My power company found a new and infuriating way to fuck with me. They send every e-bill with a required payment of $0 and then the regular balance but my bank auto-pay only reads it as $0 due today and ignores it.

So the bank says it’s the power company’s fault, the power company claims to have no control over it. Oh and they don’t send paper bills any more (although they send me a paper report every month shaming me for stressing the grid by charging my electric car) So you have to remember to go online and look up the bill and pay it on their awful $5 transaction bill pay instead.

I was reminded after watching Never After that the Brothers Grimm claimed to be working down old folk tales but they are also the only known version of many of the tales, so it can be assumed they made up at least a few of them.

Thank you! I didn’t want to have to dig up the episode by hand. The YT short missed the excellent stinger that seals this joke.

Both are recoverable but the astrology daughter is much cheaper to handle. Tarot, crystals, and star charts don’t eat retirement funds.

Daughter with a Psychic, much tougher call.

it’s got 8 years of updates right? You think it’ll last until Google comes back into a pro hardware phase?

Doesn’t putting the $$ anywhere that’s not retrievable miss the point of having an emergency fund? It’s supposed to be liquid assets you can spend if you had to. Putting it anywhere with good returns would keep it from being available at 11:45pm on a Saturday night when the ER is demanding payment now or they won’t treat you.

Not 7.5 times higher though. No other factor is as big a predictor as gendered violence. Men commit violence against women and other men much, much more often than women do.

And if you are a man, you should be just as mad because the chances that you are a victim of a violent act by another man is much higher too.

Not all men are violent, but men and women are both victims of the anger of this small-subset of men that we have been unable to identify what else they have in common beyond gender.

Its the exact same thing I tell every libertarian asshole. You are all chained dogs who think you are lone wolves, can’t survive without whatever master you serve and bark at the rest of us to “do better”.

You told OP you think less of them for the post but call me disrespectful. Get fucked.

So, you a cat? You do nothing for anyone else and pretend you don’t use any resources?

There are plenty of people who took care of your dirty ass, whoever you are. If you are still breathing, someone gave a shit enough about you at some point to stick a bottle in your mouth to keep you from starving.

Hence, no one is an island and when you pretend otherwise, you prove what a kept, babied, ignorant person you are.

This is the exact ableist attitude the OP is talking about. Getting armed and defending yourself isn’t a useful option when they don’t need to storm your house to kill you and even if they did, you might not be able to physically use the gun.

Self-defense is an ablest concept, get out there and defend one another!

They been a disaster for the elder and homeless community. Many of them have no cell phone and only login once a week and 2fa makes it pretty much impossible for them.

So just like therapists, I would have to find, select and hire a matchmaker FIRST and then have them send me on potential dates?

That’s just adding more steps to a bad system.

People like dating apps for the convenience and lack of commitment and this plan would be worse on both fronts. People can’t even be honest when the get a bad haircut, trying to get them to give honest date feedback to the matchmaker would be a nightmare.

I’ve had people jealous of me. People who tried to steal my spouse or thought they would be so happy living my life.

It didn’t make me one bit happier. Sometimes it made me suffer, that they didn’t see that things were really difficult for me in ways that were invisible.

That feeling that I thought was wanting a perfect life was really needing anxiety meds I am way happier with well-adjusted meds.

They’ve always been refillable with an adapter from the hardware store but it’s an enormous pain, so few people bother. I’ve always hoped Coleman would start an exchange program at REI or somewhere similar.

If I recall, the adapter hooked to a grill tank but to fill the green cans you had to have the larger tank above the smaller one and it’s impractical for most people.

Wales gets it it’s own Island? Fuck yes! I vote for this map.

I’ve never bothered to watch The Room and this is a really pleasant way to do so.

I’m upset about this but I’m way more upset to be finding out about it from Lemmy instead of from my school district or PowerSchool directly. My Pennsylvnaia school district hasn’t said anything about this.

Imagine an unfrozen '97 James Bond played by Pierce Brosnin.

And have them follow to new number after number because they are one of the 100s of people who have OP’s number legitimately? Why disrupt your whole life for this asshole. Better to get them caught and be done with it.

If you have been vaccinated, then the current strains are about as deadly as the flu. We still need to keep ready for new strains and for sudden surges that can quickly overwhelm a single location’s health care capacity. This is true of influenza as well, a new strain hitting a small contained community can cause issues.