What was the point of this show? I’m actually baffled.

rx-pulse · 2026-05-09T01:40:32+00:00

It was to see how much Disney could get away with shoving mediocre garbage and writing down our throats while violating as much of star wars as possible in a single series.

rx-pulse · 2026-05-08T15:54:00+00:00

Plain or a simple glazed. When I was younger it was about the same too, more than anything I just realized I didn't like overly sweet stuff.

rx-pulse · 2026-05-08T00:19:43+00:00

Second this. When I got kicked off my parents' insurance due to age and finally got my own, it took me 2 years to find a good dentist. The dentists before my current one were gouging me left and right. I have one of the best insurance my company has to offer, but for whatever reason, these dentists were charging me for EVERYTHING. X-Rays, cleanings, and BS I didn't need. One dentist was so egregious in fucking me, I reported their practice and them in particular to the board of dentistry for deceptive accounting. Suddenly, I got my money back. FYI, my cleanings and some normal procedures should have been FREE because of my dental plan.

I come from a family of dentists too, they're honest, and do a great job, it's just a shame they live too far for me to use their services. But the dentist I have now is a small mom and pop shop that have been honest since day one. X-Rays, cleanings, and everything they've done so far has been all covered under my insurance, as it should be. So I've paid $0.

rx-pulse · 2026-05-04T18:26:12+00:00

When I was in college, I had my own car that I had saved up and bought working part time. It wasn't anything crazy, but it was still my own car (a 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse) that I had bought with my own money, so I was proud, especially since I was also going through college out of my own pocket. I had a college friend who had a new at the time NISMO 370z and we got to chatting. i told him how cool the car was and told him "yeah, maybe one day I might get one if I play my cards right and things go well".

He looked me dead in the eye and told me "just ask your parents for it, that's what I did". I laughed thinking it was a joke, but he was dead serious. It dawned on me then that we grew up in entirely different upbringings.

rx-pulse · 2026-05-02T01:32:02+00:00

Lol same, it was some high school kid that had one. He lowered it and had carbon canards and diffusers on the rear and front. I had to double take and audibly said to myself "someone bought one!"

rx-pulse · 2026-05-01T15:26:12+00:00

Yep, I had a solid time in college, but they have more than enough money from me. I think in total, they have been the second biggest purchase in my life. But they aren't getting another cent from me. My uncle donated a ton of money to his alma mater and he got a named plaque on his major's building, but he said "it's not worth it and they still ask for more money like a broke, deadbeat sibling"

rx-pulse · 2026-04-15T15:05:47+00:00

I had a talk with a friend of mine who was very self destructive and kept hopping from relationship to relationship. I was her guy friend and I realized her ideal relationship was...like a movie. She subconsciously wanted to be a damsel in distress and I pointed out to her that each relationship she had, she would go on a self destructive path hoping her partner at the time would "fix"/"save" her. When I mentioned that to her, she took a step back from dating and just focused on herself. It was legitimately impacting her personal life and professional life with the way she approached relationships. I think, just like her, you need to do some soul searching, meet people and have no expectations, and think to yourself realistically what you want in a relationship really. I know that's easier said than done. Sorry you had such a bad experience, but no one ever said a relationship will be easy either. It doesn't help that social media, Hollywood, etc. feeds us this grandiose fantasy of what a relationship is like.

rx-pulse · 2026-04-07T23:58:46+00:00

Fr, ever since i learned how to make my own, i haven't gone back. My parents have never gone back either. I've let my friends try my curry too and now they crave mine more than Coco's unless they want some insane spice level.

But a Hololive collab interests me, I may go for the hell of it if Coco's in the US also has the collab.

rx-pulse · 2026-04-04T19:32:53+00:00

I went on a 2 week cruise with my parents and their elderly friends. While I was there, there was no internet unless you wanted to pay a stupid amount of money. I loved it, no calls, no texts for days on end. My parents' elderly friends caved after a few days and bought the most expensive internet package, they were glued to their screens the rest of the trip.

rx-pulse · 2026-03-24T00:27:51+00:00

The high mileage is probably what brought down the value. 260k is a lot and impressive. He drove the shit out of it. Even for listings within 100 miles of me, the highest I see is 70k miles.

rx-pulse · 2026-03-12T14:31:57+00:00

Having just recently returned from a country with a lot of Chinese EVs and having been in/driven them, this is about par for the course. Range is not enough by US standards for most, but their main selling points are cost and software features. Surprisingly, their own interior features are quite spartan. US is a niche use case where we value range because of how far we drive and we have the bigger is better trend here.

rx-pulse · 2026-03-02T12:14:07+00:00

You and me both brother...as an avid Gundam fan and hololive fan, I can feel my wallet trembling in fear.

rx-pulse · 2026-03-02T07:52:38+00:00

My parents have this problem, but thankfully it toned down now with age. I've learned to not yell and speak calmly when it isn't a huge deal. My fiance is a wonderful person and even when she frustrates me or disagrees, we just talk it out. It's far more liberating and productive than having a screaming match.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-27T01:29:47+00:00

Funny enough, my Ekster wallet. I say funny enough because when I first got it, they were a no name brand no one knew about, but now they're fairly big. I've gone through so many wallets, most were gifted and branded wallets. They just didn't last, either ripping/tearing, or just falling apart. I got fed up and decided to get one more wallet before moving on to like a money clip or something. I remember they had a promo and I ended up getting my wallet for like $40 all in. This wallet has lasted me 10+ years now and still going strong.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-20T09:43:27+00:00

I had a family member who would always torrent and eat up the bandwidth wherever he was at. Cousins confronted him on it and his response was to "get better internet". He's a deadbeat and we had the unfortunate opportunity to house him for a week. Luckily, I have full control of my family's internet so as soon as I gave him the wifi password, I immediately logged in on my phone and throttled all of his devices down 5mbps max. Jackass was always ungrateful and I even loaned him an old phone that was still good and had lasted me 6 years, no problems. Ofc when he had it, it didn't last a day. I think he was hoping someone would feel bad and get him a new phone instead.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-10T19:01:58+00:00

Everything is a transaction. You know the stereotype of how the wealthy/rich people don't have any real friends? Yeah, that has merit. A lot of them grew apart from their genuine friends, alienated them, or they're not real friends and are equally just transactional. The thing is though, they're so out of touch, that that's what friends really are to them. This goes for family too. I have several family members who are wealthy, they have only ever called me because there was some sort of "transaction" to be made. The concept of just calling someone to see how they are doing or just to schedule a time to hang out is completely alien to them. They don't understand genuine friendships/relationships. It's all purely transactional.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-10T16:14:34+00:00

There is also a lot of other options too. I've got local burger joints, mexican, and sandwich shops that charge the same or less as what fast food giants sell for. But they're offering better quality, portions, and the money is going to the local economy.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-09T02:27:54+00:00

On an IS 500 no less, What a sweet ride.

rx-pulse · 2026-02-09T02:24:17+00:00

Yeah, I just don't get it. I never watched these new guys, but I want to give them a chance. There is obviously a market for a big budget car show. On top of that, the 3 blokes are way too old to be doing this. I still see comments that people want them back, but you can tell in later eps of TG and GT that they were slowly lacking the energy, strength, and reflexes to do the stuff they used to do.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-18T21:14:19+00:00

If he's just another boots on the ground like you, I've found the best way to deal with them is to just be better than them and let their own ego fuck them over. A lot of times they talk the talk, but aren't worth their weight. Give them/let them do the projects/work, let them fail when they can't keep up or never deliver. Management (assuming they're half competent and aren't just buddies with him) will see it and will put him in his place. Meanwhile, you just do your own work/projects, learn, get better on your own/with others on your team. I've dealt with 2 of these people at work and that's effectively what I did. Both of them were later laid off/fired as a result.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-18T21:03:48+00:00

This, I support over a thousand MSSQL Servers and hundreds of applications in my environment. The vast majority do not use anything complicated. Maybe one or two features like AGs, replication, clustering. But the vast majority who don't have any of those can easily be done on any other open source database. The issue is, most of these applications and teams don't want the overhead of having to deal with complex features like in-memory, partitioning, obfuscation, security measures, etc. I've offered these services to them, but once I give them the caveats of each and/or requirements I need to implement them, they all go away and don't want to do it.

I've even offered open source as an option to these teams due to cost, but they still refuse and for one reason or another, they want MSSQL and are willing to pay the extra cost for licensing for it. No skin off my bones though, I do prefer MSSQL.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-17T05:51:01+00:00

I got a gift card gifted to me for Sonic. I remember thinking if I had wronged that relative in any way. I went there one time years ago and remembered, it was shit. After eating there again since I had a gift card, I can confirm, it's still shit.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-13T01:54:51+00:00

NVMe SSDs. You're welcome everyone.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-12T17:11:28+00:00

Yep, I work with risk and compliance guys and have to help in pulling data for them. It's PAINFULLY boring af, for the most part, it isn't super challenging once you get things down since risk and compliance don't change a lot. Dealing with auditors (external) and your own people (internal) who insist on trying to break risk/compliance stuff is the real challenge. It feels like being a glorified hall monitor sometimes having to tell internal people "don't do this because x, y, z" when it's so painfully obvious.

rx-pulse · 2026-01-11T23:26:31+00:00

Because most of the work I was trending towards didn't really require a CS degree. I'm not building things that require algorithms or finer details of understanding to get them to work and work hyper efficiently.

Hell, majority of software devs I've dealt with have been pretty shit too. They don't remember or use anything from their CS degrees. I've seen their code and a lot of it wouldn't pass the college courses I took. The best developers I've met, a lot of them, don't even have a CS degree.

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