I watched the video this morning. It’s actually worse than just this.

It’s about so called chameleon trucking companies. They chameleon companies lease their trucks from a parent company that captures all the profit, re-lease them to drivers and then force the drivers to exceed the legal working time limits. When the safety record gets too bad they change company names. It’s the same trucks, same dispatchers, same drivers, just changing the stickers on the truck.

The competition to screw drivers out of pay is on top of the already predatory lease relationship between these companies and the drivers. The driver accepts all the risk and expenses and is forced to use the company dispatchers and only haul freight brokered through them. They can reject loads or negotiate rates, but realistically they have a lease to pay in order to keep the truck, so they have to accept what is offered most of the time.

It’s weird to advertise your car dealership using a car that you don’t sell at your dealership. Car dealers threw a hissyfit because Tesla bribed the right politicians to allow them to do direct to consumer auto sales.

Really cool that the president is tweeting AI generated ads for a crypto casino that employs streamers to sell gambling to children.

There was an article where they analyzed the streams of Adin Ross and Drake and showed that Stake was rigging the odds in their favor, essentially making the casino look better than it is to the children who watch that garbage

I don’t know if it’s actually better, but the cables are supposed to be the weak point. At least that was the marketing of USBC over the previous versions that had stronger locking tabs/shapes. The idea is that the cheap cable breaks so the port or the motherboard it’s attached to don’t

I saw a video about this that said she lost her pet and housing because of this. She is disabled and didn’t get her SSI payments because you can’t receive disability payments when you’re in jail.

Another detail that bugged me was that the police that picked her up in her home state wouldn’t let her take her dentures. I can’t imagine how awful eating was for her. I doubt jails do anything to accommodate people who can’t chew

They don’t take credit cards because it costs them 2.5-2.9%. That’s actually reasonable to me because credit cards are basically a tax on the poor. When the same price is charged for credit as debit/checks, people with credit get 2% or more back as rewards points and people on debit get nothing.

The one that kills me is when government payment sites are run by a private company that gets to squeeze a fee indefinitely for setting up a really basic website.

Booz Allen Hamilton(the defense contractor) runs the reservation system for federal parks. It’s a pretty basic website and in exchange they get to keep 100% of the charge for reserving a campsite, cabin, or park pass.

If a disc is unbalanced or warped it can make a horrid noise as it scrapes the drive tray. I’d guess that could also be bad enough to cause it not to read correctly as well.

Is there a label on it? Check it against a straight edge for warping.

When I do a wet sounding fart, my pants exist in a state of being both shat and unshat. When I sit down, it collapses the wave function

She needs a job in DC so she and Corey Lewandowski can keep cheating on their spouses together

A YouTube comment said nuclear tests count. I didn’t actually check, though.

I’m not sure how often those happen, maybe it’s still easy money

We should have deposits for disposable vapes. Those things are everywhere and have lithium batteries

Question for Star Wars people:

There’s a person I see at work who has their car decked out in Sith stuff. Vanity license plate says Sith, pro-Sith stickers, the empire butthole logo where the vehicles manufacturer logo would go, etc.

Aren’t the Sith unredeemable evil? I haven’t watched any Star wars besides Andor, so maybe I’m missing some lore where the Sith are rehabilitated or something.

It’s so weird to me to make loving the baddies of a film a big part your identity. Wondering if this is the red flag it seems to be.

I do clear their front sidewalk every storm, but I have no idea if they even know I’m doing it or care since they have a plow guy who clears the side of the building they use to get to their cars.

I guess they’ll say something if it bothers them too much

I just looked and they actually aren’t that much more than the one I currently own. I worry about parts availability in future, though. From googling it does appear the EGo has had tons of problems keeping up with replacement parts availability.

My experience with snowblowers is they need constant repairs. The parts are cheap, and the repairs aren’t hard, but there’s lots of little things that wear out. Especially where I live because we get multi-foot snowfalls nearly every year.

I have to go be a shitty neighbor and run my snowblower at 5am. I’m running this loud as hell machine 2 feet from someone’s window. I shovel whenever it’s feasible, but that’s not possible today, I have to work in an hour.

I guess that’s part of living where it snows. Last time I did it they had lights on, so maybe they either go to bed late or get up early.

My partner an I make the bed together every night and the cat supervises this. It’s more like getting in the way than supervising, though.

Just this year he’s finally figured out how to remain on the bed while we do it. For well over 10 years he’d jump up, get covered by the sheet, find the edge of the bed, jump down and then back up on top. Repeat with every blanket.

Finally he figured out that he can go to the head of the bed to get out from under the blankets without jumping down. Only took doing it 3650 or so times to realize this

I had that thought when I first saw this article and then I’m like, “What if I need more space?”. $1500 spent and I have 6 used enterprise drives on the way.

Great post. I really didn’t think about it that way.

I guess I just assumed bad intentions or incompetence from my personal dealings with social security.

Selling the rights to public infrastructure is hot business these days.

Texas has toll roads that were built with public money that were owned from inception by private companies. One of which they had to buy back for a huge premium because they jacked the tolls up.

Chicago parking meters are owned by a hedge fund, local water companies are being sold to private companies all over the nation.

It’s a great business model, bribe once and collect fees for 100 years. It’s basically like how kings would sell the right to tax areas to the highest bidder.

He also claims he relapsed because he was upset his she was leaving.

He was so distraught she was leaving that he drank two bottles of Chardonnay, but wouldn’t care if she was SA’ed