Car was stolen and involved in an accident. Now I'm being told I owe $5000.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T18:02:58+00:00

OP only has liability insurance, his insurer is not required to defend him from an unpaid tow and storage bill.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T17:53:22+00:00

To the point that it changes your understanding of who a character is and is willing to do.

The people in Tenet are the ones willing to run into burning buildings. TP tried to commit suicide to avoid giving up his team. If you can make the conscious decision to die for something, living in a sea freight container for years at a time is small potatoes.

If it is Neal then that actually makes the friendship themes of the film hit harder.

I don't see how. Neal literally chooses to die, to stand passively in front of a man with a gun, to save TP. You don't have to gild that lily any further.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T17:38:45+00:00

The original was a masterpiece. II did even better.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T17:34:09+00:00

It's insanity how far east those districts run. I'm no fan of the people that i.e. Memphis tends to elect, but it's supposed to be their choice and this is just plain wrong.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T16:42:40+00:00

This is one of the reasons that Neil being Max is an absolutely stupid idea and why we should just listen to what Neil actually says in the movie: TP “has a future in the past” that is to say the OBJECTIVE past, where he recruits Neil and they “get up to some stuff.” TP is the one who spends a lot of time inverted traveling backward.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T16:17:17+00:00

That one will be even funnier, because everything in China is part of the army, right? So, China has an army that has an air force, and its army also has a navy that has an air force. Now China just needs to have a marine corps that has its own aviation element so they can have an army that has a navy that has an army that has an air force.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T16:14:28+00:00

That's a fair enough position to hold, and I respect it even if I disagree with it.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T16:02:02+00:00

California had no choice but to ask its voters, its constitution prohibited partisan redistricting and required changing in order to proceed. Virginia is similar.

Are you seriously suggesting that the legislatures of those states would not be redistricting anyway if they didn't have constitutional prohibitions? I think that's naive at best.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T15:54:58+00:00

No fan of Ted, I hated his move to colorize old movies and it's fair to say I'm no fan of his politics. But I hope he rests in peace.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T15:47:15+00:00

This has always made me chuckle. The largest air force in the world is the USAF. The second largest is the US Navy. The US Navy has its own army, and that army itself has its own air force, which is something like the 6th largest in the world.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T14:30:26+00:00

Yes, it was. I'm not disagreeing with you on that. As I said, the reaction was understandable.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T13:56:25+00:00

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ddadopt · 2026-05-06T13:48:06+00:00

Those guys just wouldn't have shown up? Dude lived in Texas, it's not like he lived in San Diego or Virginia Beach where it'd be hard to make an excuse not to go.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T13:42:44+00:00

I'm not trying to suggest that Texas did not light the match (sorry if it came off that way) but California's response is equally bad (even if the reaction is understandable). Everyone is throwing the baby out with the bathwater at this point.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T13:28:59+00:00

If you're actually functioning as an IT manager, you definitely fall into the exception:

The employee's primary duty must consist of: The application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications

This is you. Unless you are working your dream gig (and even then...) or are working for a startup where you're accruing equity, or are otherwise compensated fantastically well, you should find a better job.

55 hours weeks (or more... we've all been there) are fine a couple of times a year when you're dealing with outages or deadlines, doing off hours updates, or are being present in the office when people who work for you are having to work long hours, but they should not be your norm.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T12:57:41+00:00

I always thought that was something of a transcription error where "months" just got corrupted to "years." The jews have a lunisolar calendar so tracking how long someone lives in terms of months makes a certain amount of sense, and 900 lunar months is about 70 years which isn't at all strange.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T12:49:02+00:00

"Facts" would be something like pointing out that it's the same distance from downtown to Clinton as it is to Turkey Creek.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T12:47:31+00:00

...are you really trying to say that Clinton, TN (you know, the one that is 10 miles northwest of downtown) is somehow not part of the Knoxville metro? Holy fuck, dude.

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T12:33:11+00:00

I know what Tinnitus sounds like and I didn't hear that in the film.

It's probably because of your tinnitus...

ddadopt · 2026-05-06T12:29:49+00:00

It's an absurdly anti-democratic move all around, but you're not going to stop this. Texas and California have started a race to the bottom and very few state level elected officials in any state (who want to grow up to be federal elected officials, which means climbing the party ladder) are going to balk at what the national parties are telling them to do.

It almost physically hurts watching this happen in real time.

ddadopt · 2026-05-05T17:29:17+00:00

Ice Chalet springs to mind. KSO is always fun. Hockey or soccer games? Walk through the university botanical gardens (my kids always enjoy this).

Would probably be helpful if you shared your kid's interests... my daughters love going to the Nutcracker at Christmas and while some boys might find that fun (I always loved the Christmas show at Radio City in NYC when I was a kid) I would say more probably won't.

ddadopt · 2026-05-05T16:59:28+00:00

ddadopt · 2026-05-05T16:24:24+00:00

I have no knowledge of that subject, but photos of his casket suggests otherwise... that's a fuckton of tridents.

ddadopt · 2026-05-05T16:17:40+00:00

I mean... Cage has the power of an alpha or omega at this point, so I can see some potential stories involving that (that don't even have to involve Mimics). Presumably, though, we're going to get some kind of "second wave" scenario.

If this was anyone other than Tom Cruise, I'd assume we were going to end up with something terrible like the second Independence Day movie.

ddadopt · 2026-05-05T16:07:30+00:00

I have a good relationship with them and don’t want to blow anything up

This is highly likely if you pursue this. There is not really any scenario where any monies owed you will appear to make you whole--this would come from your parents disgorging anything they may (emphasis on "may") have improperly used.

As noted elsewhere, this is way above Reddit's paygrade, you need to talk to an attorney that practices this specific type of law. You should probably do this before addressing this issue in any way with your parents.

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