I hope you win, keep your word, and the news runs a story on it afterwards thats grows the user base and specifically siphons users from Reddit. I want to see Reddit burn to the ground.
I agree on the touchscreen, it’s absolutely awful. But if other automakers want people to buy their cars, they better actually make them purchasable. My parents have been on the waitlist for a Chevy Bolt for 6 months and aren’t anywhere near getting one, but they could have bought a Tesla same day at any point.
I was thinking about this today as I was looking at a model y: “it’s all hype. The only reason people buy these things is because they idolize Elon and his ability to hype his own brand.” It’s 100% not because they believe in their heart of hearts that they’re buying a reliable vehicle and because they look cool; it seems like it’s pretty well-known at this point in time that Teslas are a low-quality product.
And the article I posted says there were only 256k Corollas sold. So which is right? I actually don’t know, and would love to find out. I’m having a hard time finding hard sources though.
In the first quarter of 2023, the Model Y outsold the Toyota Corolla to become the world’s best-selling car, the first ever electric vehicle to claim the title.
The issue is not the number of houses, it’s who owns them. There are 16 million houses with nobody living in them because private investors are buying them purely as an investment.
I mean, The Grand Tour bought a house for $2200 in a bad area of Detroit that nobody wanted. There are a shitload available starting at around $500. Have at it.
Yes, you can buy a house for between $500-$1,000 and even cheaper but the catch is, as of 2018, you have to bring the property up to code within 6 months.
Conservative estimates three years ago was you’d need between $60,000-$100,000 to bring everything in a dilapidated house up to code
This is psychology/sociology, not MINT. If you start to question whether childhood experience is a valid causal vector to influence adult behaviour you should become a philosopher while the rest of the world happily assumes causation.
Also if you had actually glanced at the study you’d have seen that it’s a systematic review. Skimming over it what it’s saying is “there’s a ton of unorganised data out there that nonetheless shows a clear and distinct pattern we should study the topic for its own sake”.
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Had a old girlfriend that work for Kaiser. I used to joke they were the Umbrella Corporation. We had great health insurance (yay for not having to be married in California)–but the doctors were really hit and miss. Idk if they loved working for a “non profit” (yeah right) hospital.
Build her a Plex server and install Radarr and Sonarr. It's quite special. You can even configure it to automatically download movies and shows when she favourites them on Plex.
Don’t fall for the plex meme. It’s a meme perpetuated by techbros who like to waste their time setting things up when there are other options already there. They do this because they want to feel superior to others by having some esoteric knowledge that actually isn’t relevant.
and install Radarr and Sonarr.
My god. It’s sad people like you actually give “advice” like this. It just shows me how disconnected techbros are from normal people. I feel bad for anyone who gets sent down a plex/radarr/sonarr rabbit hole when other options work better.
Just use a free streaming site.
You can stream pretty much anything for free here: fmoviesz.to
Make sure you have uBlock Origin installed.
If you get stuck, try googling “free streaming sites reddit” and go from there.
If you can read instructions, it's not that hard to set these things up. It's just a matter of what you value more. You can spend less than a day setting up the needed *arr software and Plex/Emby/Jellyfin/whatever and have things as you want it, or you can periodically spend time looking for new streaming sites when the one you settled in on finally gets shut down, and meanwhile, you're at the mercy of the site for what's uploaded and in what quality.
If you have it locally hosted, you also don't lose your ability to watch any of the movies you wanted to every time the internet goes out, unlike streaming sites.
If you can read instructions, it’s not that hard to set these things up.
Lol. Like I said. Posts like these just show me how disconnected techbros are from normal people.
It’s just a matter of what you value more.
Yes, and people coming from paid streaming services value convenience over complexity. They would rather have a free streaming site than learn to self-host.
You don’t have to “learn how to use a streaming site” like you would need to learn how to set up a fucking technology stack, lol. I don’t even know what the other two things are, and I’m a techbro. I guess I can spend more time learning and configuring instead of just entering a URL and making sure I have uBlock Origin installed.
Don’t I also need to download content for it anyways? Sheeh. This is getting pretty complicated for the average netflix user!
Sigh. Don’t let technology control you. Know what you’re doing, and why you’re doing it.
A big part of why I use Jellyfin to self host is because I want local, offline access to media. I can host it on my PC, which only took like 30 minutes for me to set up, and use the app to Chromecast it to my tv. That'd be a lot harder if I was streaming off shady streaming sites.
That’s completely fine if you know why you are using it.
I also love having locally-saved media in case networks go down or streaming sites disappear.
Still, for people coming from Netflix, it doesn’t make sense to recommend them self-hosting unless they specifically want to self-host. For most people, they don’t see the value of self-hosting and directing them to such solutions just causes them to think it’s either self-hosting or paid streaming.
Streaming is easier if you want to watch on your laptop, but my wife likes watching on TV, using a remote to navigate. Streaming won't solve that need. Quality is also MILES better, and my wife can easily tell the difference.
Quality is definitely better if you can download it yourself.
It’s also great to have the convenience of a remote. However, it’s possible to set up remote controls with laptops or other computers. I don’t go through the trouble of doing it though. I just use a wireless keyboard/mouse combo.
I have tried the laptop/PC-remote combo and it's bad. Plex has an HTPC build which is okay, but restrictive. She also uses YouTube and other apps, and we find the Nvidia Shield has the best UI and performance. Computer OSs also have a bad habit of stealing focus, updating, and overlaying notifications. These require a lot of effort to disable, and in Windows, it's impossible to get it all working like a dedicated streaming box.
I take your point above, though. Plex is trickier than streaming. So if the use case is laptop or maybe tablet, those streaming sites are great.
Yes, I think the worst part about using a laptop is having to plug it in and unplug it when you’re finished. You’ll also need a keyboard/mouse combo.
I like the design of paid streaming services and smart TV UI. Usually it’s really accommodating to remote users. The problem is that it limits what you can do with it, which a computer can overcome.
I’m in the same boat. She’s convinced that using twice it every 6 months is worth it. I don’t even know what we pay for it these days, $14.99? Not worth making a big deal about at this point. We did cancel Hulu (better than Netflix,
imo) and paramount some months ago, so I’ll take that and deal.
She wrote this in 2010, when he was still at the peak of his popularity and made his cameo in Iron Man, and this article did little to his public image.
Turns out he was just really good at taking credit for other people’s work and the mask finally started slipping.
That was a super interesting read. Its amazing she can be so polite when talking about him, i guess time and perspective can do that.
Also for anyone curious, the post nup did not hold up. Justine gets 20k monthly plus an unspecified alimony, in addition to the 15 million she got at the time of the divorce.
Elon made it clear that he did not want to talk about Nevada’s death. I didn’t understand this, just as he didn’t understand why I grieved openly, which he regarded as “emotionally manipulative.”
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