Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.

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.

A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.

😭

American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500

Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.

People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren’t

We didn’t start the fire

It was always burning, since the world’s been turning…

I mean, these are all real CIA documents being referenced, you can go read them yourself. It’s trustable in as much as you can trust the CIA to be straightforward within their own documentation that wasn’t declassified until 20 years later.

They made a pretty good case through a series of generally ethical experiments to prove that at least some forms of psychic phenomena like remote viewing are almost certainly real, if not exactly reliable or common. I thought that was pretty neat.

Other than that, no, I can’t think of much.

You’re not a bad person just because you like dark humor or shitposting.

This is absolutely true.

Why do I need to be better? I don’t give 2 shits about virtue signalling. I don’t have to convince the world that I’m a good person, I know my own virtues and I know that I am; so I’m allowed to joke about horrific shit all the fuck I want.

This is the part that makes you a bad person no one wants to be around.

I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.

Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world

My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:

“Hey [Name], can you get this done?”

“Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”

“…I don’t know?”

“Exactly 😎👉”

Only because he was matched up against the most hilariously inept and unqualified opponent in the history of American politics, and even that wasn’t enough to save them twice.

Yep. That HV capacitor will turn you into orbital bacon with a quickness, and it keeps a charge for way longer than you’d ever think was realistic. In the same vein as “assume every gun is loaded”, also assume every capacitor is charged.

In all seriousness microwaves are the #1 leading cause of death for hobby electronics people, be careful around them and know what you’re doing before you open it.

If it had lidar then it would

Similarly, when I tried to learn to play using a mute, it sounded like absolute dogshit because the mute changes a ton about how the instrument sounds and feels to play. You’re going to sound (and probably be) off key and the lung pressure feels different because you’re blocking part of the air flow out of the instrument. It requires a technique adjustment to sound right.

Like a solid half of all antivaxxers are anti vax because they’re convinced that Bill Gates is putting microchips in your bloodstream to control your brain waves.

English is a mish-mash hodgepodge of two dozen other languages, many (most?) of which are Romantic/Latin-based.

Well it was uncovered that there were plans in place for the governmental purchase of $400 million in “Armored Teslas” which Trump is busy trying to blame on Joe Biden and Musk is desperately telling everyone was a lie.

So yeah they’re going to force the US government to purchase a few hundred million dollars worth of Cybertruck.

They don’t want a return to normal, they want a return to feudal slavery. The financial warfare is just a means to that end until the point where money doesn’t matter anymore.