Malfeasant

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[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the point - it's not that he's enriching himself - he's already done that. It's that the charity carries out his will, not necessarily the will of people who need charities.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point is on your head.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, and they were designed with that in mind- brake pedals with more leverage for one...

My mom had a Ford ranger for a while that had lost its brake boost, it took a lot of force to get it to slow down, and that wasn't even a heavy vehicle, this was back when a pickup was a two-seater...

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

3.11/95/98/ME/NT/XP

How badly did Vista hurt you?

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I've had the opposite experience - 10 sucked, but I have no complaints about 11... Though it might make a difference that my experience with 10 was after my old (win7 vintage) laptop took the free update, while my 11 experience is based on a new laptop that came with it preinstalled...

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Why would someone own 8 vehicles?

My uncle was like that - he was a contractor and realtor. He had several work trucks, each for a specific purpose, plus one general purpose, and half of them had snowplows of various sizes. Most of them had something wrong with them that didn't interfere with their specific purpose, but would have been a pain to deal with daily. Only new one was a minivan for driving clients to sites... Then he bought a house closer to town that had a flatbed truck left on it...

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

On the internet, anyone can say anything. I am the Pope.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How well does that work after losing vacuum assist?

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I was trying to offer an argument for the alternative

But that's not what you did, at first anyway. You were looking for an argument. You asked someone to justify something that to you is a slight, with no way of knowing whether the other person intended it that way. They got defensive because they have no idea what you're getting at, from their perspective you're just saying "you said something wrong, this is right" without explaining why.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's not charity to give money to an organization you (or friends or relatives) control, it's a way to keep your assets under your control without having to pay taxes that would otherwise be required.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

direct to VHS

No. Videotape, sure, but not VHS.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Years ago, I read the book Empire because I had been a fan of OSC and didn't know yet what a dickhead he was. The book describes more or less exactly what you said, it was comical, but also kind of sad.

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