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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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bonefarm:
“thebibliosphere:
“ computationalcalculator:
“ guy:
“ tsrabbits:
“ becausedragonage:
“ freshest-tittymilk:
“ princealigorna:
“And this is why we used to make cars out of STEEL instead of FIBERGLASS! Sure, fiberglass is a lot lighter in...
princealigorna

And this is why we used to make cars out of STEEL instead of FIBERGLASS! Sure, fiberglass is a lot lighter in weight and hence a hell of a lot better for gas mileage. But you hit anything at more than 20 mph and the entire body explodes off the fucking thing, and now you’re spending more to repair the car than it’s worth because you need a entire front end, read end, or side panel. They can’t just take the damaged section off, beat it out with a hammer, sand it, and repaint it.

freshest-tittymilk

Everything is made with the idea of it being easier to replace than to maintain, aka planned obsolescence. Thanks, capitalism

becausedragonage

You guys are obscenely, dangerously wrong. 

It’s not planned obsolescence, it’s physics.

Modern cars crumple to absorb and distribute the forces of impact in an accident in an effort to protect the occupants. When cars didn’t have those crumple zones, the occupants, being the soft, squishy things they were, took those forces and were mangled or killed in horrible ways. Also, those older cars took hidden damage that often went unnoticed and made them very dangerous to drive. IT’s really easy to hide a twisted frame when all you need to do to make the car look okay is a bit of sanding and paint.

I recently watched a TV show where a small sedan was run over by the trailer of an eighteen-wheeler. Run. Over. They had to unwrap the crumpled ball of a car from the undercarriage of that trailer. Guess what? The driver suffered only minor injuries because the car collapsed in exactly the way it was designed to so that she, in the very strong frame surrounding the passenger compartment, was protected. 

And no, don’t thank capitalism for these modern cars. Thank Ralph Nader and countless other safety activists who worked tirelessly to make car manufacturers accountable for the safety of the people who drove their cars. 

tsrabbits

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Originally posted by blazepress

I’m an estimator for a major insurance company which means I spend all day, every day, around wrecked cars. I’ve been to the NHTSA, I’ve attended a crash test. I have actually seen and put hands on both the vehicles in the .gif above. The idea that old cars are somehow built better or are “tanks” or whatever is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. New cars are built to “crunch” so you don’t have to.

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This is the 59 Bel Aire post crash - notice that the area where the driver sits is significantly compromised. The person driving this car would have died in this 35mph crash.

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This is the Malibu - crunched? Yes! But the area where the driver sits is not crushed.

I have seen modern cars keep people alive in horrifying accidents. Cars are objectively better and safer in every single way than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. Period.

Also modern passenger cars are definitely not made of fiberglass. What even?

guy

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computationalcalculator

Every car has a crumple zone. If your car does not have a crumple zone, YOU are the crumple zone

thebibliosphere

When ETD’s car got hit at the start of the year, the front driver side crumpled like aluminum foil, and that is precisely why he survived a head-on collision with a dingbat driver who ran a stop sign at full speed. It’s the same reason the other dude survived too, despite being hit by a much bigger car also going at full speed. Also while I’m at it, wear yer dang seatbelts. 

bonefarm

Hey that’s me up there! I used to be @tsrabbits, im still an adjuster, still write thousands of estimates a year. I had an interaction with an old wrecker driver here recently though, which I think bears repeating. We were talking about a very gnarly accident we were both working on and he said:

“I’ve only cut a dead person out of a seatbelt once in the past 15 years”

Which is.. true, the majority of fatal wrecks I see are unbelted. Trust the technology in your car (NOT YOU TESLA,) wear your seatbelt, resist road rage. You’ll be fine.

ask-fandroid-unofficial

reblog if your name isn’t Amanda.

pastassassins

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

iceslushii

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

yiffmaster

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

llsilvertail

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

computationalcalculator

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

ask-fandroid-unofficial

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uncannyandi
uncannyandi

ask game - 5 songs that you listen to

i was tagged by: @flanneryculp 💖💖💖 ty!!!

1. The 1975 - All I Need To Hear

2. Mitski - Should've Been Me

3. Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life

4. Billie Eilish - Bored

5. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

tysm for tagging me!!! i always love getting an excuse to share the music i like 🙏🙏🙏

no-pressure tags: @apollounavailable @glamourooze @eatsteas @hot-topic-rblx + anyone who wants to join!!!

hot-topic-rblx

ok BET!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehehaw

1. Fandroid - The Devil’s Swing

2. Fandroid - Kill or Be Killed

3. Fandroid - Devil’s Disco

4. Fandroid - Ruler of the School

5. Fandroid - You Signed a Contract

guess my favorite virtual musician challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!)

pls listen to this silly robot guy’s music and also watch his youtube pls hes so goofy omfg

not tagging anyone or adding any tags to this bc i want this to stay in hell

the-great-void
dark-haired-hamlet

cw transphobia

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obviously this is an extremely bizarre tweet that got ratioed to hell and back, but it’s also hilarious that of all the authors in the entire English literary canon, she somehow landed on Shakespeare as the epitome of cisnormative writing.

like ma’am shakespeare’s characters go on stage and announce their gender to the audience within the first few lines in nearly every play. Including…you know….the very play you reference???

theabominableblogger

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Some fun additions to this thread

dark-haired-hamlet

everybody who has ever read Shakespeare is currently in that thread like:

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liveandletrain

AS YOU LIKE IT

everyone always cites Twelfth Night as peak Shakespearean Gender Fuckery but I dare anyone to look Rosalind from As You Like It in the eye and not acknowledge her as the most gender-fucking lead in Shakespeare’s entire bibliography.

Celia: “we must flee in disguise, so I shall be a demure country maid!”

Rosalind: “that sounds super rad, imma be a twink and name myself after the twinkiest twink that ever twinked!”

Celia: “that tracks”

Rosalind: “And then I’m gonna meet up with the guy I think is cute and help him practice flirting by pretending to be a twink pretending to be a girl (Aka me) and I’m going to be so incredibly normal about this.”

sophiamcdougall

William Shakespeare, visibly vibrating: Imagine a hot boy who is also a hot girl. Just imagine that. Are you imagining it yet? OK now imagine another one

the-great-void
trekwiz

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

  • Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
  • Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
  • Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
  • Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
  • Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
  • A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

trekwiz

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.

antique-scarecrow

Fantastic addition