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At the rate we’re going we’ll be lucky if we aren’t all dead in 250 years, let alone 250 million.

We gotta know what Ja Rule has to say about this.

I completely agree that MLMs are a “scam” but they are legitimate businesses in the eyes of the law.

Then they shouldn’t be. Problem solved, next question?

It’s not like you can request a Japanese Accord just for fun

You can, you’ll just have to pay for it. I fix cars for a living, I’ve worked on a handful of imported right hand drive cars for a few people. Most of those cars came out of Japan.

Granted, most of them weren’t Honda Accords, because someone willing to spend the money to custom ship a Japanese car across the ocean is probably buying something more impressive than that. But you could do it if you wanted.

The product is objectively the worst possible option in any place that has options, which is most places. It may be useful for some people in some remote parts of the world. Doesn’t make it a good product though. It just makes it the only product on offer.

Android is literally Linux, and also you can put whatever custom rom you want on your phone. Write your own if it’s that big a deal to you. Don’t stick with stock Android, but if you want a customizable phone, that’s your option. Microsoft and Apple don’t give you the option for custom firmware. Android does.

That’s Android. You want an Android. Buy a Samsung and flash whatever rom you want onto it.

have absolutely no authority whatsoever to approve or deny anything,

Then these are explicitly not the people I am talking about. The ones implementing the policies that cause prices of medication to skyrocket and then denying that same life saving medication to the people who require it, are the people I’m talking about. This situation isn’t nobody’s fault. It was caused by people and those people deserve whatever karma has in store for them.

The easy answer for the wage slaves is to say “just work somewhere else” but I’ve been desperate enough before that I know that’s not always an option. I have no beef with those guys. Clocking a 9-5 and going home isn’t the great evil that’s being called out here.

I’m sorry you had to live through that and, honestly, while I don’t consider my perspective to be changed I do respect what you’re saying here. People who threaten violence on call center workers are idiots. But you have to admit that their fear and anger has a legitimate source.

Good thing this isn’t reddit. Also, OP is right. They aren’t actively calling for harm against them, only stating that they deserve death, which I agree with. Anyone who makes a conscious decision to cause the suffering and death of another person, most particularly doing so purely in the pursuit of profit, deserves whatever is coming to them. I’m not going to show up and murder these people but I also won’t be too disappointed to hear that someone else did.

In the words of Mark Twain, “I have never wished a man death, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction.”

That said… point taken. I’d prefer if we didn’t call it out so coarsely. This one is toeing the line of “Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?” and we shouldn’t invite calls to violence.

I think I’m eligible to weigh in on this since I was issued a MacBook in high school and then went on to work IT later.

Do not, ever, under any circumstance, for any reason, use your personal device for business. Whatsoever. This includes school. If your job requires you to install an application on your phone, they better provide you a phone with it installed. If your school wants you to use a chromebook they will provide you one and you will use it. It is never a good idea to put these things on your personal device for convenience. The reason for this often comes down to security. For employers, they want to make sure their data is secure, and will retain the rights and the ability to remotely wipe or disable your device. If that’s the work phone, who gives a shit. If that’s your personal phone, suddenly you are the one who very much gives a shit. For schools, they want to make sure their students are properly monitored and cannot cheat or get up to illegal shenanigans, so the devices will be locked down tighter than Alcatraz and they will likewise retain the rights and the ability to remotely wipe, disable, or take control of the device. And some of those lockdown programs they install will put entries in your registry or something that causes them to be pretty goddamn near impossible to ever get rid of without a full wipe and reinstall, and frequently make it extremely difficult to wipe and reinstall without the assistance of the administrator. School IT would be able to fix this for you once school is letting out, but probably the only way they do it is by wiping your whole hard drive, or at best, restoring an image from before the beginning of the school year.

And that’s not even getting to the point where if all the students have a standard issue chromebook and one person has a much nicer one, it’s not a matter of “if” but “when” it will be stolen or broken.

Honest to God you are both going to be miles better off just putting up with the shitty one and keeping the good one at home. I promise with every shred of my cold shriveled ex-IT heart that that’s in your best interest.

Edit: Just realizing, chromebooks don’t really keep shit on their hard drive do they? My prior warnings still apply, but if there’s nothing on there you’re really worried about and you don’t mind if the chromebook gets nuked and resurrected, go for it I guess. This warning was mostly in the perspective of the MacBook that I used personally, or phones for employers which is relatively common. Just be aware that you’re handing the school IT the keys to the kingdom for a while, and they’ll pretty likely be able to spy on anything you ever do on that device.

That one in particular is a bomb waiting to blow. Is this link to a webpage or to a malicious download? Who knows! Guess we’ll just have to click on it and see if anything starts downloading.

Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.

Incredible, DefinitelyNotBirds coming in with the unprecedented triple down! Unsatisfied with being proven wrong once and being made a fool of once, DefinitelyNotBirds is now making a fool of themselves in order to even the score. Amazing stuff, folks. Tune in for the next round of methposting and see what happens next!

Second the recommendation for a Brother. I’ve rarely had problems with them. Above all do NOT buy an HP printer because they come with every form of nickel-and-dime known to mankind.

Alternatively, for the once in a blue moon that the average person needs to actually print things in the modern day, bring your local library a fiver and use their printer. This is the way I do things, because I rarely ever need to print a document. When I do, it’s a ten minute drive and a five dollar or less cost and then I don’t have to bother with owning a printer.

But in general, Brother is a good brand, and a laser printer will be less hassle and easier to manage than an inkjet, but will have a bit higher purchase cost.

A football isn’t shaped like food or breasts, so why do human males enjoy them so much?

Plenty of singers get by with unconventional voices because they can sing in tune.

That’s a damn fact. Dave Mustaine has an absolutely awful singing voice (and an awful attitude but that’s a different story) but he just went out there and went wild with it and became one of the most recognizable voices in classic metal. Recognizable largely because it’s awful but he manages to spin it into something people want to hear. Nobody else sounds like him and he made a living off that.

I’d argue the same for Bon Scott and Brian Johnson of AC/DC. I’m not sure they could have made it in any other genre, but they did damn well for themselves playing good old rock and roll. It’s about matching a style to your voice and then having the confidence to go out there and blaze a new trail. But I suppose that’s the same for any music.

He’s making world culture healthier by removing Twitter from it. It’s a brave, selfless move of self-sacrifice (that he most certainly never intended)

Nathan Pyle is a treasure.