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posted by ernest_t_bass

Seems to be popular (car) culture now that EVERY car needs to have dark or black rims.  I'm sorry, but they don't work on every car, ESPECIALLY your mini-van!  WTH!?  

I had a grayish-blue Ford Maverick and I put black rims on it.  I thought it made it look stupid, personally.  I have a dark gray Ford Ranger now, and my dark rims (on the truck when I bought it) look much better.  

I also saw a mini-van with low profile wheels yesterday.  Why is it important for a mini-van to look "sporty?" 

Get off my lawn /rant

I have black wheels on my truck!!

I'm actually noticing more bronze. 

Tuner vans have been around forever, because Hispanic. 

Chacos with socks. 👌🏼

Two camping trips for the summer booked. Lake Dillon then Arapahoe Ranch in CO.

NYC late July. 

Loosely planning Puerto Rico for October. Also tracking flights for a Mexico return for 2 weeks in late summer. Right now they are unreasonably high for that time of year so that’s a TBD. 

I'd pay $12/year to not see these threads.

In-N-Out is incredibly overrated. 

Only 2 months in, but it’s been going well.

I make my own hours with minimal oversight. It’s been an adjustment but I’m enjoying it.

Some travel coming up but not terrible. Going to Dallas next week for the first time. 

Wonderful! The ruiners are back. 

I grew up across the river from Wheeling. 

I’ve seen worse (higher water) when I was younger, but from the drone footage and pics I’ve seen, this is a bad one. Wheeling Island is rekt. 

posted by iclfan2

$60k credit limit is wild to me. My credit score is in the 800s and I’ve had the card for 20 years, and my limit is $11k. I don’t travel for work so I accept my measly 1% credit on my usaa card. Probly leaving money on the table.

Yeah it’s dumb. I had a 30k limit card in college over 15 years ago. If only I could go back in time. 

Perfect score, on the 900 scale? I've never heard of anyone with it. 

I just want to be in the exeptional range and avoid a nose dive. Like when I bought a car and they ran 5 credit checks for various lenders.

After finally getting out of CC debt, I pay the full balance off monthly. I only have one active card. The rest just sit. 

My score is at an all time high now due to this and aggressively paying off student loans. I'm assuming that will take a hit once I deal with this upgrade bullshit. I don't really care though. I'm not buying a house anytime soon. 

I've been going into a black hole regarding CCs, churning, points transfers. It's wild. I don't have the bandwidth to deal with most of the shit I'm reading.

posted by like_that

TL;DR: I have found great value with the CSR, and continue to find it.  If you're into dining out and traveling, it's almost a no brainer. 

I got the CSR when they offered the 100K bonus (bought my wife's engagement ring as soon as I got the card).  Although I am annoyed with the increase of their service fee, I still think it's a great card. The priority pass lounge access is awesome, and travel $300 travel credit essentially reduces the price of the card's service fee.  Also, having your travel insured is a big plus.  I have had to use the insurance a couple times, and they never failed me.   The points are also worth 1.5X more if you book flights via the chase portal.   If you purchase flights via the chase portal by dollars, it's worth 10X per dollar.  Same applies for hotels, and car rentals are 5x points.  

They are also starting to build CSR lounges at airports, which will be huge if you happen to be at any of those airports. 

Yeah, I think I'm going with this. 

Now just trying to figure out if I upgrade directly from the Preferred which means no bonus points. 

Or close the Preferred (or downgrade) and apply to the Reserve. I could risk getting a lower CC limit, not a huge deal, but my credit score likes my current limit of 60k.

My sister has that Delta Amex, which kinda sparked this convo. She travels frequently for work, I do not. Maybe 3-5 times a year, but it's still TBD. 

All signs point to Chase Sapphire Reserve. I'm coming from Chase Sapphire Preferred, which I love.

I travel a decent amount, various airlines, really want lounge access.

I've researched Amex Platinum, doesn't really scream better than the Reserve for my use case.

Any others worth looking into? Or should I just fucking do it an not overthink?

Decision made!

Preordered the new MS Surface Pro 10 for business.

Surface Pro 10 for Business - Black, Intel® Core™

Ultra 7 Processor 165U, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD

MS nerds are pissed about the bezels, but I'm not really concerned with that.

Always lot of words and never really saying anything. 

Take that sass!

Can't stay on the field and has some slight legal issues currently. He will be had for cheap. 

Michael Thomas.

I'd give Pitts a B.

Need a receiver now. I wouldn't mind Cantguardmike

posted by iclfan2

All of them.

All I need to know from the left is most still think Covid is a thing and most leftists have recorded mental illness prescribed to them. Their brains do not work. Oh and the single most liberal voting block is single white women… woof

All 91 huh? That’s wild.