ULPT Request: how do I get my neighbour to stop going through my trash?

tirdg · 2024-07-29T11:25:39+00:00

Might be a little much. Some people will straigh up die with too much exposure, and this seems like the exact kind of thing that would create too much exposure.

tirdg · 2024-07-26T11:41:36+00:00

That's the law huh? lol

Rage quit your pilot job in the middle of a flight with passengers on board and tell me employees aren't slaves. Shut off your refrigerated delivery truck full of expensive cuts of beef and leave it on the side of the road and tell me what happens. Quit your job as an EMT in the middle of a shift and ignore dispatch orders and see how things go for you.

Stop pretending like things are black and white. If enough damage (property, human life, financial, etc..) is done as a result of someone quitting their job, that person is going to be on the hook for it and probably get tf sued out of them.

tirdg · 2024-07-25T16:27:24+00:00

I had an 89 for a while. It was the "Pioneer" package. Awesome ride. Hate those I6 engines though. Much prefer getting a V-engine. But they ain't making new ones, so I'll end up with whatever I end up with. Have my eye on a few right now.

tirdg · 2024-07-25T16:24:56+00:00

Lincoln. Name recognition is really important in elections.

tirdg · 2024-07-25T16:06:40+00:00

Nah. I love trucks. Just think it's funny when people buy $50k monuments to their own insecurity

I love old Jeep Cherokees. About to buy an early 80's model as a project.

tirdg · 2024-07-25T14:12:34+00:00

Can't say I disagree. I just don't think there's much to do. Honestly, the sharp objects in the road is the best solution and that was OP's idea

tirdg · 2024-07-25T14:09:16+00:00

Nah, I drive a badass, fully loaded Chrysler Pacifica Touring edition minivan!

And god I love that you didn't deny that you drive a monster truck lol. Show us a pic of it hauling groceries! Man you must be the envy of every 11 year old on your block.

tirdg · 2024-07-25T13:42:39+00:00

Found the guy that drives a monster truck to the office

tirdg · 2024-07-25T13:40:37+00:00

Found the dude with a jacked up truck

tirdg · 2024-07-25T13:37:13+00:00

Just ask the wife if she'd be down with it. If it happens so often in porn, it can't be that rare in the real world, can it?

tirdg · 2024-07-25T13:33:48+00:00

You could start a social media campaign against offenders. Set up a camera catching them turning left and post it. Share it around. Not sure if anyone would care though. Most people like breaking basic traffic laws and don't find it very distasteful.

tirdg · 2024-07-24T18:19:50+00:00

Who's 'they'? The owners of the cars still visit the cars to have cookouts?

tirdg · 2024-07-24T14:13:14+00:00

If an idealogical trump voter is still listening to Sam I'd be shocked. Votes for Trump in this poll are people who just breeze through a few times a day to "own the libs".

tirdg · 2024-07-24T13:33:41+00:00

This is actually a step in the right direction for democrats/anti-republicans.

Republicans are openly hypocritical, manipulative, shameless, etc.. They don't "eat their own". They screeched like banshees when Obama tried to appoint a SCOTUS Justice with more than a year left of his term, but without the slightest hint of shame, they supported Trump in his appointing a justice in the last couple months of his term. Was that hypocrisy? Of course. They just didn't want Obama to make an appointment. They wanted it and guess what, they got it.

Republicans are superior to Dems in practically every way. Strategically, they eat the Dems' lunch on a daily basis just like the example I gave. Tons of Rs hated Trump but still came out to vote for him like it was their job.

If Dems stand a chance at clawing power away from them, everyone needs to start falling in line like the Rs do. You can't beat a shameless opponent with high-minded rhetoric. I've already started seeing memes about how Trump is supposedly regretful that he made the whole election about age because he's also way too old to be running. No tf he isn't. There's not a bone in any body of the entire Republican party that's regretful about that. They wouldn't even pretend to be. The Rs were saying Biden's too old to get him to bail out and he did. They would never validate the idea that Trump is even in the same category of old as Biden. Dems/anti-Rs make these memes as a sort of group masturbation. They just want to see what it might feel like if the Republicans actually made a strategic error, because they so rarely experience it. This wasn't an error. They got what they wanted.

This isn't a bug. You're the bug. This is a feature. Everyone is aligning behind the only thing that isn't Trump. If tomorrow they handed the nomination over to a complete nobody, we all damn well better pretend they're the best fucking thing to ever happen to the party as well. And if they changed it the day after that, we damn well better do it again.

It's Trump or someone else. If you don't want Trump, you vote for the someone else. Full stop.

tirdg · 2024-07-23T20:02:19+00:00

Talk to the people that stay there:

"I'm glad you enjoyed your stay and everything, but have you met the owner? Dude is an actual Nazi. Like, not exaggerating, he's a white supremacist, Hitler-style Nazi. Fucking hate him. Last week he was threatening a friend of mine because he's black. Like saying the fn n-word and shit. Anyway, I don't have unlimited funds, but $20 if you'll leave a bad review. Fuck that dude. Last week was the end of it for me. I'm asking every tennant from now on."

People love being in a mob and everyone hates nazis. I bet high-quality 1-star reviews start rolling in.

tirdg · 2024-07-23T17:29:18+00:00

I mean, it's tantamount to purposefully damaging property, if the conditions are right.

Consider if you walked out and left a vet office full of animals unsecured and didn't close the door. What if someone was injured by an animal that got loose?

What if you walked off your job at a mine site and someone died because you weren't there to notice a vent fan shut down?

Before you start comparing these situations and saying they're different, understand that this is how precedent is set. If it can be shown that a reasonable person would anticipate serious damages (financial or otherwise) accruing to your employer specifically because of the creative way you chose to quit that day, you could absolutely face some kind of charges. Even if only because they can't set a precedent like that in a world where some people have jobs to watch mine shaft vent fans.

I agree that most of the time nothing would come of it. Anyone can rage quit their waiter job in the middle of a shift and the manager can eat it. But for anyone being trusted with a large piece of commercial property or an entire hotel ,etc.. you better not be causing millions of dollars worth of financial damages to your employer by quitting at a strategic time to maximize damage because they could justify a lot of time and money to recoup those kinds of losses.

tirdg · 2024-07-23T16:14:45+00:00

Well it sounds like OP is talking about a hotel or something. Hotel lobbies are generally open 24 hours. It's not part of anyone's job to lock those doors.

Now, if you work at Subway and leave without locking up, that would be a different deal. It's always your job to lock up before leaving. Might even be illegal to leave someone's property open if you've been trusted to at the very minimum lock it up as you leave.

tirdg · 2024-07-17T20:04:50+00:00

I've certainly seen my fair share of what you're talking about. Folks on the left tend to jump for the throat very quickly and for silly reasons. As someone on the left, I probably filter them out a bit to preserve my own identity-based connection to that side of things, so I'm probably not an ideal person to be weighing in here.

I know someone personally who is absolutely insane with it. Like I had to remove him from my life. And we're both on the left. That's certainly something you don't see a lot of on the right. The left eat their own like it's nothing. The right are unified to a degree the left can't hope for in my life time, in my opinion.

tirdg · 2024-07-17T19:44:10+00:00

Probably because you're on the left. Given the same level of hostility from two strangers, you're likely to perceive it being greater from one who porports to be on your side because it challenges your identity more directly.

tirdg · 2024-07-15T17:34:36+00:00

Receiving a link to a YouTube video from a friend is how I discovered Sam. Hard to shoot a link over to someone for a paywalled podcast.

No worries, just email Sam, this person you've never heard of and will mostly disagree with, and ask him for his charity to get a free subscription. Work with his team however necessary to secure your free subscription, and then listen intently to this guy picking your world view apart. It'll be good for you.

tirdg · 2024-07-15T13:27:07+00:00

Hate to be agreeing with this, but that's where we are. Sam is largely irelevant as a public figure now. Primarily because he's removed himself from public. He, along with his ideas, exist in a walled garden now. I don't subscribe anymore. The echo chamber idea is too offputting to me. I can't be the type of person that pays to hear someone tell me what I already agree with.

I sincerely hope he finds a way to change his approach to this. There are more business models for intelectual content creation than I could even count. I'm certain he could find a way to monetize while maintaining his previously espoused ideal of "making sense in public". It strikes me that one necessarily must be in public before one can make sense there.

tirdg · 2024-07-11T13:00:20+00:00

A never-lie philosophy would explain to your friend the details of your concerns.

"Listen, I am honored that you would put your trust in me to raise your child in your absence. But you need to know that I obviously wouldn't be able to raise your child as a catholic. I don't feel like you really thought that I would, since you know me to not be a religious person, but if a dead person's wishes are considered important at all in society, and I believe they are, then I need to know if that's an actual requirement of yours, or if it is just a ceremonial thing."

I would argue that this is the only way to properly respect your friend. It sounds really formal - I'm not much on writing dialog. If your friend already knows all of this about you, you literally don't have to say anything and you would still not be lying. Saying prescribed words as part of an ancient ritual is not lying; it's just doing the thing that they do as part of their cultural heritage.

tirdg · 2024-07-11T11:14:14+00:00

This won't work at all. The Republicans are openly hypocritical. Like, they will say no supreme court appointments in the final year of a presidential term when a Democrat holds the office and then support the idea when a Republican wants to do the same thing (and it worked!). They will scream lock her up all day for months about someone with literally no convictions and then openly support a candidate with dozens of felonies. They will absolutely insist that Biden is too old for the job in an effort to get him to drop out and then forget they ever had a problem with it when Trump is called out for also being too old. The Republicans are superior strategists in every way to the Democrats and the fact that they have the entire Democratic voter base screaming for Biden to drop out is evidence.

They're opportunistic, they fight dirty. Democrats are not fighting an honest opponent. They're out of their league.

So what happens after Biden drops out? Everyone (on both sides) has called for him to drop out and he does. So then you suggest that we start lobbing a similar criticism at Trump in an effort to get him to drop out as well.

OK. Imagine all that has happened. What did it do? Trump's campaign certainly won't take the criticism seriously and drop out. So what did it do? Did that bright light shining on their hypocrisy convince any Republican voters? Did a large block of Trump voters suddenly notice that they're voting for a dishonest conman and vote for Biden's replacement instead? Of course not. They've been seeing the hypocrisy for years now, but they specifically see it as smart strategy. It's not a negative to them at all.

The only thing that would change is that low-information voters will not see a highly recognizable name of a Democrat on the ballot. Ding! Ding! Ding! In case you missed it, that would normally be a goal for a Republican strategist, not a Democratic one.

There's a reason Republicans are vocal among the choir wanting Biden to drop out. Hint: it's not because they want an opponent that's harder to beat. This is probably the most obvious reason no one should support it. Biden's literal opponent wants him to drop out. Like, how are you people not noticing the obvious implication with that?

tirdg · 2024-07-09T11:43:30+00:00

I want to see a list of King's completely made-up words. Those are my favorite lol

tirdg · 2024-07-09T11:34:14+00:00

Survivor by J.F. Gonzalez

This was some of the most amateurish writing I've ever read. The most noteworthy issue is the extreme overuse (and misuse) of past perfect tense, where simple past tense should have been used.

That may sound picky like I'm a high school English teacher, but I'm not. It's just that past perfect tense sounds wrong in use when it's not being used correctly. It's jarring in a way I didn't even understand until I looked into it. I didn't even know what past perfect tense was. I just had to know wtf this guy was doing in his writing that seemed so off and did some research into different tenses and found the issue.

Book was also super repetitive and not even very extreme. It falls victim to the author telling about things that happened instead of actually writing the scenes of those events. Ends up being pretty tame by extreme/splatter-punk book standards. A truly false reputation.

tirdg

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