Pirate everything, block ads, guillotine billionaires
I wish I could pirate food and rent and then I’d be all set!
Not a lifehack, just a reminder that legality is not an indicator of whether something is ethical
For the US: The Supreme Court has ruled that flashing your lights to alert other drivers of an upcoming speed trap is protected by your First Amendment rights.
Flipping off a cop is also protected, but that’s less helpful to others.
Why would you help someone driving dangerously and putting others at risk?
Going 5 over the limit and feeding money to pigs via ticket revenues is not “dangerous driving”
If someone’s doing 105 im not flashing them obviously
I guess it probably varies by location but 5 over the limit doesn’t usually result in anything either. It’s normally just people going significantly over that get fines.
Also it’s a limit, not a target. Plenty of roads have a limit that is too high to actually drive at safely too.
Something tells me you’re one of those who parks it in the passing lane going at or below the speed limit.
I don’t drive, it’s bad for the environment and costs loads of money.
You have a lot to tell drivers for someone who doesn’t drive. Consider that your perspective is heavily biased and likely inaccurate
Inaccurate? Its a fact that you are more likely to die or be seriously injured if a car hits you at a higher speed.
Going 35 vs going 30 on collision increases chances for pedestrians to die by up to two times btw
But pedestrians rarely travel that fast.
Why is there a pedestrian walking across the road while there’s a car coming at them at 35 mph?
Wait wat, does the money go to the cops in the US?
I do get where you’re coming from, but there are a lot of roads where the speed limit is artificially low (or temporarily lowered for no legitimate reason) for the sole purpose of collecting income from speeding fines
This part. I live in a rural area near a city; lots of people commute into town, and the main road there is flat, wide, straight, not residential, not even any livestock near the road, just open fields. The limit is 35, and half the people I know have gotten at least one $375 ticket for doing 40. It’s literally just a cash grab designed to take money from poor people trying to get to work.
How adorably naive.
Fuck tha police
ACAB
US drivers do it regardless to help other drivers avoid getting unfair/unjust tickets. We’ve been ticketed 275$ going 1mph over the speed limit (it was down hill bruh) when we were 19 in the middle of no where Texas.
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
What do you mean? Do you live in NYC or something? I drive 4-6 hundred miles a week
We lived in nyc, Pittsburgh, middle of no where Maine and rn in Spain. In USA we either took the bus, rode a bike or walked. Can’t drive because of disabilities but did it when we were 16-19 because we were forced to while temporarily living in Oklahoma and Texas
Yeah such an American take lol
In EU I would be glad that anyone going over speed limit is fined, even 1kmph, these rules are there so drivers don’t kill pedestrians. If someone is afraid to be fined for going 1kmph over limit, just slow down a bit
Especially when you keep in mind that the speedometer reads higher than your true speed, so if your true speed is over you were clearly speeding intentionally.
Drive at 30 in a 20, end up killing a child with your massive SUV - which is another problem in its self…
Get your speedometer calibrated. It should read your proper speed
You’re a disgusting law enforcement shill. Cops have too much money as it is. If they’ve got time to sit on the side of the road and steal from us, then they must have cleaned up ALL the crime in the city, so their services are no longer required. Go be a school crossing guard.
Cops have too much money as it is
Found the American
Speeding cars kill like, so many people. Am I also a disgusting law enforcement shill now?
And if my flashing lights slow down somebody, so they don’t get a ticket, then it’s a great outcome for everybody but the cops.
Besides, nobody’s getting actively killed in my example, stop being so dramatic. I’m just flashing my lights in the neighborhood to alert my neighbor, and save him a ticket. That’s who I owe my loyalty to, not the cops.
Obviously, if it’s the guy who is always speeding through the neighborhood, I’m going to let that guy blow on past the cop. They deserve each other.
stop being so dramatic
disgusting law enforcement shill
🙄🙄
Don’t speed, don’t normalise speeding. Acab yes, but not because of speeding tickets lol
So maybe from your perspective, flash your lights when you think incoming traffic is going too fast?
Keep in mind, what you’re seeing is the combined speed of yours and theirs
Torrent everything. If it’s legal for a company to cancel my subscription then torrenting isn’t unethical.
Use the free tier if you are low-income. Privacy and security shouldn’t be for those with money.
If it’s legal for the Zuck to torrent all the books, it’s legal for me to torrent a few books.
Alternative option is not to pirate the books and instead read the public domain ones that are just free. Project Gutenberg is a good completely legit source of free books.
If libraries didn’t already exist and you tried to make one now, you would be arrested and likely get pretty hefty sentencing for copyright infringement.
Books are one of the few things I am more than willing to pay full price for.
Sure the publishers eat a lot of the money, but the authors don’t do too badly.
The very nature of a book (unless something is published as an e-book only) keeps it from being enshittfied like streaming audio and video services. If someone were to print an ad in the book, I could just rip it out and throw it away.
Books are one of the last places where you just will not see an ad or be tracked, or have popups, and other irritating “features”.
Books are good.
I’ve seen some children’s books with popups.
Slightly more seriously though, I do have some books that have an advertisement for something else from the author or publisher.
I feel like being I am pedantic on the points here so I will make a point of saying that I agree with the spirit of your comment.
Books used to come with ads all the time in the early 20th century, especially cheap paperbacks.
I’m not sure about unethical, but blocking ads is a big one for me. The WWW is unusable without blocking ads.
That’s just good advice 😂
When I wanted to start using contact lenses, they gave me a pair of those that last one month for free to try them out, I didn’t find them entirely comfortable so they gave another pair of another brand, and a third one. Then I started again on another place, and another, I think I went a full year without paying for contact lenses.
you wouldn’t download contact lenses… /jk
Absolutely.
Me right now
Worked as a lab manager for some of those one hour shops to pay for college. The drs would tell me horror stories where people would go to the strip malls and get these cheap “contact” lenses that had smiley faces or some shit on them. They wear them then swap them with friends. Basically not taking hygiene into account. They’d get some serious eye infections. Like nearly lose your sight serious eye infections.
Oh wow, another former optical lab tech in the wild.
I switched fields years ago and I’m glad I did. Visiting glasses shops today, there’s almost no on-site lab to speak of anymore. Maybe some finishing machines, but I haven’t seen a full surface lab in years.
I don’t have anything to add to the contact lens story except - wow, that’s nasty.
Need a phone charger? Walk into any hotel, say you stayed here a while ago, and accidentally left your phone charger in your room. You’re finally back in town, and decided to swing by to see if they have a lost-and-found box. 99% of the time, they’ll just pull out a cardboard box full of chargers and let you pick one. No questions asked, no follow-up, no verification. They get left behind in hotel rooms all the time, so the hotel’s lost-and-found is almost always full of them.
I used to freelance, and used this all the time when I was between gigs and just needed to chill for a few hours. If I had taken the train downtown and didn’t have my car charger, I’d just find whatever hotel was closest after my gig, and stop there. They’d let me grab a charger, and I’d pop over to a cafe to sit and watch TV/YouTube on my phone for a while. And then when it was time to leave for my next gig, I’d just leave the charger at the cafe for someone else to find later. I didn’t worry about keeping track of them, because I never intended to hold onto them in the first place. My car charging cable is from a hotel. My bedside charging cable is from a hotel. My desk charging cable is from a hotel. I haven’t actually purchased a USB-C cable in literal years.
I tried this. The hotels attached the room and date on the lost item, so unless you’ve got those they aren’t going to give you anything if you can’t match them. Maybe some others don’t, so worth a try anyway?
I’ve tried this, and it doesn’t work. If you’re not average-looking enough, the receptionists will be suspicious of you and ask you to name your room number and who you were with. Just ask to borrow a charger in a pinch so you can get 5% battery or something.
… What do you look like?
Like a regular person but with distinctive features. Lol
Yeah but how can you tell that you’re getting the right charger for your phone? No two chargers are the same; they have different wattage ratings and use different charging standards.
If you grab any old charger without knowing the model number, it’ll charge your phone, sure, but not necessarily at its maximum possible charging speed unless you get lucky or take extra time to examine and research each charger until you find the right one. And I don’t know about you, but I’d feel awkward about pulling out my phone to Google random chargers while digging through a lost and found box with the employee just standing there. I rather just spend the money on a compatible charger designed for my phone’s charging standard.
Chargers have the wattage ratings printed directly on them. And the rating will simply be the maximum that the charger can provide. Wattage is pulled, not pushed. So if you plug your phone into an oversized charger, the phone will only draw what it needs.
Just grab the highest wattage you see, and the phone will pull what it needs.
Caveat that this only applies to USB chargers. If you find some random non-USB, old-school type charger (like the ones with the round connectors) that fits your device, don’t plug it in until you’re sure that the voltage and polarity are correct.
Compatible isn’t what you think. Phones want to boast about how fast they charge, but that’s not really good for your battery. You may have a phone that does adaptive charging. It’s pulling way less than it advertises so that it can prevent depleting your battery capacity over time.
If the plug fits, you’re fine. It will either charge slower, which helps protect your battery or it’s over what your phone requires, in which case your phone only pulls what it needs. You’ll be fine either way
Keep a reflective umbrella in the passenger seat. When an asshole with death beams tailgates you, have the passenger open it across the back seats
I would do this alone. I just don’t trust assholes not to shoot into my car and kill my family.
Get a bulletproof one like the Penguin.
a machine gun one.
I like this one
I doubt it would have any effect on the driver behind you. Too much light diffraction in general. And umbrellas are curved.
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I actually own the original GoLite reflective backpacking umbrella. I’m aware they exist. I just know they aren’t, like, a mirror.
I angle my sideview mirrors to reflect back at them. It tends to force them to back up a little
I do the same, but primarily to get their headlights from blinding me through the side view mirror.
How do you know it’s reflecting back at them? I have tried and am never sure how to aim it.
If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don’t treat themselves like that.
Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.
Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won’t solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company “to bring this error to their attention.”
If the unhelpful CSO person hasn’t messed up, then it’s no heat on them and their supervisor will just say “ugh, just get rid of this guy,” and solve your problem. I’ve used this method a dozen or so times, works well.
When I have an issue with a corp and have to talk to a human I start with an apology to that individual.
“Hey I have an issue with X about Y, but I have nothing against you as a person. You’re just trying to do your job and probably deal with a ton of verbal abuse. I apologize in advance if I get upset or use crude language during this call. Be aware that I’m not upset at you I’m upset at the company policies.”
This works so well. I’ve been on the receiving end of that, and I wanted more than nothing more than to help resolve their issue. I felt acknowledged and validated, and wanted nothing but to return the favor. Do this.
Having been of both sides of this situation, this is excellent advice and will get you much better results on average because you get the CSR on your side and invested in a positive outcome almost every time.
Yeah nearly every time they end up on my side.
My latest issue that didn’t help at all with with a Verizon call to a CSR in India. She was a human robot reading a script. Didn’t listen to me at all just following her prompts. An AI would’ve done a better job.
This is called the corporate carpet bomb. And yes, it is often very effective because the upper management doesn’t like being bugged by small things like this. So they’ll often acquiesce just to get you to go away. And it usually only takes one upper manager to bother. Even if nine of them ignore you, the tenth will tell their underlings “hey, what’s the problem here? Why am I being CC’ed? Just fix whatever it is so I can stop getting emails about it.”
Having worked corporate c-suite level escalations this is absolutely the case. It was fun dressing down directors and managers well above me because I had a mandate from above them to hold their feet to the fire and get shit done.
Watch youtube through other apps like Grayjoy If people are having a conversation in a dumb spot, walk through the middle of them
Is grayjay any better than newpipe
For me it is, newpipe had way more instances of loading very slow or not at all when i tried to use it
This one is good, but one issue (and I hope someone has a fix for me please I’ll love you forever):
GrayJay
Authentication [YouTube] P:Login required (No fallback) Reason: Sign in to confirm your ageNewPipe
This video is age-restricted. Due to new YouTube policies with age-restricted videos, NewPipe cannot access any of its video streams and thus is unable to play it.Ytdlnis
ERROR: [youtube] OC49ZUiuidc: Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp for how to manually pass cookies. Also see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies(Note, using these cookies requires an acct, not an effective bypass.)
In my experience those disappear after a while, no idea what google does to cause that to happen
Not for me, it seems consistent. Maybe there’s a country I can VPN into that has no age restrictions or something though, I’m hoping.
Use Morphe
What is Morphe?
It’s like ReVanced, which is not working anymore. Morphe works. https://morphe.software/
Almost a really, really stupid show.
If you are working as a contractor and make above a certain wage it can be worth it to setup your own LLC/S-corp. I did it one year at the advice of my CPA and it immediately knocked off 30% of my AGI. Lowered my pass thru income and tax liability. Saved me many thousands over 20 years. Its what every corporation in America does.
What did you do just pay yourself in options and drive the stock price up with buy backs? I guess you could buy your competition and load them up with all of your debt while paying you and your friends bonuses.
I’m pretty sure that doesn’t work for small corporations where no one else even knows you exist. The share value is likely just going to be the company’s net asset value.
If you want a free quarter, make an online order at Aldi that is large enough for them to load into a cart and also justify you taking the cart out to your car. Return said cart to the cart line and boom free quarter.
I’m about to be so rich.
When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.
For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don’t make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.
I never actually steal and haven’t ever shoplifted anything.
I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.
…how does that help anyone at all?
If you ever see someone stealing food.
No you didn’t.I’ve seen shoplifters stealing granola bars or chips before. Not said a word.
Stealing electronics? Fuck that person.
The distinction you’re trying to make is stealing luxuries vs stealing necessities. Sure, we could argue basically “fuck megacorps” and that’s debatable to steal whatever, but this is about us.
If someone’s stealing the basic necessities like food, nobody saw shit.
If you’re stealing a TV, that just makes you a thief.
There’s also people stealing (even reselling) necessities like toothpaste, deodorant and laundry detergent.
They’ll likely steal in bulk if that’s the case. If they do it over time, snitching on everyone hurts the people who are stealing for necessity. Be the good for people. Kindly, compassionately, and in a non-derogatory way let them know where they can get food, essentials, and services for free from a resource center. Don’t take their dignity.
If you’re stealing a TV, that just makes you a thief.
I can steal and sell TV and not be stealing food for the next two weeks or so. While stealing food is everyday effort
Look, I don’t get this need to cite exceptions to make oneself right. I can’t engage in pedantry or add endless footnotes to a general concept of what constitutes thievery or what every individual’s plan is for whatever they steal. It’s ridiculous to waste that time. You can steal a steak and sell it. You can steal a TV and watch it.
The spirit of the discussion is the direct intent of theft is either for an immediate need of a basic necessity of food, or the non-necessity of a luxury like a tv. Leave it at that concept.
My kids accidentally stopped a shoplifter. We stopped at a Walmart on a road trip to use the bathroom. As we were leaving, for some reason all three of them decided to tie their shoes in the vestibule, blocking most of the doorway. There was a very agitated lady behind them, and I tried to move my kids given that I was aware how obnoxious a place they had chosen for shoe tying — I assumed she just wanted to leave the store. But as she tried to get around them, she dropped a pile of phone charging cables and cases and was caught by a security guard chasing her
Imagine if like 5% or so of people in a Grocery store acted like he does. Would be so much easier to actually steal something with security being busy all the time with the non-stealers
i’v never seen security care about theft outside of the egregious electronics and stuff like that, those guys don’t get paid enough to care about slippage
Do you live in an area with poor people and lots of shoplifting? Do you work in grocery store security surveillance? Do you work as a 711 clerk? Is this an area of expertise or are you just guessing?
chicago, plenty of places have guards but it’s all for showt/insurance (presumably). nearly all security you can see is performative, to make normies feel safe
It increases the noise to signal ratio in their attempts to look for food thieves.
Lol, I used to do this as a kid. Didn’t steal anything, but I deliberately acted shady just to see what would happen. Nothing ever did.
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Fake stupidity or ignorance, just a little. Otherwise, you risk getting people on their defensive sides (e.g., doctors, lawyers, architects).
I learned way too late in life that no one likes a know it all. Pretending you don’t know stuff makes people more willing to help you.
I gave up telling stuff to my co-workers. 90% of the time I’m actually dumb, so people now expect me to ALWAYS be wrong. So I made a habbit of just watching co-workers struggle when I know the solution.
Tell the truth all the time, be the most honest person everyone knows. That way when you really fuck something up they’ll believe you when you say it wasn’t you
No, it’ll backfire spectacularly, and I’ve lived it. When someone’s a habitual liar, people will get accustomed to them and nobody bats an eye. But if you’re always honest and one day you fuck up and they find out, word will spread, the rumor will grow, and it’ll create a bigger ripple. You’d have broken a realiance where people will feel the need to adjust their views on you.
Until it’s discovered and pinned on the regular fuckups that you’re just that much more methodical and that makes you much worse if not the main dangerous sociopath of the friend group.
This isn’t really unethical tho
