socphoenix

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[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how much of a bonus the sick fuck who pitched that got for the idea?

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

Personal experience it is either extreme hate or extreme respect for the institution with no in between. The idea of not caring about them isn’t possible out here from a religious perspective

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.

“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”

Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

I’m not sure if it’s plastics alone or if there’s also something with the pesticides or some other contaminant, I generally cook everything from scratch here and still felt like a million bucks eating like shit in the UK…

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 29 points 6 months ago

That is already a rule on the books. This EO is just a dog whistle for racist idiots.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 18 points 6 months ago

From my personal experience the bigotry towards non white non male folks in the industry can be pretty extreme, so off the very top of my head I can think of several ways a bombastic EO could inflame that worse. Not to mention I’d like my government to focus on fixing shit instead of meaningless performative bullshit

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 76 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It’s already part of the federal commercial driver regulations too… so no. No they have not. The most they’ve seen is someone with a heavy accent and maybe broken English.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From what I’ve found reading terms on some of these it’s fees baked into them that are pretty dang steep compared to interest if you pay them off immediately. Many then balloon once you get past some arbitrary point between 30-90 days. Might take a look at this to get an idea. I’ve seen these guys recently at a mattress store and googled a cost estimator to see how they worked.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Shit make it a daily double fam you got this

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

The court records and driving histories reveal a state so concerned with people having access to motor vehicles for work and life that it allows deadly drivers to share our roads despite the cost. Officials may call driving a privilege, but they treat it as a right — often failing to take drivers’ licenses even after they kill someone on the road.

With little to no mass transit in most of the country these people would often become impoverished and or essentially wards of the state so this is not surprising.

We found nearly 40% of the drivers charged with vehicular manslaughter since 2019 have a valid license.

I honestly figured this would be higher. I don’t expect anything to change as long as this country is intensely car focused for transportation though.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 13 points 7 months ago

That’s awful generous to assume they don’t dump dead bodies in the closest large ditch out there…

Plus they don’t want a martyr

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

It would be worth a try since this seems to be mostly performance related glitches

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