MerchantsOfMisery @ MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

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Cops on laptops/phones while driving on the highway and getting a pass literally every time they're driving distracted and kill or injure someone.

Every single year in my city someone gets smoked by a cop car/SUV, and the internal investigations always determine via CCTV + phone activity logs that yes their officer was on their phone/laptop, yes they were speeding, yes they went through a red light, yes they failed to have their 🚨 on, but... No, they're never found guilty and the whole internal investigation is the furthest thing from transparent to the public.

That's because it's Wired. Basically a big ass advertisement.

I'd be so annoyed at people casually labelling my photography of being AI generated and then casually being all "oopsie I guess it's not".

They have this kind of toxic attitude and then act surprised when the lose an election. I can't stand people like this, just so obnoxious.

I have a 30+ year old IBM Model M as my desktop keyboard, and a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro from the 90s that's connected with a long cable from my PC to my bedside nook. So so so much better than Bluetooth or RGB vomit. That said, to each their own!

As a POC I'd say Lemmy is way better than most similar sites but there's still the prevalent sexism that always seems like the "acceptable casual bigotry" and I'm not a fan of that. The kind of "jokes" that guys mostly laugh at while women mostly roll their eyes at because the punchline is usually heavily reliant on sexism.

I feel like this is a very naive process that implies due process works, albeit slowly, even for cops who fuck up. It doesn't work because cops, DAs and judges all protect each other.

Also, most insurance companies will nail you for misrepresentation or fraud if your driver's license license address isn't updating accordingly with your current address, because different areas have different likelihoods for accidents.

I just don't get why people are so quick to defend cops or give them the benefit of the doubt over stuff like this.

Super accurate comment.

Average person has no clue about this compared to Musk. Not surprised that the founder of a luxury brand is a bastard though.

But what was your point, if spent pension money isn't considered a part of net income? If you're a retired private sector CEO, you're probably not spending your entire pension or even most of it. If you're a retired teacher, you probably are.

Is it weird that a part of me wishes I was as confident in myself being right about stuff as you are about yourself?

All the rich folks I know avoid Tesla like the plague because they prefer some level of political ambiguity while driving. Even if they're driving a $500k Porsche, it doesn't come with the "this company is proudly run by a right wing asshole everyone has heard of" vibe, just the regular "I'm rich, SEE!" vibe.

Should I be allowed to feed rabid folks misinformation to encourage them to murder you and your family, with no repercussions? Yes or no, please no long winded diatribes.

Is that money being spent, or saved? If it's being spent in a year on regular expenses, how would that contribute to net worth?

Most peoples' pension is spent, not saved, because it's meant to replace their working income in order to allow them to pay the bills. In Walz' case, is it at all similar to the example you gave? Like come on, let's not enter fluentinfinance levels of hypotheticals.

My experience with Win10 for what I use my computer for has been far less janky than any Linux distro I've tried, and I'm past the stage of my life where I could spend hours and hours troubleshooting and enjoying it.

As for Win11... I may very well made the dreaded switch to Linux when Win10 officially loses updates. I just wish Linux had viable alternatives to a lot of Windows software that wouldn't result in my workflow being significantly altered in a way that will require watching countless god awful tutorial videos and going through forum nonsense.

Like for sure Windows has its problems but we shouldn't pretend Linux and the community don't do a lot of things that massively turn off new users.

Want regular ass people to switch from Windows to something new? Check out how/why Mac OS is so popular among those who've switched from Windows, and perhaps there's some things of value there that the Linux community can learn from.

The Linux community is packed with toxicity and a stubborn insistence that it's nothing but helpful and if a user has a problem, it's always their fault and never the distro's fault.

Laptop shows your unlocked screen briefly when you open it before unlocking? Never had that issue with Windows, Macs, but on Linux this happens with Ubuntu when installed on several Thinkpad models.

And nearly every response to this problem on Linux forums is "you must be doing something wrong" or casually telling a new user 'just switch to DingOS 3.14 bro, it's what I use and I've never had an issue" like that's NOT a major pain in the ass for the average user.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240808225443/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/white-supremacist-power-grid-attacks.html

Can you please confirm if this link works for you? It should be a paywall bypassed link.

One man's terrorist is a other man's freedo-- just kidding.

Meanwhile the high school football coach in my high school (2000s) used school funds to buy his team of bigots booze and received a sternly worded "please don't do that" letter as punishment. Guy was a raging homophobe.

I don't think good people actively seen major roles of power, at least not within govt .

But pension typically isn't included in net worth unless it's unspent money, and given how small the average public school teacher's pension is in comparison to their expenses, wouldn't you agree it makes little sense to say his pension automatically should be added to his net worth?

A couple grand a month is what I expect a retired teacher to get for their pension. And a couple grand a month is what I expect a retired teacher to spend on rent/mortgage + food + other expenses.