• @[email protected]
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          you can play a violin like that, but it would need to rest on your knee, and I’m just not seeing it

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        Size-wise, relative to him, it’s much closer to a violin than a cello, maybe slightly larger. So a viola would be the best fit. I think the picture is of a cello though, just sized strangely.

        Edit: that image is strange. It’s really popular, but bad. He’s playing the strings from the wrong side of the bridge. How do you get that wrong?

        • madjo
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          It’s impressive enough that a creature without thumbs is able to hold the bow in the first place, and you want to criticise him for how he’s holding his cellolin?

        • @[email protected]
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          Because of the size difference between humans and tardigrades, it’s hard for tardigrades to attend music lessons and otherwise learn about human musical instruments, so give him a chance, he’s probably trying his best.

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          I’m ripping this response directly from another conversation on this image, I don’t actually know anything about cello.

          He’s playing Penderecki!

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          Nah, that’s a cello, a viola just looks like a violin and plays like one, the difference in size is so small you probably won’t notice unless they’re sitting next to each other… The cello is played like in the picture and has a body that’s noticably thicker than a violin or viola even if they were all scaled to the same size

          Edit: you know what, on looking closer, I’m not 100% sure that is actually cello thick, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen them in person on a regular basis

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            https://hub.yamaha.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Violin-and-Viola-Sizing-for-Blog.jpg

            Thinks cello’s are too big for the one that microscopic buttworm has, which is why I thought of viola, which sits right between viola and violin. Didn’t know they weren’t played like cellos. Have never really paid attention to Viola’s much.

            I’ve only heard what they sound like and I feel like they’re the redheaded step child of the string instruments. Who exactly likes this sound? Bass gives a deep sound for F clef and more somber tones, Celo provides a rich highly dynamic tone that can deliver low tones but also beautiful melodies, and the violin is the violin. With the viola, you’re what exactly do you do here? The motherfucking recorder of the violin family.

            Are your hands too big for the violin and you simply hate the beauty of the cello? Do you like shitty tones? Are you perma-drunk? Rhythm instrument in Bass not for you? Well, I’ve got just the inbred idiot for you.

  • Stern
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    you can buy a brand-new Cybertruck straight from the manufacturer cheaper than Sledder is asking to sell his used truck.

    Wow I wonder why there’s no takers

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      The paint job is totally worth the extra 19k you guyse!!!

      The article says there’s a madman offering 50k cash for it. Poor soul.

      • Stern
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        Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k’ish. Of course, I’m saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual “electric dumpster” reality.

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    The Cybertruck owner listed his truck for sale for $89,000.

    The same dual-motor Cybertruck AWD variant now starts at $80,000. However, starting in 2025, the vehicle qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale tax credit. This further lowers the starting price to $72,500.

    Tesla is also now offering a $2,000 discount to anyone who applies a referral code when buying the vehicle. That further lowers the starting price to $70,500.

    LOLOL.

    Everyone expects top dollar for used shit these days.

    • @[email protected]
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      This fucking article goes on 3 more paragraphs after that about how great the current offerings from Tesla are. Feels like the whole thing is just a Cybertruck sales puff piece in disguise.

      • ddh
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        Guy can’t sell his because the new ones are just SO GOOD 🤡

  • CurlyWurlies4All
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    “can’t give this thing away unless I lower the price to probably $79k. Sucks.”

    A brand new AWD CT from Tesla is $79,990.

    Headline is clickbait. Seller is a whinger. Trash all round. Saved you a click.

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      Sorry to ask, but what is a “whinger”?

      • Andy
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        I believe it means “whiner”. As in one who whines and complains.

        I don’t know where @[email protected] hails, but I just know this because I am a dad, which means I watch Bluey, and sometimes the dad on Bluey will tell the kids to “quit whinging”.

        • @[email protected]
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          Huh, it’s common as in Australia.

          Never thought of it as an Australian word. Odds are it has its roots in England though I guess

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            In Harry Potter, an English book, the Dursleys are from Little Whinging, because Rowling has no imagination.

              • @[email protected]
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                Are you one of those people that whinged about Marvel having a character named Wong, when the actor who portrayed Wong, was named Wong?

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                  What? No. What does that have to do with anything? I’m talking about names like Draco Malfoy.

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              She didn’t plagiarise all of Harry potter though so she must have some imagination. Creatively bankrupt might be more apt

              • Dragon Rider (drag)
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                Rowling’s goblins? Based on a racist caricature

                The house elves? Wouldn’t you know it, also based on a racist caricature

                Centaurs? You guessed it! Based on a racist caricature!

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              Yeah, somehow there really do be people who haven’t seen bluey. Crazy. It’s 2025 people.

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            My Geordie friend uses it a lot, I think you’re right on the money.

            (Geordies are from the region around Newcastle upon Tyne from what he told me, so part of northern England)

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        Whinging and whining - though not exactly identical in meaning - are pretty much the same word to all intents and purposes in casual language.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s the thing. He’s trying to sell his used truck for more than the cost of a brand new one with the same configuration, if I read it correctly.

      The guy fucked up buying this trash at a higher price early on, and now he’s just an asshole trying to rip other people off.

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      Ooof sorry to hear that. Any chance of getting it back? Sometimes people take the money but return the IDs / passport to wherever was closest.

      • Sorry, I didn’t mean to concern anyone with my absent mindedness. I filed a police report and the police did examine the cameras and confirmed the theft but I didn’t choose to prosecute. I already made arrangements with the embassy to get a temporary pass and travel back home next week.

        All’s well that ends well.

  • @[email protected]
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    He’s lost over $10 grand for every thousand miles he’s driven. Might even be worse depending on his financing.

    I guess this is another reminder that brand new cars can depreciate hard.

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      So $10 per mile? He could have taken the ridiculous Uber Black service (where you get picked up in a fancy black SUV or town car) as his only mode of transport during that time, and he still would have come out ahead. And we wouldn’t have had to drive!