Slop >:(

At no point did I say it was man. Just not something most people have access to. “Got to have money to make it” painfully true as usual. I have $234 in my wallet, a late 90s Honda to crash in, and sheer force of will to try and change that (it’s not working lol). The 32GB/1080ti example is the nicest computer any of my friends own, my own rig is a scavenged parts pile centered around a 10th gen i7 that will be complete when some ram falls into my lap and right now I’m posting from a phone that was $150 6 years ago.

Right here dogg, hook it up! Honestly anywhere things are sold will be fine, it’s pretty much the most liquid commodity besides weed right now. For real though DM me if you’re willing to cut a fellow poster a deal. I’m super broke but almost have a free trash PC put together, 10th gen i7/rx580/case/mobo/power supply. For whatever reason people just aren’t throwing out old ram these days :p

“Stop fighting women for pointing out how shitty rape culture is and start working with us” certainly felt exclusionary. Think it’s about time I touched some grass. Whether or not you get a chance to do the same, I hope you find something to enjoy today. Happy posting.

You make a lot of assumptions here very confidently, my gender included. I would attribute your response time more to that extremely limiting shortcut than a quick wit.

I mean… It absolutely is? Those very real and very fucked up events actually happened, and spinning ‘literary devices’ around them where the noble right-minded hero dunks on some despicable idiot obscures and distracts from that brutal human reality. Give the 13y/os who lack the experience to take these ‘literary devices’ at anything other than face value a chance to exist as something besides the idiotically evil, inhuman, and faceless “all men” they’re portrayed as in this kind of propaganda and there’s a much better chance they’ll take it. I would go as far as saying content like this, whether intentionally or not, serves to reinforce the rape culture it criticizes on its face.

On a more personal level, it’s disappointing to have written all that for you to dismiss in under a minute. Doesn’t really seem like enough time to read it, much less put any thought into responding. I am not at all interested in fighting a culture war, if you aren’t willing to respond to me then this isn’t really a conversation

I think that ‘literary devices’ like this are, if well intentioned in the first place, counterproductive. Sharing our experiences and empathizing with one another brings us together and allows for healing and growth. Artificially intensified narratives serve to divide, isolate, and perpetuate a culture war serving only the elite. Even when well intentioned they’re crafted for maximum impact and lack the core of humanity required for genuine connection. They outshine and obfuscate less superficially impactful but more heartfelt attempts to relate, keep us angry and afraid, and interfere with real progress. They’re modern mass media, a far cry from the organic engagement people fled major platforms to seek here. Angry mobs have formed, and we’ve both been downvoted in the last 10 minutes (wasn’t me). I don’t think that’s what anyone wants besides the chronically online addicted to intensity of experience itself. If it ever becomes the default here, if people stop calling it out, this place will have become just another reddit and hopefully someone will have told me about the next place where actual humans can go to share their thoughts and feelings.

I’m glad to hear that. I was most encouraged by the amount of people calling this out as artificially inflammatory engagement bait though, many of who were a lot more articulate and verbose than myself. Do you think the conversation in the twitter screenshot actually happened?

I mean that sounds great and I’m happy for you, but you’re working with hardware that costs more than most people on here’s cars when it’s available at all. How viable would your workflow be on an 8gb 1080ti with 32gb of ddr4?

What’s the common denominator here bud?

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day…

Very real conversation, very productive dialogue

Ally here. Happy to supply as many frogs as you need. I’m really good at catching them, eight is no problem

I’m genuinely unsure how to parse most of this comment, sorry. The paranoia and distrust I was referring to was you assuming ill intent from the people assuming this clip was generated. You’re engaged in exactly the same behavior. The idea that they’re your ‘opposition’ rather than people very much like yourself navigating a very similar reality is paranoid, isolating, and destructive both to your mental health and the potential realization of your shared goals. Please don’t take this as an insult or dismissal, but a lot of your presentation seems to me like that of someone who’s been smoking too much weed. I’ve certainly been there myself and am not here to judge, but would consider laying off for a while

My friend, your emoji selection says you think this is a gotcha but yes. Once giving becomes the core of an ideology rather than a simple practice even that is corruptible, perverse, and a justification for all kinds of inhuman behavior. Pull up the “effective altruism” roster sometime, you’ll find a who’s who of self important and deeply entitled billionaires with neither of our best interests at heart. I will double down on “no good ists or isms” and go on to say that collectively ideology has been the single most destructive force in human history. See also the anarchists too caught up in demonstrating who’s more of a rebel to do the dishes, communists too busy discussing theory to build community, atheists entirely consumed by the absence of a god, and capitalists too busy extracting wealth to appreciate it. Every ideology that has ever been formulated fuckin sucks, and every principle worth living by is degraded by the attempt to build one around it

If I’d had the option of sending stuff to a shop there are plenty of times I probably would have too. As-is, I can tell you that sometimes the more of a struggle the sweeter the eventual victory :p

Sorry about your breaker bar, that’s pretty weak. I remember one time having me and the boys all jumping up and down on the end of an 8’ chunk of pipe on mine and it held out alright. Actually a beam style torque wrench with the measurement part broken I found at a parts yard, not like a hardcore pro unit or anything. Imo if it can’t even hold up to your body weight return it and get something that can, this project aside they’re an important tool

$400 ain’t bad though, thanks for the update

I prefer toaster waffles to pop tarts, and so am unsure how to parse this meme

e: way to greet each day though op, I admire that

For anyone reading, this guy is a great example of why not to serve in a military. In case your normal human aversion to hierarchy and violence isn’t enough. The abuse they put you through to shape you into something willing to kill for them (and the killing etc itself of course) has lifelong consequences.

To “redditmodssucks”, you find what you look for and there’s a lot that makes life worth living. Always for love, never from fear. I hope you find some peace and maybe even a little joy. Hope is real, good luck out there.

You already got all the good tips (big ol chunk of pipe as breaker bar extension being the best), just here to say I’m rooting for you lol. Keep us posted!

I would attribute that delay at least in part to the “cash for clunkers” program, which took older vehicles off the road en masse in 2009 in the US specifically. Made number go up but life a little worse, like most things we do :(

e: in case the correlation isn’t clear (or you just don’t feel like clicking), the program offered government subsidized and highly inflated trade in values for vehicles over a certain age and under a certain fuel economy. This greatly benefited auto manufacturers and investors at the direct expense of taxpayers and used car buyers by using government funding to essentially purchase and destroy ~half of the used car market at the time, depending who you ask.

No good ists, no good isms. Maybe the problem is in systems and not in us.