SALINGER TAUGHT ME TO LOVE THE FLAT EARTH.

they got vaccines and became gay and round and autistic.

back before we were shooting vaccines into them with our gay vaccine rockets they were totally flat and straight.

People do this all the time in hobby groups and other social formations.

Right now in cycling the industry is pushing a new wheel size, and people are freaking out about it and saying they will ostracize people who buy a new bike with the new wheels. And every youtuber influencer is like making videos about how they will stay loyal to the old size… and they all did this over a decade ago and in a few years they will all be huge proponents of the new wheels once they are socially acceptable to do so, when it’s established and no longer ‘new and scary’.

Everyone desperately wants to signal to the herd they are part of the group, until the herd makes it acceptable to change your mind.

YEAH BUT I SAW IT IN A MOVE THAT PENGUINS ARE MONOGAMOUS FOR LIFE, in a movie 20 years ago.

I don’t want to be told that they are only monogamous for each year and they over their lives they have 20 different partners.

One thing is beautiful and magical, the other means they are disgusting flightless sluts.

same with vaccines. saying they just work, isn’t exciting.

claiming they cause autism and are destroying society and we’re better off without them, makes you feel special and smart. your kids won’t get them because your kids are different and healthier and better, than those lowly vaccine-riddled kids.

also HER NAME IS SPELLED ASHLUIY.

gotta keep those artists employed somehow in the age of AI

rental costs at the airport are 200-300% of those at non-airport rental locations.

you dont’ rent cars, clearly. you are just making up nonsense. i rented cars for years before i gave up and bought a car, because owning a car was CHEAPER than renting one 2-3 times a month and dropping like $150-200 on every rental.

car renting is a PITA process. 1/3 of the time you don’t even get the car you booked, you get a ‘similar model’. you also need to pay for insurance would more than doubles the rental cost.

data is great, but data isn’t reflective of my local mechanic rates.

in my city car mechanics charge 200/hr, on the cheap side. bicycle mechanics, charge 100/hr.

i am sure in rural texas the costs of mechanic work or half or less than what i pay.

he probably was never cheated on or lied to about sex.

that stuff messes you up, and the average person deals with it. some lucky folks don’t.

I never imagined anyone would cheat on me until they did. and they told me it was my fault. lol

her eggs were cheating

lol what. i have a 1yr old car. my insurance and car payment is like 450 a month, and the new payment goes away after 3 years. you are vastly over exaggeration.

i got a new car because my 10 year old car needed $5000 worth of work and it made no sense to keep it anymore. new tires, fluid flushes, new brakes, etc. not sure if you have had a car worked recently, but like a brake job for all four brakes alone is $1500. the tires and wheel balance was $600, etc. a nicer car would have cost a lot more. one reason i don’t own a suv is the maintenance costs are double that of than a fwd sedan. had it been a crv the maintence would have run me probably 8000.

your prices seem 10-20 years out of date for car repairs. yeha, in 2002 I was paying like $2000 to overhaul an old camry, but that was 25 years ago.

It’s lemmy. people just want to hate on anything that isn’t steam and linux pc gaming. also bitter that nintendo games can’t be purchased for like 75-90% off MSRP like most steam games.

the takes on here about the gaming industry are completely delusional if you start looking at numbers.

but it’s not about reality, it’s about their weird little console war mentalities that pc gaming is superior and gaben is the only good billionaire, and every other gaming company is evil and stupid.

stock market is a forecast of projected future profits.

if investors thing a companies choices will make profits go up next year, they buy. if they don’t, they sell.

yeah, all the gaming subs here are pro-steam and anti-console.

Very few jobs offer stable employment, esp ones that are high paying.

yeah, but those jobs carry a lot more social prestige, and that is very valuable in other ways.

Until that $5000 car needs another $5000 repair, and another and another.

There is a reason most cars don’t last more than 10 years.

No, you can’t. Renting a car is not a practical thing to do.

Bill could drop dead tomorrow and nothing would change. corporate governance involves a lot more than one person.

no, how it works is the government accepts, the political leaders get rich, and anyone who fights this gets thown in jail.