heattemp99

Up until a few years ago that was my favorite demographic. Got too expensive and time consuming though so I'm trying my age for a year or two.

I'm from Eastern Europe and speak the language. But beyond that, I didn't say THAT part would be easy, but it's doable, especially if you stay there instead of bringing them to the US. Personally I think it would be easier than keeping the average American 28 yr old happy.

Even worse, the cars are so smart you can't force a lemon law without getting caught.

I had a friend who had two transmission burn up in his new diesel f250 10+ years ago. The second one, they gave him a remanufactured transmission even though the truck was only 1 years old or so. He put on a huge tow hitch, backed up against a huge parking structure wall, and put it in reverse for 30+ minutes until the transmission overheated and melted down.

Got the truck bought back.

Are you denying trends and averages exist?

I'm 38. It's superficially easy to find a 28 year old, and would take a slight bit of effort to get with a 23 year old. And all bets are off if someone is ok going to eastern Europe or Asia. "Lost your chance in life" is retarded.

They did not "choose you". They could not get any of the others to commit.

Dying alone after a happy life is one thing, dying after decades of hell with a bad partner is another, and yet another to pay someone you hate until you die, like many men in California do.

New people aren't allowed to have opinions or take part in discussions?

Believe me, there are many more people that care than the other way around.

I didn't say I had trouble finding a meaningful relationship. I said I'm having trouble finding meaning in dating 38 year old women.

Partially yes, but it's also a sign of their standards. I've personally known many girls that aren't that hard to be with, but are being foolish constantly going after guys that clearly won't commit.

If you doubt that girls are sleeping around in college a lot, idk what to tell you. I guess when the stats come out in a decade or two you'll believe me.

Because I don't want to feel like a fool for sticking with and supporting this woman from 40-70, when she was giving it up easily at 18-30. Luckily I'm tall and decent looking and do fine for myself, but I still have a gut feeling for reality.

Regarding the beauty.. idk what to tell you. Same reason why some people hold onto their first car, or a car they bought new and love it. Or restore old cars. But if you buy an old beat up car, you use it while you can and move on when you feel like it. Nostalgia and memories are important to many people.

I have a feeling not wanting the love of your life to have had sex with many others is pretty engrained in most people. Everyone? No. But I consider what is most common to be close to human nature.

Are we going to deny there was less promiscuity in the past? Just a few years ago the lifetime average partners was 7. Even that was screwed high due to recent trends.

Now most women I know have 7 by the time they leave college.

The biggest fail IMO is that if you use this range constantly, you'll basically degrade the battery heavily. These top ranges require a full 100% charge (bad for the battery) and a pretty low level of discharge (bad for any weak cells in the pack). So yes in a special case you have that range. Using it often will cause faster battery pack degradation.

My Chevy Volt has a 15kwh pack, and only lets you use 10kwh. The bottom 2 and the top 2 are never accessible. Which means the batteries are never depleted, and never fully charged. I bought it knowing I have 10kwh to use around town or on trips (afterward the gas engine turns on). I use those 10kwh every single day, for all 177k miles of the cars life so far. I still get the same 10.3kwh I got on day one I made my purchase decision based on.

Tesla should advertise their packs the same way, explaining that the outlier 10kw are for emergencies too.

The car is optimistic in general, if you drove at city speeds on flat land. But if you tell it exactly where you're going, it calculates based on the route required. If you started at the top of a mountain pass, the more accurate range would actually show MORE miles than the general gauge. "Omg, Tesla is under promising range now!!"

While this is unpopular to say, I think the advanced age of marriage and promiscuity earlier in life plays a role here.

My parents were together from 19, and knowing their style, they may both have been each other's first. As a teenager, I noticed my mother being extremely difficult. Even more so now. My father is no walk in the park either. But I believe they have a deep rooted love from decades and went through every event and basically adult stage in life together.

I'm 38. I date in my age group. Which means both of us are dating people that have been sleeping with others for two decades. Each of us has been overseas with countless friends and exs. Many women have been engaged, some married, and we've all had our hearts broken. We've all gained a few lbs. My hair is starting to grey.

Can I find someone that enjoys being with me? Sure.

Can I find someone that doesn't just say "wtf am I doing here" if times get tough for health or financial or just plain old age? I'm not sure.

I've heard many long time married old men say that when they look at their partner, they still see the beauty glimmering through that they saw at 19.

If I meet a partner at 40, when we start really getting old and annoyed, what am I going to hold on to? How lucky I am to be her 23rd partner?

I know this is a judgemental view, but I think it's human nature.

Edit: for those that think this is just some personal issue, you should look up divorce stats by number of previous sexual partners. There is a clear rise in divorce rate per increase in partners, and at about 7 it's 50%+.

Thank you for this reply. I actually created a micro saas basically on these principles, EXCEPT I made it for my father's industry.. which makes selling it and supporting it drudgery for me.

So I know it's possible and it was nice reading your writeup reminding me I wasn't just lucky. (My father's industry is very niche and basically had zero competitors for the segment of the market (20-50 employees).

My plan is to try again soon with something I am way more passionate about.

I've posted here before that I was top 0.3% nationwide in car sales, selling about 34 semi luxury cars a month average.

I never felt my job was pointless. I felt the opposite. If I didn't answer my phone, a total idiot was going to answer it. If I didn't get to the customer, someone was going to lie to them or omit useful info and they'd get screwed a bit. Someone would frustrate them so much they'd buy something they don't even want just to avoid that dealership.

So I felt a mission to get to as many people as I could.

If you're good at your job, and have some integrity, it's easy to value your job even if it's sales.

A normal truck uses it's brakes constantly when going down hill, turning all that potential energy of the cargo into heat. This truck charges batteries to slow itself down via a generator. At the bottom, it weighs much less, thus even accounting for loses, there's enough energy to get the "lightweight" truck back to the top.

I've got an idea.. we build a wall at the edge of a huge mountain area. Water collects behind the wall during the winter, and then in the spring and summer we let the water out through a hole in the wall, which spins generators while the water flows out the hole.

Like the other reply, I'd like to know more about how to build a world like this in general. Not a copy of your world, but more with my own skillset.

Water is basically free. The cost is basically the cost to transport, stock, and process your sale. You can get water for $1 at a gas station, which means they are charging you basically zero markup for the fact that it is a life saving high value product.

I have tons of friends that tell me to price my saas through the roof because "look at the value!!!" ignoring that there are alternatives to it that are basically free, like a piece of paper.

I saw a massive car accident happen at night at an intersection. A drunk driver was coming down a hill rated at 45. He was doing 60 probably. Tboned someone turning on their green arrow across the intersection. Massive accident I stayed to help with for a bit.

A few days later I was going down the hill at night just like the drunk driver. For a second I saw the upcoming light and then one soon after it overlap because of the gradient on the hill and the distance between the lights.

I could definitely see AI and people not paying attention getting overlapping lights like this confused.

As someone that fasts for fun and has been 50+ lbs overweight before, I assure you that's not how it works. You buy cheap shit if you feel like shit. But if you're broke, which I have also been, not eating actually feels better than eating processed garbage. People buying cheap junk are on a feel like shit spiral, but money is not the problem. It would cost less to eat less and feel better, but for now they want to feel poorly.

I buy gas and energy drinks every day almost. I see them. They are not 'poor'. If they ARE living paycheck to paycheck though, it's because they buy food at 7/11.

IMO the top 2% know their stuff 10x better than someone at even the top 10% level.

So imagine if you lined up 100 people with a PhD in nutrition. To the average person they seem like they know their stuff. But imo, the bottom ones are druggies, weirdos, and frauds. The middle are what you'd expect. The top 2 stand out clearly.

My friends love giving this "value" based on need and benefit example.

The obvious counter example is water. We need it to survive, often. Yet it's basically free. So don't tell me you can just charge based on how important and useful something is.

If I leave my home unattended for a month on vacation, but leave my fridge and water heater going, my gas and electric cost is about $70. California is a special place.