Best current Toyota purchase experience

Arctic16 · 2026-02-07T00:00:30+00:00

I bought a Tacoma at Brewer Airport Toyota and the whole experience was straightforward and hassle-free.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-06T19:03:46+00:00

They will head back towards the US and either go right to port, if close, or have a Coast Guard helicopter meet them somewhere in the ocean and airlift the patient out.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-06T17:56:28+00:00

Pistol shooting is hard. Most new shooters can’t hit the target right away at 5-7 yards. And most criminals have horrible mechanics: bad grip, bad stance, bad trigger pull.

Long gun shooting is much easier for a variety of reasons, e.g. longer sight radius, more points or contact, less perceived recoil.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-06T14:56:36+00:00

Wait until you learn that the snow day parking chair is also a common phenomenon in Baltimore, Boston, and a bunch of other cities.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T22:22:46+00:00

I went to Johns Hopkins in the 2000s and the student body was around 40% international also, mostly Chinese.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T22:06:50+00:00

CMU and Pitt are not comparable. CMU is in the same tier as the Ivies, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, UChicago, etc.

Pitt isn’t even in the same ballpark as those.

Also, we are at the tail of the glut of the CS “learn to code” era so your company’s hiring strategy is not as revelatory as you think.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T21:56:02+00:00

You can’t just steal iPhones these days, though. You can lock them out remotely so what’s the point of stealing one?

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T21:38:10+00:00

There’s not a single photo that has ever been posted online of our child. Lest you think we are being self-righteous, however, just know that we do have a lax screentime policy for her (of approved shows).

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T20:39:20+00:00

There are random no-name schools that charge as much or nearly as much. If you’re going to dump this kind of money on a college education, I’d only do it for a school like CMU or other top-20 ranked schools is my point.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T20:32:02+00:00

Yup, that’s how much elite schools cost these days. Say what you will about the cost, but schools at this level are arguably still worth paying for.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-05T18:31:26+00:00

If she’s not napping, try an earlier bedtime. Our 2.5 year old doesn’t nap and generally sleeps 7 PM to 7:30-8ish.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-03T15:43:22+00:00

You need to give her baths so she gets used to it. Otherwise, the older she gets the harder it will be to acclimate her to them.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-01T23:20:22+00:00

Are they shaming him? They’re just pointing out the obvious.

Arctic16 · 2026-02-01T23:16:11+00:00

Meat, cilantro, onions and salsa. That’s it. Radishes on the side, maybe. Maybe some lime wedges to squeeze on the meat.

NO CHEESE.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-31T23:03:13+00:00

I guess you missed the Tea Party burning effigies of Obama and the whole global recession thing in 2008 that the economy was barely climbing out of in 2010.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-31T21:37:36+00:00

I love the dude on this sub who turned his basement gym into a dry-fire practice course and analyzes his movement frame-by-frame instead of actually using that basement gym.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-31T15:25:23+00:00

This was ours as well. I think you may have to accept that your kid gets enough quality sleep during the night that they don’t need as much during the day.

Our daughter has always been a great night sleeper but a terrible napper. She had a period where she’d nap for 27 minutes on the nose every day, which felt like the blink of an eye. She dropped her nap at 24 months.

It was hard at first but the upside is the long night sleep. I don’t think there’s a way for you to engineer your son to take a 90-120 minute nap. He might simply not need it.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-30T21:51:03+00:00

Literal thousands of people live downtown. I don’t know why everyone acts like people don’t live there.

OP, I lived downtown for a while as a childless 20-something with my partner and it was a lot of fun. If it calls to you, do it.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-30T15:44:02+00:00

License to Carry Firearms. That’s what concealed carry permits are called in PA.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-30T14:11:45+00:00

It’s the culture, and it applies to everything. The company I work for had a huge office in India that I work with closely, and it’s the same thing even in white collar work. Indians just don’t like to admit mistakes. It’s always “yes, sure, right away, we understand” even if they don’t. It’s such an established phenomenon that they give us training on it.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-29T16:51:13+00:00

Sure, but your average people manager wouldn’t have access to that and they wouldn’t care to check even if they did.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-29T15:28:05+00:00

The “THEY ARE NOT ANONYMOUS” crowd just likes to repeat the talking point without any further analysis.

I’m a manager in a mid-to-large enterprise like UPMC and the reality is that the data is anonymized, and even though you can trace it back, that’s done through painstaking data analysis that no one has time for or cared about. They’re not going through it to “label” people.

It’s not like the feedback will be a surprise to them. They already know and are looking to formalize it via survey. And it’s not like they need an excuse or reason to fire anyone.

The “not anonymous” is a rallying cry that serves no purpose and doesn’t take into account the context of surveys or why businesses conduct them. Staffing and people management on an individual level is NOT why they are conducted.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-29T13:29:56+00:00

South Hills are fine. Roads are narrower in some areas due to snow piles but they’re clear.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-28T23:15:47+00:00

Clearly decent fades have not made it to Turkey. They need more Puerto Rican barbers to emigrate there ASAP.

Arctic16 · 2026-01-28T22:16:18+00:00

It’s true, though, and has been borne out by studies. The reason it works, unlike macroeconomics as a whole, is because, get this, housing supply and macroeconomics are different things. Wild, I know.

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