#Cheap car insurance rates

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Affordable Car Insurance Quotes - Compare Rates & Save

Are you tired of shelling out a small fortune for your car insurance coverage? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Finding cheap car insurance quotes can feel like an uphill battle, but with the right strategies, you can secure the most budget-friendly premiums and make the most of your hard-earned money. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll provide you with the insights and tools you need to compare…

[airbus-a350]

when i said i wasn't interested in any modern cars at all i was lying i had an entire dream about finally getting to buy the latest mazda 3 because i stayed up too late looking at them on donedeal last night going wow only 20k i bet i could find 20k in change in my bedroom somehow

[sanchoyo]

u guys remember how I said I wanted to try and get a car this year as one of my resolutions… after months of researching I think I found the one I want. Finally. I am so sick of reading abt and looking at cars 😭

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Low Cost Auto Insurance

Low Cost Auto Insurance:- Low-cost auto insurance is a vital consideration for many drivers, as it provides financial protection and peace of mind without breaking the bank. Here are some key strategies for finding affordable coverage: Shop Around: Don’t settle for the first insurance quote you receive. Prices can vary significantly between insurance companies, so it’s essential to compare rates…

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Top 10 car insurance companies

In the vast landscape of car insurance providers, selecting the right one for your needs is crucial. With numerous options available, it’s essential to identify the top players in the industry that not only offer comprehensive coverage but also deliver exceptional customer service. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into the top 10 car insurance companies, considering factors like…

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Can Tesla (TSLA) Dominate the American Auto Industry?

Strangely, Tesla (TSLA) could dominate and save the American auto industry with three clever new products. Those products are a $25,000 electric car, a new wall charger, and auto insurance. None of these products is glamorous, but I think they could be game changers. Thus, Tesla could change the auto business behind recognition and make a lot of money. Tesla has plans for a $25,000 economy…

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Why Health Insurance Is Vital?

Why Health Insurance Is Vital? https://insurance-n-finance.blogspot.com/2023/08/why-health-insurance-is-vital.html considering the rising medical expenses, wouldn't you agree that health insurance is indeed a necessity nowadays? But what are the various factors that make it so critical? In this article, we'll delve into why health insurance is vital and how it can save you from potential financial distress. Health Insurance: An umbrella when it rains Health Insurance is like an umbrella that protects us from the rains of potential health crises. It's a safety net that catches us when sudden accidents or illnesses knock us off our feet. The ticket to getting treated without worrying about the cost. Is there really any price tag on peace of mind? The High Costs of Healthcare Without health insurance, medical treatments can result in large bills, often leading to financial distress. The cost of hospitalization, surgeries, medications, and post-treatment care can all add up, burning a hole in your pocket. Even a simple health check-up could set you back a significant amount. Can you imagine falling sick and immediately thinking about the monetary toll it’s going to take on you? Unexpected Health Crises Life is full of uncertainties, and health issues can strike when least expected. Would you not prefer to be prepared for such circumstances rather than face a financial crisis? Health insurance acts as a buffer against sudden medical emergencies, ensuring you do not have to dip into your savings. Covers a Wide Range of Health Issues Many health insurance plans offer a comprehensive coverage range - including hospitalization, routine check-ups, preventive care, and even critical illnesses. Isn't it comforting to know you're prepared for a myriad of health complications? In Conclusion Given the unpredictability of life and increasing healthcare costs, health insurance isn't a luxury – it's a necessity. It provides financial protection, assurance during emergencies, and comprehensive coverage, making it an integral part of financial planning. Looking after your health shouldn't cause you financial stress. It's an investment in a secure and worry-free future. After all, your health is your wealth, right? via Insurance & Finance http://insurance-n-finance.blogspot.com/ August 27, 2023 at 06:48AM

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Simple points to cut your car insurance rates

With regards to auto protection, Perth drivers are all very much aware this can be a standout amongst the most unreasonable parts of vehicle proprietorship. While essential auto protection is required, regularly the expense of the vehicle and the measure of exceptional fund warrants an all the more unreasonable and far reaching level of spread. Luckily, there are various approaches to cut the expense of auto protection, Western Australia drivers can profit by.

Alter Your Excess: A standout amongst the best approaches to lessen the expense of auto insurance online, Perth drivers ought to consider is to modify your arrangement overabundance. On the off chance that you decide on a higher overabundance, it could have a huge impact of decreasing the expense of your approach. While you have to approach this procedure with a little thought to guarantee that it is still monetarily reasonable in the occasion of a mischance, you will find that you can quickly profit by this.

Survey Your Coverage: While extensive protection is a smart thought in the event that you have a more up to date vehicle with exceptional account, it is regularly restrictive on the off chance that you have a more seasoned auto. On the off chance that the estimation of your auto is not that high, you may find that you are paying great over the chances on an exhaustive arrangement. You have to evaluate your scope and decide how much the strategy would pay out in the occasion the vehicle is composed off. In the event that after the abundance, you would just be left with several hundred dollars, it may not be worth paying for the additional scope.

Advise the Company About Anti Theft Devices: Most cutting edge autos as of now have aloof and dynamic hostile to burglary and well being frameworks fitted as standard. While the back up plan is prone to as of now know about standard components on your vehicle, it is still worth telling them the particular gadgets. This is particularly the case on the off chance that you have had an after sales gadget fitted. You might be wonderfully astonished at the rebate you can meet all requirements for as your vehicle has a diminished shot of being stolen.

Avoid Drivers: While you may have high schoolers in your family who might love to drive your vehicle, odds are keeping them on your strategy is extraordinarily expanding the expense of your car insurance USA. American drivers ought to consider barring certain drivers from their scope to lessen the expenses. This means you may need to confine which autos in your family unit youthful drivers may utilize yet you are prone to find that the expense of your protection drops significantly.

Try not to Put in a Small Claim: Auto protection is intended to shield you from a noteworthy money related misfortune, so you should consider whether it is monetarily reasonable to put in any littler cases. For instance, in the event that you have a minor knock and the evaluation for the harm is just a few hundred dollars over your arrangement abundance, it is likely a smart thought to handle it autonomously.

If you are searching for an aggressive quote on your auto protection, Perth drivers ought to get in touch with us. We are an approved Subaru dealership with a wide determination of both new and utilized vehicle, and access to restrictive protection bargains. Our business group would be cheerful to answer your inquiries and give a quote.

[fatehbaz]

In just eight blocks of sidewalk in quiet neighborhood, walking through the not-quite-rain of a sunshower, today I encountered four missing shoe soles. Little pieces of plastic and rubber, detached from pedestrians' shoes, now lonely on the concrete, with the weeds.

No such thing, really, as a "weed", though. "Weed" is not a botanical term. Instead, describes perceived pests, at the discretion of the observer. At the discretion of the authority. Designated as weed by the one with power over that land. The agronomist, the rancher, the plantation manager. The weed wastes space that could otherwise be given to a monoculture cash crop, an "economically significant" plant. The weed interferes with the productivity of the plot of land. The weed interrupts the extraction. The weed diminishes the value. The weed doesn't belong in this place.

People are made to be weeds, too.

Some cities will designate you as a weed, and then they'll take action to pull you out. They'll uproot you. But it's not always explicit, like "we're outlawing loitering" or "we're outlawing taking a nap in the park" or "we're defunding the library". Sometimes it's quite clever, it's written into the physical landscape. Self-congratulatory "progressive" cities learn to co-opt language, to obscure the violence, to use and abuse space.

Thinking about things you might encounter, you might perceive, after you've been destitute, broken, lived at a homeless shelter, for years. Little signs of other peoples' misery. Indicators of desperation that some might overlook. And the way that environment shapes, and is shaped by, these miseries.

A friend asks "why is there always an unusual amount of scuffed detached missing shoe soles on this particular stretch of sidewalk? There are hardly any homes around here, it's all asphalt and empty lots, so where are all these be-shoed people coming from?" Because even though this is a wide expanse without either home residences or any kind of commercial or recreation space someone would want to visit, these blocks are the straight-line direct path between a low-income apartment complex and the cluster of corporate big box stores, and there's no bus line that runs between the two areas. "But don't the vast majority of customers of shopping malls and box stores drive vehicles, hence the obscenely massive parking lots?" Sure, customers drive, but guess who actually has to work at those places? An underclass of people living at that apartment complex with harsh restrictions and cheap amenities, who can't afford car insurance or who might be too physically disabled to bike. And so that apartment complex is a de facto "company town", the residents are essentially in confinement. It is written into that landscape. It can be read. "Why is there always debris, wrappers, coins, etc. in this particular quiet couple of blocks of the boulevard?" Because these blocks are between a thrift store and a same-day drop-in clinic, so many impoverished people will routinely be walking between these two locations. They attend their appointment, and then have forty-five minutes to kill before the bus comes back around, so why not check out the thrift store? The city and county collaborated and placed all the low-income assistance offices on the far side of town, which conveniently forces the poor and disabled to both stay away from the luxurious downtown district and also to waste their time making a four-hour commute, catching various connecting buses or else riding the bikepath, across the city just to attend a ten-minute-long appointment.

Then this spatial layout, this city's physical environment, will shape the physical body. This violence writes itself into the flesh. The way the denim is chafed and discolored on the left shoulder of someone's jacket from carrying a small backpack around by foot, day after day after day. The way someone's heart rate increases when they see a white and black vehicle in the periphery of their vision, subconsciously recollecting institutionalization and institutional abuse, or fearing what a ticket fee would mean for their budget (they might not be able to afford rent). The way someone develops a painful limp, maybe occasionally depends on a cane, because they had to walk great distances every day to get to work and their shoe sole fell off on the sidewalk, but they can't replace the shoes because their employer is underpaying them, and they're forced to stand all day at work anyway, and they already had some modest nerve damage in their foot because they've been rationing their insulin and can't afford their prescriptions, and federal medical insurance keeps denying them because their physical letters in the mail always show up too late or not at all, and groceries are too expensive so it's hard to get good nutrition to heal, but the diabetic nerve damage has by now damaged their digestive tract too so they have a strictly limited bland diet and can't enjoy the simple pleasure of a home-cooked meal (if they can even afford a home, at this point), and all those "little" miseries add up, and now they're hungry, and in pain, because they were forced to walk kinda funny for a long time over all those decaying sidewalks with all those other weeds.

[sirfrogsworth]

I'm moving out of the city and I'm going to have to learn to drive. Any advice for someone (reluctantly) looking into cars for the first time?

Sorry for the late response, but I really wanted to answer this because I think I have some relevant advice.

I started driving the very day I was allowed to get my learner's permit. I took it very seriously. My dad was a mechanic, my brother literally built a car when he was 16. They were car guys and I was the goofy comedian they didn't really understand. So I wanted to be a really good driver to impress them.

I practiced every chance I got. I took driver's ed in school and got a 100% in the class. And I got a perfect score on my written driver's test and only got dinged for 1 thing on the main exam (it was bullshit, but apparently there is no way to protest a near perfect score).

But then I got sick and it didn't make sense to pay for car insurance and maintain a vehicle. So I didn't drive for roughly 15 years.

Then both my parents got sick and they became dangerous drivers and so I had to figure out how to drive again. And at first I was nervous, but after about a week of driving, I was nearly as good of a driver as when I was younger.

The reason?

Muscle memory.

Muscle memory will save your life over just about anything. The less you have to concentrate on the physical actions and habits required to drive, the more you can concentrate on situational awareness. If you don't have to think about turning the wheel, or braking, or even activating the turn signals, you can use all of that brain power to pay attention to all of the dumb fucks they let drive cars.

So my biggest piece of advice would be to break down all of the physical actions required to operate a vehicle. Even the tiny stuff like switching the station on the radio or turning down the fan on the A/C. Then find a way to practice these things over and over and over until you have that muscle memory embedded into your brain. My muscle memory was so deeply ingrained that it lasted through 15 years of not driving and a batch of mind-wiping electroshock treatments.

Find a safe place to practice and just repeat things until they feel like second nature. Especially checking your blind spots. If you can get checking blind spots to the point where you do it without even thinking about it, you will increase your safety substantially.

Other tips...

Small cheap cars are best first cars. Big cars can make you feel disconnected from the road. Almost like you are piloting the vehicle in a video game. I started on my grandma's 1987 Chevy Cavalier. It was tiny. It had no power. It was free. But I could feel everything I was doing. I could feel the turns. I could feel the road. I could feel braking and acceleration. And it really helped me understand the relationship between driver and vehicle. It was like a big go-kart but I think having that as my first car really helped me develop my driving skills.

And my last tip is to learn gradient braking and acceleration. It's mostly for the comfort of your passengers. It gives them a smoother experience but it also makes them feel safer driving with you. Basically you want to figure out how to apply pressure to the pedals in such a way that almost no G-force is felt. So you start with very light pressure and gradually transition into the max pressure you need. And you need to do it quick enough to stop and accelerate at the proper rate. If you don't transition fast enough you might not stop in time or be able to merge onto the highway. And if you transition too fast people will be lurching back and forth in their seat. But, again, practice makes perfect.

My brother is horrible at this, though mostly on purpose. He likes driving like everything is a race. And with his muscle cars, that can be fun at times. But when you are just going to the store it can make one a little nauseous. I find myself just grabbing the "oh shit" handles and never letting go.

But if you can smooth out your acceleration and braking to the point it is barely felt, all of your passengers will thank you for it.

Hopefully that helps. And maybe other folks can reply with additional advice. And if you have any more specific concerns feel free to ask. I wasn't sure if you were more worried about driving or picking out a car, so hopefully we can collectively cover both.

I wish you luck and hope you learn to love driving. It is pretty cool once you get the hang of it.

[meret118]

2023 Review

This has been the worst year in my life. (Long post.)

Nicholas died in February. I thought he was just constipated, but he was 20 years old and my vet insisted I take him to the emergency clinic. I didn't like the place even then. They have all this fancy equipment, and they overcharge and overtest to pay for it. They insisted he stay overnight, which I didn't want, and wouldn't let me say goodbye to him. They called later to say I was right. They'd given him an enema, but wanted to watch him overnight. I should have gone to get him then. They called at 2 AM to tell me he'd died.

He started living under my car and following me around shortly after I moved into my apartment. He had horrible health problems, including stomatitis which made his breath and saliva smell horrible. I think that's why his previous people abandoned him. The idea of him dying alone in a cage thinking I'd done the same torments me. If I'd just followed my instincts it wouldn't have happened that way. I don't think well under stress anymore. I miss him so much.

That was my winter. This past spring I almost died myself. (I'm not going into the details about what happened.) I've read the hospital notes, and my oxygen rate got so low they even called my uncle at one point to see if he wanted them to try and resuscitate me if my heart stopped. I was in the hospital for weeks, but I only remember the last 4 days or so of being there.

I ended up losing the use of my non-dominant hand from a compression injury, and have been in constant pain ever since. The muscles from mid-forearm down have wasted away. You don't realize how much you need that hand until you can't use it anymore. I've always been healthy before this, and it's been a huge adjustment. I feel like I've aged about 10 years. Crafting was one of my main hobbies, and I can't do that anymore. It takes me forever to type anything out now too. ETA: The non-stop pain has been the worst thing.

Everyone except my mother knew she's had Alzheimer's for years. (She refused to believe it.) She lost touch with reality completely while I was in the hospital. The neighbors had to call the police, and they took her to the hospital where she lives. I don't know if the stress of my being in the ICU pushed her over the edge, or if it was just a coincidence. She had already started hallucinating some before that. My father has been in assisted living for Alzheimer's since 2018, and now she is too.

Contrary to what a lot of people think assisted living is paid for completely out of pocket. Regular health insurance doesn't pay for it, nor does Medicare. It requires long term care insurance, which they don't have. It's not cheap either. Hopefully they will have enough to last as long as they need it, but it's not a sure thing. If they do spend all their money, they'll end up on Medicaid in a government funded nursing home.

Assisted living is like living in a small apartment with daily activities, and even trips. (I moved them near me into 2 really good ones. ((They don't get along.)) My father is even gaining weight, and doing so much better. I go see them once a week.) A nursing home is like living in a hospital.

My father had a good job, (upper-middle class), but was forced into early retirement at 55 due to bad-mouthing the new exec at HQ. He was used to being the (regional) boss, and never got another job. That's 10 years of income he didn't earn.

What's even worse is they made each other their POA's instead of someone younger. After my father was put in assisted living, my mother met a man at an Alzheimer's support group who conned her into allowing him access to all her accounts. Everyone told her not to do it, but he's a CPA, and she had no experience with handling the finances.

I know he had a wife with Alzheimer's because Janice met her when she helped him find an assisted living for her. So he was there for a real reason, but I guess he saw an easy mark and decided to go for it. He made sure never to be around when I was there. She and I don't get along anyway, but I think he was also poisoning her against me based on some comments she's made.

It all came to a head late last year as her Alzheimer's got worse. I found out by accident that he has been stealing from them ever since he was given access to the money. He had romanced her into doing that and leaving everything to him in the will, a new will he wrote. As well as I can figure out he told her he just wanted to be friends as soon as he got what he wanted.

I tried to get a new will written, but her Alzheimer's was too bad at that point, and lawyers refused. My uncle saw a lawyer earlier this year, and he said we're screwed. When she dies the guy gets everything, even if my father is still alive. She's a narcissist who has ruined my life over and over ever since I was born. Now she's going to ruin things after death too.

I'm having to go through their 3 story house crammed with decades of things to get it ready to be sold. The basement is so full you can barely walk through it. I'm single, with no kids or siblings so it's just been me.

At the moment I'm pretty sure I finally have COVID. I have to stay isolated since I was exposed over christmas anyway, so I don't see the point of getting tested right now to find out for certain. I'm fully vaccinated, and my symptoms are very mild. My fear is of developing long covid.

[todaynewsonline]

Cheap Commercial Vehicle Insurance

Cheap Commercial Vehicle Insurance:- Commercial vehicle insurance is a vital investment for businesses that rely on vehicles to carry out their operations. Whether you own a fleet of delivery vans, trucks for transporting goods, or any other type of commercial vehicle, having insurance coverage is not only a legal requirement in most places but also a practical necessity to protect your assets…

[northwestmutt]

As I said in my previous post, I got a new mobility aid to assist with my POTS. Unfortunately, there's only so much that increasing hydration and increasing my sodium can do for me. I've tried compression socks but they're either too loose and do nothing, or fit snug like they're supposed to which then gives me sensory issues. So my symptoms unfortunately haven't improved all that much with treatment, and they've only gotten worse as the seasons change and it gets hotter. Thankfully, I haven't fainted but I have come close to it many times. I've been having all of the pre-syncope symptoms (tunnel vision, black spots in my remaining vision, extreme dizziness and lighteadedness, feeling weak like I'm about to pass out, heart rate above 140, etc.) which makes it much more difficult to go somewhere like a grocery store. My service dog, Annie, still isn't scent trained to alert to episodes, so I'm doing the monitoring all on my own which means I don't realize it's happening until it gets bad. Because I haven't fainted yet, my doctor agreed that we need to keep it that way. So I currently have a wheelchair so I can go to stores safely. I also have a disabled parking placard so I can get my wheelchair in and out of my car. If I am going somewhere where I can either get in and out quickly and won't do much walking or standing, I don't use my chair and I don't use the reserved parking spaces. But if I know I will be walking or standing somewhere for more than two or three minutes, such as standing in line at the pharmacy, or going grocery shopping with a family member, I do use my wheelchair and a parking space reserved for people with disabilities.

My wheelchair is a Quickie 2 folding wheelchair. I would have preferred a lighterweight rigid chair, but I was able to find a used quickie 2 on craigslist for fairly cheap. It was covered in an american flag print, so I did paint over it. Spray paint isn't the best option and won't last the longest, but I didn't have the money to have it powder coated in black. So I bought a can of hammered black spray paint, and it turned out pretty good. If I still feel like I am using the wheelchair as much as I am now or even more, I plan on talking to my insurance company and seeing about the possibility of getting a custom lightweight rigid wheelchair fitted to me, because this one is a bit heavier to get in and out of my car and it's bulkier, so its not as easy to use as I would've hoped. But it will get me by for now.

[bluntforcespatter]

ranting, long, mentions of ableism

my apartment should be 700 a month given that it's a shithole

like i pay 1400 a month and this place has holes to the outside. it's an apartment complex and ours is just shit for some reason. we have multiple bug problems because of the holes. one of the walls isn't sealed so that room is perpetually cold and full of bugs. you can't use it as storage due to the aforementioned bugs. there was a hole to the outside in the ceiling when we moved in. the walls aren't installed even remotely properly. i can't even use my indoor wheelchair here so most days i am in bed. all day.

and accessible apartments go for 3k. you pay more for accessibility. even if i could work and could afford that somehow, working would deteriorate my health (as it already has, hence the prescribed wheelchair!) and then like. how long would it be until i couldn't work and therefore couldn't afford the apartment anymore? not to mention a job to stock store shelves requires a bachelors. i don't have a credit co-signer so i can't take out student loans. i can't afford school because i can't get a minimum wage job that would pay my rent let alone my uni fees - staying on campus is more expensive than getting a room somewhere. but i am in a wheelchair. so i can't share a house with a bunch of students because none of them are accessible. i need help washing my hair. i can't move in with strangers and live "on my own" amongst them even if the whole place had ramps and chair lifts.

disability is only 1k. so you need to find a rental that is 800-900 max so you still have 100/200 for food and like. a internet/phone package.

but then. your grocery bill is literally 200 a month, bc where i live has a 300% - 600% inflation rate. if you're american and reading this, if you can buy kraft dinner for one dollar and twenty-four cents, that box is four dollars and ninety-nine cents where i am. a single box. just as a comparison. there is no such thing as cheap food. your 25c ramen is 1.25 for me. (i am not blaming you or saying your life isn't hard or w/e use reading comprehension skills here please.)

all the food banks are up several flights of stairs and are open for only 2 hours per place first come first serve. if you wait in the line outside and the two hours are up and they haven't gotten to you (bc that's how dire shit is here!) you go home. and you can't drive, so you can't even get there anyways! starve.

can't drive? no groceries. get them delivered! can't afford a credit card interest because your phone plane is 50, your internet is 50, and that leaves you with a hundred a month for groceries? can't afford delivery. whatever, you couldn't afford delivery, because it starts at an eighty dollar fee. starve.

i am lucky, fucking blessed, to have my roommate so i can afford to be alive but holy shit. i am dependent on her entirely. i cannot drive. she sits at the edge of the tub to wash my hair. she helps me up. she pushes my chair, because i can't self propel. she cooks. and honestly, being that dependent on someone else for reasons you can't control WILL make you suicidal. every day i consider that she would be better off without me - but the kicker is that she couldn't afford rent without me here. she couldn't afford internet and a phone plan and credit card interest and groceries and gas and car insurance and the occasional non-essential all together if i didn't pool with her - because she takes care of me, i take care of her too. (and she claims she likes to care for me, that it makes her less suicidal herself to have someone who needs her and someone to hang out with. but dear god i feel like the shittiest waste of life on the fucking planet.)

my government actively pushes medically assisted suicide onto disability recipients. they want us dead, and i'm not being hyperbolic. if you don't take medically assisted, then starve, or die out on the streets in the cold. our shelters will take you in for a max of three nights, some places it's only one. our food banks are upstairs with no elevators. our livable paying jobs require a post-secondary degree, because all other jobs are for teenagers, and we believe adults do High Paying Jobs That Require Education, so you cannot afford a place on a "teenager's first job" type job. but our schools are 4-10k a semester ON BURSARIES AND GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (of which i had EIGHT and it was still 5k!) and to afford JUST THE TUITION FEE, NOT HOUSING, NOT FOOD, NOT BILLS, on minimum wage, you'd have to work over three hundred hours a month, and going to uni (I WAS IN LAW SCHOOL which expects 600 hours a month!) is 400-500 hours a month, which in total is more hours than there ARE IN A MONTH. why are you so poor? why do you choose to be poor? being poor is a personal moral failing. you are a personal moral failing. you are a failure.

i am fucking sick to death of people who think people like me are a drain on the system or w/e. if you think like that you shouldn't be here. our system is broken. like deeply. when i became homeless and i was still in uni i asked them what they could do to get me from place to place so i could move in on campus and they told me to ask my parents. while i was homeless. what parents bro tf. their campus wasn't even wheelchair accessible i was studying from home because of that. you cannot dig a pit and put disabled people into it and then blame them for not being able to climb out. all people my age did was blame me for not going back to school. "why can't your mom and dad just pay for it? why don't you just work to pay for it?" why are you fucking stupid britney? mommy and daddy paid for your bachelor of arts so you could get a slightly-above min wage job and bitch, it's pay to play, so if you have no parents, no grandparents, if you're me, you're fucked. game over, just go die quietly so we don't have to look at you. kill yourselllllllf!

this counts for any of you, by the way. if you read this far, anyways. if you're systemically denied the opportunity to succeed because of your mental health or poverty or mental disability or whatever. it's not your fault. and i am angry too.

[seat-safety-switch]

Ejector seats are in the news again. Some poorly-made airplane decided it wanted to be a lawn ornament, and the pilot was able to get the fuck out without being hurt. Besides the fact that the engineers responsible for the ejector seat are clearly better at their jobs than the morons who designed the rest of the plane, this raises an important question. Why don’t cars have ejector seats, if they’re so good?

It makes a lot of sense on paper. The space above cars is generally empty and thereby safe for a seat to fly into the air and safely descend, assuming you don’t get run over by the guy behind you when you land. Although SUVs do roll over frequently, blocking the roof, fighter jets also do that. Tunnels are another problem, but statistically almost none of a highway is tunnels, and if you crash inside one, you’re probably going to hold up a lot of traffic anyway, and your fellow drivers will wish you had died. And while building these seats cost a lot for minimum safety benefit, that hasn’t stopped automakers from including useless features like lane-minding software and rear brakes in the pursuit of false security. So it just makes sense that the next frontier has to be ejector seats.

Of course, there are some genuine engineering obstacles. For one, the average fighter jet pilot is not texting and driving. The force of the ejection may cause the driver of a mere car to drop their phone in the footwell, which is extra inconvenient because the now-driverless car is likely to careen off the road and burst into flames. And those phones aren’t cheap, although having the evidence destroyed may help with keeping insurance rates low enough that you can afford a replacement phone.

Still, I don’t think this is a good reason to stop this important advancement in safety technology. The 2024 Seat Safety Switch Mall-Crusher is already planned to have it, just as soon as we figure out how to add a Big Gulp-capable cupholder that can withstand the G-forces of launch.