Maybe I’m at the prime old judgemental age of almost being in my 30’s, but I can’t stand the designs for a lot of EV only cars. To the point where I have little to no interest in buying one that isn’t a (heavy) EV redo of an existing car. These EV only cars look forced futuristic to the point where they look impractical or just kinda dumb. Like the van they made looks like a box on wheels (the cabin did look cool from the concept art admittedly). BMW has this issue too with some of their EV only cars. There was no level of excitement added to it, nothing fun about it just forced futuristic with muted colors, super soft or rough angles, weird shapes, odd features, all that sorta stuff. And where are the mirrors on the Saloon? I suppose they’re probably just cameras, but to me that’s just something else electronic that’ll break, or it’s a menu screen that you can’t see when you’re trying to adjust the temperature on a different menu screen. I feel like a regular dashboard with tactile buttons was perfectly functional. And where is the wheel? I get some vehicles like the Cybertruck and other Tesla’s have the adjusted turn radius for the lack of a wheel (I’m assuming that’s what these have too), but the wheel is better because you have more points of contact and the turn radius can still be adjusted. I don’t know, maybe I’m too poor to know any better cause I can’t afford fancy cars like that, but the car looks silly and I’m upset about it. I suppose things could be worse. Just needed to get my two cents in.

I will also say, when I worked at a highschool a few years ago (I’m now middle school) a male teacher did pipe up about a student whose skirt was so short that he could see their underwear and buttocks and the parents called him a pedophile for trying to, “Look at their daughter,” however, he only complained because he was uncomfortable. A pedophile probably wouldn’t have said anything. Like I said, I don’t think there is going to be any one size solution. It’s pretty annoying. I do agree, school staff should be held to a high standard, but just in general. Teaching is a profession and we should present ourselves as professionals. I’m sorry if your experience with schools made you feel like teachers don’t care about students as real people. In my experience, being on staff at the district I went to, all the teachers I work with spent years in school learning how to help because they genuinely care for the kids.

I currently work in a school, and it can be very awkward walking up steps when students have incredibly short shorts, skirts, dresses, ect. The amount of underage skin (glutes, a little too much cleavage, and male nipples with loose tank tops) genuinely makes me feel uncomfortable and it’s not like I’m trying to see anything. There is no one solution to make everybody happy, and I don’t think uniforms are great or terrible, but I think it would always be better to air on the side of caution and establish standards/ dress codes. Almost every profession has standards and dress codes too, so I don’t see what’s wrong with trying to get students in the habit, at least in highschool when they start getting into the work field. Idk, disagree with me if you want, but I think this is reasonable.

I think that’s about all I’m looking for, but I was concerned about the $59.99 on the Microsoft store. I’ll wait till a sale, thanks friend.

Starfield, I can’t not play. Also just bought Sea of Stars and I’m thinking of getting Jurassic World Evo 2. Is that Jurassic World worth it, if any of you have played?

To say hello: Yo-dah-lee-yah-hoo, how are you?

To say goodbye: Too-dah-loo buck-a-roo, I’ll see you in a few.

Then I’d keep that up. Sounds like you’re doing great!

I see, and I hope I’m not coming off as patronizing or anything; however, what happens at the end of the 6 years if you fail to pay everything back? From my understanding of 0% interest loans (which I’m not a particularly financially savy person), if it’s not paid back by the end of that time (6 years in this case) you’ll most likely receive huge penalties. Not only to your credit score, but also to your wallet since you’ll probably be required to pay back much more at that point. Maybe you don’t make regular monthly payments, and there are no immediate penalties, but at the end of those 6 years you’ll still owe what’s left. I’d rather make a bunch of $350 payments than one $12.5k payment. Unless you could afford that, I just don’t think most people can ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I just think staying in your current payment plan would be best. No matter what, you’d have saved at least $350 for your car each month, you might as well just pay it as it goes. Don’t pay it of too early it anything, but do what you can to reach that end goal. I could be wrong, but I doubt a car dealership would give out an untimed, pay whenever you want loan to somebody. Most dealers are out to make money and giving somebody a loan like that wouldn’t do them any favors. Even if you have good credit.

It’s never a good idea to try and screw somebody over that’s given you a good deal, not that I’m saying that’s your intent; however, that being said, I would pay the loan and not take advantage of it, just to be safe. It’s good for your credit score, it’ll erase debt, and you don’t know what could happen in the next few years. Medical accident, have a kid, get married, can’t work, get paid off, something, anything that can happen to somebody. You wouldn’t want some $12.5 grand just hanging around in debt. No matter what, that’ll have to be paid off some way, some how. Better to get it out of the way in my book, especially if you can right now. If you have a financial planner or fiduciary I’d talk to them too for questions like this. Not degenerates like me. Hope that’ helps. Not trying to scare you, but I don’t ef with debt.

Is this from CircleToons haha?

Maybe haha. Are you a detective or something?

I was gonna call first, but I hope they haven’t lost it or tried to transfer it.

Thanks. I am an eager beaver to get mine.

I know I’m not adding much with this, but… Yep, it’ll be good.

A steam deck. I’ll probably get some games after payday.