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- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 3 days ago:
They got the wrong guy, subman is a breeze in the wind compared to subparman.
- Comment on And he would've gotten away with it 6 days ago:
Hang on pal, I know your in a rush, but I just need to know if you want pepperoni or sausage on this thing. I promise you it’ll be done in like 7-9 minutes.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 week ago:
China is just going triple the price of everything and blame the tariffs for it.
- Comment on This is not the post you're looking for 1 week ago:
Your Jedi mind tricks can’t fool me!
wait...
what post was I looking for?
- Comment on Nice try 1 week ago:
There’s variations to bugs on a log?? I always hated when my uncle fed us that.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
You take that 10k you were going to drop on a crap used car, use that as down payment on a new car. Get a longer loan with lower interest and keep monthly payment lower. The larger the down payment, the lower the monthly will be, and now you have 10 years to set aside money for the next new car or “out of warranty” repairs.
There are still new cars that have a sticker less than 30k, after warranties and any desired upgrades, probably closer to 35k-40k for anything not a truck, EV, or sport car.
There’s also people who lease, they pay lots of money to rent a car for around 3 year, after that they trade in for a new car and the old car gets sold as used.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
You can do school loans if you start paying bigger. Not sure what your debt is or how large your financial cushion needs to be, but if extra cash is sitting in checking not earning interest, its loosing value while your student loan interest keeps ticking up.
For me after setting aside money for savings, I kept what I needed + plus a small amount for whatever and the rest got dumped into loans, had that shit payed off in a few years. Think my total interest payed was around 3k, I know some people basically end up doubling their debt over the 10 years with some crazy interest rates. (Went to state school, so loans were about 50k for everything, I know some private schools are triple that)
(Also open a saving account or something, your checking account shouldn’t have access to all your funds in the event of debit card theft, especially if you use that online)
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 3 weeks ago:
It’s the only time you will, even auto correct will work flawlessly for you when your intentionally trying to mistakes by typing large and complicated words.
- Comment on Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
Its an objective that is causing a major fucking problem for the people who want to sell their tesla but can’t without going bankrupt. You’re hurting thousands (hundred of thousands?) of people to stick it to one man.
People setting fire to a car forces fire fighters to have to put that out. That’s a waste of resources, possibly delaying other calls, and its a fucking fire. It doesn’t take much for the situation to become dangerous
Not hard to imagine the risk of something exploding or “sorry we couldn’t get to your hose 5 minutes earlier to save your baby because were scrambling around town dealing with arson”.
It’s not worth the risk.
- Comment on Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
The problem with selling a Tesla is the greatly reduced sell value, who wants to buy a car with such a shit reputation they’re getting set on fire? Either the crazy Musk/trump idolizers or someone who lives under a rocks and will gladly a buy an extremely expensive sedan for cheap. Unfortunately, unless their dumb enough to put a giant maga sticker on the car (but then how do you know someone isn’t vandalizing cars with stickers like that to watch other people harass the owner), there’s no way to know anything about the person driving it. They could be renting it because their’s broke down and that’s the car that was available, we simply do not know.
Tesla owners are basically being forced into loosing around 20k. Even selling it, they still have to pay off the rest of their loan. If they still have 30k to pay, and only sell for 20k, there’s still 10k on loan. then another 5k for a down payment on a new car. Do you have 15-20k sitting in the bank your able to spend and loose 20k in assets without it being a financially stupid idea? Not many do.
Only if the loan is payed off the loan or almost done could it make some since to sell the car at a 50% loss. It sucks, and should be done to get rid of the Tesla, but I still feel bad for the folks who wanted the EV for the environment/at home charging/no gas and got sold into the Tesla marketing.
And okay, my UHC example is easily broke on an individual level, but companies still choose the provider. Do we go set fire to random businesses that picked United Healthcare? That’s not gonna hurt UHC, it’ll just hurt the families of the workers who no longer have a job.
If you want a different example, insert Nestle or something, same idea applies.
And I’m going to emphasize this again, nothing musk does is justification for risking anyone’s life with burning cars.
- Comment on Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
It’s regular people who are stuck with a Tesla. They got sold in to the EV crowd, and until the last 5 years Tesla’s were pretty much the only major fully electric option do the charging network. They were lied to by Musk with promises that never came. One thing they did get is a nifty video security system, I bet the cops are loving all the video evidence. Not everyone can just sell their car at a major loss to get something different, life ain’t that easy.
I’m gonna say it; if an Arab man set someone’s car on fire, or started attacking dealerships they’d be charged with terrorism with out a second thought. 5 years ago if a white man in a red marvel hat keyed a Tesla or set it ablaze, the same crowd keying/lighting cars today would be calling for blood. Sick of the “rules for you, none for me” bullshit.
Destruction of property is not a protest against Tesla, its a crime against the people who own the car, a burden on taxpayers, fire fighters are risking their lives to put out those Tesla fires because “protesters” got upset at 1 dude they can’t reach and decided to take it out on the closest person they could.
Should we start stabbing people with United Healthcare now?
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 4 weeks ago:
Please look here for a reminder to never post your children’s pictures online. If they’re too young to have a social media account, they’re too young to be on social media.
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 4 weeks ago:
Looks like an adult gave her an oversized scarf, kid doesn’t look happy to be there, probably cold too.
- Comment on WWYD 5 weeks ago:
By the time I’m done analyzing the situation and determine the best outcome, the sun had already burnt out.
- Comment on Look at me, I'm the Admiral now. 1 month ago:
And when it tries hide, Process Explorer will hunt it down.
- Comment on mass 1 month ago:
Every time you eat a donut hole physicals is broken until someone eats a donut.
- Comment on Little know fact 1 month ago:
Owner of couch; “hey do you want to model for an animated movie character?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, its insane the most effective way to say “don’t put that thing on my truck and go away” is a gun. Both are in the wrong.
Cart guy should’ve left earlier, gun guy should never pulled a gun (and put the fucking cart away)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I agree the guy shouldn’t be so quick to pull a gun, but it also solved his problem very quickly. He was getting harassed, gun came out, he was no longer harassed. Nobody got hurt, nothing was damaged, and the situation was resolved quickly.
The Cart Narc guy was fine at first, but he should’ve said his business and left it at that. He kept arguing, pulled out a magnet and was just harassing the guy over a cart. The guy in the van has no idea when the dude will stop, so he stops him safely (for him). He didn’t jump out to fight.
How does this resolve in California? Same people, no gun? Do they all hug at the end?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was fine with annoying guy calling out the dude for not putting his cart away. Until he pulled out a magnet, (at least it wasn’t a sticker). Don’t fuck with people’s property.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 1 month ago:
Then I guess you need the $100 teir option
- Comment on brain blowing orgasms 1 month ago:
It’s not but, the evolutionary goal is compete.
There’s no way for the octopus to pick a mate with out the side effect, so the lack of post-nut clarity continues through the generations.
- Comment on The wonders of how the human body works 2 months ago:
Its right next to the elusive milk.
- Comment on I welcome our new alien overlords 2 months ago:
Gee thanks for linking the comic where I stole the joke from :p
- Comment on I welcome our new alien overlords 2 months ago:
“We’ll take your women to bare our children”
“The volunteers are lining up already”
- Comment on Checking in 3 months ago:
Well you ruined that chance
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 3 months ago:
Yet its still a surprise to many. But I suppose that’s a knowledge gap not a skill issue. Now getting younger folks these day to follow a file directory, that’s a true challenge.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 3 months ago:
Now the new skill is “print to pdf”
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 3 months ago:
Its 2025, are most drivers ready for a 3rd dimension to keep track of?
- Comment on RIP In Peace 3 months ago:
God damn it, this is somehow the first I heard, and thought maybe its a prank.
I’m glad he made it to 100.