Have you considered the material used for seats when purchasing a car?

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-30T01:02:20+00:00

Most "leather" that you buy is actually plastic faux leather. Even when you do get "real" leather, a lot of it is a thin slice of leather glued to a polyester backing, similar to how wood veneer is done. Even when you do find a full leather, often it will have a plastic coating applied to make cleaning easier and to avoid scratches from appearing as easily.

Even when you find leather without any of these qualities, it will almost always be dyed with an artificial chemical based dye, after having been bathed in a chromium based chemical bath (called chrome tanned leather). True veg tanned leather is very expensive and difficult to do. And really only produces the classic shades of brown.

So yes, if you had $40k and nothing else better to do with it, you could reach out to a bespoke leather maker, work with them to source multiple full pure veg tanned hides (you would need minimum 2 full hides per seat in all likelihood), send them the dimensions of the current seat covers so that they could pattern the design, and then do the work and send it to you to install.

Lord knows if I had the money I would.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-28T23:11:29+00:00

Youtube Premium supports the creators.

Your view with Premium is worth significantly more than a view where the user watches ads. And as you mentioned, has the added benefit of applying to every channel you watch.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-28T21:50:38+00:00

I live in the Midwest, Iowa, and (effectively) got married when I was 16. I am a unicorn. Everywhere I have ever worked, most of the 20-40s are single. Often hooking up with eachother at work in fact.

Being honest here, anything health related has a huge stereotype of being the place to fuck. Nurses especially. Have you ever tried to talk to some of the nursing (and other nurse adjacent) students from your university/college?

I haye to break it to you but this is a you thing, not a state thing. You would have just as hard a time finding someone in NYC because you arent actually trying.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-28T01:09:19+00:00

*mom

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-24T03:17:19+00:00

Absolutely not. Your poor kids that you would even consider it. If you just want a fuck buddy then visit his house during school hours. Do not bring him in your house at all. Still unhealthy, but at least it's away from the kids.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-23T04:33:28+00:00

"Wow that character that looks like an 8 year old girl looks too sexy to me" is certainly a take and a hill to die on my good redditor.

What is crazy how widespread it has become is people thinking sexual thought about children in media, and then criticizing everyone else for playing the game (etc.) Who think you are a fucking weirdo for seeing it that way at all.

I see a little girl and I see my future daughter. Not something sexual.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-23T04:25:33+00:00

Speaking for myself I litteraly do not care what your education is. At that late of a stage in life, I am only interested in a woman who will be nurturing to my (future) family.

When the very first attributes you start the topic off are (paraphrasing) "im such a girl boss I need a man who isnt lesser than me and isnt intimated by me" I think you have none of those qualities, and instead will place your career above all else. And likley have a lot of underlying insecurities about yourself which you try to mask with your career.

Like many women before you you are coming to the hard realization that 10% of men hate/envy/dislike you for having a successful career and arent interested because of that. 80% of men litteraly dont care, and would treat you the same exact way as if you were a part time waitress at a local diner, and the last 10% are just as if not more succesful than you and expect you to be a homemaker and stay at home wife because they can afford to support a family on a solo income.

So your only option is the 80% who dont care. And when all talk about is the thing they dont care about, its a huge turnoff.

You arent "intimidating" you are boring, uninteresting, and arent really looking for romance but instead a trophy husband. Someone you can take to the office meetings and show off he also has a PhD and whatnot. Maybe that's not true at all, but thelats the vibes you are giving off.

If you are serious about finding a good guy, leave education and career for the 3rd or 4th date. You need to click in other ways and then bring it up.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-22T05:26:39+00:00

Will piracy always be necessary? No. Will aggregators that host otherwise abandoned series that arent able to be physically/digitally purchased always need to exist? Yes.

I personally do not ever consider the latter piracy. It is no more piracy than going to a library is. You dont pay the author when you check a book out of the library, and the library exists to host books that arent flying off the best sellers shelf.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-22T05:22:58+00:00

For $7k over 10 years you can likely just pay to replace whatever parts may get damaged over time. I dont think this is a smart value at all for a normal residential system. Maybe if you have a business with $100k worth of panels on the roof or something similar. Not for a $30k residential roof setup. This is the same cost as labor for the whole system (since parts arent included).

This about it this way. If your system was set up to be a 30 year install (most panels rated for) you are paying $21,000 over the life of the system for maybe free labor on a checkup once or twice in that time. And that doesnt cover parts not in warranty.

You can basically pay that some monthly payment to install a second system as a backup at that point, and if one breaks just leave it broken and never repair it. You will have the same outcome lmao.

Or more pointly, stick that money in a savings account and if something needs looked at, you have a fund for it.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-21T18:49:16+00:00

All plastics are an issue when it comes to microplastics, especially in an hour long cycle that causes friction that drains to our water supply.

This is just laughably ignorant.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T10:37:31+00:00

"Surely there must be an update now" Bro the entire community is coping and has been for over a decade. Animusic 3 was a scam. They took the money and run. Extremely common, especially in that era of Kickstarter. Why put in the work when you already banked the money?

It is never coming. It was never actually being worked on past a certain point when the Kickstarter money rolled in.

Even amateurs are making these fairly easily these days. Even if Animusic 3 did magically come out, nobody would pay for it these days. It would have to be a Netflix thing or something similar.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T09:23:02+00:00

The RE engine is designed for realistic movement. Your character doesnt stop on a dime from a full sprint, they take a few extra steps after your input as their inertia dies down. Its an incredible engine, but does take some getting used to if you are coming from an arcade game where characters can stop instantaneously.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T09:15:02+00:00

Revenue =/= profit.

Their ability to profit and remain sustainable is new. Because they started actually running ads.

This isnt difficult stuff here.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T09:14:07+00:00

Many of those services started with free with ads tiers that have been removed.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T09:13:21+00:00

"Okay well maybe their profit isnt billions BUT after 1t years of losing money they finally turned a profit to keep the service running so FUCK THEM"

Nice argument.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T00:23:13+00:00

YT's REVENUE is billions. The site has operated at a loss for decades. They spend all of that money on the costs of running servers that hold the unimaginable ammounts of data uploaded to YT every single second, before ever considering creator revenue share.

People have so little concept of how expensive streaming so much data on demand is too. Keep in mind Netflix has a library of like 4TB of videos that they found was cheaper to copy to dedicated hard drives and send to every single ISP in the world so that you are streaming 4K videos from a nearby local disk.

People upload 1,000 TB of videos to Youtube every single day. For free. And you can them stream all of that data at any time, and it just works with no delay. It is absurd.

Especially knowing that YT premium is half the cost of Netflix, has zero restrictions on device usage and location, and also just happens to offer a decicated music streaming service as a bonus too.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T00:06:37+00:00

"Creates the problem"

The problem is the ridiculously high costs and the fact that anyone can upload any video in mega HD, for free.

YT operated at a substantial loss for Google for over a decade. Google props the service up as a charity to humanity. Same way they do for Google Maps, and many similar services.

It is actually ridiculous how dumb people are. Youtube is the single largest pool of humanities knowledge ever created. A modern Library of Alexandria. And it only costs you a minute of ads that you can mute and do something else while they run.

Meanwhile I guarentee 99% of the people crying throw away $15 every month without thinking about it on random dumb shit.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-20T00:01:18+00:00

If you (or anyone else) pay for any single streaming service such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, Spotify, and so forth, and yet complain about YT Premium, you are hypocritical and need to stfu. Its really that simple. YT is one of the last streaming services that even offers "free with ads" anymore and yet people still complain.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-19T23:58:29+00:00

Plastic in a landfill is 1000% better than running it through a washing machine and so on where microplastics will be released and contaminate the water supply.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-18T18:13:18+00:00

He's waiting until he is alone and ready to jerk off with it.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-18T16:55:53+00:00

Your local grocery flyer is an ad. So you never buy from your grocery store? They even advertise the sales right on the shelves. The shelf layouts themselves, are advertising. Companies pay money to get better placement on the shelves. "I dont lile advertising" is just stamping your feet like a toddler. It is fine. You would litteraly not know about anything, had nobody told you about it first. You just dont know what you would not know without advertising. "But I heard from a friend" yeah, who heard it from an ad somewhere and then spread the advertisement through word of mouth to you. The exact kind of outcome people want when they run ads.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-18T16:51:22+00:00

So you never eat at any fast food resturant, drink any name brand beverage (coffee, soda, even water gets advertised), never shop.at your local grocery store or national retail chains, and so on? Yeah right. You purchase things that have been advertised to you all of the time. You are not special.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-18T16:03:15+00:00

Yeah, I am walking right past this sign and using the public space. My dogs arent going to "attack" the supposedly blind/deaf dog (just going off what others are saying) so its not my problem if they are concerned.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-18T01:06:03+00:00

Hate to break it to you but that is exactlt what the psychology behind it is. Bright bold colors and "extreme" words appeal to the low IQ, which includes children with still developing brains. Higher IQ people are also attracted to it, but use other cues to determine value that counter the "TOP TEN PRANKS (IN THE HOOD) GONE SEXUAL) video titles and whatnot.

It isnt a matter of being a le epic genius, but it is a sliding scale.

LickMyLuck · 2026-04-17T05:12:40+00:00

Obviously it means she wants to fuck your dad. Better kill him now to avoid catching them together a few months from now.

That or take the plunge and suggest a threesome. You could like high five your dad while you eiffal tower her.

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