#paying cash for a car

[yutamayo]

Toji: $20 for an hour

[asherzbrainz]

$700 dollars behind on my car payment. Any sugar daddy’s or mommas willing to help out a poor broke trans kid who need his car to live?

Cash app is @KyCo22

I n e e d h e l p : (

[purplesaline]

In our current society (in North America and much of the western world) we can't completely avoid capitalism, but with some work and dedication we can reduce how much we have to participate in it.

Building community is hard, and it often requires a lot of up front investment in time and energy before you start seeing returns on that investment. I know not everyone is in a place where they can make those expenditures without getting anything back right away which is why it's even more important for those of us who can to start building sooner rather than later.

When you have a healthy, thriving community of people you can start withdrawing yourself more and more from reliance on a broken capitalist system. Yes there's mutual aid within a community but what's even more exciting to me is the option of participating in a barter/trade economy because it's so often more empowering for disabled folks and other marginalized groups that struggle in a capitalist economy.

And even more importantly than that, it's how we can survive a political landscape that is openly hostile to us. It's as impossible to avoid the fallout of the current political situation as it is to avoid participating in a capitalist economy, but being part of a strong and healthy community can at least help mitigate some of the harmful effects.

Neighbours sharing produce from their gardens can lessen the chances of food-borne illness as a result of lax food safety regulations.

Creating, maintaining, and sharing resources that help marginalized groups can help protect vulnerable people in your area when the larger resources are being dismantled or when people acting in bad faith are pretending to be a helpful organization.

Communities have more leverage (and resources) when it comes time to put pressure on local government to make progressive changes

As communities grow, empathy and compassion for the people in the community also spreads and that can help create allies against the bigotry and prejudice some of the community members face. When you're in community together with someone it's harder to depersonalize them. They aren't [insert oppressed group] member, they're the person who walks your dog and brings you beets in exchange for piano lessons, or the person who loaned you a spare tire so you could go to work and when you got home that evening they'd fixed your flat tire for free because they had the time and some spare material laying around from a repair they did on their own tire.

It's going to be really easy to give in to despair in the coming months and I'm not going to lie and say you can survive it. Some folks won't. I'm not going to lie and promise if you can make it through that things will get easier, they might not!

But if you can hang on I can promise you there's a chance things will get better, and I can promise you there's a whole heck of a lot of us out there trying to make sure it does get better. I can promise you that building community will help you survive when things start getting harder, and I can promise you that community can be a beacon of light in dark times, a bastion of hope in a desert of despair.

I know you're tired and I'll understand if you can't keep fighting, but I really hope you've got enough resilience left to hang on long enough to find a community to be part of.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I really do not want to work today, but I am already losing so much time this week for work with traveling for the funeral and I can't get what few funds I have to actually become accessible so I have NO idea how we're getting from the airport to the hotel when we land, and honestly I don't want to spend the first time off I've had in 6 months with my family but here we fucking are.

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[jakekazansky]

What’s the point of scheduling a delivery for later if you’re going to make it and deliver it now???????

[guinevereslancelot]

unnerving to see people younger than me living their lives and doing adult stuff successfully. stop that you're supposed to eat ice cream for dinner and be unemployed

[cranberrymoons]

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[princesscallyie]

Me when I'm listening to the most stupidest story about my mom giving my brother $1500 for a down payment for a 2nd car while his in the shop for a deer hitting him and him losing the nonrefundable $1500 cause he drove 2 hours away to a scummy dealership and he didn't get approve for enough credit from the bank

[bornforastorm]

is it wrong to keep going on dates with this guy i’m very not interested in because i like going out and about and he pays for everything? no

[vpofcookies]

Shout out to the guy at the rock store who did not charge me or my friends for our matching ace rings <3 <3

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I typed in “highest protein foods ever” and — aside from whey protein and other things like fresh haddock and pollock which are extremely expensive — it turns out tuna has the highest protein content per calorie, followed somewhat closely by chicken breast. It looks like oats and brown rice have a decent amount of protein as well so I’ll have to get some in bulk.

So I went to Aldi (I’m from America and we have Aldi Sud, which is different than Aldi Nord; Aldi Nord is on the boycott list) and purchased six cans of albacore tuna, one can of chicken breast, two cans of French-style green beans, two cans of potatoes, and one can of carrots. I also purchased two dozen eggs (in cardboard; not styrofoam, of course) and a giant container of vinegar for use as a multipurpose cleaner and laundry detergent which will probably last me at least half a year.

$18.85 hell yeah AND I didn’t break the eggs on the way home despite getting irritated with the stupid “press to cross” button because it DOESN’T FUCKING WORK and basically rushing in front of a car because I wasn’t about to wait for it to turn when it didn’t turn last time after two full cycles. I knew I could make it if I swerved left a little and I did. I didn’t get hit. I’m not dead. This is not my ghost speaking. It didn’t faze me at all; I know the driver is probably shaken though. Sorry, man.

Once I get the brown rice I can make tuna and vegetable stir fry with an egg scrambled in. I’m sure my neighbors will appreciate the smell SJDBJDJDNDNDJDJNDNSNSN that’s what they get for making the heat vents smell like weed. Tuna attack. Suck it. I’ll need to ride my bike for 45 minutes straight over “gentle hills” (gentle my ASS) soon so I’ll cook that meal the night prior and have it for breakfast. I have a small can of orange soda I saved from the staff break room when we had treats, which I will take with me in case I need sugar on the road.

Other things I’m noticing from riding a bike around all the time:

The webbing between my thumbs and forefingers feels raw from rubbing on the handlebars all the time

Riding into a strong gust of wind IS THE LITERAL DEVIL

”Push to cross” buttons don’t work half the time. They do the BEEP beep but they don’t change the picture to the little white walking man. Yay for pedestrian safety! /s

I am not as in shape as I thought

Ride as hard as you can on dips then stop pedaling when going back up to conserve energy and not kill yourself

[yoshistory]

Fuuuuuuuuck today was awful .... I went to the doctor and after that tried getting my lamp fixed at the lamp shop and they looked at it and was like. Yeah that's unfixable. Those parts just don't exist anymore, sorry.

Went outside and my car wouldn't start and I had to run around asking for a jump (lamp people were cool about my car chilling there for a second) and it rained on me a lot and then I went to jiffy lube and they drove me down the street to help me and tried jumping it but it wouldn't work.

And THEN they were like "wait. hang on" and hit my starter with a stick while i started it and was like "yeah your starter is OLD.. Go to this garage down the road they'll help you"

and the garage looked at my car and was like "ummmm.... that looks so bad I'm respectfully not touching that. Sorry"

It could've been WAY worse and I made it home safe after this buuuuut... I have no clue if my car will start so I can go to work tomorrow. I don't have anyone around to hit my car while I start it ... >>''

[missmagooglie]

Listen. I get that they're trying to have Eddie and Tommy bond over every cliché "guy's guy" activity known to man, but since when does Eddie Diaz own TWO CARS?!?!

[scringee]

This is the only way to express how I'm feeling

[horrorfolk]

I have to drive my shitty breaking down car to school for the next 3-4 days until the parts come in to have it fixed 😭 it's a 45 minute drive both ways on a GOOD day and I can't use my gear shift without shoving a screwdriver into this button that allows me to switch gears bc the stupid thing gets stuck. and like 3 belts all need to be replaced and it's making a horrible screeching noise. im so fucking stressed out but at least im getting a discount on repair costs bc my friend who's a mechanic is fixing it for me but this is so stressful bc I had to miss school today which set me back bc we were supposed to do shadowing today to get ready to start taking clients. and I have 2 huge hair cutting tests tomorrow and the next day that I absolutely cannot miss. im stressed and upset and in an Uber rn to go pick up my car from the shop and take it home while we wait on parts to come in. I have less than $200 in my bank account and have to scrounge up all my cash tips I've been saving for like a year to pay for this. 😢