The woman didn’t sign a EULA with the vendor.

I would say your three reqs are met.

Sue the software company for defamation.

At the end of 7 years the car is fully depreciated. Optimistically it’s going to be worth 15-20% of the original value minus any necessary repairs. Legitimately, it could be worth less than zero.

Meanwhile, in that same time, you could have had 3 new cars with lower payments less maintenance issues.

The Office is filmed specifically to promote parasocial relationships for the viewers. For example, the way the characters break the forth wall by looking at the camera being the viewer into the story. It makes the viewers believe that they are personally friends with the characters.

The fact that shows like Friends and The Office continue to drive viewers says a lot about our society’s loneliness epidemic. Those characters are the only friends a lot of people have.

Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 90s, I got an invite as part of the Boy Scouts to go to an international Scouting event in St. Petersburg.I got the special invite through my Uncle who is very involved in the Dallas area GOP and the Boy Scouts.

My parents went with me and during a hike we were taking on one of the mornings it started sprinkling. I was buddied up with a Russian child my age, I don’t remember his name but his father’s name was Rudolph, which I thought was funny.

Anyhow, Rudolph noted how he hated walking in the rain, and my dad commented about how this rain was nothing compared to the storms we have in Texas. Anyhow, the whole trip was kind of high emotion, and my father and Rudolph started arguing about what constitutes rain.

Eventually my mother got really embarrassed and shouted “Honey! I believe Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!”

First of all, Tucker Carlson is a propaganda pawn for Russia. He should never be cited for any reason. If he “makes sense” is only because that position is momentarily useful to Russia.

Second, while the Rapture is an even bigger part of the post-WW2 evangelical theology than this article presents. To understand Baby Boomer American Evangelicals you have to understand that the world they grew up in really did look like the end times. Consider their lives: they grew up during a time of absolutely unprecedented middle class wealth, AND they had a new unprecedented national mass media/advertising system telling them they are really special (if they buy the right stuff), AND they are growing up in the shadow of the atomic bomb, AND F***ing Israel was refounded! So yeah, the message that Jesus was going to come back during their lives was damn convincing.

In their minds, 9/11 was supposed to be the great Armageddon war. And there just happened to be an evangelical in the white house to lead the war. Except it was a quagmire, which they could not explain. Then a black man with African and Muslim names was elected president and they absolutely lost their minds. (Enter the tea party.)

And here is the real kicker that blows the minds of progressives: they know Trump isn’t Christian. In fact there is a not small minority of American evangelicals that voted for him because they believe he’s the Antichrist and that his ruinous presidency is necessary for Jesus’ return.

No, they are the not-a-bank’s not-a-banks.

That’s why you should only bank at banks and not bank at not-a-banks.

I mean, I would rather lease than paying a 7 year note on a car.

That’s crazy. The car legitimately might not last that long.

Guys, just lease the damn car.

Just to be clear, my comment was not intended to withstand scrutiny.

They have to be targeted. They wouldn’t shut the whole facility down if the bomb landed in the remote employee parking lot.

But I don’t see that it’s likely that Iran wouldn’t target their strikes. They clearly have the capability. Hit the targets that maximize disruption.

The drones would not likely need to take out the whole facility. If the drones were particularly targeted, which they almost certainly were, then I can imagine they could take out a particular critical piece of infrastructure that could cause significant disruption.

But yeah, 20% is a lot for sure.

Iran just did more to slow global warming than Just Stop Oil.

But while you should focus on the no. 1 stuff, you are far too easily distracted by the no. 2 stuff.

The Scouts news this weekend is a perfect example. Functionally nothing changed in the program, but they are able to make you go insane like a puppet.

Yes, I do think they are dropping this issue. I think Hegseth realized that he wasn’t going to get the traction on this he wanted so he agreed a nothing burger and declared victory for himself.

I’m not ignoring the concerns of the Trans youth, it’s just that the “demands” won’t actually change them. The BSA has already issued a statement that trans youth are still welcome in scouting. No one is going to be checking anyone’s birth certificates. Literally nothing changed.

Get a grip.

They did away with one merit badge and added one elective. “DEI” is baked throughout the scout program and basically all the topics covered in that one merit badge are covered in lots of other parts the program. Including the whole point of the scout law.

You are losing your mind over nothing. Get a grip.

Yeah, I would absolutely take issue with the head of a government institution saying something like that.

Yeah. He knows that. That’s exactly why he does it. How do y’all not know their playbook by now? There are only two plays.

1. Do evil Nazi shit.
2. Say stupid shit online to keep the press and liberal Internet circles distracted from the evil Nazi shit.

That’s the whole playbook.

This is what I was saying last Friday when the memo dropped. The memo was a nothing burger. Functionally nothing changed about the program. Hegseth got nothing he wanted.

People online just can’t help themselves from losing their minds. Literally anything can make people lose their minds. A headline could be “Hegseth declare that all banana splits served to troops be gendered as male” and y’all would lose your minds like clockwork.

Dude. Literally no one is out there screen shotting “tankies” on lemmy. It’s just in your head.