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Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)

Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....

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I think they underestimate how capable kids are of making their own damn platforms. With blackjack and hookers.

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If you’re baffled by the petty vindictive vile school officials, you clearly don’t have kids, especially in Texas.

I raised my daughter here. It was interesting.

She lives far far away in a civilized state now. I told her not to ever move back here. It’s not safe being a young woman in Texas.

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I would say that all the women in Kill Bill are bad ass. Some just align differently than others.

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Yeah. I was thinking of all the vipers and go-go.

Sofie shouldn’t count in my statement.

'A lot of money': Trump owes $87K in interest per day until he pays the fine in his civil fraud case (abcnews.go.com)

Former President Donald Trump owes an additional $87,502 in post-judgment interest every day until he pays the $354 million fine ordered by Judge Arthur Engoron in his civil fraud case, according to ABC News’ calculations based on the judge’s lengthy ruling in the case....

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He’s about to get a huge paper wealth injection with his truth social thing about to go public. Usually you’ve got to prove certain arduous financial metrics to do that, but the SEC is all, “lulz, you’re fine. Go ahead and offer your worthless stock!”

I’ll be curious to see who the biggest “investors” are in that stock. This is set up to be one helluva laundry.

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As to the gorilla killing you quickly:

Not that it’s a direct comparison, but have you ever seen the video of the baboon ripping a gazelle to pieces from the back end up without a care in the world that the thing is still entirely alive and aware?

(Do not look that up if you’re at all squeamish)

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Back in the seventies/early eighties, I remember my grandmother getting financial privilege by showing the check numbers in her checkbook, which were in the high thousands.

If you ran around bouncing checks, you would get cut off long before that and have to start over at the dreaded check number 101.

Such simpler times.

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Their recruiting offices were set up directly across the street from my daughter’s high school right next to the Burger King where all the seniors went to lunch.

Shady as fuck

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They’re the new hovercraft

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I thought I would miss reddit.

I was wrong.

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Facebook definitely came with withdrawals. That one was tough. But five years later, I can’t imagine ever going back.

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Admit it. The reason for the “to be determined” was the lunar flying squid they found in his luggage.

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What happens to the money? Does it get dumped back in to the pool?

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I did not wake up this morning planning on watching a thirty seven minute video, but I watched all of it.

Perhaps with some irony or coincidence or whatever, I lived in South Korea for a few years in the nineties and dreamt that I was back there before I woke up this morning.

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This is our version of ancient Romans using lead based makeup

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I grew up with our friend leaded gasoline. Please pardon my ever increasing dementia.

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If fifty an hour became minimum wage, I’d get the hell out of my soul crushing accounting gig and go become a parking lot attendant faster than you can say, “cash or credit?”

It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’m just leaving for work. I got home after eight last night. This won’t stop until late October. I spend those hours getting yelled at by rich people. I’d LOVE to downgrade my profession.

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This thirty something an hour assertion has been going around for years. I’ve long since stopped bothering with the inflation calculators.

I was born in the early seventies, and witnessed that financial struggle existed even back then.

Yes, getting a house was more realistic (double digit mortgage interest rates notwithstanding). If you could snag a good job. The biggest difference I can remember is that a whole lot of blue collar jobs were good jobs.

Just about all of us in my age group remember food stamps and watered down frozen orange juice to stretch the food dollar and only getting five dollars of gas because filling the tank was way too ambitious.

The rose colored glasses of past financial wellness are heavily focused on the post war white new middle class that lasted what, twenty years?

I should note that I spent the seventies sharing a bedroom with my sister in a two bedroom rented duplex unit. Sharing a bedroom was quite common at the time. Even middle class houses were generally in the 1,100 square foot range, not the 3,000 square foot behemoths we’ve come to view as normal today.

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That’s my point. The whole thing sets off massive currency devaluation

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Generally, the appeals court is the last stop.

In saner times, the supreme court usually only steps in when two or more appeals circuits are coming out with different rulings on similar cases.

Trump pretty much sees the supreme court as his personal hotline.

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I was watching Wendover’s billionaire social calendar last night. They have ships whose sole purpose is to transport their yachts from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean so they don’t have to deal with actual transoceanic sailing. Like they literally load the yacht onto the ship like a big cargo rig.

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Garrett Morris was the best sign interpreter of all time.

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Unless you’re white it wouldn’t be great going too far back in time.

White guy turns on time machine. Lands in feudal Japan. Isn’t Tom Cruise. Has bad time.

'Disenfranchised' millennials feel 'locked out' of the housing market and it taints every part of economic life, top economist Mark Zandi says (fortune.com)

Few milestones in life mean as much to the American Dream as owning a home. And millennials have encountered the kind of trouble totally befitting their generation, which largely graduated into the teeth of the disastrous post-2008 job market. Just as they entered peak homebuying and household formation age, housing...

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How much are people paying for PMI? Mine is $38/month. I put roughly ten percent down so maybe it’s cheaper?

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The business of student loans is far too profitable and powerful to just quietly go away in favor of your thesis.

I do like your thought process though.

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Everything that’s happening in this shit stain of a timeline leads me to stronger and stronger opinions that I’m going to facilitate my own exit on my own terms so there will be assets left for my daughter to play with after I’m gone.

No retirement. No healthcare. No hope. Fuck it. I’ll take my leave when time comes.

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I’ve actually had this talk with her. (Clarification: she’s an adult). After arguing my position on the matter, she had no issue with any of it.

Also clarification: my comments about self managed exit aren’t related to some depression I wanna go today type thing. It’s an entirely pragmatic plan of attack for future use.

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I’m a tax accountant. I got this.

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Archived link

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Getting yourself involved with a cable company is worse than borrowing money from your local waste management representative. Easy to get in, impossible to get out.

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I learned that Korean fried chicken is pretty easy to make, so I freed myself from the retail price increases. Also, because the place that made by far the best Korean fried chicken closed leaving me with all these watered down fried in olive oil lame places.

Fun nostalgia: Korean chicken joints in Korea in the nineties were frequently late night (like three in the morning late night) drunken smoke filled brawl infested shit shows of soju chugging drunk munching goodness. It’s always a little strange to me to see modern day “nice” chicken places.

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And franchise fees. They take a percentage of gross. I really don’t know why anybody gets involved with that stuff.

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I mean, has George Zimmerman gotten anything that’s “coming to him?”

Seems like he’s been in a total shit storm of events, but suffered consequences for nothing.

Rittenhouse will have his nose so far up the maga go fund me grift should anything ever happen, he’ll never know anything more than a minor inconvenience.

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That was pretty much my legit setup in my last rent house. I’m so so glad I finally got out of there.

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I shoulda used the poop knife

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I heard it was a special attachment for the Hitachi massage wand

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Was full of shit. Past tense.

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Fans often ask celebrities to autograph weird things. Even so Alex Borstein was pretty startled when someone approached her at a recent event brandishing a plunger. “I was like, ‘That doesn’t look new, and I’m not going to sign that!’” Borstein told me with a raspy laugh, sounding a lot like her Marvelous Mrs. Maisel character, Susie Myerson.

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I LOVE strokin’ off!

Russia finds ‘errors’ in paperwork of candidate hoping to stand against Putin (www.theguardian.com)

Russia’s elections commission has said it found “dead souls” among the more than 100,000 signatures of support submitted by Boris Nadezhdin, the sole anti-war candidate in next month’s presidential election, in a sign that he could be disqualified from a carefully managed ballot meant to deliver victory for Vladimir...

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Always use Linux to file paperwork in Russia.

Windows will be the death of you over there.

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Fellow accountant here.

I’m getting $500 back this year. Sometimes I owe that much and offset with additional HSA contributions.

I don’t sweat it much beyond that. Just make sure I’m safe harbored and reconcile in February.

Unless we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars variance, the “free government loan” is entirely immaterial for most people, especially when savings accounts were paying a fraction of one percent interest and investments would either ring up ridiculous fees or require lot purchases far beyond the excess withholding.

I’m drinking beer this afternoon and don’t know if there’s a point to what I just said.

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I work for a small company owned and run by a Jewish family

One of their favorite jokes goes like this:

You can’t hold us in a prison cell! We eat lox for breakfast!

(And we do indeed have bagels and lox brought in regularly)

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I’ve yet to get a new pipe link to work on phone or desktop. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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That may be it. There’s a bot on lemme thst responds to all YouTube links with piped links, and I’ve tried to follow those directly. I was unaware of an app. Thanks.

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Filter update. No clue how autocorrect got truck out of that.

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Yep. I have had these same thoughts. Start a business. Any business. Slap “Christian” in the name. Profit.

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I like the after rapture pet insurance.

Pay me today, and I’ll totally feed your dog after you’ve ascended to heaven.

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