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I think the current online alpha male culture is a marketing tool meant to validate the antisocial beliefs of potential customers in order to convert them into paying customers.
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It’s very likely that it’s all about justification of where someone is more than it is about getting to where someone truly wants to be. Making a lot of positive changes is hard but claiming that you actually really wanted whatever shitty outcome is “easier”.
In the ‘80s it was about claiming you definitely weren’t buying your friends and, if you were, that was some kind of cool power thing and not horrifically depressing for all parties involved. These days most of the world hates these losers, and for good reason, so they shift the blame away from themselves in a desperate attempt to pretend that they aren’t at fault.
We’re social animals and we want genuine connection. The alpha males are deeply lonely and angry about it all the time but try soooo hard to pretend they aren’t which only makes them sadder and madder.
Commas, man. They’re important to not abuse. You made my brain hiccup
To split infinitives or to not split infinitives, that is the question.
This shit ain’t Latin. English splits infinitives.
How would you split an infinitive in latin?
That… no… but…
The argument that “you can’t split infinitives”, as I’ve heard it, is because you can’t split infinitives in Latin (since the “to” is a part of the verb itself). This might be fallacious (a straw man) according to Wikipedia, but I’m fine with that. People split infinitives and I’ve never seen a strong argument as to why that’s wrong.
That’s my understanding, too. It’s a fact I was exploiting in a kind of underhanded way for humor. I like the clarity of not splitting infinitives, but I agree that it and a lot of other grammer suggestions don’t really matter as long as good communication occurs. Anything more than that will probably be defined by far more specific conventions in whatever professional specialty applies. Thanks for having fun with me on the internet.
Was this supposed to be fun?
Aren’t grammar and etymology always fun?
Very carefully.
What’s Your, Problem?
edit - “You’re”
Commas, man.
It’s also a weight decision. If you bring five American friends along, you just doubled the weight of the car.
I fucking hate people that act like they escaped the matrix because they drive a personally owned vehicle.
Like wow you’re really showing us public transit welfare queens what true independence looks like, gripping a steering wheel in a vehicle they can only legally operate with a government-issued license, on a road built and maintained by the government, cleared of snow by government workers driving government-owned trucks, fueled by government-subsidized oil, and parked in government-funded lots. Let’s not forget they had to go to a government building, talk to a government employee, and pay a government fee just for the privilege of registering their car — which they’re also legally required by the government to insure. And after all that bureaucratic red tape and recurring fees, they have the audacity to act like they’re the icons of self-sufficiency. The cherry on top? If their precious symbol of ‘independence’ breaks down, the government isn’t going to help — they get to shoulder the repair costs entirely on their own.
Meanwhile, I swipe a card once a month and get access to a system that moves people efficiently, doesn’t ask for my blood type, and doesn’t require me to pour thousands into maintenance and paperwork — and I’m the one supposedly suckling at the teat of Big Government?
Ok.
As someone who owns a vehicle, I feel more like I’ve escaped the matrix when on public transportation than when I’m driving. I still have to have a car to get places public transit won’t go, but I always look forward to the completion of each new station, one more area I don’t have to drive to.
I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.
When people her about me taking an Uber for such a “long” trip they call me insane, say that I’m wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.
But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like “you’ll see how it changes you, you’ll use it for everything, you’ll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it”. By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.
You are definitely singing the song of my people. I bought my car when I was working 2 jobs with heavy overtime, and it mattered a lot that I could drive 20 minutes instead of the 1hr bus ride. I put about 20k kilometers on the odometer. Things changed recently, and I’ve found myself doing maintenance on it based on a time schedule rather than distance. I could buy 200 round-trip Uber rides per year for what I’m paying.
I tried getting into cycling, but there’s a lack of cycle paths and protected bike lanes here. It’s one of those areas that has “sharrows.” Pro tip: drivers do not share the road even with the sharrows.
man, those guilt coping posts. maybe just do the right thing, so you don’t need to make up bullshit to feel good
You mean just take the bus?
Yeah just take the bus
Nooooo, I wanted to ride the bus but someone took it!
It’s OK my friend, just catch the next one. You can probably make it to the next bus stop even, that’s what I like to do.
Okay, I caught it. Now what?Keep going until the buss is on a surface which it can develop traction.
I don’t know. It seems pretty angry. I don’t want to give it an advantage.
Pqp vou chegar tarde na aula e a profe não vai acreditar que o ônibus deu problema. De novo.
The public transportation company should gives notes to each affected passenger that explain that the company was responsible for the delay.
The F1 with a single seat.
When you reach the epitome, with noone to accompany you.
spoiler
This breaks down immediately, because you have multiple others around you, on the same track. They are your colleagues, your friends and your rivals.
And I haven’t checked, but I’d say the F1 is more efficient at running than the Lambos
I bet there are a lot of remote drone racing competitions …
Lol, madlads/madlasses
This breaks down thousands of hours before an F1 car starts because it takes thousands of people to design them
I’m pretty sure the Lamborghini car also took quite a bit of people-interaction. Road compliance and all, you know?
I actually do know. I briefly worked in F1, and I also separately registered my own car with a properly hand built chassis to NY state registration standards.
They are orders of magnitude apart. It’s like saying “both this IKEA glass and the space shuttle took quite a bit of engineering”. Trust me, more hours were put into any mundane F1 part than almost any other vehicle out there
Engineering decisions: how can make something that pollutes to the legal max both in particles, noise, and, come to think of it, any aspect possible? Oh, I know, a car!
Expensive Rear engine Yellow
This made me giggle. You could really rile up this type of person with that logic.
“Yeah, it’s all the same, man. $600k, rear engine, yellow, 600hp. I guess one of them doesn’t include a professional driver, but we can’t always have everything.”
“This is a Lamborghini! It’s a big deal!”
“Oh, sorry bro, I didn’t mean that as like a dig at you. You’ll get there. Just stay on your grind.”
Ha, I love that the bus is the one with a professional driver.
If I had that kind of money, I’d buy ruined, exploited land just to restore it; regrow a clearcut forest for instance. Then just give it back to the native tribe who lived there centuries ago. I have always wished I could do that.
Nice, this is exactly why a forest has no car seats. Go achieve your life goals
Wait, does that mean his actions will make him zero friends? Not even the tribe!? That kinda sucks.
Where I live there are initiatives that preserve forests by allowing people to buy square meters. It’s only a few hundred euros.
Cool idea, this car can be leased for a couple gs a month, what you’re proposing would take a lot of money. This car is for crypto bros who share a condo in Miami.
It’s cheaper if I do the work myself, which is the only kind of work worthy of respect.
In prince george they did this like 3 years ago. Gave a huge chunk of forest back to natives. They clearcut it that summer. You can easily see the scar on satellite view. Under capitalism, all humans will exploit nature if they have the technology to do so and race means nothing.
As someone with a similar goal that I actually think I will achieve, that land will hopefully never leave my family and be protected forever. We already own two huge chunks of land on the eastern slopes of the rockies which used to be cleared for cattle and is currently regrowing.
You could always donate money to organisations that do these things. Or use alternative search engines that use profit to support nature. I use Ecosia that plant trees and do other things to have a positive climate impact.
But being able to be Bruce Wayne and save a village in South America would also be a sweet deal.
Or I could do the work myself. Donating to charity is just throwing money at the rich.
Depends on the charity.
Also, surely there’s volunteer organizations where you can spend time doing that?
Are they gonna give the land back to the native people? When can I find the time?
Sounds like excuses for not doing anything - then try Ecosia where you only change search engine and then go do what you normally do. Ecosia won’t go in and buy a big piece of land and give it away, but they will work well local people and pay them to restore trees and plant life. Of cause the work is a little more complicated than one sentence.
Oh spare me your judgement. My plate is full, and none of it is wasted. I described a thing I would like to do if I had the resources that some rich Lambo owning prick has. I get a bunch of suggestions which are not that thing, none of which I requested, and some of which leave me dubious. I do not trust charities not to enable rich pricks to hoard Lambos. I’m weaning myself off the internet, not seeking new ways to engage with it. I wasn’t soliciting for piddly little ways I could sit on my ass to be a better liberal. I was lamenting the sociopathy of those who have such resources, despite zero hard work, yet waste them.
I’m already doing all I can for the environment. What I normally go do is break my body daily in the field in one of the few trades where fighting climate change is central. That’s where most of my time and energy go right now. That’s why I chose this career. Considering the way this world is going, I don’t expect to live long enough to make the difference I intended.
Look, I know you mean well. Thanks for suggesting an eco-friendly search engine. Hopefully they take data security and anonymity with the seriousness we all need these days. Hopefully it’s not just another slush fund for some billionaire’s spoiled brat. But regardless, your suggestion probably doesn’t fit my wants and needs.
A lot of people I’ve seen in Lamborghini cars aren’t serious about their lives. They’re spoiled idiots who lucked out and got a ton of money handed to them and are driving it around to show off how much money they have as if they deserved it.
I have a buddy who wanted a Ferrari and a Lambo since they were a kid. They finally got to the point where they bought the Ferrari only to realize he has a wife and kid. The kid can’t safely ride in the Ferrari for 12+ years and he can’t fit 3 people in the car so he sold it. These aren’t cars for people with normal lives.
“Wife and a kid” = normal life.
hmmmm.
Do you consider having a wife or a kid not normal?
I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.
Yeah, it’s rather normal to have a wife and progeny, most people do, that’s what normal means. You seem to be fishing for outrage, but you are missing that normal does not imply good, and not normal does not mean bad. Being astoundingly beautiful is not normal, but it’s commonly seen as positive.
Normal mainly implies average.
The average person has a spouse and a kid. So the statement is not wrong.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.
As there are substantially fewer polygamists than there are single people, the average person has a fraction of a spouse.
The average man has one testicle, the average woman one breast and they both only have one eye.
There might be some better way of measuring this than a mathematical average, some means of describing the most common grouping in a given cohort, but that’s for smarter men than I.
If we’re being pedantic, the average man has most of two testicles, and the average woman most of two breasts. The average human will have almost one of each :p
Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.
Only if you take it that way and if you choose to do so that is on you.
Im the guy who wrote the post. Im an aromantic bisexual, would call that normal? I also have no kids
Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.
I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.
Doesn’t mean you can’t have a normal life without a wife or a kid. It just doesn’t mean average then.
wait. so normal means average, or normal does not mean average?
That’s not the logical conclusion you should be drawing but I can’t comprehend things on your behalf
I mean it was pretty strongly implied but ok
No, it wasn’t. “Normal” in this case means typical. Most of us cannot afford to have a car that cannot fit the whole family
I’m an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I’ve driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I’m not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn’t buy either one over my Miata.
Supercars are vastly overrated.
Yeah, that’s my thought, though I have a kid. Doesn’t really matter if I just want to rent one to have fun driving for a bit (other than if she’d find it cool to ride in one). Would be fun for a bit and then a huge liability to own one. Especially with how much attention they’d get. You’d get random butt prints from assholes taking pictures with it, not to mention some others driving nearby will get more aggressive when they see what you’re driving, making accidents more likely. Not to mention everything about it will be very expensive.
And, at least based on video games, you’d barely ever get out of 1st or 2nd gear in normal driving unless you want to risk getting it seized (or worse) for excessive speeding.
Also, make one mistake with the throttle and a video of you spinning into a curb or something could go viral if it’s one of the rear drive supercars.
Miata Is Always The Answer
If he didn’t realize these things before making the purchase, it would seem like he falls qualifies for the idiot side with a sprinkle of luck.
By chance was he able to afford it because of inheritance? Only a fool takes that kind of money to splurge on a vehicle and he would then fit exactly into the sot op laid out.
Do you think your reply was rational given you have never met him?
Yes. That’s why I made it. I use foresight and logic to deduce the mindset of the person involved in the timeline as you’ve described it.
What you’ve said is a man with a wife and child who gather the resources to buy m a super car. It was only after he had purchased it that he realized it wasn’t a practical family car. This scenario does not contain an adult who is using logic and reasoning skills in a major luxury purchase.
You are free to clarify or correct the timeline you described. Given that you choose to attack me instead, I am going to expand on the scenario by guessing this is someone you admire.
You need to talk to a professional if you think what you are talking about is logical.
All you’ve got is insults; I suggest you take your own advice.
That’s not an insult that is a recommendation.
What you described is an individual with more money than sense and that’s what Clent described. You’re delusional if you think they’re the asshole here.
I don’t know but I’ll happily attack you. Please list your insecurities so I can more accurately ridicule you.
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This taught me absolutely nothing about B2B sales!
My life goal is to not work…which is why I’m not spending my money on a status symbol.
But the car on the second panel is a Ginetta G58 (with a Chevy engine) for LMP3, not road legal … witch … ok, it does have two seats, so it checks out, carry on.
The seats:
Nice catch.
That’s a straight up racecar, though. Like it’s built exclusively for entertainment and fun, not epeen.
I’d respect someone driving a Ginetta G58 around (or, more practically, an Ariel Atom, a homogilation special or something) way more than a chonky, overpriced lambo. That screams “I don’t care what you think, I like to drive” instead of “hey everyone, look how rich I am!”
Like this people driving around these monsters. That’s beyond flaunting wealth, that’s someone’s neurotic hobby, and most bystanders aren’t going to realize how special they are compared to the Porsche trailing them:
Love those bbs rims on the Peugeot.
is that a Cossie back there?
big want
It’s a horrifically fast 4wd RS200 in a cossie’s skin, heh.
Same with the Peugot. You’d think it’s just a 205 until you get in, and see a worryingly loud engine behind the seat.
Haha the RS200 is the only “Cossie” I’m actually familiar with, as we didn’t get the homologated version in the USA :(
I did not recognize the Peugot though lol. Both sound like a load of fun to drive
RS200, with group-B cat ears.
Why is no one asking about the bus with no wheels?!
Ha I had to double take but it looks like they’re just recessed in the wheel well
And blurred out with whatever is in the bottom left of the picture. Could also be a composite.
I dunno, the bus I drive costs more than double what that car costs.
Did you pay for it?
I mean, I’m a taxpayer so kind of lol
