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I'm fine, which I'm thankful for- it could have been a lot worse. This is why I have good insurance! It was really frustrating when I realized that he wasn't paying attention, wasn't really slowing down, and that there was nothing I could do about it but sit there, take it, and hope for the...

FIFY.

Well fuck me. I've got the new car for 2 weeks and I get rear ended at a stoplight by a west Michigan rusted out shitbox 2002 GMC Acadia. I watched in the rear view mirror as the guy was looking down at his phone. 750 miles on the odometer, and it still has the temp tags on it. USAA has been...

This meme comes to mind.

Homeowners here has a max cap for total home replacement. I did some improvements on the house (new 4 season sunroom, etc...) and was concerned that my insurance wouldn't cover the new cost of total home replacement. Turns out I was right. They asked for a bunch of pictures, and upped the...

Interestingly enough, I get 2 years of free charging at Electrify America charging stations, and 3 years of free charging at the dealership I bought this car at. So even though I have the capability to charge at home, free is free.

My rate went up fairly significantly- about 250 dollars per 6 months. I'm also using USAA, which I'm learning isn't the most competitive in the market. I'm thinking about asking my homeowners provider- Nationwide- what they can do for me.

"At this time" and "currently" make me want to strangle people.

Plan on the Marine Corps to expect you to get married over a federal holiday. You most likely won't get leave, but you'll probably get special liberty over a 4 day weekend to get married. So you'll fly out Friday, get married Saturday, have Sunday for family and to try to catch up on the...

That's not what you said. and you're calling my service in to question now? Come on man. You're better than this.

I gave you mine and you dismissed me as emotional.

What? Emotional? Because I said something was inappropriate? You insinuated that a woman who got pregnant in the military shouldn't be in the military.

My sister in law has an ultrasound that shows both her IUD and her third child. My wife got pregnant while on hormonal birth control, which was taken properly, shortly before we were married. My sister in law gave birth to our nephew; my wife had an abortion. Both were the absolute proper...

But a pregnant woman isn't medically ready or worldwide deployable. An abortion would make her so.

There are plenty of cases in which augmentation is used to correct a defect, and reconstruction is also necessary for many women. Some women even have mastectomies because of a genetic marker that says that they might develop breast cancer in the future- they aren't medically necessary at the...

I've decided that I'm going with a 48amp Emporia charger that costs $400. I'm running a 50amp circuit in my house from the panel in the basement to the garage and it is costing me about $400 in materials- most of that in the 6/3 with ground wiring that I have to use to meet code. Consumer's...

Strangely enough it's about 50/50. This fall I'm going to blow in insulation into the voids on the one wall and the one partial wall that isn't insulated, as well as insulate the door. That will help with heating the master bedroom (which has the floor insulated in the spots above the garage) a...

I'm in the market. I bought the stuff today to wire up a 50amp, 240v outlet into my garage. Was thinking about the ChargePoint Home Flex seems nice in that I have 3 years of free charge point charging in SW Michigan (essentially Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Battle Creek) from my dealership and...

Water, fertilizer, and more water. Then water it again... Our water bill is high enough that my neighbors and I are looking into having a well dug to provide non-potable water for our irrigation systems so we're not wasting money by watering our lawns with drinking water.

Hyundai says 70% is the magic number for their warranty. It's warranted for 10 years, and it transfers if I sell it. I was given the same info as @ChuckMK23 though, 20 years through normal cycles, recommend to charge it to 100% only with a L1 or L2 charger, L3 is recommended to top out at 80%...

I bought a new Ioniq 5 today to replace my 2010 Outback. I am really surprised at how well Hyundai has done with it. It drives as nice at the Volvo XC-40 and is a bit bigger, and it's definitely nicer inside than the Model Y. 250+ miles on a charge with the AWD model. All for 55k out the...

Fact. What keeps folks in at 32 is vastly different from what got them in at 22.

I'm supposed to wear the AF "senior" pilot wings over the Naval Aviator wings. The gold wing mafia is pretty strong here (and across the state) so it's largely left up to the individual preference on most occasions. Command billets and above all wear the AF wings on top. My name patches all...

Also there is a lot of merit in the flexibility of a Guardsman to be on orders other than title 10. Reservists don't have that option. There is also merit in having that F-16 unit full of 1000+ hour and decade of service plus folks (not just pilots, but maintenance and ops and everyone else)...

The guidance in the Air Force is now "all, some, or none". I fall in the "none" category- just a set of wings. It usually starts a conversation that I answer like this: "The ribbons are what I got for doing my job, the wings are what I earned."

There are certain cases of obstructive sleep apnea that can be cured through surgery.

I really enjoyed Tulsa King more than I thought I would. If you haven't seen Picard or Discovery yet, they're both definitely worth it as well (and only available on Paramount+).

Things get interesting when you also apply this to the ANG and ARNG. Can a commander put a soldier or airman on a few days of Title 10 orders? Can they spend state money to send a soldier or airman out of state to get the care they need on Title 32 orders? I see this becoming a big issue...

On one hand we say the Taliban are wrong for what they're doing to women in Afghanistan after we left. On the other we enact legislation that follows in the Taliban's footsteps. If that doesn't convince an officer who served in AFG, or Iraq, or Syria, or Africa that they're wrong, I don't...

I have a DD-214 for the 71 days that cover the period of time that I showed up to Marine OCS to the day I commissioned; the rank says E-5 (OCAN). Asking some dudes around here, it's the same for the Air Force and ANG. I'm sure it will say the same thing for the Navy. As long as you can show...

Do it because you want to, because it interests you, not because you want a trophy on your table to show off.

I serve with American Patriots, officer and enlisted alike, who are worried that their marriages and parental rights are in jeopardy if they are PCS'd to certain states (Texas, Florida, Alabama, Ohio... The list goes on). You aren't pro-life if you don't support that child to adulthood. The...

Dude. As the head honcho, you have to be able to take a joke.

Every ROTC dude and dudette here just facepalmed in disappointment. You're going to be a great SWO kid, I can feel it.

So you're as stable as a Landing Craft Air Cushion tester goes? Maybe ask the Corpsman if you should take the silver bullet test, you might be overheating.

If you want to be home as much as possible, PCS and deploy on your own terms, and want to be able to go back and forth between a civilian and military job at your leisure do this. After flying real airplanes for a decade or so, come finish out your service and get your AD retirement at one of...

I've never met a pilot or NFO who wish they were a supply officer. I've met many supply officers who wish they were pilots or NFOs. Failed Supply Officers don't get a crack at flight school, but failed SNAs and SNFOs, as well as NAs and NFOs have been sent to supply. Insert that quote from...

Them? Maybe. Their allies? Definitely.

Subs, to liberal arts/humanities, to the cost of higher education and endowments. I love it.

So a year? Two years? Ever? He earned his crack at OCS, is there a scenario is which he won't get to go at all because his command won't release him for what is or could be a 3 month TAD? This is really my question- even waiting for the next PCS cycle isn't the end of the world. But I...

The Witcher on Netflix continues to get worse. It has nothing really in common anymore with the books or the video games. I do not recommend it.

Question- as what point does the young sailor have to reapply to an officer program?

But, like, a months worth of bacon and BBQ to the ABM and their best buds who catch the greased up pigs!

False. Language is the original artform. Stories, then music, then drawings. We haven't been any type of British since 1776. I'm going to go back to ignoring your posts. I do not enjoy any interaction I've had with you and I really don't think you're worth it, nor do I think you belong...

We define cultures by the art they produce. Art describes the human condition. Everywhere we go we experience art, we expect it. I'm not okay with living in a society that doesn't make music, that doesn't draw or paint, that allows a couple of assholes to make stupid amounts of money in the...

Are Navy squadrons really set up with single point of failure billets? Or is it just that leadership's lives would be easier for another few months? Is that worth the consequences to a Sailor's career and not letting them have their shot at earning a commission? (I don't know what IDC or MAA...

Yes, you really do. Enjoy your time in flight school. Don't be in a hurry to finish. Everyone with wings in their profile would absolutely love to trade places with you.

Yeah. The big thing to understand is that the theater/music scene in big cities exists because people can afford to live and work in the industry in that city. The interesting thing about Seattle is that the live theater and arts scene isn't that big, and it's fairly niche. Lots of super liberal...

I'm still not understanding how having an engineering degree changes that. Entry level on Off-Off-Broadway supports living in NYC. I think you're confusing entry level with freelance. There is a very large difference between "I'm moving to NYC or Chicago or LA with very little training or...

That's like saying how many business school grads become the next Steve Jobs, Doug McMillan, or Jeff Bezos. Those folks aren't the middle third vast majority of professionals who make up the industry- they're the top .001%. There are plenty of MFAs from NYU and Juilliard making upper middle...