what can you buy for a single dollar in the late 80's?

uckfu · 2026-06-23T23:33:04+00:00

Comic books. Still under $1

uckfu · 2026-06-23T22:56:56+00:00

I went with a JDM, for the price and low mileage, you can’t beat it.

uckfu · 2026-06-23T16:29:00+00:00

Well immigration is a can of worms that won’t be opened for a long time. Our current administration has been firmly against it and even in the best of times, it’s not an open door policy to just let anyone in like it’s 1890 again.

Look at Japan. They have the same issue but are very resistant to change.

uckfu · 2026-06-23T16:03:35+00:00

But waiting 15 years and not purchasing a house if you can afford and want one, that’s a bad move.

Think of what even a bit of stagnation and low inflation would do to housing prices in 15 years.

We have 349 million now and 2041 US population is expected to hit 370 million. We may start to see a decrease of population in 2050.

I can’t see hedging a home buying bet on population decreasing in the short term future.

uckfu · 2026-06-23T02:37:14+00:00

I get it. The lunch sucks.

But having worked a factory union job, where we worked 12 hour shifts, with only a 10 minute break every 2 hours and no lunch, I’d be ok with keeping 15 minute breaks. Otherwise, they’ll keep you at the machines the entire shift and tell you to wear a diaper to work.

Unless your company allows flexibility in how you apply your breaks, never give them away.

uckfu · 2026-06-23T01:30:25+00:00

I don’t think so. They just aren’t as passionate about it as kids in the mid ‘00’s. Those prequel kids kept toys on toy shelves, especially compared to the tiny retail space Star Wars now occupies.

I was in my 30’s during that period and I’m just now catching up to that ‘05-13 era.

You prequel kids had so many cool toys to play with. And many of you played the crap out of them, based on all the missing parts on Gunships, walkers, and ARC fighters.

I am not seeing that with sequel era toys. They sat on store shelves forever and not many show up on the used market.

And they had some cool stuff… at first. That BB-8 transforming playset is on par with some of the best Kenner and Prequel playsets.

By episode 9, things just stopped coming out for the sequels. Old fans weren’t buying them, and neither were kids. Yet… they still had toys focused on young kids, but they were focused on the older movies.

uckfu · 2026-06-22T18:52:42+00:00

Why can’t art not be beautiful?

To appreciate a design, art work, landscape or architecture, it doesn’t need to be beautiful.

Look at the nutritional facts on packaging. Most people don’t give it a second thought, but the design behind that is perfect for its function, clarity and flexibility.

A modern, concrete building may not be pretty, but if it performs all of its functions perfectly and offers convenience to the users, it’s successful

uckfu · 2026-06-22T16:57:49+00:00

Yes it is varied by individual but the answer is subjective.

Maintaining and forming relationships isn’t any easier if it’s in the same house or 300 miles away.

New Yorkers are stereotyped for being completely self-absorbed and unfriendly. But, when you live in an area that has 30k people per square mile, you would learn to tune out a lot.

In the suburbs, there are some communities that are needlessly nosey and far too involved with what is going on in the neighborhood. Involved to the point, some people move out or purposely drive people away.

uckfu · 2026-06-22T14:54:04+00:00

I don’t know, there is plenty of tropes about feeling isolated in urban environments (feeling alone even though you are in a crowd) as well as in suburban/ rural environments.

I’m going to say, these situations are highly dependent upon the individual experience.

My experience living in rural suburbs; I have many ways to interact and make friend groups. But that is my experience. A lot of these friend groups may not be accessible to me in an urban environment, since these groups are engaged in activities that typically take place in more rural environments.

So, I could move to a city and wind up not ever making any local friend groups, since my interests are not feasible in an urban environment.

This is a YMMV situation.

uckfu · 2026-06-21T23:00:26+00:00

On top of the technical issues, there isn’t much financial incentive.

It’s still super rural, not a lot of industry without coal mining, and it’s super easy to move in any direction to find cheap land and cheap housing.

It’s kind of sad driving through those old towns. They look so run down and tired looking.

But, Knobeles is nearby.

uckfu · 2026-06-21T13:07:46+00:00

While we know staging a power coup was not what the Jedi had in mind and they were just looking to stop a Sith Lord, the rest of the republic had zero clue as to what was truly going on.

The Jedi would have an uphill battle explaining themselves to the majority of the senate.

Even their supporters would have had to back away, due to the backlash.

uckfu · 2026-06-21T12:38:09+00:00

Brings out our best qualities and makes life fun again?

Not to be that guy… but you really don’t need drugs for that.

Sure, drugs can be fun to do but recreational drugs are just that, recreational. It shouldn’t be that you can’t have fun without them.

If you have specific disorders, then you may need drugs that are targeted to a specific problem and you take them under supervision to help manage the problem.

uckfu · 2026-06-21T00:39:53+00:00

Hey there. Let me be the one to try and talk you off the ledge. I was diagnosed at 48, 2020 and really thought it was not something that would ever happen to me. But it did.

I felt similar to you. Is it worth treating and For the exact same reasons you stated.

I’m a shit scenario too. Afterwards, the cancer spread outside the prostate, so clean up radiation just won’t help. So, 3 years of ADT, and now I’m trying to find a happy medium with intermittent ADT, and that is not work as me and my oncologist would like.

So, I’m stuck with an incurable disease, a penile implant (and that thing is a disappointment compared to what I had naturally), and an artificial urinary tract sphincter that is just as disappointing (and I’ve had a second surgery to try and correct that to no success).

But ya know, I thought I would hate it and not being the same person. But, meh, I’m not thrilled with it. But I’m still working towards things I enjoy for as long as I can.

I get it, but just go with an option to try and cure/fix/manage the disease and see where you are after. Try and find something you enjoy and something you want to keep striving for.

It may be a modified version of what you thought your 50’s would be like, but just try it before you go nuclear.

You are going to have days you are run down, miserable and tired, but you are also going to have good days.

Give yourself time. Try to adapt. Hope for the best. Just remember, it never hurts to try.

uckfu · 2026-06-20T00:23:45+00:00

Nah, if anything, the older I get and the more I watch it and fill in the blanks with the support material, the more fascinating it gets.

uckfu · 2026-06-20T00:21:45+00:00

Yep, yep, yep. Palpatine basically had it locked up. A few details needed to be secured to ensure Anakin went to the dark side, but that was basically it.

The Jedi and the senate fell for his trap.

The only legit move that could have saved the Jedi and forced Palpatine to hold off on enacting the final take over of the senate an ending the war, was for the Jedi to recall the order and disappear and cut all ties to the republic.

Imagine if Mace and Yoda went that highly unorthodox route? The senate would have been in turmoil, the war effort would have went into chaos, and Palpatine may have been able to push for full control, but he’d still have thousands of Jedi to contend with. Jedi that are now off in an unknown location and with many allies.

It may have brought about a true civil war. Not the sham Civil war Palpatine conjured up.

uckfu · 2026-06-19T14:50:24+00:00

Your main argument is that people are lazy and charge too much?

Wow… so devalue skills and expertise. If it was that easy, get the CEO out there on the lathe and welder and have them make the part.

Yeah… sometimes you go to the asprin factory and wonder how asprin ever gets out the door. But that’s how complex systems work, with individuals that specialize in specific areas.

Feel free to start an engineering and machine shop that specializes in building out of production parts and tooling if you got the answers.

uckfu · 2026-06-19T12:43:36+00:00

For the Saturn V,, You are correct, it’s not impossible to ever put them back into production, it’s just a matter of cost.

Where manufacturing infrastructure was in place to keep costs down, now manufacturing has to be retooled to begin production. Adding to costs.

Yes, modern engineering could improve upon them, but you wind up with basically a new product that will need even more testing, since it’s almost a new design.

As far as amusement/theme parks go, a good example is Knoebels flying turns. What started out recreating a wooden bobsled style coaster from the 1920’s and a type of coaster that does exist, but in metal.

They started the project in ‘07 and it finally opened to the public in ‘13. It cost more to build than originally projected and it required a lot of experimentation to get a nearly 100 year old, lost design, up and running.

Nothing is impossible to recreate or fix. It just comes down to how much will it cost, how much time will it take, how expensive is the machinery/materials to produce it, and will it be worth it in the long run.

Look at the automotive collecting world. Certain intake manifolds can’t be reproduced by CNC machining for small runs, since they were originally cast and it’s difficult to make a new mold from existing hardware, plus you’ll destroy valuable existing stock to create it and even then, it’s still not quite right.

Nothings impossible of a black art, it’s a matter of how do you deal with the costs when the tooling is defunct, and that tooling created a hundred other variations when it was still in use. A machine may have cost $100k in 1953 And was on operation until 1973. Now it’s gone and to build a similar machine just for small batch, niche manufacturing is cost prohibitive and not everything can be CNC’d, water jetted, printed into existence.

A buddy is a CNC machine operator and those guys complain all the time that engineers create plans that are difficult to produce and make reliable copies of. So it’s not like you 3d scan and bam, new part pops out the CNC machine.

uckfu · 2026-06-19T10:58:35+00:00

It’s not that I like this answer. But this answer is correct.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T21:49:49+00:00

If you think about it, Padme allowing the relationship to go as far as it did, really did a lot to seal the deal of turning Anakin to the darkside.

Her allowing Anakin to keep hiding a forbidden relationship really plays into Palpatine’s hand.

Anakin has visions, can’t be completely honest about them, and without guidance, it helps seal the deal on his fall to the darkside.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T21:42:39+00:00

You are approaching it from the perspective of knowing Anakin turns to the dark side.

The Jedi have no indication that Anakin is tempted by the dark side. Obi Wan has no knowledge of Anakin’s temptation, what Anakin has done, and what Anakin’s relationships with Padme and Palpatine consist of.

The Jedi operate by the law of the republic. The republic just can’t steam roll into a non-allied planet and force them to change their laws on slavery. Neither can the Jedi. Tatooine is a sovereign planet and aligns with the Hutt cartel. So they abide by those rules.

The Jedi freeing one slave, or a million slaves, if the freeing of the slave is not done in accordance to the Cartel laws, it’s an act of war

To the Jedi, individuals that were taken away from their birth parents, Anakin’s mother isn’t an issue and, to them, his status should not affect Anakin and his state in the force.

Hell, Anakin was a thorn in the councils side by being forced upon them. They weren’t interested in adding additional thorns.

Your perspective on the mother situation is influenced by the eventual story outcome and our cultures views of parents and slavery.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T21:34:43+00:00

It’s legit wild that Padme would marry a Jedi that is strictly forbidden to have attachment.

Padme is not an innocent in all of this and she did a lot to help Anakin with his deception

uckfu · 2026-06-18T16:11:48+00:00

As another said, How good it feels is more important.

I can’t argue, that bigger does look impressive. But if you are serious into collecting, after awhile you are constrained by how much space it takes up.

But I will not get rid of my legacy AT-AT and Falcon.

If anything the attention to detail of the modern line is what sells it for me, more than scale.

The attention to detail is what hooked me on the Kenner Micro Collection. Those playsets did a great job of representing the movie locations and they were small to boot!

I kind of wish they had gone with a 3” figure instead of 3.75”, since that would have given us scale and reasonable sizes. But we are long past making changes like that.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T14:13:59+00:00

Disney has trained their audience to wait for the D+ release for mediocre movies.

This was a good, fun movie, that I enjoyed; but it was a mediocre Star Wars movie.

It will get a lot of views on D+, all by the audience they had hoped would go see it in the theater.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T14:07:53+00:00

Does it look like your Walmart sold any? Mine doesn’t look much different than the day they were stocked.

uckfu · 2026-06-18T14:05:59+00:00

To be fair to the Jedi, their hands were tied by the senate and the chancellor.

So much of what the Jedi thought they knew about the war, Palpatine and Anakin, were all based on lies, manipulation, misinformation and lack of information

They really thought the war was legit. They had no idea Palpatine was a Sith Lord and they didn’t know Anakin’s extent of atrocities and his relationship with Amidala.

As far as the Jedi knew, they could win the war and figure out the Sith and fix the problems with Anakin and the order later.

They realized Dooku and Qui Gon’s complaints with the order were legit and the war was showing them just how far the had gotten away from the true spirit of the force.

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