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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • You CAN leave. If you have one car and that’s your mode of transportation then you realistically have only a few options to supplement your handicap of being car less:

    • ride share
    • gig economy (doordash/grubhub/etc and Instacart/gopuff, etc)
    • work from home
    • public transportation
    • rental car
    • loaner car if at a dealer and they have any available
    • take sick days until your vehicle is repaired

    What would you do? The repairs depend on what is wrong and sometimes those symptoms can be a menagerie of things that require troubleshooting what the actual root cause is. That takes time. Not to mention they may not even be able to check your car today at all. They have other customers with similar or worse issues all wanting their vehicle fixed ASAP as well and might also be a one car household.

    Do you have insurance? See if they will cover a rental for you while your car is in the shop. Otherwise, find one of those other options above and figure things out.

    Yes, a car is expensive and when it goes down then you are forced to find other ways to ensure you can make it.





  • Reading some of these responses, I swear these people are armchair parents. There’s an entire science of nature vs nurture. Nurture also includes peers and group acceptance and even the best of kids sometimes do horrible, shitty, stupid things for nurture of their peers.

    It’s like they do not want to entertain that this happens. Head. In. The. Sand.

    Source: Am parent with a good kid who is learning to push boundaries, entering the teen years soon, and sometimes does stupid shit even when I taught him better. I was also the good kid that did stupid fucking shit every once in a while despite having parents who taught me better/right v wrong.




  • But…why?

    “Amid unprecedented global challenges, escalating energy prices and rising carbon costs, we are concerned about the timing of this ambitious climate target,” the document said.

    Ok? So why? Because it’s expensive? Is that what this answer means? Or is it because they don’t think they can hit the goal since resources are harder to get? Or they just don’t want to and are making excuses?

    I still don’t see why a green agenda is something we (meaning humanity) shouldn’t support.