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I keep getting more and more glad that I moved here.

Less now that I've learned to give up before I start.

My first car, a 1973 Dodge Charger. This is a representative picture, not my actual car.

I bought it for $750 with no engine or transmission (but it came with a bunch of tools). It was a stock automatic but I converted it to a 4-speed manual in the process of building it back up.

I probably spent twice as much time working on it than I did driving it before I totalled it. That was very sad.

Honestly you wrote your post on a fairly polarizing way. If you wanted calmer discourse around the strange idea, you could have gone with something like "What are your thoughts about this?" instead of "Doesn't that seem rather fucked up?"

Edit: also maybe be less combative in your comments, but I'm starting to recognize that this complaint was not made in good faith.

Hmm, interesting, I'll try it. Here are my chapter titles.

1. Ignorance is bliss.

2. Loneliness and anger.

3. How to ruin your life with one simple marriage.

4. Growth, healing, and self-discovery.

5. How I became an ethical billionaire.

Haha, jk about 5, I'm still in chapter 4 and there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

I hope no one ever seriously uses that, because he suggested it himself.

I just discovered him a couple months ago, and basically just yes, this is the level of detail that I need.

Edit: also, I've wanted a heat pump since I was a kid, so, ya know..

When I rented a 26' U-Haul it was an F-650. That's pretty much the only time I've seen one.

More or less? Actually it's more like extortion as written, but generally speaking rent seeking is buying something that you can get others to pay you for regularly. Like "hey, this land has oil, I'll buy it and lease the oil rights" or "hey, this land has a house on it that people like to live in, I'll buy it and lease the habitation rights".

So the weird block character in the "see... for details" line is replacing "nitrd-switch-roo" just to shorten the line? That's what I was trying to figure out.

Woah, I grew up in Portland, do they really call it soda there now? That's wild.

Ha! Imagine reading text off a screen. So dumb.