HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well. technically he was an ape rather than a monkey.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

It really depends on where you bury the body. Once you get out of developed areas, it gets very hard to track things down. Take this example; she was missing for two years, and her body was found in a tent, in a sleeping bag, just two miles off the Appalachian trail, which is one of the busiest hiking trails in the US. If someone was actually buried out there, the odds that they'd ever be found are very, very poor.

Admittedly, carrying a body off trails through fairly dense forests ain't gonna be easy. If you were going to do it, I'd say start by getting an old car with no GPS, get some paper maps, make sure that you leave all of your electronics at home so that there's no electronic trail of where you've been (especially your cell phone!), and only use cash for gas, etc. while you're driving to your body dump site. Assuming that the body isn't recovered for at least a year, you're likely in the clear.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

The entire Ultima series for sure. I think those were the first CRPGs I played. I loved Ultima: Underworld I & II, but I was never able to get Ultima VII: Pagan to run properly on my computer. (And, holy fuck, that was 30 years ago.)

But also The Elder Scrolls: Arena, TES: Daggerfall, TES: Battlespire, TES: Redguard, and TES: Morrowind. The first two TES games would be challenging to make, given that many of the areas were randomly generated, rather than being designed.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Having seen the trailer for Gothic, it looks good. I really hope that it's actually good.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Example: roids. Used appropriately, they can help improve your body.

Correction: they can improve aspects of your body, at a very, very steep cost. Pretty much all oral anabolic steroids are C17α-alkylated, and they're hepatotoxic (i.e., cause liver damage). All steroids will fuck up your lipid profile to one degree or another, and all of them can cause heart disease, specifically hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. While most AASs will increase red blood cell count, Boldenone in particular will sharply increase RBC production, which in turn increases blood pressure and can cause strokes. All of them will shut down the hypothalmus-pituitary-testicular axis (HPTA) feedback loop in men, leading to testicular atrophy. Most AASs will cause hair loss in men that are sensitive to DHT. AASs can fuck up your hormones enough that men can start lactating (!!!). High doses of testosterone can cause gynecomastia, because testosterone aromatizes into estradiol. In women, all AAS will cause some degree of virilization.

There are not very many IFBB pros that make it to 80; if you want your candle to burn brightly, it's going to burn out fast.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Who TF is sending in their registration cards...?

I mean, seriously, I've never sent one in. I threw all of them away, along with the cards asking me to join the NRA.

Also, as I've said before: if Dems would drop gun control entirely--and concentrate on changing the material conditions that result in gun crime--that would absolutely gut right-wing orgs that rely on fears of gun bans and confiscations to rile up a base.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

To my original claim - finding something that's reasonable mileage, and in good mechanical condition, for under $10k, is quite a challenge at this point. I sold a 2008 Honda Civic Si with >200,000 miles last year that was not running, had rust, and generally needed a fair amount of work, and had an asking price of $4k. I got fifty offers in under 12 hours. It was crazy.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's just one of the many fun things about living in the mountains.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, um, 400M rockets.

Yeah, that ain't happenin'.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If I took my bike to town, it would take me about an hour, give or take. To get home would be about four hours. It's 15 miles, one way, with about 2200' of elevation change.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Average price of a used car in the US, right now, is $29,000. Which means that for a $554 payment, it's going to be 5.4 years rather than 1.5. From there, you need to figure out how many miles you put on a car in a year, make some rough guesses about how many miles the average car has left before the cost to repair exceeds the cost of replacing, etc. Obvs. a high mileage used car is going to require significantly more maintenance than a new car will (...in most cases, as long as you aren't buying a new Land Rover or Jaguar), so you'll need to figure that in as well. You'll probably want good insurance, even if you're only required to carry minimal liability insurance, because any accident could be catastrophic for your finances if you can't afford to repair your car.

It's a bit of a death spiral; wages are still too low, car prices are too high.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 27 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Dave Ramsey hasn't tried to buy a reliable used car in the last decade, at least. You aren't going to find anything under about $10k that's actually reliable where I am. A mid-90s Toyota with 300,000 miles maybe, but not anything under 150,000.

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