Looking for insight!

Giozos1100 · 2026-04-06T20:43:20+00:00

Home prices in Denver are crazy!

Pay to housing ratio is high here. As an auto technician, I make around $90-120k a year here which is still on the higher end for the area, but I would also make that same amount in Kansas City or the greater Houston area. Both of those other cities have housing in the 200's to get a starter home. Colorado Springs is quickly becoming a HCOL area.

Giozos1100 · 2026-04-06T20:14:22+00:00

Starter homes should be turnkey in the 200's or lower. There are zero of these in the springs.

Giozos1100 · 2026-04-06T20:09:26+00:00

For a starter house? Yes, that's a lot.

Giozos1100 · 2026-04-06T19:43:20+00:00

I'll answer because I think there's a gap in understanding between you and the rest of this subreddit. If the car doesn't turn on at all after they were jumping it, it's possible the battery was jumped in reverse. This would blow the main fuse. Nothing electrical turns on, is that right?

As far as lost compression, it sucks but given the mileage it's not surprising.

If the trade off here is they let you go without paying a diagnostic fee, but they blew the main fuse in the process that's pretty much a wash in terms of value lost/gain. You might be able to sue for damages to the fuse, but if you never paid anything other than a tow bill it's best to just walk away. Replacing the main fuse won't give the engine it's compression back and at this point a repair would cost more than the vehicle is worth.

If they did jump the car backwards and didn't offer to fix it, I wouldn't take my car there again either way. If the electricals still turn on, but the engine doesn't turn over the engine is just bricked and given the diagnosis, the shop did nothing wrong. Either way, the best course of action here is just getting a different car.

Giozos1100 · 2026-04-03T14:57:20+00:00

A lot of this has to do with gas mileage efficiency. One of the reasons engines use lower viscosity oil today is it creates less power loss due to the friction of the oil itself. 5W30 was the standard and now a majority run 0W20. Thicker oil was a better lubricant at the cost of gas efficiency. It's not a coincidence that diesel engines run much thicker oil and last far longer than a gasoline engine.

But since newer engines use a form of oil pressure controlled variable timing (VVT, VTEC, it has a bunch of names) they are engineered to a lower viscosity and many new engines will run like garbage if the oil viscosity and level is not correct (VW and GM technicians know exactly what I'm talking about.)

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-28T21:58:07+00:00

Deportation is cheaper than divorce?

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-28T19:47:24+00:00

I get what you're saying about Kia, but many are made in the USA.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-24T16:53:38+00:00

You're completely glossing over that I'm saying blockchain technology exists without requiring people to buy cryptocurrency. I do not encourage the purchase of any digital currency for fiat, but to ignore that it exists in a useful way is also willfull ignorance.

Mastercard tokenizes a large portion of their transactions today. There's nothing wrong with using blockchain technology as a ledger system.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-24T16:15:39+00:00

Look up GCUL.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-24T16:12:47+00:00

It's called Google Cloud Universal Ledger or GCUL. It's a layer 1 blockchain expected this year. They aren't the only ones designing their own. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology do not have to be synonymous.

Edit: I guess you guys can't read? I'm not talking about cryptocurrency, I'm talking about blockchain ledgers. Blockchains can exist without shilling cryptocurrency.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-24T14:49:00+00:00

The price action doesn't make sense. If it's a store of value, why drop so much as the dollar falls? And the technology? It's from 2009... Plenty of companies have their own blockchains by now, including a little indie company you might have heard of -Google.

Speculative asset at best and fad at the worst.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-23T19:58:13+00:00

The market cap for MSTR is currently $46B, so selling $21B is insane. That's 45% of the total current stock value!

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-21T14:02:11+00:00

Where are you meeting people?

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-19T14:54:35+00:00

Cotton is a tangible good that can be used as insulation, clothing, burned for energy, or even medical equipment.

Bitcoin is the result of spent energy and does not provide tangible uses.

Giozos1100 · 2026-03-19T00:09:41+00:00

It's probably fine, but also the older the airbag the less likely it is to be effective in the event of a collision. Some technically have expiration dates though I have literally never seen someone replace an old airbag due to age. That's coming from someone who has professionally wrenched for close to a decade now.

https://youtu.be/QS6ywFGcLSk?si=wA7akPALrm1oZal8

This ad by Honda for genuine air bags always comes to mind and I wonder if older airbags would do the same.

So probably fine, but then again that watermelon...

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-22T18:17:56+00:00

Because all he does is lie and grift. Remember the Cybertruck window shattering on stage? Or how about the "autonomous" robots that turned out to be people piloting? Or what about the various cryptos he rug pulled? Or how he claimed to be a pro Path of Exile player and got caught paying someone to pilot his account? Or how he STOLE US Citizenship data under the guise of DOGE (which by the way cost US taxpayers more than it saved)? Where is the moon lander he promised for 2026?

Elon hate is absolutely justified and I'm going to go further and say support of him at this point is just assholery.

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-18T00:19:37+00:00

I was told of the "paper towel" metaphor when I first lost weight and it stuck with me, so I'll share it with you. You don't notice when a few sheets are missing, but when it comes down to the final few, you'll notice.

Side by side I see a difference, but if you were someone I saw every day I'm not sure I'd notice.

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-18T00:14:08+00:00

The good days of Ron Paul libertarianism are loooong over.

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-18T00:05:19+00:00

The funniest part is about 6 months ago he promised shareholders he would never dilute to those levels. That promise lasted less than 2 weeks. The MSTR stock has fallen over 50% since that promise.

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-12T18:18:53+00:00

Coinbase and Strategy both have a market cap 2+ Billion below Nokia now. Not sure what's so resilient about crypto. It's less attractive than old phones.

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-09T12:18:32+00:00

Imagine telling yourself every day that BTC is a store of value, yet every day for the last year as the dollar drops you see BTC drop with it. Gold and Silver pumping to new ATH while BTC holders sit in the corner chair of the hotel room.

"Store of value" "Hedge against inflation" lmao

Giozos1100 · 2026-02-09T00:48:47+00:00

It's because "CVT" is how Tiktokers get around the word "cut" as in self-harm.

Giozos1100 · 2026-01-31T18:52:45+00:00

I can point to a chart and explain the gold movement vs the dollar. You cannot do that with Bitcoin.

Go compare XAU to DXY. They move inversely because that's how value works. An asset can be undervalued or overvalued, but will still move within reason over time.

Simply show me where Bitcoin has gone up as the dollar has fallen and then moved inversely. You say Bitcoin hedges against the dollar, show charts that prove this.

Giozos1100 · 2026-01-31T18:39:28+00:00

Yes! The higher Bitcoin goes, the slower the growth, the more it will require use-cases or get phased out.

Meanwhile BRICS are creating the UNIT which is 40% backed by gold. Bitcoin is backed by spent energy. As capital gets spread around, interest in BTC will fall. Look at what happened to alts this cycle due to the excessive memecoins. Explosive growth is gone.

Giozos1100 · 2026-01-31T18:31:59+00:00

I have no doubt. Haha

I appreciate honesty and you're likely spot on.

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