I still watch sports unlike many people here (who all have good reasons to, tbh, I just can't get myself to quit), so I was watching this video about this seasons NBA MVP race, and at the end, it shows a clip of a shitty former player by the name of Kendrick Perkins (who’s only known for being a bench player on the 2008 Celtics team) trying to insinuate that the only reason that Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki (probably misspelled) and Nikola Jokic won their MVPs and that Jokic is only in the conversation for MVP this year because they’re white, which actually lead to Jokic’s MVP stock falling as of late.
I went to Reddit and went looking for threads about it just because and the downvoted comments are the ones where they're defending the anti-white racism, the people who are calling this out are the ones being upvoted. This makes me somewhat hopeful because the Reddit users who are fans of a sport which is majority played by tall black people are willing to call this shit out, which is a wonder for Reddit as we all know. I, like Smith1850 am just a black person who doesn't believe in all the woke shit, and this makes me hopeful that maybe we can actually resolve modern society peacefully and without going into a race war, if people on an openly leftist site with secret rules about trans people can openly complain about black people being racist against white people. Maybe.
Been watching several videos on it, and one complaint I’ve seen in general is Congress has too many fucking lawyers in office and the fact that there’s way too many lawyers means no one in Congress has had a “normal” job before politics. Another one is the whole complaining about corporate lobbying, but idk how you ban corporate lobbying without banning individual lobbying.
On the whole too many lawyers thing, several states in Australia have outright banned property developers and real estate agents from running for office, and there’s talk of making it federal, so I’m curious if that’s even constitutional in the US, just because having so many lawyers in Congress has turned out to be a problem.
Every time I listen to Louis Rossmann, I realize we live in a world where not only do people not own most of the stuff that they use, they're HAPPY that they don't own most of the stuff that they use. Louis' latest video is about someone who got their car stolen in their driveway, with their kid still in the car, and when the cops called Volkswagen to see if they could locate the car, they said no because the person who got their car stolen had been a few days late on that subscription for the month, which while I get if the person herself had been late on the payments had asked that would be understandable, but it's the fucking cops trying to get the woman's car back with her kid in it.
Louis linked the article in the description of the video and apparently the thieves dropped the kid off somewhere and then just took the car, but regardless, I don't think if the police call a car manufacturer, they should make the person who owns the car pay up first, there should be an emergency exception, but they're probably trained (poorly, considering most customer service reps that aren't in banks/credit card institutions are shit), to strictly follow their script no matter what, which is pretty bad itself, but goodness is the world messed up.
Uber 40% discount not actually being 40% and instead being some weird BS of 40% that’s in the TOS.
Should Terms of Service/EULAs/etc be able to be that way where they can hide a bunch of shit like this in the first place or no? Also should the government have the ability to regulate that corporations not do this in the first place. /r/AssholeDesign is an interesting subreddit to me because of how shitty corporations are, but because the only way to stop corporations is using the power of the government for the most part, what can we do?
Title, as he hasn't posted in 3 days and the man almost lives on the site
Hypergamy
I’m generally curious what you all think about the “R2R” movement, because as a whole, it's great imo and Louis Rossmann, who’s the most recognizable face of it, is someone who I wish was more well known to the general public, but as a whole, what it aims to do is make it so that you're able to fix the things you purchase, rather than be “encouraged” by the company to purchase a new one, and in general, has become a question of “do you own your device/car/tractor/etc., or does the company” in terms of how much you're allowed to do with what you own.
People who farm have had to deal with John Deere locking down their tools so only licensed dealers can work on them effectively and have had to resort to jailbreaking their tractors on occasion, Apple and other Big Tech names have made their electronics harder to repair over the years, serializing and pairing parts to motherboards so they don't work even if you swap between two of the same part between two of the same brand new phone, it's a whole mess in and of itself, but the general conclusion that’s been agreed on is that only two things can really change this:
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Government regulations preventing all the nonsense like serialization/pairing, making manufacturers/OEMs have to provide parts and schematics.
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Society actually puts pressure on said companies by not buying those harder to repair products, which is pretty fucking hard, considering what society we live in, illustrated in this video.
Most R2R activists think that number 1 is way more likely to happen, and have been doing that, getting R2R laws passed in almost 20 states so far, but I'm just wondering if anyone has any issues with having to use the government to make companies less shitty when it comes to actually owning the device you purchase, or not.
