I’m in the VA system and my experience with their mental health care was awesome compared to what my experience when I was on private insurance.

I called for a mental health appt and they got me in to see an in person provider within a week. They called me every day until my appointment to make sure I was ok. Because my closest VA center was over an hour away, I was then set up care in the community but also a weekly phone in appt with a counselor until I was able to see a local provider in person. They also got me an updated list of people who were taking new patients.

My private experience was go online and find a provider via the insurance website which never had accurate and up to date information. Call around to see if the information was correct and they were still taking my insurance and they were still accepting new patients. Wait a month until they could get me in. Pay a bunch of money.

I'm a Goonies fan living in Oregon and it's the stupidest god damn thing. It's a house, a house that actual people live in. People don't drive up and take pictures and then move on, they yell and scream at the house all times of night. Leave trash in the yard. Astoria is a tiny town and they block up the roads on big anniversaries for the movie just to LOOK AT A HOUSE.

The house is barely even in the damn movie. The final shot is a much more iconic scene from the movie to me and nobody goes to Canon beach to see the end of Goonies.

I love movies, but these home owners don't owe movie fans shit. It's the same with the poor people that own the Breaking Bad house. You take a check to let a show film in your house and now people throw pizzas on your roof every year. The hell is wrong with you people?

Don’t but a movie house if you don’t want to deal with movie house stuff. This is like buying the cheap house next to the airport and then complaining about noise. You knew what you were getting into.

To add some objective clarity, the winters are pretty nasty. High winds, cold rain.

I didn't really like it too much

That's what the last person said. Let's see how long it lasts.

God yeah they are. Have you seen any military arms documentaries? Every year the military is looking for new things to replace their old stuff and spend millions. Not to mention that with any multibillion dollar industry there is gonna be some pocketing of money. Ex military officials will go into the R&D sometimes in order to do a type of money laundering but that's not unique to the military.

Dude, what?

I agree it is 100% their choice. But it's not a great choice for many. People are stuck between a rock and a hard place in order to get the benefits of higher education and if they get through those 4 years and are left with mental scars the government barley provides anything for them.

That is my biggest gripe with it. If Vets were provided with the ample amount of benefits that they deserve after being mentally or physically crippled then joining the military makes a lot of sense. Obviously vets that came back without long lasting effects are doing just fine. Whether that's because they never saw active service or they are able to manage the stress thrown at them then the benefits make sense.

I'd set up a pop up tent at the bottom and have people form a line. Then charge admission. Even if i didn't live there :)

If i bought that house I'd furnish it exactly as it was in the movie and let people stay there. I'd even build the Rube Goldberg device that opened the gate. Oh, and the statue with the broken wang!

I don't know how to say this on uplifting news without breaking the rules, but DB is a notoriously callous bank. I guess the good news is that even a bank as awful as this sees financial upside in this type of policy?

Thing is the last guy had an actual professional street sign welcoming people. Just letting them know they could walk up but be respectful. He had it open to people forever. I went there to visit quite a few time. Even talked to him while he was washing his car one time. Nice dude.

But then hoards of people decended on the place during it’s 30th anniversary. And I’m sure it wasn’t just him who was sick of the traffic and crazyness on their small dead end street.

This new dude may want to welcome people. But if he ain’t living there then at the end of the day it’s really up to the neighbors. It’s a super small area with a ton of packed in homes and no place to really park. Then when you walk up you are also invading the driveway of 2 other homes. I actually completely understand the neighbors perspective.

Also this guy bought this as an investment from Kansas at the height of the market. I doubt he has this home long. When I went out a decade ago Data’s house was for sale for 150k. I myself had an offer in for a Queen Anne Victorian downtown right before covid for 500k

The Goonies house will always go for a tad more but Astoria right now is crazy expensive compared to previous years. The combination of the Covid house spike and the influx of Portlanders looking for the next cute place to destroy and a massive influx of breweries has really shot home prices through the roof for an area that is actually pretty deflated economically. I love Astoria and I want to see it thrive but I have no doubt prices there will drop hard in coming years. It’s just unsustainable for how it’s built.

Goonies and Short Circuit (someone just bought that house too and rehabbed it back to movie form) and Kindergarten Cop are all awesome. But if you gonna own a home in Astoria imo you wanna get one of the historic Victorians over a run of the mill home that isn’t even “in town.” I wish this guy the best but I have a hard time rooting for a dude from Kansas who may have never even visited Astoria buying a home as an “investment.” With no plans of living there himself while allowing a massive influx of headache for neighbors.

What about their friend who bought the in between house for no other reason than to spite "karen" house?

A lot of the fucked up water practices in the American West are because of legacy frontier water rights. Oregon doesn't allow collection of rainwater because of concern that it would fuck up how the watershed shakes out. Iirc, in California's Central Valley, where a staggering amount of produce is grown, water rights are attached to the land and are first come, first served -- the oldest parcel of land waters their shit, and then the second oldest, and so on until everything runs out.

I do recall correctly that in multiple years over the last 2 decades, landowners have made more money selling their water than they would have using that water to farm their land, and that without this legacy system, almonds would be such a water-expensive crop that they wouldn't be profitable. So. You know. Something something market value California almonds!

> ...doing far better than I am.

Hey, now. That's not fair to you or your challenges, man. I have no doubt that you've made impressive progress in overcoming what you've got in your way, and I don't even know you. This guy could've inherited wealth and done fuck all otherwise. Be proud of what you've accomplished and never compare your victories to others' social media posts. Keep killin' it! 🤘🏼

>I cant recall if it was this house or the breaking bad house. There was a story not long ago that the owner had to keep repairing their roof because people kept throwing pizzas on it.

That was the Breaking Bad house.

To be fair, sound real estate investments are, well, sound. 🤷🏼‍♂️

If you'd disagree, I do happen to know at least one realtor who'd like to chat on the coast of Florida...

Maybe one day we will care about the people of this country.

Crackle Crackle

Seriously. The logical fallacy is nothing compared to the confident ignorance in that sentence alone. That's gonna bite them hard in the ass, one of these days.

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My 21yo son has seen it about 30 times.

When it’s coming down, yes it is. However, if you collect it off the roof, for example, there is bird poop that can contaminate the supply. Depending upon how your cistern is built, it could contain mold spores.

Water recycling had been used for space travel, had it not?

only dipshits in that story are the people showing up to the house to toss pizzas on the roof.. not the lady who has to clean up their mess