Edgar, you're hopeless. The rich don't have enough money to pay for all of your hopes and dreams. You ignore biology when it's convenient. You're afraid of people having guns because you're a pessimist and don't trust people. Your admission of having PTSD explains much of your paranoia and has tainted your perspective. I don't believe I have anything more to say to you.

Except they do though. Have you checked the numbers lately?

raynebc, you're a rotten hypocrite. You murder other intelligent life to preserve your own, yet claim an unborn human being is more precious somehow.

There's more than enough money in the US to take care of everyone. Clothing, shelter, medicine, education. All of which IMPROVE the country. But you prefer the rich keep money they don't deserve, because it was made off the backs of everyone else. You're fine with taking money away from the poor and giving it to people who are so fucking rich they don't know what to do with all their money.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distribution-for-the-us/

Look at that chart and tell me those people on the top "earned" their money. They gained it by exploiting people. Fuck you raynebc. You're a spoiled hypocrite.

Fully one half of the entire US owns less than 2% of all the wealth in the nation. Do you even have any idea what that means for quality of life for those people? Do you understand what poverty is? What going without medical care and prescriptions is like? Have you ever been homeless? Have you ever had to beg for money? Fuck you.

Edgar is an angry person drowning in the politics of envy. Most people that make good life choices, and whose parents made good life choices, have a good life. Freedom includes the freedom to succeed or fail on chance and on merit. Few things annoy me as much as people who refuse to work to provide for themselves.

I stopped discussing politics on the internet a long time ago.

Are any of you good with cars? Yesterday, my car (a '94 Honda Civic Ex Coupe) died on me while I was driving. The lights flickered then completely died. It wouldn't start after that. Someone tried to jump-start my car, but it didn't take, so I had to call AAA to get a tow back home. Anyway, today I bought a new battery, but my car still won't start. The lights, A/C, and other electrical goodies still work, but the engine won't turn over. It cranks like it's about to turn over, but doesn't. I tested the new battery with a multimeter and it checks out just fine. I also checked all of my fuses and relays, but they're good, too. Any ideas?

Thanks for the reply, MiquelFire. I'm not much of a car person either. Wouldn't I still be able to start my car even with a bad alternator (assuming the battery is fully charged)? It just wouldn't recharge the battery, as I understand it (though I could be wrong). I'll hook my battery up to a battery charger just to be safe and then try again later.

No. You have no idea who I am. I've had it pretty good, despite still not being born into a very wealthy family. We've always had just enough to get by. What you have to consider is that there are MILLIONS and MILLIONS of people who have it worse off than me. I've managed to make it through college despite everything that happened to me, and now I'm going to be attending grad school. At no point did I "refuse to work to provide for myself" - I COULDN'T physically work or take part in society because I was mentally crippled. Not only will I be taking care of myself from now on, when I graduate with my MCS I will be making more than enough to take care of things.

Most people don't "choose" the life they're born into. Most people can't just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". They need assistance. They need support. And there's no reason we can't give it to them, other than greed.

Republicans slash funding for arts, for education, for welfare, etc...., all of which are INVESTMENTS in our SOCIETY. That give a RETURN on their VALUE. When you educate your populace, you reduce crime, you increase quality of life, and you increase lifetime income. Which of those things are bad?

There's more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, yet millions of people suffer from hunger. There's more than enough wealth to take care of everyone's medical needs and shelter requirements, yet people go with out physicians and medical care, without prescriptions, without a place to live.

I find it personally quite ironic that the people with the least are the most willing to be charitable, while the people with the most like to squander everything to themselves. Poor people are more charitable because they understand what it's like to be poor.

As for you raynebc, you're a selfish toad who has no consideration for anyone but yourself.

Car problems!

It was raining heavy one day and my power steering went out in a park lot (high standing water) + the battery light came on. I'm guessing the serpentine belt was slipping? If that sounds right, how expensive is that to fix? I have a 2007 Honda Accord.

Oh heck yeah, if your dad is mechanical he should be able to figure this out. My dad is also my go-to mechanic because he's a millwright (his job is to fix all the machinery in a steel plant) and he has been working on his own vehicles since he was a teenager. There isn't a whole lot that he can't do.

In other news, if you didn't surrender your battery when you bought the new one I wonder if you could return the new battery after confirming the old one is still functional.. But I think they usually have a disposal program in place and like to take your old battery from you. In which case, oh well, now you have a new battery.

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Also, Edgar, well said.

High standing water? Like high enough to reach the engine compartment?

If the serpentine belt was slipping due to rain I'd expect it to resolve itself once the water evaporates? Have you tried it again?

If the water is getting in through the hood then perhaps it could short electrical systems. That too I would expect to resolve unless residue built up from the rain. In that case, perhaps contact cleaner could help? I recently had to hit my motorcycle kill switch with contact cleaner because it was causing connectivity issues and sore balls.

I can't imagine that would impact the power steering unless as you said the belt was slipping, but I think they're on there tight enough that even if they slip some they should eventually get the pump moving. Perhaps if there was a leak in the system, and water leaked into the system, it could reduce the hydraulic capabilities of the fluid, but that sounds pretty far out there unless the car is in really rough shape.

Any word Eric?