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Rented a flat from a family for 3 years. The flat had not been renewed in over 60 years, but I was alright with that. The flat had several problems, they never wanted to fix.

One day the electrical system starts going out over and over again, fuses would burn every few days. I had to tell them that in case of fire they'd be responsible for everything I had in the house before they agreed they should fix the electric system.

Since they were going to fix the electric system, they decided to do a bit more work and change the floor and a few things more. They wanted to increase the rent 50% to account for these improvements; even though that is illegal I accepted, since they were in fact improving the flat.

I had to move out for two months while the works were going on. One week before the end of the works, the flat was really not done yet. I asked several times whether it would be ready, because I'd need to find and accomodation in the meanwhile. I asked for a discount of half a month so that I could cover expenses and because nobody knew when they would actually complete the works.

The day before I was supposed to get back into the flat, they decided that I was posing way too many conditions and kicked me out. They decided to keep the safety deposit because a plastic floor old over 60 years had started cracking. 8 months later, they still have some boxes of stuff which is mine but never have time to meet me to give it back to me.

Time has passed and I still have to go to a lawyer, because I the meanwhile I had a bunch of trouble to solve. I'm sure I can win a trial against them, but even if I do win the trial I'll have gone through a bunch of trouble just to get my safety deposit back. I'll be doing it just because they need to fuck off, but still...

Now, most people renting places were I live are exactly like this. It is not big corporations, it people who got one or maybe a few flats on rent.

How can this work though? I bought this from this company in Rio de Janeiro, that city is not part of deforestation. This is the GPS position of the company. This is satellite imagery of the company. The company buys stuff from other producers in Brazil, we're confident none of those are taking place in deforested areas.

What would satellite data even be? Here you can see our satellite tracking this soy bean from when it was planted, grown, harvester and transported to Europe.

I mean, the idea does not seem bad. But how do you apply this normative?

Professors started writing books for the students to study. Will students get smarter or stop thinking?

Oh, that is great pricing then compared to what I'm seeing now. However, in here 4 years ago car prices were much lower, even during COVID.

I'll explain a few things which may not be obvious. When I say lowest price available I mean you're buying a car which is over 20 years old directly from the owner. The most likely reason the owner is selling it is that it needs some repairs, and he decided he does not want to bother and is getting a new one. Repairs will likely be 1,000€ upfront, you may be lucky and spend a little less; but that is unlikely.

Someone may consider that it may be worth spending a bit more in order to get a more reliable car with a longer life.

Car prices went up very much: my mother bought a car for 500€ 8 years ago and is now considering selling it for 3,000€.

I don't know whether this is the same in the US, it may very well be that people just want new shiny cars. In here, I know many people who have been working for over 20 years who wish to change car but are now screwed because it is not feasible with their finances.

From the picture it looks like brown spores to me. I had never seen Armillaria sp, but from pictures I must say it does look very similar.

I'm not sure about the spores color, could be white or could be brown. That color resembles very much the color of cyclocybe just picked. It goes more brown a while after picking.

In my experience, used cars always need immediate repairs to get them running. That is what I'd expect from a car I'd pay 2,000€ now. I'd assume an immediate payment of another 2,000€ in repairs to get it running. Probably you can run it immediately, but with several problems which will quickly deteriorate its life span if you don't do that.

It would be different if you were to buy a refurbished car, but those are more expensive.

The difference in price anyway accounts for the high difference in prices between my country and most parts of the US. I live in a cheap European country, the US is way more expensive. I do not know car prices in the US, but if price difference with other things I do know of stands, I would not be surprised for a 50%-100% increase in prices compared to the ones I know.

Yes. In Italy train travel, and especially bus travel, is still somewhat affordable. In most other places you feel just stupid in paying 100€ to cross 300 kilometres when you can go much farther with 30€ on a plane...

Even in Europe it is quite difficult to find a new car for less than 20,000€. If you need a car because you just found a job which is far and you need to ride to get there, taking a loan is your only option.

I guess you can buy a used car, but likely you can not apply to a loan for that and definitely the loan will not cover the necessary repairs to get it to a working state.

The blackout lasted almost 24 hours where I live. But I live far away from France. I know places near France did recover in a few hours.

Oh yes, I heard of food with gold in it. Stuff like that really should be illegal in my opinion. That, or if you really want to do it, at least donade double the price to charity.

That's the cheapest available used car in a cheap European country. I'm sure that gets to much higher prices in the US.

The .main point is that prices for used cars more than quadrupled in just a few years.

So, Gaddafi gave money to Sarcozy so he'd be elected. Then Sarcozy attacked Libya to take out Gaddafi.

That sounds like bad investment. I know they say you should only invest what you're willing to lose, didn't think that could include your own life.