08/29 - Thatched Thursday!

Amazon dude hands me this box facing this way and I was confused as to why the word Lover was on the box, didn't immediately recognize the face:



Because battery sticker was hiding what should show:



@ChrisTurk your girlfriend is being delivered all over the world it seems.

 

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I just saw this on CNBC










https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5y8d7/people-paid-to-dox-airbnb-addresses-host-compliance

 

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@SunlitSunflower you forgot to relog into your main account.

 

Damn, even the TV news channels posting clickbait now.

 

Is that the Vice "journalist"? I can't believe they would take this to air with his shitty lazy reporting.

 

Yep. You can see the source as Vice on the right side under the quote.

 

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Airbnb may have an IPO this year - only reason it's on this channel.

 

His hair is fantastic

 

I went to journalism school so I can't help but be fired up about him just using chats as the basis of the whole story. Lazy reporting.

 

That explains why you ended up turking.

 

My degree in underwater basket weaving will pay off aaaaany day now

 

That guy specializes in writing "whoa internet scary!" clickbait if you've seen his Vice profile. He was never interested in actual reporting in the first place.

 

I mean, yeah, but in this case, they're not wrong.

What else are they gonna do? Get a group of VRAPI workers together in person

 

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