Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on How accurate is this? 54 minutes ago:
I worked in retail for 3 years, I lasted a single night working at a warehouse
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 21 hours ago:
In the time since I last watched that movie, I’ve accidentally started living it, except I work remotely so it all sucks way less
- Comment on HD 137010 b 1 day ago:
Imagine getting there and finding out a ship left 50 years after yours that flies faster and arrived 2 years before yours!
- Comment on ai generated logo 2 weeks ago:
This is always the part that blows my mind, they can’t just crack open an image editor to move the project over the finishline? Seriously if you’re already 90% of the way there with an AI generated image, just pop open GIMP or paint.net or whatever and make those couple of tweaks. Or, y’know hire an artist and say “here I like this logo I generated with AI, can you do something like this but better?”
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
One only needs to watch John McAfee’s uninstalling McAfee Antivirus video (NSFW) to realize how much of a legend he was.
LGR did a wonderful retrospective when he announced his candidacy for US president. Dude seriously lived life to its fullest and made tons of questionable decisions
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
People don’t remember how he flat out campaigned on some policies that were to the left of Hilary. They don’t remember his charisma in the Republican debates, the way he expertly worked crowds back in 2015-16. They ask have forgotten about how he said he’ll “drain the swamp” and that he was “self funding his campaign” so he “wouldn’t be beholden to any other interests”
Turns out he was just a sad wannabe dictator who can’t even manage to control a Latin American nation with the full force of the US Military, let alone establish himself as emperor over the 'states
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
For me it was shoving a bunch of Teslas in a hole in Las Vegas and calling it a “hyperloop”
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 weeks ago:
I really appreciated him around that same era, as he seemed to be the only rich person actually showing any real care or action to try to do something about climate change. Up until him every rich person and every politician seemed to be actively dismissing climate change as a concern. It feels like around 10 years ago was when political discourse finally stopped trying to argue whether or not climate change is real and instead shifted to trying to argue that any actions to prevent climate change were unrealistic or futile
Remember, Musk was building up an electric car company, a home battery company and a solar roofing company through the 2010s. Plus he was pushing for cool space stuff. We were going to have a colony on mars by 2020! Incredible!
It was the whole hyperloop thing that killed it for me. It quickly became apparent as his Las Vegas “hyperloop” was just Teslas in a tunnel that he was full of shit and it put his other lies and half-truths into perspective. Honestly his antics over the last couple of years have killed my interest in space flight. I fucking loved watching rocket launch live streams. I stayed up until 2am to watch the Artemis launch. And now I just can’t bring myself to get excited.
I appreciate that he brought Tesla to profitability and Tesla proved to other automakers and consumers that electric cars are viable and cool. I appreciate that SpaceX has completely changed the rocket industry for the better and now every rocket program worth it’s salt in the world is trying to replicate the Falcon 9 rocket boosters. But that’s all I’ll give him. He didn’t do the work, he just funded it, and I appreciate that he did fund it when nobody else would but that’s it.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 2 weeks ago:
Mansplain to me harder daddy!
- Comment on Zootopia 3 weeks ago:
The reason there’s no public list is the MPAA literally has a secret team called CARA (Classification and Rating Administration) who review works and assign ratings to them. The members of the CARA team are kept secret to prevent studios from bribing or otherwise influencing the panel members. CARA members are generally given a ton of leeway to assign ratings as they see fit, so while there might be a general practice of one swear word in a PG-13 film for example, this isn’t a hard rule. There’s also notable examples of CARA assigning ratings that were unexpected
- Comment on Give me some good ones 3 weeks ago:
You can say that again
- Comment on Give me some good ones 3 weeks ago:
I swear I remember pausing it to go “did he really just say that?!” But rewatching the pictured scene in S2E19 he’s speaking with Aang who would not be a worthy recipient of such a burn, and he doesn’t say such a thing to Zuko in that episode
- Comment on genius 3 weeks ago:
Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach. Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet? No. Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation … Or is it the wind? There really is a lot of that now isn’t it? And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
My long term financial goal is to have all Amish hardwood furniture because that shit is niiiice and also it’ll probably outlast my future grandkids
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 weeks ago:
its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 5 weeks ago:
My point was less “do nothing” but rather “do things other than stare at screens for entertainment” with a touch of “be mindful of what you’re doing when you do stare at your screen for entertainment”
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 5 weeks ago:
I mean that’s kinda been his schtick is being the “conservative boy genius” except he’s pushing like 40 now so he’s been shifting his style before he completely outgrows his old style. Letting some stubble grow, wearing leather jackets, and generally hitting that “divorced dad trying to look cool but not too much y’know” look
- Comment on Daily Affirmation 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some of the most terrible people inaginable manage to find themselves in a relationship. There really is someone for everyone
There was this one dude I met at an event, literally would hit on every single conventionally attractive woman he encountered. If he was sitting in a space with multiple women he’d hit on one woman for a bit then realize he’s not getting anywhere and turn and start hitting on the next woman as if she didn’t just witness him hitting on 3 other women before moving onto her. Personality of soggy cardboard that constantly tries to cheat on you. Yeah he had a girlfriend while this was all going on. I got to hear him have half-ass phone sex where he both called her “baby” and “mommy” within 2 sentences. Then that evening he cheated on her with a friend of a friend who I’d really hoped had better standards than that.
Point is, if a dude who literally repells everyone around him the moment he opens his mouth (and he doesn’t stop opening his mouth) can get in a relationship, you can too.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
Hey that’s honestly super awesome. Most folks don’t have that kind of financial discipline when they’re young.
When I was first on my own I was just proud that I was a able to pay extra on my possibly-illegal car loan that I got from a place that was shut down a couple of years later for credit fraud
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 weeks ago:
As a former nu metal fan this definitely sums it up
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 weeks ago:
But what will the other 6 members of the band play then?!
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
Ideally yes, but on top of your normal expenses socking away $800/mo is a ton, especially since we’re almost certainly talking about a young adult, fairly freshly on their own who’s probably only making around 30-40k per year. When each paycheck is under a thousand dollars every couple of weeks that money disappears fast especially with the financial discipline one can realistically expect of a young adult
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 5 weeks ago:
I think part of the problem is we’ve really perfected computers to where they’re overly-effective entertainment machines. You can play games that suck you in for hours on end, you can watch videos and movies on any topic. Hour long video essays on isoteric and ultimately unimportant topics. 2-10 second videos each delivering laughs, cultural experiences and information, all queued up to watch one after another so you’ve watched 10 unrelated videos in a minute. And if that’s not enough stimulation now it’s becoming common practice put an unrelated video on part of all of the screen so you don’t have to get worried about being bored for a few seconds. Pepper the video with split second clips from popular shows or movies for an added laugh and remembering the reference fondly and you’ve got a recipe to never be bored for a single second.
We’ve defeated boredom and it shows. Now we as a society have to learn why being bored is good again, why our brains need some boredom so that everything else can have meaning.
People need to relearn how to go make stuff. Read books, read magazines, play instruments, ride bikes and skateboards and run and jump and have fun away from screens. I think this is a growing trend as people realize how bad for us these dopamine drips that are fed to us on our phones, computers, game consoles, etc. the rise of products and services to add friction to accessing our computing devices, the resurrection of feature phones, phones with intentionally boring screens to discourage use, etc.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
Car rentals are so expensive nowadays. Enough so that I’ve never done it in my adult life. Its always expensive enough that it makes some alternative make way more sense, whether that’s driving our own vehicle somewhere or just winging it with public transit
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
How much does milk cost where you live? Maybe it’s just because I live close to the source but milk is around $3 a gallon for me. For another data point eggs are around $2 a dozen, often on sale for $1 (current exchange rates are around 1:1 for dollars to euros for those in euroland)
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
That’s a ton of manual labor on a disposable container. Manual labor is extremely expensive, and plastics manufacturing is extremely repeatable and extremely cheap at scale (that’s kind of the big reason plastic is so common, it’s cheap and reliable)
Granted I could imagine a machine which fills it with dyed water, uses a camera to determine the fill level then passes to another machine which adjusts by volume but that’s really going to slow down the production line doing all of that.
Ultimately plastics manufacturing is way more precise and consistent than that, you’ll basically end up with either a milk jug or a misshapen mess if there is a defect, and not really anything in between
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah this is what I’ve seen, especially in big destination cities like Chicago and New York City where they’ll have extra taxes for the city and sometimes also for the extremely desirable part of the city the hotel happens to be in. I think even I had one that had federal, state, county, city and neighborhood taxes, each as its own line item, adding about $40/night to the cost all said and done
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah Google flights only shows the base ticket price and doesn’t factor in taxes and fees which easily add an extra 15% or so on most flights. For example, I booked a trip just yesterday where the base price of the tickets was about $900 (and that’s the price that Google Flights showed) but the required taxes and fees pushed it up to $1100
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 weeks ago:
When I was car shopping at the end of 2024, I quickly realized the best bang for the buck was around $10-12k because at that price you could get a low-mid range vehicle that was around 6 years old with around 100k miles. Obviously some vehicles in that price range would be older with fewer miles, some would be newer with more miles, but that seemed to be about the price range where you’d get a vehicle which you could reasonably expect to be mechanically sound for at least another 2-3 years. Less than that and you got into vehicles that were far more worn either by age or by mileage, so you’d be trading upfront payment for additional maintenance costs.
$10k is a lot of money to save up. That’s about my entire emergency fund right now. That’s almost 3 years of socking away $300 a month, or 2 years at $500 a month. Simply put vehicle ownership is horrendously expensive especially for folks making close to minimum wage
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 1 month ago:
I like the Gay Bar or Steak House one