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[Frank N Berry]

More Lowtax stuff:

 

[LU 010]

http://twitter.com/forpush/status/1105594154879516672

http://twitter.com/forpush/status/1105595210392842241

I think people are gonna start noticing that Lowtax might not be 100 percent woke.

lowtax, describing himself as "left wing" is complaining about how there were leftists posting guillotine memes and maga's posting build the wall memes and these things are equally bad somehow, as a left winger

Uhh, one of them is about not letting people immigrate to your country and one of them is about summarily executing a class of people. Imagine being literally anywhere on the political spectrum and not thinking guillotine memes are the "worse" of the two.

 

[Manah]

I gotchu fam

lowtax more like (can afford to pay) notax.

 

[Ghostse]

Broken cucks and being right twice a day

Fix'd for you

 

[repentance]

"I am bankrupt. Something Awful is at risk of imminent closure. We need to find a way to make this work or I can't do it anymore. What do you suggest?"
That's your post.

One of the funniest things is that whenever Lowtax posts this kind of shit, goons start looking at ways to reduce the SA overhead. Goons never ask how much he needs SA to be bringing in each month to provide for himself and his families and he never offers even a ballpark figure. Without that information, there can't even be a community goal.

 

[Goober_au]

All Goon projects fail.

 

[Ghostse]

More Lowtax stuff:

> Only comes onto the forum twice in the past 5 years
> Begs for Money each time


Ugh these fucking butthurt goons saying I only post on the forums to beg for money. Gawd.

One of the funniest things is that whenever Lowtax posts this kind of shit, goons start looking at ways to reduce the SA overhead. Goons never ask how much he needs SA to be bringing in each month to provide for himself and his families and he never offers even a ballpark figure. Without that information, there can't even be a community goal.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Thanks. And now, for something related to ZDR.

View attachment 692641

INT. MISSOURI APARTMENT - NIGHT

ZDR and Lowtax face each other across the dimly lit room. ZDR slowly removes his mask, then his pants, revealing a yarn wig and a diaper.

LOWTAX

God damn you, Shmorky!

 

[Null]

(P.P.S. If you know Shmorky lore really well, post something on my profile.)

 

[Disrespected Pronouns]

Outside of the cars and McMansion, which at least has some sort of real world utility, didn't Lowtax also blow an appreciable amount of money on fucking Hearthstone cards? I'm sure those will help but food on the table.

Oh well, I'm sure the Horse Piss brigade will be able to dig into their deep deep pockets and bail him out.

 

[dreamworks face]

I think what frustrates me about these posts is that (1) you absolutely have no excuse for not running a business as a business if you want said business to support you, and (2) if you don't expect a business to support you you should be working. It's not like Lowtax has my reputation where a conventional job is impossible for him. He could easily just work and support the site off that. I can't imagine SA has the overhead that KF does, and the KF has most of its overhead simply due to how much money I need to pay to grease up multiple levels of Internet infrastructure to get people to let me host what I want. I pay fees that are usually burdened on entire hosting companies to keep the site up, and I manage it without money from the site, not because I don't think the site could pay for itself, but because it's very very difficult to get the support mechanisms in place to allow it to.

There was a point years ago when Lowtax could've gotten a job, but the dude's a drug addict, his neck is broken, he has an empty resume, and he doesn't produce anything people would pay him money for. What is he going to do, work as a greeter at Wal*Mart?

 

[repentance]

There was a point years ago when Lowtax could've gotten a job, but the dude's a drug addict, his neck is broken, an empty resume, and he doesn't produce anything people would pay him money for. What is he going to do, work as a greeter at Wal*Mart?

Doesn't mean his thot can't go and get a job.

 

[zap2theextreme]

(P.P.S. If you know Shmorky lore really well, post something on my profile.)

Are you going to do a mad at the internet on him?

 

[Gordon Cole]

>tfw you're a broke-ass college student and you still have more in your account than Lowtax.

 

[Xarpho]

One of the funniest things is that whenever Lowtax posts this kind of shit, goons start looking at ways to reduce the SA overhead. Goons never ask how much he needs SA to be bringing in each month to provide for himself and his families and he never offers even a ballpark figure. Without that information, there can't even be a community goal.

Unless you've got some massive but fixable problem, "reducing overhead" is what failing businesses do to kick the can further down the road and things are so deteriorated until there's nothing left to cut.

If Lowtax wanted to keep SA alive, he shouldn't have checked out years ago, something Kiwis told him but news he didn't want to hear.

 

[nigger1488]

just a friendly reminder for people who dont follow lowtax, before his financial problems or getting scammed by ZDR elicits any kind of shred of sympathy from you:

lowtax has a responsibility to be raising his daughters; on top of the years of mismanaging his business and finances, he is also an day drinking alcoholic ambien and opiate addict who let a baby fur diaper fur pedophile babysit one of them.

 

[Nekromantik]

More Lowtax stuff:

I don't understand why he hates like and agree stickers when they cut down on shitposts. I've seen pages and pages of goons just quoting posts and saying nothing.

 

[niggers]

KF has most of its overhead simply due to how much money I need to pay to grease up multiple levels of Internet infrastructure to get people to let me host what I want.

you should do some sort of breakdown on that

i'd be interested to see how much of an upcharge there is when your website is doubleplus ungood.

 

[repentance]

Lowtax should start a BFC thread.

Also, I laughed.

 

[Ghostse]

Unless you've got some massive but fixable problem, "reducing overhead" is what failing businesses do to kick the can further down the road and things are so deteriorated until there's nothing left to cut.

Not always. If you have a business that has significant cash flow versus physical operating expenses, you can reduce overhead and make your business profitable. The problem is that usually by the time "reducing overhead" is something that gets pitched the problem is either so pronounced, or they reduce the wrong overhead in the wrong places, that it makes the problem worse while also negatively affecting employee morale - this usually means driving off your most productive employees, as they don't want to wait for the axe when they can go somewhere else and keeping only your most useless schlubs who see no reason not to ride the paycheck all the way to the ground.

Spoiler

Take Circuit City for example, where they wanted to cut down on employee costs because they were getting eaten by Best Buy and burgeoning internet. Their solution was dumb: fire veteran sales people and rehire them to reset their salaries. This actually killed one of circuit city's main selling points (sales people who knew what the fuck they were on about) and left a lot of experienced sales people to get snatched up by the competition.

By the time they realized what they'd done, it was too late.

Something Awful, by contrast, is cash-flow positive. It makes 3 times its hosting costs, even in the TYOL 2019, somehow. That means that Lowtax could do nothing, and the site more than pays for itself. It doesn't make enough anymore to pay for Lowtax, Chinkwife's child support, his two kids from that marriage, Maple Wife, that kid, and his monthly deliveries of Ambien and Barefoot.

At this point, the only person drawing money directly from SA is Lowtax. His hosting costs are high because he's a re.tard running legacy code you can't optimize for virtualization or containerize. Hell, if Lowtax could find someone stupid enough to manage his ads, he'd probably be making enough to pay for his lack of spine.

So I guess what we're really saying here is by "reducing overhead" they mean making Richard stop spending like a nigger, and maybe trying to negotiate his hosting costs down a bit.