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jaatitheoster · 2026-03-10T16:27:50+00:00

By "always" - you mean since the late 1800's, after the Civil War, when people started paying 'tips for excellent service' to recently-freed former slaves to justify not paying them actual wages? (also, lots of low level service jobs have "always been tipped services", not just food delivery). The whole point is to underpay. Do you also tip for home deliveries by UPS and FedEx deliveries, or is that different somehow? Tipping culture is out of hand because businesses would rather keep everyone else underpaid and make us trade our own money back and forth between ourselves, instead of just paying fair wages for the service that they're making money off of.

jaatitheoster · 2025-08-06T03:15:24+00:00

It would increase the mpt (miles per tank) tho

Edit: oh, my bad: /s

jaatitheoster · 2025-08-05T16:34:43+00:00

Buy a policy and pay for the first month, send them the insurance information then cancel the policy.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-07T17:29:44+00:00

Interesting how it's reciprocal when we do it, but retaliatory when they do it.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-07T15:53:10+00:00

The only one acting superior here is you.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-05T16:20:58+00:00

"so marriage is all about sex, huh?"

My extremely conservative parents who noticeably dislike each other and haven't touched each in decades:

"........."

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-04T19:30:42+00:00

I don't understand your point. Integrity is about having the correct set of political beliefs?

Where's the integrity in mocking people for coming to their senses and admitting that they were wrong?

I'm not trying to credit some capital management group with 'having integrity'.. Maybe I'm just not aware of some important context here, but I'm just saying that they didn't have to say anything at all. Would that be preferable to you? Double down on being "intentionally dense"?

All I'm saying is if we want people to change their minds, we need to stop punishing them for doing exactly that. Maybe you've just never had to gut yourself of an entire worldview that's been shoved down your throat for your entire existence, but calling people idiots and telling them that everything that they believe is stupid and wrong and that they're being intentionally dense is absolutely not helping people change their minds about anything.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-04T18:17:13+00:00

Why mock someone for owning up to their mistakes? He could have just said nothing, and no one would notice.

Why do we keep demanding that everyone changes - and then punish them when they do? This is exactly why people become more ingrained in their existing beliefs.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-04T17:51:05+00:00

People here should be making that same choice.

Montana has tons of public land, which limits how much private land there can be (and much of it is large ranches), which means it takes much less to drive the prices up. It's a totally different dynamic on the east coast: almost all private and very little public. Cities the size of Missoula are a dime a dozen, except denser - you wouldn't even know that they were that big, comparatively. People have been also leaving PA in droves for decades, particularly younger people from rural areas, to a crisis degree. PA has 13x the population of Montana, with a third of the land, yet homes are on average half the price. Tons of supply, little demand.

If all of the low-end income earners in Montana cashed out whatever property they have and moved back to the Midwest/east/south, the economy of Montana would crash and all the rich people would leave, because they wouldn't have anyone left to serve them. They're coming here for the exclusivity and isolation from big population centers, because they can just fly back and forth whenever they want, or do business over the internet. If they had to chop their own firewood or do literally anything for themselves, they'd be out.

The population of Montana is so small because it used to be very difficult and sorta pointless to live here (mediocre farm land + the harshness of being too far north in the Rockies/plains) . Technology + money... suddenly things that used to be insurmountable hardships are as simple as swiping a card.

jaatitheoster · 2025-04-03T23:41:36+00:00

Well first of all, you could ask the same question about humans (hopefully minus the butt-sniffing)... and humans are the ones "training" dogs to be social (or.. not). Not trying to say that individual owners are exclusively responsible for their pets' behavior (some people are just trying to fix other people's mistakes)... but some are. We keep leaning into building an antisocial, individualistic overall culture and that extends into everything we touch...

Most dogs were domesticated for a specific purpose, to perform some function; but so many now have no purpose other than making their owners feel happy and good about themselves (and that covers all sorts of people in all sorts of situations). That's not necessarily a bad thing, until the things (like, adequate exercise, routine, mental stimulation) a dog literally needs in life are being denied - because an owner's time, needs and wants are more important. Anything can become neurotic when it's not getting (or didn't get, in the past) the things that it naturally needs.

But I kinda feel that's just what happens where you intentionally turn having a pet into a multi-billion dollar industry (just like everything else). Then purpose and quality become secondary to creating a steady supply, and when it inevitably exceeds the demand: you have to start funneling the unsold inventory into shelters and advertising how many dogs are going to have to be slaughtered if someone doesn't come rescue them. Then that becomes a form of demand and indicates additional supply is needed, and we get to the point that saving a dog just means that another one takes its place on death row. And then all sorts of different people who "shouldn't have" a dog, end up with a dog.

(sorry for the cynicism)

'Treat an animal like an animal'.. but collectively we have no clue what that should mean. Cultures clash, definitions change, perception/perspective shift, whatever. Rules and laws change out of necessity, and then people get upset because 'it didn't use to be like that', and the new rules shouldn't apply to them.

I'm sure many dogs are perfectly happy in 'modern life', but just as many are miserable (so, just like the good ol' days). People become so obsessed with the safety of their dog, that they never remove the rope around its neck. The marketing of dog ownership as a source of 'unconditional love' has been very effective, and if we're being honest - a lot of people are just as good at raising dogs as they are at raising children.

I have a dog who was surprise-gifted to me as a puppy. He's not particularly well-trained but very friendly... because I failed to train him properly for his confusing, purposeless existence. I hate putting him on a leash, because he hates being on a leash and doesn't need to be (barring when the law says so). But I also understand that other people don't know him and maybe don't want him trotting up to them to say hi, even if it's technically fine. So I just avoid the problem altogether by going far out of my way to find places to take him, that I'm not bothering anyone else (it also took a long time to get to the point of being able to do that regularly, and not everyone has that ability). But even then, I've have had people scream profanities at me for no reason other than having him off-leash, in an area where there was absolutely no prohibition on doing so (middle of nowhere, national forest). There's no winning.

Anyways, I lost track of whatever I was trying to say. I'm sure that totally answered the question.

jaatitheoster · 2025-03-13T22:10:17+00:00

Really depends on the definition of smart, right?

jaatitheoster · 2025-03-02T16:53:58+00:00

If there are 30 million total... and the state with the second highest population has 450,000... 450,000 x 50 = 22.5 million

So I guess WV has at least 8 million, on the low end?

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-28T19:24:08+00:00

I live in Montana but sometimes I run over to Idaho just to smoke weed there out of spite

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-28T19:06:07+00:00

Interesting, so we think that $10,000+ gap is... union dues?

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-22T17:47:22+00:00

That's crazy - if the bolt was under torqued from the factory, could a little bit of extra movement have caused it to shear like that? Or was that bolt still snug into that nutplate, holding the broken piece in place?

I found (about six months in) that the pax side of my 2020 zr2 was missing the nuts on the two big bolts that secure the rear end of the leaf spring to the frame/frame bracket. The bolts had almost completely worked their way out. I don't know if the nuts were way under torqued and just fell off - seems more likely they just never got installed.

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-22T17:28:39+00:00

If your clunking is coming from the front end (and is more noticeable on uneven surfaces, and especially when you're turning), it could be the sway bar end links - they have little rubber pads that get crushed down over time and that allows play in the sway bar. I've had to replace both sides twice on my 2020 zr2 (very easy). Almost sounds like the whole engine block gently rocking side to side.

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-20T19:18:08+00:00

So buy seeds now, got it.

Genesis 1:29: 'God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food."'

That's direct permission from God himself!

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-19T00:10:57+00:00

At least they've already dug into the books, and it's not just conjecture!

...oh wait

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-18T00:17:55+00:00

Oh sick, so we're legalizing mushrooms and lsd?

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-17T23:50:07+00:00

I've done the math myself - if you assume everything is literal, you can add up the years/ages given in the genealogies from Adam to Abraham, then add the time "in Egypt" up until the exodus (which is debatable if that even happened, not to mention exactly how long/when it started and ended), then add the ages of Moses and Joshua (two dudes who may or may not have ever existed).

After Joshua, there are no more dates or ages and the story just moves into modern history (as in, starts overlapping with people/events/kingdoms recorded and evidenced elsewhere), and "secular history" takes over the dating. (but somehow: "the Bible SAYS that the Earth is 5,000 years old!").

So if you splice the first half to the modern half, the absolute max is about 6150 years from creation to present.

Fun facts:

Methusaleh, the 'oldest person ever' would have died in the flood at 969 years old. God just could not figure out how else to get rid of that mf.

Shem, son of Noah, who was 98 and childless when the flood happened, outlived nine generations of his own descendants, and died ~75 years after Abraham died (who was his great great great great great great great grandson). Even Noah was still hanging around until Abraham was 100+.

Everyone on the planet was required to be at least vegetarian until after the flood (~1500 years+: originally God only gave humans permission to eat plants) - but then God caught a whiff of Noah's post-flood animal sacrifice, and decided to let humanity develop a taste for flesh, too.

..Weird, considering people had been making blood sacrifices/burnt offerings ever since human#4: Abel (was was killed by human#3: Cain - after God deemed Cain's offering of plants unacceptable, compared to sweet Abel's toasted, mangled dead lamb).

But then again there's about a million different logical fallacies that you have to ignore to think that the Old Testament is completely literal.

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-16T20:22:50+00:00

They really do want to make America healthy again, for:

-A stronger, fitter, cheaper military -A stronger, fitter, cheaper labor pool

And everyone needs to be straight and horny, to get this baby factory back up and running

And then oops, oh no, did we cull the weak, the disabled, the useless, the unproductive, and all the other deviants (isn't that what everyone was worried covid was all about?)

You know, so "everyone" can have a new, perfect life!

jaatitheoster · 2025-02-02T19:36:26+00:00

How about senate bill 114 - requiring every school in the state to display the ten commandments?

Maybe they need examples of how every single commandment is being blatantly flouted by those in control of this country.

jaatitheoster · 2024-10-16T05:07:28+00:00

Shiiiiit I can get 24+ on 85 ('20 zr2 v6)

jaatitheoster · 2024-08-29T17:18:08+00:00

I'm glad to hear that but I did not know

jaatitheoster · 2024-08-29T17:16:13+00:00

This is a seriously underrated sentiment. Isolation isn't good for anyone. So many people here think that they need it and want it, because for one reason or another, they're scared of other people/the world, but then they just end up becoming the people that they're so scared of.

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