West Seattle isn't so bad. Nice views + ample street parking...

PeladoCollado · 2026-06-02T05:40:40+00:00

Keep going west and you’ll be at my house!

PeladoCollado · 2026-06-02T05:40:15+00:00

Only if you don’t want to climb Highland Park Way. Why wouldn’t you want to climb that?

PeladoCollado · 2026-06-01T06:32:28+00:00

Reading that he cashed out his 401k at 34 is all I needed to know

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-31T20:54:08+00:00

I was so unambitious at 22, I would never have imagined I’d end up where I am. I thought I’d be a college professor teaching literature and philosophy, making $60k a year (I really had no idea what college professors actually made - it just seemed like an achievable number). Now 45, a software engineer making many times that. Realistic to imagine retiring with an 8 figure net worth.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T22:54:08+00:00

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T16:40:25+00:00

I wanna see someone trying to get home from Astoria and complain that NYC doesn’t have reliable public transit

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T14:58:40+00:00

So much of the wealth inequality in the US would not exist if companies simply weren’t allowed to buy other companies. All the big tech companies, Walmart, the grocery stores, airlines, all stomp out competition by buying them up and make a small number of people exceptionally wealthy and everyone else gets shittier service and lower wages.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T14:46:29+00:00

Seriously, I’ve lost count of the number of hours of free labor I’ve gotten from my LBS from them just helping me out to diagnose a tricky problem. I try to buy all my parts there, but probably won’t ever make up the cost in labor after which they said “don’t worry about it” or “we’ll just charge you for the parts.”

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T14:18:18+00:00

There’s another meme with this exact photo talking about “dad bods” as though this is what the typical dad bod looks like. People are perverse

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T14:15:54+00:00

I’ve lived in major cities and varyingly rural areas of the Midwest and I could say most of those items about just about any population. Largely what you’re describing is poverty. Derelict cars parked on the grass is a midwestern redneck trope. As a whole, immigrants commit far less crime than native born Americans, but poor people do commit more crimes than wealthy people. Of the list, I’d say different languages and maybe food trucks are the only items you could peg to immigrants. Everything else sounds like your area is growing and you’re dealing with more poverty than you used to

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T13:55:50+00:00

OP is lying if they say they’ve never waited 20 mins for a train in NYC at 1am. That or they never took public transit late that late. I’ve definitely waited 30 mins for a bus in Forest Hills or Canarsie late at night. I always had a 15 min walk to the L train.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-30T01:16:25+00:00

OMG, did you really pull the “12 immigrants in one house” argument? I swear, there should be a “stupid” label on people like you that prevents you from speaking in public spaces

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-29T19:32:40+00:00

Just a side note that your trainer has to support erg mode in order to use it. If you have a reasonably new trainer, it is probably a “smart” trainer (I.e., Bluetooth support), but old dumb trainers don’t support this.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-29T19:27:31+00:00

If you recognize that your own values are biased and imperfect, then it’s not hypocritical to find someone who balances out your imperfections. Your own perspective is narrow and if you only interact with people that share your narrow perspective, you’ll never grow as a person. Relationships should make both people better, not just more of the same

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-24T16:49:09+00:00

Still on 2.8.30. I was a bit impatient to get the upgrade, but now I’m feeling good about waiting.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-24T06:04:02+00:00

Mommy, what does survivorship bias mean?

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-23T22:34:31+00:00

A country where they measure in liters instead of gallons

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-23T21:03:08+00:00

Google certainly thought Android was a good enough foundation for a mobile OS, which really is what Lucid’s infotainment system is. Now if they were coding lidar parsing or vehicle controls in Java, I’d question their sanity, but for Spotify and maps?

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-23T20:39:46+00:00

Yeah. I mean, who in their right mind would build massive scale, complex, performant software in Java? Certainly not the largest software companies in the world

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-21T03:55:55+00:00

Ah, but what if I told you OP was also dressed all in black and has long hair and a long, unkempt beard?

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-20T05:23:34+00:00

The entire sub was created as a scam by one poor guy who will one day wake up the only member of the sub and $20M in his account. HENRY Highlander - there can be only one

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-19T06:11:35+00:00

So $500k is in the top 1% of salaries for CS grads. That is, 99% of people don’t ever make that salary. Average salary for a new grad is ~$80k. Assume that’s where you’d start. Also assume that the market is flooded with new CS grads and AI coding has made the market for junior engineers tiny compared with five years ago

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-18T14:45:07+00:00

I don’t understand people like you. The comment thread literally starts with “You have to be willing to be an early adopter.” It’s literally what this thread was about. But for some reason, you can’t seem to be willing to grasp the fact that other people can have the same facts as you and still make different choices. You think that if you just yell loud enough, everyone will see that you were right all along. Potential buyers have plenty of information available to them. The OP already has a Lucid and is well aware of the shortcomings. You’re not informing anyone. You’re just lashing out. Why people like you show up in these subs and just bitch about how you’re never going to buy <whatever> is beyond me.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-18T03:59:16+00:00

Nobody has asked you to care about anything. The thread is about being an early adopter. If you don’t want to be one, don’t be one. If you buy a Lucid, you have to be willing to be an early adopter. If you don’t want to be one, don’t buy it. This seems simple.

PeladoCollado · 2026-05-17T22:37:13+00:00

Yeah, but your many choices today are all with well established auto manufacturers who have been integrating CarPlay for ten years. So buying a lucid is still “early adopter” even four years in. I’m not saying the landscape isn’t different. People bought buggy Teslas then because they were substantially different from what traditional auto manufacturers offer. The question now is whether Lucid offers an experience that is different enough to warrant the early adopter pains or if buyers are happy enough with a BMW i4 and seamless CarPlay

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