u/Major-Inevitable-365

Up to this point I haven’t had any troubles with my 2023 Chevy Malibu outside of the standard maintenance stuff and an incident a few years ago where it stalled in a Costco parking lot and was promptly fixed for free by a worker. But today, something major happened and I don’t know what. It started with my air conditioning turning off for one second before turning back on whenever I had my foot on the brake pedal, which was unfortunately was a lot because I was stuck in traffic for about 30 minutes in the afternoon. I found it weird, but my car’s had some quirks like that ever since I bought it so I assumed the car just did it. But then an hour ago, it completely shit itself. Sputtering as I turned it on, check engine light on, my console turning off and on, my lights dimming for a second, and just now as I got home, I turned off my car and turned it back on and now it’s royally screwed. It’s refusing to move at all, yet at the same time it’s also refusing to turn off whenever I push the button. The coolant temperature reads 190 degrees, so I’m thinking it’s just an issue with overheating, but I’m terrified it may be something else. Unfortunately though, it’s 10 at night and it’s too late to take it anywhere. Please help!

EDIT: My battery light is also on now and the battery voltage is only 9.9, but I feel like all of this is still abnormal and I don’t know if the check engine light would be on from just the battery

EDIT 2: Now the battery’s back to normal and the car runs like it should? I have no clue wtf is wrong with it. I’m going to take it into AutoZone tomorrow morning to see if there’s anything I need to worry about and I’m gonna leave this post up a little longer just in case someone can still help out.

I’m just weighing my options whether or not to get a single bedroom on Cove Avenue in Lakewood or Pleasantdale Road in Old Brooklyn. Both are similar price ranges I can afford, just want to know which area is better/safer/more fun.

My (26/M) little brother (24/M) has a habit of being REALLY aggressive towards me when he’s upset, even if it’s something or someone else who is making him upset. And I have a theory that he knows he can get away with it because I used to have aggression problems too (before I started seeing a shrink and learned how to stand up for myself) and he knows that if I were to be aggressive back, I’d be the one who gets called out on it.

Today, he’s moving out of our mom’s house and I agreed to help him out during my lunch break and after my 9 hour shift. And I guess before I showed up on my lunch break, his friend who’s helping was being snippy with him, which resulted in him having a bad attitude as soon as I arrived. My job while I was there was to help him move things into the basement and he was being incredibly passive-aggressive towards me the whole time. Eventually we had to lug a large cabinet downstairs, which I was having a hard time doing, and he just started hollering at me. I responded “Don’t fucking talk to me like that” and he started telling me to shut up and my mom started defending him. I then said “I am not spending my lunch break getting bullied by you two” and then continued on with their arguments towards me. Eventually we moved the cabinet down and he left with his friends to bring some stuff to his new place. I apologized to my mom for bringing her into it, but also told her that it’s inappropriate for him to speak to me like that and that if I were the one moving and acting like that, he would not be as nice as I was. She still defended him, but wasn’t being particularly rude or mean towards me, so ig she understands both sides. But I still think she’s sympathizing with him more, which I personally find ridiculous, but idk. Am I in the wrong?

I recently cut my long hair pretty short and got a lot of positive attention towards it. And one word I’ve noticed thrown my way a lot lately is “cute”. I would’ve never thought to describe myself as that and at one point, I would’ve thought it was embarrassing to be so, but I figured if the shoe fits, I should work with it. So now I’m looking for suggestions to further the “cute” look I have going on. The caveat being I don’t want to wear anything that’ll be emasculating unless somebody can make a really good case for it that’ll it’ll make me look more confident or chill or whatever. So any thoughts?

I was thinking about this and I’m curious because I’m sure every single person who was on Channel Awesome at some point was inspired by James Rolfe in one way or another, maybe even more so than they were Doug. But now that a lot of them hate Doug, have they ever mentioned James considering how he continues to associate with Doug all these years later? Just out of curiosity.

Just generally curious. Also, how long was it? And was the final product in any way good (in terms of just the editing)?

I love Superman, it’s my favorite movie, but this part has never sat right with me every time I’ve rewatched.

After the public turns on Superman and Krypto is kidnapped, he goes to Luthorcorp and confronts Lex about it and Eve records footage of the encounter. Up to this point, we think Eve is Lex’s vapid screen-addicted obsessed lover, but only a few scenes later, it’s revealed that she actually dislikes Lex and has been trying to bring him down with Jimmy. But in that case, why does she record the encounter? Because all it does is make Superman look crazy and dangerous and exonerate Lex.

Personally, I have three theories:

1. She intended for the footage to show that not only does Lex do horrible things, but then he gloats about it, but then he got a hold of her phone and sent it to the media to prove his point further.

2. Even though she hates Lex, she’s not that big on Superman either, as evidence by her being happy about him getting beat up early on.

3. She’s so addicted to her phone that recording a video was the first thing she thought to do for self-defense.

Idk I’m curious what everyone else thinks.

I feel like most people associate overalls with male farmers and mechanics, but I only very rarely see older blue collar men wearing them. On the complete other hand though, during summer, I’ll see at least 1-2 young women any given day wearing overalls shorts just for fashion’s sake. Are overalls more for women now? When did that change happen?

I (M/26) am currently visiting Los Angeles for the first time ever right now and have strongly considered moving there for a long time. One of my biggest fears I’ve had for a while though is that I’m going to get there, become deeply infatuated with it, and begin to hate it after a while. But weirdly, in my limited time here, it feels not a lot different from where I live? And I’m not very infatuated with it, but can imagine calling it home? Granted, it’s stuffed with tourists unlike where I am, but I live in a neighborhood surrounding a smaller but still prominent midwestern city and a lot of what I’ve had to do here feels about the same of what I’ve had to do there. I even think the LA Metro has been incredibly reliable during my stay. I also enjoy driving in general and have done research into how LA traffic works and what to do to make it not as bad (my area also has some pretty bad traffic at times too). The only thing I am still genuinely worried about is the cost of living and parking, but I have a good amount of money saved, and I’m not leaving until I have even more than that. Plus, I’m used to paying for parking back where I live anyways, so I don’t care about that. But part of me is still worried that this is just me coping and that once I actually live here I’m going to get culture shock and it’s gonna get really really bad. Idk, do I sound like I’m coping or is this a justified reaction?

I (M) had my 26th birthday two days ago, but I’m not happy about it. In fact, I’m very sad about it because I feel like I never got to accomplish anything in my life and now I feel too old to do so. I lost all my friends three years ago and I’ve never been in a relationship. I wanted to move to LA to become an actor, but now I feel like I’m too old and it’s gonna be difficult doing so. I feel so ugly too, I need to lose weight and get a haircut, but I don’t have the time or energy after work to go to the gym or a barber. But it’s not like that would change anything now, even if I got into shape I’d be the weird 26 year old man larping a younger person and it’d be just sad and weird. I just want some support, I’m crying in my car alone with the only person reaching out to me right now doing so out of pity. Idk what I need to hear, but I feel so lonely and just want some support that I’m not going to get in my actual life.

This isn’t another “moving to LA, need advice” post, this is more specific. My little brother has a friend that lives in LA for school and now he suddenly wants to go to live there and pursue an acting career. Here’s the problem though: he’s never appeared in even a short film before, he refuses to take acting classes because he thinks they’re not necessary, and he knows nothing about the industry. He’s done stage shows in high school and one in college where he was the lead, but nothing on camera outside of those mandatory filmed class projects everyone does in high school. But whenever I try to gently convey this to him, he gets mad at me because he assumes I’m jealous because I’m also an actor and I’ve been having a very hard time trying to get out there for the past few years. So how can I gently tell him that he needs to stay where we live for a little bit and do some experience building stuff before he heads out there?

Was recommended this on YouTube an hour ago!

I’m sure this sort of post comes up on here all the time, but I would really love to hear some insight, so here we go:

As the title says, I turn 26 in 5 days and I do not want to. This is the first birthday I’ve ever had that I am just genuinely not looking forward to, while others were either exciting or meh for me. But I feel old now and I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything with my life. I’ve been working at a job that was only meant to be temporary for 4 years now and am probably going to have to stay at for the foreseeable future for their health insurance, I still live at home, and I don’t really have that many friends. Meanwhile, people I graduated with in high school are getting married and having kids and having great fun. I just feel so lost and feel like I’ve wasted my life not even just up to this point but in general. I don’t really know how to turn it around.

It’s my 4th cake day and I really started ramping up my Reddit use, honestly just because I’m lonely and want to talk to people even when I don’t have the time to go out and socialize. Everyone’s been very nice to me today and the past few weeks though, so I’m really happy about that! I’ve gotten a lot of wishes from various users. I think it ends in only a few hours, but I found out about this subreddit and wanted to make a post before that happens!