I have a Mirage G4. It has a five speed transmission. It does not have internet connectivity, it doesn’t have a touchscreen, it doesn’t have keyless ignition, it doesn’t even have a fourth cylinder. It’s as reliable as a hammer, it still gets me over 40 mpg, and it’s paid for.
Dream vehicle? Any motorcycle. I have one, and I ride it sometimes, but I have a family that cares I’m alive and a lot of you seem to need a phone in your face to drive a car…
Found out this morning that my supervisor can’t afford to drive to work. He has a big truck and a long drive but… It’s already happening.
I’m from Oklahoma and I’ve only got the five per hand. Please don’t send Inigo Montoya after me.
I don’t think the tick marks are on the actual tram.
Have to add the chair-catching woman to the level.
I want $15. Let’s price everyone out of commuting.
Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?
It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.
You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?
Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?
Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.
You can have fun with this.
I used to own a Geo Metro. For those who aren’t familiar with cars sold in the US 30+ years ago, the Metro was a tiny little car with a 55 horsepower, 1.0 liter engine.
The most frustrating part about driving the car wasn’t that it was slow, it’s that it was never slow enough. I was always stuck behind someone’s Twin Turbo GT something or other that was going 10 under the limit. And then you’d pass them, and they would drop their cellphone to make sure I knew their car, which cost considerably more than mine did, was faster. It was crazy. It didn’t matter if I was going the speed limit or even if I was going too fast.
The worst part is I started to weaponize it. I’d see some goofball in a big lifted truck down the road from a known speed trap, and I’d pass them… They would immediately jump to the defense of their frangible masculinity, and they would inevitably fly by a speed trap at 70 on a residential street while showing me how cool they were.
I once impulse bought a motorcycle but I can explain why I did that so…
For the purposes of this thread, I think buying a Mini-2 SE drone is the purchase to talk about. I’ve always been interested in radio controlled flying things, and I had the extra money, and it was on sale, so I bought it. I don’t regret it at all, though, because it turned out to be incredibly useful and fun. I had it for a couple of years until two weeks ago, when I flew the poor thing camera-first into a steel beam, which didn’t destroy the drone but put it firmly in the “cheaper and easier to get another drone than to fix this one” territory.
Now I have a license and people pay me to take pictures sometimes.
Along with taking the time to put a box of bullets in the fridge
I tried that, but I froze my lips because the school buses nearby run on LPG.
$2.99 this morning in northeast OK. It was $2.39 on March 1st, and jumped to $2.99 on the 2nd. I was surprised it didn’t go up this morning… But I’m sure it has gone up since I drove to work.
Soooo glad I have a silly little fuel efficient car.
Finger wagging intensifies
I have no idea what they cost. They used to sell the Jimny here in the US, in the 1980’s and 1990’s. They called them “Samurai” when they sold them here.
I have a Suzuki Samurai.
I wish we could get those in the US. We are sorely lacking in awesome little 4x4’s.
That’s because they were threatening anyone who made fun of ck being shot.
I don’t know, I installed Mint last year and it’s been great.
I’ve felt much of the same things. It’s depressing. The Internet used to be cool. Tech used to be cool.
Fortunately, I’ve been doing more things in the real world. I’ve been fixing up an old car. It’s fun to drive it even though it’s slow and noisy and hilariously unsafe. I’ve been practicing archery with my kid. We are both getting decent. I’ve been writing more. I have been raising chickens, I now have 14 lovely girls who give me and my neighbors free eggs, and one bigass hateful rooster that keeps them safe. Lastly I’ve been teaching myself drone photography. I’ve been building a meshtastic network on my area.
So the Internet used to be cool but… I’ve decided that I’m going to just have to be cool instead.
The one that had the biggest effect on me was getting past the gay=bad nonsense that I was raised with. Which allowed me to come out to my wife as bisexual a while back.
This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but like you… Money.