Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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All of the books are worth reading! Start with the short stories then move onto the longform books. There's also a collection of Audible rips floating around the high seas too that are quite high quality. Also for how much of a reputation the brand has for salaciousness, the books are actually quite tame most of the time, and some of the stories are clearly inspired by the same source material as many of the classic Disney princess movies.

Honestly I also thoroughly enjoyed all of the Netflix media for The Witcher too. Blood origin was a fun prequel, and the animes do a good job of giving kind an alternate approach to the series that's equally good.

Came here to share that. The beast was cursed to be a beast while raping a preistess, and eventually learned that women actually had more interest in sleeping with him as a beast than they ever did when he was human

Shit if I find myself night commuting again on back roads I might have to keep such a flashlight in my car. I've had so many trucks light up my entire fucking cabin with their illegal light mods

I'm seeing more cities in the US jump onto "20 is Plenty" too!

Sometimes you can adjust your side mirrors to reflect such a light into the driver's eyes

I'll slow down to exactly the speed limit (which because my speedometer is ~2MPH fast means going slightly below the limit) if someone honks at me for going too slowly. I'll also specifically not turn right until it's green if someone behind me honks to turn right on red

I'm a pretty chill driver. I don't speed, I don't aggressively lane change or push lights, but if someone thinks their horn will get me drive in a less safe manner I will happily slow them down just a little bit more. If they don't honk, I'll happily make it easy for them to pass when it is safe

I worked in a bank for a bit. Literally any transaction that's large and unusual for the account will be flagged. Also people do bonkers things with their money for the stupidest reasons all the time so all that one has to do if they're making large transactions is be prepared to talk to the bank and explain what's going on.

Unless of course you are handling money in relation to organized crime, in which case you were fucked the moment the money touched the banking system

There's actually been a trend of shifting the language to "owi" or "operating while intoxicated" since the law is the same whether you're operating a car, a bike, a boat or a dump truck

I've also heard theories that its related to lots of "golden hour" photos but ultimately (and this is one of the significant problems with machine learning) the specific cause is unknowable due to the nature of the software

The fastest fix is a very short copyright window, say 5-10 years. Given the fact that every movie release makes back it's entire production budget in 1 week or is immediately deemed a flop, 5-10 years is plenty of time to mine an IP for boatloads of cash, plus once anyone can make a star wars movie or book or whatever, the real value shifts instead to the brand that produces it. New brands can make a name for themselves respinnong "old" IPs and making far better content than the original studio would've been willing to risk, and big brands can focus more on how important it is to view the only official versions of a given IP based on their branding.

I think that was every normal person's experience with minions. They were funny as side characters in the film, but then the sequels and spinoffs leaned too heavily into them and the memes started and everyone with 2 braincells to rub together said "fuck this" and ignored the minion scurge to fester

Have you seen the price of dildos? I can't blame people for getting creative with household objects!

Yeah I've seen so much AI slop with the yellow tinge. It's kinda hilarious that we're watching AI model collapse in real time but the bubble keeps growing

Honestly I don't remember. There's a solid chance I misunderstood the point you were trying to make. I do remember being weirded out by the way your example has the loans working so I wanted to give a more real-world example of how loans and inflation benefit the borrower

I wasn't the one who said that part. I just wanted to correct the simplified math with some real world numbers that put into perspective how much wealth just being able to get a mortgage sets one up for

Actually its the inverse. Borrower A is borrowing the equivalent of $105 and borrower B is borrowing the equivalent of $125 and after 5 years the amount they borrowed is equivalent to $160.

Let's put this into more real terms. Lets say 30 years ago borrower C got a $100k mortgage at a 6% interest rate. Ignoring everything else that often gets lumped into "the house payment" (insurance, property taxes, HOA/condo association fees, closing fees, etc.) their monthly mortgage payment would be $599.55 for the entire lifetime of that mortgage. That $100k in 1995 dollars that was borrowed would be about $210k when adjusted for inflation. Those 360 payments would also conveniently equal out to roughly $215k meaning they effectively were loaned the money for free over the timescale, and that loan payment of $600 in 1995 is still a loan payment of $600 in 2025 despite the fact that that $600 in 1995 dollars is equivalent to about $1200 today.

Basically with inflation, property ownership ensures a roughly decreasing cost of living over a lifetime and property has a tendency to gain value faster than a dollar does, so ultimately being able to get a mortgage creates wealth for the individual by stabilizing costs that would otherwise grow indefinitely and they gain an asset that generally increases in value.

I found the best experience with my GBA was simply to use it in a dark room with my MadKatz purple clip light

I was just thinking it was a missed opportunity for a What We Do In The Shadows reference, but on the other hand the only other people I know who watch it are gay so maybe it would just go over Fox's audience's heads

That was Logan Paul, and actually the Paul brothers' antics actually greatly delayed Pewd's immigration as the Japanese government actually stopped granting new visas to any social media personalitiws for some time after the Paul incidents.

If I remember correctly he wasn't able to immigrate until mid-2020 thanks to the Paul Borthers' lack of respect for anyone

You can even play the sequel in your browser on archive.org!