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Cake day: December 4th, 2025

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  • I had a Mazda Demio (aka Mazda 2) with third party insurance only (no fire or theft because there’s no need) and I had the best car alarm possible, I had pretty much every type of sensor but no GPS tracking.

    Mazda Demio gets stolen because the key has no electronic security, whereas most cars have some kind of radio signal to authenticate. For the Demio it only needs the key turning in the lock, so I was smart and I got a proper alarm with a tilt sensor too, so nobody can even steal my wheels without triggering the alarm. Thieves will stuff up your ignition by ripping it out and playing with the wires and this happens all the time, even in people’s driveways.

    A funny story - someone parked their Tesla near the airport on a public road. They were too cheap to pay hundreds of dollars for long-term parking, but because they parked on a public road for several nights, someone stole the tyres lol. They must have thought that because it was “high tech” therefore it was immune to theft. All the thieves had to really do was cover their faces hahaha.

    Many of these cheap Mazdas get stolen by teenagers and then the police find the car rammed through a shop window at 2am. I never had that problem, nobody touched my car. If you have a valuable car it’s no good, you have to be so proud of it lol. Full insurance is so expensive it’s probably a good reason to not own a car again in the next 5-10 years. As soon as there’s a storm the premiums go up massively.


  • Parking was my least favourite, it’s worse than the actual driving part. I can’t realistically park on-site where I live, and all the nearby roads are filled up too. There are multiple shopping malls and a university. Very busy area! On the unlikely chance that I need a car, I can just rent an EV by the hour. It costs a fortune and I don’t really need it anyway.








  • That’s the whole point really, the people who start the company will gladly work 6 days a week and stay up late at night if they have to, and travel through different time zones. Which is fine if they enjoy it, but in an ordinary job for minimum wage I’m not going to act with that amount of loyalty to the company lmao. I’ll just resign if they pay me minimum and want me to attend meetings and pretend I’m some kind of executive. When I worked with timber they wanted me to meet suppliers to gain product knowledge but it never proved useful in my 5 months. It just took me away from customers or delayed my lunch break even further.