I have a 2013 honda accord and i’ve noticed recently that my car begins to vibrate in intervals while sitting in idle. It’s not super crazy and I don’t hear any rattling sounds but I can feel the vibrations through the floor. it last for a few seconds then stops for a few seconds and then starts back up but is perfectly smooth when I’m driving. What could be the issue? Also, there is no check engine light.

Never had a German vehicle, mostly Honda and Acura. My 2013 Honda Accord v6 is paid off and rides great but has a dent in the side from a rogue Target shopping cart that creates 3k of salable and i don’t really want to fix it. (Been living with it for 1.5 years, not as noticeable after some slight DIY dent removal approaches)
Budget- 50k or less Primary needs - comfort and luxury - 4 doors - I’m 6’3 so bigger sedan - sedan only - i like apple car play and safety features - I’m excited to actually enjoy driving , finally have a decent budget
Cars I’m test driving

• 2021+ BMW 540i x drive m sport (could be convinced possibly to not get x drive or m sport but they look amazing)
• 2019+ Audi A6 and A7
• Lexus es and gs models

Any other suggestions to look at given the context above ?
In my go test drive queue

Hi all,
I used to drive a 2013 Audi A4 and it was a fun daily...until the maintenance became a nightmare.
So now I'm in the market for a new(er) car that is fun to drive, somewhat fast, and definitely a lot more reliable. I prefer manuals but I know most cars don't have them so it's not a big deal, but it is a plus.
When I had the Audi, I liked working on it a lot in terms of adding performance mods, changing the way it looks, and obviously having fun with it. If there are cars like that that wouldn't hurt to repair, that would be great! Here's a list of cars I'm looking at with good interest and wonder what y'all think or suggest:

1. 2017/2018 Honda Accord, V6 or 2.0t
   
2. 2016 Lexus RC 300 Base
   
3. 2021 Kia K5 Gt-Line
   
4. 2018/2019 Subaru WRX Limited or Premium
   

I really like the Kia Stinger as well but the only one fits in the budget is a 2018, which isn't bad, but it's the first generation of it and first generations of any car tends to have issues. So anything similar to these cars or one of these cars would be a good choice?
Thanks for any help!

After noticing that my car’s oil runs out after a few months of driving, I took it in to get a diagnostic. I was told today that my pistons need replacing & my car is burning oil. He quoted me $8k to get it fixed, but he suggested that I just keep refilling the car with oil until I can trade it in. It has 156k miles on it, but I haven’t even had the car for a full year yet.
Should I pay the $8k, look elsewhere to get it fixed, or trade the car in?

Continued from Part 3

Fuck Tha Police Pt 1 – Best Buy Disappears

Best Buy was a huge problem for the detectives. First, how the hell did Adnan get there? Jay denied seeing Hae’s car in the lot and he was not sharp enough to later put together the fact that the Sentra was already at the Park N Ride when he picked up Adnan from the Best Buy. Hae’s car was sitting in the same spot where Jay would see it for the first time later close to 7 PM that evening. This indicates the involvement of at least one other accomplice who drove Adnan from the Park N Ride to the Best Buy. Second, it’s a fucking Best Buy. There were certainly security cameras covering the parking lot. This was 1999. Thomas Edison had taken credit for inventing the movie camera more than 100 years earlier. There was a national news story in 1997 when a security camera at a Louisiana Walmart captured a guy who murdered his ex in the parking lot. Florida Today, August 3, 1997, p. 19A (and several other papers). Yeah, Walmart with its inventory of low-end shitty merchandise. Not judging–I’ve shopped there. That’s how I know. Compare that to Best Buy’s mid-range electronics/appliances. Just saying that Best Buy had at least as much interest as Walmart with regard to security. The Baltimore Sun reported the installation of security cameras covering the parking lots in malls and other locations almost 2 years before Hae’s murder. The Baltimore Sun in Carroll, April 18, 1997, p. 5B; The Baltimore Sun in Howard, February 13, 1997, p.4B. Sure, this is anecdotal, but as you will see, there is specific evidence in the police file proving that the cops were treating any security camera footage from Best Buy like it was radioactive.
Fifteen years after Hae’s murder, Sarah Koenig stated in Episode 4 of Serial that “there probably weren’t security cameras in the Best Buy parking lot back in 1999. And that there certainly is no mention of any security footage in the police reports.” (emphasis added). Having recently gone back and found that part of Sarah saying this in the podcast made me realize even more how the cards were stacked against her. I don’t think Sarah had the same police file that I have. Props to SSR and Frankie Hellis for the MPIA requests and making them available in their native format instead of fucking them up by robbing them of the context in which they were produced by organizing them in timelines that seem helpful to the uninitiated, but only add to the confusion and background noise. Sarah may have only been working with the cherry picked information that Rabia Chaudry shared with her. Otherwise, she would have mentioned the subpoena to Best Buy that is in the police file, which we will discuss shortly. If Sarah had this subpoena, she should not hold herself out as an investigative journalist. Actually, that’s not entirely fair. The subpoena by itself is suspicious, but it is the context and timing of the subpoena that are damning. Even decent investigative journalists could miss that. The bottom line was that any security camera footage from Best Buy would create more questions than answers. If the footage shows Adnan getting picked up by Jay with Hae’s car nowhere in sight, how did he get there? If the footage showed Adnan getting dropped off by an unknown accomplice but the footage is too grainy to see who or make out a license plate, who is this person?
This is where Ritz and Macgillivary show that they attended Bilal’s seminar on fabricating evidence. Fortunately for us, they were shitty students. The detectives needed a story from Jay that would precede Adnan’s subsequent alibis. A story that would put Jay’s viewing of Hae’s body before Adnan was seen by anyone at track practice. A story that would shrink the time between when Hae was last seen alive and when the only witness they had saw her dead. Shrinking that window and putting Adnan in possession of Hae's body shortly after she was last seen alive would improve the case for making Adnan responsible for the murder. This new story would change Adnan’s situation from likely avoiding a misdemeanor charge for unlawful disposal of a body to almost certainly being convicted of 1st degree murder. Before you read on, take a moment to review the judge’s instructions to the jury in Adnan’s trial for the requirements to determine if a person is guilty of 1st degree murder–particularly the importance of intent. Trial Tr. 2/25/1999, 36:25 - 38:8. This will provide context for Jay’s emphasis about Adnan supposedly announcing his plans to kill Hae that Jay somehow never shared with Jen.
Jay’s inclusion of Best Buy almost guaranteed that the case would never close. The cops had no leads on how Adnan got there. No leads on who dropped him off. To make matters worse, any security camera footage would only serve to confirm the participation of an unknown accomplice.
Thus, the cops told Jay to forget Best Buy.
Like it never happened. They moved the location where Jay picked up Adnan after school to the strip on Edmondson Ave. near where Adnan dumped Hae’s car after disposing of her body. The cops didn't make Jay move the pick up to the Park N Ride because, like Jay, they did not put it together that Hae's car was sitting there since about 3 PM on January 13th. Morons. They had Jay change the story to have Adnan specifically tell him that he was going to kill Hae earlier in the day on January 13. MPIA 233. If that had happened, Jay would have shared it with Jen. They made Jay lay it on thick by making him say that Adnan proudly declared that he murdered Hae when he popped the trunk open at Edmondson Ave. MPIA 238. Recall that Jen never said that Jay told her that Adnan admitted he did it. It was now BCPD’s turn to make Jay do their bidding under the threat of dire consequences. And Jay, having waived his rights and lacking the means to defend himself, had no recourse and again was compelled to play along. I mocked Susan Simpson quite a bit for the tapping sounds that could be heard during Jay’s statement, because if the cops were going to entirely invent Jay’s version as Susan alleges, why not simply give him a script? Contrary to Susan’s assertion, the detectives made up parts of Jay’s testimony. Parts that required their prompting him. Parts that would fit with some of what actually happened. I might have come to that conclusion sooner if Susan wasn’t so goddamn annoying.
What the cops did here is particularly fucked up because they effectively coerced Jay into falsely admitting to increased involvement in Hae’s murder. Also, his statement read like Jay was a legal scholar who understood the importance of establishing intent to secure a murder1 conviction. While forcing him to change his story, the detectives also increased the probable cause that would normally compel them to lodge charges against Jay. They had everything they needed to put the bracelets on him but they didn’t. “Ok, you’ve admitted to being an accessory in a murder we’ve been investigating for the past few weeks. Can we give you a lift home?” At one point during the 2/28/99 interview while the recorder was off, Jay asked the detectives how he can go about getting a lawyer. Trial Tr., 2/10/1999 at 49:5-10. Jay stated during trial that the detectives asked why he would want one and gave him no guidance. Id. at 52:7-12. Of course, they were not going to charge Jay after that. If they did, he could ask for a public defender and that’s the end of their puppet. They liked that Jay was putty in their hands. They liked that they could leave their options open and force him to say whatever was necessary whenever it was necessary to make their case. Thus, Jay continued to be batted around as a plaything for the next six months by the cops with no charges brought against him and no lawyer representing him. Placing Jay in legal limbo for that length of time is beyond cruel and truly a shit situation.
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FUCK THA POLICE PT. 2 - The PAPERWORK SNAFU RE BEST BUY

Remember all that shit I wrote about a dozen paragraphs earlier about the purpose and process for police progress reports? Here is where they come into play. Because the detectives conjured a sizable portion of Jay’s testimony, they hedged on committing it immediately to paper. They needed to be sure that they had the best version of the story before they started sending out grand jury summonses for witness testimony. Thus, after faithfully and promptly documenting the progress of the investigation, they sat on preparing reports of Jay and Jen’s recorded statements for more than two weeks. The dumbshit detectives were so enthralled at their manipulation of Jay Wilds and the story that they invented for him that they apparently forgot the entirety of Jen’s statement. That includes not only the substance of her interview but also the fact that she was less pliable than Jay because she retained a lawyer. On March 15, 1999, the day before grand jury subpoenas would be served, the detectives prepared their progress reports for Jen and Jay’s recorded statements from February 27th and February 28, respectively. The progress report for Jen’s statement has to be seen to be believed.
First, not one fucking word about Best Buy. You know, the place where she said Jay told her that Adnan killed Hae. Jen literally referred to Best Buy a dozen times during her statement. It was the only location that Jay told her about specifically besides Kristi's apartment that she shared with the detectives. Instead, the report mentions several places that Jen never spoke of. The 600 Block of Franklintown Road. The 4400 block of N Franklintown Road. The report mentions Adnan burying Hae in a shallow grave after she repeatedly stated that Jay told her that he did not know where the body was buried. Then there is the description of Hae’s car. You know. The one that Jen said she never saw before and knew nothing about. Despite her explicitly telling the cops that she had no knowledge about the car Hae drove, the report explicitly mentions the 1998 Nissan Sentra. Despite Jen stating that she did not know the trunk of which car Jay saw Hae’s body, the report about her interview puts it in the Sentra. The report about Jen’s interview also indicates that Hae’s car was parked near 600 Edgewood Street.
For those who attempt to argue that the report was intended to be a composite of information that was collected from both Jay and Jen, look at every other fucking progress report in this case. MPIA 15-105. When multiple things happen in a single day, there is a separate report for each task/incident. Each report covers a separate and discrete subject. Also, if the report of Jen’s statement was intended to be a composite of Jen and Jay’s statements, then why the fuck is there a separate report for Jay’s statement that was prepared on the same day as Jen’s? And why in the name of Circuit City is there no mention of Best Buy anywhere in the report? For those who are not scholars of big box electronic store history, Circuit City stores began disappearing around the time of this case because they could not compete with Best Buy. Yep, nothing makes an already mediocre joke worse than having to explain it.
The detectives sat down with the prosecutor on the morning of March 15 after preparing the bullshit progress reports to go over next steps for the grand jury proceedings. Whether it was because the detectives were ignorant, sloppy or both, someone finally thought to check the report on Jen’s interview against the actual transcript. The morons realized that most of the report chronicling Jen’s recorded statement was fan fiction. Jesus. I don’t even like saying that about other people’s writing when it actually applies. But what made them shit themselves was remembering that Jen had legal representation. That meant that they were stuck with what she said in her recorded statement. They were stuck with fucking Best Buy.
While Jen’s statement was etched in stone, Jay, who was still uncharged and still lacked legal representation, was still pliable. Thus, the detectives dragged Jay back to the homicide office to fix their fuck up. Their story is that they brought him back in because his story did not match the location data from Adnan’s phone. That is complete horse shit. While it is true that the cops were in possession of the location data from Adnan’s phone, the ignorant, lazy fucks did nothing with it. Actually, they had the location data before Jay’s first interview too. At any rate, take a look at Jay’s March 15, 1999 interview transcript and tell me how many times the detectives refer to the location data. I’ll save you some time, but feel free to confirm: ZERO. The subsequent communications with AT&T suggest that the location work was not done until closer to when Jay was finally charged in early September 1999. MPIA 1477-1480. And look at the timings of Jay’s March 15, 1999 interview. He was brought in at 3:05 PM and signed the waiver of his right to counsel at 3:15 PM. MPIA 265. His recorded statement did not begin until 6:20 PM–more than three fucking hours later! Yeah, I know, Susan…thank you, but shut the fuck up because you were still way off.
To eliminate the fact that Adnan was dropped off at the Best Buy lot by an unknown accomplice, Hae’s car now magically appeared at the Best Buy. The trunk pop that never happened during the day time moved from Edmondson Ave. to the Best Buy parking lot too. Hae’s car was now driven from the Best Buy to the Park N Ride while Jay followed in Adnan’s Honda. Even the dumbest plot would have had Jay meet Adnan at the Park N Ride instead of doing this idiotic convoy from the Best Buy to the Park N Ride. For the record, that is not “come and get me.” There was no one to “get” if Adnan had Hae’s car. It’s “come and follow me for no fucking reason.” What could the detectives do? Jen had saddled them with Best Buy and this implausible story is the best they could come up with in a few hours. Remember, they not only had to invent major parts of Jay’s story, but they also had to make it consistent with Jen’s locked version and drill it into Jay’s head so that he could regurgitate it on tape.
In their overzealous effort to paint a target on Adnan, the cops made Jay say that Adnan told him the day before on January 12, 1999 that he was going to kill Hae. MPIA 310. But then the detectives’ “stupid Bilal” went into overdrive and they made Jay say that he told Jen on January 12th that Adnan was going to kill Hae. MPIA 312. This was the detectives making like music producer Bruce Dickinson where they kept demanding more intent like it was cowbell.
To conceal the fuck up of their March 15, 1999 progress reports, the detectives subsequently prepared new reports dated April 27, 1999 to cover Jen and Jay’s recorded statements from February. MPIA 66-67. Yeah, two fucking months later. This time the cops learned their lesson and were more careful to not include any substantive information. What if they needed to change the story again? No explanation is provided for why these duplicative reports were prepared. My guess is that they were supposed to borrow Rabia Chaudry’s paper shredder and destroy the March 15, 1999 reports but got sloppy and forgot. When you never get called out for this shit, why bother? Alternatively, these sanitized duplicate reports may have been prepared for trial purposes so that they would not have to share the fan-fiction one with the defense. Gutierrez would have torn Macgillivary a new asshole if she was given the 3/15/99 version of the progress report about Jen’s 2/27/99 interview. The 4/27/99 version of the report gave her nothing.
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FUCK THA POLICE PT. 3 - THE BEST BUY SUBPOENA

Having “fixed” Jay’s statement while forcing him to make fantastically ridiculous explanations for the wild changes that are directly attributable to the detectives’ incompetence while making us think it was due to Jay’s dishonesty, they were ready to hand out grand jury summonses. The first set went out on March 16, 1999 to Jen, Saad Chaudry and Bilal Ahmed ordering them to appear the next day. What is really interesting from this point forward is the information that the cops sought and, more importantly, what they did not seek.
Both Jay and Jen told the cops about several pieces of evidence that were tossed in dumpsters during the evening of January 13, 1999. These included Hae’s keys, wallet, shovels and clothing. On March 19, 1999, more than two months after all that shit went into the dumpsters, Macgillivary contacted BFI waste management service to inquire about the following info:

• Pickup schedule for the locations where they were told the items were discarded;
• The drivers’ manifest that logs details about the pickups;
• The date when each dumpster was emptied;
• The location where the contents were disposed.

Given that most commercial dumpsters are emptied weekly, those that allegedly contained the items sought by the cops were emptied at least 9 fucking times by March 19, 1999. Also, Maryland of 1999 was big on incinerating trash with over 100 incinerators located throughout the state. The Baltimore Sun, June 14, 2000 at p. 1A. Not good for the environment and really not good for evidence you hope to recover. Anything that went into the dumpsters 9 weeks earlier was likely reduced to ash. Yet the detectives pressed on with this quixotic quest. They might as well have subpoenaed hell demanding the production of the proverbial snowball. You would think that there would be other, more readily available evidence of high relevance that they should seek. Oh, they did seek testimony of other individuals and served subpoenas to gather additional information, including:

• On April 3, they also served subpoenas on the news programs for five different TV stations for all news, videos, reports, etc. about the case. MPIA 92. They clearly are aware that the such a thing as video footage exists.
• Adnan’s bank records were also subpoenaed on April 3rd. MPIA 96.
• On April 7th, subpoenas were served on Jay’s employers at Southwestern Video and the drug store for his work records. MPIA 95 and 99.
• Jen’s employment records were subpoenaed the same day as Jay’s. MPIA 100.
• Also on that day, the detectives conferred with Assistant States Attorney (ASA), Vicki Wash, and served additional subpoenas on Yaser Ali, Imran Hasnuddin and Adnan’s brother, Tanveer. MPIA 101.

April 13, 1999 was a busy day for the detectives and prosecutors. They dragged Jay in at 7:00 AM for yet another interview early in the morning to get the final details of the story straight. MPIA 104, 336. This interview was not recorded and, according to Jay, the detectives did not even take notes. Trial Tr. 2/10/1999 at 154:3-14. Of course, no charges were brought against Jay and he waived his right to counsel. After violating Jay’s rights again, the detectives reviewed their progress reports with ASA Wash and presented the case to the grand jury after which Adnan was indicted for first degree murder. MPIA 104.
The description above of the evidence that was requested before Adnan was indicted on April 13, 1999 underscores a glaring omission. If you’re paying attention, you already know what it is, but I’m gonna build it up anyway. The detectives and the prosecutor obviously realized the omission themselves and–taking a page from Bilal–tried too hard and revealed their scheme. Recall that the bullshit the cops were pushing was that Adnan murdered Hae in the Best Buy parking lot. And, of course, Adnan then inexplicably popped the trunk open in broad daylight in a ridiculously public spot to show Jay Hae’s body. The cops and prosecution should have left well enough alone and not concerned themselves with optics. But, like Bilal, they could not stop themselves. They thought that it would look weird if they never subpoenaed Best Buy when all this ridiculous criminal activity was supposedly happening at that location. Thus, on the same fucking day that Adnan was indicted, a subpoena was served on Best Buys [sic]. MPIA 105 and 1250-1253 (the AdnanSyedWiki does not include the fax coversheet showing the time the fax was sent). But did these corrupt fucks request footage from security cameras? No. They requested “all journal rolls, records and employment records for January 13, 1999.” That’s like serving a subpoena on AT&T for Adnan’s dental records. Four weeks earlier, they asked for locations of garbage from dumpsters that were emptied nine times and likely incinerated but were not interested in requesting whether there was any security camera footage that, according to their bullshit narrative, would have captured the actual murder and presentation of the victim’s dead body. Oh, and they did this after Adnan was already indicted. The subpoena to “Best Buys” was faxed at 4:20 PM. MPIA 1253. Are you fucking kidding me? Because such footage would have been toxic to their bullshit narrative. If anyone later asked them if they subpoenaed Best Buy, they could now say, “yeah, but they didn’t have anything.” Because what the cops and prosecutors should have asked for was so obvious, no one would inquire, "what did you specifically request?"
The footage would have been problematic for the defense as well. If it was requested and showed Adnan getting dropped off by an unknown accomplice and subsequently picked up by Jay, Adnan would not exactly come off looking like the golden boy they hoped the jury would see. Because Adnan was already on record telling the cops that he went to track practice after school with no mention of a detour to Best Buy. MPIA 814. Neither the prosecution nor the defense wanted any part of any security camera footage from Best Buy. It was the evidentiary equivalent of Bilal Ahmed.
At the same time, Gutierrez could have used the failure to seek let alone show footage from Best Buy to skewer the detectives. It would have been like playing chicken though because what if the detectives had actually been sloppy and forgot to ask? It seems like a ridiculously obvious thing to request given the importance of what the prosecution alleged went down at that location. Emphasizing the police and prosecutor’s failure to pursue or present that evidence was a prime opportunity to hammer reasonable doubt into the heads of the jury. Actually, Cristina could have done that during closing arguments. She even mentioned Jen suggesting that "there's a camera at Best Buy." Trial Tr. 2/25/2000 at 91:1-2. But Gutierrez used it in the context of Jay changing his story. Damn, she could have won the case on that issue:

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the state has indeed presented a strong case against Adnan Syed. They presented a sole eye witness whose story changed by the minute. That witness said that Adnan told him that he murdered Hae Min Lee. He said that Adnan proudly popped open the trunk of a car in the Best Buy parking lot and showed him the victim's body. Remember, the state wants you to believe that Adnan Syed strangled the victim in the vehicle and then dragged her dead body out of the car in broad daylight in the parking lot of a location for the busiest consumer electronics retailer in America during business hours and placed it in the trunk. Not one witness noticed that. Not a single shopper. Not a single employee.
But who needs a witness when you have security cameras! We were overwhelmed with the state's presentation of security camera footage of all this happening in broad daylight. They showed us footage of the victim's car pulling up to the Best Buy lot. They showed us footage of the car shaking suggesting the physical struggle that took place inside. They showed us footage of the victim's body being dragged out of the car and dumped into the trunk. And they showed us Adnan Syed popping the trunk open to show the victim's body to the state's sole eye witness.
Wait...they did not show any such footage, did they? But this was a Best Buy parking lot in the middle of the day. Surely the first thing the investigating officers did was request the security camera footage, right? No. They waited until after Adnan Syed was indicted and that afternoon, they faxed a subpoena to "Best Buys" for optics. How do we know it was optics? Because they subpoena only requested, and I quote, "all journal rolls, records and employment records for January 13, 1999." Not a single word about security camera footage. They did not request it because they did not want any security camera footage. Because they knew what their sole eye witness with the ever-changing narrative told you did not happen. As you deliberate whether this 17-year old boy should be found guilty of murder, you must ask yourselves why the state did not want you to see the security camera footage.

I'm not sure that a judge would allow that because you're not supposed to talk about evidence that was not presented. But that's not exactly the same thing. You're not talking about what the security camera did or did not show, just that it was obvious evidence that the state inexplicably failed to present. That is, if the state actually believed its own case. At any rate, this is hindsight and it was a strategic call that could have blown up in Gutierrez’s face. Because she was not privy to the information that we have today. She didn’t know what the tape would show. It would be insane for her to suggest evidence that could help the state make it’s case if there ended up being a new trial in the future. Accordingly, I don’t see that as a fuck up.
As to the footage itself, it likely would have been too grainy to identify the person who dropped off Adnan at the Best Buy parking lot. Let's focus on that for a moment to see if we can get a more clear picture.
On to Part 5...Hang in there!

Hello! I would like to ask for some advice.
My budget is around 30-40k and I'm looking to get a GCC spec car (ideally something 2013+. Is this a bit unrealistic?).
. Might be a bit much to ask but I'm looking for something a bit on the modern-looking side.
Here are some cars that I've been scouting for:
Nissan Altima, Maxima
Honda Accord
Kia Optima
Hyundai Sonata.
If anyone has extra ideas or could point me in the right direction I'd super appreciate it!!

I’d like to add some HP and boost my engines life and overall improve my cars performance.
It has 102900miles on the odometer if anyone is wondering.
Besides basic things like tint, chrome delete, and adding misc items
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Can anyone help me out, where is the A/C pressure switch located on a 2013 Honda accord coupe?

I'm looking for something that will see me through 2-5 years. Does this look like a safe investment?

Hi all,
As a disclaimer, this is my first write up. Please let me know if I'm unclear or something looks confusing, I'll be happy to edit/clear things up.
Background:
Livia Smith was 32 years old. She had moved to Nashville from Northampton, MA. Her brother, Ian Struthers, states that his sister had always been his artistic and social mentor. She always started her own projects and had no fear of sparking up a conversation with a stranger. Though she was accepted into Smith College, she chose to pursue cosmetics and she completed an apprenticeship with Make-Up Designory branch in New York where she took on some high-profile clients. She got married and ended up moving to Nashville right around the economic downturn of 2008. Her marriage did not work out, and recently, she had accepted a job as a counter manager at Dillard's in Green Hills. She also bought a house on Barclay Avenue in East Nashville, where she lived with her friend Adam McCord and her Pitbull-Dalmatian mix Ellie. (I believe her brother now owns and lives in the house as well.) The weekend before her death, she traveled to Atlanta to meet someone she met off OK Cupid. (It is not believed that this person had anything to do with her death.)
Event:
On February 19, 2013, Livia was out and about visiting several well-known bars in the neighborhood of East Nashville. She started at the Village Pub off Riverside Drive, and continuing to Holland House, a speakeasy that no longer exists, but that then was off Eastland Ave. They visited several more bars, the vibe wasn't right at any of them. The last stop that evening was Three Crow bar in the famous Five Points part of the neighborhood. Her friend Anna Worstell recalls that while she was not sloppy, her speech was slurred, and a bartender thought she might need assistance getting into a vehicle. Anna insisted on driving Livia home once the latter stated it was time for her to call it a night since she had to work the next day. Livia stated there was a cab outside and she would be fine. She wasn't one to usually take cabs, but her friends believe she was feeling responsible. It was around 1:40 and 1:45am and only a 7 min ride home.
Around 5:10am on February 20, 2013, a neighbor going to work on Barclay Ave saw an object on the side of the road. It was Livia's dead body, less than a block from her house.
No one remembers what the cab driver looked like, which has surprised the investigators. Witnesses state he was a male and not Caucasian. A yellow van is described to have picked Livia up, which leads to speculation that it was a Yellow Cab car. The company has no record of anyone making a pickup there at that time. No surveillance to catch a glimpse of the driver or license plate.
Investigation:
Investigators know that she died from blunt force trauma to the head. They do not believe it could have been a hit and run. She also had abrasions on her hands and knees.
One speculation is that something happened inside the cab and Livia felt like she needed to escape. In the process of exiting the vehicle, possibly while it was moving, she may have been pushed or may have jumped out. No one is sure how long she lay on the side of Barclay Ave. Her clothes did not seem to have been messed with nor were they ripped or damaged. Her cell phone was located at the scene and was used to recreate a partial route of her return home. Detective Matthew Filter of MNPD states that they "believe that she tumbled on the roadway and struck the back of her head hard on the road surface which caused her death." Her brother believes "she was fleeing the cab trying to escape sexual assault. My sister was a tough broad, she wouldn’t back down. She was a very tough woman and I think she fought back. You know, and he just left her on the side of the road."
Suspects:
While to this day, no one has been charged with the murder of Livia, there is a theory that a Yellow Cab driver may have had a part in this. Samir Hindieh was identified as a suspect in the 2015 New Years Day sexual assault of a Belmont student. He was charged with two counts of sexual battery, and he entered guilty pleas. He served only 365 days out of the 2 and 4 years he was sentenced to to be served concurrently. According to a civil suit, Hindeh had multiple accusations, but Yellow Cab kept him on the payroll and was accused of negligence. The matter was settled.

According to the lawsuit, Hindieh groped and fondled the woman, touching her breasts and placing his hand under her skirt despite her protests. Jane Doe then contacted Yellow Cab, which gave her a similar response that the company gave the police after Livia's death. No one could tell her who the driver was, despite the GPS data they were supposed to collect and the fact she had the driver's phone number.

Her friends petitioned the Metro Transportation Licensing Commission to ask that all cabs be required to carry GPS. It was unanimously approved.
The case also gave a big push to Lyft/Uber's spread throughout Nashville as that left a record of your driver, route and time stamps.
Livia's family is offering a reward of $10,000 for anyone who may help in the solving of her murder.
Sources: https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/one-year-later-the-brutal-death-of-livia-smith-remains-unsolved-and-friends-and-family/article_a003a369-4c18-5d61-82b9-825f51a51942.html
https://www.wkrn.com/unsolved-tennessee/search-for-nashville-womans-killer-continues-10-years-late
https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/487/davidson-county-livia-rose-smith

Hey everyone, looking for some advice. Got a 2013 Accord sedan 6MT. A few days ago, I noticed some drips on my garage floor, so I looked under the car.
Here's what I found: https://i.imgur.com/kdhhdX9.jpg
It looks like grease is leaking out of the intermediate shaft bearing. I'm guessing the grease is turned into oil due to high temperature and was flung all around due to it being in motion. I checked all around and as far as I can tell, the oil pan isn't leaking oil, nor is anything above the intermediate shaft.
I called 2 dealerships and both can replace the bearing (91057-SR3-008), but it looks like the Honda manual is quoting 2 hours of labor.
An independent mechanic only wants to replace the entire intermediate shaft assembly (44500-T2A-A10), but the price is very similar since he's giving me a great deal on the labor cost and he can get OEM parts for a great price too. It seems he's unwilling to replace the bearings only, citing that a lot of times another component may crack when removing the bearing.
My understanding is removing the bearing is a bit of work and putting it back in may require a press.
My questions are:
1) Is it normal to replace the entire intermediate shaft when the bearing goes bad? (As in, what's the chances of the dealership going like, "Oh hey, you got to replace the entire intermediate shaft too because something broke when we tried to remove the bearing?")
2) How long can I drive the car normally until something worse happens? (The car has been driving normally as far as I'm concerned, no weird sounds, no vibrations, etc)
Thanks!

From here in response to this:

So the first link actually destroys your argument, as it shows a problem that actually talks about racial bias, not to mention the article itself is heavily biased. So good job shooting yourself in the dick there!

This is what I said:

""Don't forget, there are STILL teachers out there trying their damnedest to push CRT and transsexualism onto children in schools" And what does that even mean? Because 9 times out of 10, these are not st buzzwords from the right: https://popular.info/p/ron-desantis-math-textbook-hoax

I was talking about CRT. With that link it talks about lie involving CRT.

The second article is another falsehood, trying to spin the parents of the child that tried to take her own life as the bad guys while the school, WHOSE TEACHERS ACTUALLY TRIED TO TRANSITION THEIR KINDERGARTEN CHILD (https://washingtonstand.com/news/my-blood-still-boils-father-recalls-schools-secret-attempt-to-transition-daughter) looks like a haven of angels in comparison! So great work, making yourself look almost as shady as those teachers.

Here is what my link said:

The above paragraph demonstrates how the lack of parity benefits the religious right's narrative. An article by News4Jax provided details omitted from FRC's rendition of the story:

The parents claim that the administration of the Clay County elementary school their child attends overstepped its authority in discussing and supporting their child’s request to be referred to by a different name and gender and, in doing so, that the district violated the parents’ rights to direct the education of their child. After the child told the school counselor about two separate suicide attempts in early January, the parents were notified and later filed the lawsuit that month. The parents told News4JAX that the concept of changing one’s gender identity is inconsistent with the family’s catholic Christian beliefs and referred to the scenario as “a mental health problem.”

The parents are blaming the school for something they themselves are responsible for, i.e. the child being afraid to come out to them.
They are attempting to make the school look like culprits instead of asking themselves why was their child scared to be honest with them. Also don't let FRC's article confuse you with its phraseology. Claiming that the school was "transitioning" the child is a sly way to allude to people's stereotypes about the transgender community - the belief that surgery is always involved. The actions the school took were minor ones in order make the child feel at ease.

The next seven links are all to the same article, so I'll just torpedo them all here: It's all bullshit. So it tries to dispute the HB 1557 Bill as the "Don't Say Gay" Bill and spin it as an attack on the LGBTQIA+=<>!@#$%^&* community, while citing what it actually says here, which I shall now quote:
"Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards"
In other words, you disingenuous douche-canoe, it stipulates that you cannot discuss things about sexual orientation or gender identity TO MINORS UNDER TEN YEARS OF AGE!!! but the fact that you find that problematic seems pretty sus to me. You got some hidden pics you don't others to see, groomer?

Here is what he said before:

While I don't particularly care for JSG's anti-conservative tirades, this time I'll have to make an exception because, honestly, I can believe this has happened, completely. What really gets me is the student telling her parents that their teacher showed them the movie and her mother, who had a seat on the schoolboard and a prominent member of the department of education, because I was in a similar situation.
When I was a kid, my parents split up(mostly due to my mom being unable to deal with my dad and his decisions on how to be a parent...among other things), and my father was awarded majority custody of me. I would visit my mother and half-brothers in the summer, and when we did we weren't allowed to watch the classic cartoons like: Johnny Bravo; Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy; Courage the Cowardly Dog; SpongeBob SquarePants; etc. I asked my mom one time why, and she said "Because they're adult-oriented shows being pushed onto kids to perverse our childhood". She went so far as to tell our friends' parents not to let us watch it when we went over to their house(s). And it doesn't stop there; this is the same woman who regularly attended PTAs to criticize the teachers AND students; made class-visits to observe the teachers to make sure they were "doing their job"(though honestly, I think it was to keep an eye on me because I wasn't a good student), and was a BIG fan of using verbal abuse and beatings for discipline! Long story short, my mom cared too much. She was literally one of the prototypes of the female model we now know as the "Karen".

And yet he still defends bills that don't define what "insturcts" and "age appropriate" are. IN fact the link he skewers points this out:

In other words, “instruction . . . on sexual orientation or gender identity” — terms not defined in the law – is completely prohibited for students up to the third grade. Beyond the third grade, such instruction is permitted only to the extent that it is “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” The vagueness of the law raises numerous questions. Does it mean, for example, that an educator can use books with LGBTQ+ characters so long as the discussion of those books does not focus on their sexual orientation or gender identity? Does it mean that all discussion of families and the many different ways families are formed must be avoided altogether in grades K-3? The Florida Department of Education has so far failed to give any guidance on these or countless other questions about how the law will be applied. It is important to know, however, that Florida law must give way to the non-discrimination protections of federal civil rights law that are detailed below. Accordingly, efforts by school administrators to enforce the “Don’t Say Gay” law in a way that prohibits only LGBTQ+ educators from discussing their family status or prohibits only children of same-sex marriages from discussing their families, violate those non-discrimination mandates and should be countered using the complaint procedures detailed below.

So instead of realizing the problems with this law, he doubles down on it.
And he thinks pointing this out promotes "grooming" which he doesn't define either.

Your TA article is almost as hilarious. Half the links in it lead to pages that no longer exist, and the other try, and fail, to dispute that girls are uncomfortable with boys entering their bathrooms/locker rooms:

His first link is this, which is false.
And his second link is this:

GLAAD to media: Don't get duped by fabricated stories of transgender youth harassing students

So he shoots himself in the foot.

I mean, sorry that you're offended that girls feel uncomfortable when a guy enters what's supposed to be their "safe space" and don't feel safe, but really they should be more open to the idea. I mean, it's not like anything bad has ever happened, right?!

As compared to Christains having unfettered access? And why lie?

The child trafficking, as horrible as it is, should be investigated at the federal level, which I highly doubt it is. Should DeSantis look into it? Absolutely, but he's not the root cause of it.

He's just choosing to ignore it. Double standards much? Where is the consistency? ANd since when has "foster home abuse" been the exact same as "child trafficking"?

Yes, because separating children from parents who are GIVING MINORS HORMONE BLOCKING DRUGS TO PERMANENTLY DAMAGE THEIR BODIES is just the height of parental abuse. Truly, we should focus more on separating children from their religious, kind and caring parents. Then again, you would be all for that.

What permanant damage? What about the parents that affirm their child's gender? Or are you just trying to push heteronormaitve values even if it harms kids

I am looking to buy a car under 12K. I have narrowed it down to these 4.
One is a 2009 Acura TL 106K miles. The price is expensive. According to KBB 7K is the upper limit for this car. I like this one if they negotiate on the price.
The second one is a 2013 Honda Accord. 130K miles. Newest of the bunch.
Third is a 2011 toyota corolla with only 30K miles. It does say a theft was reported on this vehicle on car gurus tho so I don't know if that increases the insurance or something.
Forth one is a 2008 BMW 328i with 68K miles.
All of these are in North California
Any advice is appreciated