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- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 days ago:
Maintenance cost such, but even that has a silver lining when you own. It’s yours. When your fridge breaks in a rental you’re not out any money, but they just bring by another jank landlord special. I redid my kitchen with Thermador, not the top of the top, but pretty far up there. That cost quite a bit but it’s mine and my kitchen is far better than anything I had renting.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 days ago:
That too, last year before I finished my mortgage my neighbor was paying week over double my mortgage, property taxes, and maintenance costs combined.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 days ago:
The value of a paid off home is not the equity, that’s just numbers on a paper until you die and your heirs sell. The value is in living for peanuts for the rest of your life.
My house is paid off. My monthly housing costs are $735 for property tax that can’t increase more than 2% year due to California law. My neighbor two doors down with the same floor plan rents for $6500/month. That difference will only increase for the next 40 (I hope) years until I die.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Those whipped cream cheeses are easy as fuck to spread on a bagel with the shitty plastic knives they give you. Same stuff, just made spreadable. You can just tear off a chunk and dip it if you want. No change to the taste and the difference in texture is negligible because the bagel is 99% of that.
This in one of the rare processed food “innovations” that’s actually good. Regular cream cheese is only for cooking now.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit! That might be the dumbest arguement I’ve ever heard. I might have heard worse, but nothing is coming to mind.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
I don’t know how the Mercedes ones work or what type of fridge he has, but BMWs just have a door light and a filter goes over it for “M”, “BMW”, the roundel, etc., and my fridge just has a light.
I assumed he found you could put the filter from the car on the fridge light with a minimum of fucking around.
But you’re right, the more time and effort spent on this, the stupider it becomes.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, I’m logo free to the maximum extent practical, but a fridge is inside your house. If i wanted an “M” projection on my fridge light (I definitely don’t, but if I did), I wouldn’t consider that providing free advertising.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 2 months ago:
It’s been a while, so correct me if I’m wrong; but isn’t the gift moving on to something else after a mortal life? If I recall correctly, elves are stuck in the physical world forever. Even when they die don’t they just go to some limnal place for a while then come back?
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was going to ackchyually them about that range then I noticed the painting.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 3 months ago:
I recently renovated and said fuck no to all the smart home shit. Just the idea of having to troubleshoot the WiFi because my kitchen light won’t turn on drives me into a rage.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 3 months ago:
I had a chance run in with one of my profs and his TA at a bar. He was the department chair but got roped into teaching an undergrad class that semester. He was basically that guy on the right, and the TA was on his way there. The insights into what life as a physics PhD was really like that I gleaned from that conversation is why I’m not the guy on the right and instead found something easy and high paying with a different major. Sometimes I feel like I might have wasted my natural ability, but I think I’m probably much happier. Also, maybe I’m just not that smart anyway and my absence is absolutely no loss to the field.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 4 months ago:
I guess it’s true, money can’t buy taste.
Fun fact: Alec Baldwin’s character was invented for the movie to provide exposition. The filmmakers didn’t trust movie-going audience to pick up the information from the three conversations that occur at the beginning of the play.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 5 months ago:
If I remember correctly that’s kind of what happened. The Klingons used augment genes from Earth’s eugenics wars (the ones used to make Khan and others) to try and create their own augmented Klingons. It went wrong and the result was human looking Klingons and it somehow became a transmissible virus. That’s where the TOS looking looking ones came from. All of this is retcon of course.
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 5 months ago:
My wife love it too even though she didn’t play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.
She couldn’t get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.
- Comment on God is a dick. 6 months ago:
Our current understanding of the big bang is not that it did out from one place, it happened everywhere all at once. If the universe is infinite, it started from zero volume and infinite density then immediately became infinite in volume and finite in density. The density of matter/energy is what is finite, not the amount of matter/energy, that is infinite (if the universe is infinite). Then there was a period of rapid inflation, then is settled down to the inflation we see today.
Infinite or finite, the universe is not spreading out into anything, the distances between points are simply increasing.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 8 months ago:
I thought it was that the guest in room one was doing some weird diaper/puppet sex shit and the prospective guest was no longer interested in the room.
But maybe that’s a me problem.
- Comment on Doppler 8 months ago:
Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules.
Here is a cool What If?" from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 8 months ago:
And better science refuted their junk science. What’s your point?
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 10 months ago:
Over $1/oz is expensive. The bougie shit I buy rarely goes over $2/oz and the cheap stuff (still real cheese, not crap like Velveeta or Kraft singles) is $0.25-0.30/oz, and on sale even cheaper.
- Comment on Time for a road trip 11 months ago:
I’ve always liked that one. On a scale of fanny to gash, how impolite is it considered over there?
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 11 months ago:
It’s three hours of someone almost, but not quite, removing a splinter.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 11 months ago:
Couple things I’ve tried to watch recently that I couldn’t find anywhere. I was even willing to buy it (streaming, maybe they’re available on physical media).
Basketball Diaries
Less Than Zero
Very annoying.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 11 months ago:
This would make a good “What if?” For XKCD. In a frictionless vacuum with two spheres the mass of the earth and a bowling ball how far away do they need to start before the earth sized mass will move 1 Planck length before they come together?
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 year ago:
Do I want to know what a virgin boy egg is?
- Comment on That explains it. 1 year ago:
Lingua franca dude. I’ve never heard “hit the wall” used outside the man-o-sphere. Maybe not exclusively incel, but incel adjacent at least.
- Comment on That explains it. 1 year ago:
Yeah, they kind of had a point until they busted out the incel-speak at the end.
- Comment on Supportive dad 1 year ago:
Yeah, certainly seems fake. But I can conceive of someone that’s NB, fluid, or something else who is unable/unwilling to admit that to themselves or choosing to remain cis presenting for social reasons deciding to present as a woman due to a micropenis.
But yeah, fake.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 1 year ago:
Exactly. I get the frustrations of the son and grandson of factory workers that finds it hard to imagine anything more than working at Walmart wanting to tear it all down. What I don’t understand is my neighbor in Dana Point.
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 1 year ago:
The planet is great. It’s the fucking occupants that are a problem.
- Comment on For edge lovers 1 year ago:
I suppose you could bake a brownie sphere in microgravity. That might be hard to get the center cooked without burning the surface though. Maybe a metal ball as a pan that you could coat with batter.