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IninewCrow

@ ininewcrow @lemmy.ca

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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.

  • Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

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  • I bought it when it was ten years old and from a friend of a friend who was selling it privately. The only real way to grab a good vehicle is if you know of someone who had a vehicle from new. It's just constant searching and luck that one is able to find vehicles like this. The guy I bought it from had it from new and took care of it and by the time I got it, it had minimal rust. He knew the truck's life was limited which is why he wanted to get rid of it. As soon as I took hold of it, the rust started growing on the damned thing and I've been fighting to keep it going and away from any further rust as possible. The engine and transmission are good and will last a very long time, its just the rest of the truck, especially everything from the wheel wells down (minus the engine and transmission) that will fall apart first.

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  • I agree ... I think the cutoff is about 2010-2015 vintage vehicles. I like Volvo cars and station wagons, they are literal workhorses that were designed by a Swedish company for winter use. And in that vintage, it is just at the peak when the company was still producing good vehicles and just before the point where they were heavily Americanized, then taken over by Chinese interests. The vehicles are still produced in Europe (I think) but of a lesser quality because the company got taken over by foreign interests. And like all manufacturers, they are moving away from the piston engine technology and transitioning to all electric.

    Yes it is inevitable that everything will move away from old piston engines ... but I think it will all last another 20-30 years before it all becomes impossible or way too expensive for anyone to maintain their old clunkers after that.

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  • I can say this proudly because I live in northern Ontario which basically salts our vehicles for about six months of the year. We might as well live on an ocean coast, we have so much salt on our highways. I do my own undercoating every year (it's a real pain) and I put it on thick and in every nook and cranny. The work that I do just delays the rust, it doesn't prevent it because there is just too much salt up here. Mix into that ice and snow and all that stuff just cakes on, falls off, takes away the coating, exposed metal, more salt and repeat all winter long. I'm lucky if I can hold onto a vehicle longer than ten years up here.

  • Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried

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  • Buying a new vehicle hasn't made sense for about 30 years now.

    I've been driving for about 30 years and in all that time, I've never owned a new vehicle. I kept buying used vehicles for about $2,000 - $3,000 per vehicle. The oldest one I've ever had is a 2004 Volvo station wagon and I still maintain it and it's still running as one of my main vehicles. My other main vehicle is a 2010 GMC Truck which I also maintain. They don't look new, they show a bit of rust around the edges, but they are still very good vehicles that will last several more years.

    Once they break down enough ... I'll buy another used vehicle. In all, over the past 30 years, I've spent about $30,000 on multiple vehicles (I think I've gone through 8 or 9 in that time).

    It has never made sense to me to buy a brand new $40,000 car that will only be used for about five years before you buy the next one.

  • Top Republicans stand by president's poop video

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  • My favourite thing about this is that .... he'll be remembered forever for shit like this (no pun intended).

    Think about it ... JFK had famous speeches and lines like 'We choose to go to the moon' ... Eisenhower is thought of to his line 'the Military Industrial complex' ... Roosevelt for his 'Day of infamy' speech ... even Reagan is remembered for his 'Tear down this wall' speech

    Trump? ... he'll be remembered as a senile old buffoon who shared childish videos to make fun of the citizens he was supposed to govern.

    .... and it isn't just representative of Trump ... no matter how the country feels about it ... his stupidity reflects on the entire nation.

  • MRW AWS got glitchy and my chat apps stopped working

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  • Ah .... gotcha ... sorry about that

  • MRW AWS got glitchy and my chat apps stopped working

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  • Does this work?

  • Abbott: ‘Texas is targeting professors’ over ‘leftist ideologies’

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  • The government of freedom that won't interfere with people's lives and personal freedoms

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    No Kings Protest vs. Trump's inauguration

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  • Exactly .... if enough people had gone out to just vote, America wouldn't have had this problem

    What's the use of fighting for something AFTER THE FACT .... it's far easier to fight for things as soon as possible and when it counts the most, not when you have lost most or all of your power to change things.

  • Think we're safe from Judgement Day for a while yet

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  • Looks like AI ...... combed him out

  • xkcd: Planetary Rings

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  • Are you sure about that? Thousands of years of ancient knowledge might disagree

  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • Exactly .... the world won't admit it to being a fully fascist state of affairs until the entire world is literally falling apart and people are dying by the tens of thousands or millions due to war, genocide, famine, death and destruction.

    Until then, everyone will keep arguing that things aren't that bad yet

  • xkcd: Planetary Rings

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  • I'm Indigenous Canadian and I still have friends or new people I meet who joke with me about Native stuff, like do I know what time it is, what's the weather forecast, can I read the stars? Where are the animals? How's the fishing?

    I tell them that there is a traditional way of being able to tell which way is north.

    I tell them to look for the nearest satellite TV dish ... they always point south.

    Obviously, this only works in the northern hemisphere ... if you are a Native person in the southern hemisphere, the dishes point north.

  • The wolf who cried boy

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  • Hitler? ... What are you talking about? .... we need to have full blown genocidal war, concentration camps where millions are murdered every day, mass military invasions of countries, nuclear war and complete lawlessness throughout the land with people murdering, raping and mutilating each other .... anything less than that is not yet Hitler.

    So stop your alarmism all the time, it's not yet Hitler.

  • Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters

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  • lol .... far into the future ... Americans will remember famous quotes and lines from presidents like JFK, Eisenhower ... even Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton and Obama

    ... and all anyone will remember about this idiot is just how dumb and stupid he was and how dumb and stupid America was to put him and keep him in power.

  • Inspirational

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  • Unless you can achieve a certain amount of force .... then you can get a stable orbit around the planet

  • What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?

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  • Dedicated GPS unit in your car

    My parents gave me a GPS unit for my car about 20 years ago and I used it for the longest time. It was great help when driving in cities and big towns or locations I had never gone to before. We used it all the time and I think I updated the maps ... I think it was a Garmin device ... I think I updated the maps 2 or 3 times over the years. Then it went unsupported but I kept using it for the longest time.

    Then I started buying better smartphones and my phone just eventually replaced the GPS unit.

    I still have it and it still works and the battery on it is still good ... I just don't need it any more and the maps are about 10-15 years out of date.

  • TIL - the Alt-Right is obsessed with Roman Memes

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  • I enjoy Roman memes and in a lot of the history communities, I learn lots from others .... but the greatest thing I've ever learned from Roman history is that their legacy is a lesson to all of us of what NOT TO DO to run a civilization because if you did, it only leads to inequality, instability, that it is unsustainable and that it all eventually collapses. They were a great people but they were great because their excess was built on the subjugation of nations and enslaving entire people in order to get what they wanted. They could only succeed if they kept abusing everyone else and eventually themselves.

    Their system grew and expanded when it benefited many people .... but it collapsed and failed when all that power concentrated itself into ever smaller groups of people.

    Roman history is a warning .... it's not something we should try to repeat like we are now.

  • TIL - the Alt-Right is obsessed with Roman Memes

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  • Whole groups of men dressed in skirts that only want to spend time with other men in skirts?

  • Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrong

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  • There is violent treason in the streets of America .... perpetrated by government sanctioned thugs in masks, no identification, unidentified cars and are actively kidnapping and arresting people without restriction