Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Anon buys a car 3 days ago:
almost all used cars at lots are lease returns or repos. In both cases the car is beat and unmaintained.
I was with you until this point. You forgot about trade-ins. Dealers love getting folks trapped in a revolving line of car loans especially if they can convince those folks to keep coming back to them every 3 years for a different vehicle to buy on a 72 month loan, max out their debt to income and convince them to buy an ESP or two. With customers like that they can sell cars a bit above market price, pocket the kickbacks from the both the ESP provider and the lender and the finances are kept simple because all of the money is coming in B2B. This requires keeping folks coming back and trading in vehicles before the vehicles are too worn to be worth their effort. It’s scummy as shit and preys on consumers not understanding loan terms, and their fears as they are not knowledgeable of how vehicles work and wear
- Comment on Anon buys a car 3 days ago:
And it would’ve required him to have a buddy in the first place
- Comment on Can anyone identify this colony formation? 5 days ago:
Lemmy has generally had several kicks of revivnig old memes and old meme formats. A few months ago folks were doing the beans thing from several years ago, I’ve seen folks trying to bring advice animals and demotivational posters back, etc.
- Comment on Aged like milk 6 days ago:
Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago
- Comment on Typical 6 days ago:
My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from
- Comment on Awooga 6 days ago:
Patient grew from B size to GGG
For anyone who isn’t so cooked to go “hehe big boobs” that’s absolutely terrifying amount of growth. DD is quite large to begin with but probably about the limit for avoiding back and other problems. Also finding sexy bras for even just DDs is hard enough I can’t imagine the cost and challenge of finding specialty bras for triple-G
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 6 days ago:
I don’t think you’re being creative enough!
- Comment on Metal genres 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)
My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it
- Comment on Metal genres 2 weeks ago:
Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) new band Light the Torch?
- Comment on He took it literally 2 weeks ago:
“If someone attacked you, would you stab them with it?”
I feel like my automatic response to that would be “that’s a really weird question to ask”
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet
And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!
Scratch also works entirely in the web browser
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I need to sit down and actually watch Red Dwarf sometime. Like I did once watch the first few episodes when I was a teenager but I was way too young to fully appreciate it
- Comment on It is. Just accept it 2 weeks ago:
One week is plenty of time to stay up late and crank out a half-assed dissertation that might even pass you.
Alternatively, if there’s more needed than just a good essay and presentation, go talk to a guidance councilor or your prof or something. You’ve got time to save your degree that you’ve been working towards!
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 3 weeks ago:
My assumption would be many of the people you’re referencing are/were either on the aro/ace spectrum or simply closeted homosexuals.
Most people desire intimacy, and will experience some amount of discomfort/distress from a prolonged lack of intimacy. See also “touch-starved.” It is also perfectly normal for individuals to find themselves on the aromantic/asexual spectrum, where they may either not need intimacy or may even find displeasure/discomfort/distress when engaging in intimacy for another’s sake. These are things that are important to keep in mind when discussing other’s needs and desires or lack thereof
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
My first kid was a perfect baby, she’d sleep 10 hours straight, she was quiet and never bratty…Then we had our second, an autistic boy with the energy of a thousand suns.
My experience has been similar, except they absolutely rile eachother up, and when separated they’re both incredible quiet and chill. One of their grandparents refuses to take my youngest overnight but begs for sleepovers regularly with my oldest. We try to make it special for my youngest by doing stuff we don’t normally do on those nights (and we try to arrange outings with just the youngest too to make it as fair as we can), but it is really shocking just how quiet and reserved both are without the other to encourage them to cause chaos
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the released CO2 while it cures too! Humanity really needs to use a lot less concrete
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
Wow lighten up. I throw a joke theory out there based on unix timestamps and that’s you’re takeaway?
Why do you have to intentionally try to ruin a bit of fun
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
I like the (joke) theory that the world was created Jan 1st 1970 and every memory or artifact from before that point is simulated history, since that explains the gradually increasing insanity that’s been building up since
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
have FTL travel…yet have mysteriously lost the arcane technology known as “email”
To be fair, you do realize how many meetings happen today that could have been emails. That’s just the interstellar social equivalent
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 4 weeks ago:
I was going to reference Valentine as well with the hats. Trump gives some serious Velntine vibes
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
I had a gay friend who up on learning of that “get out of gay free card” said “well shit I guess I’ve been straight all this time!”
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
No but they kept their socks on so it’s good
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
The funniest part about this to me is that the AIDs epidemic actually forced medical researchers to accept that sometimes guys have sex with other guys, and they even created the term “Men who have Sex with Men” or MSM to cover this fact, since they aren’t necessarily gay or bi.
Like, society needs to get over this. Sometimes people have sex with other people. Sometimes they happen to be different genders, sometimes they’re the same. It only means whatever it means to the people fucking and little else
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
Lol gym bros are some of the gayest fucking straight people you’ll ever meet, but gay = weak tooootally. You’re funny
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
I smiled but my breathing remained unchanged
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Incident 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like diaper aged kids, so they bump into things all the time and will cry for 30 seconds because it was scary then forget that anything happened and be fine. You should see the way my 3 year old will run full tilt directly into things sometimes!
To quote my parent’s favorite Cosby quote “all children have brain damage!”
- Comment on Incident 4 weeks ago:
Half the time I have to check with my wife what cares were done recently when my nonverbal kid gets fussy to try to identify why they’re fussy. Logging makes it so instead of asking one can check the log, especially useful if the previous care person isn’t available to be asked now
- Comment on Which way? 4 weeks ago:
Being barefoot (specifically not even wearing socks) for some of the day actually made a noticable improvement on a few funky things about my feet that bothered me. So maybe those weird toe shoe people were onto something after all…