Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Actually, they said they sounded like a fucking moron. And they do they do: there is no actual legitimacy to their claim. They are repeating a horseshit corpo claim without applying any sort of critical thought to it. Which can be reasonably considered "fucking moronic".

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

JSO didn't exist in 1996 or 2018; it was founded in 2022.

You're giving JSO traffic obstructions credit for declines that happened decades before they came into existence, and in countries where they havent actually disrupted traffic.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Norway, for example, which has seen consumption decline since 2018.

They started obstructing traffic in 2022, not 2018. Norway's consumption has increased, significantly, since they began obstructing traffic.

Japan's decline since then is commensurate with its population decline. Germany's and Sweden's are flat. UK is up even more than Norway.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Your seedbox should have it's torrent traffic routed through a VPN, so that copyright complaints are delivered to (and ignored by) the VPN provider.

You do not need a VPN between you and the seedbox.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"They" will be an LLM.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The best time to leave Pinterest was 2010.

The second best time is now.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Which wouldn't be so bad if they actually had shit that people wanted to buy. But all the guillotine shops are out of stock, with expected ship dates after December 4th.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

No doubt, no doubt. There are plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.

Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn't need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street. You'd be able to point to oil consumption rates. If their protests were actually effective, oil consumption rates would be falling.

The reality is that those articles do nothing but make you feel good, like something is being done. But reality doesn't care about feelings, or the fiddling articles designed to make us feel good while the world burns.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was an agent in a former life. Your understanding of the purchasing process is deeply flawed. If you don't fix it, you're going to get screwed over again and again. Fortunately, it's an easy fix. Here's the process you should follow:

  1. Look up the house you want to purchase.

  2. Write the offer, sight unseen. Get some kind of offer in front of the seller as early as possible. Sounds scary? It's not: You're going to include "inspection" and "financing" contingencies, and you aren't going to send earnest money until you've actually seen the property.

  3. Only after the seller accepts or counters your offer do you schedule your first showing. Here is where you confirm the property is what you actually wanted, and is in the "good" condition you assumed. If you don't fall in love the first time you see it in person, exercise your inspection contingency and walk away. If it's not in the "good" condition you assumed when you wrote the offer, plan on renegotiating.

NEVER waste your time "researching" or getting emotionally invested in a property until you have it under contract. If you don't have a contract, it will get sold out from under you.

Your inspection and financing contingencies are your escape route. Use them. Lock the seller in early, and plan on walking away if you don't love everything about the house and the deal.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Excellent retort, but I can cite the legislative record supporting my point.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.

It is counterproductive at everything else.

did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?

Where did I say huddle on sidewalks?

I think JSO should be firebombing ICE car dealerships, gas stations, muffler shops, and other entities and agents of the oil industry. Not harassing victims of that industry.

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