Right here what I’m talking about. I’m an “AI bro”. That’s all you need to say to make a paper-thin insult. Rest of the morons barge in, “Yeah! He loves AI! Hang him!”

How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don’t apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.

You’re the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.

Places like that you work hard, get the experience and title(s), leave. Rinse and repeat.

Worked at Lowe’s and was astonished how little power the GM had. However, he could have paid me more, point-blank asked me to ask for a raise. Left in a fit before we met. :)

Worked for a payroll firm and 99.75% of lemmy would be astonished at how powerful the state labor board is. And this was in Florida! Hardly a bastion of labor rights.

“waGe TheFT!”

“Have you called the state labor board and inquired?”

“NOAWW! I’m a victim and I make memes!”

Only our worst client, and only 1, wasn’t scared shitless of a call from the state labor folks. And these clients were rock-bottom, minimum-wage employers like restaurants, churches and thrift stores. Part of our payroll service was protecting the employer from fucking over the employees!

While I’m on about knowing your rights, a $26 legal insurance plan can save you 10’s of thousands with a single use. I call mine every few months.

“Can they do this? What about this? What are my rights? What if I do this thing? What form do I fill out and how?!” Mostly super-simple stuff, but my divorce and child custody cases alone saved me far than I will spend in the next 40 years.

The difference between rich and poor is legal representation. $26/mo.

Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.

Same bullshit with guns.

“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”

It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(

Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.

“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”

Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈

Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.

“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”

Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.

tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.

It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”

When we moved to Florida, my friend’s new kid was stumbling around learning to walk in a playpen. Fast forward, “Who the fuck is this 6’-tall monstrosity?!”

His older brother was 5 when I met him. Fast forward, “So, uh, you’re some kind of full-grown man now, somehow?”

Got my kids for Christmas today. My 12-yo daughter, 13 next month, is taller than my wife. I, uh, wut?

The pressure is an issue, but the CO2 levels on Mars are insane. Forget the cold and near-vacuum, we’d be choking out on a single breath of that poison.

I’m guessing CO2 uptake would be nada while the plant boils out it’s H2O?

An unforgiving bitch.

I buy all my phones off eBay from reputable resellers. There are plenty that make a living at refurbishing phones, rate each one on a scale, post pics of the phone you will receive. I pay around $120 for mine, $180 if it’s a bangin’ deal and I really want that unit.

My god, I want to write some things up but you NAILED it.

One thing I’ll back you on, one’s credit score can bounce in a month or three. No big deal. Learn how it works, work the system.

Shitty deal, but yeah, moves like this will save you money.

Dad: “You know how when you and your gf want to learn how something works and you get books at the library and learn about it? (90s, OK?) You can learn how money works.”

Lemmy: NOAAWW! Want money want credit! No learn!

Reminds me of a coworker telling me overtime is bullshit because they charge you more taxes and you actually make less money.

Oh honey. That’s why you’ll never have more money.

Also, it’s the kind of payment you cannot miss. I’m fucking off my CC bills ATM because I’m unemployed, cannot pay. I have to scrounge the power, roof and water bills.

Been loving the new colors! Yeah, they’re toned down, not Hot Wheels colors, but I’m into the new grey-blues and grey-greens, never seen those before.

Only one I’m not into is the green-yellow, uh, things, I’ve seen. We have a tiny Florida spider that exact color and it makes me think of an arachnid. (I’m fine with spiders, just not cars colored like the freaky ones.)

I’m white and OP has hella privilege if they’ve never been concerned about cops targeting them. They were all over my ass in the 90s for having long hair and driving beaters. They’d lock on and follow until they had an excuse.

Curious how old you are, because until this century, a car with 100,000 on the odometer was considered a piece of crap no one in their right mind would buy. Powertrain warranties of 50,000 were pretty nice in the 90s and when 100,000 came out people were astounded. 3 years/36K was standard warranty for everything else.

SOURCE: Worked Nissan consumer affairs, late 90s.

Why would a pro-Russian propagandist be constantly, and gently, turning MAGA away from Trump? What’s the motive here?