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If his chemtrail filtration filters out corona, he will have the last laugh (on earth)
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Not too late to buy something else low.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My Uncle has been panicking about the stock market. Maybe we are all BWM and he is the clear headed one
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speaking of dude on my floor paced up and down naked breaking all the loving lights. Was playing Price is Right with the cops and building security and none of us have any idea what those things cost on a side note would it be GWM to break into his place and steal poo poo
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:(he is a potentially crazy person who spent a ridiculous amount of money on an air filtration system that he believes can filter out chem-trails) If we're talking chem-trails I'd wager he's realized his potential already.
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Ixian posted:If we're talking chem-trails I'd wager he's realized his potential already. He used to be completely normal, but I don't know if it is old age, painkillers, or my cousin's terrible influence, but he has gone pretty far off the deep end in the last few years. He is totally completely functional and you wouldn't be able to tell how crazy he has gotten until about 5 minutes into the conversation when he drops his insane conspiracy theories. He got into a fight with his electric company to try and get free electricity a few years ago because he believes that they already have access to unlimited free energy, but are concealing it in order to rake in profits. Other than this brief stint where he got the power shut off, you would never know that it is affecting his life in any way. We've tried to intervene before, but he won't listen and nobody can do anything because his wife and son back him up and he hasn't caused any harm to himself or others because of it. Financial harm apparently doesn't count unless it results in you being homeless or starving. Here is some background and a copy and paste of emails he has sent and information about him. He never used to be into any of this stuff until about 5 years ago. He's in his late 60's. My uncle used to be regular BWM, but now I think he might be legitimately mentally unstable from pain pills and injuries. He financed some huge air filtration system for his house a year or two ago that was "strong enough to filter out chemtrails" and within 5 months was begging family for money to keep his payments up. He spends close to $2k a month on a mail subscription service for MREs, toilet paper, battery powered electronics, and long-lasting disaster prep food. I think I have posted about him before, but now he seems to be crazy in an actionable way instead of just BWM/paranoid and someone is probably going to have to do something about it. He is apparently trying to organize his entire neighborhood and family members to all cancel their power bills at once. He is sending these massive email screeds to everyone, and printing out pages and pages of the same stuff to leave on everyone's doorstep in his neighborhood, about how paying for energy is all a big conspiracy. That there are ley-lines aligned under the Egyptian pyramids that have been harnessed for unlimited free energy for centuries and the only reason we pay for energy is because we have "made our bed" with fossil fuels and it would be too disruptive to our economy to make the leylines available to the general public. He says that he has cancelled his electricity service and is using a generator for his giant chest freezers until the company gives in and activates the ley-lines. He seems to think that since hardly anyone has told him no, (I imagine they are all ignoring him) that they must all be joining him. The worst part is that my aunt doesn't seem to believe in this, but is "open to seeing how it goes" and letting him do it. She is also crazy, but in a slightly different way. She is suing her former employer (a local school district) because her health insurance doesn't cover her naturopath who uses crystal healing for her migraines. My cousin is also completely into this stuff and "helping" my Uncle get set up, which is the one thing that makes me think it might not just be my uncle going senile. Here is part (yes, this is just a part) of the email he just sent to everyone in the family: He also included a billion links to websites and youtube videos, instructions for all of us on how to cancel our bills, how to let the companies know that we are cancelling service because of the ley-lines, and how to harness the energy when the power companies give in. quote:Visible light, ie. everything we can visually apprehend in this dimension, comprises a mere 20% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore 80% of our reality consists of unseen forces. Freaky! So then, drawing from the foregoing analogies, it is safe to say that the exact same principles thereof apply to the existence and the nature of Leylines. It’s all a case of subtle energy. We as humans have been designed with Energy Meridians coursing through our collective organisms. The existence of Energy Meridians is verifiable: it is the foundation of Chinese Medicine, an ancient art-science far more advanced and sophisticated than modern Western medicine. Since we have Energy Meridians, so, too, does Mother Earth. The Leylines are Mother Earth’s Energy Meridians. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Apr 3, 2020 15:27
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He also included a billion links to websites and youtube videos, instructions for all of us on how to cancel our bills, how to let the companies know that we are cancelling service because of the ley-lines, and how to harness the energy when the power companies give in. "Welcome to Hawaii! Want to get leyd?" *burns you to death with mystical electricity*
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Honestly, this just reads as schizophrenia.
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Youth Decay posted:Just want to point out that all of the big time rebbes have said to follow social distancing rules and that someone who organizes a minyan is equivalent to a murderer. I remember seeing one of the more prominent ultraorthodox rabbinical counsels said that trying to form a minyan right now is a "mitzvah (commandment) fulfilled by sin" or something to that effect. Point being "commandment of sin" would be a great band name.
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Volmarias posted:Honestly, this just reads as schizophrenia. That's what we thought (or some kind of psychosis from painkillers), but his wife and son are very into the same ideas and it seems unlikely that they all developed it at the same time. Also, he sources a lot of his material from insane conspiracy youtubes, who themselves source their material from stuff that is basically infowars/timecube, so it is hard to tell. Infowars is definitely schizophrenia-adjacent, but I doubt everyone who is into them is schizophrenic or even "officially" mentally ill. Most of my Uncle's conspiracy theories are "mainstream" conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, the U.S. Government/Federal Reserve controlling everything, chemtrails, and 9/11 trutherism. He's also very into some biblical conspiracy theory involving planets aligning and the end of the world. Other than wasting a ton of money, there is no "damage" to their lives. We've specifically checked in with elder services about him and if his doctor hasn't diagnosed him with anything, he isn't making himself homeless or starving, and he isn't hurting anyone else, then there isn't anything they can really do. It all seemed to start once he got on disability, got painkillers, and started watching lots of Youtube. He had 60+ years of poor financial decisions and generic "it's all run by the guys at the top and nobody else is allowed to be in charge" prior to this, but no extreme craziness. His son is very into it as well and was likely the original person that guided him to these sources. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Late onset schizophrenia is pretty rare, but some people have really terrible reactions to some meds. In my early 20s I was on Vicodin and scopolamine for a couple months. A few weeks into this, I became convinced that street signs had secret messages for me and that I could build a machine that would allow me to travel in the space between parallel universes. Since I'd been made privy to this secret knowledge, I didn't want anyone to catch on and use it for evil, so I started hiding my regular mail and everyday receipts about my apartment on the logic that if I didn't know where it was, They wouldn't find it either. Granted, most of this was the scopolamine but I still get grand ideas and paranoia from opioids without it. I was still finding things in weird places six months after all this. Being in pain and taking a med that messes with your sense of reality can really gently caress you up, and I really hope someone communicates his behavior to the doc treating him. Some people have worse reactions to certain pain meds than others. E: oh his doc doesn't give a poo poo cool Someone doesn't have to have a diagnosable mental illness to reassess their therapy, a loving personality change is evidence of adverse reaction BonerGhost fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He spends close to $2k a month on a mail subscription service for MREs, toilet paper, battery powered electronics, and long-lasting disaster prep food. This is BWM for sure, don't get me wrong, but well...
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HardDiskD posted:This is BWM for sure, don't get me wrong, but well... Yeah, but he's been doing it for 4+ years. And he has to do "rotations" where he throws away or eats all the food because some of it is only good for 2 years. And how many extremely over-priced handcrank flashlights do you really need mailed to you each year?
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I'd be genuinely concerned (well, even more concerned) for him and others like him given that the current situation is likely fulfilling a poo poo-ton of prepper's I-told-you-so mentalities. Like, this is seriously a line a paranoid schizophrenic might not ever come back from.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, but he's been doing it for 4+ years. My favorite part is begging for money from family for your filtration system while you're literally making a doomsday kit of rations and stuff. Everyone should store a little extra for a rainy day, but 2 years of food? If society gets to that point I'm taking the express lane to the grave.
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they just arrested the guy on my floor for going ham on all the glass he could find I hope they put him in psych hold for a while but I saw a situation not unlike this in an SF apartment and the dude was back THE NEXT loving DAY
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Time for internet psychology: I don't know if disordered speech is always present with schizophrenia, but that writing feels way too cogent for a schizophrenic. All of the thoughts connect, more or less, and there's a clear argument in the sample provided, even if it's a batshit insane one. Seems more like whatever meds the uncle is on has put him into some sort of persistent manic state where he knows (he KNOWS) that the powers-that-be are hiding things from him, and he's one step away from blowing this whole thing wide open. Delusions of grandeur.Alan Smithee posted:they just arrested the guy on my floor for going ham on all the glass he could find A 5150 hold maxes out at 72 hours, and they typically release people much sooner than that. Probably even sooner right now since they don't want people who aren't seriously ill crammed together in hospitals getting slammed with COVID cases.
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Without getting too deep into crazy uncle's conspiracies, his wife and son aren't on painkillers and they believe the same thing. I think his son actually was on board with all of this a decade or more ago and my uncle hopped on board. My aunt doesn't seem to be 100% on board, but is of the "anything can happen!" life theory and is just rolling with it. She and my uncle have always been huge hippies and weirdos that stock up on bottled water, insist on growing their own food to avoid GMOs and be fed if society collapses, and very into crystal healing. For proof of how hippie she is: My aunt is not related by blood and her sister's legal first name is Cricket. There are two other kids that think their Dad's theories are nonsense and feel like he is wasting their inheritance and embarrassing them by sending out emails to the entire family, so not everyone is in on it.
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This MUST have gotten posted in here: Is negative equity on a car loan EVER worth it? quote:See bottom for updates on the situation EDIT: I realized how confusing it was for everyone that I listed all prices in Canadian currency. I went through my post and edited all of them to USD. If you see people talking about a $69k loan, that’s referring to $49k USD, as now written below.
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Check the last page
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Moneyball posted:Check the last page
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I didn't say anything about that post being there
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Moneyball posted:I didn't say anything about that post being there
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Hoodwinker posted:This MUST have gotten posted in here: This coronavirus thing is going to absolutely loving wreck the auto industry. We've got an enormous loving bubble. If you want to buy a car, in a couple of months there will be a shitload of cheap, used, repo'd ones on the market.
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I don't know if it's bwm or gwm, but I pushed up the planned purchase of a new car by almost a year to take advantage of crazy covid deals.
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Enos Cabell posted:I don't know if it's bwm or gwm, but I pushed up the planned purchase of a new car by almost a year to take advantage of crazy covid deals. You bought way too early if you really want to take advantage of covid deals.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That's what we thought (or some kind of psychosis from painkillers), but his wife and son are very into the same ideas and it seems unlikely that they all developed it at the same time. I’ll take Desperate for Attention and Stupid for $200, Alex.
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n8r posted:You bought way too early if you really want to take advantage of covid deals. Estate sales are where the real deals will be.
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n8r posted:You bought way too early if you really want to take advantage of covid deals. Going to be a lot of repo deals in the very near future. Midjack posted:Estate sales are where the real deals will be. Dang, you're darker than me. Respect.
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n8r posted:You bought way too early if you really want to take advantage of covid deals. Seriously. This is nowhere close at all. Basically nobody has even missed payments yet. In a lot of ways this look like 2008, and that took at least 90 days. This could be faster because of how fast the shutdown happened, but I doubt it. The real pressure is personal and commercial loans in danger of going 90 days past due.
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As a person who never concerns themselves about the wellbeing of others, I most look forward to the days of $5000 getting you a good used car. I had to buy a car this summer and was shocked at how much I had to pay for a 2014 Prius.
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n8r posted:As a person who never concerns themselves about the wellbeing of others, I most look forward to the days of $5000 getting you a good used car. I had to buy a car this summer and was shocked at how much I had to pay for a 2014 Prius.
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Craptacular posted:Don't worry, now they want to destroy all those used cars in a Cash for Clunkers repeat. https://www.thedrive.com/news/32877/ford-wants-a-repeat-of-cash-for-clunkers-as-new-car-sales-tank Listen, if someone will give me money for a 2009 Volvo wagon with a reconstruction title I'm taking it.
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Thanatosian posted:"My payments are higher, and I'll pay another $13,000 overall, but I'm paying less interest!" Unless the government does another Cash For Clunkers again, which the auto makers are pushing them to do. It was fuckin' stupid as hell the last time they did it which means it's almost certain to happen again.
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Phanatic posted:Unless the government does another Cash For Clunkers again, which the auto makers are pushing them to do. It was fuckin' stupid as hell the last time they did it which means it's almost certain to happen again. It's so true, how dumb to gently caress up everything for poor people who need cars than let you trash every single cheap car in existence basically. It'll happen again
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DoubleT2172 posted:It's so true, how dumb to gently caress up everything for poor people who need cars than let you trash every single cheap car in existence basically. The used car market existing hurts the manufacturers' bottom lines if you assume every used car purchased is a new car not purchased! Much like how the RIAA argued that every mp3 downloaded was a sale that didn't happen, as opposed to someone who would otherwise go without!
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We can get both poor people and old cars off the streets through a twisted metal style battle arena.
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Tomfoolery posted:We can get both poor people and old cars off the streets through a twisted metal style battle arena. I can get behind this
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DoubleT2172 posted:It's so true, how dumb to gently caress up everything for poor people who need cars than let you trash every single cheap car in existence basically. Cash for Clunkers in the summer of 2009 did very little to help poor people, the environment, or pretty much anything or anyone other than automobile dealers, executives and stockholders.
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