We should have gotten a second season at least.

Fox Media was run by sadists

I’m going to take a bold position and say they were all good consoles. It was a beautiful time for video games.

Competition between insurance providers won’t help us here since

the insurance firms are a cartel anyway and the price variance is more a consequence of your region and your vehicle than your carrier.

You can be the best defensive driver in the world but sometimes you’re just going to have to brake hard to avoid an object that may jump on you, dinging your driving score and raising your premiums.

If you’re the best driver in the world, you don’t need to carry insurance because the lifetime expected spending on premiums is below the lifetime insurance payments. The only reason you carry insurance is if you’re not sure whether you’re the best driver in the world.

Once your insurance knows (better than you) where you rank as a driver, they will either refuse to cover you (because costs > revenues) or raise your rates until you fall into a high risk of changing carriers (because that’s where they maximize profits). The initial discount is simply a teaser rate, while the company collects more data. The real determination of your max tolerable premium is your personal income, which is set by the value of your vehicle. All the telematics is hand-wavy bullshit. You really might be the best driver in the world, but they’ll still raise your rates if they think you’ll pay it.

The real secret to getting a lower insurance premium is to own a cheaper car (and therefore signal to your insurer that you have less money to spend on insurance).

Me, on the phone with my insurance company: “No, you don’t understand! It wasn’t me driving, we just have very similar telematics!”

The insurance company: “Beep boop! I am a computer! Talking to me automatically raises your insurance premium another 5%”

You will own nothing and be happy.

Unironically the future of capitalism, as it devolves into feudalism with more killer robots.

You’ve got the CEO (Absolute Monarch) who owns all the shit and you work on it in exchange for not being killed or deported. Maybe you get some treats from time to time. More likely, you just get someone from the PMC to tell you to pray more.

Humans in power are too egocentric to not be kept in check.

A handful of humans with the power to deliver unlimited genocide on their neighbors are hard to keep in check.

The idea that you could trust a corporation, any corporation, at its word is laughable on its face

We’re surrounded by corporate entities all trying to leech profit out of us.

It’s less a question of trust and more of information alternatives. When all you can hear is the din of advertisement, it’s difficult to chart a path through the racket.

You’re bound to get suckered by someone, eventually.

My whole library is wipped out

I assumed this was about an actual library and not some shmuck who got suckered into a thinly veiled rental service.

the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.

I think it was closer to the middle of the plan.

do a barrel roll to continue

Reddit hasn’t been that fun in a long time.

Easy fix is to update the url to use “old.reddit.com” rather than the base “www.reddit.com”.

That sends you to a version of the site without a bunch of the crap.

Pretty much everything built with dimensional lumber in the last century has been done with undersized 2x4s, and it’s fine.

It’s fine, folks. Nothing to see here.

The whole channel is kinda going to shit. Even as streaming services go, they rank behind Netflix and Apple.

But they’ve got a brand that people cannot resist. So we keep drinking their garbage.

Its a luxury service in a declining economy, when everything is getting shittier and shittier and people will pay through the nose for relief. Why wouldn’t they charge more?

Yargh, matey. There be another option, if ye’ve got tha wit and tha courage.

Something of a joke that, since the SSN is an identifier, the identity tool quickly becomes an identity theft tool once it’s been pilfered.

With humans increasingly pushed out of the customer service loop, these security scams get easier every day.

I hear working from home makes your dick small, pass it on.

I can’t even tell what online rag this shitpost came from.

But I imagine its getting reposted a thousand times in those annoying headline gore ads that fill up every website not sufficiently ad-blocked.

Head over to lemmy.ml and scroll to the mod log link at the bottom if you want to see for yourself.

Its a low-pop, low-activity community. If you’re genuinely worried about the evil online leftists, I’d be far more scared of Hexbear than lemmy.ml.

which says don’t be a bigot, even if that’s obviously not what the comment was about.

Maybe. But I also see a lot of 4chan-esque double speak and “Free Speech” concern trolling that’s all the fuck over Reddit constantly without ever getting any kind of take down.

Reddit admins have automated so much of their policy that you’re posting in a minefield. You don’t know what arcane caveat you’re going to trip over that’ll get you suspended or banned. But you still find yourself hip deep in the most virulent bigoted, war-mongering, and overtly vile comment threads, because older heads know how to tip toe around the trigger words.