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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Lord Stimperor posted:

I'm the act of God

"Acts of God" is a warranty catchall for "if extreme weather caused it, sorry, you're out of luck." It's generally used to prevent people from making claims over say, a tornado skewered the block with a metal pole, therefore the engine is no longer working, and thus it's covered under the warranty as it was not caused by normal wear and tear. In reality, it wasn't a manufacturing defect, but something completely unrelated. However, half of Tesla's problems are manufacturing defects, but by saying water could void your warranty, they can say "well, you drove through a flooded road and damaged your car." when in reality it was tiny puddle.

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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Also, to dig up car repair chat, I spent 150 bucks repairing a bike from "dead" to "working very well".

Suck it, Shaggar

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Shaggar posted:

im sorry you're too poor to afford a car I guess

Joke's on you, I do have a car and the money to run it.

I merely prefer not to use it!

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


H.P. Hovercraft posted:

all we can know about the animeliker's mind is that they are attracted to even the rumor of cp

Don't cut yourself on that edge

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


akadajet posted:

nice avatar you got there

I do like it.

But seriously, lumping anime fans as pedos is dumb as gently caress.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


https://twitter.com/listening2day/status/1054391928307933184

Yup, knew it had to be a circle

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Stealing from cspam

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


So the earnings report is out:
https://twitter.com/aksjefokus/status/1055194412458954752
https://i.imgur.com/X3IWMML.gifv

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Dumb Lowtax posted:

Someone remind me again on whether there is any such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


President Beep posted:

[ask] me about dancing for nickels outside the feed n’ seed.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


akadajet posted:

flying is cheap? news to me.

A Southwest flight, booked sufficiently in advance, to a far enough location*, would be cheaper than driving.

*Basically a location that's roughly 1k miles away, assuming a 350 mile range on your car, 30 dollars per fillup, and and overnight stop. Take away the overnight stop, and they're roughly the same. This also assumes you don't need to rent a car at the location, at which point the cost of taking a trip via the air does exceed that of driving. Basically it boils down to: A. "Do I need to rent a car?" (if yes, driving will probably be better), B. "Do I need to make an overnight stop?" (If yes, flying), and C. "Do I need to fill up 3 or more times?" (if yes, flying). But again, that carries caveats of "booked far enough in advance" to get cheap prices.

e: also, if you need to carry a lot of stuff with you, driving may win out because airline baggage fees and poo poo.

iospace fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 27, 2018

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


If you get lucky to make it onto one of the majors, you're set though.

The problem is getting lucky to make it onto one of the majors.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


exploded mummy posted:

so you're saying don't tumble around on the tarmac in a suit while working for your dad

:vince:

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


muckswirler posted:

This is total bullshit btw unless you assume every economy seat is sold at the same price as the cheapest seat on the plane and they charge no additional baggage or meal fees.

Businesses operate in one of three territories:

1. unprofitable*.
2. razor's edge of profitability
3. profitable*

*these are the only two that actually exist. #2 only exists to push narratives to "cut costs", usually by reducing employee benefits or employees outright.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038



I will forever maintain that's SRA's greatest moment.

The second is when he had the perfect opportunity to sell hats but didn't, the cheap gently caress :argh:

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


incels interlinked posted:

what idiot called it a model x instead of a rand rover

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


tk posted:

Seattle is currently having trouble getting kids to and from school on time because of a bus driver shortage. I assume that’s not because drivers are being scared away by high pay.

Americans are hypocrites of the highest order when it comes to "hard work". They praise hard work, but when it comes to jobs that actually require hard work (ex: room service, dishwashing, farm labor), they hem and haw about said jobs being below them.

Now that's not particular to bus driving, with that you have to deal with bratty kids and, worse, their parents who think said bratty kids are perfect little angels. So it's some hard work with a lot more abuse than say, a city bus driver. Though I had a retired truck driver come in, said he debated doing bus work after trucking, but realized he could end up on a school bus, or worse...

a casino bus.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


President Beep posted:

when george soros sent out his checks that month he put a secret code on the memo line that told (((everyone))) to not go to the WTC that day.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Shame Boy posted:

i kinda think there's a difference between casual internet ironic-not-ironic slurs and directly making fun of specific antisemitic theories for being nonsense but ok

Ironic racism is still racism.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


CommieGIR posted:

....who is the 10% that didn't lose it?

People who hate fire departments.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Dumb Lowtax posted:

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Sir, this is a fire department and your car is under one of our trucks.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


anime was right posted:

figures the dude calling people pedophiles tries to reinvent subway's brand

:perfect:

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Shame Boy posted:

how can there be any congested roads if there aren't any roads to begin with :unsmigghh:

:yeshaha:

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


So Tesla is using brake-by-wire and didn't figure it out? Despite every F1 team right now having figured it out *checks notes* since 2014*?

*F1 went to V6 turbo hybrids that year, and they use regenerative braking and brake-by-wire. It's entirely possible that brake-by-wire was implemented earlier than the 2014 season, but that's the first season where I know for sure it was.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


https://twitter.com/zomgapocalypse/status/1063179090499375107

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


infernal machines posted:

how hard is it to drive with elon's entire cock and balls in your mouth?

iospace
Jan 19, 2038



Fishmech, could you please be quiet? Thank you :)

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


syscall girl posted:

why is there a moderator from the future in here?

Magic. Ain't gotta explain poo poo.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


big scary monsters posted:

pretty much. one of the crucial things with ubi is that it has to be enough to actually live on without significant hardship, giving you the freedom to turn down underpaid, exploitative and lovely work secure in the knowledge you won't starve to death. otherwise it just becomes another subsidy to large employers allowing them to pay workers less tax the need to live on because the state will pouch up the slack

and obviously it can't stand alone - you need rent controls and/or social housing so all the money isn't just going to landlords, you need topups for people with additional needs, socialised or at the very least deeply subsidised healthcare and all the rest of that good stuff

it's a good idea but i doubt that famous billionaire tech emperors are in it for much more than another way of transferring staye money into their hands and staving off a worker's revolt for another decade or two

The thing is this is how Walmart and poo poo works already.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


I really, really want to ask a CHUD why giving corporations billions in tax breaks is cool and good without mentioning "jobs", but it's not ok to help a homeless person feed himself.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


What's real fun is when CHUDs complain about roads falling apart, then going "Well, here's how the cycle goes: the municipality and the residents agree that the roads need to be fixed. The municipality then tells the residents in order to fix them, the taxes need to be raised. The residents proclaim over my dead body and the cycle repeats next year."

I mentioned that to a CHUD once and got silence in return (every one else in the room stood up and clapped).

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


infernal machines posted:

what is even the thought process there? like, if you remove all the local economic benefit of the jobs, why even have the jobs?

Well, you see, because we attracted Amazon, other companies will want to come to us because we're so attractive to Amazon and there's no way they will want the same treatment and *fart*

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Chris Knight posted:

this topic is way more bublé than elongate but since were here already
http://gothamist.com/2018/11/20/cuomo_amazon_tax_subsidies.php

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

tbh farmers should be taxed to destitution for the amount of damage their equipment does to the roads

Did someone get stuck behind a manure truck with no way of passing out in the boonies of Dane County?

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

gently caress no, i bike on these loving barely-fit-the-definition-of-paved-roads

some of them are barely above the level of just being gravel

So you're riding in the suburbs, got it!

I got lucky that most of the chipsealed roads I drove on in Dane were pretty much the major county highways

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


The thing about axles load limits on trucks is it only applies to bridges. there's no effective weight limit on roads, so a cement truck could rumble down your street with its tags up and not care. If they enforced weight limits for standard roads and not bridges, the industry would revolt.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


President Beep posted:

there are (kinda) exceptions though. for example, weight-limit informed truck routes that forbid vehicles over a certain tonnage from operating on a given road unless making a direct delivery or w/e

Thank you for your correction, president fishmech

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Tangential: part of the problem is the weight of cars is ballooning. I think a Model X is banned from going on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Shame Boy posted:

there's an old car talk episode where they talk about a guy who wrote in to tell them he worked on a road crew and their favorite job was filling potholes because it was comparatively easy, so every time they'd go out to fill a pothole they'd pour a little bit of the stuff they use to wash the shovels afterwards (kerosene I think?) nearby to soften up the asphalt in a new spot, and soon they had a lovely rotating crop of perpetual potholes to fill.

i mean it kinda seems like one of those bullshit stories conservatives make up to somehow justify cutting construction crew benefits in their broken brains but eh. there's a few places on a road near me that seem to form potholes suspiciously fast, like within a month of the previous one being patched, and I'm thinking something funny's going on there... then again the ground around here tends to be saturated-wet pretty often and i'm sure erosion is a huge problem too, hmm

The Midwest is absolutely horrible for this because the ground will eventually shift due to freeze/thaw cycles, and that's not even getting into the water in the pavement.

The real problem is that it's an endless cycle of this:

Government: Our roads suck, we need to repave them
Citizens: I agree, let's fix them
Gov: In order to do that, we need to raise taxes to pay for it.
Citizens: OVER MY DEAD BODY

Repeat next year

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