Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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Bruh chill out. Do you really think that was an appropriate reaction to a comment by some rando on the internet?

I've always heard this is the right move. List the item for next to nothing then either accept the $20 or just give it to the person for free if they don't hassle you too much

I'm so glad we got our offer accepted before the market went bananas. The sellers were a retired couple offloading their rental properties and when accepting the offer asked to delay the actual sale for a few months so that it would occur in the next calendar year. In that time frame interest rates continued to fall and the housing market rapidly heated up so we got our house at a lower rate and lower price than we should have. It also doubled in value over the following 3 years thanks to the hyperinflation and overheated housing market of 2021-22

There's people trying to push AI counselors, which if AI Councilors can't spot obvious signs of suicidal ideation they ain't doing a good job of filling that job

SearX is pretty sweet honestly

Really any musical, especially one that hits that "I maybe shouldn't be watching this" is a good option. Maybe Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog? Probably too young for Sweeney Todd

I played Minecraft as a teenager when it was in Beta (you can do the math for my rough age based on that) and I took my kids to see it as a fun family outing. It was a fun kids movie, and it was wild hearing the Minecraft soundtrack in the theatre lobby, but honestly while I'm glad I saw it in the theatre, it wasn't anything I'd go out of my way to see again. My kids however have watched it multiple times since it's hit streaming

Calm down there Calculon!

So many parents don't realize kids can listen to grownup music. My daughter sings so much Greenday, and while it's a little awkward hearing her start singing "I was sober now I'm drunk again"

When I first got a girlfriend in highschool this one kid was teasing me for it so I flipped it and said "hey at least I have a girlfriend" I hit him so hard where it hurts that he actually never bullied me again and he actually tried to be my friend for a bit

The kid who bullied me relentlessly in middle school had an extremely unique name. I've been following his career since as he's been listed in news articles for being arrested for increasingly severe crimes, most recently being described as the kingpin of a car theft ring. Glad to know he's been quite successful in his career so far with credentials like that!

I remember being a target of bullying in middle school. I specifically lobbied the school for months to get an alternative to recess because that's when the worst of the bullying occurred. I was finally given permission to just chill in an empty classroom during that time and it was a significant improvement.

If spending a bit more on shoes helps give the kid some confidence it seems like a reasonable step to take. Maybe the kid will learn it was never about the shoes to begin with.

The fact is, middle school fucking sucks and the most parents can do is try to help their kids survive however they can. I still remember what one parent said to me once "middle school is the lowest circle of hell" and it was exactly what I needed to hear in that moment

Your feet deserve better shoes than that. The old adage goes, never cheap out on anything that goes between you and the ground - tires, shoes and beds are all worth buying a bit more up market than you usually might

That's been my feeling all along. $5-10 per month I can justify, but I really can't justify $23/mo to cover both my and my wife's accounts, especially given that they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers. And honestly when they were getting really pushy about subscribing a year or two ago I refused because I don't give in to pushiness like that by tech companies

Yeah 404 Media has been killing it and breaking a lot of important stories lately

SpaceX had a brilliant track record for safety with their novel reusable rocket boosters. Even the first couple of Starship prototypes were incredibly successful, massively exceeding mission goals.

Unfortunately Musk seems to have entirely lost the sauce and is killing all of his companies, diving into conspiracy nonsense while funding an incredibly unpopular election campaign, gutting the federal government and tanking the economy by single-handedly raising the national unemployment rate through expensive and unnecessary layoffs. And during that same time Starship has become incredibly unreliable with prototypes not only failing to reach orbit but even exploding on the pad before attempting liftoff.

Meanwhile competitors are popping up around the world trying to recreate SpaceX's falcon rocket boosters, and many are starting to achieve success. Musk could have owned space but instead gestures wildly at everything and nothing in particular

Musk should have stepped down from all of his companies about 5-10 years ago and let them continue on without him. Maybe he'd run a funky tiny/manufactured home startup to try to "disrupt housing" or an online healthcare startup to try to "disrupt healthcare" or maybe he'd be running a drone startup to "disrupt warfare" or maybe he'd just sail off into the sunset impregnating as many women as he can convince to carry his kids while shitposting away on twitter. We can only dream only such an alternate reality

I know a couple of people who just had to pass a written test (basic multiple choices test on sign recognition and road laws) and no behind the wheel test. Heck my wife's best friend lived somewhere where one person out of every class could get their license without any behind the wheel test. They'd draw names out of a hat and the lucky individual just had to pass the written test

With how dangerous cars are, retesting and recertification should be required with every renewal. An hour or two of class time to cover "here's what's new this decade" plus a 20 minute behind the wheel test would filter a lot of people who really shouldn't be driving away from their licenses

On the other hand, there's a ton of people who drive without a valid license regularly due to barriers to getting one and infrastructure that prevents any alternative method of getting around, so this would probably just exacerbate this issue

I've encountered some unexpected transcodes or playback failures that seem to stem from app compatibility problems. Most TV/streaming stick apps for Jellyfin are maintained by only 1-2 volunteers so you can get some funky bugs given the enormous number of possible combinations of codecs, server settings, client hardware configurations and client versions even for just a single TV/streaming device platform

I feel like the joke loses some of the punch with this re-wording. OG source:

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/13a1v4p/thanks_to_ai_and_stable_diffusion_i_was_finally/

Yeah the one time I tried it I ended up just mucking up my own mirrors and not managing to shine the light back in their eyes