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    Car Batteries -- Looking for some Hider info!

    Belt and suspenders. And btw: I do drive a raggedy old truck with a manual transmission!!
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    Car Batteries -- Looking for some Hider info!

    I replaced the original batteries in my 2005 Ram 3500 in May 2018. I bought the truck in March 2005 brand new with 18 miles on it, so I know I was 2 months past the 13 year mark. Of the other cars in the driveway, the other pickup had its battery replaced because it corroded so badly that it...
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    Car Batteries -- Looking for some Hider info!

    FWIW, I've never had good luck with AGM batteries from any brand. I'm not sure how they developed a good reputation, all I can think of is marketing. I prefer conventional lead acid batteries and that's what I run in all of my rigs, including my RV. The only application where I see AGM as an...
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    Car Batteries -- Looking for some Hider info!

    Optima batteries have, as far as I know, and at least for the last 20 years, been owned and made by Johnson Controls, the same company that makes Diehard, Interstate, Duralast, and probably 1/2 or more of the Walmart batteries. They were not "bought out" by anyone--JCI is one of the world's...
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    PRS Talk Backpack for PRS matches

    I have the Eberlestock Gunslinger too (maybe an older model). Boy do I hate carrying all that crap, but it works great.
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    Indian or Harley

    They have been making that bike for 20 years now if you really want one. The one I rode 15+ years ago had 120 horsepower; I'm sure they're more now. They sound like shit and they have a peaky engine that feels slower than a traditional Harley-Davidson even though they are much faster once you...
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    Indian or Harley

    Holy s%@#$#. I spent all weekend shopping for and trying to find another Harley-Davidson. If it's really true that this company is going down the drain, the buyer experience sure doesn't seem like it.
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    Nursing is a GREAT deal. It seems to me like the schools are artificially keeping the number of nurses low. When I started college it was at a community college, and even there, it was extremely competitive to get admitted for nursing. I don't know how long that can last when we have a...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    I don't think this is supported by the data. My generation is neither ungrateful for their educational opportunities nor unwilling to fulfill their obligations. They have delayed having children, marrying, buying homes, and are the first generation to have lower real income than their parents...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    The loans were made with the taxpayer's money, so there is no money "due." It's gone. The question is what to do with the receivable. That probably shouldn't have happened, but it's the reality. Bad career choices do have repercussions. The difference is that unlike any other business-type...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    You seem confused about the fact. A FERS retirement is a tiny amount of self contribution that you can cash out if you walk after a few years. Mine wasn't enough to pay for a cart full of groceries. The day I did that, I had zero debt in the world. Not a car, not a house, nothing. So if...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    These institutions need good people. It's us, the 20%, who do 80% of the work. Even if they ought not exist. Even if they're corrupt. If no good people stay, these institutions will be as awful as the people who remain. I used to teach college and I would have loved to do it--but with what...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    I really think there are two serious problems with this logic. The first is that institutions have a culture and they do change. So if everyone believed like you and were absolutely opposed to changing things from the inside, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reason I say that I agree...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    Yes. It was passed into law in 2007. And it isn't just 10 years--you have to make 120, on time payments while in public service, which includes private nonprofit work.
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    That's why our founders wanted limited government. But they didn't want no government. They tried that with the Articles of Confederation. I do find it interesting that the insults continued even where I said I'd stay in public service past the 10 years though. A good friend of mine quit and...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    Well, I don't think having a police department is immoral. In fact, I think that's exactly what progressives do. They moralize everything. Having a police department is a policy judgment that the people get to decide through their elected representatives (remember that republican form of...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    Okay, so you're an anarchist. I have many friends who are anarchists, so I'm not disparaging your position, but there's literally nothing that could be said that would make a difference for you, because apparently no matter how small the government is, it is, to you, "big gov't socialism."...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    So it's your position that because you don't agree with the existence of government, that the government employees who performed public services are not entitled to be paid for those services? Like you seriously believe that the police officer patrolling the streets by your house is not only an...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    I'm not all that convinced that we need any more government meddling or subsidies for higher education. This would probably be far better than the current situation, but really the solution is that we need to get back to a sane level of spending on higher education so that the price can drop to...
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    $300 Billion in student loan "forgiven".... how generous

    I don't know why I feel inclined to respond to insults, but was my military service on the public teat as well? While you were sitting at home in mommy's basement and I wrote a blank check to uncle sugar, was that just a welfare program to you? In your world, do public servants, whether they...
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