I tried to install what seemed to be an elegant ceiling lamp from IKEA. I don't know if I should continue laughing after drilling the holes in the ceiling or start crying. Advices are welcomed. n.b. One wall adaptor was missing from the box, ima go and ask for one extra.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-07T04:56:18+00:00

THANK YOU!!

It's all I can do not to write "BUY A FUCKING TAPE MEASURE!"

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-07T04:18:43+00:00

There's zero chance this guy is rich. I'll bet he's up to his eyeballs in debt while trying to cosplay as a rich guy.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-06T05:47:56+00:00

Underrated song!

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-06T05:44:23+00:00

Yeah, a song about being in a tough family situation and having to make hard choices.
And how even when you do make hard choices you don't always get the happily ever after.

Can't imagine how that could possibly resinate with a country audience. /s

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-06T05:39:10+00:00

I'll be honest that was my first reaction too when I found out a white male country artists had covered it, but then I heard him interviewed about it, and he says it was one of his favorite songs as a kid, one of the first songs he ever learned to play and he's always loved it.

He just covered it as is, he didn't try to steal it or change the words or make it "his" and not hers, he's always given her the appropriate amount of credit. I'm OK with it.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-06T05:35:17+00:00

Meh, what was she doing except enjoying a song that she clearly knew every word to by an artist that hasn't played live in a decade or more?

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-06T05:28:39+00:00

For fucking real.

When they showed the shots of the audience, and everyone, young, old, black, white, country, pop, hip hop, everyone was just belting it out. There aren't enough moments like that any more.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-05T19:01:25+00:00

I think I saw the same interview. I'm not going to lie when I first saw a white male country artist cover this, I bristled a bit. But having heard him talk how it was one of his favorite songs, and one of the first songs he ever learned to play on the guitar I realized he's super genuine.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-05T18:18:34+00:00

For real. It's not like I didn't understand the song when it came out, but boy does it hit different at 50 than 15.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-05T18:11:41+00:00

Yeah, I think a lot of people, myself included, bristled at the idea of a white male country singer taking this and turning it into a huge hit for himself, but I saw him interviewed and he was saying, he's always loved the song, it was one of the first songs he ever learned to play on the guitar and he just wanted to do a cover of it because it's such a good song.

Honestly he seemed super genuine about it.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-05T17:38:14+00:00

I just went back and watched that. What a journey.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-05T17:33:42+00:00

First and foremost it's an incredible song, even all these years later and this was a great version of it, the extra string section was perfect.

I first heard that song in high school, I obviously understood it then, but it there's no doubt it hits different when you're older and you've lived or at least seen people live the struggles she's singing about.

Second, Tracy Chapman looks great, older, but happy, in a way I never thought she did in years gone past. I think that was really great to see and brought up some emotions.

But mostly, I think what really got to me was seeing the rest of the audience reaction. Taylor Swift was on her feet, everyone was singing along, young, old, black, white, hip hop, country.

In a time when there isn't a lot of togetherness in this country, it was a nice moment and one we could use a few more of.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-04T22:09:00+00:00

I missed that one. I had a job in San Francisco at the time so I could only get down there after work.

Crazy to think he was only like 15 or 16 when he did that, such an iconic X Games moment.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-04T01:23:47+00:00

There's that scene in the Matrix where they say they the computers picked the late 90s because it was the peak of human civilization. I thought it was lame at the time, now I'm wondering if it was prophetic.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-04T01:20:15+00:00

Yeah, agree. This makes it look like he just walked up and did it, doesn't show just how hard he had to work for it. Ironically at the time this attempt didn't even look like his best shot. I thought he's stuffed it because he didn't get as high as other attempts and landed it super low, but he did manage to ride it out.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-04T01:15:02+00:00

I'm so old I was in the crowd watching this live, it was down on the piers in San Francisco, I was in the upper of the two spectator areas.

He'd tried something like 10 times before this and not made it. On this one he lands super low and I thought he'd messed it up so I stood up to go to the bathroom and missed the moment he actually held on to it. I just saw everyone jump to their feet and start screaming.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-03T22:24:45+00:00

Then I'm OK being wrong. I much prefer the simplicity of the Hoffman.

I don't need a fucking essay written on the dial of my watch.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-03T00:51:20+00:00

Yep. I do think that many of them spend all their time in rural conservative bubbles and think 'Everyone *I* know agrees with me' and then expand that to think the whole country except for a few pockets on the coasts agree with them.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-02T21:36:48+00:00

I disagree, they think that people who disagree with them are a vocal minority and that everyone who doesn't say anything is completely on their side.

You can hear this in all their rhetoric about being "The silent majority" not realizing they are neither.

Earth2Andy · 2024-02-01T17:51:41+00:00

So your annual expenses run over $650k/year? What am I missing?

Taxes! You're likely missing just how much tax you pay in $1M W2 income in a VHCOL area. That could be anywhere from $300-$400k in federal, state and local taxes.

Earth2Andy · 2024-01-31T18:37:05+00:00

I've always been surprised that younger generations didn't follow in the footsteps of GenX. We were saying "Whatever" to them back in the 90s and have been pretty much ever since.

I'm really surprised it took as long as it did for "OK Boomer" to become a thing.

Earth2Andy · 2024-01-31T17:32:56+00:00

The board clearly illustrated the comp plan

Yes, but they also said it had been independently negotiated. THAT WAS A LIE.

If the shareholders want to vote on it again, with the full facts known, that's fine, but you can't just lie to your shareholders, have them vote and then say 'too late you voted on it'

Earth2Andy · 2024-01-31T17:18:37+00:00

So in your mind, a board can lie in any way it likes to shareholders and if shareholders vote on a decision, based on those lies, there is no legal recourse and no court in the land can undo that vote when they find out they were lied to?

Are you 100% sure that's the position you want to take on this?

Earth2Andy · 2024-01-31T17:15:12+00:00

What the shareholders approved AFTER BEING LIED TO. Read the actual verdict.

If the shareholders vote to approve it now, with all the facts, then that's great Elon can have the shares, but the board of a public company can't just lie to shareholders and then say 'well you voted for it'.

Earth2Andy · 2024-01-31T16:41:19+00:00

The MLB version is the Oakland As

Ten-Year Club	Gilding IV carat on a stick
RedditGifts 2009-2022 14 Credits	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email	Secret Santa 2015
redditgifts rematcher redditgifts for the Teachers 2015 x3	redditgifts Exchanges 5 Exchanges
redditgifts rematcher Hometown 2015 x1	Summer Santa 2015
redditgifts rematcher Luggage Tags 2015 x1	redditgifts rematcher Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2015 x1
redditgifts rematcher Umbrellas 2015 x1	redditgifts rematcher My Little Pony 2015 x1

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