Damn I wish. There are zero options but cars where I live.

This is me too with my 2020 Crosstrek. A little screen for the backup camera that also shows the navigation and Spotify from my phone. No lane monitoring or any of that stuff. And I do like deciding when I want to shift.

I’d add to that, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

At my house there are no buses. There are no light rails. There are no sidewalks, no bike lanes. You can walk in the easement of people’s front yards but it’s mostly a ditch, full of water when it’s raining. I live inside the loop highway that runs around my 2+ million population city. Cars are the only option, even most of the homeless have cars here.

The sluttiness is rarely the complaint. It’s the ones who promise faithfulness we hate. Be your slutty self but be real about it. This isn’t about women, it’s about people - it goes for men too.

Sometimes women aren’t complete sluts.

We really need to learn to not apply modern culture and standards backwards.

It’s just dumb rich people stuff. Hand sewn camel hair and silk and stupid stuff. They don’t have to sell them everywhere, they sell at a handful of elite shopping locations. The champs Elyse, the Koenigsallee. They go hand in hand with $200k watches and yachts.

A couple of years ago we had to do our roof, our water heater, some foundation work, and our HVAC. Cost almost $50k exactly in total but it’s all paid for now. No debt except my mortgage, but I have a great interest rate so I probably wouldn’t pay it off early. I’d put $50k towards a new truck.

How relaxed or strict are your immigration laws? I paid $40 just to park my car for a few hours a few days ago.

It’s not quite enough, but I need a new truck. So I’d pull out another $20k and get one with no payment. I haven’t had any debt other than my mortgage in years and I’m trying to keep it that way.

Luxury beds can run above half a million dollars. How much bed money would you have left bafter paying off your debt?

If you want a roof over your head, most places have property taxes of $3-4k per year even if you own it outright. If you want to ever leave your house a car costs about $5-10k per year. If you aren’t living on rice and beans food costs about $3-6k per year. This doesn’t include any clothing, taxes, medical expenses, hobbies, travel, or other bills like water, natural gas, electric, etc.

If you’re incredibly frugal and quality for public assistance, $50k might last you a few years in the US.

Playing survival but being willing to use console commands just a tiny bit to make it less painful, that’s the sweet spot for me. I give myself some coins. I’m the dragonborn, it isn’t a stretch to think I might have also started out life with a little money. I mean my parents clearly had a heroic bloodline, they should have been successful. And when I’m building homesteads I console command most of the supplies. It’s rich privilege. It’s real. But I can still freeze to death or starve like anyone else navigating Skyrim.

That just hasn’t been my experience, or my wife’s. I set her up with a laptop running Linux mint and she’s constantly complaining about needing to look up command scripts to type in the terminal to get things to work. I have been experimenting with different distros for fifteen years and it has been difficult enough that I’m still primarily a Windows user (my gaming and my job both have things I haven’t gotten to work otherwise).

I’ve seen these parking spots at every Walmart I’ve been to recently in multiple states (I go camping a lot and they’re very useful if I need any food or supplies or if I need to replace a piece of gear). It seems like corporate just made a decision to put them at every location. I have yet to see police park anywhere except the fire lane though, I once saw fifteen cop cars parked in front of my local Walmart in the fire lane, it was just they were all buying Christmas gifts to donate I found out later.

It’s 99% shoplifting. But the police in my area don’t use those parking spots anyway, they always park in the fire lane.

Pardon me, I’ll be back later. I’m off to play a bit on my most recent survival playthrough of Skyrim… I love having to ride my horse places that don’t have carriage access which is 95% of them. You could do five playthrus using fast travel and you wouldn’t know the world a quarter as well as after one survival playthrough.

I feel like Linux needs to be just a little bit more accessible to the tech-illiterate too. It is getting closer but go show some uninitiated person a Linux forum where power users are talking about maintaining their system daily or weekly, the average person is going to still nope out. I run Linux and and Windows, but if Mac could run more games I’d think about giving them a try because they all suck in their own special way.

My son still plays Roblox at 16. And other games, but he has some friends who like to play Roblox together.