spicytuna62

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I kinda fell off the bandwagon after the "salary discussions are frowned upon" WAN show ep. Said screw that guy when the Billet Labs prototype was auctioned off. And I quit watching entirely after learning what happened to Madison. She was a huge breath of fresh air and way too funny for her own good, and I choose to believe her because I just don't know what she would have to gain.

To anyone who felt strongly enough to downvote this, which part(s) of my statement do you disagree with?

Do you believe:

• It is acceptable to suppress employee discussions with regard to compensation;
• It was okay when LTT's inventory management allowed a trade secret prototype to end up in the wild; or
• Madison should have kept quiet about being sexually harassed by her colleagues and disregarded by HR, which was run by the CEO/owner's wife?

Do you also believe it was okay for Linus to trash GN or HW Unboxed? Or that the Billet Labs prototype review was conducted correctly and/or scientifically? Do you believe LTT's initial response to Billet Labs was apropos?

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I'd been watching Steve for years. I came to a realization that you go to Linus to be entertained. You go to Steve to learn or make a very informed purchase.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Still tap water is better than sparkling water, and I will die on this hill.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I feel like that number is slowly creeping toward 0%. Maybe it'll take a billion years, but I bet it'll get there.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

If I go more than a few days without it, I will literally die.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Sun tea is fantastic.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

Good black coffee is a low S or high A tier drink. Sure, it makes me poop, but it tastes great and makes me productive.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I'll give you that caveat. My brother lives in the rural town where we grew up in the butthole of Oklahoma, and his water is so hard that they justified spending thousands of dollars on a whole home water softening system. My in laws pump their own water and it's foul. I think they need to be filtering it. I think there's something in their groundwater.

As for the water in the urban and suburban parts of Oklahoma City, it's pretty hard to find truly bad tap water.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Actually did this for O Green World by Gorillaz when I was 13 in '05. When the bill came in, my dad beat me senseless with those old jumper cables. Man, I loved that funky little ringtone.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

My mother seriously recommended I hire cleaners if I wasn't able to always keep my place clean at a time in my life where I was super busy.

I made like $30k in 2014. I wasn't poor by any stretch, but suggesting I hire cleaners was a clear indicator of how out of touch she was with the lower half of the middle class.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I graduated college in '14 and got my first professional job that August. I made $17.09 an hour and I was an 85% FTE. I was still in grad school at the time (never finished, whoops). That inflates to right about $22 today, if the BLS' inflation numbers are to be trusted. Or about $39k at 85% FTE

My rent was $800 in uptown Oklahoma City.

Again, I was doing alright for a single guy with a bachelor's degree at 22 with little work experience. I kept my bills and rent paid. I got to buy a PC component every once in a while. Sure, I wasn't going on vacation every year, but I wasn't starving.

But I was a long way away from hiring cleaners. I couldn't really afford a therapist back then. Which I desperately needed more than I realized.

Oklahoma's minimum wage still follows federal, but most places do start at $9 or $10 anymore. Still not nearly enough. And that's really in the city. Out in the sticks, you're making $7.25.

spicytuna62 OP , 4 months ago

I get that. My Civic has been through the wringer lately.

Here it is in 2020 getting some minor flood damage.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37149295-fccc-4589-86da-79c8d71c36b2.jpeg

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It got high enough to mess with the computer, but the car still worked fine after. The odometer would just disappear sometimes. That has since resolved itself. But I'm sure that some electrical gremlins will crawl out of the woodwork in the next few years. The water brought out a lot of odors hiding in the upholstery. It stank bad for a few months after, but it smells ok now. It does get a little fresh on hot humid days.

Here's the poor Mustang parked across from me. I'm sure they weren't having a good day after that.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ed76243-c5b5-4e0c-91c1-5cec7d3fa7bb.jpeg

Here it is not six months later after a major hailstorm passed through.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f3d1e9a6-802b-4023-b80a-f9aa3df75367.jpeg

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I got on Safelite's website immediately because I knew glass was going to be in short supply very soon. They came out a week later and threw a new one on. That was just over 300 bucks. Another great part of owning an old shitbox is how inexpensive parts are.

Aside from this, my wife got into an accident in it in 2015 and then I got rear ended twice in 2019. We still have the car. It keeps on trucking along. I do want to replace it with an Accord of the same vintage, but that's because I want a cheap manual I can daily.

spicytuna62 , 4 months ago

I want a Speed Queen. They're way more expensive than your standard machines, but there's a reason you find them in laundromats everywhere. They're built to be abused.

What do people even do with their wifi appliances? Throw the load in and say Alexa start the washer? How is that easier than setting it yourself?

spicytuna62 , 7 months ago

If you're gonna have to pick between two shitty situations (pun intended) then you might as well choose the less harmful one.

Who knows? Maybe you have an undiscovered kink.

spicytuna62 OP , 7 months ago

Ah yes, the classic 18th century virtue of revolting against the ruling theocratic monarchy, which was only conceived because the Pope wouldn't let Henry VIII divorce his first of six wives.

spicytuna62 , 8 months ago

I get that it's just a shitpost, but the doctor who gets paid $200k a year has a much better chance of giving a shit about the financial hardship a medical emergency can bring to a patient than the capitalist executives at the top of hospital administrations and insurance companies who get multi-million dollar bonuses each year. Your doctor is just another cog in a machine. I'd argue most doctors do not take joy in knowing how pricey these things are, but they don't set the prices, unless they are also part of the group running the show.

spicytuna62 , 9 months ago

I'm one of the weirdos who wouldn't mind this. I've been dailying my '97 Prelude for most of the summer since I bought it. I didn't think I'd want to drive it in traffic, but honestly, it's not the stop and go that ruins the experience for me. It's the fact that if I get hit by just about any of the trucks on the road, I'm getting a faceful of bumper and best I can hope for is to retain the use of my arms. It's basically a motorcycle that I can't lowside.

But I totally get that I'm a fringe case. I completely understand why this would just be too much for someone to want to keep up with in stop and go traffic. Besides, all that starting is bad for clutches. Autos with torque converters handle it a million times better.

Most people aren't car enthusiasts and enthusiasts need to come to terms with it. Manuals are dying. It's just the way the world is moving. Let's enjoy what we have now and appreciate we get to be a part of something we love.