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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Time is money. I'm more than happy at this point in my life to pay someone than to waste a weekend of my life figuring out how to install new brake pads and rotors. I'm not mechanical at all and unironically the only things I can do are 1) change tires and 2) install brake pads and rotors OH I can also change headlights!  I generally agree with you though, I'd much rather say "Eh...here's $150, you do it". I just paid some company $100 to pull weeds at my house because  Also because my lower back is about as stable as the Chicago Bears draft party hohoho
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Imagine living in a place and having a lifestyle where you have to own a car You'd probably have to eat at restaraunts with more than one location
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May 2, 2017 17:04
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Phobeste posted:You'd probably have to eat at restaraunts with more than one location You rascal
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May 2, 2017 17:05
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In high school my stepdad showed me like what a crescent wrench and an adjustable wrench were but I hadn't really worked on cars much. But when I first got on SA about ten years ago I started hanging around in AI reading project threads and the quick automotive repair thread. Eventually I started doing stuff on my own vehicles. Started really small with some minor repair in the dashboard, I think I replaced a light bulb in the dash. Then I replaced a bearing on one of my truck's wheels (not a press fit, it was pretty easy) and then I started doing my own brake pads, rotating tires, changing oil. Last year I pulled my old truck in to my garage and spent a handful of weekends dropping out and putting back in the auto transmission. I still had a shop do the rebuild because gently caress rebuilding an auto tranny, but I did the rest. Doing all this stuff I made plenty of mistakes, often had to go back to the book or look up a video or ask the goons what to do, but the worst case scenario was usually just needing to replace another part that I'd screwed up and much more frequently it was just a matter of figuring out why what I was doing wasn't working. A couple of times I had to bring my mess to a mechanic but no big deal. I figure over the last ten years I've saved several thousand dollars, learned a useful skill, acquired a set of tools that I can use for a lifetime, and I can help out friends and family members and save them money from time to time as well. It's not for everyone. If you live in an apartment and have no place to work on a car or store tools etc. then of course you need to just use a mechanic. And if you'd rather spend a few hundred dollars than learn to do something and spend a couple or three hours doing it, that's fine too, we all have limits on your time. But it's immensely satisfying to accomplish something with your own two hands and know you saved money doing it, and it's also really useful to understand exactly how your car works. Also women like men who can work with their hands.
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May 2, 2017 17:05
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If a nuclear war ever wipes out all accumulated human knowledge I think we will be ok as long as we hide leperflesh in a fallout shelter somewhere. We just have to make sure there are no pop tarts in the rations we leave him
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May 2, 2017 17:08
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these hands were made for gaming..
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May 2, 2017 17:10
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If a nuclear war ever wipes out all accumulated human knowledge I think we will be ok as long as we hide leperflesh in a fallout shelter somewhere. I, for one, feel confident that if the internet ever died that between yourself and Leper you would be able to recreate the content rather quickly and by memory.
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May 2, 2017 17:10
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weird Asian candy posted:I, for one, feel confident that if the internet ever died that between yourself and Leper you would be able to recreate the content rather quickly and by memory. I am mostly just good for plot synopses
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May 2, 2017 17:11
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SHOAH NUFF posted:these hands were made for gaming.. And gently caressing the peaks and valleys of another man's chiseled abdominal muscles
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May 2, 2017 17:12
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If a nuclear war ever wipes out all accumulated human knowledge I think we will be ok as long as we hide leperflesh in a fallout shelter somewhere. just kiss and gently caress already
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May 2, 2017 17:13
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They can't kiss and gently caress until they discuss trains and which ones are the best.
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May 2, 2017 17:14
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Dubious posted:just kiss and gently caress already Ew human contact
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May 2, 2017 17:14
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Ehud posted:swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?! I can't explain that medically, but the biblical answer is that man was created without sin and would have lived forever, had Adam and Eve not sinned. Most of the people mentioned in the Bible that live for so long were contemporaries of Adam and Eve. While there is no specific timeline in Genesis, Adam and contrmporaries could have been around for quite some time before man was inflicted with sin. It is also thought that some men, having been born or created close to the event invoking sin upon man, were closer to God than we are today because we are much further from that original state of grace than they were. Also of note, post Noah and the great flood, there are little (or maybe none) mentions of people living longer than they do now. So one interpretation is that the great flood was concurrent with a punishment to man that limited his lifespan.
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May 2, 2017 17:15
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weird Asian candy posted:And gently caressing the peaks and valleys of another man's chiseled abdominal muscles :bigtran:
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May 2, 2017 17:17
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swickles posted:I can't explain that medically, but the biblical answer is that man was created without sin and would have lived forever, had Adam and Eve not sinned. Most of the people mentioned in the Bible that live for so long were contemporaries of Adam and Eve. While there is no specific timeline in Genesis, Adam and contrmporaries could have been around for quite some time before man was inflicted with sin. It is also thought that some men, having been born or created close to the event invoking sin upon man, were closer to God than we are today because we are much further from that original state of grace than they were. Also of note, post Noah and the great flood, there are little (or maybe none) mentions of people living longer than they do now. So one interpretation is that the great flood was concurrent with a punishment to man that limited his lifespan. well shucks
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swickles posted:I can't explain that medically, but the biblical answer is that man was created without sin and would have lived forever, had Adam and Eve not sinned. Most of the people mentioned in the Bible that live for so long were contemporaries of Adam and Eve. While there is no specific timeline in Genesis, Adam and contrmporaries could have been around for quite some time before man was inflicted with sin. It is also thought that some men, having been born or created close to the event invoking sin upon man, were closer to God than we are today because we are much further from that original state of grace than they were. Also of note, post Noah and the great flood, there are little (or maybe none) mentions of people living longer than they do now. So one interpretation is that the great flood was concurrent with a punishment to man that limited his lifespan. Actually the apple symbolizes the entry of carbs into the world. Before eve ate the Apple humans existed in a perfect world and could live forever without the influence of the most evil macronutrient. Relatedly Adam and Eve were both ripped
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May 2, 2017 17:20
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The church I used to go to ages ago posited that pre-flood, there was this big canopy of water over the earth protecting humans from UV stuff, enabling them to live hundreds of years. The flood drained that canopy, thus killing humans sooner. You know, if god didn't send bears after them instead.
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May 2, 2017 17:22
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imagine earth today if humans lived 900 years
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May 2, 2017 17:23
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Dubious posted:imagine earth today if humans lived 900 years Tom Brady will live and play for a thousand years
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May 2, 2017 17:26
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If a nuclear war ever wipes out all accumulated human knowledge I think we will be ok as long as we hide leperflesh in a fallout shelter somewhere. ugh yeah My wife and I have figured out that with our combined skills we have a pretty good set of post apocalypse survival stuff. She's a ceramic artist who makes robots, I took some blacksmithing classes and know how to shoot with a bow, she can identify a fair number of plants and I can properly cook a steak and maintain a rifle and maybe fix a car if I have the shop manual and tools. And she can make clothing and program an arduino and operate a CNC mill and when she was a kid her parents had a horse and goats and chickens and so she can do animal husbandry pretty well too. Unfortunately my knowledge in the areas of football, british television shows, dungeons and dragons, writing developer and administrator documentation for enterprise software, and the collected works of terry pratchett will all be useless in the future hellpocalypse.
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Dubious posted:imagine earth today if humans lived 900 years Well Martha, we are nearly at our retirement goal of 1 Billion Dollars at age 815!
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May 2, 2017 17:28
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Dubious posted:imagine earth today if humans lived 900 years do the women still go through menopause at the usual age or are we popping out babies for centuries
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swickles posted:I can't explain that medically, but the biblical answer is that man was created without sin and would have lived forever, had Adam and Eve not sinned. Most of the people mentioned in the Bible that live for so long were contemporaries of Adam and Eve. While there is no specific timeline in Genesis, Adam and contrmporaries could have been around for quite some time before man was inflicted with sin. It is also thought that some men, having been born or created close to the event invoking sin upon man, were closer to God than we are today because we are much further from that original state of grace than they were. Also of note, post Noah and the great flood, there are little (or maybe none) mentions of people living longer than they do now. So one interpretation is that the great flood was concurrent with a punishment to man that limited his lifespan. SOME DOCTOR
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Phobeste posted:Tom Brady will live and play for a thousand years a thousand games of Playoffs Andey
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weird Asian candy posted:Well Martha, we are nearly at our retirement goal of 1 Billion Dollars at age 815! lol but actually if you can save 100k by the time you're like 60, the magic power of compound interest will ensure you own all of the money on the planet by like 200 or something e. 100k compounded annually at 5% interest for 600 years = $517,105,839,289,871,600.00
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Leperflesh posted:My wife and I have figured out that with our combined skills we have a pretty good set of post apocalypse survival stuff. She's a ceramic artist who makes robots, I took some blacksmithing classes and know how to shoot with a bow, she can identify a fair number of plants and I can properly cook a steak and maintain a rifle and maybe fix a car if I have the shop manual and tools. And she can make clothing and program an arduino and operate a CNC mill and when she was a kid her parents had a horse and goats and chickens and so she can do animal husbandry pretty well too. Read this post in the Napoleon Dynamite voice I love you, Leper  Leperflesh posted:lol Will you be my financial advisor? weird Asian candy fucked around with this message at 17:33 on May 2, 2017 |
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I love you too, weird asian candy pocky is OK but I like the weird fizzy milk flavors
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I can brew beer and make moonshine so when the world ends please invite me into the TFF Raider gang and don't immediately kill me and loot my dwelling tia
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May 2, 2017 17:32
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Phobeste posted:Actually the apple symbolizes the entry of carbs into the world. Before eve ate the Apple humans existed in a perfect world and could live forever without the influence of the most evil macronutrient. Relatedly Adam and Eve were both ripped But Eve only wanted to tone she didn't want to accidentally get bulky
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May 2, 2017 17:32
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Leperflesh posted:
Yeah everyone knows the apocalypse will use GURPS
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May 2, 2017 17:33
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Blitz7x posted:I can brew beer and make moonshine basically these are totally essential skills without which life isn't worth living so hell yes you're in bro Mel Mudkiper posted:Yeah everyone knows the apocalypse will use GURPS ugghhhhhhhh gently caress gurps (no but it's worse than that, the apocalypse is gonna use Palladium and we're all gonna have to deal with MDC and SDC bullshit)
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May 2, 2017 17:35
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Leperflesh posted:ugh yeah but enough about your minecraft server
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I have a physical today. I haven't been to the doctor since I was like 14. Half my blood is going to be sodium
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Leperflesh posted:basically these are totally essential skills without which life isn't worth living so hell yes you're in bro yea but there will be some badass glitter boy armor out there to use
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May 2, 2017 17:39
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a neat cape posted:I have a physical today. Not surprising you'd be that salty after so many years as a chargers fan
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May 2, 2017 17:44
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a neat cape posted:I haven't been to the doctor since I was like 14. Why? Did your health not allow it?
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a neat cape posted:I have a physical today. Are you one of those people who have weird diets like you subside completely on McDonald's chicken nuggets
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Leperflesh posted:ugh yeah The only real skill I possess is: when I drop something I always catch it before it hits the ground, nothing I've dropped has hit the ground in years...phones, soap in the shower, etc.
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a patagonian cavy posted:Not surprising you'd be that salty after so many years as a chargers fan 
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Ehud posted:swickles I have a medical question how come in the Bible (which is god's truth) people lived to be over 900 years old but now life expectancy is much shorter?! I did the math once and noahs dad methusalah was almost 1000 years old and he died the same year of the flood. Pretty sure Noah made him stay on the shore lol
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