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I found negative reps to be the big help for me going from zero to one pull-up. Cheat your way up, as Beth says, and gradually reduce the amount of cheating over time. Eventually you’ll get to unassisted. Of course YMMV...

I can tell the difference between margarine and butter
I can say “Saskatchewan” without starting to stutter

Candy Crush and my Kinja shit-posting would beg to differ.

Apparently my use of “<>” confused you. I mean “!=“, “does not equal”, “is not equivalent to”, etc.

Yes, fair point, and your point about the 5000 pounds is also correct - even providing as little as a few hundred points of force in the right direction could be the difference between the semi moving or not moving.

Count yourself lucky! On my ‘04 S4 I had several expensive repairs/replacements done under warranty. Miraculously, there has been nothing major in the 10 years since the warranty expired, just typical maintenance/wear issues (which, on a performance import, are not “cheap” but are at least within the bounds of…

Yes, thank you. Wheel spin <> zero traction. Witness drifting.

Pro(*) tip: When you do buy an S4 (and you should, at least once) buy the second model year version through Audi’s CPO program. So if you want this variant, get the 2019 version in 2021 or 2022. You’ll feel bad about yourself if you pay $70,000 for this car, but you’ll feel amazing about yourself if you pay $35-40,000…

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Not really. I’m typing this response with an alphanumeric keyboard, not via raw binary. Is my phone not responding to my inputs?

“Christmas Wrapping” is not just a great Christmas song but a great song period. Tracy Wormworth’s iconic bass line will lift your spirits any damn time of year.

As a B6 S4 owner it wouldn’t actually surprise me it it’s true, but do note that the poster in question was joking.

Point of clarification: that is a B6 S4, not a B7.

Black ice perseveres.

Reader from cross-posted sites: “Oh look, a tree on a station wagon.”

Over-treatment is indeed a big issue. However my (lay) understanding is that “over-treatment” doesn’t really exist in the context of “vaccination”, barring a strong contra-indication.

Wow, what a great example of how royally fucked up our medical system is... a random combination of “that’s just the age range they studied”, “insurance won’t cover it”, and “you’ll need an extra booster” gets mistranslated as “you can and should only get the vaccine if you’re 26 or younger.”

But if it wasn’t a hoax, wouldn’t convincing everybody that it is a hoax be the perfect cover?