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TheDoozer

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  • Consumerism ahhhhh moment

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  • If I had the choice of the Yaris or another car, I would choose the other car. Because driving that car would make me at least low-level angry for the time I had it.

  • What motivated you to leave the family home when you did?

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  • My mom sold the house.

    I was the youngest of three, and my parents told us all that as long as we were in school (including college), we could stay and they would pay for college. My brothers both got the benefit of this (oldest ended up staying outside of that for a couple years, but whatever).

    My dad died in August after my graduation. My mom and aunt had inherited some money from my great-aunt and bought a house together near a college my mom wanted to go to, so she sold the childhood home (that I'd lived in my entire life) and said "good luck."

    Completely understandable, and I'm glad she got to live the life she wanted. She's a nurse now (mostly retired, can't seem to make it stick), remarried, and they're building their own house. And my aunt now lives in the house they bought.

    And I'm doing awesome (40s, two kids, wife of 16 years, set to retire in a town in Alaska we love, own our own house), honestly a lot better off than either of my brothers, so I can't complain about how anything happened, other than wishing my dad was around longer.

  • Some absurd scare tactic to not allow women to vote

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  • Interesting that allowing women to vote created a situation where women felt it less absolutely necessary to get married. Because after a while, their voice had to be considered when discussing bills like prohibiting banks from refusing bank accounts, home loans, and credit cards to women.

  • Consumerism ahhhhh moment

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  • The Yaris ads did this to me. I got so pissed off by their "It's a car" commercials that I absolutely despised the product.

  • Life expectancy in U.S. States and Select Countries

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  • For every state that is below Alaska...

    Have you seen Alaska? Have you spent time there? Alaska is crazy dangerous! How bad must your healthcare be that the constant threat of the entire environment being against you doesn't win out for short life expectancy?!

    And Mississippi, just... be better.

  • Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaw!

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  • I've found that amongst people I know who fly the Gadsden Flag, it makes zero sense. Like, if Ben and Jerry's made a boot-leather flavor of ice cream, their target demographic and the those of the people who sell Gadsden Flags would be identical.

  • My father the tween literary critic

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  • A book that I got as part of a birthday present when I was in middle school had a passage where a man's long-lost sister (who was part monster, but was painstakingly described as very attractive) told him that either he had to impregnate her the old-fashioned way, or she would simply get a syringe, extract sperm from his testicles, and impregnate herself that way to create, if I remember correctly, a monster that would end the world or something. It was labeled as "Young Adult" level.

    So, like, probably something like that.

  • Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

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  • Only use-case I've had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn't much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.

    That's about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can't thrift an item at a reasonable price.

  • Jesus nut

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  • Our pilots, with training, regularly can get to inside a circle patch of flat land 100 ft in diameter. They generally pick a very specific spot on the runway (like the numbers) and then aim to end up there. And they practice straight down, 90 degree left, 90 degree right* 180 degree, and on occasion 360 degree (for when the spot you want is directly below when your engines fail, and feels like you are corkscrewing to your doom). Obviously practice is different than an actual emergency, but I felt confident the pilots could get us down safely in the event of a dual engine failure.

    So honestly if it's over mountainous areas, I'd rather be in the helicopter looking for a place to hard land than a fixed wing aircraft (that needs a runway or at the very least a long grassy field with no obstructions).

  • Jesus nut

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  • I have flown in helicopters most of my career, and we regularly did auto-rotation emergency drills, where we cut the engines output back (to simulate dual engine failure) and then "glide" to a particular spot, using the air pressure from descent to drive the blades.

    With a good pilot, you just kind of go zero-g for a second or two, and the. A somehwat faster than normal descent, followed by a big flare (tail down, nose up, like a diving bird pulling back and fanning its wings out) at around 80 feet, then quick (less comfortable) drop to the deck.

    With a good pilot, it's mildly uncomfortable, with a mediocre pilot, it's some back pain and some extra maintenance inspections, but you aren't crashing.

  • Start-up idea

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  • If you take inflation into consideration, high quality products still exist at about the same price. Its just that there are now MUCH cheaper options now.

    I think the Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness plays a part as well:

    The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

  • UN: 4.5 million girls at risk of genital mutilation in 2026

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  • I get what you are saying, but that's not the way to do it.

    "What about male genital mutilation?"

    "We should ban all mutilation of genitals of children. It is barbaric. Some more than others, but it's all bad."

    If all you do is respond with essentially "what about this other thing that this particular article isn't talking about," it derails the conversation of the current article. Saying that all aspects of the subject if the article are bad and have no place in society says "I agree with this, and let's extend it further."

  • why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?

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  • Swinging with right hand, holding with left (for right-handed people). So you can see what you've done so far as you go, just like writing with your right hand from left to right.

  • Fuck, can I have a do-over?

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  • The best thing I have learned to do with age is embrace the awkwardness. You do something ridiculous and awkward, you laugh, call it out like it's something funny for both of you, and then you move on.

    "Gow's it hoeing? ...wait... that's not right. Hoooow's.... itt.... gooooiiing... there we go, nailed it."

  • TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost

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  • Housing is assigned by rank, is available to anyone currently in contract

    Not only that, but government owned housing is assigned not based on pay, rank, or whatever, but size of household. So an E-7 with no kids gets a 2 bedroom and an E-3 with three kids gets a four bedroom (depending on age/gender of the kids). So according to need.

  • Like the number of remaining torpedoes, plenty more where they came from

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  • Yeah, and then they die, sacrificing themselves to bring back the rest of the crew, thus showing the futility of not being main cast.

  • Inside me there are two shit takes

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  • Both are yes but also no.

    Each person is responsible for their own actions and choices.

    Also, often systemic issues make certain behaviors far more likely, and rather than suggesting there is something inherently wrong with a person or group of people who have made those negative actions or choices, we should address the issues that contributed.

    If a person beats their kids, saying they came from an abusive household does not absolve them, but if there has been a culture of ignoring (or encouraging) child abuse, addressing that would go a long way toward reducing child abuse in the next generation, for example. But the person who abused their kid still deserves the punishment they get.

  • I cast rock sling at mach 2

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  • Apparently there was a whole whip vs sword choreographed fight planned for that, but Harrison Ford was super sick at the time so they just had him shoot the other guy. Ended up being fantastic, but I feel bad for the swordsman who learned a bunch of choreography for nothing.

  • Clothes too dirty for the closest but too clean for the laundry

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  • I use command hooks on the wall. It feels more orderly.