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profa_212
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14539734:Turd__Authority said:
100%. The second the police were there your insurance was going up.
also, it may sound shitty to you woflo, but he probably needed to go through insurance. Like he said his car doesn't sound drivable, so he is going to need a rental. his insurance will pay for that.....that can be $1000 plus depending on shop time that you really don't want to risk on a handshake deal with some kid.
honestly from what I understand about the crash you sound pretty damn lucky you didn't catch his B column and you don't owe him a new car. So count your blessings on that
GayWolf420
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14539742:profa_212 said:
Or he didn't give him a hospital bill on top of fixing his car. Flowzy you gots to learn, my guy. Homie played his cards absolutely right and especially considering you're a young and inexperienced driver + your parents offering hushmoney.
**This post was edited on Jun 2nd 2023 at 6:41:14pm
WoFlowz
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14539743:CoolChillGuy420 said:
they just don’t want i strange going up cause it’s 3400$ a year for me on the disco and on their cars. I’m at fault so I have to pay the deductible and repair fees but It would have been nice to not have insurance go up with it.
I mean it is an accident. I did everything right like find the person and call the police and exchange info. I very well could have driven off and not had done anything at all
Newsheepers
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14539756:WoFlowz said:
im paying $160 a month for a turbo forester and its technically my first car, and that's a lot according to my parents
14539732:CoolChillGuy420 said:
Thats's what I'm saying man... the whole housing market in America has been turned into this whole investment commodity thing to a gross degree... We have so many houses just sitting vacant all over America while the homeless live in tents and people struggle to find places to rent. I can drive through my old neighbourhood in Truckee past hundreds of vacant houses while people in town struggle to even find long-term rental opportunities.
Nimbys care more about the bottom line of their individual home value than they do about the community around them, and suppress developments or zoning law changes or anything positive from happening that would help fix this housing crisis American cities are in. It's part of why our infrastructure is stuck in the 1950s and there's no real improvement in any meaningful way.
People end up having to move further and further away from the places they work just to afford a home, or find a place to rent, and then have to spend more money on gas and burn more fuel and waste more time in bumper-to-bumper traffic in order to get there.
The whole thing is a bit of a joke.
I mean obviously this country has it's own shitty, stupid ass problems. Property here would cost a lot more if it wasn't a rapidly shrinking population with rapidly aging demographics. But I guess at least here, you don't have nimbys with any real power - especially to file lawsuits preventing residential development, the housing market isn't as heavily commodified, the zoning laws are lax enough that you can build anything almost anywhere that's up to code, and dense, mixed-use, transit-oriented developments are the norm even out in the countryside in order to maximize usage of space, arable land, and contain the community in a healthier way.
Just in my neighbourhood... I left for a few months to run the shop in Hokkaido and take care of some business in the USA, and I came back and entire older, deteriorating buildings had been demolished and rebuilt within a matter of months. The people living there might have been displaced a bit, but there's also a nearly endless supply of options for new places in the area to move into. Developments go up QUICKLY and nobody even gives a shit because theyre done faster than you can make a formal complaint about the noise.
Whereas whole city blocks in America will sit vacant because nimbys in the area disagree with what developers or the city want to do them... Japan might have people who are unwilling to abandon the fax machine, but America has people who are unwilling to allow their entire cities to improve because they're afraid they will have more competition to park their F150s that they never use in any practical way - or umpteen other stupid, petty, lame reasons. It's fucking infuriating dude.
14539691:Lenny- said:
Idk, maybe ask multiple before you complain? Check in from time to time but people aren't on here 24/7 it's not a paid gig.
Sometimes you message somebody to delete a thread and they don't see it cause thwy went to bed or something. There's also a "to be deleted thread" if needed.
Any time if you want a thread or post deleted mods are pretty good about it.
14539640:BradFiAusNzCoCa said:
Yeah dude, same in Australia and New Zealand - AirBnB lists the whole price and rarely any extra costs, whereas in the USA you can list a place for cheap to get people's eyes on your spot, and then just say 'oh yeah but there's like a 300$ cleaning fee' or some stupid bullshit like that. AirBnB is also generally regulated a lot more outside of the USA where private property laws have effectively made it really hard to regulate how short-term rentals work outside of a hotel.
The USA is just one big Ticketmaster... Where the price of the thing you initially want to buy is just LOADED with all these additional costs that you don't see until it's too late and you're already invested. It's why I keep calling it a bit of a scam in this thread.
As for dental co-pay, I dunno man.. it was a while back and my dental coverage was pretty whatever... My premiums every month for all my healthcare here are pretty damn manageable now.. I'll pay about 12,000¥ (like 85$) for 6 months of coverage at a time for everything that could even be remotely deemed 'healthcare' (like seriously I could get a prescription and go in for a foot massage or acupuncture on this healthcare lol) which is LIGHT considering I paid more than that per month for all my healthcare premiums in the USA and that didn't include dental..
Was I making more in the USA? Sure. But I'm saving more after taxes and cost of living expenses living abroad... You're only making as much as you don't need to spend, and in the USA I was spending a lot of money on shit I simply don't need here.
14539770:theabortionator said:
Yeah, most of the time that I see someone ask for a thread or post deleted, I go to do it and see it's already been done by someone else already
Lenny-
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14539770:theabortionator said:
Its not that deep and not a serious complaint lol. I did hit up 3 mods and no one did it, and everyone except Eheath was active and arguing ITT. If this was something more urgant I would have hit you up too but I figured 3 was enough for just making Dans thread not have a big ugly error pic in it lol.
14539775:PacificRimJob said:
Its still there lol
SchizoSkier
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14539799:WoFlowz said:
If you’re a teenage boy your rates are always gonna be insanely high even with a clean driving record. If you get in an accident, regardless if you’re at fault or not, your rates will usually go up. I think mines some where around $3500 a year too
ASSholebomber22
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14539768:PacificRimJob said:
You act like just because the norm in the US is a higher standard there aren't dirt cheap studios everywhere.
Homeless people in the US aren't homeless because there aren't enough 300sqft studios vacant. They're homeless because blasting fent, selling snap benefits, and begging is easier than working 40hrs a week to live in a shoebox
WoFIowz
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14539756:WoFlowz said:
There's a lot of factors such as car type, driver discounts (some offer academic discounts), accident record, location, deductible size, age, and type of coverage. Idk man, most kids just have collision insurance to keep it cheap. My guess is either you have a risky car for accidents or they're paying for more than just collision insurance. Either way that's a shit ton of money. It's almost twice the total cost I pay for two vehicles with comprehensive coverage + all the extras.
WoFIowz
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14539806:ASSholebomber22 said:
Can relate. These exact people you describe filter through the driveways and yards of my neighborhood every night stealing shit left out or unlocked, and then go right back to the corner to get cash from passing cars during the day. Often see em super fucked up, just swaying or passed out. Otherwise smoking cigs which is a significant expense in itself. The volume of cars is so high and combined with tourists driving up i71 stopping for gas, they do well for being bums. Some real ones but we also got a lot who get dropped off and panhandle. They swap out in shifts and even have 2 way radios. Got a guy who pretends to be an injured vet and shares a wheelchair with another fake paraplegic; they leave the chair at the intersection overnight lol. At least the one real homeless guy cleans up the corners he stands on, which I can respect compared to the others who throw trash anywhere.
There's programs and shelters to help but a lot don't even utilize them (some can't though if the shelters are full). There's jobs on jobs on jobs but panhandling pays more and doesn't tax. If anyone doesn't believe me, go have a conversation with a beggar next time you're downtown.
Exception to this are the people stuck on hard times. Maybe they lost their job or had a medical issue and waiting on disability but lost their house before that came through. Or maybe they live in an area that doesn't offer homeowners insurance and their home was destroyed by a natural disaster? Lots of reasons for homelessness but mental illness and drug addiction are big causes.
Whackson
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Was at a waterfall yesterday and I fell in the water walking back to the car n broke my phone. It was only in the water for a second I thought these things were water resistant lmao. Anyway I was taking it apart back home to get the SIM card out for when I buy a new phone and I dropped the chip in the drain.. Boutta take the sink apart to get the thing out may have to buy a new one anyway but it’s worth a shot
ASSholebomber22
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14539811:r00kie said:
Didn't you move there for that job? Did you not look into housing availability?
OregonDead
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14539799:WoFlowz said:
It’s because you are super high risk. Pretty much all teens crash in their first couple years driving so you pay for that
GayWolf420
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14539768:PacificRimJob said:
Being in SLC is a nightmare. I've contemplated moving outside of the city and farther away from work due to the cutthroat competition. I'm 10 minutes down the street from the U, Hospitals, etc., in a cozy neighborhood with tons of access to schools, so its a competition between college kids, doctors/residents/medical workers, young families finding their first homes, etc. You just can't fucking win as a single late 20s person trying to get their career going it feels.
And then every fucking rental in the area is either student contracts, sublets, and very picky as far as roomates go.
Honestly fuck it. Homeless sounds rad as hell.
Granby_killdozer
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14539855:Jems said:
I hope he sees this bro
GayWolf420
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Why the fuck Mormons have to bring their Religious BS and "High-Standards" requirements into posting open rooms and looking for tenants is beyond me. Start your own group or some shit ffs.
14539806:ASSholebomber22 said:
Nah dude, It's not because there aren't dirt cheap studios anywhere (which.. there definitely aren't), it's also because it's increasingly difficult to get back up if you fall down - or get scammed out of your position... like through an MLM or one of the many other ways people can have their savings ripped away from them if they were privileged enough to have one in the first place.
You have to apply to even get considered to rent anything.. and then pay your first, last, deposit you wont get back etc. And yeah, some people are addicts or have mental health issues tied up in the constant cycle of not being able to get any traction, or even get a job because they don't even have an address to put down on the job application.
Many people don't just have 3000$ in cash to move into a new place - if theyre even accepted to move in anyway by either the landlords, leaseholders, or the tenants.
People are homeless for a LOT of reasons. Not all of them are even homeless just because theyre schizos, addicts, or felons, and if you had even a shred of compassion, you'd understand that nobody really deserves to be homeless.
Either way, I'm pretty fucking happy that I have access to available, affordable housing that I can call my own, that I can pay off my rent within a couple days worth of work and that I'm not reliant on having a reliable automobile in order to commute, affordable gasoline prices to run it and my life is all within a downtown part of a major world city, and I can go skiing or surfing on the weekend and I don't ever have to deal with traffic on the interstate.
14539834:CoolChillGuy420 said:
Yeah man, the amount of competition when it comes to housing is unreal. I mean, being homeless is one thing, but if you want to live somewhere in a metro area even remotely convenient or cool, you seriously need to grind and sell your soul a bit.
ASSholebomber22
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14539869:PacificRimJob said:
Have you done any homeless outreach? I was pretty involved with a 501(3)(c) that helped young adults ageing out of the foster system. I can tell you that there are an incredible amount of resources, at least in CO, that allow you food, shelter, and services to get id/social security. I can also tell you that those services are not in the business of enabling habitual criminals and addicts, and as such they are avoided because again, in many, many ways homelessness in the US is a choice.
Look at denver Craigslist and search price low to high for housing. Many places going for less than 1k, and most if not all low skill employment (fast food) will hire same day and pay daily or weekly at $16+/hr. But why do that? Good honest work is hard, you can always shoplift handbags and jordans or steal catalytic converters on your own time.
Also fuck taking a train or multiple to go skiing lmao imagine not having a cooler full of bl smoothies and a grill in the whip on cue for grillin thrillin and chillin
Young_patty
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Just gonna nerd out for a moment.
Taking this mythology class and we've been studying old myths from around the world. It's actually insane how many different cultures share similar tropes and ideas in their myths.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, and loads of other mythology mention a giant flood that wipes out almost all humans and animals- and the Epic of Gilgamesh was written ~1,000 years before the bible.
Norse mythology is largely modeled off of Greek mythology, which is largely modeled off of African/Egyptian mythology. No joke, the structure of god's and mythological tropes that they each use are so similar it's uncanny. Crazy to see how 3 wildly different cultures all share similar components of their culture and mythology. It just feels so oddly human to see that mapped out and realize we're all just as similar as we are different.
Anyway, finishing this writing assignment and then play Fallout!
gn NS
Taking this mythology class and we've been studying old myths from around the world. It's actually insane how many different cultures share similar tropes and ideas in their myths.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, and loads of other mythology mention a giant flood that wipes out almost all humans and animals- and the Epic of Gilgamesh was written ~1,000 years before the bible.
Norse mythology is largely modeled off of Greek mythology, which is largely modeled off of African/Egyptian mythology. No joke, the structure of god's and mythological tropes that they each use are so similar it's uncanny. Crazy to see how 3 wildly different cultures all share similar components of their culture and mythology. It just feels so oddly human to see that mapped out and realize we're all just as similar as we are different.
Anyway, finishing this writing assignment and then play Fallout!
gn NS
14539873:ASSholebomber22 said:
In University I volunteered with the municipal homeless advocacy group, and did a whole videojournalism project the local transients and homeless in town. This was over a decade ago, but I don't think homeless have really changed that much. I've spoken with these people. Met a lot of good folks. Met a lot of weirdos. Met a lot of good weirdos. Met some antisocial jerks. Met addicts and people with some pretty severe issues. Its a broad spectrum. You're absolutely right that some homeless people absolutely choose to live their life this way, whether it's out of not knowing anything better, because they refused to receive the mental healthcare they definitely needed, or just straight up not wanting to be any part of it from an antisocial idealistic standpoint or otherwise...
But I also met a LOT if not a majority of people who were really just hopeless and felt like the whole system let them down.They didn't feel like there was any other way because anything that they had tried had failed and they were either too scared, or too prideful, or too discouraged to put themselves in a - to them - more vulnerable position than they already were in. Sometimes it's even just because the community they have with other homeless people is the only family or sense of community they've ever had in their whole life anyway. The sheer amount of recidivism amongst homeless is massive, and even sometimes people who make it out, and get back on their feet, get spun back into it as soon as one thing goes wrong. Theyre traumatized just that badly.
These people have little confidence that anything is going to actually get anything better, or that the system will ever work out for them because it never has worked out for them, and when housing is as expensive as it is, and when they need to have a car and a phone and a computer and stable internet and everything else to be able to join common society, it only makes it all the harder for these types of people to bounce back. To them, it's not something they've ever even known. Sometimes they even justify their position by saying they don't want to be a normie etc.
This isnt something where homeless people are all just lazy or get a thrill of looting the local footlocker - no doubt there are some kleptos and sociopaths out there who can self justify any bad deed - but sometimes they're just so traumatized that they resort to being homeless as almost a comfort zone - it's what they know, and they don't want to make a change because they think theyre going to fuck it all up and end up right back here again.
All that said... just because some homeless are assholes or steal shit does not mean they deserve to be homeless. They might decide to be, but they don't deserve to be.
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As for taking the train to ski/not having a cooler full of things and a grill - well, I mean you can still drive to go skiing here. In fact, it's the best and sometimes only way to get to some of the more off the best spots. I have no problem with driving to go skiing. I just don't want to rely on it for my everyday commute. Sure, if you have a car in a place like Tokyo, you might have to pay 80-100$ for a monthly parking spot in if your place doesn't have parking available. My medium-term plan is to just buy a place in the mountains to compliment this spot and have a little kei car there ready to go (spots in the countryside always have parking)
But I gotta say, for the weekend warrior who just wants to go up on a Saturday by themselves for a daytrip and come back home, it's an awesome alternative and it frees up the roads for folks like you (and myself for that matter) who sometimes want to bring the cooler and the grill for the apres. It's a win-win, man. Some people want to just throw their skis on the train and dick around on their phone for 2 hours and not have to worry about driving in the snow or interstate traffic, and some people want to have a sick little snow whip and a trailer for the sleds etc.
In Japan, In Europe, you can have both. It's fuckin sweet. I guess Denver has the winter park train, but it's super limited by comparison (like what.. 2 per day?). Imagine if there was a high speed train going 80-100mph that's faster than a car to get there with at least 5 or 6 departs in the morning and 5 or 6 in the afternoon/evening, so people could stay and apres. Imagine if they did that going up i70 as well with stops in Silverthorne, Breck, Vail, Aspen, etc. Tourists could just fly in and take the train all the way to the airport and avoid all the nonsense. Would be an absolute gamechanger and make driving i70 a breeze by comparison to now.
BradFiAusNzCoCa
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Winter Park train is like $60. There’s bustang too for like $40 or so, last I checked. They go to every resort but the reality is that people just don’t want to pay those prices.
14539879:PacificRimJob said:
I feel like people are just addicted to FB marketplace/sale groups.
They'll try and sell every piece of shit broken thing for too much. Just annoying. Or just clog up groups nickle and diming for clothes. Like just donate the things.
If your thing is broken or you dont even know if its works/is any good dont try to get top dollar. Marketplace and those flea market type shows got to peoples heads. Shits wack
They'll try and sell every piece of shit broken thing for too much. Just annoying. Or just clog up groups nickle and diming for clothes. Like just donate the things.
If your thing is broken or you dont even know if its works/is any good dont try to get top dollar. Marketplace and those flea market type shows got to peoples heads. Shits wack
"Acoustic guitar. Other than the dent shown in the photos there doesn't seem to be any major problems. Just needs tuning"
So like you found this in a grage under a horder pile or something, its all fucked up, you dont even know what kind of guitar it is but you're listing it on market place? You dont just put casual "dents" in guitars lol.
Somebody else selling one that looks ok enough for 75 less than buying it new to ahow how good a deal it is.
How do these monsters sleep at night.
The kids clothes people and those selling other trash in groups too. Ive had to leave groups because it was just the same ladies selling trash all the time.
14539904:theabortionator said:
Yeah man the sellers nowadays are fucking wild. The mtb shit in particular drives me bonkers. Homies are trying to sell used 2 year old bikes for msrp. "but I upgraded the pedals and the grips so that's like, 500$ in performance upgrades hur dur dur"
Buyers fucking suck too. Listed my camera, of the 10 initial responses 3 were people writing essays about why I should give it to them for free so they can better shoot their indy movie or become an influencer.
Incredibly whack
Non_State_Actor
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14539907:Lonely said:
There is no in between.
I just try to give stuff away to friends and neighbors. Most of the stuff I'm clearing out are kid items so there's a good network of hand-me-down used stuff amongst my peers.
TOAST.
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14539910:Non_State_Actor said:
I always put shit on the curb for free when my neighborhood does yard sales. Not worth my time trying to make $20 off my junk.
if it does make it to Facebook usually trying to get rid of it fast. only exception has been my wife's mountain bike that has less than 50 miles on it, was trying not to lose my ass to bad on that, but now it's just collecting dust in my garage.
SteezyYeeter
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14539928:nCrow said:
i like ur profile pic
Lenny-
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Had a dental hygienist absolutely shove her metal pick in between my gum and my tooth so deep on two of them that Im still in pain a few days later. I think whatever damage she did might have gotten infected because Im feeling a ton of pain from that tooth all the way up to my nasal pasages on the right of my face. Feeling so fucked. Gonna call back tomorrow moring to cancel my next apointment with them and try and get seen by someone else. Maybe she was doing it right idk but Ive never had someone go that hard on my gums before. Bitch looked at the pain on my face after she did it then did the same thing to the next tooth she touched then treated the rest of my teeth like a sane hygienist would've. Idk what I did to piss that fat bitch off but I must've. So annoying because they can easily ruin your teeth if they arnt careful and Ive never even had a cavity but now my face feels like I was hit by a brick for my first night off in two weeks.
ColoradoDogfart
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My biggest opp in life is literally gaining weight this shit is fucking impossible
SchizoSkier
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14539940:ColoradoDogfart said:
Eat more
14539940:ColoradoDogfart said:
14539950:Rparr said:
Give it a few years