you mean we’ll have an economic collapse followed by a world war?

data is great, but data isn’t reflective of my local mechanic rates.

in my city car mechanics charge 200/hr, on the cheap side. bicycle mechanics, charge 100/hr.

i am sure in rural texas the costs of mechanic work or half or less than what i pay.

lol what. i have a 1yr old car. my insurance and car payment is like 450 a month, and the new payment goes away after 3 years. you are vastly over exaggeration.

i got a new car because my 10 year old car needed $5000 worth of work and it made no sense to keep it anymore. new tires, fluid flushes, new brakes, etc. not sure if you have had a car worked recently, but like a brake job for all four brakes alone is $1500. the tires and wheel balance was $600, etc. a nicer car would have cost a lot more. one reason i don’t own a suv is the maintenance costs are double that of than a fwd sedan. had it been a crv the maintence would have run me probably 8000.

your prices seem 10-20 years out of date for car repairs. yeha, in 2002 I was paying like $2000 to overhaul an old camry, but that was 25 years ago.

Until that $5000 car needs another $5000 repair, and another and another.

There is a reason most cars don’t last more than 10 years.

because they think you are as dumb as they are.

reliable used cars cost nearly as much as new ones these days.

Because money mostly. Once people find out I am not rich they tend to treat me radically differently than when they are under the impression I’m wealthy.

the average person doesn’t think they are working class, they think that’s what poor people are.

my dad made a working class salary his entire life, but he always told us we were middle class and ‘better’ than those working-class idiot losers.

average people admire rich people and want to be them, and they hate working class people.

i’m a middle class person now, but i live around a lot of upper middle class people, and regularly they let me know I’m subhuman scum in their eyes. and working-class people i grew up with, think i’m a rich effete snob with my graduate degree and my expensive coffee and my compact car.

people generally are much more focused on the differences around them and feeling they are better than their neighbors is a far bigger concern than what rich people are doing. the person living across the street from you gets more upset about you getting a nicer car than them then they do about jeff bezo’s wedding.

cool, my experience is that people only want to talk about their problems, regardless of gender. they dont’ give a fuck about yours and get offended and upset if you do so. but I’m male, and I’ve never had the experience of having anyone care about my problems beyond dismissing them as ‘bringing them down’ and that i need to ‘get over it’. even when it’s my dad dying of cancer and it’s my so called ‘loving girlfriend’ of years.

nah, it’s just the sexist double standard, that if a man does it, it’s nefarious/negative/harmful. but if a woman does it, it’s a form of ‘self-care’.

the way interpret this stuff would also be a matter of physical looks as well, as if an attractive person doing it would be viewed very differently than an unattractive person.

yes, you’re correct. stigmatization just further entrenches things.

most women reproduce. most men don’t.

it’s not anything new.

Which feelings?

Very few feelings are allowed. If you keep to those social acceptable feelings, you’re fine. The second you go off-script, people are done with you.

Like I can pet my dog and say I love her. That surface level stuff is fine. But talk about anything complex, like the struggles we’ve had, or how she helped me through some depressing periods or she had a period of sickness and anxiety and misbehavior? People freak out and back away or tell me to shut up and go get a therapist and get my dog one too.

Men are allowed a very narrow and shallow range of public emotion. Basically anger, and sentimentality are acceptable. Anything else? You’re creepy, weird, or mentally ill.

If you go outside that box or show complexity or vulnerability, you’re socially rejected because it makes people ‘uncomfortable.’

am i a victim of air because I have to breathe it? or a victim of capitalism because i have to work to pay my bills?

there is no getting outside of it. every ‘woke’ person i’ve ever met also hates men for sharing their feelings, almost as if they are just virtue signalling…

the only person who a man can ever open up w/o consequence is a therapist, because it’s a professional paid relationship.

sucks, but that’s how it is. and nobody is interested in changing it.

No, they are just here to spout cliche gender war bullshit about how men are awful for existing.

and if you asked them about women on male violence they’d deny it exists.

trying talking about your feelings as a man and see how society reacts…

spoiler: it won’t be pleasant.

sort of like how these men in the article are talking about their feelings…

Secret Service has 8000 employees alone.

but they protect a lot more than just the president. they protect former presidents, families, and candidates for president. they are perform general security at the whitehouse.

They also do investigative work in fraud, finance crime, and cyber crime and are frequently involved in federal and state casework for police investigations.

yep, pre EPA.

lead in the water, lead in the air, LEAD EVERYWHERE.

No you can’t. millions of people cannot do that.

huh, i live in a highly liberal area… people here are just as stupid and believe all sorts of crazy nonsense.

mostly because they believe it makes them smart and progressive. and if you show them evidence that is contrary, they just call you ignorant and stupid and conservative. because it’s conservatives who are stupid and bad, if you are liberal you can’t ever be wrong!

american culture punishes humility. it’s a culture that rewards arrogance.

and we love bullshit. american culture is amazing at producing bullshit and selling it.