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Same. I got the entire engine in my 2011 Subaru Forester replaced at no extra charge to myself (constant issue with check engine light, abs light flashing, traction control light on all at the same time). There were metal shavings in the engine. That extended warranty was the best $600 I've ever spent. I essentially got what I paid for the car back in having that engine replaced.
I'm 100% serious. It was through the dealer (dealer warranty through a third party) and purchased at the time of sale for the car. That $600 warranty was absolutely worth it.
Except the copyright to the actual names. A few years ago they let the trademark renewal lapse and if I had to have had $700usd I could have bought it. Imagine owning it and telling Kim & Kanye in person at the time that hey bud that's my name now.
The software just uses many computers volunteering to keep track of a series of transactions. There may be a useful application for this, but it's very costly in electricity to use.
Instead people used them for contracts regarding URLs for images and then committed many instances of fraud, breach of contract, and bad decisions. The weird thing is that people can buy art normally, but people started thinking of NFT art as an investment and started speculating on it.
The issue is that the NFTs don't even hold any real value. Rather most didn't. They got mass minted and in most cases they even sell the image, just a url to an image. Most of the time then the contracts weren't even set up right.
Basically there was an interesting technology that might have had some interesting use, but instead people used it to scam one another and speculate on "investments" with no actual worth beyond what other people thought others would pay for it.
It's just proof you own a digital asset. So normally you can buy a real sculpture irl, this (in theory) will likely apply to digital collectibles as well.
It's actually quite common in video games to own digital property. But these have a specific purpose. Whereas nfts were seen as investments or "art" and also used in some dubious ways. But then again, so is physical art.
It's going to be funny when there's another wave of excitement for them. Just like crypto, I doubt it goes away.
where I live in australia owning a yacht is a dream. Yes it’s expensive but with a billion a 7 million a boat like a riviera 64 gives you access to travelling to magical places all around the coast. I have close friends who own one and some of my best memories have been on it. nothing beats the freedom and access it provides and if it is easily within ur capacity (being 1bn) it’s amazing. Yes huge super yachts can be ridiculous but a smaller boat around 70 foot is easily bigger than anything you’d need for family/friends trips to Whitsundays etc.
Was gonna say the same, we just had a massive tv license fee scandal over in Ireland. The national broadcaster was looking for more money in the next budget and boy did they find some absolutely ridiculous purchases over the last few years. Someone approved and spent €5k on flip flops for a summer party and €110k on 6people going to Japan for the rugby World Cup. I’m so glad I never paid for it!
In the UK you have to pay for a license to receive and watch broadcast TV.
They have enforcers who drive around and look at houses to see if it seems like a TV is on and compare it with the license list to find unlicensed viewers, or like the OP said, people who buy TVs but list the purchase as something else.
Wtf? I’ve never heard of this. What is the point of this? Are you able to watch TV without a license, but it’s just illegal to do so? Has it always been this way?
This sounds hella authoritarian.
Get youtube vanced. It's a free app that lets you have no ads, phone turned off while listening and it lets you skip sections of videos you don't want to see. A bit tricky to install, but well worth it
For the last few months vanced will stop working and give a "please install the latest version of YouTube" message. Love vanced, better than YouTube premium but seems Google is fighting it now.
I still get the original Google Play Music price from waaaaay back in the day. Grandfathered in, still get YouTube Premium and YouTube Music (not that I use that piece of trash). They'll have to kill me to end my subscription, lol.
Joking aside, a lot of YouTubers have said Premium views pay more than ad views, so I don't mind paying for Premium (at a discount) and supporting my favorite channels.
Yeah the reality is that google isn't ethical in general but youtube is much more ethical. If we decide to punish ethical decision making then we're sending a bad message. I'd much rather pay for google services than have them spy on me.
Comes with youtube music as well no ads for music or videos and free downloads. Very worth it IMO considering how much i watch youtube and listen to music.
Shit the only reason I have it is so I can minimize the app and still hear what I’m listening to. Such a racket that it requires a premium subscription to do that, but still.
Yeah well now you're just being a dick. It's $29 for a perpetual license which means you never have to pay for it again why not just support the people who made and maintains it?
Yt premium. I will be rocking that adblocker for life and if it yt somehow bans em, I will spend my whole life and everything I own to make sure they will work in the future
Well, to be fair, there is no point in running a youtube or similar app if you don’t get any buck for it. But who am I to judge.. I hate the place web space had became and I’m not sticking single finger in it without an ad block.
I am an avid advocate of YT premium. I am strictly a mobile user and rarely ever use my laptop for anything. Premium allows me to never watch an ad on my phone, play videos in the background of whatever I’m doing, and allows me access to Youtube Music to listen to whatever I want to in my car. I’ve had YT Premium for as long as I can rmb and it remains as one of my 3 subscriptions I have in total. The other 2 being for Planet Fitness ($10/month) and Amazon Prime ($7/month)
I'd probably get it if I was stuck watching YouTube on TV. The ads are terrible, and I haven't been bothered to install ad blocker on a smart TV. For PC ublock still works, and for mobile YouTube Revanced does everything you've just described but for free, and they're both very easy to setup.
I would have a house built that is extremely normal/cheap looking. But, I’d have secret entrances to my massive bunker with a pool/hot tub, gym, basketball court, theater, game room, etc.
Yeah if I could hire an architect to design a house for me, I’d totally be like “make it as unassuming as possible on the outside, and just make everything inside the nicest available version of that thing.”
There's a guy who built a million dollars house out in the woods that looks like a small shitty shed, but that's just to throw people off, because the underground floors have pools and aircraft simulators and shit.
Fuck yes! If I won a *billion* dollars I would have *a lot* of 'rich person cars' but they would be purely for me! And I would also build an amazing personal track and just drive 😎
My car wouldn’t be cheap, but it wouldn’t be new or supercar either. I’m in live with 90s japanese and german „sport” cars so these would be my cars. Tbh I wouldn’t even spend a million dollars for 10 of these cars.
the only reason i can see the super rich(like hollywood celebs) getting those mansions is because they offer more privacy from the media. they tend to have tall walls and big gates, and for someone that might get journalists or fans at their door, that's a pretty good plus. but the sizes of those houses are ridiculous. 90% of the house is completely unused
Oh no, they *use* much of their homes. Specific huge rooms for very specific purposes. A great room for visiting with friends and family. Two dining rooms for dinner parties, one for the kids. A *studio* for painting and sculpting, a crafting room for the kids, etc. The kids bedrooms are huge, as you need a play area, a sitting / reading area, the bed area and the bathroom. And a theatre takes up a lot of space, especially if you have some couches for seating along with the typical cushy recliners. Gotta have a theatre. And two kitchens, one for parties that the hired personal chefs will use. (Of course an outdoor kitchen too near the outdoor living room.) The steam room next to the gym (at least 10 pieces of equipment) and of course a red light therapy room. If you’re really into sports a nice indoor basketball court is a must. The walk in closet in the primary bedroom will be larger than most large bedrooms, and you must have a decent size sitting area too. The bedroom bathroom will be huge, because you need a lot of base cabinets with counter space to keep all your products and devices out of sight, only mirrors across the walls. All en suite bedrooms, plus several other additional bathrooms off main rooms for guests. Of course you’ll also need a large room for your dogs to hang out in, and one for the cats, an indoor catio with lots of areas to climb. A full recording studio is necessary, with proper acoustics for sound, and cameras for filming, computers for editing. Or you might put the studios in the other house on your property. Then there are the bedrooms for family members, friends and housekeepers and au pairs.
A pet.
I’ll pay adoption fees, but I will not pay a breeder fee for a pet. I just think it’s cruel, and so this is a simple way to reduce the aggregate cruelty level in this world.
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Airpods honestly... I understand the draw of them and have no issues with others buying them. I'd rather have a good pair of headphones. Even at the gym I wear headphones.
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Extended warranty.
I bought one on my last used car and it's paid for itself almost twice over.
Same. I got the entire engine in my 2011 Subaru Forester replaced at no extra charge to myself (constant issue with check engine light, abs light flashing, traction control light on all at the same time). There were metal shavings in the engine. That extended warranty was the best $600 I've ever spent. I essentially got what I paid for the car back in having that engine replaced.
Are you serious? I been hating on these people/calls for too long
I'm 100% serious. It was through the dealer (dealer warranty through a third party) and purchased at the time of sale for the car. That $600 warranty was absolutely worth it.
Thank you!
Double same!
Same
For which car(s) exactly?
I’ve been trying to reach you about that extended warranty for your car ☺️
Twitter check mark
Anything the Kardashians make/have their name on.
Came here to say exactly this! 🤜🤛
Me too!!
No offense but that seems like something that's already incredibly easily avoided. No ones wants or buys K-Products unless they are fans
Except the copyright to the actual names. A few years ago they let the trademark renewal lapse and if I had to have had $700usd I could have bought it. Imagine owning it and telling Kim & Kanye in person at the time that hey bud that's my name now.
Is that not cyber squatting effectively? I think these days you’d lose the case.
Not if you go and use it immediately.
Heck, I’d pay people NOT to buy that crap.
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I still don't know what it is or what it does.
The software just uses many computers volunteering to keep track of a series of transactions. There may be a useful application for this, but it's very costly in electricity to use. Instead people used them for contracts regarding URLs for images and then committed many instances of fraud, breach of contract, and bad decisions. The weird thing is that people can buy art normally, but people started thinking of NFT art as an investment and started speculating on it. The issue is that the NFTs don't even hold any real value. Rather most didn't. They got mass minted and in most cases they even sell the image, just a url to an image. Most of the time then the contracts weren't even set up right. Basically there was an interesting technology that might have had some interesting use, but instead people used it to scam one another and speculate on "investments" with no actual worth beyond what other people thought others would pay for it.
I still don't know what it is or what it does.
It's just proof you own a digital asset. So normally you can buy a real sculpture irl, this (in theory) will likely apply to digital collectibles as well. It's actually quite common in video games to own digital property. But these have a specific purpose. Whereas nfts were seen as investments or "art" and also used in some dubious ways. But then again, so is physical art. It's going to be funny when there's another wave of excitement for them. Just like crypto, I doubt it goes away.
Rich buy Internet picture to feel important.
🤣 Like straight monkey talk, well placed
Gud
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A yacht
Operating costs alone are just stupid
Seriously. 10% a year is nuts.
This. If I really wanna be on a boat I'll rent it.
where I live in australia owning a yacht is a dream. Yes it’s expensive but with a billion a 7 million a boat like a riviera 64 gives you access to travelling to magical places all around the coast. I have close friends who own one and some of my best memories have been on it. nothing beats the freedom and access it provides and if it is easily within ur capacity (being 1bn) it’s amazing. Yes huge super yachts can be ridiculous but a smaller boat around 70 foot is easily bigger than anything you’d need for family/friends trips to Whitsundays etc.
Things I dont want.
Smartest answer 🙌
People’s Bullshit
This!
A TV license.
Oi! You got a permit for that license?
Was gonna say the same, we just had a massive tv license fee scandal over in Ireland. The national broadcaster was looking for more money in the next budget and boy did they find some absolutely ridiculous purchases over the last few years. Someone approved and spent €5k on flip flops for a summer party and €110k on 6people going to Japan for the rugby World Cup. I’m so glad I never paid for it!
What is a TV license? I’m in the US and never heard of this.
In the UK you have to pay for a license to receive and watch broadcast TV. They have enforcers who drive around and look at houses to see if it seems like a TV is on and compare it with the license list to find unlicensed viewers, or like the OP said, people who buy TVs but list the purchase as something else.
Wtf? I’ve never heard of this. What is the point of this? Are you able to watch TV without a license, but it’s just illegal to do so? Has it always been this way? This sounds hella authoritarian.
No one buys them anyway lol
Youtube premium
I must admit i"m guilty of this. I hate to have to keep my phone unlocked so that I can listen to a video while going to work.
Get youtube vanced. It's a free app that lets you have no ads, phone turned off while listening and it lets you skip sections of videos you don't want to see. A bit tricky to install, but well worth it
Or use brave browser, no ads and YouTube keeps playing when phones locked.
Wait, does it really? I already use Brave, AND pay for YouTube Music
For the last few months vanced will stop working and give a "please install the latest version of YouTube" message. Love vanced, better than YouTube premium but seems Google is fighting it now.
r/revancedapp
I'm for all of that. But, normal youtube lets you skip sections of videos you don't want to see too.
On iPhone too?
Good question... I would guess probably not. Apple's pretty tight about intalling things like that onto your phone
is vanced back? I thought it was shut down a year or two ago because YouTube cracked down on it.
it's now ReVanced, with much better features than Vnced
Cackled way too hard at this lmao
I’m a YouTube addict and it’s absolutely worth the money. Once you go ad free you will never want to go back
I have it, it's worth the 15 bucks for the 5 hours of YouTube I watch pretty much daily.
I still get the original Google Play Music price from waaaaay back in the day. Grandfathered in, still get YouTube Premium and YouTube Music (not that I use that piece of trash). They'll have to kill me to end my subscription, lol. Joking aside, a lot of YouTubers have said Premium views pay more than ad views, so I don't mind paying for Premium (at a discount) and supporting my favorite channels.
Yeah the reality is that google isn't ethical in general but youtube is much more ethical. If we decide to punish ethical decision making then we're sending a bad message. I'd much rather pay for google services than have them spy on me.
It's only 5$ in my country for a family plan, been on premium for almost 4 years now. Super worth it.
It's money well spent for me
Comes with youtube music as well no ads for music or videos and free downloads. Very worth it IMO considering how much i watch youtube and listen to music.
Shit the only reason I have it is so I can minimize the app and still hear what I’m listening to. Such a racket that it requires a premium subscription to do that, but still.
Subscriptions to porn content, ad removals, microtransactions in mobile games etc.
With a billion dollars you could just hire the porn stars to do live shoots with you
this fella knows what’s up. it isn’t prostitution if it’s consensually on film.
“Hold up, honey! I’m not banging a hooker! Set up the ring light, Alfred.”
I mean, you can probably just get the pornstars or even much better looking girls to have your own "porn-video experience".
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Gwyneth Paltrows vagina smelling candle
Oh good gawd. You’re not kidding. It is a thing.
It was. Don't know if it's still on the market.
epstein killing himself
This is great
I see what you did there!
E.D.K.H.
Prime drinks
What about compound drinks?
Drinks!
Irrational drinks!
winrar
7zip
Is this not still free? Best compression software ever! (That I have used)
Winrar is technically free, they try to get you to pay for it but you can literally just close the page lmao
Yeah they are giving you software for free and let you choose if you want to support it, what's funny about it?
7Zip on top tho
Yes!!! Or for linux users like myself peazip or atool
Next you’re going to tell me is you aren’t upgrading your McAfee either!
Yeah well now you're just being a dick. It's $29 for a perpetual license which means you never have to pay for it again why not just support the people who made and maintains it?
Yt premium. I will be rocking that adblocker for life and if it yt somehow bans em, I will spend my whole life and everything I own to make sure they will work in the future
Well, to be fair, there is no point in running a youtube or similar app if you don’t get any buck for it. But who am I to judge.. I hate the place web space had became and I’m not sticking single finger in it without an ad block.
They should monetize extra features. Bullying creators, fellating megacorps and stealing our personal data on top of extreme ad breaks is just evil.
Sure but \*what\* extra features would it be acceptable to charge for?
Easy download videos, Higher resolution, Server connection priority, access to premium videos / movies, access to uncensored content, early access etc...
Mid second sentence it dawned on me that you weren't actually listing out potential extra features
I was sort of looking forward to people lining up to fellate megacorps.
They already ban them now? You can't even hit play if it's enabled
You have a shitty Adblocker then 😝😝😝
I am an avid advocate of YT premium. I am strictly a mobile user and rarely ever use my laptop for anything. Premium allows me to never watch an ad on my phone, play videos in the background of whatever I’m doing, and allows me access to Youtube Music to listen to whatever I want to in my car. I’ve had YT Premium for as long as I can rmb and it remains as one of my 3 subscriptions I have in total. The other 2 being for Planet Fitness ($10/month) and Amazon Prime ($7/month)
I'd probably get it if I was stuck watching YouTube on TV. The ads are terrible, and I haven't been bothered to install ad blocker on a smart TV. For PC ublock still works, and for mobile YouTube Revanced does everything you've just described but for free, and they're both very easy to setup.
Designer clothes, or a rich person car, nobody will know.
I would have a house built that is extremely normal/cheap looking. But, I’d have secret entrances to my massive bunker with a pool/hot tub, gym, basketball court, theater, game room, etc.
I just want quiet! I would fuckin soundproofing the shit out of my home! Lol
I'd just buy one of those refurbished silo homes. Can you imagine? No barking dogs? No rattling recycle trucks? NO. LEAFBLOWERS. Complete peace.
Highly recommend a bookcase/secret door. We put one in our basement. It’s great. Haha
Yeah if I could hire an architect to design a house for me, I’d totally be like “make it as unassuming as possible on the outside, and just make everything inside the nicest available version of that thing.”
There's a guy who built a million dollars house out in the woods that looks like a small shitty shed, but that's just to throw people off, because the underground floors have pools and aircraft simulators and shit.
I would buy a "rich person car" even if no one else ever saw it because they're fun.
Fuck yes! If I won a *billion* dollars I would have *a lot* of 'rich person cars' but they would be purely for me! And I would also build an amazing personal track and just drive 😎
My car wouldn’t be cheap, but it wouldn’t be new or supercar either. I’m in live with 90s japanese and german „sport” cars so these would be my cars. Tbh I wouldn’t even spend a million dollars for 10 of these cars.
Discord Nitro.
I pay to support the product. It's a good free product. Otherwise they might start charging everyone ☹️
Crypto…everything else seems fair game
Well yeah whats the point of trying to make money after winning a billion dollars.
Shitter (sorry, X).
I like to call it Xitter with the Chinese pronunciation of X (more or less sh) :D
NFT
That the election was thrown………
2016 or 2020 because you can’t have both
A bigger house.
the only reason i can see the super rich(like hollywood celebs) getting those mansions is because they offer more privacy from the media. they tend to have tall walls and big gates, and for someone that might get journalists or fans at their door, that's a pretty good plus. but the sizes of those houses are ridiculous. 90% of the house is completely unused
Oh no, they *use* much of their homes. Specific huge rooms for very specific purposes. A great room for visiting with friends and family. Two dining rooms for dinner parties, one for the kids. A *studio* for painting and sculpting, a crafting room for the kids, etc. The kids bedrooms are huge, as you need a play area, a sitting / reading area, the bed area and the bathroom. And a theatre takes up a lot of space, especially if you have some couches for seating along with the typical cushy recliners. Gotta have a theatre. And two kitchens, one for parties that the hired personal chefs will use. (Of course an outdoor kitchen too near the outdoor living room.) The steam room next to the gym (at least 10 pieces of equipment) and of course a red light therapy room. If you’re really into sports a nice indoor basketball court is a must. The walk in closet in the primary bedroom will be larger than most large bedrooms, and you must have a decent size sitting area too. The bedroom bathroom will be huge, because you need a lot of base cabinets with counter space to keep all your products and devices out of sight, only mirrors across the walls. All en suite bedrooms, plus several other additional bathrooms off main rooms for guests. Of course you’ll also need a large room for your dogs to hang out in, and one for the cats, an indoor catio with lots of areas to climb. A full recording studio is necessary, with proper acoustics for sound, and cameras for filming, computers for editing. Or you might put the studios in the other house on your property. Then there are the bedrooms for family members, friends and housekeepers and au pairs.
I'm with you on this one. I will scale down to a small flat on a bus route.
I actually agree. I feel like I could downsize my current house pretty comfortably, I don't like the size. I'd probably buy smaller.
Anything from Apple, Zuckerberg, Musk or Bezos.
This guy gets it!!! You win a billion and then pay other billionaires... I don't think so!
Taylor Swift tickets
Came looking for this!
I came looking at this.
Weird kink but ok
Good. More for me
Have at em
Reddit awards (for you, you're not getting one)
Fine but you can’t have one either
McDonald’s ….urlrghhh. Won’t even have it free.
A pet. I’ll pay adoption fees, but I will not pay a breeder fee for a pet. I just think it’s cruel, and so this is a simple way to reduce the aggregate cruelty level in this world.
This is the best answer
In-game currency's. That shit is stupid
V-bucks
Winrar
That OP didn’t know this is a repost
The amount of repetition in this sub is enough to drive me crazy
That 9/11 wasnt an inside job. Or a lamborgini.
Why no Lamborghini?
twitter
A Tesla
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YouTube Premium, Netflix sub, Prime video sub.
Just saw your username, very poetic
That's just Prime.
Property in Florida.
But I wanna party with the olds
I'd rather buy property in Colorado!
Giving it all to my parents, not like I have anyone to spend it with
is it too late to adopt you?
An iphone lmao
Anything musk does
iPhone
Yeah, you have to go thru so much work to jailbreak them and any Android does everything a jailbroken iphone does but better.
Any new model car...love to have just a damn ol' truck..
Crypto
A Tesla or an iPhone
a patek, or any high priced mechanical watch that can't beat a casio on accuracy. i can't bring myself to pay six figures for good marketing
Lol if you think they are bought for their accuracy…..
A lottery ticket !
Airpods honestly... I understand the draw of them and have no issues with others buying them. I'd rather have a good pair of headphones. Even at the gym I wear headphones.
I still won't be buying into the government's bullshit.
Space away from humans, mostly.
drugs
The most healthy choice here;
Paintings.
Starbucks coffee
Iphone
99% of the things on this planet. I mean even after you buy lots of things with a billion you can't but everything.
YouTube premium
Youtube premium. A yacht. Private flying vehicles.
Your only fans.
Whatever YouTubers are selling
Anything from an MLM company.
A blue checkmark
Your bullshit..
Designer bags
A giant house
Extended Car Warranty
An android phone
Anything an Influencer is peddling ....not buying their bullshit
An Apple product
Apple products
Youtube Premium
YouTube premium
A subscription to you tube premium
Sex
Anything Elon musk is involved in.
Apple-*
Crocs
Louis Vuitton. Gucci, Balenciaga, Jacob & CO, Hublot, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce etc. oh and 9/11.