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- Comment on Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe? 10 months ago:
On the other end, prevent malicious actors from using identity theft to get credit cards and loans: freeze your credit.
- Transunion: https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
- Experian: https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html
- Equifax: https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/
It'll be a minor hassle when you go to get a car loan, and forget that your credit is frozen - but you will be able to temporarily unfreeze it from your phone.
- Comment on how can I develop a thick skin? 10 months ago:
Damaging thought patterns are just a part of the problem for many people. Those thought patterns are part and parcel of the landscape of personal relationships you have in your life, and talking to someone outside of that paradigm can give you the opportunity to think differently.
A decent therapist is going to come to the table with tools and skills to share, because they have training and experience. They're not (hopefully) just some random "other person." They'll also be better equipped to recognize the symptoms of specific clinical health conditions, and address those conditions accordingly, whether that means adjusting what kinds of coping skills they recommend to you, or referring you to a psychiatrist for appropriate medication to be used alongside therapy.
I was raised in an area where if you have a problem: deal with it.
"Deal with it." Okay, how? If you don't know how, and you get stuck in a feedback loop, a therapist can help you break out of that loop. Could you perhaps do that on your own? Maybe, and if you can, it may take longer and be much more difficult. There is no shame in getting guidance through the difficult parts of life from people who have expertise in providing such guidance.
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 10 months ago:
Two Pizza Hut franchisees, who own hundreds of stores in California, are eliminating their in-house delivery fleets. The labor-gutting strategy has left 1,200 drivers without jobs.
"I feel that there will be a lot of pain to workers as franchise owners are forced to take drastic measures," Walberg said.
If you own hundreds of Pizza Hut restaurants, nobody is "forcing" you to do anything.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 10 months ago:
Thanks, nose cancer!
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 10 months ago:
Your comment gave me cancer.
- Comment on People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood. 10 months ago:
Under normal circumstances, the parking lot is private property, meaning that police do not have jurisdiction there regarding parking or traffic. In other words, you can't get a ticket in a parking lot. Unless the property owner has requested that the police patrol the lot and write tickets, and the police agree to do so, and are allowed to (or not disallowed) by local ordinance. That's going to be pretty rare, though.
In cases like yours, and OP's, the resolution is for the owner of the parking lot to have the vehicle(s) towed. At a standalone store, the store is not going to be eager to anger a customer by towing their car. At a strip mall, the operators of the stores probably do not also own the parking lot, and so wouldn't have the power to tow.
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 10 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 10 months ago:
Asshole.
- Comment on 'I told police who my burglar was - but they did nothing' 10 months ago:
From the title, I was expecting it to be "she said it was a specific person, and that was all," but no - there's evidence that the police first failed to collect, then failed to acknowledge after some was handed to them, and generally failed to do anything at all.
- Comment on Not that difficult to buy a home in UK, claims NatWest chair 10 months ago:
Of course it's not difficult. Just have money. Easy!
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 10 months ago:
And the mRNA technology has been in progress for 50 years. That’s why it didn’t take long to create a COVID vaccine
- Comment on What chemicals and tools do I need to clean my bathroom? 10 months ago:
I feel like it's worth mentioning here:
DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND AMMONIA. You can die.
- Comment on This fucking scourge, when you own a business. Even if it's the top result in a search in your area 10 months ago:
Technical shite.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
The VPN is to shield yourself from DMCA while you sail the high seas.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 10 months ago:
"Front wheel fell off" could mean a bunch of different things here. If the wheel actually became wholly separated from the vehicle, at 15,000 miles, that would most likely be due to incorrectly torqued lug nuts after a tire rotation. Those torque specs are important, and undertorqued lug nuts can work themselves loose, putting undue stresses on the lug bolts, which snap, and there you go. Such a situation would not be Tesla's fault, rather the fault of whoever rotated the tires.
Or, "front wheel fell off" could mean something like a ball joint or tie rod end failure, which could cascade into a very unusual wheel position, easily described as "fell off," while still being connected to the car by the strut mount. That kind of failure would be Tesla's fault, and would align with the mentioned "collapsed suspensions."
In any case, the car would make incredibly horrible noises and vibrations well before a catastrophic failure. These kinds of mechanical suspension parts do not go from "perfectly fine" to "completely failed" in the blink of an eye, even if they do fail far before they should. I'm not putting the blame for the failure on the driver of the car, but I have no problem blaming the driver for letting a situation like that get to the point of catastrophic failure on a brand new car.
Edit: @TheChurn - care to tell me what I said to deserve your downvote?
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 10 months ago:
However, the defendant rejects any deals by pleading not guilty, so it might result in a more severe sentence.
A bit tangential, but: In any criminal case (goes for civil, too, but with different terminology), the accused should always plead "not guilty" at arraignment. You can change your not guilty plea to guilty later on, if the prosecution offers a plea deal, or if some other set of circumstances make that plea your best choice. If and when you plead guilty, that's it, all over, move on to sentencing.
Further down this rabbit trail, if you arrange it with the prosecution, you can plead "no contest," which is a guilty plea that cannot be used against you in a later civil case. The plea itself does not make you civilly liable. In 47 states (exceptions: Indiana, New Jersey, and Michigan), you can submit an Alford plea. This plea is "I still proclaim innocence, but I agree that the State case is strong enough to convict me, and I do not have a sufficient defense." Such a plea is allowed when the plea deal offers an escape from a more severe sentence, as in life in prison vs. capital punishment, making the plea "in the best interest" of the accused.
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- Comment on Explaining US labor law: "Right to work" & "At-will" employment 11 months ago:
"Right to work" refers to the "right" that workers have to be emploed without joining a union.
In these states, if a union has presence in a workplace, you are not required to be a member of that union to be employed there. This can mean that your compensation, benefits, work hours, overtime availability, rest hours, safety considerations, etc., are different from (read: worse than) the union member next to you doing the exact same work.
Obviously, the emplyer isn't going to make those things too much worse, else they would drive more of their workers into the union, which means that even non-union workers in a workplace where a union operates benefit from that union, and they receive that benefit for free.
Thank you, unions.
- Comment on Explaining US labor law: "Right to work" & "At-will" employment 11 months ago:
I'd also like to see some more details about:
In the U.S. “at-will” employment is permitted by law in most states.
In which states is at-will employment not "permitted"?
My understanding of at-will employment is that both employer and employee - in the absence of an employment contract - have the right to terminate the employment agreement at any time, for any reason, or none at all (with the exceptions being employers cannot terminate someone for illegal reasons, many of which are spelled out in the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
If the employer decides to terminate for any legal reason which is not "for cause" (where the employee committed a terminable infraction), the employee is entitled to receive unemployment insurance benefits, a good portion of which comes out of the employer's pocket.
- Comment on Hormones are powerful drugs. Taken by everybody. Creating massive aggresstion, obsession and mental disturbance. What would freedom from its influences look like for a society? An individual? 11 months ago:
What about the individual??
Flat effect no ambition misery? Or creative powerhouse and visionary?
Personal experience: I spent my entire youth and a large portion of my adulthood being amazingly preoccupied with sex, and with a fair amount of aggression towards everyone and everything.
Between testiulcar cancer, many consistent years of antidepressants, and just being old, I am finally feeling relief from those. I don't claim to be a "creative powerhouse and visionary" by any stretch, but I am far from having a flat affect, I'm no more or less ambitious than I was before, and I am decidedly less miserable.
In hindsight, I can see that libido and aggression have always been an obstacle to my reaching my potential. Having built some bad habits over decades, they still are. None of us get to accomplish everything we want, so I'm trying not to fret about it too much.
Overall, as an individual whose life experience has changed from one extreme to the other - whether hormones have anything to do with it or not - I much prefer the current stage in my life to the former.
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 11 months ago:
It's one of the things that really took off during lockdown. That, online grocery ordering, and curbside pickup are the three things that make life so much better for me.
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 11 months ago:
Dave's not here.
- Comment on This balloon we brought to decorate a 70th birthday party wasn't at all overshadowed by the ones left on display from the previous party. 11 months ago:
Peak helium.
- Comment on Having fun with probability models 11 months ago:
Absolutely right. Nobody really wanted to sponsor Columbus because they already knew how big the globe was, and that Columbus' proposed expedition would run out of supplies before he got to east Asia by going west - because they were unaware of the Americas existing.
The earliest globe that still exists was started in 1490, and finished in 1492, the very year that Columbus set sail. Columbus didn't return to Spain until March 15, 1493.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Nope. Cocaine.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Also for the same reason that McDonald's discontinued their tiny coffee stirrer spoons.
- Comment on When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? 11 months ago:
... aren’t called high because they are very tall.
Maybe it's because they smoke a lot of weed.
- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 1 year ago:
Fucking holes, zombie dogs.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 1 year ago:
Misrepresenting the issue causes people on the side of labor to be less effective in their efforts, because they're operating with flawed data, and makes it so that people on the side of capital can more easily disregard the concerns of labor.
There are solid and useful comparisons to be made, as I previously mentioned. Worker salary vs. corporate revenue isn't one of them.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 1 year ago:
My fault for not being able to read teeny tiny gray text on a white background, I guess.
Anyway, comparing revenue to worker compensation isn't really very useful. Payroll comes out of that revenue, as does every other cost of doing business. Compare payroll to profit, or to executive compensation, if you want to make a point. Yeah, worker compensation sucks, but just comparing it to "the biggest number we could find" doesn't mean anything.