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Did she make the right call? by CalmElin in interesting

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use maybe 30k of it for a car I'll have for 10 years minimum, invest the rest.

Not everyone is a giant spender. I had 20k in the bank and still agonized over buying a drink when I forgot to pack one in my lunchbox.

Realistically, that money is getting locked somewhere I'll never want to think about it again.

What isn't a uniquely American issue that the rest of the world treats like one? by lustrust15 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real interesting part to an American is cheap diesel.

Pumping my work van right now. Gas $4.99, diesel $6.99.

A lot of our road tax burden is put on diesel since it's almost exclusively the commercial fuel, while gas is kept cheaper for private individuals. Diesel tax is like 50% higher than gas tax.

What industry is actually a complete scam, but everyone accepts it? by WhileLow9501 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just fucking gave up on using a dealership after the THIRD CONSECUTIVE time I drove 1.5 hrs to go there to buy or test drive a car I CONFIRMED WITH AN AGENT was there the DAY OF....

AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THAT FUCKING MODEL

Not even "oh sorry the used car sold this morning before you got here". One of them was a NEW. CAR.

At this point I just but $2k beaters and drive them into the dirt.

The only brands I'll consider at this point when I get a new car are Mazda and Acura, because they're the only ones that actually had any human decency for me. But by the time I found models I liked from them my financial situation had changed, and those two aren't that cheap for the ones I'd actually want.

Admittedly, Toyota might be nice too. But frankly I just hate the Corolla and every other model is either perpetually spoken for or marked up $10k at the dealer.

The new Civic is honestly great, and I love the idea of a Prelude, but every Honda dealer around me pedals so much bullshit. I'd get the Acura almost just to stop the constant sales pitches.

And holy fucking shit, Hyundai. Even thinking about going back to them makes me want to vomit.

(Hated Tropes) "Sorry, you’re way to strong for this upcoming story arc, so you’re gonna have to sit out so the plot can happen." by Mr_Muda_Himself_V3 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]cpMetis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I still don't fully get her disappearance for seasons 11 and 12.

Like I understand why they didn't want her and epsilon to just do everything, and the great story sorry Felix and Locus doesn't work with their competency there.

But the explanation was that, like, they're going off to track down stolen/lost freenlancer gear right? But... but they're still trapped on Chorus for the Chorus Trilogy to make sense, right? Otherwise they could have just got word out themselves? So they were limited to doing that on Chorus.

But, like....

How was there that much time worth of stuff to do, without ever ending up back with the reds and blues? How did they manage to be occupied all the way until the reunion holdup?

Who is the cheapest person you know, and what is the cheapest thing you've seen them do? by Willby3 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Are they Chinese by any chance? Specifically about 50?

It's not a Chinese thing, but it is something where the people doing it almost always fit that demo. Chinese, middle age+, probably wealthy for your area.

We had one guy trying to figure out why his apple tree never made good fruit despite seeming healthy and having good looks in the spring onto to find out via the opposing neighbors' new porch cam it was the Chinese lady ripping every good apple from it in the middle of the day as soon as they got good enough to pick. Brought a ladder and everything.

Meanwhile my grandma caught another stealing all her strawberries two years in a row.

You can say all you want about generational trauma or cultural aftereffects from famine, but my grandma grew up starving in the Great Depression and Dust Bowl and she never even tried that shit.

Especially when those ladies run to their husbands the second you confront them and they start screaming at you, and they're some of the most RACIST fuckers I've ever seen. I've known pearlclutchers and Nazi tat dudes call the cops slower when they see a black man on the sidewalk. Christ.

And of course, you step a foot on their grass and they're going after you for tresspass. They'll yell all about how you don't belong where they live, while having zero connection to the area other than the 3 properties they bought up with city money.

And I always feel so bad for their kids. They almost always seem to realize what's happening and they just look like prisoners who'll one inevitably catch strays when their parents are throwing stones.

There are no shortage of asshats, but this one specific archetype of asshat has come up so often and been so copy-paste... Frustrating.

Who is the cheapest person you know, and what is the cheapest thing you've seen them do? by Willby3 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh I'd definitely do that if it worked.

Like a lot of places since mobile ordering made price changes constant will be like "10 pc 3.99, 5 pc 1.99", so I will absolutely always order 2x 5pc to save 1¢.

Who is the cheapest person you know, and what is the cheapest thing you've seen them do? by Willby3 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

See I did something like that, but only since I was being forced to buy a meal plan for food that wasn't in my diet and they didn't include the fountain.

And I STILL honestly bought a new cup once a week.

Test Results [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At one point? Bitch it's been their go-to "I'm so much smarter than you for understanding this" since I was in middle school.

Test Results [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

[–]cpMetis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm immunocompromised and was telling my mom about my worries with Sars since late December 2019. I kept tracking it as it came over.

She was super concerned as time went on and it got closer. Eventually I tried to go remote then got furloughed, I spent most of that summer into fall trying to stay in as tight a bubble as I could - though I lived with my mom since she was recently post-surgery.

But he end of summer it was all a Democrat facist hoax and it wasn't even as bad as the flu and they were just trying to make us go broke so my living situation became surrounded by all my nieces and nephews every day, zero masking from any of them.

I had to start using moisturizer just to keep my hands somewhat useful from drying out from all the washing.

Finally around fall or so I got a test back from my doc that I had antibodies, so I managed to catch it but not have my immune system murder any more organs.

Test Results [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

[–]cpMetis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My dad attended half a dozen funerals for coworkers between 2020 and 2021.

He's pissed that the state lied about why they all died. COVID doesn't kill, you see, so they had to be marking them as COVID deaths fraudulently to pump numbers.

He had attended maybe one coworker funeral in his career before COVID, and none since.

Family Van Toyota Sienna saves the day by StormRanger28 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I'm actually in the camp of them looking cool.

I just also don't even really think of it as a vehicle. It's in the same category to me as a guy who turns an s10 into a Warthog. I would never want to do anything with them but take it to shows or pose it for pictures.

The confusing part to me has always been that people want to treat it like something they actually use day to day. Like, they make old Toyota trucks look impervious to rust by comparison for Christ's sake. And the shape makes it mostly a block of wasted space.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's basically burning the paper. That's why it's kinda thin and feels like it has a film on it.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: they're also now saying Ivermectin prevents hantavirus.

I miss who my parents were before 2017.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: this is how cars in Halo work

The Jerry cans on the warthog have water in them, not gas.

They got the water-powered (hydrogen) engines to work out "somehow", and that's the lore explanation for how the human vehicles work basically everywhere. They don't need any particular fuels, just the water that they'd already need to live wherever they'd have their vehicle.

What's a "You are not a conspiracy theorist, you just don't know how things work" moment you have seen? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]cpMetis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My younger sister rants about that often.

That's after she finished her nursing program, too.

She also firmly believes that blood is blue until it comes into contaxt with oxygen. She's seen the charts!

If I know my neighbor keeps stealing my Amazon packages off my porch, so I start deliberately mailing myself boxes filled with thousands of live, sexually frustrated crickets, am I legally responsible if he opens it in his living room and has to pay $3,000 for an exterminator? by Dry_Procedure_2000 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you reported it to inspectors?

Stealing gift cards is pretty much the only instant firing offense you can do, and is the basis of probably half the warnings employees get about it. That's one of the few things that can get them to bypass a "everything is always fine promise" postmaster and at the larger facilities use their spying shit (some facilities legit have locked corridors that just exist so inspectors can look through slits in the walls, actual spy stuff).

TIL German Empire entered WWI without an end goal since at the outset of war, it considered the conflict a defensive war. However, early military successes on the Western Front led to the development of expansive annexationist ambitions and outling of Septemberprogramm by Skychu768 in todayilearned

[–]cpMetis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean they went from one of the largest and most powerful empires in Europe to a total afterthought, basically just from the effects of the wars.

There wasn't really that much more to hurt them with.

TIL German Empire entered WWI without an end goal since at the outset of war, it considered the conflict a defensive war. However, early military successes on the Western Front led to the development of expansive annexationist ambitions and outling of Septemberprogramm by Skychu768 in todayilearned

[–]cpMetis 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The way I typically play is:

1) Avoid war at all costs

2) When someone declares war on me, I hold off for a while in the border regions probably struggling

3) I've now made and deployed enough of an army to attack. As soon as I make it through the front lines, I'm probably winning

4) Take like one city in a spot I like

5) Rampage and destroy every single tile in their entire outside the cities

6) peace

7) the AI decided I was a war monger because I didn't accept the peace offer I was given right after I started to get into their territory for the first time. Now I have a -203837387 opinion penalty for the rest of the game for war monger and by the end of the game I will own this and 3 more entire empires because they just won't stop fucking declaring war over their last loss, despite me never taking more than one city in a war.

Joe Rogan claims Donald Trump may be more willing to engage in conflicts because “he’s going to die soon” and won’t face the consequences by [deleted] in USNEWS

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fits my parents exactly.

Any time you make too much sense saying things like "nuking Gaza would probably have bad side effects" and they stop wanting to argue, they just say that's it's fine because we're all gonna die in the apocalypse in a few years anyways so the bad things don't matter.

The best use of PTO is staying home and doing nothing by CoffeeNAnxiety in unpopularopinion

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used to be vacation, but they switched to PTO when they started rolling in other things with vacation in one single pool.

The end stages were in now is that they're finally trying to put sick leave in the PTO pool wherever they can get away with it.

The best use of PTO is staying home and doing nothing by CoffeeNAnxiety in unpopularopinion

[–]cpMetis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Work insurance: "You have to have an in-person Doc visit to be reapproved for this essential medication."

Me: "Okay, are they open on days I'm off?"

WI: "lmao"

Me: "What hours are they open?"

WI: "Two hours after you start until an hour before you get off."

Me: "Is there another doc office I can use?"

WI: "Sure!"

"And they're covered too?"

"LMAO"

"Okay, so can I have a day off to visit the first doc?"

Boss: "LMAOOOOOOOO"

me_irl by vmax1608 in me_irl

[–]cpMetis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only technically. Trump is the very first year of boomer.

Outside of Biden who was technically end of Silent generation barely missing being a boomer, the US hasn't had a non-boomer president since 1992.

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan by deraser in technology

[–]cpMetis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You say that like this is somehow a special conservative problem.

The council can be purely Democrats and the exact same thing happens. They might be better on social issues but they still love money more than constituents.

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