Slop >:(

I mean that sounds great and I'm happy for you, but you're working with hardware that costs more than most people on here's cars when it's available at all. How viable would your workflow be on an 8gb 1080ti with 32gb of ddr4?

Very real conversation, very productive dialogue

I think that 'literary devices' like this are, if well intentioned in the first place, counterproductive. Sharing our experiences and empathizing with one another brings us together and allows for healing and growth. Artificially intensified narratives serve to divide, isolate, and perpetuate a culture war serving only the elite. Even when well intentioned they're crafted for maximum impact and lack the core of humanity required for genuine connection. They outshine and obfuscate less superficially impactful but more heartfelt attempts to relate, keep us angry and afraid, and interfere with real progress. They're modern mass media, a far cry from the organic engagement people fled major platforms to seek here. Angry mobs have formed, and we've both been downvoted in the last 10 minutes (wasn't me). I don't think that's what anyone wants besides the chronically online addicted to intensity of experience itself. If it ever becomes the default here, if people stop calling it out, this place will have become just another reddit and hopefully someone will have told me about the next place where actual humans can go to share their thoughts and feelings.

I mean... It absolutely is? Those very real and very fucked up events actually happened, and spinning 'literary devices' around them where the noble right-minded hero dunks on some despicable idiot obscures and distracts from that brutal human reality. Give the 13y/os who lack the experience to take these 'literary devices' at anything other than face value a chance to exist as something besides the idiotically evil, inhuman, and faceless "all men" they're portrayed as in this kind of propaganda and there's a much better chance they'll take it. I would go as far as saying content like this, whether intentionally or not, serves to reinforce the rape culture it criticizes on its face.

On a more personal level, it's disappointing to have written all that for you to dismiss in under a minute. Doesn't really seem like enough time to read it, much less put any thought into responding. I am not at all interested in fighting a culture war, if you aren't willing to respond to me then this isn't really a conversation

Right here dogg, hook it up! Honestly anywhere things are sold will be fine, it's pretty much the most liquid commodity besides weed right now. For real though DM me if you're willing to cut a fellow poster a deal. I'm super broke but almost have a free trash PC put together, 10th gen i7/rx580/case/mobo/power supply. For whatever reason people just aren't throwing out old ram these days :p

"Stop fighting women for pointing out how shitty rape culture is and start working with us" certainly felt exclusionary. Think it's about time I touched some grass. Whether or not you get a chance to do the same, I hope you find something to enjoy today. Happy posting.

You make a lot of assumptions here very confidently, my gender included. I would attribute your response time more to that extremely limiting shortcut than a quick wit.

No good ists, no good isms. Maybe the problem is in systems and not in us.

At no point did I say it was man. Just not something most people have access to. "Got to have money to make it" painfully true as usual. I have $234 in my wallet, a late 90s Honda to crash in, and sheer force of will to try and change that (it's not working lol). The 32GB/1080ti example is the nicest computer any of my friends own, my own rig is a scavenged parts pile centered around a 10th gen i7 that will be complete when some ram falls into my lap and right now I'm posting from a phone that was $150 6 years ago.

Y'all clownin but this man knows what he likes and will never have to buy a jacket again

I'm glad to hear that. I was most encouraged by the amount of people calling this out as artificially inflammatory engagement bait though, many of who were a lot more articulate and verbose than myself. Do you think the conversation in the twitter screenshot actually happened?

What's the common denominator here bud?

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day...

I teared up a little when the third guy joining the line was pulled in to link arms. A simple, powerful moment of solidarity. Thanks for sharing this.

Or, hear me out, they are victims of an incredibly sophisticated propaganda apparatus expressing exactly the same paranoia and distrust you do in this comment

Ally here. Happy to supply as many frogs as you need. I'm really good at catching them, eight is no problem

If I'd had the option of sending stuff to a shop there are plenty of times I probably would have too. As-is, I can tell you that sometimes the more of a struggle the sweeter the eventual victory :p

Sorry about your breaker bar, that's pretty weak. I remember one time having me and the boys all jumping up and down on the end of an 8' chunk of pipe on mine and it held out alright. Actually a beam style torque wrench with the measurement part broken I found at a parts yard, not like a hardcore pro unit or anything. Imo if it can't even hold up to your body weight return it and get something that can, this project aside they're an important tool

$400 ain't bad though, thanks for the update

Feel like this will not be a popular take here, but hear me out: I blame safety regs. Crash test standards ensconce drivers deep within a dense cage of beefy reinforced pillars and crumple zones, while "driver assists" make them complacent and disengaged. Modern people movers have worse visibility than an old farm truck and massive touchscreens you have to use to operate the windshield wipers. Peak car was like a quarter century ago, bring back the 1994 Honda Civic. The hatch specifically, that thing was dope. At least you'd notice if you hit someone in one of those

I prefer toaster waffles to pop tarts, and so am unsure how to parse this meme

e: way to greet each day though op, I admire that