LordCrom
@LordCrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 1 week ago:
I’ve used pop is for years now. No major complaints.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Take the lesson. While learning, stay off of hills and any upward incline until you got a feel from taking the car from full stop to going in 1at gear.
While learning you will stall the car… Don’t let it bother you.
The trickiest part is learning how to ease the clutch while applying gas to go from full stop to motion forward.
Remember neutral when coming to a stop.
Manuals are great, it’s built in theft protection from like 95 % of people
- Comment on The Home Insurance Crisis Is Getting Even More Expensive | In California, a home insurance rate increase by State Farm is yet another sign of growing crisis driven by climate change. 1 week ago:
I couldn’t even afford windstorm insurance in Florida this year. Lucky I have no mortgage so I can opt not to have it.
They want 10k a year for windstorm, with a 20k detuctable and the roof coverage is prorated over the 15 year arbitrary lifetime of a roof…lose your roof and your roof is 15 years old, that’s 2k only… Too bad you didn’t meet the deductible in damage so you’ll get 0. Plus they won’t Insure you unless you have a roof under 15 years old. If I’m going to spend 30k on a roof, I’ll wait for a storm to blow it away, then put the new one on.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 1 week ago:
Queue Dave Chappelle and his sketch ‘Negrodamas’
Quote
I predict a movie called The Last Black Man on Earth, starring Tom Hanks
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 1 week ago:
Never be afraid to ask a question to rectify a lack of knowledge.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 4 weeks ago:
Legal items aside. My wife has my back and I have hers. Having a partner in life you can trust with yours is a special thing.
It doesn’t have to even be man and woman. I know a group of older men who have a group dynamic where they are all basically each other’s partners…not sexually, just supportive.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 month ago:
8675309
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 2 months ago:
It’s not an autobus, it’s la guagua
It’s not un banana, it’s un gineo
It’s not automovil, it’s El carro
I can keep going.
Dominican here so my Spanish includes…
Que vaina
Un molote
Un mojonera
Mojiganga
Sana sana colito de rana
- Comment on Do you think the US will actually log its national parks? 2 months ago:
Yes.
Trumps tariffs hit Canadian lumber.
This causes fake crisis in lumber prices.
Trump leases land to us lumber companies who now sell lumber… Remember it’s more expensive than what Canadian lumber costs, but Trump handled that with tariffs… Now us lumber is artificially cheaper than Canadian.
= Trumps rich friends profit while Americans pay more for lumber and lose national parks
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 2 months ago:
I’m with you … I don’t need every MCU movie to be about the end of the world. I would be happy watching Spiderman trying to make rent while just handling some small time hood.
- Comment on Adding radio to the observatory display Part 2 2 months ago:
The yagi works well, very similar.
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- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Somehow autocorrect made it funnier too
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
So property tax I am ok with, in theory. The people with property in a city should pay for services like fire, schools, police, road maintenance… What gets me is when the city wants more and more for stupid shit like iPads for all students… Every 3 years due to forced upgrades or just old style deprecation over 3 years.
The amount my taxes go up each year is more than any raise I get. Then add on insurance which has gone insane. I paid off my house to avoid a 20k female flood insurance bill because a 1 foot piece of concrete touched a high risk flood zone. A technicality because if I took down a screen patio, then I wouldn’t have to pay.
It’s insane how expensive owning a house has become
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 2 months ago:
Yes thats it. I gotta go find that disk somewhere in my old folders now
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
Last time I checked, people had a right to peaceful assembly and to protest.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 2 months ago:
What was the name of that motorcycle racing game where you also beat up other racers all while racing to Soundgarden… That one.
- Comment on It’s Official: The DVD Business Died in 2024 2 months ago:
Having local media, whether disk or a copy on a nas drive, is a must for me.
Plus it’s nice to have stuff to watch if my ISP loses connection for a day or so, which happens quite a bit.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Here in Florida in the US…showers at work is not a thing. Best you can do is use a sink in the bathroom to wash your pits.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 2 months ago:
First off…you are a great parent. Respect. The most important thing I wish I heard at 14 is that changes are normal, sexual desire is normal, a teenagers body is spurting growth and this may be awkward, but also normal.
When I was 14, my knees hurt because of my growth spurts.
When I was 14, there were a lot of awkward arousals that I had to cover with my back back.
When I was 14, I was still smaller compared to others, by 18 I was towering above everybody.
When I was 14 I was a coward with girls. When I really shouldn’t have been.
When I was 14, I was bullied, and wish with all my heart, I would have Stood up for myself…if I had a cthwr figure to tell me that instead of teachers telling me to be peaceful Instead.
Hell, maybe a big brother program would help.
Hell, if you are desperate, DM me…maybe I can help
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- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Make no problem with bikes in Florida, when you arrive you are so drenched in sweat you are no longer presentable and stink to high heaven.
Biking to work if you have an office job is out of the question.
Biking to my gym or KungFu school… Perfect.
Just need the right tool for the right job.
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 3 months ago:
Whoops, shouldn’t have that bar assocation logo here either.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 4 months ago:
ROCK !!! Duh duh duh Duh dah dah
- Comment on After a disastrous opening, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim heads to digital on Dec 27th 5 months ago:
Saw it in the theater … Meh, a 6 out of 10 I think. Plot was kinda contrived. But there are some beautiful shots in there, the opening with the eagles on the mountain, gorgeous.
It was ok, but nothing outstanding
- Comment on How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices? 5 months ago:
I’ve worked for the government. They had me managing 78 full AWS accounts for various departments. Me, 1 guy. And I had to explain basics of tech to everybody in charge of the cloud accounts.
Our gov can barely manage itself, let alone some next level tech on millions of devices and keep track of it all. They couldn’t even get me a new mouse without 2 forms, 1 online ticket, and 2 levels of approvals.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 months ago:
Naw, you can make out the microphone bracket …it’s a headset
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 months ago:
Why would he still have on his phone headset during lunch too?
- Comment on T-Pain sings War Pigs 5 months ago:
Ugh. Not great imho
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 5 months ago:
Damn, my work at a non profit yields me free coffee and water. I think I’m underselling myself