First one is the Montauk Monster?!

Our fridge blew. I’m pretty handy, just too many damned issues. Fuck it. What can a new one cost?

I work at Lowe’s, best we got is $900 for the very bottom of the line. Got on FB Marketplace and we have the nicest fridge I’ve ever owned, $200.

Washer crapped out a week later. Same exact story and prices.

And don’t start me on appliances people hunk out because they can’t fix a minor problem. Found a dryer on the road needing a $14 belt. Sold it for $125. Upgraded 2 ceiling fans to super nice ones by bypassing the crappy voltage limiter (it’s a legal thing in the US.) I can do this all day.

tl;dr: Shit’s expensive. Stop burning the planet and your wallet.

Been wanting to start a comm and show all my tips and tricks, get others showing theirs.

Anyone reading a movie trivia thread regarding a 40-yo movie should expect spoilers. C’mon.

I’ve watched Alien in the background dozens of times, had forgotten how it really went. My wife had never seen it, no clue.

She sat like this, edge of the couch, glued to the screen the whole time. And I came away with my view of the movie totally refreshed. A work of art indeed!

Uh, never seen anything on the poofy glaucoma test. This is an autorefractor image to dial in your prescription.

You’re my wife. And worse, she didn’t start driving until she was 50. One thing I figured out, she thinks a mile is about a kilometer. So when the sign says, “1 Mile”, she thinks it’s close.

“Impacted” sounds like unbearable pain. No? Got a good story about mine. Bear with me.

Got my top 2 out because they erupted sideways, actually cut my finger, thought it was a stuck Dorito. Shit had to go. Got the bottom 2 while I was under general.

First time completely under. Dentist said I wasn’t going home until my gf could drive me. Great! Woke at home with her hovering over my face. She was a little bitchy when I asked how I got home.

“You don’t remember that? Nothing?!”

I had refused to leave the comfy office bed, fought and cussed. Whole waiting room heard:

“FUCK YOU! I’ll take you back there and do to you what they did to me!”

Jesus. (Nurses right about now: Yep. And I know OP is a guy.)

Wouldn’t anyone needing insulin already be dead? Or is there a middle ground where a diabetic can go in and out of shock, yet survive without?

I’m happy getting older, for now, and that ain’t gonna last. The aches, pains, other weirdness doesn’t bother me so much, but the damned reading glasses give me fits.

Worn glasses since I was five. Now I have to either carry a pair along with wearing contacts, or take regular glasses off to read.

Working outside has noticeably improved my close vision though!

That answer comes up because people are trying to sex a strange animal. Haven’t we all done this?

Assholes aren’t different, but you can sex many mammals by seeing how close the holes are. Close together = female. More spaced apart = male.

You can use this on juveniles and even babies.

(I’m walking right into it lemmy, don’t let me down!)

I was a kid in the Reagan years and I can certainly buy shitloads more now than as a young adult. As you say, housing and wages are shit, but I can afford things that were unthinkable back then. For comparison, I was making minimum wage as a 1990 college kid, basically am now at $15/hr.

I’m probably not making sense, but the goods available to me now are stunning compared to previous decades. And I’m not only talking about compute power, but while we’re there… Dad got me a VIC-20 in the 80s, $1,700 in today’s money. For that much I can outfit a family of four with decent phones and likely pay less monthly than our AT&T bill in the day. And what’s “long distance”?

My water bill was around $20 in the 90s, still is today. I had all the tools to cut my water, gas and power back on, I was that poor. Even at $15/hr. I can easily pay all that along with my wife’s $17hr. (Always had roommates or live-in girlfriends, same difference.)

Education and housing prices have exploded, but not so much other stuff. My first ever real shopping trip was $75 (1990), that’s $175 in 2025. $220 is our usual Aldi bill and I’m buying shrimp, chicken, beef, good stuff. Guess I’m saying that consumer goods and services are shitloads cheaper, or were. Give us a few months.

And as ever, I’m fucked once again on health care. Guess where I live.

Capitalism is the gold standard in economic systems, but we’re living the end game where so much money has funneled up that the rich own us and our legislatures. Not sure how that trap can be avoided. How do we propose to tax the snot out of the very people and institutions that own our collective ass and write the tax laws?

This is the most interesting thing I’ve seen on the subject of motivation, and one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever watched. 10 minutes. Do it y’all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

It explains so much of why I happy or unhappy at jobs, even if being paid far more for less work. Making more money does not equate to satisfaction or better productivity. It explains why we work for free, the very subject at hand. There’s much I’m unhappy about working at Lowe’s, quite the pay cut from my IT career and it’s physically beating my old ass, but I have the 3 things he talks about in the video, and it turns out, those things are gold.