I’ve started reminding people with youngs sons that they need to sign up for the draft. Always interesting when you ask the ones i know vote republican suddenly realize their votes could kill their kids. Glad I’m old enough to avoid this shit.

Feels like my OG 360 elite just red ringed yesterday. I still use one of the controllers for PC gaming.

This is always a hard conversation to have. There are drivers on the road who want everyone to be safe, and do their best to function in our bad infrastructure. I try to be one of them, partially because I commuted on a bike and public transit for a long time. I did miss the sign in this instance, it was one of those “when present” signs that doesn’t have lights.

Personally I want more fines for actually dangerous driving. Its hard to quantify how much dumb shit I’ve seen while driving as much as I do. Watching TV while driving should be straight to the drunk tank and yet i see it every day.

Canada? You really think you are somehow safe from this shit huh.

I made this point in another comment, but these cameras send you bills instead of tickets. They ignore our right to a fair trial and subvert our right to confront our accuser. The only one I’ve received had no info on how to dispute it, just pay or fuck you type of bill.

A red light camera is no different than a speeding camera in this regard.

I’ll add one more. They subvert our right to a trial and seeing our accuser. The fines are all supposed to be viewed by some sort of officer that is supposed to show up if you challenge the ticket. The only one I’ve received didn’t have any info on how to challenge it. It was like a bill that obfuscated my right to a trial. Guilt is assumed and forgiveness is ignored. 28 in a school zone in an unfamiliar city, instant fine with no “oops I fucked up” recourse.

Big problem with these is profit motivation. They are usually operated by a for profit business that the city contracts to. One of the cities near me had a few installed. The company made 5 million a year in fines, city ended up with pennies. The road is built like a 40mph road but has a 25mph speed limit only where the cameras are. There is no money to update the road to actually make it safer because it all goes to the company operating the cameras.

Trusted someone with my reputation once. Fucked me over. They went to jail for a bit. Got out, fucked someone else over, almost killed them while stealing all their retirement funds. Back to jail. Got out started grooming a child and having sex with them. They are back in jail currently.

This person taught me how to recognize evil people very quickly. I’m trying to avoid any identifying info because the second two times they were arrested made international news because of how fucked up it was both times.

Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.

If you’re wealthy enough to waste a lot of money on a fridge you aren’t buying one of these abominations. Its going to be a built in like sub-zero.

I honestly believe these fridges are not being bought in large quantities and are part of the tech bubble.

Right, I’m not arguing that landlords are good. They seem to be a symptom of a system set up to encourage their shitty behavior.

I do wonder if a housing co-op is protected by law in some way. Or more likely it relies on a few people having good intentions who are running it. A housing co-op with no intent of profiting, ever, would be a good system imo.

Mod removed my post without reason. Maybe cussing offended them.

The market seems to self select for bad landlords. All the well intentioned ones I know got burned and stopped renting.

People not understanding the actual cost of owning and maintaining a house is my only argument for landlords. Or if you maintain it yourself it’s a knowledge and time requirement.

Not saying landlords did a great job maintaining the rentals I’ve lived in. But there was definitely a point in my life where renting made more sense than owning a house.

We really need more control on rent prices so only high density housing is rentable. Or something, I don’t have answers for why my shitty house is worth 70% more than it was 5 years ago.

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Everyone can already access coding.

I don’t want to simp for Target too much, but the union DCs I’ve been in seem to treat their employees pretty good. No idea about the stores though, I’ve only seen their distribution centers.

It’s worse than I could’ve imagined. The dipshit literally gets giddy and throws the nazi salute twice. This is nowhere near a strangely timed photo.

Dumb question, he’s not president yet.

I only lurk on Reddit these days, but if old reddit goes away I’ll be completely done with it.

That’s sort of my feeling as well. Putting my tin foil hat on. I think it’s why I’m in the group that isn’t being fucked with yet.