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Exactly thirty minutes later…

Anus: Hey, Brain - we’ve got a little problem here.

Brain: Can’t it wait? We’re driving.

Anus: Absolutely the fuck not.

Look, I get the hate because this looks appalling, but I’m thinking of the way these things might taste together, and, I mean, I wouldn’t say no. The sweet-savory combination would be a good contrast that lends some complexity. And the creaminess of the soup seems like it’d be a good fit for the flakiness of tuna and bready texture of the waffle.

Only thing I’m passing on is the olives. No thanks, bud.

At least, I’m not counting this out before I try it.

As for my wife…

I don’t think she’s a fan lmao

She must be an empath.

In all seriousness, periods of marked deflation are generally not economically prosperous times. The economy deflated more than 20% between 1929 and 1936. But we don’t call that period in time “The Really Cool American Price Drop.” It goes by another name I can’t think of right now, and it’s making me feel greatly depressed.

We shouldn’t be fighting for lower prices. We should be fighting for better wages that track with prices over time.

Bud, my car is older than you and has driven enough to circle the globe ten times. You’re really stretching the definition of “extended” here.

But, you know, if y’all wanna pay to repaint it, I won’t say no lmao

Oh, I know they’re not connected to the internet. It was a joke. And it turned out her whole family was kind of a bunch of culty Christians. Like, the kind of people who would shout gibberish and call it speaking in tongues. She was a nice girl, but getting to know her family was an…experience. And it totally explained some things lol

Frick frick frick frick frick. Stop censoring swears

This is what I see. But my mom put the TVGuardian on the WiFi. :(

Actually knew/was trying to date a grown woman who lived alone, no kids, and had one of these lol That thing creeped me out.

I prefer onionized. 🥲

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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

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.

Nope. 5th gen Honda Prelude.

The two-tiered cluster of my Civic really grew on me. The speedometer is up really high so it’s almost always in your line of sight.

C4 Corvette!

This one (ETA: my '97 Prelude) sparks so much joy.

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.

So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one’s true, what’d be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.

If that’s the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.

So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who’s to say time doesn’t also run in a circle?

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.

I was born in '92. Didn’t get my first phone til I was 14 in 2006. It was a Kyocera Oystr. Then in 2009 I had a Moto RAZR ve20. Most of the kids I knew called it a RAZR 1½. Loved that phone. It had a 3.5mm jack that worked with regular headphones so I put all my music on it and never asked for an iPod. It was sick that it had music controls on the back of the clamshell.

I didn’t get my first smartphone until 2011, and I had to pay for it myself. It was a US Cellular variant of the Moto Photon 4G called the Electrify. It had this sick CRT animation when you locked the screen. Motorola made some kickass smartphones in the day.

My granddad won’t set it any lower than 78°F.