
Ha. Ha. :rolleyes: You can do better than that, Dibble. I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/344 "2019-09-16T17:46:04Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Well, which is it? Shitty? Or insurance? 😃 > > (Looks like I’m not the only one who posts using voice to text. Proofreading is key!) I’m pretty sure that was supposed to be “shitty or no insurance”. To me that seems like an obvious thing that any imbecile could suss out. But maybe you’re not an imbecile and I have supernatural powers. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/345 "2019-09-16T17:48:29Z")
I read it as the homophonic “shittier insurance”, because when I compose via voice to text, my phone loves to substitute homophones. But you could be right. ETA: However, “or no” would contradict the post of mine she is referring to in substantive terms, while my interpretation would not. So I guess you’re saying that “any imbecile” can see she is obviously a liar? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/346 "2019-09-16T17:51:58Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I read it as the homophonic “shittier insurance”, because when I compose via voice to text, my phone loves to substitute homophones. But you could be right. Your inference is not completely unwarranted; voice to text could certainly have that effect, except most voice to text programs don’t translate voice into profanity for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/347 "2019-09-16T17:56:58Z")
Mine does, because it knows how pottymouthed I am. 😃 The other day I chatted to a poker buddy that I had a “bigger full house” and my iPhone transcribed that as “bigger fuck for hours”, with the alternate suggestion being “bigger fart fart house”. LMAO ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/348 "2019-09-16T18:15:39Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > … > I promise you I am less ignorant about TARP and the actions taken in the fall of 2008 than the vast majority of people, who clearly don’t even understand that these were _loans_ which were repaid with interest. On this topic, I am right and you are wrong. If you are adamant that the opposite is the case, then we can smile and go separate ways. If OTOH you are open to fighting your ignorance, then re-read my comments in the other thread and/or start a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/349 "2019-09-16T18:24:54Z")
If you want to start a new thread and link me, I would be happy to engage you on the topic. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/350 "2019-09-16T18:51:33Z")
No. I busted you in the other thread with > [@Elizabeth Warren 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elizabeth-warren-2020/838800/245): > > The U.S.G. overpaid for paper to keep banks solvent. The banks spent some of the money intended to ensure their solvency on bonuses for the very gamblers and fraudsters who helped cause the crisis in the first place. > > If the free market determines that a piece of paper is worth $43, and we buy it for $43, that’s not a “bail-out” — it’s an investment. If we pay $100 for the piece of paper worth $43, _that_ is a “bail-out.” Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/351 "2019-09-16T19:58:05Z")
I mean, if you’re arguing that TARP did not allow the “invisible hand” of the “free market” to do its thing and impeded, then OK. But that is a radically conservative/libertarian critique. We had to do something. It was radical free-market ideology like Alan Greenspan‘s that got us into this pickle to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/352 "2019-09-17T06:29:24Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I mean, if you’re arguing that TARP did not allow the “invisible hand” of the “free market” to do its thing and impeded, then OK. But that is a radically conservative/libertarian critique. We had to do something. It was radical free-market ideology like Alan Greenspan‘s that got us into this pickle to begin with. 😕 Why would I care whether the correct solution could have been lumped into some ideological bucket? 😕 In fact, I’m often an advocate of free-market solutions, but I don’t think “radical conservatives” — whoever they are — would approve of the solutions I’d have adopted had I been in charge. Mortgages would have been temporarily turned into interest-only or rental contracts. The banks would have been made solvent through recapitalization. The capitalist message that bad business practices give bad results would have been affirmed. I’d explain this all to you if I thought you were ready to learn. Start by acknowledging my comment about the difference between paying $43 for a $43 piece of paper and paying $100 for that same paper. _When_ you admit to prior ignorance _then_ you’re ready to learn. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/353 "2019-09-17T13:48:41Z")
Do you also think we should go back on the gold standard? Are you a fan of the “Austrian school”? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/354 "2019-09-17T14:47:46Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Do you also think we should go back on the gold standard? Are you a fan of the “Austrian school”? Wow! You really are trying to evade the simple question about overpaying for the $43 piece of paper, aren’t you? Serious question: _ **How in tarnation did you leap from any of my posts to this non sequitur?** _ I’ve thought of you as more intelligent than most of your detractors. Will I need to reconsider this opinion? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/355 "2019-09-17T15:20:56Z")
Reconsider whatever you like. I could respond in kind and fire non sequitur insults at you – this is the Pit, after all – but I’m going to hold my fire, at least for now. Knock yourself out, if that’s your jam. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/356 "2019-09-17T15:46:03Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Reconsider whatever you like. I could respond in kind and fire non sequitur insults at you – this is the Pit, after all – but I’m going to hold my fire, at least for now. Knock yourself out, if that’s your jam. :smack: You’re the confused one; you’re the one hurling non sequiturs. “Do you also think we should go back on the gold standard? Are you a fan of the “Austrian school”?” 😕 😕 😕 My approach to that crisis would have involved quite heavy-handed government intervention. If you can’t even figure out what I’m saying, _Ask_. Or else, PLEASE stick to subjects you know something about. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/357 "2019-09-17T15:54:19Z")
If only Obama had tapped you to run the show instead of Geithner. Maybe you should have been Fed chairman at the same time! ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/358 "2019-09-17T16:17:21Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > If only Obama had tapped you to run the show instead of Geithner. Maybe you should have been Fed chairman at the same time! Nasty sarcasm. And Geithner did a much better job than I or Liz Warren would have done at a primary goal of the advisors Bush-Obama were dependent on: _Maintaining value for big bank shareholders._ When you’re wrong, you double-down just like a right-wing idiot, hunh? If you’re sincere about learning, take it to PM and be polite. You’re just making a fool of yourself here. But … as I wrote in another thread; I’ll be away from my desk for several days! 🙂 (Errands and visits, and giving my laptop a well-deserved rest.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/359 "2019-09-17T17:09:10Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > If only Obama had tapped you to run the show instead of Geithner. Maybe you should have been Fed chairman at the same time! My favorite thing about you is how like 90% of your posts are petulant appeals to authority, and the other 10% are like, “I did a little stint as a substitute teacher, so I know way more about education policy than any career educator out there.” ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/360 "2019-09-17T18:39:34Z")
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