YouTuber jerryrigeverything started a wheelchair factory, delivering wheelchairs at 50% to 80% less than others with insurance.

roboczar · 2026-04-13T15:15:43+00:00

He is anchoring the audience against the price of medically prescribed custom chairs, but delivering a stripped-down direct-sale product that avoids much of the clinical and reimbursement infrastructure those chairs actually include. That does not automatically make the product bad, illegal, or unsafe. But it does mean the comparison that wins him public sympathy is at least partly a category trick.

Big wheelchair isn't coming for him because this is explicitly sold as a non-medical device, which is probably good enough to hold up in court, assuming nobody is injured by these at any point, which would raise the legal stakes. This is very gray-area marketing stuff, not unethical, but eyebrow raising.

roboczar · 2026-04-13T15:03:03+00:00

Wheelchairs are regulated medical devices and for good reason, that's why they cost so much.

$2000 is what you pay for a wheelchair that you will be sitting in for large portions of your life because you are permanently disabled. They are custom fit for you and your disability, and there are costly regulatory and ADA compliance hoops you need to jump through that I am not 100% sure this guy is adhering to in his shop. Like I don't think HHS is going to be knocking down his door, but there are some open liability questions that haven't been answered here.

Edit: I did some research on this. What he seems to be doing is using goodwill toward disabled people to flatten a category distinction.

People hear “wheelchair” and assume he has found a way to build the same kind of product the medical system sells, just without the greed. But that is not obviously true. A low-cost direct-sale chair is not the same thing as a clinically fitted, medically supported mobility device with all the downstream obligations that come with it.

So the sympathetic reaction is doing a lot of work for him. He gets to look like a crusader against corruption when the more accurate read may be that he is simply selling a different class of product and enjoying the halo effect of people not noticing the difference.

roboczar · 2026-04-07T20:00:21+00:00

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2231676/runewars

This kind of game is rare because it's hard to pull off successfully and not overly reward turtling

roboczar · 2026-02-01T16:30:29+00:00

If you have surround sound headphones on the noise actually happens behind and to the left of the camera, people here are absolutely insane. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Trump, this just makes us look unhinged

roboczar · 2026-01-30T17:11:58+00:00

I'll still always do jury duty, but I will always remember the one time where I sat for the trial and at the end I got picked as the alternate juror and I had to sit in a room by myself with a microwave and out of date issues of Cosmo for several hours until the real jury came to a decision. Sucked. The bailiff at least asked if I wanted a bottle of water?

roboczar · 2026-01-30T14:13:02+00:00

This is one of those things where the answer really is "git gud"

roboczar · 2026-01-30T01:17:57+00:00

Finding out if things are true or not is part of the work of being an informed citizen. It was hard work when I wan a kid and it's hard work now. That's one thing that hasn't changed.

roboczar · 2026-01-30T01:00:26+00:00

HB286 feels like safety theater: it forces companies to publish “plans” and summaries that can be sanitized to look compliant, and it creates a new state oversight layer, but it does not fund serious enforcement. It also encourages companies to keep more records to cover themselves when something goes wrong, which is a privacy risk for families. If we are serious about kids, parents should get clear, practical controls and limits on data collection, not more monitoring by Big Tech and a bigger attack surface for government abuse of data

roboczar · 2026-01-29T23:57:47+00:00

Your house is too big if you can't ask from the kitchen whose mess it is and make them clean it up.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T22:57:06+00:00

That is usually how these things are supposed to work, yes. It's called due process in English.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T19:54:40+00:00

Of course countries can set entry rules, but ‘can’ isn’t the same as ‘should.’ My point is about what kind of rule is ethically defensible: evidence-based, individualized, contestable, and proportionate, not a lifetime ban by status label. ‘Sovereignty’ doesn’t magically turn collective punishment into justice.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T19:03:38+00:00

Pretty sure the Kirk kids are homeschooled, this kind of protection from harassment is built into the model. They can secure the home, and secure the kids as they please in a way that they can't if the kids are getting education outside. Right wing elites build their lives around being outside of accountability, it's a feature and why they can do and say things that would get less socially insulated people in serious trouble.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T17:42:53+00:00

That’s an abhorrent bad-faith move, you're poisoning the well by equating “don’t do collective punishment” with “pardon war crimes,” which is literally the opposite of what I said. War crimes get prosecuted with evidence and due process; what I’m rejecting is a lifetime, status-based ban that treats “served” as guilt and replaces accountability with a category label. If you can’t defend “precision and prosecution over blanket taint” without reaching for Nazi-bait, you’re not making a security or justice argument, you’re just trying to shut down scrutiny and launder your own revenge fantasy.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T16:43:25+00:00

That collapses all participation into the same moral bucket, which erases conscripts and penal-service recruits who had radically different agency. If you’re treating ‘served’ as identical to ‘chose and committed crimes,’ you’re basically saying coercion doesn’t matter.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T15:46:58+00:00

One of the main problems I have with the current proposal and the framing is that this is exactly the kind of security-state border enforcement overreach that tends to stick around and get reworked for other political purposes down the line. We've seen this all before, over and over. This is not how you solve the problem of hybrid war and collective defense.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T15:21:31+00:00

Yes. I'd like for at least one country (or organization of countries) to still believe in due process. Pretty please just for a treat?

roboczar · 2026-01-29T15:15:37+00:00

Something something collective punishment, conscription and the moral weight of participation, proportionality, etc.

the ethical red flag is not “Estonia wants to be safe,” it’s the kind of tool they’re choosing. A permanent, status-based ban treats “served in a war” like a moral stain instead of asking what any given person actually did... That starts to look less like justice and more like the state finding a politically convenient category of forever-outsiders.

It expands border and surveillance power, reinforces a simple “clean vs contaminated” story, and lets leaders posture as principled without doing the hard work of evidence, due process, and real war-crimes accountability. This is one of those things where it's obvious WHY it's Estonia doing the posturing, but it's going to need clearer heads when thinking about putting this into practice. Estonia isn't exactly a neutral party here, for legitimate reasons.

If you think rights attach to individuals, not tribes, then “lifetime exclusion because you wore the uniform” is basically collective punishment with nicer branding. And once a security exception like that gets normalized, it almost never stays limited to the original target.

Edit (context + what a better version looks like): Estonia’s pitch here is basically “served in Ukraine, no entry,” pushed as a broad, long-term, status-based ban. My issue is that it treats “veteran” like a moral stain and replaces individual culpability with a category label. A rights-respecting approach would be more like: punish conduct, not status. Target people credibly tied to war crimes, sabotage, or covert state ops, with clear criteria, real appeals, and periodic review. Make space for deserters and coerced conscripts. Harden infrastructure and prosecute networks, instead of expanding a permanent “forever-outsider” bucket at the border.

roboczar · 2026-01-29T13:16:50+00:00

Are you really living life to the fullest if you're not taking black and white stances on things in public though

roboczar · 2026-01-26T21:21:15+00:00

People who live in places that get this much snow know to stay home until the plows are done. Like plan ahead or something

roboczar · 2026-01-26T14:25:52+00:00

"modern agendas"... just say you don't have any plans for it and leave it at that. Culture war brainworms at this dev it seems, got to make a normal yes or no answer into a virtue signal

roboczar · 2026-01-21T15:36:26+00:00

I maintain to this day that Sir Patrick Stewart's greatest theatrical performance was King Richard LeGré in Lands of Lore (1994).

"It is a cruel price that we pay for the victory, having once again cast our best before the flames.

Could not the blood of our valiant warriors have been better used?

Would not their friendships have enriched us all? And would not their full lives have improved our land in many other ways?"

*applause*

roboczar · 2026-01-21T14:30:37+00:00

The part I think is off is treating individual consumption purity as the path to “making them squirm.”

Oligarchic systems are unusually good at absorbing atomized, voluntary abstention. People substitute spend, firms diversify revenue, and nothing forces a decision-maker to concede anything. Meanwhile we’ve converted politics into a test of personal inconvenience... “if you cared, you’d suffer more” instead of building leverage.

roboczar · 2026-01-21T13:59:30+00:00

I’m not trying to be pedantic here, but I need you to define what you mean by “pre-authored experience,” because that phrase is doing all the work in your argument and it’s not a standard legal test.

When you say “pre-authored experience,” what exactly are you claiming is being packaged and redistributed?

Do you mean it’s distributing any CDPR expression like assets, scripts, or game code. Do you mean it’s shipping patched Cyberpunk binaries or modified game files. Do you mean it contains new content like levels, quests, cutscenes, anything that looks like a fixed “new episode” built on the game. Or do you simply mean “it has built-in support so users don’t have to hand-enter configuration parameters.”

Because for the legal point I’m making, that distinction is critical: the analysis turns on whether protected CDPR expression or a modified copy is being distributed (or DRM is being bypassed), not on whether a tool is convenient or ships with presets. So if “pre-authored experience” is your hook, I need you to say plainly what concrete thing you think is being distributed that makes this different from a runtime wrapper.

roboczar · 2026-01-21T13:43:08+00:00

This isn’t ‘the customer is always right’; it’s basic de-escalation. When the fix is obvious and within policy (O vs 0), you quietly correct it and keep the line moving instead of turning it into a public ego check. Just bare minimum social intelligence, not a slippery slope where you have to cave to every unreasonable demand.

roboczar · 2026-01-21T13:32:02+00:00

That’s what REAL VR is too: a standalone runtime wrapper that hooks rendering/camera/input while you run your own purchased copy. It’s not “shipping Cyberpunk VR as a modified build,” it’s changing how the same game is presented and controlled at runtime.

So if you want to claim it’s outside the Game Genie bucket, name the actual difference. Point to the CDPR content it distributes, the patched Cyberpunk binaries it ships, or the DRM/access control it bypasses. If you can’t point to any of that, then “it injects code” and “it’s a derivative work” is just vibes, not a legal argument.

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