lol it’s not the dealers who will want them

yea, the car I was given just had a cover plate over that,. no outlet

rented a car a couple weeks ago. it didn’t have usb-a OR a lighter outlet-- had to go buy usb-c to usb-c cables

incidentally, if you’re in the market for a new car, don’t buy a mazda cx30. and not even for the usb issue, it just all-around sucks

arbitration pretty much provides zero benefit to the consumer and all benefit to the organization. a big piece is that if you sign off on an arbitration clause, then there’s no such thing as class action lawsuit anymore.

some companies make you sign a handwritten letter through snail mail just to opt out, because they don’t want anyone filing a lawsuit, and definitely dont’ want a lot of them filing together.

this is another case of corporations saying “this option is best!!” while leaving out the “for us” part

this is why it’s a big deal that steam said fuck that noise

what’s the defense? “people won’t buy it if they know they won’t own it!!! we’re entitled to all the money everywhere!!!”

it’s not enough to have their cake and eat it too–they’re after your cake also

LOL at first i thought you were talking about weeb anime figurines, then remembered barbie and ken are things

dumb cars will be worth their weight in gold soon

LOL “if it was opt-in, no one would do it!”

no fucking shit. there is nothing worth watching that i would buy a smart tv for

lol there is one person in this whole thread who’s getting mad, but it’s not me

and yes, as someone else said, it’s no big deal for someone to contact the business office of an institution and offer money on the condition of anonymity and other conditions. and the business people say okay, forms are filled out and signed, and money is transferred. they want to be anonymous because they don’t want all the other institutions calling them asking for money too. and/or they don’t want the world to know they’re the ones influencing the school’s spending

no one wants donors to be able to influence whoever they’re donating to. but that’s how reality works

“i’ll give you 100 million dollars on the condition that $X of it be spent on ______” is how it’s exerting influence

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i was a barista for well over 10 years (as an introvert to boot). it’s 100% a side gig. it may cover some food and gas, but NO ONE is paying rent with barista pay, especially since they cut labor every time it’s “slow” for 20 minutes.

i stayed there because of the free pound of coffee every week and flexibility, but don’t act like it’s always the only thing between the workers and homelessness

i imagine captain “it was a perfect phone call” is frothing at the mouth

reminds me of this funny story of when the soviets made asses of the us govt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

wtf france is this real? of course i have no place to criticize, coming from united embarrassment of america

if you can’t handle dealing with endless insufferable people and decided to sign up for a barista job, then that’s definitely on you

made the stop political in nature.

ok? so?