Well, I learned the, "This one trick will let you set up an appointment at Bank of America."
First, I tried to open a new account. Then I canceled out. All of a sudden I was allowed to make an appointment.
So yeah, "We're only interested in you if you're trying to bank with us."
EDIT: OMG. Yes, "This one trick will get you an appointment." Hmm... some trick!
So many comments...
Cyz was placed at her internship this morning. So that’s good news. And she doesn’t have to look at out of state options!
CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ CYZ
B of A engulfed my old bank. Later I fired them because they closed all their local branches.
I also fired direcTV. Netflix, and Sirius/XM. I was planning on going back to SXM, but they made it a little too hard to cancel.
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$743.56Vany.
My friend.
What would you say, if I told you.
YOU ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF
... at that rate can't you get a standby ticket and just go deliver it?
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Freehold, have you heard they are making a new Castlevania game?
And the guys behind Dead Cells are advising...
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... at that rate can't you get a standby ticket and just go deliver it?$743.56Vany.
My friend.
What would you say, if I told you.
YOU ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF
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...
Well.
S&$$.
It may be cheaper for me to take a one-way flight- with a holdover to abscond with , whose airport is a standby for the rest of the flight.
Jesus. Is THAT where we are?!?
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Freehold, have you heard they are making a new Castlevania game?
And the guys behind Dead Cells are advising...
I am interested, yes.
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Ooh, what do you have?The doors unlocked because the only semi valuable thing in the house is the sword collection.
I really should leave one at the door "its dangerous to go alone, take this"
A really cheap el cid wall hanger from disneyland. I magnitized it when i first got it for a science experiment, and when TVS were thicker I could do a magic trick, point it at the tv and mess up the picture.
A dragon headed mail order katana from highlander
A macjewiski chopper falchion .. thing. A giant meat cleaver with three spikes on the back.
Those are fantastic. I first came across them playing 'Mount & Blade: Warband', I think
Parents: register your kids for anything that uses their email address, cell phone number, or any other identifier that they might change in the future without letting them know.
This afternoon I learned that UC Berkeley has a retirement system portal so I could have logged in and checked on the status of my mother's retirement accounts, which are supposed to eventually get transferred to us.
"We're sorry. You're already registered in this system."
I've never (formally) worked for UC Berkeley and I've never registered in their retirement system. Meaning that in all likelihood my mother "helpfully" registered me when she was setting up her online portal. With my old Yahoo! email that I deleted after the massive data breach in 2014, but which my mother continued to use up until her death.
So basically they have an account linked to a dead email address by a dead person and I have to decide whether I want to jump through all the hoops to unlock it (it's massive) or just have one of my brothers find out when the heck we're going to get our distributions.
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Mephisto always likes to make sure that grandma gets the proper doses of her medicine. I'm sure it has nothing to do with wanting to steal her food.
Well, at least life isn't completely laughing in my face. I took the day off work yesterday to go to Bank of America to deal with the missing check, and all they would do is stop payment on the old one and send me a new one.
(1) Which I could have done on my own on the phone without having to take any time off of work, and
(2) using the exact same methods that failed to get me the first check.
My expectation was that the icing on the cake would be the old check arriving today. Fortunately, it isn't, so at least there's that...
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I had a dream today that I traveled through a portal in Southern England to visit NobodysHome and his family... Except NobodysHome looked like bandana-wearing Penn (of Penn & Teller duo), GothBard was an Irish-looking redhead matron, and Imps were... Blonde?
Which is perplexing because the last time I saw Imps in my dream they looked like they real selves, though they admitted they were not the real Imps.
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I swear, if he were a bit more of a clueless idiot, Impus Major would be an ideal candidate for the Sovereign Citizen movement:
NobodysHome: OK, let's get all your taxes done! You'll probably owe a couple hundred bucks.
Impus Major: I don't want to do my taxes!
NH: It'll get you registered on Social Security and Unemployment.
IM: I don't care about unemployment and Social Security will be gone long before I retire.
NH: Well, you still have to pay your taxes.
IM: I don't want to. I don't support anything my current government is doing.
I really love to take Sovereign Citizens to the logical conclusion.
"So, you're an independent country, right?"
"Right!"
"Yet no other countries nor the international courts have formally recognized you, right?"
"Um, right..."
"Therefore any country that feels like it can invade you and you're responsible for your own defense, right?"
"Um, what? No! That violates international law!"
"Look at world history and every country ever in your situation. Has 'international law' ever stopped a single invasion?"
"Oh, carp."
"So yeah, that cop pulling you over for speeding? That's the U.S. invading you. And when you get thrown in jail? That's them conquering you and claiming your 'lands'."
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The thing I find perversely fascinating is the intersection with pseudo-legal (I think that's what the professionals call it?) "theory" that Sovereign Citizens often try to use to get out of the usual death and taxes stuff.
Up here in our Vancouver, there was a fairly prominent case of a ludicrous, ugly dispute between neighbours in a condo, in which one of the parties went off the deep end into "freemen on the land" / "strawman theory" nonsense, basically - at least as far as I can recall and understand it - claiming to separate the enunciative "I" from the legal person it's attached to, so that Jane Doe is on the hook, but "I" (like everywhere else in a contract or whatever) is a completely different person, over whom the law/feds/Flying-Spaghetti-Monsters have no authority.
Why anyone would think that would work is beyond me, and I'm a chaos faerie.
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The thing I find perversely fascinating is the intersection with pseudo-legal (I think that's what the professionals call it?) "theory" that Sovereign Citizens often try to use to get out of the usual death and taxes stuff.
Up here in our Vancouver, there was a fairly prominent case of a ludicrous, ugly dispute between neighbours in a condo, in which one of the parties went off the deep end into "freemen on the land" / "strawman theory" nonsense, basically - at least as far as I can recall and understand it - claiming to separate the enunciative "I" from the legal person it's attached to, so that Jane Doe is on the hook, but "I" (like everywhere else in a contract or whatever) is a completely different person, over whom the law/feds/Flying-Spaghetti-Monsters have no authority.
Why anyone would think that would work is beyond me, and I'm a chaos faerie.
Sovereign Citizenship = anarchy. Every person is the law unto themselves. And in my punk years in the 80s I was an anarchist for all the time it took to see how people treated each other when they even suspected they could get away with it.
Sovereign Citizens literally want to ignore the laws they don't like, but have the laws that protect them to still apply. Sorry. Can't have it both ways.
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Oh, exactly. If they at least accepted the horrible consequences of their ideas, it would be one thing.
But it's like watching someone failing to manage even a very bad protean impression.
The Speakers of the Depths do not approve. ;)
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Poor Impus Major just saw the true cost of independence.
TurboTax wanted $138 to do his taxes. He revolted and asked whether he could use our accountant. A private, independent, self-employed accountant beholden to no one.
I told him it would be way too expensive.
He asked me to look it up anyway.
So yeah, for a simple 1040 our accountant charges $775.
Impus Major decided to use TurboTax but curse a lot. And express his feelings.
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Or he could file his taxes himself...
How hard it could be?! *shrug*
It's just math!
Oh.
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Sovereign Citizens literally want to ignore the laws they don't like, but have the laws that protect them to still apply. Sorry. Can't have it both ways.
"The law must protect but not bind the in group, while binding but not protecting the outgroup."
This is the core of most of our problems, people not wanting the law to be applied equally across everyone.
Or he could file his taxes himself...
How hard it could be?! *shrug*
It's just math!
Oh.
I thought I posted about that last year. He literally has:
(1) Self-employment income working as a "neurodivergent sitter".(2) Interest income from a bank.
(3) Investment income from a brokerage.
And yet when I tried to do his taxes last year, I was up to 8 Federal forms, the brokerage listed 16 different types of income that I had to figure out, and I hadn't even started on state tax yet.
Given the amount of time it would've taken me to work out all those forms. $138 was cheap. Which is exactly what TurboTax lobbies for.
The thing I find perversely fascinating is the intersection with pseudo-legal (I think that's what the professionals call it?) "theory" that Sovereign Citizens often try to use to get out of the usual death and taxes stuff.
Up here in our Vancouver, there was a fairly prominent case of a ludicrous, ugly dispute between neighbours in a condo, in which one of the parties went off the deep end into "freemen on the land" / "strawman theory" nonsense, basically - at least as far as I can recall and understand it - claiming to separate the enunciative "I" from the legal person it's attached to, so that Jane Doe is on the hook, but "I" (like everywhere else in a contract or whatever) is a completely different person, over whom the law/feds/Flying-Spaghetti-Monsters have no authority.
Why anyone would think that would work is beyond me, and I'm a chaos faerie.
Sovereign Citizenship = anarchy. Every person is the law unto themselves. And in my punk years in the 80s I was an anarchist for all the time it took to see how people treated each other when they even suspected they could get away with it.
Sovereign Citizens literally want to ignore the laws they don't like, but have the laws that protect them to still apply. Sorry. Can't have it both ways.
Ah, the 80s. I love the 80s.
Or he could file his taxes himself...
How hard it could be?! *shrug*
It's just math!
Oh.
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Ah, the 80s. I love the 80s.
Ms. Pacman struck a blow for women's rights, a young Joe Piscopo taught us how to laugh...
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Ms. Pacman struck a blow for women's rights, a young Joe Piscopo taught us how to laugh...Ah, the 80s. I love the 80s.
How...did you know I JUST saw that episode last night?
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I'm going outside... to... stalk... Freehold DM.
D'oh!
I'm going outside... to... stalk... Freehold DM.
D'oh!
I have got to watch that ep now.
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We still haven't received all of our forms from everybody to be able to do our taxes.
I downloaded my W2 from TurboTax and won't be touching them further, even though I could theoretically file for free using their services since my taxes are nowhere near as complex as Impus Major's.
But given we're dealing with international taxes and me not working for half the year and all the other fun stuff as a result of our move, we're going to actually look into having someone take care of it for us this year.
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Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
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And the battle begins:
This morning by 9:00 am it was sunny and warm(-ish) at 60˚F so I opened up the house and let the kittens out. They enjoyed nearly 2 hours of innsies/outsies and sitting in the sun and the temperature nearly reached 70˚F, then Old Man Freehold Winter reared his ugly head and said, "Nope."
In the last half hour the clouds have rolled in and the temperature has dropped by 8 degrees. The kittens have moved back indoors and I'm closing up the windows.
Winter isn't quite done yet.
And the battle begins:
This morning by 9:00 am it was sunny and warm(-ish) at 60˚F so I opened up the house and let the kittens out. They enjoyed nearly 2 hours of innsies/outsies and sitting in the sun and the temperature nearly reached 70˚F, then Old Man
FreeholdWinter reared his ugly head and said, "Nope."In the last half hour the clouds have rolled in and the temperature has dropped by 8 degrees. The kittens have moved back indoors and I'm closing up the windows.
Winter isn't quite done yet.
NO IT ISNT
COME SNOWSTORM
WINTER FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
I want to see a Dwarven version of this, goldeneye should have an undead version of it.
And the battle begins:
This morning by 9:00 am it was sunny and warm(-ish) at 60˚F so I opened up the house and let the kittens out. They enjoyed nearly 2 hours of innsies/outsies and sitting in the sun and the temperature nearly reached 70˚F, then Old Man
FreeholdWinter reared his ugly head and said, "Nope."In the last half hour the clouds have rolled in and the temperature has dropped by 8 degrees. The kittens have moved back indoors and I'm closing up the windows.
Winter isn't quite done yet.
NO IT ISNT
COME SNOWSTORM
WINTER FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Thursday, my guy. The snow is back by Thursday.
I want to see a Dwarven version of this, goldeneye should have an undead version of it.Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
It can be a dwarf if you wish so. Just add a Constitution bonus and poison resistance...
:P
I want to see a Dwarven version of this, goldeneye should have an undead version of it.Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
It can be a dwarf if you wish so. Just add a Constitution bonus and poison resistance...
:P
Wait. Undead cant have con bonuses and poison resistance. Can't they?
Also, goldeneye is very much a Dwarven concern, it seems to be something only they deal with
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I want to see a Dwarven version of this, goldeneye should have an undead version of it.Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
It can be a dwarf if you wish so. Just add a Constitution bonus and poison resistance...
:P
Wait. Undead cant have con bonuses and poison resistance. Can't they?
Also, goldeneye is very much a Dwarven concern, it seems to be something only they deal with
I thought that James Bond already dealt with it?
I thought that James Bond already dealt with it?I want to see a Dwarven version of this, goldeneye should have an undead version of it.Nobody should(n't) be obsessed over gold so much...
It can be a dwarf if you wish so. Just add a Constitution bonus and poison resistance...
:P
Wait. Undead cant have con bonuses and poison resistance. Can't they?
Also, goldeneye is very much a Dwarven concern, it seems to be something only they deal with
He took care of it for humans, not dwarves.
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And there we go:
Manager: This morning I was asked to change my password. I did and now the system is stating it doesn't recognize it and locked me out. I'll be working with IT support to fix the issue.
Vanykrye made a good point: Mandatory password changes were deeply embedded into the psyche of security-minded execs for years, without any research to tell them whether they were good or bad. (Sound familiar?)
Now that we have volumes of research that mandatory password changes are overall negative, can someone please slap these execs in the head and get them to keep up?
And yet worldwide we put older males in charge and wonder why nothing ever changes...
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Okay, he won't devolve into a Boomer rant, good.
** Polite Boomer Rant**
NOOOOOOOOOO
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ITS STILL SNOWIIIIIIIIING
** spoiler omitted **
Because if you're still alive then it's good enough!
**falls over**
Okay, he won't devolve into a Boomer rant, good.
** Polite Boomer Rant**NOOOOOOOOOO
It's curved, so when you throw it, it comes straight back to you.
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I mean, who doesn't like sandy yams.
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I mean, who doesn't like sandy yams.
Salt is bad for your blood pressure. Sand improves your digestion. Who’s laughing now?