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Do some people just not realize used cars exist?
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Calling it the light bill is an old southern thing.
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Jul 10, 2018 00:38
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$350 to pay for tag plate fraud(total accident)
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Jul 11, 2018 15:07
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jesus christ
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Jul 13, 2018 14:17
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I was complaining really hard about that guy not being able to cook a few pages ago, and this kinda poo poo is on par. People don't understand what food is anymore.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:25
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lol "Hi, I just want to put in writing that I committed bitcoin tax fraud. I don't know anything about it, but I'm happy to answer any questions!!"
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Jul 13, 2018 20:03
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Sock The Great posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8yn1xs/two_graduate_students_getting_married_how_to_deal/ You never, ever, ever pay for your entire graduate degree (unless you're rich or something). Universities fund grad positions, and if you're not being offered funding, you don't go.
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Jul 13, 2018 21:30
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Pre-professional degrees can be an exception, yeah. I think "video game design" probably falls under that category, but there's no way in hell the financial return is worth paying for that degree.
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Jul 16, 2018 14:43
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Bad With Money 2018: I run to the toilet and puke up all the yogurt I ate e: Why does she keep calling her perfectly normal dinners 'random' Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 16:01
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People are so goddamn stupid about cars.
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Jul 18, 2018 18:53
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Mezzanon posted:Cross posting from the Schadenfreude thread! omg I'm sharing this beautiful thing with everyone
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Jul 18, 2018 21:01
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They've been living together for three years and he's trying to pull that???
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Jul 18, 2018 22:52
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That is bad with so much more than money.
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Jul 19, 2018 17:39
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$150k is a mindbogglingly large amount of money to just have (i.e., not sunk into investments or a home or whatever)
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Jul 20, 2018 16:15
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It wouldn't even matter if there were an unlimited pool of jobs. It wouldn't guarantee good ones. Alice needs to hurry up and retire already so that Bob can continue his career track. He doesn't need a job in an Amazon warehouse.
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Jul 23, 2018 14:25
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The closest things are that she has spent a decent amount (I have no idea how much, but it is over $2,000) on "saving a Witch's Garden" next to her house. what in tarnation
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Jul 24, 2018 14:47
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yes, realities like "George W Bush was a genuinely good person"
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Jul 24, 2018 20:07
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Sounds like Louis XVI was a pretty bad person!
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Jul 24, 2018 20:32
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They agreed to come in every day and eat poop for pennies! Why aren't they showing up!!!quote:In the hottest job market in decades, workers are holding all the cards. And they’re starting to play dirty. Imagine including this in an article about call centers and retail jobs. quote:But realizing that wasted recruiting resources, he has shortened the interval before a new hire starts to three days from up to two weeks. No poo poo. You were asking them to go without pay for two weeks. Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Jul 25, 2018 14:34
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Help, my first job pays roughly the median household income.
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Jul 27, 2018 17:27
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For some reason there's a huge markup when you get it from a restaurant (like $20). Maybe because avocados have such a narrow window of freshness?
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Jul 31, 2018 14:58
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Oh I thought someone had posted this but I guess not! https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1023600915146788867
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Jul 31, 2018 15:03
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Gossip in small towns can get ridiculous, but it's all peddled and consumed by old ladies, so I don't know why anyone else gives a poo poo.
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Jul 31, 2018 19:25
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OctaviusBeaver posted:I think it's the opposite: people think their refund is the government giving them free money. There's no way most people could budget for that.
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Aug 1, 2018 20:16
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There is basically no oversight on how you spend student loans. It's so predatory.
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Aug 3, 2018 18:02
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I have a history BA. It was incredibly worthwhile in every way except for job prospects. I actually have a year-round teaching job at a university (thank christ), but they specifically passed over PhD applicants for being too qualified. Even 10 years ago when I was an undergrad my professors were warning us not to go to grad school for history. Society doesn't value it. Universities don't value it (except while you're still paying them for it). It's sad, because honestly if I had to rank the "value" of the various humanities I'd put history at the top. That reddit discussion is very focused on academic employment, but I don't see anyone talking about other types of education. We may not be able to enroll many students in history classes, but history is still a popular media topic. Books, movies, tv shows, games, etc. are all areas that historians should still be valued, even if there aren't a ton of jobs there either.
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Aug 14, 2018 15:00
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FAUXTON posted:I wonder if there's a perception (common or not) that humanities degrees are desirable for unrelated fields due to the amount of research and writing work that's inherent to most of those degrees. You may not end up going through any math more complicated than trigonometry or possibly calculus, but being able to process vast amounts of unstructured information into a well-written report goes a hell of a long way, especially when your education is heavily focused on identifying gaps in the available information and seeking sources to fill those gaps. If you're talking about bachelor's degrees, at least 10+ years ago, it was parents telling their kids that any degree was fine, because jobs just wanted someone with a college degree. I hope most people have realized that's not as true now as it once was. The only people I've ever heard espousing the value of soft skills are people who have humanities degrees and personally experienced the growth of those skills. They're real skills, and I use them every day, but it's just not as marketable to employers who are looking for something like a list of certifications.
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Aug 14, 2018 19:02
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The numbers bear out that humanities grads find employment but at a lower rate than other degrees, and their salaries are also lower. My anecdote is that during the years immediately following the GFC, a BA didn't mean poo poo. I'm glad that hasn't been universal.
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Aug 14, 2018 19:58
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He really should just move to Bangkok.
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Aug 15, 2018 16:25
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high-paying STEM jobs (so, like, not a cancer researcher at a public university) are creating products that directly contribute to corporate profit
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Aug 16, 2018 14:49
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Aug 16, 2018 15:35
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The only people who should be planning on PSLF are maybe like doctors or lawyers. Otherwise it's for when you accidentally end up with way more debt than you can reasonably pay off but happen to have decent prospects in government.
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Aug 16, 2018 22:15
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It's amazing that people keep falling for MLM with how many jokes and warnings there are about it, but its attractiveness really must just be baked into our dumb, desperate brains. A friend of mine got tricked by one a few years ago. His parents had fallen on hard times, and he heard that a friend of a friend of a friend had earned a 'free' Mustang through this energy drink scheme, so he started watching all the videos and forwarding them to me. He dropped $500 to buy in. I immediately told him what it was and refused to humor it at all. A few days later he called me, totally dejected, and admitted he finally realized what it was. It was actually soon enough that he was able to get a refund.
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Aug 17, 2018 14:21
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Can the many tree posts from r/legaladvice be considered BWM? Because they cost a lot of people a lot of money. https://twitter.com/legaladvice_txt/status/1030485040940150784 https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/982hxz/a_neighbour_of_mine_cut_down_20_trees_of_mine/ quote:This could likely be in the "she'll have to sell her house and have any income garnished for the rest of her life" neighborhood.
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Aug 17, 2018 17:23
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I took an arboriculture class once and we had an entire section on calculating the value of trees for legal purposes. Tree law is big. Like, I think people don't realize how big of a deal trees are, and that's why you have so many of these cases where a neighbor thinks they can cut down someone's 100-year-old row of oaks.
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Aug 17, 2018 17:53
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howdoesishotweb posted:E: seems easy to get caught redwood handed doing this. You’d be weeping from all the paper you willow speaking of redwoods (Illinois)Neighbor, cut down a rare 150-year-old tree that has been in my family for generations quote:Recently a great aunt of mine died, and we needed to send a week in Washington State, and we asked a neighbor to take care of our five cats, two dogs, and 100+ chickens. We came back this morning and my parents had dropped me off at school this morning straight from the airport before heading home. While my dad was inspecting the property, he noticed that our 150-year-old giant sequoia was gone. My Great-Great Grandfather had planted the tree after returning from California, and it's not native to Northern Illinois but with the right care it can survive, you just have to be careful about windburn in the winter. Now the tree itself isn't that large because it's still young and the winters here (like this one that won't end because we have loving snow in April) stunt its annual growth. Upon the first confrontation, the neighbor admitted he had cut it down but upon further questioning will say nothing/denies doing it at all and my parents really have no idea what to do from here, and I want to be able to help them. quote:On to the real update I don't have the full picture I was tangentially involved after my original post at best. My parents ended up getting a lawyer (obviously), and it ended up growing to a team of three lawyers. It started with them billing hourly, but the guy ended up doing something to end up pissing them off so much that they switched over to being paid on contingency and we got lawyers costs included in our settlement. And for those of you saying follow the lumber you ended up being right, there is a house in Michigan that will be constructed using lumber gained from our tree. I never did find out about his motive for cutting down our tree and apparently its bad enough to get the "I'll tell you when you are older" phrase from my dad. But generally, it was good news, one day my dad came in all excited saying about how "we own him, we own his kids, and we own his grandkids' grandkids." It turns out we are going to be getting three 50-year-old sequoias instead of 1 big 150-year-old sequoia because they will be easier to transport. My parents say that we will also plant a new sapling Sequoia when I go off to college.
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Aug 17, 2018 18:49
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Best I can figure is they think it's akin to mowing your neighbor's overgrown lawn. In one of the stories a neighbor thought the trees needed to go because one time they dropped some branches in the road during a storm. Another one had his neighbor's tree removed for blocking his view. The judge who lost to the city was trying to get a better view too. They're just plants! Who cares about some drat nuisance plants??
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Aug 17, 2018 19:01
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Ashcans posted:If all the white people fled Stone Mountain, maybe we can finally scour off that horrible carving now? Or rig some sort of landslide to cover it, then turn the place back over to the native american groups that had lived there. The people who defend the carving coincidentally won't go anywhere near the city of Stone Mountain. My parents grew up nearby in Avondale Estates at a time when the HOA wouldn't even allow minorities to buy houses. I overheard one of my aunts talking about visiting it recently and how much it's "declined" (it hasn't)
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Aug 20, 2018 14:31
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I wonder if it's like how most people like their representative but hate congress
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Like anyone pays taxes on their tips
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Aug 23, 2018 16:31
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