You found the black swans.

I honestly wish this would immediately totally destroy the entire company.

We need an example for “what happens when you make basic features cost extra”.

This isn’t the first example, but the first I did hear was the heated seats (don’t remember the make, but I think it was BMW which I already hate conveniently) feature getting milked the same way.

I’m totally in favor of companies tiptoeing to see how much hostility they can get away with getting immediately liquidated and shut down faster than the CEO can finish chuckling to themselves after coming up with the idea. Their golden parachutes should turn into iron weights and they should be up shit’s creek, penniless and disqualified for any account in their name to ever receive a deposit. This kind of decision should be actually and literally lethal.

I’m not even kidding. I’m in favor of executing everyone involved in this whole chain of decisions, including any and all the “yes men” along the way. They’re too evil to be allowed to breathe my oxygen.

Every tobacco smoker is gross.

Maybe that’s a product of the old “every swan is white” kind of fallacy (don’t know the name of it offhand), but I’ve never met a habitual smoker that didn’t cause physical pain to be around. They stink, their clothes stink, their car stinks, their room stinks, and maybe their whole house.

“Stinks” may be just an opinion, but it seems to be almost universally agreed on (again, in my experience).

I’ve always looked down on them and judged them for consciously coding to smell like that, especially because all they get from it is keeping the symptoms of withdrawal away. They don’t get “high”, they don’t even get “relaxed” (except in the manner of relief from withdrawal symptoms). Literally all they get is smelling like poison and a priority pass to the lung cancer ride.

Not to mention possibly causing mild symptoms to everyone else nearby.

Also everyone doing it now wasn’t born back when they thought it was beneficial or even neutral. It’s always been the most reliable route to cancer in everyone alive today’s life.

So I think all smokers are stupid and stinky at the very best, and intentionally malicious at worst.

Given that there is absolutely no benefit at all, and given the definite danger of it to you and others, I deem smokers are just bad people in general.

On the more stupid end of the spectrum, they’re more stupid than bad, but even the very “best” tobacco for is stupid AF.

So to answer, no I don’t consume tobacco, and that is why.

Alcohol I believe is at least not as addictive, but is a bad choice for most of the same reasons. Typically they have to go more out of control to present an offensive odor, and if kept away from driving or sharp things, much less danger to others.

Their motivations seem more apparent since they do get high from it (drunk is basically just the word for a high specifically from alcohol). I also think that (not pushing this as I don’t know definitively) alcohol does less cumulative damage over time when used responsibly.

I drank occasionally (aka like 2x a week at the extreme high end) for a few years, and while I didn’t ever get a hangover exactly, I did black out once and started getting headaches regularly, so it quickly became more of a negative than a positive. Haven’t touched it for over 9 years, except for one sip of champagne for a toast at my brother’s wedding. And it was kinda gross in my opinion. Never did like the taste of alcohol, but being drunk was fun as a while as a kid, and enjoying doing something my parents wouldn’t like (coming out of a pretty conservative household) was part of it.

But almost no one just smokes occasionally. Plenty of drinkers drink occasionally. And if they’re not driving, they’re likely being annoying at worst. I don’t judge them nearly as harshly as tobacco smokers.

I’m fine with weed enjoyers. Whether you smoke it, vape it, or eat it, I’m interested in all of it. But it does still have an odor problem. Tobacco smells bad kinda universally (in my opinion), and that tar in it makes it super gross. I’ve never seen weed smoke “set in” to anything and make any permanent kinda smell. Maybe because I keep it cleaned up, maybe just because it’s not as oppressive in the first place.

Obviously I’m biased in how “bad” the smells are in relation to each other, but weed smell does seem to dissipate more. In my case I dry vape it, mostly through a window so it goes outside. None of my shit smells like weed. The room smells a bit when I’m emptying abv and loading new, but as soon as it’s put away it’s like it was never there.

So anyway, no. I don’t do either. And if you smoke tobacco (at least often or regularly), we are probably not friends. And you would definitely not be my SO. Smoking goes on the “ick” list for sure. Probably the textbook example of an ick.

I get “not found”. You got farther than me.

It’s just video game DLC but in real life.

At the first instant, my brain interpreted this as hinting that Carlson and Kid Rock had died and I was so pleasantly surprised.

Fucking Mondays.

Drunk drivers should be sentenced as if they were convicted murderers. Even if nothing bad happens, just finding out they did it should land them in just as deep a pile of shit as actually killing someone would. See how often they would try it then.

Drunk drivers get no pity or mercy from me. I hope they all have lethal accidents that don’t hurt anyone else. And if they don’t, their consequences should make them wish they did.

Fuck them.

Yeah, but…

Do you really want any good memories to be made that some would give him credit for? Especially this. I don’t wanna be diving home with my latest stash haul thinking “thanks trump” as I go on my merry way without legal worry.

I’m totally convinced he knows absolutely nothing of value, he just parrots whatever he’s told to say. Whenever he says anything about something being “the greatest”, “the biggest”, “the biggest” etc, the absolute most charitable interpretation I have is that some “expert” summarized something for him (because he can’t read) and that’s how they referred to it with him.

He never explains why whatever things is the biggest or whatever, he never contextualizes it. He’s simply verbally checking a box that the real powers that be tell him to. He’s too stupid to be in charge of everything. He’s too stupid to know how to wash his hands, or discuss anything off the cuff.

I mean anyone could trip up and say something stupid when the camera’s rolling, but he isn’t capable of saying anything above what a 4 year old could understand. He can’t name all 50 states. He probably can’t name 50 geographical locations at all. He couldn’t tell you who’s on the $50 bill without looking at it. He can’t calculate 27 minus 9. He is literally completely brainless to the point I almost legit think people are working on early drafts of skin suits for evil AI bots.

I don’t think it’s naturally possible to be as stupid as him. He’s coddled because the rest of the conservatives want the world to go their way and he’s a useful proxy for that (for now) so they pretend to respect him until even they can’t hide it anymore, and move on to probably a Hitler lookalike.

He is almost too dumb to breathe. If that wasn’t automatic, he would definitely be dead. I mean we all would once we fall asleep, but he would die while awake unless they had someone in staff constantly reminding him. This paragraph isn’t even sarcastic or exaggerating. I honestly think he would be too stupid to remember to breathe.

Now there’s a breakable jaw if I’ve ever seen one.

Let them build it. Let them settle.

Then we take the kids outta there and burn the fuckers down. And raise them properly. Ya know, with love and inclusion.

Screen those piddly lame ass infected toes, I wish all commercial advertisers straight up instant death. Make one website where people can look you up, and have promotions happen there; but nothing should ever be advertised anywhere outside that.

Advertisement is a cancer. Bad in every way.

Got my yelling at clouds done for today. I offer no further solution, but adverts are definitely just a problem of humanity, not a benefit.

Or better yet, everyone appears to be whatever the new mono-race is, but in mirrors and other reflections and photos, racists see their least favorite race.

That way they still get to suffer.

I get constant demands to log in.

It is with great pleasure I inform you

Or

It is my great pleasure to inform you

My mom saw the NDT clip where he says God is just a receding pocket of unknowns (I’m paraphrasing the hell out of it because I can’t remember the actual wording).

I think part of her realizes that he is right because while she kinda hates all non-fundie people, she really REALLY doesn’t like him. I’m guessing because she sees that line of thought as a big threat.

But if I ever get into it with her, I will make absolutely sure to bring that idea in to it, just to watch her squirm.

It doesn’t really matter if we think they’re people. It doesn’t really matter if they are. We (all the worthy humans) should treat them as non people.

I can’t see a negative here beyond false identification. If there was an objective, without a doubt way to measure if someone was a Nazi, I would support genociding them (and only them). Proactively. It should simply be as illegal to just be a Nazi on the same level as it would be to murder an entire country’s population.

Turns out that is either impossible or we’re millions of years from figuring out how to do that safely (safe in terms of not harming non Nazis). But the minute we do I’d be on board with punishing them for daring to be born. There is no world of timeline in which being Nazi isn’t worthy of immediate execution.

But since all of that is a pipe dream, in the mean time we can at least celebrate when they get taken out naturally. I wouldn’t like rub it in the family’s face (unless they were Nazis as well) or anything, but I’m definitely not even gonna act sad about it. The more pain they feel as they die, the harder I laugh. Tough lessons suck to learn. Sorry NOT sorry.

As a last note, I think that would be the better world, and it would be defending ourselves from their existence, which is a threat to everyone. As long as that idea is still in someone’s head, no one is safe.

I was using it with a 3070 just fine. Not necessarily sold on it, but so far so good.

I mean it’s dead, (for now) because my CPU died to the fate of belonging to the wrong Intel generation.

Now after finding a lottery ticket I will buy a new board and CPU, and a new GPU next in priority (since it does still work, but I won’t be buying Nvidia or Intel anymore.

I vote no. Definitely not.

Or I would, if I was in Georgia.

I feel based on the name of the community, some rules would be obvious. But a “absolutely nothing from you, male scum” isn’t obvious.

I posted one there yesterday or this morning, haven’t checked on it, but it’s probably deleted now. No harm no foul. It wasn’t meant to break a rule, and they can do what they want. But I would’ve never even known if not for this post.

But I will be blocking the sub now. Both because I’m apparently not welcome, and because I will probably accidentally do it again otherwise.

Edit: It wasn’t that sub after checking. Phew. One less toxic place to be.

They shouldn’t be allowed to even ask.

It shouldn’t be a choice that humans are free to be showed to make. It should be prevented in every possible way.