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Pickups cost around double the price of a car with a similar age and miles and get lousy gas mileage. I would not say they last longer than cars either. FWIW my F-150 is a 2011 with 135k miles and the engine and transmission are both spotless. It did need a timing chain at about 125k though...

None of it. I don't use operating money either. It's not hard if you have a little discipline. It's cheaper than borrowing money.

Crazy how small these engines are getting. Ford's eco-boost engine for the Fiesta/Focus is a 1.0L 3 cylinder and supposedly the engine footprint is the size of a piece of A4 printer paper. I love the 3.5L eco-boost in my F-150 though. Sometimes it seems like it pulls better than the 6.3L V8...

Not nearly as much as your new car would have.

You don't have to pay interest to buy a car. If you just save up for your next car instead of making payments on the one you already have you can save a lot of money, especially now. In addition, I think actually having the money in your bank account makes you less likely to overspend...

Quiche is super easy to make. Especially if you buy the crust at the store. Can use up some of your other leftovers as the same time as your eggs too.

This is Montana. 95% chance of a white native speaker behind the counter. I probably can make it this way but I always tend to go through the drive thru which is a computer kiosk so you don't talk to a human. I should probably try it inside. I think it's just basically a spicy italian with...

My Subway took the pizza sub off the menu so I have no reason to go there anymore.

Somebody needs to come to Montana and teach people how to make decent sandwiches. You can get a pretty good burger here, but even though most cafes and restaurants have at least a cheese steak and a reuben they are always garbage. In California every bar would at least have a tri-tip sandwich...

If Buffalo Bill had made his woman suit out of ducks instead of real women the FBI never would have come for him in the first place.

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Did not seem to be available here. So I tried the "americana" roast beef sandwich which was 2 for $7. It sucks. Didn't even finish them and wound up with thousand island all over my beard. This was a bad idea and whoever thought of it should feel bad.

The head unit died in my 2011 F-150 and I replaced it with a Kenwood that is so much nicer than the factory radio I wish I had done it years ago. If you don't want to buy a new phone though, you probably don't want to spend $600 on a new radio either. The cheapest option would be the Bluetooth...

I heard that the covid vaccine makes you unable to breathe underwater.

That picture literally looks like someone threw 3 ball bearings up in the air and snapped a picture.

Yeah, people always say people did things for a tax write-off but nobody does that. Losing $100 to save $40 in taxes makes zero sense ever.

I originally turned on Paramount + to watch "Survivor" but between the Yellowstone Prequels, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, and maybe a couple of other things I actually kept it on for a full year and 2 more seasons of Survivor. All of that is done now though and I think it's time to cancel.

The new season of Yellowstone is still not available on Paramount+. It was only shown on the actual Paramount network. You can now watch it on Peacock for $5 but not on Paramount+. I have it right now because I was watching "Survivor" but now that that's over I'm probably going to drop it...

I found a glue trap with a lamp cord going through it once, under the dead mouse. Was seriously tempted to just throw the whole lamp away to avoid dealing with that.

If this thread makes anything clear it's that Brad is immune to advice of all kinds. Might as well just sit back and watch the show.

It seems like females are less likely to jump to their full ability. I put my male border collie in my grandmother's back yard which has a solid wood 6 foot tall fence and 30 seconds later he was sitting on her front step wanting to come in. My female border collie has to be regularly reminded...

I've often thought that about online communities. People disappear from them all the time and we often don't know anything about them, including their names. I'm sure over the years at least a handful of folks have driven into a tree or in some other way died and we will never know whether...

The only innovation that dishwashers need at this point is to load/unload themselves. They will never need wifi. The only command anyone needs to give a dishwasher is "wash the dishes".

It's been really nice here too except for random tiny bad ass thunderstorms attacking out of nowhere. Here's one right before it hit me earlier this evening.

I wish all cheap TVs didn't have some kind of streaming stick built into them. My Amazon fire TV in my bedroom is like 3 years old and it still works fine but the fire stick that it's built around is now super fucking slow and half the apps crash on opening. I would just toss the fire stick...

The white sauce is okay, but it's not pizza. BBQ sauce pizza should be put directly in the trash.

Of course you should. I didn't say I am trying to hit anyone, but I still don't want to hear lectures from the guy on the death machine that I'm not concerned enough about his safety.

This might be a callous take but every time I hear motorcyclists complaining that car drivers need to watch out for them, I always think they are the ones that chose a mode of transportation where you're 30 times more likely to die than driving a car so if they can't be bothered to look out for...

Just set them at night when the chickens are in bed. It doesn't help with cats though, if you have barn cats or strays you will probably catch a lot of them.

I appreciate the idea of getting to use your tactical stuff, but a live trap with the leftover chicken parts might be more effective.

Free father's day shipping though.

You can't prove something doesn't exist. If someone is willing to believe without evidence then there's not much you can do to talk them out of it. The old saying goes something like "You can't reason someone out of a belief they were never reasoned into in the first place."

Looks like a large meteor.

I had an unhealthy relationship with Jack's Stack when I was going to KC for work regularly. If I wasn't traveling with a coworker I would go there every night and get burnt ends.

Cut it up into 2" cubes, season with salt and pepper, sear them in a hot cast iron pan, put them in a baking dish with some flavorful liquid and roast at 325 until it falls apart. All sorts of mexican sauces are good for this. Here's Robert Rodriguez making "Puerco Pibil" that was so good it...

Just say no to Dr. Pepper pulled pork. I like Dr. Pepper but that shit is vile.

I got one "red" channel and 4 "grey" ones. The red channel is the one I grew up watching, a weird amalgamation which showed CBS in prime time and then switched to NBC at 9PM for some reason. We could sometimes pick up a PBS channel when we were kids but it required physically turning the...

You guys are getting a taste of living in the West. We already had one dose of Canadian smoke back in May. It must be dry as hell up there. I don't think you could get a fire going here right now if your life depended on it.

Cut yourself a lot of slack. There's no wrong way to do this. Losing a partner is known to be one of the most stressful things a human being can experience and doing it while your children are small just makes it that much worse. In a way you're lucky that your kids need you, so you have a...