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    Receiving a hard copy payroll check from your employer.

    The toll booth at the newly named DJT airport in Florida to collect parking fees still collects cash.
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    Brutal heat and humidity lately

    Come on down and join us in Florida to cool off!
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    Do you or have you owned a rusty vehicle?

    Much easier to do when you live down south. Difficult to avoid up north.
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    Do you or have you owned a rusty vehicle?

    If you live up north it is often enough a cost of doing business.
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    Younger adults not wanting to move from home for career opportunities

    If..... I live in a state with a sumilar law
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    Chevy and Cadillac essentially have no new EVs planned

    Seems to me that GM is trying to focus on what sells best at the moment. When the sales volume on these offerings wanes, they will need to pivot. Playing the long game is not always the best thing to do for the C-Suite execs.
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    What $1.7 million USD buys in Brawley, CA

    It would be best for someone not looking to modernize
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    Younger adults not wanting to move from home for career opportunities

    My nephew, probably pushing 30 by now has done quite well by being able to move several times since his college graduation all over the country for bigger and better opportunities. Same for a slightly older neighbor who appears to be at or near the career big-time doing the same thing. Word...
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    $6 - $10 increase on oils (5qt jugs) in Walmart this morning July/2026

    All of our "cheap insurance" from more frequent oil changes ain't quite as cheap anymore.
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    The American EV Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the US Auto Industry With It?

    A year or two ago after moving to Florida he cashed in something like $13B in his Amazon stock. He paid well north of $3B to the feds for the capital gains tax he owed. If he hadn't relocated, the state of Washington would have hit him up for north of $900M for Washington State's capital gains...
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    The American EV Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the US Auto Industry With It?

    People like what they like. And often enough it ain't what they are told to like.
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    The American EV Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the US Auto Industry With It?

    The US vehicle manufacturing companies did sort of jump on the EV band wagon full force and IMO too quickly to see how the wind was actually going to blow. They seemingly expected gale force winds to take over the switch when it has been for a while now more like a summer breeze going in the EV...
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    House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

    We do have a little bit shorter time between sunrise and sunset in the summer than they do up north. But we do get dark here (Southeast Florida) at 6 PM here in the winter around the end of December.
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    House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

    The reason it was tried in 1974 was because of the Arab oil embargo that basically doubled the retail cost of fuel oil and gasoline overnight. Blue collar families like mine living paycheck to paycheck were in trouble. The intent was to reduce the demand somehow or another hopefully slowing...
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    84 month car loans

    The monthly payment is the one and only thing that some buyers of new vehicles are concerned about. As long as it is the trendy vehicle they want to be seen in and the availability of a loan with a monthly payment that sounds like something they can handle with any luck -- then the deal is made...
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    Why not use a washable A/C filter rather than throw away paper ones?

    Use a MERV 11, never a problem, in Florida change em every 6 weeks in the summer, every two months in thes shorter cooler seasons.
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    2018 Suburban transmission trouble for relatives

    Wouldn't the recommended transmission fluid change on that vintage be every 60k miles or so?
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    "Hey, the bad noise in the front end is gone ..."

    Outt of sight, no more noise, no worries
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    It never gets any easier letting someone go

    Unless it was a written employment contract signed by both sides, it really is just the terms of the employment at the time of hiring. These things are usually subject to change by the employer at any time thereafter.
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