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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Lol. Not a twist I expected but Nissan has poo poo itself over the past 20 years. Nissans are complete poo poo. My GF's Versa was down for months for repair and cost thousands just so she could pass smog, and it still has a check engine light
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skooma512 posted:Nissans are complete poo poo. My GF's Versa was down for months for repair and cost thousands just so she could pass smog, and it still has a check engine light The solution to the check engine light is the same as it ever was: a very thin drill bit and a cordless drill. Key off, for safety.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The solution to the check engine light is the same as it ever was: a very thin drill bit and a cordless drill. The Russians used a small sticker.
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I admire russian ingenuity but stickers peel off. If I'm going to fix a superficial problem, I'm using permanent solutions.
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Fame Douglas posted:Two whole light rail lines? Imagine thinking that's "a ton of infrastructure", lmao. And yes, you can take dogs on public transit in most places. relative to most other major US cities, sadly yes (obviously we have a bus system as well)
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BonHair posted:Just bring a gun to the dealership and wave it around occasionally, that'll get you a fair price. John Q but locked in the showroom while a dude in a bad tie is frantically trying to figure out how to override the undercoating fee.
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Mr. Nice! posted:downstairs from my 2/2 condo in waikiki was a grocery store, plenty of shops, bars, and restaurants. sure taking the bus to places outside of downtown might take a couple of hours, but who gives a gently caress when you can walk anywhere you need to go? Waikiki is funny because there’s such a range in what is offered as a “condo” from brand new construction in a high rise with modern hvac and amenities to lovely cockroach infested cinder block walkups with no parking. Id avoid buying groceries in Waikiki as you’re paying tourist prices. you could get the same stuff for half the price going to the Safeway on kapahulu instead. I’m reminded also in some of those high rise condos there are liquor stores just like hidden on the 10th floor and run by the sketchiest dudes on earth.
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one of my relatives favorite car haggling techniques is just to start crying loudly in the dealership and ask why theyre screwing her. it works best when there are other people there in the middle of a purchase because it really fucks with the other sales deals
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cumshitter posted:one of my relatives favorite car haggling techniques is just to start crying loudly in the dealership and ask why theyre screwing her. it works best when there are other people there in the middle of a purchase because it really fucks with the other sales deals drat that’s smart. I thought I Big Dick McGee when I wrote a check and said ‘take it or leave it’. Check was no good as I needed to finance through my credit union
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cumshitter posted:one of my relatives favorite car haggling techniques is just to start crying loudly in the dealership and ask why theyre screwing her. it works best when there are other people there in the middle of a purchase because it really fucks with the other sales deals lmao this is hardcore
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spacetoaster posted:I teach small humans for a city school system. For saint patricks day I had them write what they would do if they found a pot of gold.  my old friend
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Do the kids not know that money can't buy a soul back from the grave or was the pot of gold also implied to grant wishes
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Looks like someone leaked the document outlining Amazon's Twitter sockpuppet army to the intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/30/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders/
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Shop at Carmax, home of no haggle pricing! Mr. Nice! posted:If I still lived in Waikiki, I could live without a car. As I live in north florida, a car is required. and da bus is da best, top tier public transport as far as the US goes
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500excf type r posted:Everyone shopping for a car at a dealership has access to all the resources they could need to make a fully informed decision without needed financing from or through the dealer. What if a person has an IQ of 90? Do you really believe they can make a fully informed decision and not get taken for a ride by a busines specifically set up to prey on them at every step?
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Orange Devil posted:What if a person has an IQ of 90? Do you really believe they can make a fully informed decision and not get taken for a ride by a busines specifically set up to prey on them at every step? I'll help you shop for a car sweetie, just ask
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malcolm gladwell here, just dropping in to the capitalism.png thread to defend the inevitability, rationality and goodness, actually, of car sales. sweetie pie.
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500excf type r posted:I'll help you shop for a car sweetie, just ask 
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I don't see how having an IQ of 90 would affect buying a car at all. People with IQs of 100 act like complete idiots when buying a car.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't see how having an IQ of 90 would affect buying a car at all. People with IQs of 100 act like complete idiots when buying a car. it’s commenting on the ableism inherent to that post. a cspam poster for example would have more trouble buying a car without being screwed than someone who mainly posts in gbs, etc etc
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Right it would be simple for me, a genius (went to TrueCar.com first, etc) with an iron will (triumphant), not to get scammed. But other people exist too (confirmation needed) and are differently-abled (e.g., simp behavior).
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The solution to the check engine light is the same as it ever was: a very thin drill bit and a cordless drill. just get a cheap odb reader and clear the codes. bonus: you can read the other codes if a different light comes on.
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cumshitter posted:one of my relatives favorite car haggling techniques is just to start crying loudly in the dealership and ask why theyre screwing her. it works best when there are other people there in the middle of a purchase because it really fucks with the other sales deals god drat that owns
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Tzen posted:loving FUUUUUUUUUUUCK was just going into the thread to have a sad lol or maybe even a lmao instead hello There's a bunch more that's worse (as it relates to our capitalist system). The school zone I teach in touches a very rich neighborhood and a very poor neighborhood. So I've got children who have literally everything and children who have literally nothing (not even food). The dynamics of the relationships between these kids is horrifying to me. I have one little girl who rides horses, hangs out at a country club, wears only the nicest things, etc; who constantly (and without any understanding) just destroys another little girl. "Why are your shoes so dirty?" "Why does your hair look like you didn't brush it?" "Why are you wearing the same clothes you wore the other day?" "Why are you getting a bag of leftover food to take home?" She has absolutely no concept of any kind of life other than her own. Shame Boy posted:Do the kids not know that money can't buy a soul back from the grave or was the pot of gold also implied to grant wishes Several of the families are having their wages garnished over ER visits. Many probably forgo necessary visits to a doctor, so it tracks that the kids would associate money with the ability to get medical treatment and live. Also, yes, the leprechaun story I told was that you could give the pot of gold back for a wish.
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Shame Boy posted:Do the kids not know that money can't buy a soul back from the grave or was the pot of gold also implied to grant wishes Yeah obviously you need diamonds for that
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spacetoaster posted:Several of the families are having their wages garnished over ER visits. Many probably forgo necessary visits to a doctor, so it tracks that the kids would associate money with the ability to get medical treatment and live. jesus loving christ
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life pro tip: if you feel like you haggled a good deal, that just means the salesman was good at his job (which is to make you feel like you didn't get ripped off, while ripping you off) edit: it's like any other parasite in nature, they don't want their host to notice any pain while they're feeding
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Guys I just bought a great car, some guy was selling it off the back of a truck!
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I bought 3 cars at CarMax, and they were all fine
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spacetoaster posted:There's a bunch more that's worse (as it relates to our capitalist system). Maybe there's a silver lining and it'll give her a little perspective, I definitely had a very important formative experience in like 7th grade where it suddenly hit me that there are kids way worse off than you and they're every bit as valid. Or maybe she'll just internalize that poor people are all dirty food hoarders who never change their clothes and therefore they don't deserve healthcare, who knows  spacetoaster posted:Several of the families are having their wages garnished over ER visits. Many probably forgo necessary visits to a doctor, so it tracks that the kids would associate money with the ability to get medical treatment and live. Christ that's bleak
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500excf type r posted:I'll help you shop for a car sweetie, just ask gently caress your people are rational actors when making purchasing decisions framework, you disgusting liberal.
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Orange Devil posted:gently caress your people are rational actors when making purchasing decisions framework, you disgusting liberal. don't respond to him, he's dumb
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spacetoaster posted:I have one little girl who rides horses, hangs out at a country club, wears only the nicest things, etc; who constantly (and without any understanding) just destroys another little girl. I wish you could make this girl switch places with the other girl for like, a week, just so she can then incessantly pester her loaded parents about why they don't help people like her classmates. And also because it might, just might, save this girl from becoming a horrible person deserving of a guillotine.
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Iron Crowned posted:I bought 3 cars at CarMax, and they were all fine See this is a perfect example of how they get you - you probably only went in that day looking to buy one car, but then the upselling starts...
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Orange Devil posted:I wish you could make this girl switch places with the other girl for like, a week, just so she can then incessantly pester her loaded parents about why they don't help people like her classmates. And also because it might, just might, save this girl from becoming a horrible person deserving of a guillotine. I think theres a disney movie about this. Failed Imagineer posted:See this is a perfect example of how they get you - you probably only went in that day looking to buy one car, but then the upselling starts... lol
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Re public transportation: we actually have something that kinda works in and around Copenhagen. I can't find it again, but I remember seeing a map of house prices in the greater Copenhagen area, and you could actually see the loving train lines, because having a train close to where you live is pretty loving great. Of course, we still have a bit of car culture, so city buses are slow because of traffic and we only recently got a small metro. Still, public transport kicks rear end (pandemic notwithstanding), and would be even better without all the cars. Sorry about loving up your infrastructure in the US.
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Iron Crowned posted:I bought 3 cars at CarMax, and they were all fine I just learned from wikipedia that carmax was started as a spinoff by... circuit city??? BonHair posted:Re public transportation: we actually have something that kinda works in and around Copenhagen. I can't find it again, but I remember seeing a map of house prices in the greater Copenhagen area, and you could actually see the loving train lines, because having a train close to where you live is pretty loving great. Of course, we still have a bit of car culture, so city buses are slow because of traffic and we only recently got a small metro. I liked the big car-free plaza when I visited there (Stroget?) I stayed on Nørre Søgade and had no trouble getting around - I assume those rectangular "lakes" are all man-made actionjackson has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:See this is a perfect example of how they get you - you probably only went in that day looking to buy one car, but then the upselling starts... lmao
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Zzulu posted:Has elon musk not made those supertunnels for rich people yet I don't think any real ones have been built, only prototypes.
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