schwim

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Mechanics at Volkswagen Northern located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

 
 
 

From the FB post: "A photo from my uncle’s album of a Chevy powered Volkswagen. I’m not sure what track this was at, possibly Aquasco, York, or Capitol, in 1961 or 62."

 
 
 
 
 
 

Times sure have changed! It's 1975, Porsche's R&D engineers and testers have fun with a care-shortened VW Combi T2 pick up. (photo : Porsche)

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think that's a great way to handle this. The guilty party should have their lives or at the very least, financial wellbeing ruined just as they ruined another family's.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

By your argument, the girl's family are not the victims as they are taxpayers and presumably, voters.

Even if you're going to blame the voters for not intuiting that their voted official is corrupt and going to do future dastardly deeds or being at fault for a police officer that was hired and not elected, I don't feel your logic fits here. Unless you just mean that everyone is at fault, always and for everything until they are the unlucky ones at which time they are victims and no longer to blame.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 42 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I always wonder how I would feel in this scenario as other than viewing it as some form of terrible lottery winning, it just all seems even worse. There was no justice for what occurred and anyone that says government entities need to pay for when they do something like this, I'm not sure why you think anyone other than the taxpayers are footing this bill.

It just seems like a "better than nothing" scenario where the government pays victims off with the victims' own money to go away.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 48 points 2 years ago (8 children)

How does Firefox fail you at tabs? I've always been happy with it, I sandbox my FB and Google social stuff, Save groups for opening at once, share tabs across devices, I don't want for anything.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 210 points 2 years ago (39 children)

Orrrr.... don't use Google Chrome.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

My mom threw all of my cassettes away after getting a tape from her church telling of the satanic messages subliminally added to the devil's soundtrack.

Ironically, she listened to the very same music decades later in her golden years. I'm assuming Jesus had had sufficient time to strip the messages out of the music.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 200 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You can still opt out by not visiting the site, which I encourage everyone to try.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Absolutely. Throwing everything that you may not want to open at work in with hardcore porn as an all-or-nothing view choice is incredibly shortsighted.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 56 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But they hate much more than just trans people. You could have said 50% and you would have been closer to the truth.

[–] schwim@reddthat.com 117 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I won't sit through a non-organic product placement. If I'm watching a guy weld up a body panel and he tells me how great a welder is, it doesn't bother me. If I'm watching and he starts telling me about his VPN or a phone game, that shit's getting skipped.

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