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[–] 60 points 9 months ago (10 children)

He died this week didn't he?

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  • [–] 95 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    And almost nobody noticed. I used to read Dilbert, I bought his books and loved them. But the racism was always there, in Asok jokes and even in the Elbonians.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The official White House Twitter account posted about his death, it was pretty noticeable. 😬

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    [+] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)
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  • [–] 65 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Insta = Instagram

    THOT = That Ho Over There

    Prenup = Prenuptual agreement, which is a contract two people sign before they get married, usually to determine who will get what in the event of a divorce. It's usually used to avoid lengthy and costly divorce proceedings.

    Pension = An older type of retirement account

    So, that ho on Instagram stayed married to him for two years, fulfilling the terms of their prenuptial agreement, entitling her to full divorce benefits, which will be about half of this guy's fortune, which should be enough for her to retire on.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Why was the prenup 2 years? Do most prenup have a minimum time till you get all their money?

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Prenups can have whatever in them. Common is for the poorer person to get nothing or a limited part of the other person's wealth. Idea is to avoid giving away 50% of your shit if you're rich. But there's no set rules about what the terms can be.

    I'm assuming Dilbert guy just wanted to have at least 2 years worth of sex if he was gonna give her a bunch of money in a divorce.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Oh that's wild. So it's his own fault in a way.

    He put a timer on his marriage.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Oh he must've known she wouldn't stay for long. It's all in him lol

    Why get married then is beyond me. He's got money, could just pay for the girlfriend experience and have one high end girl on retainer for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    He had already invested alots in this girlfriend and did not want to have to begin again with a new girlfriend. Opportunity cost is a serious thing. Is it more work (and alots I guess) to solve/bury the problem or to get a new partner and invest time and energy in them to get the same level of closeness?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Aren't there websites for rich dudes looking for women? I seem to remember reading about that. Why not just post on there that he's the Dilbert guy and whatever his stipulations are. Someone would probably bite. He didn't seem lile that gross of a dude other than his politics. I'd certainly be willing to over look some shit if a rich lady was willing to house me and pay for my all my shit. Unfortunately I'm not that attractive.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Tbf if there's a 2 year "pension pre-nup", I don't think there was any closeness there. I'm fairly sure that whole thing was transactional from the get-go. Though I could be wrong of course.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    An instance thot is a lady who posts lewd pictures of herself on Instagram.

    A 2 year prenup meant that she had to be married to him for 2 years before getting access to the Dilbert money.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Here's the explanation from someone who doesn't know either : an insta thot is a girl who lives on the instagrams, and is hot. The T is silent.
    A 2y prenup pension is a roof over your head for 2 years before you start doing either pullups, or pushups (your choice).

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    • [–] 184 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    She probably earned every penny.

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  • [–] 125 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I'm honestly surprised. This is the sort of horrible job that immigrants are usually stuck doing.

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  • [–] 45 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    She looks like she could be his daughter. I couldn't find anything on her age, does anyone know?

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  • [–] 96 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Well a quick search says she was born in 1988, and Adams was born in 1957. They were married in 2019, so she would have been 31 and he would have been 62. So yes, easily within the age of a daughter.

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    • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Internet stories get exaggerated fast. Real people and relationships are always more complex than a single viral narrative.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    That is true. To be fair, Lemmy had its times where apparent "experts" deduced insane claims from quick glances of images. But it shows that judging the book by its cover is a real thing, and it applies to anything.

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    • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    A 2 year prenup exists?

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  • [–] 75 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I mean it’s just a thing two people agree to and sign before they get married. You could have your lawyer put anything in a prenup, it’s just most people only give a fuck about the money and assets.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah it's uncommon, but not unheard of for there to even be sexual components to a prenup.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Wait really, sexual stuff? Couldn’t they use contracts to make prostitution legal then?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    You can't use a contract to make something illegal, legal. But in all but name you kind of can make it legal. You have to have sex with me everyday, after 2 years you get a fifth of my stuff.

    Also it's almost impossible to get courts to actually enforce the sexual part of a contract. They just won't get involved in that stuff for the most part.

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    • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    He might've been fine with railing her for two years for whatever money she got out of it. I guess that would've been a win-win

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Ok ok ok. Now that the comment section has been explained "insta thot", does anyone have source!?

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    [–] 49 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Well, he at the very least, probably didn't refer to her as an "insta thot"

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    As a man, I have heard people (men and women) talk about "pretty" people and how they want to date them. I have seen many people date many people.

    But weirdly, while i have seen people call other people thot, I haven't heard anyone call their gf an insta thot. Strange... it is almost as if it is jealousy.

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Non-passerine

    Apparently the passerines are the largest bird group, but I fail to see the relevance here, somehow.

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Trash accumulates.

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Fair play to both of them tbh.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Actually a good sport to only require a two-year prenup. Rush Limbaugh made his "wives" sign ten-year prenups and being married to Limbaugh has to be worse than being married to the Dilbert dude.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The trick is to encourage him to spend his time with his friends doing whatever they do. If he's getting laid, visiting strippers, etc. that's great, at least he's not bothering you. He's going to get tired of banging you anyway. Then when the pre-nup vests, you take the money and run.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    Imagine how insufferable Dilbert dude actually is (was! forgot about this delightful fact). You ask him to pass the salt, he goes into this long tirade in this mocking voice, about how he's the only capable person in the room and all the stupid femoids are too woke to even get their own salt, and if you roll your eyes he will get angry and throw a tantrum.

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    • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    dilbert fuckin sucked assholes

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ah...the things we do for love. /s

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    something something dilburnt

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    [+] -35 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah let's celebrate prostitution, so empowering!

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure the (arguably) oldest profession of humanity is pretty much all out of fucks to give for peoples opinions of it.

    but hey, some basic-ass bad-faith drive-by statements might just be the thing we need to turn this all around, keep it up, i expect the tide to turn any day now.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sex work is work. As long as a person enters into that work wilfully and can legally consent to it, it’s functionally no different than a labourer selling their body in labour constructing a building, painting a house, or digging a trench. Denigrating sex workers serves no purpose beyond needlessly moralising the choices of consenting adults.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I agree with you, but...does this qualify as sex work?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    She entered into the agreement of her own volition (as far as we know) and was of an age to do so.

    If her intention was to provide sex (and companionship, because that's sometimes an important component) in exchange for the payday after the 2 years then I'd classify that as sex work, though a more long term contracting kind of work.

    If she was in it for the relationship and it just didn't work out then no, it's just a failed relationship with a bonus payout.

    But i'll concede that my perspective isn't necessarily the norm, as i put quite a bit of emphasis on intent.

    To me it's weird to classify sex work as something different to any other job from a labour perspective.

    I understand there are unique challenges, but i think a lot of that could be solved with decent regulation and support.

    The fact that there's a whole bunch of legal (and cultural) moralising around it is a big part of the problem, though not all of it.

    All of that said, this isn't even close to my area of expertise so I'll assume there's a whole bunch of things I've not taken in to consideration.

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