DogMuffins @ DogMuffins @discuss.tchncs.de

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I don't understand what you're saying.

Privacy is pointless because "bad actors"?!

Yeah the "great wall" Ute's et cetera have a terrible reputation here. They're bottom tier fleet vehicles.

Campers & trailers are the same. Too thin to be repaired.

Me too. I'll never visit America even, just caught up in the drama.

I'm prejudiced against Chinese manufacturing - it's all shit.

I am kinda Asian LOL.

It's just that most non-electronic Chinese manufactured stuff is just terrible build quality.

Is it racist to say I'd never buy a Chinese car just on principle?

What article? That's an ad.

Mueller concluded in 2019 that there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.

Is this true?

I thought it was more like... there's some fuckin bullshit here but you can't prosecute a sitting president so...

"Any inference or allegation that Mr Steele makes about my relationship with my daughter is untrue and disgraceful," Trump added.

I love this sentence so much. Like a blanket denial before any is actually required.

"If Steele ever says that I keep a selection of ivanka's shoes and several vials of her urine in my masturbatorium that is completely untrue."

Holy shit I've heard the name but never actually looked at one. Those look amazing. I would absolutely enjoy the fuck out of driving that.

I can understand your dilemma. Of course I can't decide for you but for me, the uniqueness and character of a car like this would absolutely push me further towards taking the write off. I mean it's sad, but it is an inanimate object and driving the repaired car would just bug me no end.

Yeah fair enough. A good counterpoint.

What proof would be satisfactory though?

All monetary policy is experimental to some extent... but you don't need to start with the big money.

Here in Australia average full time salary is $80k. I don't really know but maybe an appropriate UBI in a utopia might be half of that, or lets just say $3k a month. You wouldn't just start transferring $3k to everyone's bank account every month and see how it goes.

You'd start with a small refundable negative tax. We already have these in our tax system they're called rebates or offsets. You don't start with $3k a month, start with maybe $2k a year. So everyone pays $2k less tax every year, and people that pay less than that in a full year would get the balance refunded to them.

With something like this it would be fairly easy to measure whether or not it's providing the purported benefits.

Others that know anything about cars might be interested to know the year, make, and model...

Personally, I would absolutely 100% push for a write off.

I would much rather buy a second hand car which was a little older than I might like, than have to drive a car which has been in a serious accident.

IDK much about cars really. My parents had a Subaru WRX back when they were amazingly cool. Only a couple of years old. Got rear ended by an idiot, extensive damage to front and rear. They couldn't get the insurer to write it off. It was a crying shame. I would've been gutted if I was them. It was just never the same. Occasional leak from a door seal. Sometimes the check engine light would flicker. Never seemed to be able to get the alignment quite right. Clutch always seemed to have an obscenely short friction point.

Just all this niggly stuff that you could never really pin down. Like after going back to the repairer the 6th time and saying "look mate I swear the check engine light was flickering yesterday" and they hook it up and say "everything's totally fine... again" what are you going to do?

The thing that would really shit me though... is that it's just tainted. It's not my daily driver any more but I still have my first car, it's nearly 20 years old now. It's just... nice, like I've taken care of it and for a 20 year old car it's kinda cool. Once a car has had a major accident no one want's to buy it. For all of the above reasons.

If you push for repair it will be like someone spilled fish curry in your back seat. The smell will never really be gone and years from now on a hot day when you climb in you'll still find yourself cursing the day some cunt did you that nasty.

I mean your right. I'd love to see him in jail.

It's just that people with far more political and legal credibility than me are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the opportunities to cry foul as are minimal as possible.

You're absolutely correct that this behavior reprehensible and all the rest but that specifically isn't a crime.

Widening the gag order sounds much more appropriate.

Although if idiots were to show up at the home of AG James you might reconsider charging Trump with whatever crime seemed appropriate.

You're looking at this from a very reddit-like perspective.

If you don't like the way a community is moderated, move to another.

Honestly the behavior you mention sounds like exactly what a mod on worldnews@lemmy.ml would be expected to do.

WDYM "block your account" exactly?

You're being paranoid. Google isn't going to dick around blocking individuals.

Well... I must be one of the weirdos who's here because I like it here (while disliking reddit).

Regardless, just because something will "get attention" does not mean that it belongs in every community.

Imagine being convinced that giving away what little money you have to a huge corporation was "right".

Fuck I would love to see actual consequences.

Bit worried that the gag order doesn't directly preclude this though. Like yeah it's clearly not in the spirit of, but is it a contravention?