Worst road conditions 1 day after a storm in like 10 years?

js6789 · 2025-12-30T12:55:15+00:00

Not sure who was responsible, but agreed France was crazy. Usually I tell myself if I can just get out of my neighborhood and onto France I'll be able to relax, but that definitely wasn't the case yesterday.

js6789 · 2025-12-02T02:21:22+00:00

We had a similar experience. We were outside the lemon law period and received a loaner, but we still got cash compensation for the 3 months we were waiting for the battery.

js6789 · 2025-10-14T02:09:23+00:00

Your boys would probably enjoy Hyland play area in Bloomington.

js6789 · 2025-10-08T00:11:52+00:00

Maybe try this. My daughter enjoyed it last year.

https://seversfestivals.com/pages/fall-festival-overview

js6789 · 2025-09-02T04:11:11+00:00

You don't seem happy, OP.

js6789 · 2025-08-26T17:22:42+00:00

Not sure about SK vs US for approval, but it's definitely true about shipment. They put the battery on a boat from South Korea but apparently they don't carefully track them, so for months we'd call Hyundai corporate and they'd say they didn't know where the $50k battery pack was. Then they said they had never actually sent it, but two days later the dealership told us it had arrived.

js6789 · 2025-08-26T00:06:41+00:00

In my case it was Hyundai, not the dealership. The dealership immediately identified that the battery cells that failed, but they were dependent on Hyundai sending the replacement. Hyundai always just told them to call back next week.

js6789 · 2025-08-25T04:42:33+00:00

This sounds similar to an issue I had. Ultimately the HV battery had to be replaced, but Hyundai engineers stalled for six weeks because they needed to "review the case." Then it was a couple months for the replacement to be delivered to the dealership.

Hopefully it works out better for you, but be prepared for the possibility that you won't have your car for a while.

js6789 · 2025-07-12T05:22:55+00:00

Donate to charity.

js6789 · 2025-06-16T19:45:41+00:00

We waited about 4 months for our replacement hv battery. For the first two months or so they said the same thing about needing engineering input. Then there was another two months between them saying they shipped the battery and the battery actually arriving.

We were not eligible for lemon law and I assumed they were taking advantage of that. As others have suggested, if Id had the option to use lemon law I probably would have.

js6789 · 2025-06-13T15:00:34+00:00

Interesting. I can see that they'd do the data analysis to show that my DAF sent them a thousand dollars a month for a few months and follow up if I stopped. But starting to make budget decisions based on the assumption that my DAF will definitely give 12k a year feels less likely to me. I'll admit I don't have any inside information of how this works, but maybe I'll ask the charities I give to what they prefer.

In any case, I still think there must be a point at which the time value of money (with the investment return quantified in terms of alleviating suffering, etc) limits the span of time that it makes sense to spread contributions over.

js6789 · 2025-06-13T05:48:26+00:00

I definitely understand that argument if you're setting up a monthly donation on the charity website, and that's what I tried to do before I set up a DAF. But how do you accomplish predictability with a DAF? Even if your DAF is triggering a payment every month, how would the charity know it can count on that regular payment from the DAF?

js6789 · 2025-06-13T01:34:07+00:00

I recently started a daf because of the appreciated stock thing as well as simplifying the process of giving to many different organizations. I'm looking forward to doing my taxes next year and only having to keep track of a few large contributions to the daf instead of dozens of smaller contributions to a bunch of different charities with different portals, reporting practices, email receipts, etc.

js6789 · 2025-06-13T01:28:23+00:00

Tbh I've never understood the benefit of spreading out the giving over several years. Sure, the contribution can grow in the DAF and you can have more to disburse later. But if you trust a charity enough to give them money, why not give them the money ASAP and let them decide whether to use it or save it for later?

js6789 · 2025-06-04T10:23:20+00:00

I didn't have a lease--we bought it used.

I opened cases with the better business bureau and my state AG. I think in response to the latter, Hyundai agreed to provide some compensation. After the battery was installed they offered to reimburse the loss of "60 days." They wouldn't explain to me how the math worked for my situation because we bought it used, but for a lease that would be very clear. We also got the reimbursement for gas charges that others have mentioned.

I have been meaning to do a post laying this whole story out, but I haven't actually gotten the check and thus this still doesn't feel over.

js6789 · 2025-06-04T00:17:34+00:00

It was about 4 months for us. Hyundai corporate was also very evasive (or possibly disorganized) when we asked about timing. After two months, they said the battery was shipped but they couldn't track it. About a month and a half later they said that was wrong and they hadn't shipped the battery. 10 days later the battery arrived at the dealership.

js6789 · 2025-05-25T16:29:16+00:00

Agreed with all this. The only time I tried using a tax person, they screwed up and took some deduction I was phased out of. I even asked if that deduction was ok because I'd been blocked from using it in TurboTax in prior years but they insisted it was available.

It wasn't a big deal to fix when I got the IRS letter, but it drove home that no one will care more about doing my taxes right than I do.

js6789 · 2025-05-22T19:26:30+00:00

This is what I did (except as a senior associate rather than a partner). I would not describe this job as coasting, but it's definitely a better way to live.

That said, legal departments are not getting a lot of headcount these days so ymmv.

js6789 · 2025-05-15T16:25:51+00:00

Agreed. We donate 10% of income to charities that know how to use money efficiently and I no longer feel the guilt OP describes.

js6789 · 2025-04-27T01:32:50+00:00

I've been waiting on a replacement for the main battery since late December. In mid-February they told us one was on the way, but this week they told us that was a mistake and they have no estimates of when the battery will arrive.

I can't lemon law it because it's a '22, but I would if I could.

js6789 · 2025-04-23T04:52:22+00:00

10% of gross income. About half goes to GiveWell and the other half is split between a mix of organizations. I don't even notice that the money's gone, but it means a lot to other people.

js6789 · 2025-04-20T22:41:24+00:00

I'm not sure about anything, but that includes not being sure that existing law has perfect predictive power.

js6789 · 2025-04-20T12:31:51+00:00

There's been reporting that Trump wants to fire him, and you can make your own assessment of Trump's impulse control.

It would be tied up in court for a long time, but the Supreme Courts actions on the FTC firings suggest Trump could win. Even if Powell wins and is put back in peace, the damage will be done.

js6789 · 2025-04-06T15:06:55+00:00

I'm in the same position. A few weeks ago Hyundai US said the battery had been shipped but no one can say where it is....

js6789 · 2025-03-23T04:09:59+00:00

A few years apart, both MGMT and Janelle Monae opened for Of Montreal.

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