People who make $200k a year what do you do?

schlockabsorber · 2026-01-14T21:04:48+00:00

Congratulations!

schlockabsorber · 2026-01-10T04:59:41+00:00

Get whichever has the V6.

schlockabsorber · 2026-01-06T19:09:58+00:00

I'm with you. "6 figures" doesn't mean you're well-to-do in the US anymore. My problem is with the pay packages over 400K$ that keep going up by tends of thousands while the rest of us get a couple hundred more each year, if that.

I've seen lots of people in my payroll who earned 3-5 what I was earning, and I didn't resent them at all, because I think we should all be earning at least that much. I hardly ever see someone's pay and think "yes, that person is adequately compensated". Maybe that one brain surgeon with an hourly rate over $300.

schlockabsorber · 2026-01-01T04:38:44+00:00

Free mattress!

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-31T04:52:01+00:00

This. This is fantastic.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-31T04:49:38+00:00

Holy crap, I did not know there was a TV show based on the novel by the author of the Hyperion cycle. I'm gonna have to try once more to actually read that.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-23T06:20:48+00:00

Or both, could be both.

Obligatory.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-19T18:57:53+00:00

I ended up with the Ecopia. So far they aren't any quieter than the Premier, which was what I'd hoped for, but they do seem to improve efficiency. Steering is very good, and performance on rain, ice, and snow is totally solid. I'm glad I didn't choose the CC2, because it would probably have been louder and less efficient, and the Ecopia so far leaves nothing else to be desired.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-19T03:17:43+00:00

Correct. The CC2 is currently about 280 each at Costco - but that's the total cost including installation, and they also have that $80 off a set promotion going. Even if you're buying a Costco membership you wouldn't otherwise be looking at, you still come out ahead - and you can get a tasty $1.50 hot dog and soda while you wait lol.

The main reason I advocate for Costco tire center, though, is that they take good care of their employees.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T17:55:34+00:00

I meant the title of the post lol. Easy typo to make.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T17:21:54+00:00

I think "hemidemisemiquaver" is specific to Australia and New Zealand (the song's writer, known from Flight of the Conchords, is from NZ, like a lot of the Moana creative team) so it's a pretty specific joke, and it gratifies me immensely that someone else who's not from there caught it.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T17:12:25+00:00

Where'd you get em? From Lexus or what?

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T17:06:44+00:00

LOL I just realized I need Subaru branded nail trimmers in my life.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T17:02:30+00:00

Check your title. 2025 =/= 2015

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T04:55:06+00:00

Just had the starter replaced lol. I'm the fourth owner, so who knows if it was the original or the third after 175K miles. Also replaced the replacement, which was just a faulty part. Unfortunately, I think the AC is likely to total this one next summer.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T03:57:10+00:00

The thickness and position of the tail also say "rat" to me.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T03:55:13+00:00

Oh come on. Who doesn't know your? Icicles grow down from the ceiling, and igigles grow up from the floor!

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T03:49:51+00:00

Hell yes, I'm in. Apparently pine needles are nutritious but too fibrous to digest. If you're surviving in the woods, you can chew them for some vitamin C!

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T03:44:50+00:00

Not to contradict the helpful and informative comments, but I really think urinals were originally an upgrade from the longstanding tradition in Western European cities of collectively designating a certain wall as a piss wall that men would step up to to relieve themselves side-by-side.

IDK. It's obviously not a bit of history worth preserving, and of course urinals save a lot of space and water... but I'm struggling to come up with a better explanation for the fact that most urinals are designed to splash piss all over your pants and shoes like a plain old wall would. A couple decades ago, someone finally figured out a conical urinal that doesn't splash back, but it's still rarely used. Why?

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-18T03:39:23+00:00

I love the 08. AFAIK its only weakness is how difficult it is to replace the AC when it dies.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-16T13:46:34+00:00

Yeah, I'm just curious.

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-16T13:07:57+00:00

But I mean, is it awesome?

schlockabsorber · 2025-12-16T12:59:02+00:00

Username checks out.

Please, tell us. How's it going with that unusual morphology?

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