Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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I was already starting to have problems a month or so ago. Ended up switching even though I had paid for no ads. Using Connect; same routine...pay for no ads. So far it's been great.

Jeez, really?

That then begs the question of why would anyone do that shit job if there wasn't the possibility of making fat stacks of commission. The earning potential (if you're good) is literally the only good part about a dealership sales job! Everything else is absolutely miserable.

Dealerships are commission environments. They don't pay their people until that rebate comes through.

At times they'll hold back one or two sales to apply for the rebate at the beginning of the next month. This happens when a dealership has had a particularly good month and has already hit its quota to get its incentive bonus from Ford/Chrysler/Etc... so they might as well bank them for the next month.

But never in a million years would they hold back $56000 in rebates. Their salesmen would riot.

Source: Slogged in that hellpit of a career for two years before getting out.

Teenagers. Just ship 'em off somewhere between the ages of 13 and 18. Pouty, Self-entitled, disrespectful shits.

Yes. I still use my computer for mostly writing, so proper technique includes using the Right Shift key when capitalizing anything on the left hand side of the keyboard.

Raise a group of a dozen newborns with absolutely zero contact outside of their own group. Food and necessities get provided of course, but no language learning, no nurturing, no generational teaching.

What kind of community do they form when they are old enough to grasp such things? Do they develop their own language; or a different method of communication entirely. How do they stratify their society, or even do they?

At a certain point, when they are old enough, introduce challenges that only work if they cooperate with one another. See what happens.

I'm far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc...

Especially in non-fiction content, there's pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It's the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

Didn't we already know that? I swear there was a whole hullaballoo about it months ago.

Keeping Joe Rogan out? Probably the best campaign ad the Liberals have right now.

I was thinking it would make a great book title for a novel about an underground cult of Voodoo practicing Nazis.

I seem to recall there being a similar exclave in the east, Ontario or Manitoba or something. I remember it from COVID times but can't remember its name.

The powers-that-be don't give a shit about your meaningless protests. March as much as you want. Hold as many signs as you want. That only works when the people making the decisions actually care about what you think of them and actually worry about whether or not you will vote for them in the next election.

Neither of those things is true. They work for the billionaire class and they have no intention of having fair elections ever again. So they can safely say "fuck your protests".

For all of it's bullshit, there is one thing you can say about the J6 rioters; no one ignored them.

It's well past time to learn that lesson. The fact that you all aren't firebombing government buildings by this point is a disgrace from a population of so-called "don't tread on me" proud Americans.

Trump: "Canada is harbouring terrorists..."

She's a traitorous bitch, sure. But let's be honest; in the current state of the world, getting a Trump endoresment for Poppinfresh is like announcing he's been found out to be murdering orphans.

People knowing that Trump is on his side is the last thing that PP needs. Smith asking the Trump administration to help out because Poppinfresh's views align with his is such a terrible fucking strategy it's hilarious.

She's under the deluded bubble that every conservative is just as stupid as Alberta/Saskatchewan Conservatives. They're not. Never have been. There's a massive difference between "sell out to oil" conservatives from the prairies and "sell out to big business in general" conservatives from Ontario. Ontario conservatives will take an endorsement from Trump and tell Poppinfresh to get fucked because they hate Trump as much as any other party.

There is one small group of uneducated, inbred, coal-rolling conservatives who think that a Trump style government would be a good thing. And they are far less popular that Smith realizes from her cow-shit castle in Alberta.

Of course he would. Funding Trade Schools at the expense of universities gives him a population of skilled manual labourers who have never learned critical thinking, history, or social policy.

A Trade School teaching one thing and one thing well, priding itself on "cutting out" all the rest of what they think of as unnecessary nonsense. And you will never change my mind that THAT is a major contributing factor to the dumbing down of the current electorate. The Greeks considered the Liberal Arts necessary for the public to be able to effectively contribute to the political discourse.

But that doesn't suit conservative purposes.

It's not "surprise polling" when it's been literally happening everywhere for the last two or three years...

Trump is exactly stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds him.

Just another one to immediately string up when the war starts.

That just gave me an interesting thought. I wonder what the Venn diagram looks of Trump/Poppinfresh supporters and people who don't use adblockers...

"Bartell went on to say, "Hey...It's cheaper than a divorce. m'iright or m'iright", gave this reporter a fist-bump. Smacked the behind of a passing blonde and backed away while giving finger-guns.

We've reached out for comment. But so far, his motivation remains unclear."