Jamie

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Speaking anecdotally here, I wonder if the banks are trying to push those super long loans, too. I bought my car last year, have excellent credit, and put 50% down. The only loan I was offered was an 8 year loan when I wanted 4. Out of sheer spite, I took advantage of the early payoff and paid it off as early as possible to deprive them of as much interest as possible, and it was much faster than the 4 years I asked for.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Also the average length of car ownership before buying something else is about 5 years, but the average loan duration for a new car is 7 years.

The car market in the US is just screwed.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

We've had an answer since the Internet was created: don't let kids have unsupervised access to it.

Instead we give toddlers tablets before they can read.

It's inconsequential anyway. This bill was never really about kids in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ask your doctor if Boromir is right for you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last week I stayed in a hotel for 3 days at a said and done price that was still about $100 cheaper than this 2 night Airbnb's base price, not even adding in their fees.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

One thing is that the scam call centers usually pay very well there. From what I've heard, even teens can get in on it, and they can make as much as someone with a full college degree just working for a scam company. The owners are making six figure sums each year.

And the amounts aren't always small. Sometimes they'll find a particularly vulnerable elderly person and net thousands, or even tens of thousands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, MS made a command line package manager that allows users to submit configs for new packages via GitHub. But they haven't made a UI for it and don't tell anyone that it exists. You have to go out of your way to find out about it, which 99% of users are not going to do.

I use it when I set up new Windows VMs and it's a lot easier than manually navigating to websites for software installers.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Sir, do you have a license for that power drill?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

Car dealerships shaking and crying

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the old parent company with a sole employee and it's address is a basement in a country where the laws they want to avoid don't apply.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I host my own searx instance and use that to search, it supports all of DDG's bangs by default if you begin a query with a double bang !!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If he could get in league with Bobby Kotick and they just collectively go screw up a different market somewhere else, that'd be nice.

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