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BraveUlysses posted:also there's a campaign for replacing subaru CVTs that failed too early We have a 2011 Legacy and it literally hasn't needed anything but had a campaign for the wiper motor or something. Runs perfectly great (for now I suppose) and CVT has never given us a single problem. It's at least as if not more reliable than our previous Hondas or Toyotas. I'm in  and I just recently received a letter from Subaru saying they are extending the warranty on the CVT and related systems for 10 years but also made it clear there was no recalls or anything.... but obviously something must have happened to make them see a need to up the warranty on them.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:So I fell a week ago and smashed my shoulder. The pain from it started off rather deep in my shoulder and slowly moved up and into my chest. I've tolerated it until this sunday when it got much worse. I tried relaxing it with Tylenol and a heating pad monday and tuesday to not much avail. Gave up and went to the ER after work tonight fearing a broken rib/shoulder/collar bone. Xray shows no obvious breaks or other cause so I got a pile of pain pills and a referral to an orthopedic doctor. Its the same doctor that hosed up his billing last time I went and stuck me with medical bills on my credit report despite them showing paid. Time to go doctor shopping I guess. Did they tell you to continue any heat or cold treatment at home?
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[quote="nm" post=""480150911"] edit: I also broke my loving knuckle. Like shop was surprised my wheel didn't fall off on the way there (fun times: I heard a very, very light clunk in my suspension on my way back from vegas, continued the drive home, fuuuuuuuck, coulda died). Some subaru dealer apparently stripped out the threads in the knuckle before, secured the bolts with nuts, which changed the stresses and almost killed me. Fuckers. . . . [/quote] Hopefully that wasn't us. We would have had the ball joints out to remove the transmission (to get the axles out of the way). Seems unlikely since Adan was the guy who told me not to ever do that. I guess because you are clamping from the end instead of pulling through with the threads. So it would result in all the force on the edge of the upright opposite the ball joint instead of somewhat distributed through the whole thing.
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Fiance came home a little while ago, touches my hand and recoils because my skin is ice cold. I tell her how I'm feeling and she figures I'm in the middle of a full blown anxiety attack. I've never had one in my life so I had no idea what was going on.
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As someone who knows people who have full blown anxiety attacks, I am pretty sure you'd know when you are having one and not need someone to tell you.
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slidebite posted:As someone who knows people who have full blown anxiety attacks, I am pretty sure you'd know when you are having one and not need someone to tell you. Turns out it was just hot sauce withdrawal. (Kidding, Rhyno, I know you're taking a bunch of stuff at once... slow down, look at what affects you directly and what is external weighing on you. Separate, process, take care of yourself.)
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Jan 11, 2018 20:37
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angryrobots posted:Did they tell you to continue any heat or cold treatment at home? No, but didn't warn against it either. It helps relax everything, so I guess I'll keep doing it. Reading through my discharge paperwork, they are calling it a rotator cuff injury. At least that gives me something to show my boss who has a degree in (whatever the term for sports medicine is). Went ahead and called in today to give myself another day to try and heal. I've got a pile of pain pills for work the rest of the week.
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Jan 11, 2018 20:53
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slidebite posted:As someone who knows people who have full blown anxiety attacks, I am pretty sure you'd know when you are having one and not need someone to tell you. I've never had one in my life so I just thought I was sick again or something.
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Jan 11, 2018 20:57
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slidebite posted:As someone who knows people who have full blown anxiety attacks, I am pretty sure you'd know when you are having one and not need someone to tell you. Well, you know *something* is happening, but you may not know it's an anxiety attack.
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Darchangel posted:Well, you know *something* is happening, but you may not know it's an anxiety attack. This. I thought it was heart related the first time I had one.
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Jan 11, 2018 21:02
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slidebite posted:I'm in *insert CVT rant here* In all seriousness, there has always been a question mark about CVT lifespan and they are loving HUGELY expensive to replace out of warranty. There's enough believeable horror stories about the cost of CVT replacement that I extended my warranty only due to the CVT. I hate to think how many CVT equipped cars are going to be junked straight out well before they should be just simply due to CVT failure (And not just Subaru)..... let alone the "benefits" of a CVT re: fuel consumption are pretty much bullshit. Almost all improvements in Subarus are down to the DI engines NOT transmissions.
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Still laughing at a friend who read an article in Popular Science way back in 2003 or 2004 who proclaimed at the time "in 10 years you won't even be able to buy a car with anything besides a CVT because they're so awesome." Then his in-laws got a Ford Freestyle in 2005 and he couldn't believe how terrible the transmission was - even when it was new.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:This. I thought it was heart related the first time I had one. Me too! I ended up in the ER one night since I thought I was having a heart attack. Thankfully there was a hospital less than a mile from me, so I drove myself down and spent the night hooked up to all sorts of machines.
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Jan 11, 2018 22:16
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Geoj posted:Still laughing at a friend who read an article in Popular Science way back in 2003 or 2004 who proclaimed at the time "in 10 years you won't even be able to buy a car with anything besides a CVT because they're so awesome." I have low expectations and am pleased with almost anything new, but I drove the little baby Prius with a CVT to florida multiple times (500+ miles each way) and I had no issue with the transmission or feel of it
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Jan 11, 2018 22:20
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My poor SRT-4 is still collecting dust in the driveway since September. I fire it up every other weekend and run it around the block to get the cobwebs off and the flat spots out of the tires but I just have no desire to work on it. Needs a ton of work and I'm just kinda over it. Really should just sell the drat thing.
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Geoj posted:Still laughing at a friend who read an article in Popular Science way back in 2003 or 2004 who proclaimed at the time "in 10 years you won't even be able to buy a car with anything besides a CVT because they're so awesome." To be fair, CVT's have improved greatly since then, the current high performance CVT's Subaru have are.... well... passable. Mitsubitshi ones are still hosed in the head tho. Still, CVT's have power and weight limits, they dont like towing or hot weather, they can wear out frighteningly fast, not a single "benefit" cant be matched or exceeded by a traditional gearbox, heavy, more complex than what they appear on paper etc and DEF not faster when you want to hustle. OTOH... they work really well with automated car systems, stop / start traffic and cruising long distances. EDIT : I rather like hustling the Levorg in fake gear mode, paddles are fuuuuuuuun. But you can do that on a normal auto so....... CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 11, 2018 |
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Jan 11, 2018 23:05
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so to sum up my 2018 so far: -my dad was catfished and convinced to launder money for boko haram and sell stolen iphones sent to him at a pawn shop and it never occurred to him that wiring money to someone out of country nor selling random iphones could be bad --i was able to figure this out by yoinking the gps meta data of a picture they sent him of a receipt and the GPS was in the sudan so fuckin lol -my dad simultaneously allowed people to come live with him who "were going to buy his house cash from him as soon as their other business transaction completes real dang soon" and now he has literal squatters with him --we ran a background check and the dude has filed for bankruptcy twice in the last ten years and has three outstanding bench warrants --my dad thinks theyre his friends and that they are actually wealthy even though we've presented numerous sources to prove the opposite --we think that my dad may be mentally slipping based on all of this, and at the very least hasn't handled his grief from losing our mother yet which is why he is ok with squatters making excuses to not leave even though he has asked them to leave -we are considering getting Power of Attorney in order to get this sorted once in for all but we're worried that it will backfire on us so how is everyone else doing
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Jan 11, 2018 23:14
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:so to sum up my 2018 so far: Send them back to their shithole countries.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:so to sum up my 2018 so far: Yeah... my dad gave his sister PoA 2 years ago. Within a year following that, he was dead. She thought she was being a good custodian of his affairs but really she wasn't. He needed assistive care and just wasn't getting it. Fun times when he'd leave the house and dementia would set in. He spent 12 hours driving in circles around the entire Dallas Metro area before his sister called me to ask if I can help get him home. I live 24h away in DC. How about you call the loving police instead?
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Jan 11, 2018 23:21
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:
The optional word you used here is "considering". That ship has sailed. Get it sorted first, liquidate whatever you have to and get him tested for all the fun stuff around that age. I'd really only PoA if it involved forced management of his finances. Sucks to hear tho, man. That sounds really rough.
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Jan 11, 2018 23:24
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Goddamn that is horrible and now I feel like a bitch for crying about my dead friends all day.
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Rhyno posted:Fiance came home a little while ago, touches my hand and recoils because my skin is ice cold. I tell her how I'm feeling and she figures I'm in the middle of a full blown anxiety attack. I've never had one in my life so I had no idea what was going on. Sorry to see you get those. I copped a heap of those attacks at the end of 2016 due to my father's health and not being able to find somewhere that could handle his Alzheimers. Occasionally I will get one, maybe once every two months. Just disconnect from everything, close your eyes, and take deep breaths. I find that calms me down. It is also worth finding a good counsellor or therapist who you can open up to, as I found I had a few things that I needed to say that I didn't (or in some cases couldn't) really want to bring up with to other family members or friends.
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Today has just been terrible. One year ago my friend was murdered and there has been zero progress on catching the killer. We found out the police knew who it was but he was too valuable to another case so he remained at large and has now vanished so she'll never get justice. I've been trying to distract myself all day but I keep dropping back to these low places and I am gutted because I really and truly failed her in life and it's like I'm being stabbed in the heart over and over again.
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oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I'm vaping so I guess it only sort of counts? drat near 2 packs a day for 15 years. Walking helps a ton. Also, eating everything that's within reach that I can physically fit in my mouth helps as well. I'm not sure what to expect first, my death to diabetes or all my cravings to subside.
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Unrelated to people health (thank god), my solar system stopped producing power late in the day on Tuesday. On Wednesday it stopped communicating home to the solar company. I was not aware of either of these things because I don't look at it very often. I noticed this morning in the garage that it was showing 0 output and a red warning light and the display showed "Riso Low". So I called Solar City who owns it (leased). They looked up the account, saw the system I had and said that they would have to replace the entire system, panels and converter both. For once in my life I apparently made the right choice to take lower savings on the system in exchange for leaving the entire risk side for system failure or damage with someone else, so now Solar City has to replace the entire system which would be 4 years old next month. Sorry about everyone's health and parents problems, hope you all get them sorted out.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Congrats! I last smoked on October 29th after a pack a day habit for about 15 years as well. The biggest thing I had to do was quit drinking for a month. I specifically hung out at bars that had patios that I could drink and smoke on, so it was not going to happen if I kept hanging out at them. Still can't really hang out at those bars, since I immediately want to go bullshit with all the other regulars and chain smoke for hours. I picked up a blu Plus that I actually really like. I tried other vapes in the past and really didn't like them. These are the right size and have flavors that taste like cigarettes. I do my best not to use it at all, but its great to have around when one of those cravings hit.
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slurry_curry posted:Congrats! I last smoked on October 29th after a pack a day habit for about 15 years as well. The biggest thing I had to do was quit drinking for a month. I specifically hung out at bars that had patios that I could drink and smoke on, so it was not going to happen if I kept hanging out at them. Still can't really hang out at those bars, since I immediately want to go bullshit with all the other regulars and chain smoke for hours. I've vaped on and off over the years to half rear end attempt at quitting but just never really got to that full on "be done already" point. So I've already got a big 'ol robot dick vape set up that's chugging a long. It works well enough that I'm not killing anyone, I just have to get over the fact that I look like I'm trying to suck start R2-D2. I just noticed that while at a NYE part I just wasn't enjoying it. Like at all. Some switch in my body was like "k buddy, you're done now". Took a weekish to finish off the last pack I had on me at 8:30 AM this last Thursday. So that's cool I guess.
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Jan 11, 2018 23:59
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Chance to grab a 2003 Mercury Marauder with 65k miles for $5k. If that can pan out, 2018 would start out niiiiice.
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Seminal Flu posted:Chance to grab a 2003 Mercury Marauder with 65k miles for $5k. If that can pan out, 2018 would start out niiiiice. Yes. Good grab do it drive fast.
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Rhyno posted:Yes. Good grab do it drive fast. I doubt it'll pan out, but if it does, you can bet your skinny rear end that I'd slap an Eaton supercharger from a Cobra on it and do a burnout.
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Reason # 76 for today to fuckoff: A piece of poo poo who raped and then savagely beat the girl was fully cleared of all charges today. Seems he was a decorated soldier and we can't go and convict a good soldier can we. Also her brother was savagely beaten by a group of guys who absolutely serve with that dude. They totally didn't threaten the lives of her entire family if she didn't withdraw her claim. Neat.
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:so to sum up my 2018 so far: I don’t know you or who you are but if that was my family I’d be at the house handling poo poo. Handle that poo poo. It is going to be hell. Don’t do it legally get those loving people out of that house. I am enraged reading this.
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So the dishwasher here stopped draining the other night. Went to go investigate why, and it would appear that the drain filter has never been been removed. Like, ever. It was crusted over with like mineral buildup and stuff. Guess that'll do it. 
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:so to sum up my 2018 so far: My wife is going through similar poo poo with her mother. Short story is, you have to take control of the situation whether he likes it or not. YOU make the decisions from now on, he doesn't get to make any. It sad but it's just the way things have to go once they start living in fantasy land and not in reality. Someone still in reality has to make the decisions. Getting power of attorney is good but don't wait around for that to happen, you or another sibling have to take control of the situation asap.
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Spent multiple attempts this evening trying to work out why my 3D printer was blocking the nozzle, despite being completely clear when put back together and seemingly all working. The cooling fan - literally right in front of my nose as I was going over it - had seized, so the filament was overheating going through the feeder and bunching up. I am a loving idiot.
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jamal posted:Hopefully that wasn't us. We would have had the ball joints out to remove the transmission (to get the axles out of the way). Seems unlikely since Adan was the guy who told me not to ever do that. I guess because you are clamping from the end instead of pulling through with the threads. So it would result in all the force on the edge of the upright opposite the ball joint instead of somewhat distributed through the whole thing. No, it was a dealer up here. They were complete assholes about it too.
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ExplodingSims posted:So the dishwasher here stopped draining the other night. lol i've never checked this how hosed am i
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:so to sum up my 2018 so far: Thats rough to say the least. The power of attorney thing will definitely damage relationships but it sounds like it will be necessary to ensure his long term well being. You should at least try before things get worse.
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