FlexibleToast
@FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 3 days ago:
Because they were being pressured from the credit card companies to do that.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 3 days ago:
I don’t think that’s entirely it. OnlyFans flirted with the idea of not allowing NSFW content because of pressure from the credit card companies. PornHub purged amateur content from the same pressure.
- Comment on Win win 5 days ago:
Dude, a brand new Hyundai Ioniq 5 starts at $42k. The used Mercedes doesn’t cost -$8. Also, if you’re in a country that uses Euros, that explains a lot. Your part costs are much cheaper for those German cars than ours are. If I lived in Europe my opinion would likely be different on German cars. Here in the US, if you used Lexus as an example, it would be a much easier argument for you to make.
I’m not even trying to say that a new car is more financially sound. That’s a silly stance to take. But a 10 year old car just isn’t going to have the same safety standards and tech of a new car.
- Comment on Win win 5 days ago:
You can also buy an EV for a dramatically lower price by buying it just a couple of years old. Their initial depreciation is massive. You can get a 3 year old Mustang Mach E for less than $30k and have Blue Cruise. That will have far fewer maintenance worries than a 10+ year old Mercedes. Even brand new, they can be bought for less than $50k. I don’t think your $50k price difference is accurate. I personally wouldn’t touch an old German with a ten foot poll.
- Comment on Win win 6 days ago:
I can believe that. My job has me travel, so I’ve rented a lot of different vehicles. Some are definitely more intuitive than others. I don’t think I’ve had a Subaru though.
- Comment on Win win 6 days ago:
2025 Hyundai EV is going to require FAR less maintenance than an old Mercedes. I’ve owned a fairly young VW and immediately dumped it when the manufacturer recertified warranty ran out. Every little repair on those German cars are ridiculously expensive.
Or like you said, get an EV and sell it before the battery warranty is out. It’s not like you’re actually going to be able to affect an entire industry by holding out on buying new lol
Yeah, that’s kind of my point. Historically, boycotts just don’t work unless the overall sentiment was already shifting. Like Tesla right now. They were already losing sales because of their tired designs and were already offering deep incentives. Elon just accelerated the downfall by going full Nazi.
- Comment on Win win 6 days ago:
What features do you need that, say, a 2015 model can’t have?
assist, and adaptive cruise control come to mind.
A new EV versus a new ICE, yeah fair enough
Well, buying a new car is what I’m interested in. I want something reliable, not something with 10 years of wear and tear on it. Hell, a big draw of EVs is their dramatically simpler maintenance plan. If I’m in the market for an EV, a 10 year old ICE just isn’t a good alternative.
Especially if you can get your hands on something like a 1.0l with a giant turbo strapped to the side. They’re pretty common in Europe, I don’t know about America.
I really wish… I got back into motorcycles this year, so I have a 250cc engine to move me around now.
- Comment on Win win 6 days ago:
So, I’m supposed to drive an older, less safe car without the features I want? I’m supposed to keep using an ICE? No thanks.
- Comment on Win win 6 days ago:
Sure, but that’s kind of every car manufacturer right now. If you let that limit your choice, you won’t be buying anything. Depending on where you live, maybe that’s better.
- Comment on The Tesla protests are working. 1 week ago:
I’ll believe it when the price has fallen below pre November numbers. It’s right on the cusp. Let’s keep it up.
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 1 month ago:
Fair enough I suppose.
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 1 month ago:
And unlike a cat you apparently have no night vision at all along with your dirty toilet?
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 1 month ago:
If it’s up, you don’t even need to touch it, just sit…
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
I ended up in the system administration world where certs are strongly recommended. In app dev, I have no idea.
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 1 month ago:
Just be even lazier and sit down.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Haven’t taken a cert in a while either?
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can get the CS degree with being completely incompetent. A bunch of interviews I had were white boarding the logic, not actual coding. Code is easy if you know the logic.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Not during a test. But maybe in those 20 hours they have.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Yeah, exactly. At least any fairly modern language. I don’t think I could just pick up assembly and read it without the class I took. Heck, I don’t think I could read it anymore now that it’s been several years since that class.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
It’s super easy to learn how algorithms and what not work without knowing the syntax of a language. I can tell you how a binary search tree works, but I have no clue how to code it in Java because I’ve never used Java.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Many HR departments will automatically kick out an application if it doesn’t have a degree. It’s an easy filter even if it isn’t the most accurate.
- Comment on See something you like? 1 month ago:
I was just at Whole Foods, not the best barameter for price, every brand that wasn’t the store brand was $10+ for a dozen. The store brand was $5.
- Comment on Guga experiment 2 months ago:
The majority of his “dry aging” is actually wet aging. The joke works either way. Either he’s inadequate or he is just click clickbaiting again.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 3 months ago:
Thanks to both of you for the added context and corrections. My memory was very vague, I did remember the Vitamin E thing. I had also forgotten it was the THC vapes that were the issue.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 3 months ago:
Popcorn was a legit scary thing because nobody knew what was causing it in the vapes. If I’m not mistaken it turned out to be something to do with a food safe additive that either was or turned into vitamin E when heated and was not safe to inhale. It was the cheap unregulated vape juices that were using that additive and the young people who are over heating and over juicing their vapes to rip those huge clouds that were effected. It’s just one more example of how important drug and food regulations are.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 3 months ago:
Isn’t this from the popcorn lung scare?
- Comment on Anon has the spirit 3 months ago:
We used to have shared cultural events. If you wanted to watch a thing, you had to watch it at its designated time (or record it to watch later, I got pretty good with my VCRs timer functions). With streaming and with some shows being dumped all at once, we lost that. I much prefer the weekly schedule for this reason.
- Comment on I just saw this in a supermarket and I am now very upset and angry at whoever thought of such a thing and you need to feel my pain. 3 months ago:
Which is what I did after I tried these. Which, I almost think, is the point of these. It gets us adults to buy Sunny D.
- Comment on I just saw this in a supermarket and I am now very upset and angry at whoever thought of such a thing and you need to feel my pain. 3 months ago:
It doesn’t taste like that. Notice the zero sugar. It has the distinct taste of artificial sweetner ruining an otherwise awesome concept.
- Comment on Just the essentials 4 months ago:
A long time ago, I learned a way to do something that had a similar effect. Most places I’ve worked allow you to have a split deposit. So, I have two checking accounts at my bank. Add up all your monthly recurring expenses, then have a split deposit so that enough money goes to one of the checking accounts for the recurring expenses, anything leftover goes to your other checking account. You can spend all the money in the “spending” account because your bills are covered by the “bills” account.