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  • The easiest thing in the world is not to connect your fridge to the internet.

    Also don't buy Samsung refrigerators they are truly truly horrific.

    I'm an appliance repairman.

  • My friend, who works as a license renewal and hiring manager at a large tech security firm, once shared something interesting with me. He said that when hiring under his company’s DEI standards, he sometimes had to bring on someone who wasn’t the strongest candidate for the role. The goal was to meet diversity requirements, but the tradeoff was that it occasionally meant hiring someone less qualified.

    According to him, if a hire brought in under those standards didn’t perform well, it could be harder for the company to let that person go. The emphasis on maintaining diversity created extra pressure to hold on, even when performance wasn’t where it needed to be. That situation, understandably, can affect the rest of the team.

    Personally, I don’t have anything against DEI. In fact, I think it helps reduce nepotism, which is a positive. But I also don’t think DEI always works out the way people imagine it will. Like many policies, it has both benefits and downsides.

    The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s a slippery slope when governments start drawing hard lines about who can and cannot be fired. At the end of the day, what tends to matter most is whether someone makes the company money.

    Take my friend as an example again: he’s only required to bring in $250,000 each quarter, but he actually brings in around $4 million. Because of that, he has survived multiple layoffs and has even been moved to different departments, simply because his performance makes him too valuable to lose.

  • I don’t understand this whole “celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death” thing. Is that just another way of saying they don’t care that he died?

    I think Charlie Kirk was a racist and a bigot, and he got exactly what was coming to him. The man lived and died by his words. But I certainly don’t celebrate his death either, it’s kind of a weird thing to say.

  • Volkswagen is so bad at this! They have phone connectivity but they bog down the infotainment with they're own crap software. The GPS is so bad it slowes down the whole system. I will never use vw maps. Ever. Just stop!

    And Chevy just doesn't have android auto on or apple play on their lower trim levels. But they do compensate by integrating Google maps at least.

    Kia is the best though. Minimal proprietary software. Plug your phone in and android auto automatically comes up.

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  • Dude. If your wood lasts for more than four hours you should seek medical attention.

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  • Or that one weird looking piece of wood in the corner of the garage.

    I'll need it one day! I swear!

  • It is kinda insane. Dude. I've seen billboards for the guy in my home town.

    Christ on a stick. I feel like I need a shower.

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  • Uhhhh that true crime stuff gets you like a cocaine addiction. It's terrible.

  • Why would I or anyone outside of his family and friends mourn him at all? He was a political pundent... A talking head.

  • Lol a Nazi sympathizer and a literal human trafficer have opinions and support far right conservatives. I don't know about the other two, never heard of them.

    What is this time line!

  • Also just announced: new patents on covers opening and closing and adjustable legs.

    Virtual Boy games will all release at full price individually.

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  • You've got to be a bot. Seriously.

  • I'm assuming you're the competent one.

    Believe it or not it's really hard to get people to compare another person to a Nazi you really have to jump some hurdles to do that.

    For example Thomas Midgley, Jr. (Look him up) Is probably one of the worst human beings ever produced by our species and yet nobody really compares him to Nazis.

    On the other hand there is nothing more universally compared to Nazis than our current sitting president his rhetoric and the people that support him including your boy Charlie.

  • I'm not here to hand you evidence or play research assistant. I'm responding because your own tone was condescending and I'm not going to let it stand unchallenged.

    Charlie Kirk was a bigot and a racist. That is not an opinion but a matter of record. His rhetoric makes it obvious and your defense of him makes your position clear.

    If you think I was calling you tolerant or care if you are tolerant or not you completely miss the point of what I was trying to say.

  • Your prose comes across as deliberately nice and tolerant, but that only highlights how shaky your stance is. You frame "tolerance" as though it excuses supporting Charlie Kirk. It doesn't. Using tolerance to shield a bigot and a racist is not a virtue, it's complicity.

    Opposing Kirk's rhetoric isn't hatred. It's simply refusing to let prejudice masquerade as principle.

    Also, to be clear I never ment that charlie Kirk ever admitted or had someone committed to a facility. But he is on record saying that homeless people and transgenders should all be committed to mental health facilities.

  • Well. They've secured the local woods so we're good.

  • Ya man. Mental health. Your boy Charlie was big in putting homeless people and transgenders in insane asylums.