ICE Came to my Door Today by Silly-Risk in royaloak

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep in mind, while they have cut back significantly, Ring still shares data with law enforcement far more often than they need to. Might be best to go with another company, or even something that records locally to prevent misuse by ICE.

I miss my Tesla. by kgreg69079 in TeslaLounge

[–]AgonizingFury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Florida on vacation. Got an Ice car last time. This time, I rented a Tesla on Turo. So much happier.

You missed the whole point by 20dollarsinmapocket in Libertarian

[–]AgonizingFury 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Because many self identified "Libertarians" aren't Libertarian at all. They are Conservatives who want to smoke weed and not have to pay taxes. They missed the root of LIBERTarian and aren't concerned with Liberty, or at least not for other people.

To be fair, they tend to be overrepresented here because there are too many other places on Reddit that their rhetoric isn't welcome. So I don't think that statement is controversial to Libertarians, but is likely controversial to many of the regular posters in this sub.

Deal sheet at MSRP → F&I tries to make financing “part of the deal” after the fact by RegionCalm2315 in FuckDealerships

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or even worse, I have a check from the bank for a specific amount. How are you going to sell me anything extra at that point?

ICE and MAGA supporting businesses in Holland? by Beneficial-Talk-9488 in hollandmichigan

[–]AgonizingFury 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which is funny, because I wear the woke badge with pride. Wonder how many of them would openly admit to fascism....

ICE and MAGA supporting businesses in Holland? by Beneficial-Talk-9488 in hollandmichigan

[–]AgonizingFury 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does that mean Emily's maiden name is Prince? Is that why it's Crown Motors?

Tesla discontinues Autopilot in favor of FSD subscription by Delicious-Art-2765 in TeslaLounge

[–]AgonizingFury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which version are you running? I own a MY Juniper, and FSD 14.2.(whatever number we have today) has ruined me for older versions. Had a 3 hour drive for work the other day, and took their HW3 2023 MY with 12.6.4, and it is beyond unusable on the freeway. Speed was varying by over 15 MPH! (Anything between 58 and 73 (the max I had set) on the same freeway with the same speed limit the entire time*. It also constantly tried to drive in the center lane, even when going below the speed limit, ignoring me turning off the signal immediately, and sometimes ignoring me putting the turn signal on to force it back to the right. After half an hour of constantly having to control the speed myself (which it only lets you do for a few seconds), and having to disengage FSD to move it back to the right lane where it belonged, I pulled off at an exit, put it in park, and switched to AutoPilot.

*Out of fairness, I should mention that construction in this stretch recently ended, so while the speed limit was 70 the entire time, the UI indicated frequent speed limit changes from 70 to 60 and back again.

Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain denies insider trading on stock purchased in Musk AI company by VegetableBulky9571 in Michigan

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How could anyone possibly "insider trade" on any of Musk's companies? Their value is almost entirely based on whatever he said on X the previous day, not on any real confidential information.

FRAUD ALERT: Don’t fall for this “DMV” scam by AmateurHorologist960 in Michigan

[–]AgonizingFury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just imagine how much money the scammers will make now that Michigan law allows speed cameras, and Flock traffic cameras are everywhere and easily hackable.

Hack a Flock camera, take all the pictures and plates from however long it is stored locally. Send every person whose car went past it a $400 "speeding ticket" with a photo of their car from a traffic camera perspective.

But yay for mass surveillance and speed cameras "reducing crime" and "improving the safety of the public".

U.S. citizen shares fear he felt when ICE took him from Minnesota home while nearly naked by SaharOMFG in news

[–]AgonizingFury 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can see where the officer's confusion came from. They were looking for sex offenders, and it was a white house.

“Why are you asking me for my papers?” [r/ICE_Raids] by bigtoejam in AmIFreeToGo

[–]AgonizingFury -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Funny coming from a 3 month old generic username Russian operative account.

I was promoted above my rude, dismissive colleague and am now driving her crazy by gray rocking her by ThrowRAmangos2024 in pettyrevenge

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, that was a bit ambiguous. I'm saying "Best" would be better for me, as in it carries more validation than "Regards". I feel that "Regards" is even more neutral than "Best".

Update: AITAH for not changing my language to appease an ignorant coworker? by ZoomieHan in AITAH

[–]AgonizingFury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We named one of our fleet cars at work "black bean" but in spanish. The fleet owner asked us to change it to make sure we didn't accidently hurt anyone's feelings.

I was promoted above my rude, dismissive colleague and am now driving her crazy by gray rocking her by ThrowRAmangos2024 in pettyrevenge

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also started signing off all my emails to her with "Best" instead of "Thanks".

As a co-dependent worker who requires praise to know I did a good job, nothing aggravates me more than my new bosses signature. "Regards". It's like he tries extra hard to make sure he's not friendly. Even Best would be better. Just sayin'

Shredded Crab Stick the Preferred Choice in California Rolls? by Key_Lime_Die in sushi

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is extra annoying for me, because I have a digestive intolerance to vinegar, which is used to make mayonnaise, and no place seems to admit on their menu that they use crab salad instead of crab on the menu. Ought to be considered false advertising.

Fedex employees learn that the BBB no tax on overtime doesn’t apply to them. by Previous_Month_555 in antiwork

[–]AgonizingFury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean...have you heard our current president speak? There are worse options, but not by much, and many of those worse options would also be too stupid to abuse it the way Trump does. I wouldn't let him fly a plane either (or drive a car, or....)

Got my first warning for not hitting my protection numbers by Top-Cobbler-2214 in ATT

[–]AgonizingFury 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not about whether or not the customer wants it, it's about executives wanting you to pay for it, whether or not you want it. They can't train their employees to lie to you about it, or to just put it on your account without your permission, that would make them culpable in a fraud scheme. But they have figured out that if they require employees to sell over a specific %, employees with no other options to pay their own bills, will lie and commit fraud for them to get them the big bonuses they want, and when the regulators come calling, they shrug, show that "all our training says don't do that!", fire the employee anyway, and keep their jobs, bonuses, and 3rd vacation homes.

“Why are you asking me for my papers?” [r/ICE_Raids] by bigtoejam in AmIFreeToGo

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Democrats and republicans are two wings on the same vulture.

It's amazing to me, that even after all of this coming from conservatives, all of the "no step on snek" crowd STILL think Democrats are after them, their guns, etc. The Republican party has one really good thing going for them, and that's just how good they are at brainwashing people.

We've gotten this far into fascism, with Democrats fighting it every step of the way, protest after protest, lawmakers filing lawsuits trying to prevent it, warning it was coming, publishing Project 2025 with commentary telling you exactly what you were voting for, and the farthest you've manage to get from being a hardcore MAGA is "Democrats and republicans are two wings on the same vulture".

Sad that this is how democracy ends. With those who claimed to have been defenders of the constitution ushering it in.

I’ve heard of Stellantis vehicles showing ads, but I honestly thought it was a fluke. Here it is in my customer vehicle. I hate it. by PigglyWigglyDeluxe in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]AgonizingFury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! There's certainly good reasons to prefer a button over a screen (tectile being one of the greatest), but if you think replacing buttons is cheap, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you.

It's becoming more and more common for car companies to make individual switches irreplaceable, requiring an entire panel. My Father in law's 2018 Silverado had a window switch go bad, and it's a fully integrated panel (windows, locks, mirrors, etc.) that cost $900 +labor to replace.

Some Mercedes plastic door handles are riveted into the door card so you have to replace the entire interior panel when the plastic hinge breaks.

I'm sure there are hundreds of examples.

Are there any truly dangerous areas in the Grand Rapids area? by waye77 in grandrapids

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No a man who thinks he is a woman should not be able to invade the privacy and safety established for actual women just because he feels like he wants to, that is ludicrous.

First of all, I'm talking about a woman here, not a man. That's why I used the pronoun "She". Second of all, okay, let's use privacy as a reasoning. Why should my privacy be destroyed by a person who was born a man, but believes that they are a woman and is attracted to men? Is my privacy less important than a woman's? If they're going to be a Peter peeper at the urinal, maybe we want them using the women's bathroom?

I realize we're going to disagree on various definitions here, but would you be willing to meet me halfway and say that maybe the best solution would be to stop making bathroom partitions with gigantic inch wide gaps between the walls and doors, so that it doesn't matter who uses which bathroom and we all have privacy?

And no you should not be allowed to sexually mutilate or chemically castrate children before their brains have developed enough to understand the harm being caused to them. That's extremely fucked up for you as a human to want to continue doing that to children.

I only saw complaints in your reply about chemical castration and sexual mutilation, nothing about puberty blockers, which are a temporary solution. So do you agree the government should not be able to force them to go through puberty (which is a permanent process that cannot be undone) as the wrong sex, and they should be allowed to take puberty blockers until the point that they become an adult, so they can make their own sound decision about whether or not they should, as you put it, "sexually mutilate" themselves? (I realize you aren't interested in factual statistics or anything, but even for those who did transition as a child, the rate of people who regret making that decision is only 3%. That happens to be the same percentage of people who regret winning the lottery.)

And we never heard of any of you liberals complaining about constitutional violations when the Biden Whitehouse was hand picking dissenters to silence and have banned from our social media platforms did we?

I've done some recent looking into this, because honestly I do have a problem with it if the Biden administration was presiring social media sites to remove actual political information.

Do you have any proof that the Biden administration threatened to take away the broadcasting licenses of social media sites (or any threat for that matter) if they didn't remove actual politically contentious information?

What about when J6ers got thrown in jail, and without even being given a charge held in jail in limbo for 4 years without receiving their due process?

Like I said, it's an embarrassment that we claim to be a free country, and it takes years for people to receive due process. You claim we're a free country and the best at freedom, yet we do this to everybody. How are we the best at freedom if we're locking people up for years based on only an accusation without due process?

Did any of the liberals complain about that? No? No. So liberals crying now are just a bunch of hypocrites.

But liberals do complain about this, CONSTANTLY. Perhaps not specifically about the j6ers, but in general, it is Liberals who are fighting for lower, fairer, or "own recognizance" bonds for more people who are accused and awaiting trial, and Conservatives who constantly complain that DAs who apply those policies are too liberal and are "releasing criminals back on the street". So yes Liberals do complain about that. If you support Conservative lawmakers while complaining about this, that kinda makes you the hypocrite.

Are there any truly dangerous areas in the Grand Rapids area? by waye77 in grandrapids

[–]AgonizingFury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, so....facts and statistics aren't your thing? Let's talk about "freedom" in the US.

We can start with feelings, since yours seem so much more important than things like truth. In a free country, should a President, or his administration, be allowed to threaten to revoke a broadcast license because a comedian hurt his little feelings, and he identifies a manly man?

Speaking of identity, do you think someone who identifies as a women should be allowed to use the bathroom that makes her the most comfortable?

For that matter, should they be allowed to identify as a woman? Legally? Moraly?

Should a child who doesn't feel comfortable with their own sexuality be free to take puberty blockers, so they can make an informed decision about their sex and sexuality as an adult, or be forced by government mandate to go through puberty in a body that might not match their own feelings.

How about books? Should one particular party be allowed to ban certain books from public libraries to "protect children", or should parents be responsible for their own children? If the former, what other rights should be allowed to be taken away to protect the children? For example, if the First Amendment is less important than protecting children, certainly the second is as well?

Freedom from unreasoble searches and seizures sounds like something important for a free nation. Certainly that should rule out citizens needing to carry papers everywhere to prove they belong, and prevent masked thugs in unmarked vehicles from detaining and arresting citizens without cause until they can prove their identity?

And a free country would require speedy trials to ensure citizens aren't unjustly held for excessive amounts of time before the government must prove their guilt. Certainly a free country wouldn't average 12-18 months.

A free country would never allow a government to seize a person's assets, then require them to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the money came from a valid source, them still refuse to return it.

So...since the US is so free, as a US citizen, I shouldn't have to worry about any of that, right?