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gabbar says

Or was their plan to create Carvana and then hollow it out?

Seems likely. Maybe a tax strategy. Or they had investments in other companies they contracted with. Likely just laundering money though as the concept is pure shit.

Flipping cars is lucrative if you're a mechanic. Building 5 story buildings with car elevators at $2-3M a site is retarded. At $2-5k profit on a used car, you're looking at 7-10 years to turn a profit at every location. Clearly this was a scam, but who knows whether it was legal or not.

When it comes to used cars I’ve always had one rule

Buy directly from seller and make sure there is no middle man.

Why would I consider anything else!?

Carvana actually has decent prices for their used cars (and they pay well too), but I've heard of nightmares during the process, enough to turn me away (things like they never properly registered the car, making getting the title impossible, etc).

BayArea says

When it comes to used cars I’ve always had one rule

Buy directly from seller and make sure there is no middle man.

Why would I consider anything else!?

Some people have decided they couldn't be bothered with the usual "hassle" of buying a used car, so they went for the "luxury experience" with Carvana.

I've bought a generator back in 2017 or so. Still sits unopened in the garage.

DooDahMan says

As the 1960s became the 70s, the theories of a Scottish psychiatrist R.D Laing and the models of Nash began to converge, producing a widespread popular belief that the state was purely and simply a mechanism of social control which calculatedly kept power out of the hands of the public.

This was known long before "Schizo comes from family relations"* RD Laing and Schnizo Nash.

* Mere years before DNA would find it's an inherited gene, had nothing to do with evil Bourgeois families with their work ethic and discipline, but genetics.

How did Transgender stop being a mental illness?

Activists protested, shrieked, and whinged. The Science never changed.

Eric Holder says

I've bought a generator back in 2017 or so. Still sits unopened in the garage.

Might want to rotate the crankshaft a few rotations a few times a year to make sure oil stays distributed and you don’t get dry spots on journals/bearings/cams/tappets where rust can form.

ForcedTQ says

Eric Holder says

I've bought a generator back in 2017 or so. Still sits unopened in the garage.

Might want to rotate the crankshaft a few rotations a few times a year to make sure oil stays distributed and you don’t get dry spots on journals/bearings/cams/tappets where rust can form.

Not oil there - it's dry as a bone. It was never filled. And I'm not really worried about rust - nothing rusts here.

HunterTits says

Being repetitive, aren't we?

BayArea says

Why would I consider anything else!?

Get in on the manufacturer side. You'll still do the transaction from the dealer, but you can get the car at wholesale (under MSRP). We got a $60k Sequoia for $32k from a friend. Car salesmen are trash. Even if they're a friend they lie. Go to the source if you can befriend or know someone working for a manufacturer that's higher up than assembly line.

DooDahMan says

people want what is best for their children. Parents of daughters tend to support feminism and gender equality more than parents of only sons.

that's a lie. feminism and "gender equality" (as it's being presented and defined by leftoids) is NOT GOOD and certainly not best for their daughters, unless their wish is to have them end up as tatted lonely cock-carousel cat harridans

DooDahMan says

mell says

that's a lie

And you base this on what research ?

How is "me, me, me!" good for any kid? Since the rise of feminism womyn have become unhappier by the year, now with a record amount hooked on anti depressive and other social medications. We have done them a disservice by telling them they are better than men and "deserve everything", removing any responsibility for their action from them and promoting boring corporate drone jobs over being a happy mom and house wife. The amount of wommynz on medication and rapid rise in the unhappiness index coinciding with the 2nd and 3rd wave of feminism is proof enough. Esp. the 3rd wave did the most horrendous damage. Men who "support" this shite are harming their daughters. Btw the succession of 3rd wave feminism is the "transgender rights" wave which will obliterate all the natural advantages women had over men. It's already happening with "chicks" with dicks" in your daughters locker rooms and dudes winning more and more titles in wommynz sports (and taking scholarships away from them).

DooDahMan says

Does everything have to have a political tint ?

Unfortunately yes these days, everything is weaponized and politicized against the common people by the leftoids. Hasn't always been the case, so there is a way out/back.

DooDahMan says

mell says

How is "me, me. me!" good for any kid?

It's the American way ! We have several generations who grew up with this mindset and more on the way !

Agree somewhat with this, but it was meant and taught on the basis of hard work, not unconstitutional bs laws and favoritism. You can be me, me, me all you want as long as you're ABC as in "always be closing" and hustling. Then you earned it.

DooDahMan says

mell says

Unfortunately yes these days, everything is weaponized and politicized against the common people by the leftoids.

I am sure am glad it is only one political party at fault in this country for all of the things going on wrong. Simply amazing what you can learn on here or at least read....

The religious right did some damage way back then in the last millenium, but it was by far not as bad as the damage done by the modern left in the past decade(s). We need to have the left converge in the middle again, old school "liberalism" which is today only represented by conservatives. Of course the two party system is just a general barometer / crutch and there's nothing wrong with being independent, I actually prefer this, but without taking sides you currently cannot win any election or affect any change (few exceptions prove the rule), so it is important to align first and then you can still shift to independent out of a position of strength (holding an office).

richwicks says

I have a 1933 Ingersoll Mickey Mouse Watch I wear only to weddings (because it's delicate). People think it's cute and odd, my watch is worth several thousand dollars but I need to be very careful with it, it's a child's watch, and any moisture will destroy it. It's nearly 100 years old. Just junk to 90% of the country, a relic to 99% of the country, but it's incredibly rare today. Bet you've never seen the original watch. It was $7 (an enormous sum) back in 1933. Rich people gave these to their spoiled rotten spawn.

Does the watch still work?

gabbar says

richwicks says

I have a 1933 Ingersoll Mickey Mouse Watch I wear only to weddings (because it's delicate). People think it's cute and odd, my watch is worth several thousand dollars but I need to be very careful with it, it's a child's watch, and any moisture will destroy it. It's nearly 100 years old. Just junk to 90% of the country, a relic to 99% of the country, but it's incredibly rare today. Bet you've never seen the original watch. It was $7 (an enormous sum) back in 1933. Rich people gave these to their spoiled rotten spawn.

Does the watch still work?

Why wouldn't it? Mechanical watches last pretty much forever (unless subjected to moisture and corroded).

Yeah, Men don't menstruate. Awfully hard to shed the lining of your uterine wall when you don't have a uterus, but it doesn't stop it from being the Official Doctrine of Public K12 and State Universities, not to mention large corporations stuffed with MBAs and Think Outside the Box geniuses.

trannies are just sexually confused because society has too many faggots pushing that shit on kids.

death to all pedos and groomers.

Patriot and NSA whistleblower William Binney called it 'turn-key totalitarianism'. They have almost everything in place.

More incessant liberal mind-twist BS as obvious as a hooker on fleet day. The author’s hollow talking points about COVID19 gene therapy safety and autoimmune disease hit a wall known as reality when compared with the numerous and increasing reported cases of gene therapy induced autoimmune disease in the literature. These frequent posts display an obvious bias not disguised by a cheesy and boorish feint at meaningful discourse. See Why Liberals Lack Critical Thinking Skills.

https://mobile.twitter.com/aveneet/status/1524118447889735681/retweets/with_comments?source=patrick.net

https://mobile.twitter.com/Priyank91634543/status/1523356770923474944?source=patrick.net

LOL!
This guy epitomizes cheap mentality of Hindooo cult and Muslim tyrants.

I love to put “Khalistan” in Twitter search and see the cheapness of Pak & Hindoo.
They can never be first world without Khalsa Raj!

I dunno, man: try killing my dog and I'm not sure I'll stick to my "human exceptionalism" views for longer than 0.5 millisecond after that.

What is this - cognitive dissonance for apex predators?

Yes - we will ensure our own extinction if we can't manage the biosphere.

We are apex predators - learn to deal with it and properly manage it; otherwise, the long known and established predator-prey population relations apply.

https://reclaimthenet.org/driverless-cars-record-everything-making-them-moving-surveillance-machines/

May 12, 2022
Driverless cars record everything, making them moving surveillance machines
Police are increasingly tapping into the data.

Dragnet is a great show.

I strongly suggest watching a few episodes.

Literally everything they claimed about drug abuse, perversion, etc. has come true.

Whites may figure out way to expel Hindooo by using human rights violations of Sikhs in Hindooo land.
https://twitter.com/hafeezmalik__03/status/1522614787032690689

Maybe it's all about survival. If I take the stance that "all human life matters" I'm hoping other humans will reciprocate the feeling (i.e.: not kill me). If I take the stance that "all great white shark life matters" the shark will eat me anyway.

DooDahMan says

ERCOT again asks Texans to conserve power after numerous generators fail

The recent winter heating disaster is Texas was partially due to the extreme cold freezing up windmills and natural gas generation. I wonder if the current "numerous generators fail" is unreliable wind? I can't imagine natural gas powered generation would be failure prone or need much maintenance downtime.

Build some dams for electric and reservoirs that are created for water. Problem solved. Not too complicated. I like CA's climate, but it's not sustainable with the population without more water. Dam up every river or creak you can, environment be damned. I don't think something as stupid as an endangered spider or snake getting drowned is going to mess up the circle of life or whatever. You're all dead anyway if you don't have water.

It would be a huge public works project, but we pipe oil and gas from one end of the country to another. Why couldn't we pipe Great Lakes water in pipelines out west? Have a small nuke for pump power. If is leaks, who gives a shit, it's water. There are plenty of solutions to water shortages, just no one has the balls to do it.

DooDahMan says

The natural world is collapsing all around us at record

No, it isn't. Man, I grew up in the sticks:

https://goo.gl/maps/XLGhQAUW4nGw1ttE9

Go wander around in the area on the map.

It's this alarmism that is driven into every kids head "oh, we're about to fake an ecological catastrophe" - no we aren't. This is a completely false statement. Constantly children are taught there is a looming crisis, they are being programmed to support government intervention, the government doesn't intervene, but it takes power.

DooDahMan says

WookieMan says

Why couldn't we pipe Great Lakes water in pipelines out west?

Cost, complexity, number of new electrical generating stations required to move the water, existing water use agreements on the Great Lakes that include Canada and so much more

Nobody is thinking that it is going to be cheap and easy.

In the last few years, my hometown has killed more than 10k deer so far. We suck.

I'm not against limiting world human population. It's the "How to do it" that scares me.

DooDahMan says

richwicks says

No, it isn't. Man, I grew up in the sticks:

Yes it is Man, I grew up in the sticks as well - way the fuck out in the sticks in what is other wise known as a living hell. 300-400 miles farther to the north in a state to the left of New York. The theme song form Jaws or Dueling Banjoes is often heard before entering the region.

You have no idea what it's like. For me it was torture, but from another point of view it's paradise.

What does any city produce that we need? Say every city with over 100,000 people is just wiped off the map, will society continue? It sure will. That won't happen in the reverse.

DooDahMan says

We are going to be the reason we end as a species due to our complete and utter disregard for the creatures and world around us.

I doubt it. No doubt you hear about the Dodo being hunted by man to extinction. Guess what? That never happened. The island had rats introduced to the island, they wiped out the Dodo, because their eggs were easy to get to.

The government just creates constant panic to try to create more control. They don't actually do anything.

richwicks says

You have no idea what it's like. For me it was torture, but from another point of view it's paradise.

Why was it torture? For about 6 years my father was a logger in Michigan. We lived way far out. Some of the best years of my life. The best memory for me was walking through the forest with dad on Xmas Eve looking for a Xmas tree. He finally decided to cut off the top of a, what seemed like to me at the time, 100 foot tall pine tree and use that. He dragged that tree back all by himself. He was a mountain man for sure. Good times, good times.

WineHorror1 says

I'm not against limiting world human population. It's the "How to do it" that scares me.

Simple, as we enter modernity children become a liability instead of an asset. As life gets more comfortable, people have less children. We see this all through the developed world. China is experiencing it now. They didn't need their stupid 1 child policy.

You see this in droves in Japan, Japanese might go extinct within the next 200 years.

In China, abortion is now illegal except for the health of the mother. They are trying to reverse the trend.

richwicks says

The island had rats introduced to the island, they wiped out the Dodo, because their eggs were easy to get to.

Did those rats get there with the help of man perhaps?