to build roads and maintain the world’s strongest defensive military, of course. y’know, the things people need?

people don’t need safe drinking water, duh

because they double checked and the customer got huffy about it

customer did this to themselves, OP tried to help them and was punished for it

yeah that’s not enough of a “fuck you” for my liking

how would somebody even go about making lives of the people responsible for this bullshit worse?

like how does the average person say “fuck you” to the assholes coming up with this shit?

I have literally a dozen allen key sets, at least, and still toss the freebies into a drawer

they come in handy every now and then when you need to hammer one into a partially stripped bolt head or something like that

does anyone know why Sony is so intent on ensuring that I never become a console gamer and give them money?

like how does this benefit them?

Louis Rossman

nah, I usually watch videos on 1x and skip through (how to’s and whatnot). if a video isn’t entertaining at the presented speed, I don’t watch it

I’ve got a tv with legs like that. you can tip it surprisingly far over. I even made risers to tilt one forward to remove the glare from the afternoon sun

now, idk if the one in the photo has a worse balance than the two I’ve dealt with

did you care about things like that when you were 14?

also you’re vastly overestimating the average person’s knowledge of such things relative to us chronically online folk

Doug Ford

as shitty as the guy is, at least he’s standing up to Trump

I just hope Ontarians don’t forget how he has and continues to fuck them over

this is a weird comparison

there are real criminals out there and OP chose drug addicts, a crime which by itself is just minding your own business

fuck, go after the drivers endangering countless people every day. far more dangerous than drug addicts that commit crimes that affect other people

sorry, not inconsequential. those lights were objectively better and made countless people’s lives better than the LED shit, whether or not they even realized it.

the change to LED has been a real loss with consequences

thankfully my reflexes still prioritize my own safety, and most times I leave a near collision pissed off at the shitty driver and regretful that I couldn’t leave them a lasting mark. but when I get to the chance to, say, let my cargo bike basket scrape a car that pushed me into the curb, I’m gonna try to take it.

and thankfully (?) my health issues are unrelated to biking injuries (at least, unrelated to sharing the road with drivers — I’ve got a completely self-inflicted road injury from long ago and injuries from mountain biking lol).

to be fair, it’s not like fewer cyclists are following the rules than drivers

my mindset when biking now is mostly to inconvenience bad drivers as much as possible and ensure that if they hit me it results in as much damage to their car as I can without harming myself.

I will aggressively take my right of way. one of the most common places is a bike crossing nearby where drivers routinely blow the stop line on their red light - I start up quickly so that if they blow the stop and go into the crossing, I may not be able to stop before crashing into them (you often can’t see them approaching the stop line because they are behind traffic in the middle lane). I don’t mind my shitty bike taking some damage if it leaves them with a dented door panel. another common occurrence is roundabouts - drivers vastly underestimate the speed at which a bike can navigate a tight roundabout, and they routinely cut me off. unfortunately, I’ve avoided collisions every time that a driver has nearly hit me, because my reaction is to not get hurt. but god damn did I ever want to slam into some of those cars and leave a lasting impression

my experience - list for what you want to get, and just ignore people who annoy you

for items you want to give away for free, mark them as $10 or $20 and then just give them for free when they show up

nah it’s fucked now. and as a result, I’m more aggressive as well

had a guy last night with LED bulbs in halogen housings pull up across the red light. put my highbeams on because I couldn’t fucking see. he turned his LED highbeams on. when the light turned green, they swerved towards me.

funny thing is, that’s similar to what I do when I’m being blinded - I drift towards the center of the road so I don’t go into the ditch. but this guy thought I instigated the situation when I was just responding to him instigating the situation.

nobody won. we’re both pissed off. it’s stupid. but fuck the assholes, nothing will change unless there are consequences. so I’m gonna try to make consequences for them. and that means I appear as just one more asshole on the road to others.

another peeve of mine is driver aids. it’s made people so goddamn bad in parking lots. I don’t give a fuck that your backup alarm wasn’t going, I’M WALKING HERE, and “I didn’t see you” isn’t a fucking excuse or apology for you being a dangerous shit driver. fuck you.

because they think they can make more money that way, and they don’t care about the users even one little bit

what’s the relevance of the car. who is selling cakes in their car? do they eat the cake in the car? is this an american thing?

I wouldn’t know. I tried several times to listen, years ago, and couldn’t make it far enough into any episode to remember any of it.