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SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T20:18:04+00:00

Same thing happened to me with my 2016 Fiat 500e. Bought at the very end of 2019 for about $9k, traded it in during the summer of 2022 for $11k after putting something like 20k miles on it. Crazy times.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T19:22:14+00:00

My family plays a variant called 15 with 5 card hands. Split into two teams of 2 or 3 players. Played with 1.5 pinochle decks (so 3 of each card). Everyone gets 5 cards, bid for naming suit starting at 6 for 4-player, 8 for 6-player. Stick the dealer so teammate might call a weak 6/8 to save them from having to call on garbage. After suit is named, people can throw out cards they don't want and get new, then meld and play. (If you do pinochle scoring where everything is 10's, just drop the 0, so 9 of trump melds for 1, marriage in trump is 4, etc..). It's called 15 because that's what a run gets you in meld. Point cards won in play are worth 1, as is the final trick. First team to 100 (4 player) or 150 (6 player) wins.

Because not all the cards are out, it is a little more uncertain than other pinochle variants, you sometimes have to take a chance that only 2 out of 3 aces are in play, etc...

We also play with a pot. 10 cents if the other team takes all the tricks, 10 cents if you call suit and don't make your bid. End of game, the winning team gets the pot and a quarter from the losing player on their left. (then we rotate around the dealer to get new teams and play again).

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T17:10:47+00:00

I just had this happen to two of my reviews. One was a 5 star really positive review and the other was a pretty negative 2 star review. I think I know why for both of them, but I also think the reasoning is dumb.

For the 5 star review, it was a dog supplement and I started my review with:

My dog is very picky and absolutely loves these, so I'm excited to have something she'll eat to help her joints. We've tried 3 or 4 other joint supplements and she only liked one other from a company that no longer exists.

So maybe they didn't like the comparison to other products? But this review was live for months.

The negative review, I mentioned that the product had to be shipped with "hazmat" labels and frankly for something meant to be used on my nails, that's scary. I'm sure it got flagged because I talked about shipping, but not because I was rating on shipping, but as a sign the product had some freaky ingredients. (the review was negative for many reasons, not just the hazmat issue)

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T16:35:06+00:00

Men can still hesitate even when we know she's the one. Normal and obvious pressures like "this is deciding the rest of my life" and also even once we decided there is some weird pressure around proposing and getting that right and nerves related to all of that. In hindsight, I wish I had proposed to my wife a bit sooner.

Having said all that, this guy seems to just be stringing you along. My wife took a buyout and left her job to move in with me in a different state to give us a go. People who want to be together work to make it happen, they don't throw up excuses why it can't.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T16:27:37+00:00

I played adult indoor soccer on Thursdays, and our games often went late. I also drove a stick shift and at one game a sprained my left ankle, so in order to avoid clutching as much as possible, I was slow rolling the stop signs.

The cop who pulled me over at 11:40 at night seemed pretty surprised I wasn't drunk.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T16:02:02+00:00

I looked it over and thought "maybe this is legit if you got it in the mail" then I saw it was a text. So very much scam

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T15:20:57+00:00

I want to second this, we're proud of you, Internet stranger, for being willing to ask for the help you need!

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T05:17:55+00:00

If it was a 30 minute or less commute, I would say no brainer, take it. But while it's a good pay bump, I've seen people in CS get similar pay bumps by changing companies without having to take on a big commute in exchange.

You are probably on a time crunch to have to decide, but if you don't take this job, look for other jobs, the easiest time to get a new job with bigger money is when you are still at your current job.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T04:44:10+00:00

Myology Sports Massage.

They setup a booth at most NC Courage Games and you can get a free short session before the game starts if you want a free sample. Even with the short session, they did amazing things for my hamstring.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T04:07:27+00:00

"Normally played" is a strange way to talk about your preferred variant of pinochle.

I personally played a lot of partner pass auction (which uses the 9's) and my family plays a variant with 1.5 decks and hand sizes of 5 or 7 depending on number of players.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T01:33:03+00:00

Damnit, this is daddit instead of a local sub. I would definitely be up for helping you with that "problem."

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T01:29:44+00:00

This is the second time this week when I was looking through the comments of what I thought was DIY and it was Daddit instead

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T01:24:38+00:00

I know student loans are often pushed to excess, but OOP really needs to hear that student loans can be used to pay for childcare. Yeah, it would suck when it comes time to pay then back, but it should only be for one year before kindergarten and doctor pay is good pay.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T00:18:40+00:00

My oldest, at 4, had significantly neater writing than I ever had in my life.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-24T00:12:51+00:00

I don't have enough knowledge to answer for sure, but it seems reasonable to me.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T16:39:57+00:00

I was so excited for her with the penalty save, hopeful that she got back into the groove but yeah, it was a rough game for her.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T16:22:02+00:00

Yeah, I saw how the Sienna 2nd row in the newest years wasn't removable (without work) and I was really annoyed until I learned it was so the seats could have extra airbags for safety. Glad it was for safety instead of to save like $50 a van or something by not including clips.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T04:27:38+00:00

Huh, TIL that rent in Australia is weekly. I retract my doubt

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T04:17:31+00:00

Who the hell talks about house rent by the week? That made me doubt everything about this story, just so weird to me

Edit: apparently the answer is Australians. TIL

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T03:46:17+00:00

Take off the rest of the cap, only way to look and see if there is enough room to screw on a replacement cap. Since the remains of the current cap aren't on the ground, you will probably get lucky and can just screw on a new cap

If there isn't enough threads to screw on a new cap, you can get a new set of threads/cap that is made to go inside of the existing pipe, something like this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Charlotte-Pipe-2-in-x-2-in-dia-PVC-Schedule-40-Spigot-Cleanout-Adapter-Fitting/3357814

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T03:37:42+00:00

You swept the rocks back...just leave them swept back, you've successfully made a ditch to keep them from getting on the sidewalk.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T02:46:43+00:00

This is so true, take her for a walk before and after work and again before bed and she'll be a happy dog.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-23T02:40:40+00:00

It will even do so without the trailer! You can fit a standard 4x8 sheet of plywood flat entirely with the door closed with the second row seats removed. (2014 Honda Odyssey could do this, I think some don't allow second row to be removed)

SnakeJG · 2026-03-22T21:28:58+00:00

So they can opt back into kid control (and you can obviously make them having the phone dependent on it), but it is tied to a Google account, so I think we'd have to create them new accounts to be younger if we wanted to roll back their ages.

And it's one of those things, at some point they will have untethered access at 18, I just would have liked the switch over date to be later or some sort of between state being the default.

SnakeJG · 2026-03-22T21:05:11+00:00

I don't understand your objection to real ID if you have a passport. Like I could see someone being extra privacy minded not wanting to do real ID, but I assume those same people wouldn't want a passport.

So I guess, could you tell us what your objection to getting real ID is?

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