Draegur
@Draegur@lemm.ee
- Comment on Pens in Space 2 days ago:
Also you DON’T FUCKING WANT GRAPHITE DUST FLOATING AROUND IN ZERO G
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 3 days ago:
Not unless it belongs to a gestapo agent (ICE)
- Comment on Anon is staying at a hotel 5 days ago:
OOP didn’t complete the transaction so legally speaking he might actually have some wiggle room if they were trying to sting him.
Glad to hear OOP backed out though. The red flags were massive.
If I’m trying to make any kind of business arrangement with anyone, I have basically zero tolerance for if they start trying to modify parameters, move goalposts, add conditions, etc. AFTER they’ve already agreed to show up. Quote me the price, that’s what you’re getting. Oh there was tax? Oh there’s fees? Oh there’s a “surcharge”? Too bad you didn’t mention that before, GUESS THE DEALS OFF FUCKO. You can KEEP your shitty product and/or service.
Now, it’s different if I’m in a storefront for a business whose identity is verified independently such that if there’s a problem and I have to go to small claims court I’ll actually be able to reach them with certified mail, a subpoena, or other process papers that must be served.
Like, I get it, if I’m at a fast food joint there’s gonna be sales tax and a prepared foods tax. If I’m at my car repair shop, they’ve done business with my family for generations and have earned the right to tell me they caught issues wrong with my car UNTIL and UNLESS they get greedy, fuck up, and trigger my bullshit alarm; i’ll still pay but just never come back.
But even then, at a legitimate retailer, if the tax and other bullshit get too high, I have in the past canceled the transaction and walked out without product, and may still in the future depending on the circumstances.
I walked out of three car dealerships before I bought my current car because the price tag said something like $15,000 but they wanted me to sign for something over $20,000. All that paperwork, all those hoops, you wasted my fucking time with this bait and switch fuckery. And you also wasted your own. Good fucking riddance. The last place, they acquiesced and let me complete the purchase for the price that I came there for at the start.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS try to have a backup option and already know whether or not you can just go without whatever it is.
- Comment on Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial 6 days ago:
fucked as, mate.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 weeks ago:
thank you for understanding the intended tone (and kinda just a little bit making my day :3)
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 weeks ago:
EVs have no gears GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS
EVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse. EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode. EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.“Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 2 weeks ago:
yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-
- Comment on Anon explains scam callers 2 weeks ago:
unnatural selection… nevertheless, the world winnows the population for the least-fit.
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
This is part of why confidence is attractive.
It isn’t that confident humans of the male reproductive caste treat women more flippantly; it’s that actual competency correlates with not being as much of an insufferable whiny piece of shit.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 3 weeks ago:
Pentel.
Always.
I prefer the p20x series personally but just about every mech pencil I’ve ever used from them has been excellent
- Comment on World travelers 3 weeks ago:
No swallows necessary
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks ago:
It takes one to.
- Comment on rule 4 weeks ago:
Thanks I hate it
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks ago:
Good point, don’t want to contract a parasitic infestation of pure fucking evil either…
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks ago:
food that won’t make them sick.
and the rich are most sickening indeed.
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks ago:
oh dear gods they’re preparing to implement the final solution jesus fucking christ it’s actually happening ._.
- Comment on Has an argument with my girlfriend and my dog gives me the "I told you so" 5 weeks ago:
nobody knows bitches like a dog, i suppose.
- Comment on This queue for the new swasticar 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 5 weeks ago:
Well, that’s the thing, they encode the data of the security chip such that it’s a type of “media” whose “content” unlocks the functionality and copying the written media content is how they legally frame it as a tortuously stretched “violation of copyright”
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 5 weeks ago:
they’ll make smaller shittier batteries that die more quickly so that they can charge more to replace them and put proprietary control chips inside them so either third party manufacturers of better batteries will have to “violate copyright” in order to make them work or YOU’LL be required to “violate copyright” to make them work, thus locking most people without the technical skills to circumvent the ‘security’ into only buying the shitty ‘official’ batteries until MORE regulation comes along to make them cut that shit out. In the mean time they’ll be blaming the regulations for the shittiness they adopted.
- Comment on Tiny Face Vance 5 weeks ago:
jidee vins
- Comment on 1987 1 month ago:
WHERE THE FUCK IS LUNCH @_@
Are you telling me they call lunch “dinner”?!
- Comment on that's a cute name 1 month ago:
Richard Visage
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
Exactly.
“they can’t do that that’s illegal”
Who’s gonna stop them? The law ain’t doing Jack FUCKING Shit. If there is no group or individual who is both willing and able to inflict consequences, THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES
- Comment on Xenon 1 month ago:
youtube.com/@explosionsandfire if he releases it soon and you want to watch it instead of just seeing the post where he demos the title card
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 month ago:
In your position I’d be donating some of that money that’s otherwise sitting around doing nothing. But then again, I avoid tv and streaming shows like the plague and have actual niche interests that inspire me. I see people struggling, feel a fundamental urge to help them, and sometimes DO when I can afford it… And that shit is like a DRUG to me. Generosity feels fucking amazing @_@ oxytocin, adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, it’s ALL there!
- Comment on Would you consider me a “dry texter”? 1 month ago:
Do you perhaps fathom how unhelpful and standoffish single word replies are? Conversation is an exchange. If you are not at the very least matching their verbosity and sharing information that is also related to what they’re saying, you’re giving them very little to work with.
But I usually have the opposite problem: my prose is purple as hell. I’m ridiculously verbose and I over share to an absurd degree.
- Comment on Would you consider me a “dry texter”? 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
Fatigue.
We’re too distracted by struggling to survive our small local daily struggles to even SEE the big picture.
If there’s a time bomb in the room ticking down before your eyes, yeah that’s a big deal. If, in that same room, you’re also being attacked by a pack of rabid dogs though, chances are you’ve stuck a pin in the whole “what about the bomb” thing.
And if there’s a sniper outside the room preparing to shoot you without even a moment’s notice that you KNOW is there and that you can’t even see AS WELL, all you can hope for us that all the moving around you’re doing to avoid being dragged down and torn apart by the rabid dogs will throw off their shots.
They have BLINDED US WITH TRAUMA.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This explains much of the Polish “god fucking dammit not again” mentality ._.
