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Jerkface (any/all)
Jerkface (any/all) @ jerkface @lemmy.ca
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  • Of COURSE they don't 100% trust fallible human beings with their multi million dollar assets and consignments. It's not insulting unless you are all up in your ego, any more than having to sign something saying that you've inspected the cargo is.

    And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished.

    Doesn't change anything. You don't have to swim faster than the shark, you just have to swim faster than the worst trucker on staff. Just means that they have better data to make the same decisions they were already making. It's all zero-sum and if it's bad for one trucker, it's good for another who was until now going without recognition.

  • He's sooooo insecure and it comes out in so many unpleasant ways.

  • It was an ersatz cooperative, where the executives attempted to respect member's interests, paid dividends, etc; but there was no legal protection or ownership.

  • When MEC incorporated, there was not an option under Canadian law to have a legal cooperative. They attempted to conduct themselves as one, but in the end, members were not owners, so it was never a cooperative. That situation did eventually change, but MEC didn't restructure to take advantage of the new laws.

  • They could scrape us a lot more quietly and with less impact to the network by just setting up their own Lemmy instance. It's just rude to hit ours.

  • I gave up my car. I bus to clients. In our professions, we had that option. Other people in other professions and other localities don't. My partner has to be able to transport vulnerable individuals like foster children with trauma as part of their career. Obviously we could design things in such a way that there are other options, but we haven't. Sometimes people can fill in or work around those gaps. Some times, it is not possible, for example with my partner. Fuck off now, you're just being deliberately obtuse.

  • Yes, actually, it is. Sometimes, for some people with some perfectly ordinary ambitions, those are the only two options. It is absolutely binary.

    Uber and busses are not solutions for people who need to move their clients around, for example. Even if it were remotely practical to attempt it, even if it were safe for their clients, it's simply not permitted.

    If you've never run into a situation where you had to give things up because you don't have a car, that's extremely fortunate. To claim no one ever does is wildly delusional.

  • This is what I do. It is not a universal solution. You are sugar coating your answer by leaving out the final option that makes it universal: give up.

    My partner wants to be a social worker. They are quite talented in their profession and help a lot of people. They are not a good driver and it would be better for everyone if they did not have to drive. However, you cannot do the work they do unless you own a car, have a valid license, and are willing to drive around. The choice offered to them is: drive poorly, or give up your life's ambition.

    @AllNewTypeFace is exactly correct that there is a problem where we have structured society such that everyone is expected to drive, and your comment does not successfully refute that. The problem exists.

  • Teas contains more psychoactive ingredients than just caffeine, including some with stabilizing effects to knock down that jittery unpleasant part. Broad spectrum stimulants are better than straight caffeine.

  • So anyway

    Jump
  • It's not about the reality of defending yourself from tyranny with homicide. It's about the psychological comfort that the warped fantasy brings.

  • They are mad because when they were children, their daddy was mad at Trudeau.

  • Every generation of Americans decide they want their President to be a bit more like the king that they rebelled from.