With some pens, you can jam the spring between the button and the silver thing on the bottom right and the white thing next to it. Then jam it into the top of the pen with the ink stick until it sticks.
Then press the button on the top of the pen and the white thing shoots across the room.
My personal rule is female adjective is okay, female noun is not.
a loan for a used car sounds wild to me.
Predatory car loans has entered the chat.
I don’t know about Carvana, but plenty of scummy dealers will give insane rates to people with no credit check, repo the car while they’re still underwater on the loan, and sell it to someone else. You can have two or three people paying off the same car.
Oh, also, they somehow encourage the most gullible people who can’t afford their loans to just let the car get reposessed instead of attempting to sell it back to the dealer.
A believed a guy who said he just got out of jail and needed $10 for a bus ride home. I was 17. Found an ATM, gave him the cash, saw him walking around the mall with his girlfriend 20 minutes later.
We bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.
Sure. Either way, if the goal is to keep older cars on the road, I don’t think EVs are impacting that. If cars are useful, they get driven. If there isn’t a market for them here, they get shipped overseas to developing markets to be used there. Nobody is throwing away functioning or serviceable vehicles.
People tend to not drive their old cars into the ocean when they buy an EV.
They sell it to someone who is probably replacing an even older car. Newer cars tend to be more efficient than older cars, so the effect is the same.
I once had a conversation with my girlfriend where she didn’t get a joke. I had to explain it to her and when she got it she said “oh, yeah. lol”
But the “lol” was said like the way you’d say “right” or “got it.”
“lol” expressed that it was funny, but the tone expressed understanding.
Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
I froze three and was given a code to unlock them temporarily (or something this was like 8 years ago).
Gave the code to my bank when applying for a home loan. It didn’t work. Ended up just unfreezing so they could do their job.
Costs like $12 every time you want to freeze. It’s a racket.
The car had fireworks in the back that caught fire. It being an EV or Tesla had nothing to do with it (except maybe it being hard to put out after the fireworks lit it on fire).
https://electrek.co/2025/01/01/tesla-cybertruck-exploded-in-front-of-trump-hotel/
Still fucking weird.
For us it was strips of paper rolled up super tight and bent across a rubber band. We called them wasps and a well-aimed wasp could give you a sizeable welt.