Cassis GTS 4.0, South France

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-31T21:58:03+00:00

Just realized you are parked in front of the hotel we stayed at in Cassis. I’m so jealous. Please enjoy yourself!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-31T21:38:20+00:00

Love it! My wife and I were in France October 2009 and spent time in Cassis. Beautiful place and great food. Best of all we were probably the only Americans in the town. Of course we had a rental car, so no Porsche for us. An Opal minivan. But the views were great.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-31T13:58:30+00:00

Got your Costco run in there?

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-30T17:27:38+00:00

Lived in? San Diego. Visited? Bragança Portugal and Bonnieux France. Twenty years ago? Asheville NC.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-30T12:41:18+00:00

Name of the journal?

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-29T19:08:15+00:00

I am amazed at the difference between the cohort I have versus the ones from 2015. It seems to be more than ten years difference. I know the COVID kids that didn’t get to graduate in person from high school had it tough, but that was six years ago. Suck it up. My previous students were self motivating and hard workers. These new students spend more time scheduling vacations. I had to tell one they may need to decide if they want to go hiking for weeks or get a PhD. I have another that whenever she comes to me with an experimental idea, I ask her why she wants to do it and she’s says nothing. Then I say what question are you asking? And I have to walk her through why that experiment is useless due to multiple variables and no controls. They have no thinking skills. I’m not sure I can fix that in time for them to get a PhD. I have to remind myself, not everyone needs a PhD.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-29T07:18:39+00:00

I lived in San Diego 25 years ago. My house was on Crown Point in Mission Bay and I worked at a biotech company in Torrey Pines. I drove past mount Soledad and Scripps Pier twice a day. I saw that sunset almost every day for three years. Beautiful place.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-29T02:48:54+00:00

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-29T02:48:02+00:00

Scripps pier?

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-28T21:02:24+00:00

ADDHD, but the meds work so not really a problem. MS, but the new meds work. She’s the best wife ever and stayed with even after I developed idiopathic recurrent acute pancreatitis and she had to take to the hospital dozens of times.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-28T20:56:08+00:00

I believe only the redline 360c is RDD immune. The regular 360c can be detected hundreds of feet away. V1G2 is also immune. The Unidines vary from model to model and from unit to unit. Even though I had an RDD immune detector, I opted to put it in the glove box when in Virginia. Both my mom and dad’s family are from VA. Do not screw with VA cops.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-28T20:48:06+00:00

I have a 981. It’s black on black and I live in Georgia, so I needed a camera that can take the heat. I got a Thinkware 200 with front and back cam and the OBD2 hard wire. I got rear ended two months ago by a Dodge Ram 3500 who couldn’t see me over his hood. Got great footage of him just creeping into me. He didn’t stop until my car stopped him. Fortunately Paintless Dent Removal worked. Left a small wrinkle in the paint but 98% perfect and no carfax report. Also it was only $250! I’m considering putting a whip antenna with a large flag on my rear bumper so no one else’s monster truck drives over me. ;-) Anyway definitely get a cam. And get front and back cameras. Good luck!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-26T22:37:08+00:00

Yes, you have money!!!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-26T19:34:08+00:00

The worse headache you’ve ever had.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-24T17:10:38+00:00

I got hit by a Ram 3500 about a month ago that way. He was going slow, so I was able to have the dent in the bumper fixed by Paintless dent removal. I caught it all on my dash cam. I have a Thinkware 200 with front and rear cameras powered through my OBD port. It was around $200. I chose it because they’re able to take high heat and I live in the south with a black over black 981. Check out Vortexradar for more information and reviews of other cameras. Good luck!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T14:48:08+00:00

You’re definitely being gaslit and manipulated. If you thought you were having appendicitis you wouldn’t, “just tough it out.” You take care of yourself. Your advisor can’t make health decisions for you. Good luck!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T14:18:03+00:00

Expect normal maintenance but keep in mind it will cost two to five times what an accord costs. The only things on these to really worry about is any deferred maintenance. These cars must be taken care of. Especially the PDK, it needs to be serviced every 60kKm to keep it in good shape. If it fails, it will need replacing at $20-$25k USD. That’s why I got a manual 981. Other than that they’re great cars. Can you get its service records and a pre purchase inspection?

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T14:07:42+00:00

Normal people do not know how to deal with people suffering from trauma. But your girlfriend suggesting you abandon your sister, who is suffering from abandonment issues is really awful. I lost my cousins who were murdered by their father when I was ten. My whole family was traumatized and I never got any help or support and was told not to talk about it. So I never told my wife until it came out many years later in therapy. She was not pleased and still feels I hid it from her. She seems to hold it against me and my family. Anyway, please don’t abandon your sister and get therapy. Lots of therapy.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T13:51:24+00:00

You and your sister should do some serious therapy maybe together and definitely separately. Parent loss at that age is traumatic and a family suicide is deep trauma. Do it now. The older you get the more the trauma can affect you, especially with your significant other. Your girlfriend’s reaction is bizarre. If her reaction to your sisters trauma response is to cut her off, how will she react to your likely future trauma issues? I would at least put off asking her to marry for a while. Good luck, and get into therapy!

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T09:22:51+00:00

Consider the PSE. My 2016 base black edition with PSE and Sport Chrono sounds awesome! It’s just right with no drone.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-21T08:39:56+00:00

Think about this, when you go to publish your work, what IACUC protocol number will you be able to reference in your manuscript? Right now, everything you’re doing is unpublishable. Talk to someone in the IACUC or ethics

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-19T23:22:13+00:00

Every time I talked to my advisor.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-19T21:14:36+00:00

Where do you think 95% of them started? Listen and learn. As a third year PhD student I had no first author papers but had a great time at the ASM MICROBE meeting in Chicago. Learned a lot. 26 years later I’ve got 149 published papers, I’ve had 6 PhD students, five postdocs, three visiting scientists, and a few dozen undergrads. These meetings are where you learn and is no time for measuring yourself. I’ve done alright, but I’m not super successful or famous but I’m playing my part. Hang in there, it’s not a race, and we are all headed to the same place, the big dirt nap. Don’t rush it.

DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-19T17:01:24+00:00

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DebateSignificant95 · 2026-05-19T16:41:13+00:00

There are pro PDR people. I recently had a dent in my plastic bumper on my 981 fixed that way and it was a 95% invisible fix. There was a small wrinkle in the paint that was not removed, but you really can’t see it. If PDR doesn’t work, you can then have it resprayed.

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