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Are you suggesting the upper end of direct disability payments are $500k to $600k per year?


No, sorry. Meant per year.
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I've noticed the amount of lifted truck and jeeps kitted out on custom wheels with a DV license plate has skyrocketed in recent years.


That's when I started to become aware. The sheer number of people with VA Disability plates. Are they free or something?

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And yes it is interesting to see one on a truck that clearly takes a good climb to get in.
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Here's a real sad conversation that needs to be had - there's entirely too many veterans claiming full disability who saw zero combat time, went to zero combat zones and they're drawing these benefits in perpetuity


I think on the upper end it's 40/50k per year, for LIFE.

I assume then that they get SS on top of that when the time comes.

Edit: should have been per year, I said per month. Brain fart.

re: new car extended warranty

Posted by Grievous Angel on 7/28/26 at 9:32 am to
I tend to avoid them. THere's a reason the dealer pushes them so hard. Huge mark ups.

If you're going to get one, shop around. You might find some far flung dealer willing to sell you the same manufacturer's warranty for a lot less.
My thoughts could change considerably if I knew who-dumped-who.

Otherwise I would want what's best for the child.
Don't forget disability, both SS and Veterans. Rampant abuse all around
I don't even like a dude cutting my hair.

Maybe in an old school barber shop, ok.

But in a salon, he's gonna be gay.
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I mean, you just killed my kid!


Oh frick off.

I like dogs. But we've reached mental illness levels of humanizing pet dogs.

Also, edit: good shot under pressure. Restrain your damn dogs.
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One good way to limit future military disability, abused or rightful, is to stop making political decisions that put so many service members in harm's way.


Yes.

But peacetime disability has skyrocketed as well. Co-pilot says 25 to 35% of all us vets (not just combat vets) are on disability.

It's a racket just like the SS disability is a racket. Both have their abusers.
Just take a look around at the number of "disabled veteran" tags you see.

No way it's legit at the scale I've seen. People are absolutely abusing it.

And no one will touch it.
I rode in one back from Atlanta. Automated stop at Tesla supercharger included.

I wouldn't say I didn't have anxiety over FSD...but it cooled off as the night wore on.

I did NOT trust it as much as my driver did. But I was impressed.

This was so outrageous that I kept telling myself it had to be elaborately staged. I kept looking for clues.

Alas I couldn't find it.

Thanks Joe Biden.

Thanks liberal white women.



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Your showing your age with "trim"


You're showing something else.
Critics hated both of these. I dunno. I liked 'em.



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Not like it used to be back in the day of CD’s and six disc changers.


I used to browse Blu Rays, Music, and games a lot.

That's all gone away...not much to "browse" anymore. You can't browse "drones."

re: WYHI: TDS Cat Lady Edition

Posted by Grievous Angel on 7/12/26 at 12:45 pm to
Need more data. Don't know about them teeth.

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That pic is a cross between Carrot Top and Marilyn Manson. Ugh.


It's the witch from Weapons.
I worked with a lady whose kid got shot in the face with a mortar.

He died.

Too bad Rogan is in it. He's been played out a while.

I'm always up for giving Ed Norton a chance, though. I'll pass on the theater.
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The super hero fatigue is real.


The conventional stuff, yes.

There are outliers like The Joker and The Batman.

I think Marvel ruined us on all the quippy dialog and the waxy low stakes CGI.

Gunn's Superman was EXACTLY like all of that.

Only think I've enjoyed lately were the two movies noted above.

This is a legit WYHI.

But it's also an easy no.