jjav

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by jjav 6d ago
If a truck is getting, say, 12MPG it is paying a lot more in per-gallon taxes than a car getting 40MPG. So yes. (Trucks also pay higher registration fees, but that's separate)
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by jjav 8d ago
> Are you sure they even will want it back? Might be better to just donate it all now and save the money. At 20-something after college, no, they probably don't want it. When they are 40 or 50, they will desperately want it back.
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by jjav 8d ago
> and to wish I had more of his things to help me feel closer to him Yes. When one is young it is difficult to appreciate this, but later in middle age this becomes very precious. Store everything, your future self will be happier for it
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by jjav 8d ago
> our household: no external storage. If it doesn't fit in the space we live in, we're not keeping it This assumes you can afford a space to live in that has minimally adequate space to store necessary posessions. In many areas
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by jjav 8d ago
> My theory is self storage is actually in competition with getting a bigger house. Obviously true. If one had a house with space for posessions, there would be no need for storage. As houses become ever smaller (for a given $/sqft)
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by jjav 9d ago
> Fed is trying to thread the needle between the two Not really, inflating it away is the only possible choice.
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by jjav 9d ago
> We can’t afford healthcare because they revoked the subsidies but at least we now also can’t afford gasoline too! But we can easily affort 500+ million per day for faraway foreign wars! That, no problem.
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by jjav 9d ago
These are all problems. On the other hand we know for sure from centuries (millenia?) of evidence that allowing the people who most crave power to be the ones who seek and obtain said power, is a recipe for disaster as well. It is interesti
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by jjav 9d ago
> Many (most?) politicians were traditionally (at least partly) motivated by public service At the entry level of politics, I feel this is actually true. And having known friends and acquaintances who have gone into low/entry level
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by jjav 10d ago
Your primary duty as a citizen consumer is to maximize shareholder value for the dominant corporations.
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by jjav 10d ago
The argument, which isn't entirely unreasonable, is that ICE cars are obviously paying a per-mile usage fee in the form of fuel taxes which supposedly (not always in practice) are supposed to be used to maintain roads. And it works sor
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by jjav 10d ago
> That is unacceptable especially from local grid providers and many in the energy sector I truly can't tell if this is sarcasm.. Of course people should be encouraged, wherever feasible, to take advantage of natural energy like sol
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by jjav 10d ago
> What's stopping IDScan from "delegating" the storage to another company so they're no longer liable for stolen data? You can't really delegate the liability to a vendor. Of course in current world it means noth
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by jjav 11d ago
> If you have a tech job in America, you have good healthcare, your schools are safe, That is not true. Way too many murders in middle class schools. Not that it should even be a justification. No school of any level should ever ever exp
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by jjav 11d ago
Pay is worse, but you get to live in a place that is not under a mad dictatorship, have healthcare, education, vacations. Not a bad trade.
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by jjav 11d ago
> And your North American friends do not? Please. It's not even close. Both my current and previous company have substantial percentage of engineering in Mexico so I have good visibility into this. Even middle-tier software engineer
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by jjav 13d ago
Who pays is not that simple. The employee pays for their insurance, out of their total comp package. Typically that gets divided into a part the employer pays behind the scenes and a portion that gets declared on the employees W2 and then
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by jjav 14d ago
Technically it has comprehensive as well although it's a moot point. My deductible is $1000 and they'll just say the car is worth less than that, so they'll never pay anything. I guess I should reduce it to liability only but
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by jjav 14d ago
Did you know insurance works by pooling and sharing the risk amongst a group? The larger the group to share the risk and cost, the more efficient it becomes. If you try to buy health insurance for all your employees as a tiny employer, cost
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by jjav 14d ago
If that is being sold as new, it is a leftover model that has been sitting in the dealer lot for a year or so, depreciated accordingly. A quick search shows me a bunch of 2025 Nissan Versas for sale between 16K-17K, so someone buying this d
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by jjav 14d ago
Unfortunately the US is moving hard in the opposite direction, making cycling choices less achievable. https://ctmirror.org/2026/03/12/bike-walking-trails-lose-fed...
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by jjav 14d ago
> when repairs get more costly than what it's worth I've never understood why that would be a relevant criteria? If the car is cheap enough, it's easy for any repair to cost more. So what? The comparison to make is not whe
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by jjav 14d ago
Not even close. For example insurance on my early 90s Mazda is $192. Insurance on my partner's three year old VW is almost $900. I could have a fleet of four older Mazdas and still be cheaper to insure.
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by jjav 14d ago
> to fix your vehicle when something needs replacement every month or two You'd have to be spectacularly unlucky for that, many sigmas away from the bell curve of average car experience. Having owned lots of older cars, typically re
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by jjav 14d ago
Two of the three warranty covered it. I don't remember why the ECU repair was not fully covered by warranty (that was over 25 years ago) but I do remember the sting of paying for it since we were younger and poorer at the time. I'
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by jjav 14d ago
This link does now show a single new 2026 model car under 20K, what is the point?
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by jjav 14d ago
Also be aware that even if you buy comprehensive insurance for an old car (don't do it), they won't actually cover anything useful. If there is an accident, the insurance company will say: Your car is only worth $700 per blue book
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by jjav 14d ago
You can't legally forego insurance (at least in the USA). But comprehensive insurance is silly to pay for an old car so you buy only liability so it's a lot cheaper.
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by jjav 14d ago
> If it fits, it's not the wrong year. I once put an exhaust manifold from a 95 Civic into a 98 Civic No such thing as wrong year nor wrong model, or even wrong brand as long as it works! Honda in particular lots of parts interchang
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by jjav 14d ago
> There's an incredible amount of value in simply not worrying if your car will run when you need it to. True, being able to know for sure you can get to work (or wherever important) is a huge peace of mind. And more than peace of m

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