So... bard? I'm thinking bard.Yesterday,
There was practically a TPK.
(Our brave necromancer ran away)
Now we must roll
New dudes to play.
I've always thought I'd be a rogue.
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Extra points for armour with a beard guard attached that looks like a beard.
Hmm, yeah - war mask with chains or wire ropes hanging off the bottom.
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That's quite a dashing rogue, at that.
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Or. If his charisma is low, go the mandalorian route with full helmet that reveals no facial features, and heavy weaponry that takes years of practice to master. Have him cling to an archaic code that noone has the courage to question him on as he is just too damn good to pester with such things.
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I've always thought I'd be a rogue.So... bard? I'm thinking bard.Yesterday,
There was practically a TPK.
(Our brave necromancer ran away)
Now we must roll
New dudes to play.
with that nudity, something is certainly going rogue.
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I almost got to my car after the snow run when summer co-worker says "the boss wants to salt this big apartment complex but all my guys already left!" So of course I helped him, added another hour on to my day.
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They hired another guy with my first name, bringing the total to 4, which is one short of the record for a place of employment.
I don't have an especially common name, as in I could never find anything with my name on it at stores.
But apparently the landscaping industry is infested with us.
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Well, Impus Major is off doing a brave, hard, but necessary thing.
As far as I know, every group of teenagers has "the jerk" -- that one person in the group who's considered obnoxious and mean, but that the rest of the group tolerates for reasons unknown. I've vaguely complained about Impus Major's group's jerk here on occasion, but for the most part I ignore him.
Unfortunately, Impus Major's generation is a LOT less tolerant of such behavior than my generation was. Said jerk went off to college and, to no one's surprise, managed to make -0- friends there. So he ended up isolated and alone. While he was away, the friends around here started making girlfriends.
His first sentence to girlfriend #1: "The only reason xxx is dating you is because he's on the rebound from his previous girlfriend."
His first sentence to girlfriend #2 was an insult about her breast size.
So, after his being away for 4 months, local friends realized just how toxic he was, and refuse to associate with him.
He is (almost) all alone in life, and it's all of his own doing, and only Impus Major is still willing to hang around with him.
So after asking me for advice and getting the same answer for DAYS, Impus Major is going to bite the bullet and describe in detail Mr. Jerk's toxic behavior, and how it's the reason no one else will associate with him.
Now, the big question: Will he listen?
Because honestly, all it would take for him to not be a jerk would be to shut up and keep his hands at his sides. But that might be asking too much...
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with that nudity, something is certainly going rogue.I've always thought I'd be a rogue.So... bard? I'm thinking bard.Yesterday,
There was practically a TPK.
(Our brave necromancer ran away)
Now we must roll
New dudes to play.
It still counts as a Light weapon, right?
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Or. If his charisma is low, go the mandalorian route with full helmet that reveals no facial features, and heavy weaponry that takes years of practice to master. Have him cling to an archaic code that noone has the courage to question him on as he is just too damn good to pester with such things.
Two out of three...
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I suspect that many archeologists are just kids who grew up in a home that was in the same family for multiple generations.
Why?
Because this evening as I went out to put out the garbage, I found that the recent rains had uncovered a dinosaur skeleton in our back yard. It is perfectly preserved, and lying in the same position that one of the kids obviously left it, many years ago, when they dropped it while playing with it.
Pretty cool...
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It still counts as a Light weapon, right?with that nudity, something is certainly going rogue.I've always thought I'd be a rogue.So... bard? I'm thinking bard.Yesterday,
There was practically a TPK.
(Our brave necromancer ran away)
Now we must roll
New dudes to play.
I don't know what you're wielding, but mine requires two hands.
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Have I mentioned how much hope I have for the future thanks to the current generation yet? Nope? Well, let me go on AGAIN.
Impus Major had "The Talk" with The Jerk. He didn't even pull any punches. The Jerk mentioned someone he didn't like, and Impus Major took this as a golden opportunity: "Speaking of people not liking each other..."
The Jerk was unhappy, upset, and angry, but he did not take it out on Impus Major. Instead, he insisted that he needed to know how he should change, and now they're all setting up a meeting to help him out and provide some guidelines for him so he can be less of a jerk, and he honestly wants to follow those guidelines so everyone likes him more.
Honest, open communication. A willingness to change for the better. A willingness to meet with someone you think is a jerk and try to help him improve.
Gee... too bad these kids don't run the country... yet...
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Wow. There IS hope for the future!
;)
Good job Impus Major. Good job.
(ANd not too bad yourself NH. You raised him right) ;)
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Have I mentioned how much hope I have for the future thanks to the current generation yet? Nope? Well, let me go on AGAIN.
Impus Major had "The Talk" with The Jerk. He didn't even pull any punches. The Jerk mentioned someone he didn't like, and Impus Major took this as a golden opportunity: "Speaking of people not liking each other..."
The Jerk was unhappy, upset, and angry, but he did not take it out on Impus Major. Instead, he insisted that he needed to know how he should change, and now they're all setting up a meeting to help him out and provide some guidelines for him so he can be less of a jerk, and he honestly wants to follow those guidelines so everyone likes him more.
Honest, open communication. A willingness to change for the better. A willingness to meet with someone you think is a jerk and try to help him improve.
Gee... too bad these kids don't run the country... yet...
AWESOME
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Have I mentioned how much hope I have for the future thanks to the current generation yet? Nope? Well, let me go on AGAIN.
Impus Major had "The Talk" with The Jerk. He didn't even pull any punches. The Jerk mentioned someone he didn't like, and Impus Major took this as a golden opportunity: "Speaking of people not liking each other..."
The Jerk was unhappy, upset, and angry, but he did not take it out on Impus Major. Instead, he insisted that he needed to know how he should change, and now they're all setting up a meeting to help him out and provide some guidelines for him so he can be less of a jerk, and he honestly wants to follow those guidelines so everyone likes him more.
Honest, open communication. A willingness to change for the better. A willingness to meet with someone you think is a jerk and try to help him improve.
Gee... too bad these kids don't run the country... yet...
Nobody is responsible for Impus Major not being eligible for 2035 elections.
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Er... he's eligible for the House or Senate in 2026. It's only President that requires a native-born citizen 35 or older, which is 2036. And you pretty much have to be a Congressperson before you run for President. Not a law, just a fact of life.
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Er... he's eligible for the House or Senate in 2026. It's only President that requires a native-born citizen 35 or older, which is 2036. And you pretty much have to be a Congressperson before you run for President. Not a law, just a fact of life.
Or Governor, as was the case with Bush Jr and Clinton and a handful of others.
Or, apparently, a repeatedly failed businessman.
...anyway I hate to be the stick in the mud, but have you considered that your son is special? (In a good way!) He sounds awesome, but I hear more horror stories than positive with this generation outside of you.
Outliers happen...
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Er... he's eligible for the House or Senate in 2026. It's only President that requires a native-born citizen 35 or older, which is 2036. And you pretty much have to be a Congressperson before you run for President. Not a law, just a fact of life.
Or Governor, as was the case with Bush Jr and Clinton and a handful of others.
Or, apparently, a repeatedly failed businessman.
...anyway I hate to be the stick in the mud, but have you considered that your son is special? (In a good way!) He sounds awesome, but I hear more horror stories than positive with this generation outside of you.
Outliers happen...
He'd have to be "special" along with 130 of his friends and peers. Don't forget that I chaperone a whole horde of them to SoCal every year, and almost all of them are pretty amazing people.
It could certainly be a locality thing (Albany is in the top 10% of school districts in California, so selection bias), but the only really negative comments I hear are from CY about boys who are trying to woo Crookshanks or who are related to him, and both of those groups have an even stronger selection bias towards intolerability.
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Id vote for Impus Major.Then you've got 15 years to become a US citizen. I bet Freehold would be happy to marry you in order to help out with that.
If I weren't engaged, I would, if only for easy access to the Netherlands.
Did I ever announce I got engaged? It was about a week before we found out about my daughter, so it kinda hit the backburner of announcements.
Also it's a technicality. We won't actually be getting married, because Tala's abusive ex is paying alimony until she gets married, and since she STILL wakes up in terror with flashback nightmares from PTSD, he will be paying until he drops dead.
But we plan on a religious, non-civil ceremony of commitment.
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Id vote for Impus Major.Then you've got 15 years to become a US citizen. I bet Freehold would be happy to marry you in order to help out with that.If I weren't engaged, I would, if only for easy access to the Netherlands.
Did I ever announce I got engaged? It was about a week before we found out about my daughter, so it kinda hit the backburner of announcements.
Also it's a technicality. We won't actually be getting married, because Tala's abusive ex is paying alimony until she gets married, and since she STILL wakes up in terror with flashback nightmares from PTSD, he will be paying until he drops dead.
But we plan on a religious, non-civil ceremony of commitment.
VE - don't forget to look into the common law marriage requirements in Ohio/your county/city. In some places in the US, if you just live with someone long enough you're considered married. That might become an issue.
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*SIGH*. Be careful what you ask for.
So, I finally got to have the big "family meeting for 2020" where I listed all the chores I do on a daily basis, pointed out that every attempt to assign chores to people, assign monetary values to chores, or anything else had failed utterly, and so all I wanted was for the 3 of them to choose ONE chore and work together to take care of it.
My hope was that they would choose something really easy, like taking care of the cats.
What did they choose? The shopping.
Which seems like a great favor to me, because it does save me a few hours a week of my precious, precious lunch hour, and I no longer have to listen to the constant, "We're out of xxx."
"Did you put it on the list?"
"No."
"Then not my problem."
But I really like going to the corner store and interacting with the staff. I'm a social guy, and I otherwise don't get much face-to-face interaction with people, so after they chose it I realized that they'd managed to yoink my "favorite" chore from me.
But still, time saved is time saved, and if they can actually manage that ONE CHORE for the year, then in 2021 I'll give them a second one.
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VE - don't forget to look into the common law marriage requirements in Ohio/your county/city. In some places in the US, if you just live with someone long enough you're considered married. That might become an issue.
Common law marriage abolished in Ohio since 1991 for the win!
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Proof Positive that NobodysHome Lives in his Own Land of Rainbows and Unicorns:
Our contractor came over on Saturday to finish the job, but as usual ran late and missed most of the 49ers game with his friends. So as soon as he finished our job, he raced off, showered, changed, and went to meet his friends at a sports bar for the last few minutes of the game.
His girlfriend, wanting to do something nice for him, did his laundry... including the $5000 check I'd written him.
He called me and asked if I could cut him a new check, and I laughed and said, "Sure!"
And everyone is totally appalled. Even Shiro insists that I should stop payment on the first check (a $20 fee) and charge him the $20 before I'll cut him the second check, just to "legally protect myself".
Unfortunately, I just have a tendency to trust people I've hung around with for a while, and who know that they're going to get ten times that much business from me over the summer. Why screw me over for $5000 when I've already told him I'm refinancing for him to do my deck, my bathroom, and my kitchen over the summer? It would be a psychotic move on multiple fronts.
"Wait! What if his girlfriend stole the check and she's going to cash it?"
Well, first off, it'll bounce, since I don't keep $10,000 lying around in my bank account, so it'll cost me all of $25 for the bounced check fee. And second off, the contractor would really want to know if his girlfriend was that vile.
So yeah, no. I'm just cutting him the check and trusting that he's honest. Sue me.
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And LOL. With the 2020 election looming, we're yet again discussing emigrating sooner rather than later. And the Netherlands came up, because they have better weather than most of the other candidates.
And Shiro said, "But I don't want to live there, because I'd have to learn half a dozen languages just to be considered adequate!"
Er... yep...
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It's Tuesday,...
Well, at least it's not MONDAY,... again.
(Don't laugh, It's happened!)
>_<
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Proof Positive that NobodysHome Lives in his Own Land of Rainbows and Unicorns:
Our contractor came over on Saturday to finish the job, but as usual ran late and missed most of the 49ers game with his friends. So as soon as he finished our job, he raced off, showered, changed, and went to meet his friends at a sports bar for the last few minutes of the game.
His girlfriend, wanting to do something nice for him, did his laundry... including the $5000 check I'd written him.
He called me and asked if I could cut him a new check, and I laughed and said, "Sure!"
And everyone is totally appalled. Even Shiro insists that I should stop payment on the first check (a $20 fee) and charge him the $20 before I'll cut him the second check, just to "legally protect myself".
Unfortunately, I just have a tendency to trust people I've hung around with for a while, and who know that they're going to get ten times that much business from me over the summer. Why screw me over for $5000 when I've already told him I'm refinancing for him to do my deck, my bathroom, and my kitchen over the summer? It would be a psychotic move on multiple fronts.
"Wait! What if his girlfriend stole the check and she's going to cash it?"
Well, first off, it'll bounce, since I don't keep $10,000 lying around in my bank account, so it'll cost me all of $25 for the bounced check fee. And second off, the contractor would really want to know if his girlfriend was that vile.
So yeah, no. I'm just cutting him the check and trusting that he's honest. Sue me.
So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
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So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
Technically it's a crime. However, realistically speaking, it doesn't get prosecuted unless it's really habitual/serial behavior. If someone has been prosecuted "just for writing bad checks" then they've come to the attention of many, many businesses and banks who have alerted the authorities.
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And LOL. With the 2020 election looming, we're yet again discussing emigrating sooner rather than later. And the Netherlands came up, because they have better weather than most of the other candidates.
And Shiro said, "But I don't want to live there, because I'd have to learn half a dozen languages just to be considered adequate!"
Er... yep...
Just learn half decent dutch. Its enough.
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*SIGH*. Be careful what you ask for.
So, I finally got to have the big "family meeting for 2020" where I listed all the chores I do on a daily basis, pointed out that every attempt to assign chores to people, assign monetary values to chores, or anything else had failed utterly, and so all I wanted was for the 3 of them to choose ONE chore and work together to take care of it.
My hope was that they would choose something really easy, like taking care of the cats.
What did they choose? The shopping.
Which seems like a great favor to me, because it does save me a few hours a week of my precious, precious lunch hour, and I no longer have to listen to the constant, "We're out of xxx."
"Did you put it on the list?"
"No."
"Then not my problem."But I really like going to the corner store and interacting with the staff. I'm a social guy, and I otherwise don't get much face-to-face interaction with people, so after they chose it I realized that they'd managed to yoink my "favorite" chore from me.
But still, time saved is time saved, and if they can actually manage that ONE CHORE for the year, then in 2021 I'll give them a second one.
"I'm not giving you MY chores, you can get a job!" - Hank Hill.
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Technically it's a crime. However, realistically speaking, it doesn't get prosecuted unless it's really habitual/serial behavior. If someone has been prosecuted "just for writing bad checks" then they've come to the attention of many, many businesses and banks who have alerted the authorities.So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
I'm not even sure it's necessarily a crime. Intentionally writing a bad check is indeed fraud, and if the district attorney can prove that you did it they may go after you.
But accidentally writing a bad check is a time-honored U.S. tradition. As Vanykrye says, unless it's habitual (in which case it falls under the "fraud" statutes), it's assumed you did by accident, you pay the bank a nominal fee, and everyone forgets about it.
So... if they don't write checks in Poland, how to they pay their contractors? Direct bank transfer? Credit card? Massive sums of cash?
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Unfortunately, I just have a tendency to trust people I've hung around with for a while, and who know that they're going to get ten times that much business from me over the summer. Why screw me over for $5000 when I've already told him I'm refinancing for him to do my deck, my bathroom, and my kitchen over the summer? It would be a psychotic move on multiple fronts.
Counterpoint, and I'm sure you've heard this one already: Bird in hand v two in the bush.
I'm not questioning this specific person's honesty, but just pointing out a general behavior pattern prevalent among a certain element of our society. Short-term immediate situation thinking. You've mentioned the refinance and promise of additional work, but this subset of society figures that promise is just words, and therefore not worth as much as the guaranteed check in hand plus you writing the second one. Heck, they may even believe you fully intend to do the extra work this summer, but things come up and plans change, and they might have a medical bill that needs paying right now.
Just saying some people react to financial pressures or other situations in unpredictable ways. And some people are actual criminals.
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Technically it's a crime. However, realistically speaking, it doesn't get prosecuted unless it's really habitual/serial behavior. If someone has been prosecuted "just for writing bad checks" then they've come to the attention of many, many businesses and banks who have alerted the authorities.So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
I'm not even sure it's necessarily a crime. Intentionally writing a bad check is indeed fraud, and if the district attorney can prove that you did it they may go after you.
But accidentally writing a bad check is a time-honored U.S. tradition. As Vanykrye says, unless it's habitual (in which case it falls under the "fraud" statutes), it's assumed you did by accident, you pay the bank a nominal fee, and everyone forgets about it.
So... if they don't write checks in Poland, how to they pay their contractors? Direct bank transfer? Credit card? Massive sums of cash?
Yes.
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Also, id never immigrate to the usa. Id lose so many freedom.
I know a lot of things happen at state level so one states evilness would not affect another. But the usa is pretty much a dumpster fire when seen from here.
I'm not saying you're wrong. The US is a patchwork of different laws for the same behavior in different states, but sometimes superseded at the federal level and sometimes not.
But.
It's also not entirely dissimilar from how the EU interacts with its member nations.
Both have work to do.
I'm not against learning Dutch. Or Swedish. Or Belgian. Probably not French.
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Technically it's a crime. However, realistically speaking, it doesn't get prosecuted unless it's really habitual/serial behavior. If someone has been prosecuted "just for writing bad checks" then they've come to the attention of many, many businesses and banks who have alerted the authorities.So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
I'm not even sure it's necessarily a crime. Intentionally writing a bad check is indeed fraud, and if the district attorney can prove that you did it they may go after you.
But accidentally writing a bad check is a time-honored U.S. tradition. As Vanykrye says, unless it's habitual (in which case it falls under the "fraud" statutes), it's assumed you did by accident, you pay the bank a nominal fee, and everyone forgets about it.
So... if they don't write checks in Poland, how to they pay their contractors? Direct bank transfer? Credit card? Massive sums of cash?
I payed the contracter for the kitchen with direct bank transfer.
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Technically it's a crime. However, realistically speaking, it doesn't get prosecuted unless it's really habitual/serial behavior. If someone has been prosecuted "just for writing bad checks" then they've come to the attention of many, many businesses and banks who have alerted the authorities.So writing checks for sums exceeding your current account value is not a crime in Cali? Or is that only a matter for specific kinds of accounts?
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Oh, and those check things? Do you send them via pterodactyls, or is there an option to use pigeon already?
I'm not even sure it's necessarily a crime. Intentionally writing a bad check is indeed fraud, and if the district attorney can prove that you did it they may go after you.
But accidentally writing a bad check is a time-honored U.S. tradition. As Vanykrye says, unless it's habitual (in which case it falls under the "fraud" statutes), it's assumed you did by accident, you pay the bank a nominal fee, and everyone forgets about it.
So... if they don't write checks in Poland, how to they pay their contractors? Direct bank transfer? Credit card? Massive sums of cash?
I payed the contracter for the kitchen with direct bank transfer.
Massive amounts of cash would have worked as well and is always a good option if you want to keep some work out of the books.
Yeah, in the U.S. that's just not a viable option. If I were to ask any contractor for their bank account information so I could direct transfer to their account, they'd look at me as if I'd grown a second head. And contractors won't take credit cards because of the associated 2.5% fee.
So it's cash or check, and I'm not comfortable with even $500 lying around, much less $5000...
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Yeah, in the U.S. that's just not a viable option. If I were to ask any contractor for their bank account information so I could direct transfer to their account, they'd look at me as if I'd grown a second head. And contractors won't take credit cards because of the associated 2.5% fee.
And even if it were routinely viable in the US, the banks would most likely use security software that was at least 8-10 years out of date and had been fully compromised 4-5 years before being discontinued.
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Here's a short article from 2018 summarizing the US banking technology gap with the rest of the developed world.
The transition to chip-embedded cards in the US started a full decade after retailers and credit card companies transitioned away from magnetic stripe credit cards in Europe, Australia, Brazil, and several other countries. That was because the benefits of changing systems (that is, avoiding the high cost of fraud) didn't quite outweigh the costs of replacing terminals and mailing out new cards, or at least that was the reasoning given by the the stewards of the EMV standard (specifically, MasterCard and Visa). Today, the US is finally catching up, just in time for contactless and mobile payments to make physical credit cards less and less necessary.
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I'm having my current events class look up a new country each week (some basic demographic info and a current news article) to get them a little more in-tune with geography.
Last week, they pulled Russia out of the jar and decided this was going to be easy.
This week? Kiribati.
They are a mite less enthused.
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Hello, everyone!
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I'm having my current events class look up a new country each week (some basic demographic info and a current news article) to get them a little more in-tune with geography.
Last week, they pulled Russia out of the jar and decided this was going to be easy.
This week? Kiribati.
They are a mite less enthused.
I admit it. I had to Google that one. First time I've ever seen the name in print.
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Speaking of the U.S. and the stupidity of absolute lawfulness:
The family agreed to do my shopping for me. Impus Major is home right now. But I am making turkey soup, which requires wine. And Impus Major is not allowed to buy wine. Not even with a note from me that it is for cooking purposes.
Because the standard reaction to all negative events in the U.S. is, "If one person cannot handle the responsibility for doing this, then NO ONE is allowed to do it."
It is perhaps the single-most-frustrating aspect of life in a society: "Willem couldn't handle working from home, so you don't get to work from home. Thomas is an alcoholic father who'd send his son to buy booze for him if he could, so you can't send your son to buy booze for you."
Just SOOOOO frustrating...
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It is a dumpster fire. There's no perception bias. From inside, it smells and looks just like outside, but the majority of our peers are suffering from delusions that the first country with freedom and democracy is apparently the only country with freedom and democracy, so there's this idiotic pride that leads to severe narcissistic delusion.
Remember my rant about leaving a couple months back?
Literally came down to nobody would take me without about $10,000+ in liquid assets. As if I f&%~ing HAD that much. I mean, the US is actually not too bad if you have money, so needing money to leave kind of defeats the purpose...
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Unfortunately, I just have a tendency to trust people I've hung around with for a while, and who know that they're going to get ten times that much business from me over the summer. Why screw me over for $5000 when I've already told him I'm refinancing for him to do my deck, my bathroom, and my kitchen over the summer? It would be a psychotic move on multiple fronts.
Counterpoint, and I'm sure you've heard this one already: Bird in hand v two in the bush.
I'm not questioning this specific person's honesty, but just pointing out a general behavior pattern prevalent among a certain element of our society. Short-term immediate situation thinking. You've mentioned the refinance and promise of additional work, but this subset of society figures that promise is just words, and therefore not worth as much as the guaranteed check in hand plus you writing the second one. Heck, they may even believe you fully intend to do the extra work this summer, but things come up and plans change, and they might have a medical bill that needs paying right now.
Just saying some people react to financial pressures or other situations in unpredictable ways. And some people are actual criminals.
I've had this issue with weed dealers.
Smart weed dealers will front their regulars until pay day, knowing that it can lead to hundreds over the course of time, if not thousands of dollars of business through recommendations. They give a good product, and know that yeah, you might walk away with less than 50 bucks of product, but if the product is good, you'll come back, pay the debt, and keep buying. A single returning customer is worth far more than several one-time spenders.
Dumb weed dealers will not only fail to do such a thing, but will sell you garbage weed sprayed with scent to smell better than it is, and give you a sample hit of a totally different bud than is they're bagging - letting them sell a poor product for a premium price a single time, but immediately causing you to delete their number and never contact them again.
There are far more dumb dealers.
Id vote for Impus Major.Then you've got 15 years to become a US citizen. I bet Freehold would be happy to marry you in order to help out with that.If I weren't engaged, I would, if only for easy access to the Netherlands.
Did I ever announce I got engaged? It was about a week before we found out about my daughter, so it kinda hit the backburner of announcements.
Also it's a technicality. We won't actually be getting married, because Tala's abusive ex is paying alimony until she gets married, and since she STILL wakes up in terror with flashback nightmares from PTSD, he will be paying until he drops dead.
But we plan on a religious, non-civil ceremony of commitment.
Congratulations!