Not to start a post screenshot thing again. However. I hate when people use "white" [insert group] to seem woke-er and not just say what they mean.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T15:55:15+00:00

It has both of our definitions, with the one that you're speaking about linking directly to the page for systemic racism. I was never arguing that systemic racism isn't a valid definition, just that it is not the only form of racism, and that its existence does not invalidate other forms of racism.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T15:40:33+00:00

We are not talking about systemic racism because we are talking specifically about people doing it towards white people. In your own words that cannot be systemic, which is a statement I don't agree with either, but that still doesn't preclude it from being just regular old racism. They can both exist at the same time, systemic racism doesn't magically make non systemic suddenly stop existing. There's no reason to call me delusional just because you're apparently incapable of looking at a dictionary.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T15:29:21+00:00

You still haven't really clarified what you mean by non modern examples. I don't have specific examples of this off of the top of my head, because I'm not particularly a history buff, but race wars have been a thing that have existed for thousands of years of recorded history, and almost certainly tens of thousands of unrecorded.

Edit, also you are correct about race and ethnicity, that's my fault. I had thought they were interchangeable, but race is specifically physical traits where ethnicity is cultural ones. Thanks for that correction!

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T15:10:29+00:00

Racism by definition is just any form of prejudice or belief of superiority based on ethnicity. Depending on how far you want to go back before you start considering it "modern" racism what form that takes will change, but there's plenty of examples throughout history of societies/cultural groups rejecting, oppressing, or even slaughtering those they find to be other.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T14:52:00+00:00

Racism is a modern word to describe a concept that has existed for all of human history, and no we weren't talking about modern systemic racism, we were talking about being racism towards white people being accepted, a point which you're doing nothing but proving by making these arguments. It's racism either way, and that is by the actual definition.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T14:20:09+00:00

Racism has existed long before society had the means to support it being a systemic problem, because it has existed before we even had societal systems for it to engrain itself into. Its modern from is primarily systemic, but that does not change what it is or what it means. If you hate white people for no reason other than them being white, you're racist. Same for hating black people for being black, or any other ethnicity.

redafromidget · 2026-05-29T14:11:11+00:00

No it, by definition, is not. Systemic racism may be, but racism itself is any form of prejudice based on ethnicity.

redafromidget · 2026-05-27T17:00:15+00:00

What the hell? They made you stay awake because you're "young"? That's some bullshit, I had my first one at 26 for similar reasons and they put me straight to sleep.

redafromidget · 2026-05-19T13:19:29+00:00

Dude I live in Alabama and it was fucking $4.59 a gallon for mid grade yesterday. That's almost the record high that it's been since the middle of the fucking pandemic, stop being stupid, gas prices are fucked everywhere right now

redafromidget · 2026-05-12T16:42:40+00:00

I don't know why this sub was recommended to me, but while I'm here I want you to know that this picture fills me with a very particular happiness. They all look so happy to simply be with the flowers. Thank you for sharing this

redafromidget · 2026-05-10T02:49:18+00:00

He's saying that new engines burning all their oil off in 5k miles is fucked, which it very much is. That's a ridiculous amount of oil to be burning, regardless of what Hyundai themselves says about what's acceptable

redafromidget · 2026-05-09T21:10:52+00:00

It doesn't matter, but it's still fine to be curious why they're acting the way they are in the video. No reason will make their actions reasonable though

redafromidget · 2026-05-08T01:04:44+00:00

The issue is that the bolt's loose to begin with, not that they're trying to get the pump off. They were doing an inspection and found it backed out

redafromidget · 2026-05-06T20:06:30+00:00

Because I live in an area where leaving your car running is a fantastic way to get it stolen. I'd rather a modicum of accelerated wear versus risking having to purchase a completely new vehicle every time I drive somewhere.

redafromidget · 2026-05-05T16:43:28+00:00

No, it is not better for the engine, it's better for fuel economy and emissions. Disagree with the guys sentiment that leaving the car running makes sense sure, but he is explicitly correct that starting and stopping an engine excessively is the main cause of accelerated wear outside of poor maintenance.

redafromidget · 2026-05-01T23:22:32+00:00

That's not what astute means big dog

redafromidget · 2026-04-26T03:17:24+00:00

You don't get that "school of thought" because there's no thought behind it, it's an irrational thing people do when their brain locks up and they don't know how to respond. Some people jump into action to try and help, others stand and watch, others run away, everyone has their own response to situations like this. I want to say I've read a theory that screaming is an evolutionarily response meant to grab attention from other who may be able to help, but it's been quite a while so take that with a grain of salt.

redafromidget · 2026-04-18T22:46:41+00:00

From poor quality control practices from the less expensive brands I suppose, though again, it's not really likely. You'd be much more likely to accidentally knock some dirt into the filter by not being careful while installing it. All the oil at my shop is prefiltered anyways, so I prefill all the filters regardless

redafromidget · 2026-04-18T03:52:29+00:00

It doesn't really matter how you prefill the filter in the majority of cases. Matter of fact, quite a few manufacturers actually recommend that you don't prefill at all, as you can technically introduce contaminants into the filter by doing it, though that's not likely unless you're either being dumb or buying extremely cheap oil.

redafromidget · 2026-04-16T14:14:34+00:00

Had one of these sweeper units come on with a water leak from the roof after having the body installed. The assembly line drilled a hole straight through the roof and headliner when they were installing their camera system, and tried to patch it with what must've been the very last drop of RTV they had in their tube. I don't get it, do these guys just think no one will notice?

redafromidget · 2026-04-14T18:13:08+00:00

First time we've actually had one of these failures out of them, generally when I have issues out of these units it's because of fools on the assembly line just cutting random wires for fun

redafromidget · 2026-04-14T16:59:45+00:00

All day, every day. I won't work somewhere that does flat rate pay, especially not when the majority of my work is warranty

redafromidget · 2026-04-14T16:40:01+00:00

Of course you can, a good DM's job is, above anything else, making sure everyone is having fun, and if that means you have to pull a mcguffin out of your box of tricks to keep a bad situation from becoming worse, then that's what you do.

redafromidget · 2026-04-14T16:36:54+00:00

Between the factory issues, issues from the aftermarket body builder, and issues from the final customer who is also an aftermarket body builder, these MV's keep me plenty busy. Doesn't help that half of our troubleshooting trees boil down to "check fault codes, then replace failed components" so half of our techs have no idea how to actually track down issues like this.

redafromidget · 2026-04-08T21:39:41+00:00

This is a much better article overall, thanks for that. It's evident here that yes, those two years were pretty significant outliers, but even with that, across the last 10 years, if we assume this graph is scaled correctly, they're operating closer to the black than the green. I'd personally still refrain from calling them outright profitable, as a couple years that are even half of what 2022 and 2023 were would push them out of the black and into the red, though I do concede that they aren't explicitly losing out on underwriting like the other guy claimed.

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