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Spoeank posted:If you owner retain it another thing to consider is if it gets into any sort of accident again you're probably just selling it for scrap parts because an owner retain salvage title kills the value Yeah but depending on if/when the car market settles down he may make up the difference and it could be a wash. FWIW I drove a salvage title Saab for 5 years and the only reason I got rid of it was because the serpentine belt jumped out of the car while I was on the way to the auto shop. The cost to fix the stuff that made it go kaput in the first place wound up being more than the car was worth. It’s obviously a risk but if you feel comfortable driving it and it’s not a danger to you and others I would say it’s reasonable to hold onto it. e: this is also very much Spo’s wheelhouse though so don’t listen to me, I’m mostly an idiot Freaquency fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Freaquency posted:I’m but a simple country (server) farmer, but it certainly seems to me like Ukraine is taking it to the Russians. When they first started attacking on Thursday I was sure that Kyiv was going to have fallen by now, but they’ve managed to hold firm. It’s nice to see, but I think what’s ultimately going to matter is how much the pain Ukrainians can inflict on the occupiers after the fall. Judging by the last few days, maybe it’s a lot.
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The biggest risk of driving a modern car that has already been totaled in a wreck is this: modern cars are built to crumple in certain ways to reduce the impact and minimize the damage to whatever is in the people department. This is a one way and irreversible crumple, though. Anything structural component is irrevocably damaged. Another impact in the same spot is just going to go right through it and into the people portion. The only way you fix it is by replacing every crumpled section - literally cut of chunks of the car and welding on new bits which then is only as strong as the welds. Cars aren't just shells on frames anymore so it isn't really easy to repair them after a bad wreck and actually have them be safe to drive. You're taking a huge risk with your personal safety.
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General Dog posted:It’s nice to see, but I think what’s ultimately going to matter is how much the pain Ukrainians can inflict on the occupiers after the fall. Judging by the last few days, maybe it’s a lot. Yeah, I think I agree. Russia can always send more troops in and they’re going to eventually break through, but it seems like the Ukrainians are going to guarantee that doing so will be costly. I know that Putin doesn’t gaf what the people of Russia think, but things like reportedly losing two troop carriers to SAM missiles has to have some effect on the morale of both the soldiers on the ground and the people back home.
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Feb 26, 2022 20:00
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Pages and pages back Leper was talking about the best avenue to avoid this outcome and mentioned economic sanctions that were painful to Russian oligarchs. That still makes sense to me. I don't quite understand why we aren't more targeted at specific individual's financial interests. I live in a west coast city and suspect about 5% of our housing stock is owned by Russian nationals or their fronts. Is there really no mechanism for the US to cease those kinds of assets given the situation? Are we so dependent on international money laundering that we can't afford take any actions?
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Pages and pages back Leper was talking about the best avenue to avoid this outcome and mentioned economic sanctions that were painful to Russian oligarchs. That still makes sense to me. I don't quite understand why we aren't more targeted at specific individual's financial interests. I live in a west coast city and suspect about 5% of our housing stock is owned by Russian nationals or their fronts. This nation is built upon a foundation of Letting Rich People Do Whatever The gently caress They Want. Oil, gas and oligarch cash is more important to DC than thousands, tens- or even hundreds of thousands of This transcends borders and always has.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Pages and pages back Leper was talking about the best avenue to avoid this outcome and mentioned economic sanctions that were painful to Russian oligarchs. That still makes sense to me. I don't quite understand why we aren't more targeted at specific individual's financial interests. I live in a west coast city and suspect about 5% of our housing stock is owned by Russian nationals or their fronts. The implementation and enforcement of the law is difficult.
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Mr. Nice! posted:The biggest risk of driving a modern car that has already been totaled in a wreck is this: modern cars are built to crumple in certain ways to reduce the impact and minimize the damage to whatever is in the people department. This is a one way and irreversible crumple, though. Anything structural component is irrevocably damaged. Another impact in the same spot is just going to go right through it and into the people portion. That's the weird thing, it's not even that big of an accident. There's basically one piece of of the shell that has a 4" dent. But overall the car, by the mechanic and my insurance, are both stating that the car itself is safe to drive. I think the reason they are going for the "total" approach is simply because the value of the old beat-up (yet reliable!!!) car is less than the value of the repairs. Freaquency posted:Yeah but depending on if/when the car market settles down he may make up the difference and it could be a wash. Something that's been frustrating is that, it's an old car with low value, but it still worked. But over the last 18 months there's been "a thing" that needed repairs every few months. And each of the repairs, individually, was worth it at the time... but the sum of the repairs added up to a lot. However! Before the accident it seemed like everything was repaired up and good to go. Amy Pole Her posted:Bye to that car. It’s not even a question. I've had this car for a long time and I love it, even if it's kind of crappy compared to modern cars. Spoeank posted:If you owner retain it another thing to consider is if it gets into any sort of accident again you're probably just selling it for scrap parts because an owner retain salvage title kills the value I plugged it into KBB and the estimated Trade-in range is $1.2k - $2k. There's more aesthetic damage than initially looks so I'd say the lower range is accurate. Which is so odd to me, because again, it is a functioning and safe car. It's wild that my automobile is worth less than a high end gaming laptop. Android Apocalypse posted:If it were me and I need transportation, I'd hold onto the car as the current market for a vehicle is still pretty hosed up. I'm debating how much I need transportation at this point. I work remote most of the time and can get to the office well without a car. The main thing I'd use transportation for is going out to nature, but I didn't really use my car for that very much because my car had such low clearance. I guess the question is: what's the opportunity cost? If I got rid of the car and took the moneys, would I plonk the funds (and budget savings from insurance and gas) into like a ROTH?
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Freaquency posted:Basically yes. I heard specifically that a lot of the London banks are so tied up with Russian money of dubious provenance that it would be catastrophic to their banking sector to do much more. This seems somewhat farcical as Russia's GDP is less than Canada's. They're not even in the top 10
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There are some moves in the work to freeze a lot of Russia’s central banks assets that they have in foreign currency. Essentially most of this is not held in physical money, but it’s all digital, so you can freeze them out of changing dollars to rubles and vice versa. I think Russia definitely has had some fuckups and really expected to just roll into Kyiv. There’s been video of Russian tanks stuck on the road out of gas. How the gently caress does a competent military let that happen? They just don’t seem that prepared for even a week long fight.
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Bird in a Blender posted:There are some moves in the work to freeze a lot of Russia’s central banks assets that they have in foreign currency. Essentially most of this is not held in physical money, but it’s all digital, so you can freeze them out of changing dollars to rubles and vice versa. All militaries aren't the US military and just roll over people, OP.
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Its Rinaldo posted:This seems somewhat farcical as Russia's GDP is less than Canada's. They're not even in the top 10 It’s specifically London. The city is in part propped up by Russian money that they openly courted in the 2010s. There have been efforts in Parliament to clean things up and differentiate between “clean” and “dirty” Russian money but somehow the measures never seem to go anywhere  the fact that all of this lines up with Russian efforts to launder billions of dollars out of Russia is surely a coincidence!
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MrLogan posted:All militaries aren't the US military and just roll over people, OP. Russia has like 10x the military budget of Ukraine and like 5x the amount of enlisted. Things like tanks getting stuck because they ran out of gas three days into a war is just pure incompetence or corruption run amok.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Russia has like 10x the military budget of Ukraine and like 5x the amount of enlisted. Things like tanks getting stuck because they ran out of gas three days into a war is just pure incompetence or corruption run amok. I have to imagine they thought they'd have infrastructure captured on day 1, but they got just enough resistance that their initial supplies ran out. Now it's a race between the sanctions and the eu rearming the Ukrainians and however many troops russia is willing to keep throwing at the problem. End game for russia sanction-wise is Germany finally getting on board with the swift ban, because then they stop paying Russia for gas, which is a huge component of their GDP. That's true commitment from them because it's more than half of Germany's gas supply.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Russia has like 10x the military budget of Ukraine and like 5x the amount of enlisted. Things like tanks getting stuck because they ran out of gas three days into a war is just pure incompetence or corruption run amok. All militaries aren't the US military and just roll over people, OP.
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LeeMajors posted:https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1497304916896976909?s=20&t=l_O7i308DPJ8d4EpAtNnnQ elon literally played a bit part as himself in iron man
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MrLogan posted:All militaries aren't the US military and just roll over people, OP. The US military is the only one that understands basic logistics. Got it.
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Begun, the poo poo posting wars have https://twitter.com/ukraine/status/1497703466352926722?s=21
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It started raining here on Wednesday and it literally has no stopped. Not for ten minutes. I've woken up in the middle of the night to rain and every morning to rain. It's just rain, rain, rain. Suburbs around me have had to be evacuated but I'm in a high area with amazing drainage and will be fine no matter what. I'm supposed to begin my new job tomorrow and have no idea if roads will be closed or not. If I wasn't anxious enough about starting a new job.
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LeeMajors posted:https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1497304916896976909?s=20&t=l_O7i308DPJ8d4EpAtNnnQ Amazing how he forgets the CEO in Die Hard.
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Took my first ever climbing class this afternoon and it loving ruled Gonna be the next Alex Honnold
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:Amazing how he forgets the CEO in Die Hard. I think he's referring to biopics of real people, like The Social Network and that new Elizabeth Holmes movie. But even then, wasn't at least one of the Steve Jobs films relatively hagiographic, same with that movie from the mid 90s about the creation of Microsoft.
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Grittybeard posted:Am I missing a joke or am I just too dumb to understand why Chernobyl is a useful military target? Hopefully not the reason but... who the gently caress knows https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1497568972652302342
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Skwirl posted:I think he's referring to biopics of real people, like The Social Network and that new Elizabeth Holmes movie. But even then, wasn't at least one of the Steve Jobs films relatively hagiographic, same with that movie from the mid 90s about the creation of Microsoft. Reminder that The Social Network predates just about everything that today's public takes issue with re: Facebook and Zuck.
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Qwijib0 posted:Hopefully not the reason but... who the gently caress knows So when this happened proto FSB agents were seen leaving the apartment the day before, and friendly press accidentally reported it before it happened.
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Skwirl posted:But even then, wasn't at least one of the Steve Jobs films relatively hagiographic, same with that movie from the mid 90s about the creation of Microsoft. Yeah, the TV movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley was pretty kind in its treatment of Jobs. The Danny Boyle movie from seven years ago is basically two hours of hero worship. The movie with Ashton Kutcher was so bland and boring that I barely remember anything about it, outside of it following the bog-standard biopic formula.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I think Russia definitely has had some fuckups and really expected to just roll into Kyiv. There’s been video of Russian tanks stuck on the road out of gas. How the gently caress does a competent military let that happen? They just don’t seem that prepared for even a week long fight. I have to imagine there’s even greater corruption and incompetence around the Russian or Chinese military after seeing the impacts of US military contracting graft. Will be curious to see what happens once there are more sanctions in place if the military campaign gets drawn out. Really feels like Putin goofed with this.
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I would like the outcome of this to be that Russia is shown to be a paper tiger whose biggest threat are hacker nerds in basements but I wouldn’t take that bet.
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BigPaddy posted:I would like the outcome of this to be that Russia is shown to be a paper tiger whose biggest threat are hacker nerds in basements but I wouldn’t take that bet. The problem is that then there is no elevation of threat above cyber attack that isn't nuclear in nature.
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BigPaddy posted:I would like the outcome of this to be that Russia is shown to be a paper tiger whose biggest threat are hacker nerds in basements but I wouldn’t take that bet. I feel like I’ve read analysis over the past couple of years this is the case tho. Still Cold War era equipment by and large that hasn’t been greatly maintained.
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I had to cut through the mall earlier today and was stopped dead by a dude with his family wearing a Tulsi Gabbard for president jacket. He didn't see me, but his kid clearly saw me see it and do a double take, head shake and walk on.
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Go Bulls! https://mobile.twitter.com/terrellj...com%2F521752760
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One thing that I am surprised we haven't seen is crazy conspiracy theories about what's at Chernobyl that made the Russians take it. Like where are the theories about radioactive zombies, or supersoldiers, or dimensional gateways etc. Why can't QAnon divert their attention to something entertaining?
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https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1497721454250508288?s=21 Its 9 o’clock. Do you know where your aloha is?
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