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Sovcit sent the coupon, they didn't agree with sovcit.

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  • He sent in the cupon instead of the coupon. Rookie mistake. Now he's on the hook for the entire loan amount.

  • https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/Decoder is a fun tool to mess with...

    Example information to use VIN# 2C4RDGEG5JR285229 Year 2018


    Manufacturer: FCA CANADA INC.
    DBAs:
    Vehicle Type: MULTIPURPOSE PASSENGER VEHICLE (MPV)
    Model Year: 2018
    Make: DODGE
    Model: Grand Caravan
    Body Class: Minivan

    I kind of want a search engine to index this page so the next owner can see how fucking batshit crazy the previous owner of the car was.

    Edit: Unjacked the formatting

  • The focus this community has on sovcits strikes me as mean-spirited and cruel. These are mostly poorly educated or mentally handicapped people with major financial issues who are being scammed by people offering false solutions to their problems.

    • They're honestly not that at all, a very few are whom I never post, but most of them are really obnoxious far right grifters who got this idea from Qanon and the like and are doing it because they want to stick it to the government that they hate and get what they can for free. They're actually super nasty people.

    • These are mostly poorly educated or mentally handicapped people

      Nonsense.

      In fact, grifters will tell you that educated people are much easier to grift because they think they're too smart to be scammed.

      There's a reason why Jack Abramoff was able to con so many rich people out of their money and why smart people end up in cults.

      Even smart people who aren't in cults can believe very silly things, as silly as what SovCits believe. Linus Pauling thinks vitamin C is a panacea. Ray Kurzweil thinks he'll be able to upload his brain to a computer in 10 years and has thought so since the 1990s. Bobby Fischer thinks Jews control the world.

      • Ray Kurzweil thinks he'll be able to upload his brain to a computer in 10 years and has thought so since the 1990s.

        Kurzweil fervently wishes he'll be able to do this; existential angst drives many people, uneducated or not, to all sorts of religions. At least Kurtzweil is making educated guesses based on technological progress - wrong guesses, but still within the realm of reasonable.

        There's no mysticism to the singularity. There's nothing preventing what he hopes for except engineering sophistication. We know most of the what, and maybe even a good chunk of the how, and we're making progress. Nothing in the idea of brain uploading depends on an ineffable spirit, or anything we can't already prove.

        If we don't destroy ourselves or the planet, there's no reason we won't get there eventually. Just not soon enough for Ray or his loved ones, and probably not in time for anyone currently alive. It's not likely we'll never achieve it simply because we burn up the planet first, and run out of resources to continue frivolous research like immortality.

      • Just because you can find examples of educated people falling for grifts doesn't mean most people who fall for grifts are educated. Frankly, it's absurd and completely counterintuitive. You would have to show me some hard data to prove that correlation.

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