It seems safer on iPhone than Android. I’d still avoid it due to subpoenas.

Never, ever, cross the personal/work barrier. I have seen so much abuse when those lines cross.

The financial literacy in this country is beyond poor. People really don’t understand money and, likely, that’s intentional.

The “right way” to do this is to not finance the car at all (given that it’s a depreciating asset). You save monthly what a payment would be and buy the car outright. Once you’ve done that, you drive it into the ground and save for the next car the entire time.

People don’t have the discipline for that.

I’m not saying that there weren’t many bad decisions made, but this is also misdirecting where blame is owed. Cars have gotten more expensive and if you are a family, there really aren’t any low-cost family hauler options. Yes, people make bad choices, but they are often lead on by sales people and, in the US, they likely have to have a car.

See the latest Climate Town

The density of DVDs makes them less resilient than CDs, but CDs will also suffer the same fate. It’s going to be a very serious conservation problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

I actually disagree a bit here, but that’s the genius of the show. I do agree that they are more nuanced than just good or evil.

Each of them represents different types of moral failure. George is scheming and has an inferiority complex. Elaine starts off as a good person, but lets her love for Jerry and her disdain for those she sees as “lesser” than her drag her down to the same level as the rest of them. Jerry is aloof and a real narcissist - everyone serves him or doesn’t exist. Kramer is basically just a child - lazy and chaotic - at best you can say he is Chaotic Neutral in D&D terms.

The show presents all of this alongside a veneer of charisma and humor and dares you to realize just how terrible these people actually are. One might surmise that the writers of the show might be very familiar with this type of manipulation. Heck, how many sitcoms can boast both that the main characters were at least partially responsible for a body count of well over 10 people and also that almost nobody recoils at that fact?

Would you believe that this was considered racist at the time too? The play that the movie is based on has tons of reviews from the time that emphasize how racist it is. Walt saw that and said, “Ok, we can fix this by doubling down so hard that people will just assume it’s a silly joke”. The man was pretty racist.

The other forgiving thing about Seinfeld is that they are all supposed to be fundamentally broken and bad people. You can reframe it as, yeah, they are being insensitive, but that is how they are about most things. That doesn’t forgive it fully, but the show is full of things like this where they challenge the viewer to not empathize with the cast and even punish the viewers when they do.

You joke, but the modern world has actually really fucked textile hobbies. One example is yarn for crochet/knitting. The major producers all moved their production to new countries in the past decade and, along with it, switched to shorter staple fiber (i.e. the individual fibers they make up the yarn are shorter).

Obviously, this makes goods made with these yarns worse, but there is also a growing, though rare, problem from people inhaling the fibers while knitting. It creates a lung disease similar to what someone who was exposed to asbestos experiences (though asbestos is much worse).

There are still ways to get artisanal yarns, maybe without plastic being one of the primary ingredients, but those are generally very expensive.