Thread: Rants and Stupid shit in Orange County
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03-26-24 12:15 #985
Posts: 651For people with the trackable car problem
I found a potential solution. There are some car sharing apps out there where you can rent cars from other people for a couple hours. The two most prominent ones are Zipcar and Getaround. Zipcar isn't very prominent in SoCal. It's huge in the Bay Area but not so much down here, but there are a few areas that have Zipcar nearby. Getaround seems to be a little more prominent down here. There is a location (a private house) within walking distance of my work where I can rent a vehicle for 3 hours for $15-20. They are "remote rentals" where the app unlocks the car for you, so you don't have to interact with anybody. It's just pay the fee via the app and return the car with the same amount of fuel that you picked it up with. It's of course an additional step to throw up a smoke screen, but in the instances where I have to drive to areas that I just can't risk getting caught in it should do the trick.
Of course there's always Uber, but Uber to most locations that I have historically frequented would add $75-80 to the cost of the field trip, which makes it not worth it. The car share thing might be just what the doctor ordered.
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03-22-24 10:12 #984
Posts: 14Originally Posted by BraveNuPengwin [View Original Post]
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03-20-24 11:43 #983
Posts: 645Originally Posted by BraveNuPengwin [View Original Post]
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03-18-24 01:38 #982
Posts: 6834Originally Posted by BraveNuPengwin [View Original Post]
After, she got preggo she found out she was just another weekend gal or weekly gal used for free s*x by a wealthy China dude.
China has some serious party locations just like Miami and NYC.
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03-17-24 19:59 #981
Posts: 225Single mom's
I've come across that a lot of the Chinese girls you encounter have baby stretch marks or reveal they have a baby or child in China. What's going on an epidemic of single moms?
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03-13-24 20:31 #980
Posts: 85Never going to stop!
On my way to the AMP there's a car accident in the intersection. Cars everywhere. I park 3 blocks down and walk to AMP. I have the sickness. I would have walked even further if needed. The little head out thinking the big head. Keep mongering my fellow mongers!
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03-13-24 11:16 #979
Posts: 2682Originally Posted by Grimmy23 [View Original Post]
I bought this before we knew Elon is crazy.
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03-11-24 10:37 #978
Posts: 651Originally Posted by FarFarAway [View Original Post]
I imagine I'll slow down a bit, but I don't see myself stopping completely. It's going to take a lot more effort and expense for me to cover my tracks now, so if I'm going to have some extracurricular fun it has to be worth it.
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03-10-24 14:07 #977
Posts: 2682Originally Posted by Grimmy23 [View Original Post]
I happen to have a business trip to a well-known party town starting Friday, I am super happy to get some time away for free play. Hope to have a lot to report.
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03-09-24 01:13 #976
Posts: 651I thing wrong with that
Originally Posted by PlasmaSpray [View Original Post]
I like to use my two trip comparison. Trip #1 - We drove to Monterey a few years ago for a little getaway. For that trip we rented a Nissan Rougue. From OC we had to stop for gas in Lost Hills. We had lunch during that stop, so we were stopped for around 45 minutes between gas and lunch. A tank of gas cost about $75. We hit some traffic and had to stop to top off the tank just south of the Monterey Bay Area. We figured we could have made it to our hotel but we'd be on fumes, so we played it safe. That fuel stop was about $60. We all had to take a leak so we went to the Starbucks across the street to do that and get drinks. About a 20 minute stop. So in total, two stops, a little more than an hour between them, and $135 in fuel.
Trip #2 was a year later in a Tesla. Same stop in Lost Hills. The difference this time was we went to the supercharger and plugged in, then walked down the street for lunch while it was charging. Still was about a 45 minute stop, and the cost of the super charge was $14. Same pee stop as the last trip for the same reason (traffic and didn't want to sweat the last few miles.) Did a 20 minute charge top-off, walked over to the same Starbucks while it was charging, and the top-off cost was about. $8. So as compared to the last trip in a gas car, about the same total travel time, but $22 in "fuel" cost vs $135 in the gas car.
Again, I do recognize that it's not the end all solution for everyone, so I'm not trying to start an EV vs gas car debate. I love being gas free, but it comes with the obvious drawback of being trackable in this case. I'll figure out a workaround for that.
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03-08-24 23:43 #975
Posts: 159I am old school gas. Do not give crap about what thw wife wants not. It is MY car.
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03-08-24 22:12 #974
Posts: 502Originally Posted by Grimmy23 [View Original Post]
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03-08-24 19:05 #973
Posts: 651Might work for some people
Originally Posted by OcAmper [View Original Post]
A pickup truck isn't a bad idea though if you can pull it off. Definitely solves the problem.
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03-08-24 18:46 #972
Posts: 645Vehicles and tracking
All this talk about newer vehicles, why not buy a 'weekend vehicle', driven occasionally, that has no tracking? Could be, a sports car from your youth, or just a beater with a heater pickup to haul shit around?
Seems like the cleanest and surest way to avoid any accidental location disclosure.
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03-08-24 18:03 #971
Posts: 535PrEP
Do any of you have experience getting PrEP at the OC Health Care Agency (or whatever it's called)? Or is there a better way to get it in OC? I can't go to any of my regular doctors, because they might leak to my SO, who declines to have sex with me. I'm getting so old that condoms are a real barrier, in more ways than one.
Lift Her Up.