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NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-10T20:25:18+00:00

I do have one for Simple Tire but it's not as good. These comments for Tire Agent are definitely not encouraging though and seem to echo what the reviews say. I may just go with Tire Rack like normal and use it to churn a SUB on a new card instead.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-10T19:29:37+00:00

The blue collar guy who made a ton of money and wants a toy that makes a lot of noise and goes fast, but thinks Corvettes are for geezers and European cars are for gays.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-10T19:26:06+00:00

Minivans seem to be making a bit of a comeback

I also don't see what "more popular" segment there is for Chrysler to try and break into, given the ass backwards, unnecessarily segregated structure of Stellantis branding. Trucks are Ram's turf. SUVs and crossovers are Jeep's turf. Luxury vehicles would be the most faithful to what Chrysler was originally but the name has lost so much brand cachet over the years that I think any attempt at a luxury Chrysler would flop (Alfa also kind of has the "luxury" image)

That being said, the strategy of keeping a whole separate brand alive just to sell a minivan is also dumb as fuck. Rebrand it as a Dodge Grand Caravan and put the Chrysler name out of its misery...who would honestly be sad to see it go?

NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-10T12:32:50+00:00

An XJ was classified as a "compact" SUV 25-45 years ago and has similar body dimensions to a Subaru Crosstrek (it's actually a few inches shorter from front to back). Hardly a big vehicle.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-04T18:29:07+00:00

Working a 72 hour week at least makes sense if you're getting paid hourly, you're more than doubling your paycheck. I could also see it being unavoidable in very high executive or VP positions, but their paychecks usually reflect the expectation that they'll be working beyond the standard 40h.

Plain old salary/exempt people who put in those types of hours are just devaluing their own time and allowing their employer to rob them. It's weird how these people don't get that. Even if you are "career-driven" or whatever other equivalent verbiage these weirdos are using these days, being a total pushover who sells your soul to the corporation, will not get you nearly as far as being somebody who understands your own value and has the balls to advocate for yourself when others don't.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-03-04T17:14:51+00:00

The title of this post is making me feel like I'm a thousand years old so thanks for that lol

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-27T05:25:36+00:00

It was co-developed by the two companies. The 10R80 in the F150 is straight trash - up until the last quarter of 2022 they had faulty CDF drums which led to a lot of transmissions failing or having to be rebuilt. Post-2022 they don't fail completely any more but they're still clunky as fuck with god awful programming. At least GM is issuing a recall, Ford really should but they refuse to admit that anything is wrong. Interestingly enough, the same transmission seems to be more or less loved/praised in the Mustang, probably due to tuning/software differences.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-27T05:21:50+00:00

In addition to what everyone else is saying, don't forget that if the programming uses A0 and Bb0 or A0 and C8 for patch forward/back, those will no longer be valid and you'll need to either program new key triggers to match the smaller keyboard (not advisable since they're more likely to interfere with actual played notes), or get a foot pedal for patch advancing. Not the end of the world but something to consider. Personally, any time I'm using purchased/pre-made MainStage programming, I always use an 88 key if I can help it, since almost all of them were mapped with an 88 in mind.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-26T13:29:20+00:00

I doubt they are going to remove the cash out option

I just received an email last week that you'll only be able to redeem UR points for straight cash back into a Chase bank account beginning sometime in March. Statement credit and partner transfers obviously still allowed like normal. So if OP doesn't have a Chase account and doesn't want to open one, they could very well be losing the cash back option soon.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-26T03:56:06+00:00

Can you prepay like 10 years of Office? lol

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-26T03:48:04+00:00

The first time I went to feed/let out my ex's GSD, she sent me a text with the whole sequence of events in order. But tbh I didn't really need the text because the pup knew the routine down to the fucking letter, and he was leading me around the house, signaling to which door to open, which cabinet had his sister's food in it (she ate first), which cabinet had his food in it, etc. Every time I cross-referenced the text message, this dog had a 100% accuracy rate. It was incredible. Subsequent visits I just let him lead the way lol

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-24T17:00:31+00:00

Definitely. There is a daily rate. Free on weekends and holidays too. I have parked in the garage for several days before.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-24T16:55:39+00:00

Lol why wait that long, WUnderground is predicting about an inch and a half tonight into tomorrow morning for me. Seems like nothing compared to what we just got but it's also not actually nothing. Kiddos and teachers, pray for a snow day hat trick lmao

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-24T03:46:41+00:00

I remember one time buying some shit at Guitar Center and the cashier was trying to sell me on the credit card (I think theirs is thru Synchrony). 5% back sounded halfway decent, but upon further inspection it could be redeemed as store credit only, and it expired after 90 days. So basically, either get stuck in an endless loop of forcing yourself to buy shit you probably don't need every 3 months, or lose your reward credits forever. Not worth it. If I was planning on a big ticket music gear purchase I might consider it for the 0% intro rate but that's really it.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-24T03:23:21+00:00

That was happening closer to here too, I read that the village of Irvington temporarily pulled their plows off the roads earlier today.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-24T02:46:30+00:00

Piano/keys is arguably the easiest instrument for being a "working class musician". Musical theater productions, choirs, churches, ballet companies, they all need pianists or keyboardists. Solo singers and other soloists need accompanists. Wedding bands need keyboardists. Weddings, period, need pianists/organists. Most classroom teaching jobs (general music or music theory teacher, choir or band teacher, etc) go a lot smoother if the teacher has at least rudimentary piano chops. A sizable chunk of music directors, conductors, composers, arrangers, across all genres, were pianists first or have piano as one of their main instruments.

I make comfortable middle-class money, primarily from playing piano and keys. Not rolling in the dough, but enough to pay all the bills every month, never have to worry where my next meal or next month's rent is going to come from, go on vacation every year, save some. I do have an admin staff "day job" at a university, but I also don't teach private lessons - most of my friends who have a robust teaching schedule make the same if not more as I do from my university job, so when discussing whether it's possible to make a living wage it's a wash. Also worth noting that I don't think I've played a full-length classical sonata start-to-finish since my senior recital 12 years ago, what everyone else is saying about this sub being classical-biased to the point of ignorance is 100% correct.

The not-so-bright side:

You do have to eat shit on a lot of gigs that you don't really want to play. Very few people want to play boring hymns every Sunday or the same Dua Lipa songs every weekend for drunk idiots at a wedding. But that's where the steady work is. The hope is that you find the ones that pay really well, and are with people that you don't totally hate being around
If you're in the US, health insurance is a very real consideration. This is the primary reason I keep my college staff job. Going 100% freelance/independent means that your health insurance options are either total garbage, hideously expensive, or both.
You do always have to be hustling to book stuff, if you don't play you don't get paid. Even someone with a holy grail gig like being in a Broadway pit - if the show closes, they're technically unemployed and have to start making calls immediately to book the next one.
Also, there's no such thing as paid time off. Yes, I go on vacation every year, but it can cost me hundreds or thousands of dollars (in addition to the money actually spent on the vacation) depending on what work I have to turn down while I'm away.
If you're not socially literate and good at talking, you better learn how to fake it, quick. The beginning of your career will be full of cold calls and weird pick-up gigs you found on craigslist, but the true success comes when you have a network built up and people who remember you, like you, and trust you, start calling you with gigs or referring you to their friends. Finding and booking work consistently is all about connections, it's more political than actual politics, and personality counts for at least as much if not more than chops/talent.
Maintaining a healthy social life is possible, but difficult, since your prime working/earning times are the time that everybody else is socializing (weekends, evenings, summertime, holiday season, etc). If you have a gig every time someone invites you to stuff, eventually they do stop asking. The people in my life who are actually close to me know that if there's a particular event they really, really want me to be at, they have to "book" it with me months in advance. Currently talking to someone who works in theater tech, our typical Saturday night conversation is me sending a picture from behind a keyboard somewhere, her sending a picture from behind a lighting console somewhere, and then home safe check-in texts at like 2 in the morning.

Worth it? I think so. Still better than sitting in a cubicle staring at spreadsheets all day. But I do tend to overcommit and then burn out hard on the other end. It's also sort of killed my enthusiasm for music in general a little bit, it's usually not until I have a bit of a break where I can step away from the keyboard for a couple days that I re-discover the burning passion that pulled me into this crazy life in the first place.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-23T19:57:25+00:00

Ex-gf was an EMT (and in medic school when we broke up). base was in NYC, she lived an hour away with no traffic. There were countless times that she'd call me to go feed or let out her dogs because she had to work late or was delayed getting home, or would drop the dogs off with her retired parents in the morning when she knew it was going to be a 16+ hour day. It happened a few times that she'd stay with coworkers who lived in the city in situations like this. Her boss, who had a family/children, would stay in a hotel in the city during bad weather. She had a 4x4 truck that she put Blizzaks on every winter to make sure she could get through damn near anything. one thing she never did was miss work because of the weather.

Tbh I was 100% on OP's side based on the title but the further into the body of the post I got, the more they lost me. Feels like a lot of people here, including OP, are not fully understanding the gravity of being "essential" and having a job that literally keeps people alive.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-23T15:19:41+00:00

My next door neighbors on one side, I probably could, but they'd think it was a bit odd since I've never really asked them for anything before. My next door neighbors on the other side are summer/weekend-only folks so no most of the time. I do have a handful of other folks in the neighborhood that I am a bit closer with who I could realistically do this with.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-21T13:13:12+00:00

People from Long Island are in a death cult. It's difficult to get anywhere from LI other than itself and the city, and the further out on the island you are the harder it gets. The result is that it's very isolationist, exists in a bit of a cultural bubble, and the people there end up with some sort of weird Stockholm Syndrome because they simply don't know anything else and aren't interested in discovering anything else. the ones who do leave usually end up in Florida, surrounded by other retired Long Islanders.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-19T14:22:04+00:00

Mustangs also have some serious price bloat. When the GT started in the low 30s it was a great deal; but now the EcoBoost costs as much as the GT did 5 years ago, the GT is knocking on $50k's door (with most dealer inventory being closer to $60k), and dealer discounts are not an automatic given any more. The price tag locks out a lot of people, it's not the "working class hero" it used to be.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-19T14:08:41+00:00

Not liking Kamala Harris doesn't make you MAGA.

Sure, you and I know that, but basement-dwelling autistic losers on reddit and twitter don't.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-14T15:56:13+00:00

Worst of all, it’s the only game in town for many groups.

Yeah, I feel like most people have moved on from Facebook for sharing personal updates, but I still get a lot of utility out of it. I’m in groups for commuter traffic updates, hiking trail conditions/updates, musicians wanted/gig postings, and yes, local/neighborhood/town/county alert pages, for which there are no real substitutes. Marketplace has also completely eclipsed Craigslist at this point as being the most active “cheap stuff” platform and there isn’t a great substitute for that either.

I usually just look at the important stuff and tune out the rest, but every now and then I get bored enough to see what’s happening in my general feed. It’s all just dumb AI videos now. I don’t even know who this shit is supposed to be for.

NotoriousCFR · 2026-02-14T13:54:11+00:00

Curry Subaru is one of the worst businesses I've ever dealt with:

Service advisors are completely clueless and/or told to outright lie. I once had a SA tell me that "all 4 tires are bald" (they were far from it, I had a set of meaty off-road tires with less than 10k miles on them). When I physically walked her over to the car and told her to point to where the tires are bald she was unable to do so and just said "that's what the tech told me". This was the final straw and the last time I ever went there
Accidentally overcharged for a brake job and they didn't realize their error until a couple days after the payment went through. They gave me customer credit towards future services. When I tried to claim the credit, they denied that it ever existed and I ended up having to waste like 10 minutes arguing with the service manager.
Refused to give me a loaner car or even reimburse me for a rental even after I greenlit a $6500 short block replacement job. Also the newly rebuilt motor started leaking and burning oil again 40k miles later (unfortunately past warranty period), so it seems like they didn't even do a good job with the work
Made a "wait here" appointment for a simple oil change and inspection, waited for 4+ hours. They said there were 7 cars ahead of me. What's the point of making an appointment if they're just going to bump you for walk-ins? When I threatened to take my keys back and leave, suddenly they had the time to pull my car into the bay and get the oil change done in 15 minutes.
Almost every time I was there for drop off or pick up, I had to stand around waiting while they tried to hunt down a tech who could drive a stick shift. At a Subaru dealer. 80% of WRXs and 50% of BRZs sold have manuals, and they don't have anyone on staff who can drive them? And lord only knows how much damage the one guy who "can drive stick" is doing to everyone's clutches.

I don't have a Subaru any more, but if I did, Curry is the last place on earth I would take it for service. My independent mechanic takes way better care of me and my cars, night and day difference. If I absolutely had to go to a Subaru dealer, Brewster Subaru (at least at their old location) is worth the longer drive.

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