thatburghfan

thatburghfan t1_iuhb8fg wrote

Weird to see this. Two days ago I was sideswiped by a truck on ARB and it was the first time I was ever in an accident while moving. Heading inbound approaching the Washington Blvd intersection, and as it widened into three lanes at the green signal the truck behind me tried to go around me to speed through the intersection. Except there wasn't enough room and to avoid rear-ending the car in the left turn lane, he had to come back to the right and bang the side of my car, then speed off down ARB towards the zoo.

The damage sucks but what really shocked me is the stupidity of the maneuver. Like, in another hundred feet you will have two lanes to use to get around me if it's that important. You couldn't wait that three more seconds?

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thatburghfan t1_iug4y9y wrote

Please don't be a joint owner of a house when you're not married to the other owner. Consider having one person buy it and the other pay rent to contribute to the mortgage.

My good friend who works for a bank has told me a lot of sad stories that happened when the couple split up. Ruined credit scores, foreclosures.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but since this is personal finance, just suggesting an alternative method that has a lot less risk.

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thatburghfan t1_iug3o9l wrote

I don't care what business owners think. I'm not a "you're dead to me if you support X" or a "I only deal with people who think like me" person. If a business provides something I want at a fair price, that's good enough for me. I don't need them to be ideologically compatible. Should we assume all the employees think the same way so we can try to hurt them too?

Tired of looking for new reasons to hate.

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thatburghfan t1_itulnu8 wrote

It's difficult for me to recall an election of this magnitude (US Senate) that featured two outright unacceptable candidates. For me it's going to be a "hold your nose and choose one".

I don't expect to agree with everything a candidate says, but in this case we have a TV celebrity who for some reason wants to be in politics, and a politician who appears to be genuinely a good guy, but he's clearly in over his head. And whoever wins will be coached (*cough* controlled *cough*) by party leaders who will supply the staffers and therefore have ears on everything that's happening. Neither one has a record in national office so we have no insight into what they might do once in office.

Our state deserves better than this.

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