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I asked the same question at the window of another fast food place and they told me there is some type of monitoring system that tracks how long it takes for a car to go from ordering to pulling away and the corporate owner looks at the data to monitor productivity. So they game the system when the staff is slow by telling people to pull forward and the detection equipment spits out numbers that makes it look like the car went through fast.

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The real question is, how is the airlines system so shitty that this could happen.

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I fly for free on an employee pass. Half the time they don't check my ID and the other half they barely glance at it. That's the over-stressed, under-paid gate agents who DGAF.

But he still has to log into an employee account and list himself on the standby list and go through TSA where they do check IDs so I'm not really sure how he pulled this off.

I always thought 9/11 could have been much, much worse if the terrorists had waited a few days and flown the planes into major college football stadiums instead of buildings.

Moving from a condemned inner city apartment to Decatur a few stops down the MARTA track is an upgrade, not displacement.

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we pay auto insurance premium's every single month

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Part of that is required by state law. And part of that is required by lending institutes if you finance.

But another factor when it comes to insurance is that it involves elements that you can't control (other drivers and acts of God).

I think with extended warranties people feel like they have more control over the mechanical condition of their car since they are generally the only ones operating it. They know how many miles they put on the odometer every month and where and how they drive the car. They know how they shift the gears and how they accelerate and decelerate. They know how often the oil and fluids are changed and how often routine maintenance is performed. It's not a foolproof guarantee but it goes a long way towards risk management.

But like another poster mentioned, the post-Covid inflationary and supply chain environment has shifted the equation. Dropping off your car for a $600 repair and picking it up the next day is a thing of the past and the new normal is a nightmare. Warranties need to be more closely considered.

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The problem with this argument is that all manner of violent, property, and sexual crimes are down across the board from their 70s/80s heyday.

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Property crime is also benefitting from tech advancements. Homes are now outfitted with alarms, surveillance cameras, etc and why would you risk a burglary sentence and break into a house to steal a TV when you can get one at Wal-Mart for $300? Same with cars. It's a lot harder to steal a car - they all have monitoring systems built in plus anti-theft mechanisms. You can't steal a car stereo anymore either.

Also, people just don't report petty crime anymore. Why deal with the hassle or increase in insurance rates. My grandfather was a homicide detective back in the 40s-60s. He was a packrat and when he died I went through all of his old stuff. It was crazy how much different law enforcement was back then. The Detective Bureau, of which he was a part, had a "stolen bike division" and there were three detectives who worked there full time working only stolen bike cases. Can you imagine going to the police today to report a stolen bike and having a detective in a suit assigned to work the case and track down the perp?

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That's funny. They're getting what they voted for.

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It won't be funny when your insurance rates go up again...just like they did after the George Floyd """protests""" caused billions in damages.

You see insurance companies have this crazy business scheme called profitability and one of the ways they achieve that is by pooling policies and claims and then raising rates on all of us law abiding suckers.

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What happens when your older car finally gives up the ghost and you don’t have $50k lying around to pay cash for a vehicle?

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1. Most of the people paying cash for a car aren't buying $50k cars. That's one of the main reasons people pay cash for cars - it acts as a control or limit to impulsive spending and gets them what they need instead of what they want.

2. A lot of people who pay cash for cars put money aside in a separate "new car" account that earns interest/growth while they drive their current car. It's essentially just a different way of doing what the finance advocates do when they claim "why would I pay cash when that money could be earning more that the 1.9% APR well qualified financing promotion?" They're doing the same thing, just before not after and then not having to deal with the paperwork, hassle and interest fees.

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At terminal velocity, hitting water is absolutely not the same as concrete. It still is deadly but the human body won’t explode the way it would if hitting concrete. Land just right, with head tucked, toes down, and arms to the side, you even have a small chance of survival.

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I remember Bill Burr doing a bit in his standup routine about a true news story where some guy had worked hard and saved up a bunch of money of starting his dream business of giving scenic helicopter rides along the coast.

Anyway on this guy's first day of business and his very first paying customer, they go up in the helicopter along the coast and as soon as they reach cruising altitude, the passenger unbuckles his seatbelt and tells the helicopter pilot, "sorry to do this to you but I don't want to live anymore" and then jumps out.

Amazingly the guy somehow survived. Bill Burr said he must have hit the water like Greg Louganis - no splash. :lol:

I would say women will be offended but I doubt many will be able to decipher this one.