LanyrdSkynrd

joined 2 years ago
[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Trademark infringement

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Under communism everybody will be forced to have fun, forced to wang chung

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

He's apparently also upset with the fact that Trump didn't appoint the NASA administrator he likes, and signed a deal with OpenAI rather than xAI

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Tax software is useless for most Americans if it can do E-file, and you have to be a tax software company partnered with the IRS to do that.

If you print and paper file it takes ages to get your tax return. The biggest moneymaker for TurboTax is return anticipation loans, where they instantly give you your money(minus an obscene amount of interest for money that is guaranteed to be repaid).

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've been in many online arguments about the ultra dark tint. My biggest gripe is that I can't tell if a driver is looking my way. It's very helpful to be able to tell if someone is looking your direction, as a driver and even more importantly as a pedestrian. If I'm about to cross a street and I know the driver saw me, I can cross without too much worry of being hit.

Tint does make a difference with regard to how hot your car gets in the sun, but a legal tint does that pretty well without comprising safety.

I very much doubt tint does anything for the lights, though. It's the brightness as much as the intensity and direction of projector beam headlamps that hurt your eyes.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have to figure out how worry about money less. It's weird because I was much less worried when I was significantly poorer than I am now.

I guess it's because I have some measure of financial stability so I worry about losing that. When I was broke I felt screwed no matter what happened.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I was arguing with a guy in real life who was saying that corporations being able to use non-compete agreements was a good thing. Every one of his points was essentially, "But what about X situation where corps will lose money?".

This guy is a gig worker struggling to survive but is deeply concerned with some corporation losing money.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

They did the same thing with trucking. Told everyone it was a solid middle class career in dire need of workers. Convinced a bunch of states and the feds to foot the bill for truck driving schools.

They never needed more drivers, what they needed was more people to sucker in to predatory truck leases. They get new graduates to sign a lease for a truck. The lease forces them to only work for the company that leases them the truck, forcing them to accept whatever mileage rate the company decides to give them. Once the driver gets sick of that, the company takes the truck and leases it to the next person they recruit directly from trucking school(paid for by the government).

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Cross branding is out of control. I saw Dunkin donuts branded body wash:

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a guy who got 217 doses of the vaccine:

https://www.fau.eu/2024/03/news/research/researchers-investigate-immune-response-of-a-man-who-received-217-covid-vaccinations/

IIRC he was getting a new dose every 3 days for some period of time.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let me introduce you to my partner, Gabagool Pizzarino.

Yes, he is Italian. How'd you guess?

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