firm yet polite.

It’d be so nice if other world leaders knew how to do this. Seems like right now we have a lot of big egos, and small penis’s bring their energy to the world stage right now.

I mean…I get where you’re coming from, but fuck that!

I’d have deleted the entire matrix server entirely. Washed my hands of the entire thing.

Because you can go to the police, and say “There’s child porn on MY server”, and the cops MIGHT work with you to catch the people actually posting it.

OR

They might take the easy way. There’s a guy here, saying he’s hosting a server with child porn. Arrest him, because we know who he is, and call it a win in the media. Yes thats not how the law works…but it’s how lazy and corrupt cops work.

Cops are never your friend. I’d avoid any interactions with them that you can.

Have you tried…GoDaddy???

giggles as the downvotes pour in

Boring and dependable.

Just like I wish politics were.

Now that Google is slowly but surely going to shits,

Slowly? Did you just wake from a coma from 2013? Because if so…literally nothing about life is about to make sense. I mean, not even talking about search engines anymore. You went into a coma with a black president trying to get healthcare for all Americans, and woke up to the bad timeline from Back To The Future II. Except in this reality, it’s even worse. Even Biff never gave nazi salutes…

Oh no, it’s worse than that. I’ve explained several times to several people the terrible business practices that nestle use.

I’ve named off some of the bigger products they make.

90% of people I’ve explained this to gave zero shits. The other 10% feigned interest but didn’t change their behavior.

So, the people I’ve explained it to can’t feign ignorance. It’s apathy.

They just said “for this particular issue, the hard drive is not working, and so there’s nothing we can do about that”.

I agree the hard drive wasn’t working. So I asked them to point me to the claus in the warrenty that dismissed them if the hard drive wasn’t working within the warrenty period. They just kept transfering me around.

It’s decades later, and I’m still of the belief that I was right. It’s also the reason I hold no grudge towards best buy.

Seagate defined their warrenty as 90 days, barring user defects (so like if I had spilled a drink on it, or did something on my end that would break it). Since nothing about the defect had anything to do with me, I’d say I fall into their warrenty.

If I had opened the box sooner, and gotten it back to best buy with the reciept, within 14 days, I’d expect them to have taken it back. I opened it a month or so in, so that part is on me. Best buy defined their terms before I purchased. I was outside those terms. Sucked for me, but you can’t fault best buy for that.

I was just mad that seagate said “this is our warrenty, these are our terms”, and then didn’t honor it on a defective drive. At that point I DO fault the company that doesn’t honor their own word.

I hadn’t opened the package for about a month. Best buy had a 14 day return period, which is why I don’t blame them. They offered their terms, I was outside of their return period, even if the package was unopened.

The seagate warrenty was 90 days. Which I was within.

Just a few weeks ago I made comments that I wouldn’t be interested in buying seagate’s latest 34 terabyte hard drive, or whatever it was.

My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.

Which to me, is them being an untruthful company. THEY wrote the terms of the warrenty. I fell within them. They refused to honor their warrenty.

Alright. Fine, you’re on the blacklist. And I haven’t bought a seagate product since.

And peoples response on lemmy to those comments was “it was 15+ years ago, they make better products now”

Which misses the point entirely. I’m not boycotting them to reduce risk of getting another junk product. I’m boycotting them because they don’t stand behind their word.

I feel we as people need to stand up, and police the businesses. Ok, so McDonalds is supporting trump. Mcdonalds is supporting russia. Mcdonalds is doing all this shady shit? Well then STOP BUYING BIG MACS, ASSHOLE! If we, collectively as a society held dishonest businesses to the flame for shady practices, then these shady businesses would stop being shady.

It’s a simple formula.

(Shady thing) - (lost sales from protests) + (completed purchases) = total dollars.

Now, if the lost sales from protests swallows the completed purchases, then that means that shady thing cost them money. When that happens, they will stop doing the thing that loses them money.

But if the shady thing boosts their sales more than the protests cost the sales, it becomes just a cost of doing business.

It seems like such a simple concept too. Don’t buy from shitty companies, but yet Nestle is out here just thriving.

Thank goodness bladders don’t require others for the flow of our own individual streams!

I know, right? I too wanted to watch your local media!

Sometimes seeds need a little mulch, and a little manure. I just want everyone to know I’m doing my part. I’m CONSTANTLY shitting on Brian Thompson.

When all you know is a hammer…

You begin dancing eratically with flashy vinyl pants that sparkle?

HAMMER! DON’T HURT EM!!!

What’s wrong with just throwing MP3s on an SD card, or hard drive?

Edit: Love how I have 4 upvotes, 4 downvotes. So a pretty divicive statement I’ve made. Yet nobody has told me why mp3s on local storage is or is not a solution for self hosting music. No opinions shared, other than angry arrows in both directions.

Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

That’s a terrible romcom.

“She was a Mac user, listening to The Beatles on her iPhone. He was a Linux user…probably using one of those custom modular built cell phones with an open kernal or something. This Holiday season, watch cultures clash as two different technology mindsets clash. When governments threaten to censor pornography in their state during the stressful holiday season, they turn to each other for support and, they fall in love! Courtney Cox, and Jerry Lewis star in…Different Worlds!”

I wouldn’t watch that.

I live in Cleveland. I know all about cheering for shitty teams. Republicans are more like a cult.

See, I refuse to cheer for the browns until 2027. I refuse to cheer for a rapist. I treat empathy of humans over who got the points by throwing a ball.

With these people cruelty is the point. If I see a stray 99mph pitch hit another opposing player in the head, my immediate thought is “OH MY GOD!!! IS HE OK???”

Whereas, the way republicans treat politics, the message is clear. “Oh my god, I hope they die!”

Which is what helps explain a lot of their policy. They want to ban abortion, because they hope women die. They don’t want gun reform laws, because they hope people die. They don’t want medical care for anyone but them, because they hope others die.

Sports is supposed to be the thing I watch to distract myself from all this bullshit. Sooooo…GO GUARDS!!! BEAT THE YANKEES!!! (in a game of baseball. Not with violence.)

They promised to be “not biden”, and lemmings ate the fish like dynamite.

See, that phrase didn’t make sense, but it doesn’t need to. Politics for these people isn’t about policy, or logic, or even country. It’s about “if I win, you lose, so fuck you!”.

And that’s how we got here.

Pressure on the state to do what exactly?

This is why some voters feel disenfranchised from voting. Republicans in NY and CA may as well not exist. Democrats in Idaho, and Iowa may as well not exist. Because of the reasons you said.

That being said, Texas democrats need to get off their asses. Their state is only republican because of nonźvoters. Some states it’s hopeless, and then there’s Texas, which absolutely SHOULD at the very least be a swing state. But it’s not.

Stop being right…