Tankiedesantski
@Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net
- Comment on og debate lords 6 months ago:
That bear is mood
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 6 months ago:
The UK has come to terms with it’s inexorable slide into developing nation status and figured it might as well shill a few boner pills along the way.
- Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds 6 months ago:
As an Asian: I have never once met a single other Asian who thinks the pooh meme is racist.
Extremely interesting that the people who say this always start with “As an Asian” and not “As a Chinese person”. Being Asian doesn’t give you any special experience on Sinophobia just as being a Frenchman or a Brit doesn’t give a person any special experience on anti-Ziganism or European Islamaphobia (except maybe as a perpetrator).
- Comment on China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds 6 months ago:
Europe when violating China’s sovereignty for a hundred years: “Hahahaha this rules! I love sowing, I will live forever by the sword!”
Europe when China violates its sovereignty: “Noooooo this sucks! Why do I have to reap what I showed?! Nobody could have forseen that I would also die by the sword!”
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 6 months ago:
An art major’s half asleep doodles can receive copyright protection whereas an image created by a million dollar supercomputer running the most sophisticated AI model possible cannot.
Extremely rare artist x lawyer crossover to dunk on the AI bros.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 9 months ago:
I see you invoking the Maoist uprising in another comment, but I’ll be honest - the years following that uprising were hard for a huge swathe of the population (not to mention fatal for Millions more). I would not want to live through a Chairman Mao. Modern China happened despite Mao. Not because of him.
What was it like to live in China before 1949 compared to after 1949? Please support your assertions with relevant statistics.
- Comment on How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three 10 months ago:
I kinda see what Season 1 was trying to do. The only thing Season 2 tried to do was save production budget.
- Comment on How it Should Have Ended: Picard Season Three 11 months ago:
Season 3 is the worst season of Star Strek, but the best Season of Picard. Picard seasons 1 and 2 were like entirely different shows winking at Star Trek.
- Comment on Australia and France reset relationship after 'back-stabbing' defence deal 11 months ago:
France suddenly has the opportunity to do something really funny. I will forgive them for sinking the Rainbow Warrior if they send the entire Australian Navy to the bottom of the sea.
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
Is aussie style sushi not still considered Japanese food?
To an Australian, probably. To a Japanese person in Japan? Probably not.
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
While there are people who are too trigger happy with the term, and a sizable gray area between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation, I do think there are cases where people cross over into objectionable cultural appropriation.
A really good example was when white American college students wore fake native American headwear with significant cultural and spiritual importance as decoration for drunken parties. I can definitely sympathize with native Americans not wanting their culture treated with disrespect.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
That’s the happy ending.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Actually I’ll do one better. While you were deflecting, I found the court filings.
Not shockingly, one of the main causes of action against the defendant is that they are dressing up a credit contract as a lease agreement to avoid interest rate caps (Section 3.2) and disclosure requirements (Section 3.3).
Damingly: Image
Let’s see you use that calculator in your pocket to determine if you’re getting a reasonable deal without being told the original price of the goods, the interest rate, and how the interest was calculated.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
What do the root causes of poverty have to do with why people are poor? Damn, I guess we’ll never know.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
And you know that no information was deliberately obfuscated or hidden by the vendor? The vendor currently being sued by regulators for operating a business model “designed to avoid consumer protections for financially vulnerable consumers.”?
Curious as to how you know this information. Do you have a copy of the court filings? Please feel free to share if you do.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
It’s amazing how many hexbears can’t have a simple discussion without getting personal.
Not really much of a discussion to be had. You just keep alleging facts without evidence. I don’t think “Uh huh!” and “Nuh uh!” to be a form of discussion.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Sure, poor people are poor because there’s one specific piece of magical knowledge that they were never taught. Nothing to do with structural socioeconomic forces that keep people poor so that their labor can be more cheaply exploited.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
At no point did I allege that, so no.
You have been consistently been alleging that the woman in question could have easily checked the total cost of her payments, which you have just declined to provide proof for. I will take this as a concession from you on this point and move on.
Doubt. They’ll find some other money trap to fall into in a week unless they’re taught to actually be smarter about their finances.
This is an unfalsifiable counterfactual and I will dismiss it without further comment.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
The government could very much keep them solvent by, for example, mandating that consumer credit contracts must show tables of total payments including all fees and interest over time. Does the credit contract in question display such information? Onus is on you to provide proof if you’re alleging that it does.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Things that are more nebulous and harder or impossible to check.
Then please demonstrate how easy it is for the consumer to check their total payments by posting a screenshot from that website that alerts the consumer to the possibility of paying 4x the cost of the device as the total cost of transaction.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Except obviously it is because nothing on that website alerts the buyer to the possibility of paying 4x the price of the good as the total cost of transaction. 33% to 38% interest pa is already egregious enough as it is but 4x the base cost of the good is absurd and usurus.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Ultimately, I feel the solution should lie more in educating consumers on financial literacy.
You can crack down on predatory lending and educate consumers. However, you’ll never be able to educate the average consumer to be immune from sophisticated schemes simply because most people have other things to do on life and scammers devote a lot more time creating new scams than the average person can devote to learning about avoiding scams.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Usury laws should be applied to everything in the scummy industry targeting poor people. This shit, payday loans, consumer finance, all needs to be heavily regulated to avoid predatory behavior against the poor and disabled.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Not at all. A rent to own scheme is essentially legally identical to getting a seller or third party loan except for when title passes over to the consumer. In most other respects, especially in outcome, it’s the same transaction dressed up specifically to avoid existing usury laws.
- Comment on Disability pensioner charged $6,760 for renting a phone that retails for around $1,800 11 months ago:
Usury is a crime in most places. This kind of transaction is just usury dressed up in the legal fiction of a rental.
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 11 months ago:
I’m not trying to attack you or anything. I’m not calling you a sexist and throughout this whole interaction I’ve given you maximal benefit of the doubt about your intentions.
All I wanted to do is point out that this meme could be read to have an unintended negative meaning, a point which I don’t think you’ve even disagreed with.
If a big part of why this meme is okay to you is the fact that you’re a woman in STEM them at least men should be aware that it might be interpreted differently if they share it or spread it around. It is, after all, a meme.
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 11 months ago:
If 1) is true then taking a stand on 2) and 3) is pointless at best and callous at worst.
Like you said, the joke works equally well with the genders reversed to remove the possibility of misinterpretation.
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 11 months ago:
Like I said, I don’t think you meant it.
Independent of who you are the meme could be read in a certain way.
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 11 months ago:
I’m sure you didn’t mean it, but given the dearth of women in engineering, there’s an interpretation of this meme that’s kinda sexist.
- Comment on bro pls 1 year ago:
Physics class: “Imagine a perfectly spherical cow moving on a frictionless surface…”
IDF physics class: “Imagine a perfectly spherical bomb moving towards a frictionless Palestinian hospital…”
