𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•...English
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    16 days ago

    Hey, my '97 is also a Type SH. I’m the eighth owner according to the Carfax. Somehow, the interior is complete (sans radio), it has the original wheels, and was never resprayed. Except for the trunk lid when some dingbat removed the spoiler. The VIN sticker was painted over. But you can make out the numbers. All VINs match. Somehow, this car has driven 257,000 miles, and is still 99.9% complete.

    I’d love to drive an AP1 at least once, but I had a Prelude when I was a teenager so getting to own another (especially with a stick) is deeply meaningful to me. I was having my midlife crisis at 31, I guess lol

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•...English
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    16 days ago

    I think the Prelude’s cluster is great for a manual daily driver. And I think that for a track car, they nailed it with the S2k’s cluster.

    I had an auto Prelude as a kid. I traded it in 2015 for a CVT HR-V and regretted it ever since. I always told myself if I got another, I’d hold out for a manual. So getting to own another is really meaningful to me.

    I’d love to get to drive an AP1 at least once, though.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•EscapeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Same. We don’t have the room in my office for everyone to be there all at once so I’m hoping we go hybrid instead. My wife’s office is the same. They have 7 rooms for 35 people in her team so unless they stack em shoulder to shoulder, there’s no way. Meanwhile, everyone in leadership has their own office. Ain’t that some shit?

    As for me, my job involves a lot of salary discussions. Now, I don’t mind speaking openly about salaries. My personal belief is that salary discussions should be open and public. Not everyone thinks the way I do. And I know that if I’m placed in an open cubicle in a hallway, people to whom I report will not want to talk to me as often. I don’t mind either way. I like these people. But if leadership in my organization wants to do that to me, that’s probably what’s going to happen. It’s the nature of my job. I help write budgets and then do entry for nearly $60,000,000 of annual spending, including salaries for about a thousand positions. Nearly half of the entire organization falls under my purview. From division directors making $160k a year all the way down to part time housekeepers making 13 bucks an hour. So if they want me in a cubicle, that’s fine. I’ve done lots of time in cubicles. It doesn’t bother me much. But that could be a consequence of doing that to me.

    I have an interview coming up for a job that pays twice as much and looks to be about as much work as I do now. I hope I get it. I think that my departure from this place will cause a hell of a fire. Maybe if I’d have got that promotion I’d been hinting at for some time, I wouldn’t have updated my resume. But here we are. I am no longer gruntled.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•I'll need eternal youth with it thoughEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth…or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you’ve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you’ll probably get pretty bored of it all.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I'm 32 now.English
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    3 months ago

    I was a Romney voter when I was 20 and a Johnson voter at 24 so I feel that.

    tldr, very long - I did NOT become more Republican with age.

    When I was a teenager, I was full on opposed to homosexuality. It happens a lot when you grow up in a hard-R farm town disconnected from everything in the armpit of SW Oklahoma. When I got to college, I met a few gay people. I didn’t even realize they were gay until I had known them for several months. The image of a standard issue homosexual that I had in my mind was pride gays…so I had this mindset that, “I wouldn’t mind the gays if only they didn’t shove it down my throat.” Young Christian me would not think critically about that statement or its reflection upon me for a long time. When I realized that gay people were just, like, normal people, I started to move away from the right.

    But, hey, I was beginning my deconversion from Christianity (I remember saying around 2013 that I can see why it is just as hard not to believe as it is to believe), and that was causing me to rethink how I felt about abortion. Mostly how it pertains to the size of the government. And hey, I can’t be pro-small gubmint while also wanting it to be involved in healthcare decisions. I was also rethinking how I felt about weed. In 2014, I told my then-girlfriend something along the lines of, “If doctors say there can be a real medicinal use for it, then I don’t see why we shouldn’t study it.” So now, I’m for abortions and weed, and I’m against the left for coming for my guns. Guns I don’t own. Btw, I’ve never owned a firearm. So by 2015, I was a registered Libertarian.

    And then Donald Trump was elected. I had mixed emotions in 2016. I actually really liked Bernie a lot. But I also watched a lot of Sargon of Akkad (as much as that pains me to admit). So I was kind of all over the place. I had a job and was paying for my own health insurance. I stopped taking my ADHD meds around this time because they were $70 a month at a time when that kind of money made or broke my month. The promise of socialized healthcare was incredibly appealing to me. And then the Wasserman-Schultz emails got leaked, and it became obvious the DNC stabbed him in the back because they wanted to run Clinton that bad. But I thought even back then that Trump was a bastard. But as I hadn’t acquired much in the way of strong critical thinking skills, I hadn’t realized just how bad he’d be. Still, thinking both candidates were very weak, I voted for Johnson. Trump won here by like 30 points so it didn’t really matter who I voted for. One of the values I like that I’ve always held on to is that I exercise my right to vote however I want, no matter which way my state goes. Change doesn’t happen if everyone who wants it sits at home and lets everyone else decide for them.

    It took two years of Trump to make me a registered Democrat. Still, I was a 2A Dem. And at this point, the Oregon community college and Sandy Hook had already been shot up. Then Pulse and Parkland and Las Vegas happened. And I really started changing my feelings on guns. I read more about Columbine and VA Tech. And I began to think that maybe not everyone should be allowed one.

    Then Uvalde happened. And you know what? What is a ragtag group of dad bods with AR-15s going to do against the military might of the United States government? Nothing. If people are using 2A to mount an overthrow of the regime, the regime is probably considering nuking its own cities to quell the rebellion. The Second applied at a time when a musket had a low chance of hitting a target from 20 yards. So fuck the Second Amendment. The Founding Fathers had lots of great ideas that hold up today. The idea that anyone who wants a gun should have one so that the people can keep a tyrannical government in check is NOT one of them. The states do maintain militias. We call them the National Guard.

    So let’s recap. In 2012, my views were:

    Yay:

    • Guns
    • God
    • Beer, I guess? I was told to like it.
    • Whatever my parents told me to believe, really.

    Boo:

    • Abortions
    • Trucks
    • Gay people
    • The homeless, they deserve it
    • Whatever my parents told me to hate, really.

    Now, my views are:

    Yay:

    • Gay and trans people (didn’t know about trans people in 2012)
    • Trains
    • $25/hr minimum wage because $15 ain’t enough anymore
    • Single payer healthcare
    • Housing subsidies, and I say that as a homeowner
    • Immigrants
    • Reproductive freedom
    • Police reform
    • Weed. Fully legalized.
    • And just about everything else my parents told me to hate

    Boo:

    • God. He kinda sucks, but if religion makes your life better, go for it.

    Fuck:

    • Ronald Reagan
    • No really, Nixon and Reagan ruined everything
    • Those giant lifted trucks
    • The Second Amendment. It should be repealed
    • The DNC, especially after '16 and ‘24. We should be finishing up President Sanders’ second term right now.
    • The police
    • Beer. If it’s an “acquired taste,” then it fucking sucks. Give me my whiskey neat instead.
    • The Anti-Choice movement
    • Cars, and I say that as a car enthusiast.