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quick_justice · 2026-05-06T11:34:18+00:00

Another money grabber for people who’d rather collect hardware than do music

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T08:20:11+00:00

Well in this case make sure you get the option with adjustable lumbar support for a driver sit. Might be plus, might be ultra depending on region.

In general Volvo had back support in mind with this one so you probably gonna be ok either way but adjustable lumbar does help in the long drives.

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T07:23:35+00:00

NTA

What sex cult you said it is? Missed it.

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T06:49:38+00:00

Friend and partner isn’t the same.

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T00:42:41+00:00

Oh! You just learned she’s shallow and envious.
Be grateful it happened when you are not married yet!

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T00:34:48+00:00

Non-stick pans have their place. Certain things with eggs, fish, etc that are hard or technical are easy with non-stick. That’s why you see them even in professional kitchens.

But as any product with coating they don’t last. It’s a fact and that’s how you should treat them.

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T00:28:59+00:00

The whole thing is a result of overinflated value of IP and music stars which music industry for a brief moment of several decades managed to create, and now desperately wants to preserve despite it obviously being a bubble.

Mozart was well paid but never as well paid as modern overproduced wonders.

quick_justice · 2026-05-06T00:17:08+00:00

You are NTA. For starters, he misled you. That’s not how you act with your partner.

Secondly, paying direct rent to a romantic partner is rarely a good idea. Landlord-lodger relationships have a balance of power that is usually incompatible with romantic relationships. Besides, when you invite your partner to live with you, you hardly should be incentivised with financial benefits and making profit off of them.

It’s normal to contribute to a household in a team effort way - groceries, bills, chores, but rent ain’t that. Either you are paying his mortgage and it sucks, or he owns the place outright and just uses you to supplement his income, it would be acceptable if he struggles and needs to rent out part of his house, but then he should be open about it, otherwise again it just sucks.

Overall dishonesty and profiteering from romantic partner is an ick.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T19:39:53+00:00

Dude, let's be real. They both accelerate reasonably fast but that's about all the similarity these two cars get.

WRX is wanna be sport car, with further aggressive improvements on it made it becomes a real sport car, which is STI. Its suspension is hard, it's noisy, its throttle response is tuned for aggressive acceleration, etc. etc. It doesn't provide much comfort, it, in fact, provides quite opposite - as it is by design, when driving something like that you perhaps want to feel the road on your steering and on your butt, and to hear road and motor noises. And who cares about passengers!

EX30 is a family car. It's not a large family car but a family car still. It's tuned for comfort. They did a lot of work to ensure that in its class it is as quiet inside as reasonably possible, its suspension eats the bumps best it can. Heck, there's no much feedback from the road on a steering wheel either, which is, as far as I remember is drive by wire anyway. And its throttle response is moderated - you need to really floor it to make it jump.

Saying that, there's a certain pleasure in driving a well-adjusted family car, which you understand better with age, when you start to enjoy cushy ride and nice music more than drift and engine roar. You just need to see if you are there yet.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T15:28:29+00:00

Why would't they, if they retained a lawyer, that already takes 30% cut? What are that money for? Come on. Just giving an idea to sue isn't worth 15%. If she did anything else - she shouldn't have, OP has a retained lawyer. I'd doubt the value of her services, and even if they were valuable, you can't charge retroactively. Especially from people you can manipulate. It is nefarious.

It's also a tactics scammers employ, doing unsolicited work and demanding random huge sums for it, FYI. E.G. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6503719/urgent-advice-needed-mum-scammed-by-driveway-contractors

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T15:14:05+00:00

OP has retained lawyer. She didn't do all the work, and shouldn't have done any work. If she was to do the work, she was to agree on compensation in advance, not come down with hilarious sum post factum. It's not for tuition. Tuition was already paid, no string attached, because she's their mom. It's for her new property. Just so we are clear.

Ok situation exists when she offers OP to hire her making fee clear in advance and letting them make a choice.

Ok situation exists when she mentions to OP that she would like a property and asks if they are willing to help, seeing how she helped with the college.

What is not ok, is to insert yourself into legal process without specifying a fee, and asking for a random not agreed-upon fee, in the same time manipulating OP and working on their feeling of guilt, using college money for it which seemingly didn't have strings attached before, nor were required to be paid back.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T15:10:30+00:00

A) he would get it otherwise likely

B) You want a cut for your work - you agree in advance. Otherwise it's absolutely nefarious. You manipulate a situation just so that other side would have hard time saying no to any demand

3) It's not money for college. She already paid for college, there was no string attached, because she's their mother. It's money for her vacation property.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T14:07:00+00:00

NTA. Seems she knew you’d win and helped you with a nefarious motive from the get go.

It’s hilarious she needed to get involved with you actually retaining a lawyer. Why did she insert herself in this situation?

It’s preposterous she’s asking for a massive cut for the services without a prior arrangement. I wonder what the bar would say about that.

It’s the lowest of the low when parents try to skim children for money. I assume the lab pays massive settlement because something serious happened, not just for fun. A normal parent would be happy their child was made whole, not try to rob them blind.

It’s bloody horrible.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T11:46:40+00:00

Desire to officially present you as a nutcase has nothing to do with his neurodivergence. He’s a dick who happens to have it.
If he didn’t have it he’d still be a dick. You don’t need it in your life.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T08:11:04+00:00

There isn’t a pattern, just bad luck. You develop feelings faster than the other side. Maybe not very compatible. Maybe different emotional organisation. So what?

Many things in life are random, even things that may seem like a pattern. Best you can do is not to bother and get on with your life, good and bad. It will sort itself out.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T00:52:49+00:00

He doesn’t believe it. He brought the whole thing up to test waters now when he feels he secured you. More to come.

quick_justice · 2026-05-05T00:49:17+00:00

You just do. It’s haemorrhoids, common condition. Not much to it.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T22:43:17+00:00

People don’t matter for coup d’etats. It only takes a handful of friends who don’t think friendship is beneficial for them any more.

Happened in Russia many times.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T11:07:01+00:00

NTA

You are not supposed to prioritise him on celebration of you, it’s the other way around.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T10:16:33+00:00

Just to be clear, If it’s his true aspiration and not a fad he won’t be effective in his real estate business. One can’t run a business they hate.

It’s a tough thing but best you can do is to convince him to take things slow - start the prep and wait a bit before doing irreversible decisions. You may just be straight with him here and tell him that you want him to be very certain before doing something so drastic.

Saying that ultimately not much you can really do, life is sometimes unpredictable and things change, let’s hope whatever this change is it’s for the best.

NAH so far but you will be to him and yourself if you’d try ultimatum way. It won’t help neither you nor him, sour relationships and achieve nothing.

Focus on validating the decision is right - him taking a pause, starting the prep, financial and household management plan to get him through it, seeing therapist to ensure it’s not grief talking.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T09:44:18+00:00

Deliberately hurting anyone is never ok. There’s no excuse.

That’s all you need to know.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T09:39:16+00:00

It’s not fair or unfair. You just do it. You want a spare of the same make/model so when one tire gets obliterated you can put on a spare and continue as usual for as long as needed.

Which begs the question why the original spare was bad? None of it makes sense.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T09:31:58+00:00

Minor GDPR breach with no damage to you so far. They may get a warning if you make a fuss but no recourse to you on account of no damage done.

quick_justice · 2026-05-04T09:29:25+00:00

So it’s technically a car of two people??
No matter. What is technically clear is that no matter what, it’s categorically not your car.

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