I think you hit the nail perfectly on the head

i say living on the west coast after I escaped the drudgery that is the Midwest

Tabby is a locally ran one that I’ve been really enjoying too

Okay, still as other people said, unless you literally carry things 4+ times a day financially it doesn’t make sense to buy a new truck, so that hasn’t changed.

I’ve tried a lot and the problem is that the people are entrenched in their beliefs. They are in irrational states of mind on social media, and you can’t rationally talk to people in that state of mind.

The most successful I’ve had is simply the Socratic method. Remain calm, simply ask open ended questions which are designed to just make them question their tightly held beliefs. Why are cities less safe, why do you feel this, etc. however even I find they will often just get angry at that even.

Ultimately, it’s not social media which will win minds. It’s in the open. I’ve had more luck meeting people casually in bars and talking to them vs on a keyboard

Same, same. Even with high delivery fees it’s still worth just paying them vs buying a truck. Unless you need lumber delivered daily, then it doesn’t matter.

That’s my big thing. They always claim they need a truck to do truck things, but the vast amount of truck beds I see are empty. I don’t own a truck, but still need to do truck things sometimes. When I do I pay around 40 bucks to rent one for the day, do all my truck things, then return it. Idk, maybe I’m crazy but I’ve spent maybe a few hundred doing that, that seems like a better deal than 80k

I’m hesitant to call what they are doing owning anyway, re: their trucks. Most people who drive those idiotic money pits are so far underwater on their loans I only have pity for them. I know people who have taken out 8 year loans on 70-80 thousand dollar trucks. Loans so high in interest and so long that they probably will never pay it off - to me the bank owns it 100%. I think most of them will gladly hand over their ownership if they can still feel “manly” by pretending their huge truck makes up for their own masculinity issues.

Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.

I have 3000 hours in satisfactory and I refuse to believe it is an addiction

I mean, young people can’t afford their houses, at some point something’s gotta give, or yeah they’ll sell them to corporations.

What does the doc say that came with it?

I want to say yes, but I have seen rgb come that way before. Plugging into the wrong thing could blow it out. Read the manual, or at the very least give us the exact make and model of the ram

Wait didn’t they kill off the self hosted a few years ago? Now it’s back?

That’s already been a thing. It’s well documented that super hero movies’ villains all usually start as people who just want to change the status quo, but then do one ultra violent thing to make destroying them justified.

Even Thanos had a very real point, they just made him a monster by acting on it violently. But they never went back to “uh, but he did have a point, his world did literally die because they exhausted the resources”. But how could you ever side with him when he violently acted on it, so his point must be invalid.

Repeat ad nauseum for most other superhero movies.

As soon as your engineering company starts taking advice from business instead of engineers, you’ve lost. See also - Boeing.

Oh my god, did they have to be in the same building as one?! The horror

they say after driving 1 hour round trip every day on government-paid roads with their thin-blue-line sticker

Maybe they should see if that weird Jesus guy had it

They always seem to forget that normal people live there, going to work every day and doing normal things. If it was as bad as they claimed it would be on worldwide news daily

Exact same impact as having a church in your neighborhood I assume? I say I assume because I don’t even know if there is one near me - I bet there is now that I think of it, but that’s how little it affects me.

This one bugs me so much. It may feel that way but you know why? Because they’re literally being exposed to new people and ideas - you know - what being in a community does naturally. College isn’t doing anything, it’s because they’re breaking out of their small town/suburban bubble