# 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:** 33
**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:** [July 11, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/642 "2020-07-11T21:24:07Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Yes, the 638 post thread started a year and a half ago. Sorry, stalker, most of us dont pay that close of attention. Oh, if only there was some sort of, I don’t know, “look stuff up” function even a blind monkey could operate… ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/643 "2020-07-11T21:25:23Z")
Yeah, I know, but it seemed that it was mostly his opinion and him looking the other way in some very suspicious cases that he was aware of. SI is not directly a sex trafficker IMHO, but still he looked like a cad. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/644 "2020-07-11T21:27:23Z")
Well I’ll be! MrDibble was right (but the discobot said he was, so I’m not too shocked): > [@Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/92): > > No, this was in the 1990s when squatting was legal in the Netherlands (I only just learned from Wikipedia that it was, sadly, banned in 2010): [Dutch squatting ban - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_squatting_ban) At the time I lived with them, squatters could legally take over control of an unoccupied space by sneaking in and putting a bed, table, and chair of their own in the space (based on court rulings that established this litmus test). I went along on one of their “occupations”, although this was not where I lived. They we… **SlackWit** promotes human trafficking. ETA: > [@SlackerInc](#): > > It is, obviously, the _human traffickers_ , not the sex workers themselves, who are the analogue to the weed dealers here (perhaps not to the street level dealers, but to those above them). Both the weed dealers and human traffickers are providing an illicit product/service that many people want and which in and of itself infringes on no one’s rights. But when these trades are made illegal and driven underground, they are managed by organized crime syndicates. And those syndicates engage in all kinds of nasty violence in the pursuit of their black market profits. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/645 "2020-07-11T21:28:43Z")
Yes, but promoting is not the same as being a sex trafficker. Not that he comes smelling like flowers still… ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/646 "2020-07-11T21:29:44Z")
Oh, he may well be a sex-trafficker, too. I was just looking for corroboration that he endorsed it. Other people are free to utilize the search function. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/647 "2020-07-11T21:37:08Z")
Like I said, he still stinks, no need to _embellish_ it until there is better evidence. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/648 "2020-07-11T21:37:32Z")
Well I have to backtarck a bit. Jesus fucking Christ. When ones lies have to go to disgusting places. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/649 "2020-07-12T05:01:16Z")
Yes, how dare I be both for legalization of drugs and legalization of sex work, so that the state can regulate both and protect people from violence and exploitation. 🙄 ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/650 "2020-07-12T07:01:09Z")
Being “for legalization of sex work” and “happily driving trafficked sex workers around to their rape-dates” are not the same thing… Just like “being for legalization of drugs” and “frying your brain on bad hash as a 40-something hanging out with youngsters” are not the same thing… I’m for legalization of both sex work and drugs, and yet recognize that driving around trafficked prostitutes is repugnant, and dabbing with tweens is pathetic. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/651 "2020-07-12T07:28:07Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “happily driving trafficked sex workers around to their rape-dates” Let’s, for the benefit of the folks at home, run this through the Insane Person Translator. I used to drive for Uber (I quit in early March, obv.) part time, mainly Friday and Saturday from around 1-4 a.m., so mainly bringing home drunks and thereby preventing DUIs while making a little (very little) cash. On occasion, one of the calls would be at the local strip club around 2:30 a.m., where a young woman who danced at the club would be taken to the address she had chosen on her phone. No men were ever accompanying any of them. They always seemed relaxed, maybe a little tired, and made pleasant chitchat with me. Definitely no one ever seemed distressed, scared, or anything remotely approaching that. That’s it, the end. Nothing more to the story than that. This is what the crazy person is calling “human trafficking”. 🙄 (ETA: I have only actually been to strip clubs twice in my life, reluctantly, and never got a lap dance or even tipped any of the dancers. How many straight guys over 40 can say that?) Which I guess makes every Uber and Lyft driver, every regular taxi driver for that matter, a human trafficker. And beyond that, the enablers are…everyone who doesn’t immediately go down to their local strip club and demand that the proprietors be arrested? I guess? ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/652 "2020-07-12T07:35:42Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > dabbing with tweens Oops, almost didn’t catch this one. I dabbed with a friend and his girlfriend, the mother of his child. I don’t know how old they are exactly, but they lived at that time in an apartment together, with no one else (since then they have separated), and I took my friend to the liquor store one time where he bought stuff and showed his ID. He also regularly does DJ sets at a club in town. So he had to be at least 21 when we met, 22 when we dabbed, and probably more like 25. But Dibsy just says “tweens” because he’s full of shit. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/653 "2020-07-12T08:45:11Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I dabbed with a friend and his girlfriend (…) > So he had to be at least 21 when we met, 22 when we dabbed, and probably more like 25. So, [tweens](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tween#Etymology_2). ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/654 "2020-07-12T08:48:21Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > > [@MrDibble](#): > > > > “happily driving trafficked sex workers around to their rape-dates” > > I used to drive for Uber (I quit in early March, obv.) part time, mainly Friday and Saturday from around 1-4 a.m., so mainly bringing home drunks and thereby preventing DUIs while making a little (very little) cash. On occasion, one of the calls would be at the local strip club around 2:30 a.m., where a young woman who danced at the club would be taken to the address she had chosen on her phone. No men were ever accompanying any of them. They always seemed relaxed, maybe a little tired, and made pleasant chitchat with me. Definitely no one ever seemed distressed, scared, or anything remotely approaching that. This just gets better with each retelling. I’m sure they also had hearts of gold … ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/655 "2020-07-12T09:12:01Z")
That’s not what 99% of people mean by tweens and you know it. And really, he’s an Uber driver so he transports people who ask for an Uber ride, and that’s bad… why? So much bad stuff that you **can** say about him, but this is nonsense. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/656 "2020-07-12T11:46:53Z")
> [@CardboardBoxx](#): > > That’s not what 99% of people mean by tweens and you know it. Do I, really? It’s what I mean, and what everyone I know means, when they say it. > [@](#): > > So much bad stuff that you **can** say about him, but this is nonsense. Another clueless idiot… ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/657 "2020-07-12T12:11:43Z")
That’s it, just take ‘em all on, Dribble. You can do it! ETA: I try to be fair to everyone, regardless of how clueless and disagreeable they may be. IIRC Dibble lives in Africa. Maybe that is in fact the meaning of “tween” there. Here in the U.S. it means someone roughly 9-12 years old. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/658 "2020-07-12T12:33:30Z")
I suppose _technically_ Tolkien is an African… ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/659 "2020-07-12T13:54:59Z")
People aren’t hobbits. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/660 "2020-07-12T14:35:27Z")
And…? ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/661 "2020-07-12T14:38:51Z")
Tolkien describing hobbit society is the **only** place tween means “over 20s”. For humans it means 9-12. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461.md?page=34)