Amazing.
“John Oliver Whiffs on Basic Economics in Viral Clip on High Rent”
“AMD vs. Nvidia: An Epic Battle for the Heart of Your Gaming PC”
“Metal Gear Turned 35, But Quiet’s Character Design Marks A Timeless Controversy”
“EA’s new Skate is free to play”
I may have shared this already, but it’s probably been a bit, if so (NSFW).
Comedian John Oliver last month dedicated a 22-minute segment of his weekly HBO late-night show to a deep dive on housing policy and rising rents.
To be fair, Oliver’s target audience wears ignorance of basic economics as a badge of honor.
Yeah, if you turn to that knucklehead for an explanation of…well, anything, you have issues.
The English accent didn’t win you over?
hums
Swiss is probably close enough to European to pick up on that.
Swiss: just sent an e-mail to you and copied Tonio (using e-mail addresses we’ve used in the past, not sure who often you check them) about an article I just submitted.
The sad part is that a bright five-year-old could pick up the concepts in that article but the likes of John Oliver are too educated to understand them and will just plug their ears and cry “Rhee!”
Typical IGN. No mention of power consumption on the Nvidia vs AMD article.
Yeah — I’ve got a 2080 in my current rig and sat out the 3000 series because it has been good enough (and it was impossible to get for what, two years or so?). Hearing figures tossed about for 400 to 650W just for the graphics card makes me think I can stick with it in lieu of a space heater… especially in the summer with 105 degree temps and all.
I have a 3080 that replaced a 1080. I waited 18 months to get it at list from evga.
If you don’t overclock for minimal FPS gain power consumption on most titles isn’t excessively worse. But it is higher. Random guess is like 20%.
My PS is 1000w so I didn’t care. It is so big because the 850 I wanted was out of stock.
I had to go look — normally I “go big or go home” but apparently I was trying to keep this build relatively quiet and I went with a 760W. So if I do go with a 4000 series, I’ll be looking at changing that out too.. and likely would wait and get the next gen Ryzen when it comes out – so that’s mb / ram / cpu (ddr5 only, iirc)… so yeah, that would be building a whole new system. I might want to do that… but I can’t really justify it on need. Current system should be fine for another year or so..
Yes, next Gen AMD is ddr5 only. Intel MBs will do either, but not both.
Intel’s latest generation big/little actually has better performance, but AMD could close that if they can up the clock speed and IPC.
Alternate Friday music. For some reason, the main page article blurb triggered this as an ear worm… so now I’ll share.
Re: Spoon Fries.. given fries really have to be freshly cooked / hot — I’m not really convinced they’d work out. And a spoonful of ketchup with a fry is way too much for my tastes. Y’all enjoy it (if you’re in the UK apparently) if you want.
This reminds me of girls I knew in high school who ate peanut butter with a spoon. Just put a straw in the ketchup and be done with it.
PB with a spoon? I married one. 😉 She doesn’t drink ketchup though, thank goodness.
Does she really eat PB with a spoon? Or did you catch her with a spoon a jar of PB and that was her claim? How did she explain the big grin on the dog?
She really does, I’ve seen it. And we currently only have cats. I don’t think the PB trick works on them, you reprobate 😉 !
Yeah, with cats you have to dunk your balls in the water at the bottom of a tuna can
I do peanut butter with a spoon sometimes, as a mini-meal.
I don’t really care about ketchup. But to tell the truth, if nobody were watching I’d eat a whole bowl of Chick-Fil-A Sauce just like it was pudding.
I remember articles saying you shouldn’t do that because you could choke to death.
“‘DANGEROUS’ PEANUT BUTTER
Jan. 18, 1981
The recommendation is made to avoid holiday overeating by curbing the appetite by eating a small amount before heading out for an evening’s festivities (”Staying Slim Through the Holidays,” by Alexandra Penney, Dec. 14). It states: ”… a tablespoon or two of peanut butter is an especially good choice.”
This advice can be fatal.
We have records of persons choking to death after eating peanut butter off a spoon. The problem is that the thick substance becomes lodged in the throat or spreads through the lungs and cannot be removed by any means. If one chooses to eat peanut butter, put it on a piece of bread. In reports of choking incidents, it has been proved that the Heimlich Maneuver has expelled peanut-buttered bread from the throats of choking victims and saved their lives. HENRY J. HEIMLICH, M.D. Professor of Advanced Clinical Sciences Xavier University
Cincinnati”
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/magazine/l-dangerous-peanut-butter-227906.html
Peanut butter is correctly eaten melted on toast and therefore not a choking hazard. Any other usage of the product is unacceptable.
No love for celery as a delivery platform?
I just don’t like it room temperature – blech.
No peanut butter cookies?
Hm. In a pinch.
Spread across a tortilla and then rolled up.
No muss; no fuss; easy snack.
My dad ate sardine and peanut butter sandwiches.
Son of a monster confirmed.
The best is peanut butter with honey on a toasted English muffin.
So… do we ban peanut butter, or spoons? Or both?
I mean, if it saves one life…
You don’t swallow the spoon with the peanut butter./unabashedly eats peanut butter
withfrom a spoon.I eat it with a spoon. Not dead yet.
Peanut butter, like ice cream, is to be eaten with a fork.
It’s like I don’t even know you people. Sheesh.
Limey hardest hit. Speaking of which, whatever happened to our British brother?
Ketchup is like mayo. Disgusting.
I’m sorry to go OT a bit early, but I need to run and have to post this report from Sunny Minnesoda. If it is true, there should be committees investigating in the state legislature.
I don’t know why the sheriff of the second largest county in Minnesoda would lie, but man this seems like it can’t be true.
That’s some GTA level action.
I’m not going to sugar coat this, but I think those parents might need to take some child rearing lessons.
Any odds that the parents of these kids are the same parents of the Fighting Diaper Babies?
100%
Gotta start em young.
At this point, who could blame them for logically concluding there are zero consequences for their actions?
You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish.
“BUT THEY’RE JUST KIDS!! They have their whole lives ahead of them.”
Me: that’s what I’m afraid of.
They should identify the addresses of the alleged adults to whom the juveniles were released.
You will know them pretty well, I’m sure. They will be prominently displayed at press conferences when they are bemoaning the fact that their sweet kid was shot.
I almost wonder if these parents are hoping a city cop kills their asshole kid. They can cash out big time.
It’s almost like leftist jurisdictions WANT crime to increase.
I had coffee with an LEO acquaintance yesterday. We talked about Minneapolis crime in the last few years.
He said he couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to be a cop in Minneapolis, with a mayor and city council pretty much saying they want to slash your department’s funding, put a bunch of your colleagues out of work, and dealing with a hostile public.
I had to agree with him. Unfortunately, it’s the best cops who voluntarily leave, whether for another city or another profession.
You see, the thing about Oliver is he’s an idiot and a smug one at that.
Also not funny; also a douchebag
Sometimes I’ll rant about things, and my wife will tell this douche has the same opinion. Wut?
I’m hoping it’s because he’s sometimes correct. Otherwise… fuuuuhhhck me.
/Am I the douche?
We’re all douche-bags ’round here.
“Indiana doctor who performed abortion on rape victim, 10, DID report procedure to state officials and is considering suing motormouth AG who questioned whether she’d broken law during Fox News appearance”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11018343/Indiana-doctor-performed-abortion-rape-victim-10-DID-report-procedure-state-officials.html
The neverending story.
Also the age of the perp was noted as 17. Doc could have been mislead however.
Almost starting to sound like a setup story that some took the bait and ran with ‘hoax’ rather than…’I have questions’.
Asserting the law was broken: actionable (maybe, depends); Questioning whether law was broken: not actionable.
I could be wrong though, my JD is in bird law.
Is that so you could get your beak wet, or were you just winging it when you chose your area of focus?
(Alternate — are you just that talon-ted?)
Harvey Birdman is that you?
+1 Charlie
So can a state prosecute for HIPPA?
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/15/iu-health-says-indiana-doctor-did-not-violate-hipaa-laws-in-10-year-old-abortion-case/65374295007/
Because I’d argue that the age and state make it identifiable. Not that I’d expect fedgov to do anything here. They have grandmothers to jail over the insurrection.
I’m not sure, but the Indiana AG is looking into that.
Hey, she was trespassing on HOLY ground! We cannot let that slide, except for when it’s team blue agents doing it.
“‘The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own’ Biden pledges after meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas – as he calls death of Al-Jazeera journalist and American citizen Shireen Abu Akleh an ‘enormous loss'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11016877/Palestinian-Authority-leader-Mahmoud-Abbas-rolls-red-carpet-Biden-Bethlehem.html
It’s not like he could find Jordan on a map.
And they say Trump is the one who just agrees with whatever he hears from the last person who talked to him.
That was my thought as well.
Give ’em Delaware then, Joe.
Lol
If they went back to the old name, it would become a woke paradise overnight.
pictured
It’s a Friday, and what was going to be a relatively quiet weekend has turned into a busy one. However, I’m still going to be home tonight and tomorrow to provide entertainment to you people. Here’s the link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/LJB talk which will kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
Neph is gonna shitfaced, everyone!
Odd fetish, but okay.
Not tonight. Got to get up early to head down to a farmer’s market, make some stops in that neighborhood, and make it to a brewery for dinner to partake of Cleveland Burger Week ($6 burgers are too good a deal to pass up in the current day). Sunday is brunch, and then enjoying the Taste of Tremont festival.
Making Tesla purchasing and the dealership seem pleasant.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/i-bought-a-rivian-r1t-electric-pickup-order-delivery/
TW Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/republicans-spartz-ukraine-zelenskyy-00045949
I’m sorry nuance is not allowed here. You are either for or against the Ukraine.
“the Western alliance”
JFC. Just call us the “Allies” already.
I want the West to be humiliated. I want the West to lose. If it involves a loss of territory by Ukraine, so be it. Laundering money for most of the US political class has its consequences.
I have no idea why but the music link triggered some long-dormant synapse in my head and I thought of Liz Phair for NSFW content.
*she has (had) nice t0ts, too
She’s holding up well. Always dug her, too.
So damn good looking.
Saw her in smaller venue during that tour. She’s good looking in person too.
Wanna buy some wind chimes?
https://maf-arms.com/
cute
Yes…cute. I bet they make a great sound too 💥
Music of the spheres
My new neighbors are not Brandon fans 👍
For funsies, you should extol the virtues of DC life and complain about how people are much dirtier out in the sticks.
LOL
(their truck is pristine)
Well ya, they probably actually paid for it. We had a blast with the locals. Helps my wife…is the way she is.
https://twitter.com/heardbeliever/status/1548014946281144320
It looks like Paul Joseph is getting hammered after that Lauren Southern video came out (also the interview she just did with Blaire White).
Um, Paul Joseph Watson, that is.
who?
and why do I care?
Looking through that thread…it looks like a hit piece trying to tie influential Twitter personalities to an alt-right grooming/sexual predator ring.
coming from someone with the handle “heardbeliever”
After Milo published that bullshit hit piece about Lauren Southern, PJW posted something on Twitter like “Look at me. I’m handsome. Of course I’ve been inside her.” Imagine my shock, that he was a complete douchebag.
PJW was an on-air colleague of Alex Jones. He still does videos: https://www.bitchute.com/video/6kSgsP-penk/?list=subscriptions
https://twitter.com/kriscoratti/status/1548021942199787522
Curious. Looks like they don’t want Joe to run again.
I find it somewhat amusing that the very people who “fortified” the election and moved heaven and earth to prop up his basement candidacy are now saying things like this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/youth-voters-midterms-polling.html
Be afraid.
+1 AOC
Alexandra Chadwick went to the polls in 2020 with the single goal of ousting Donald J. Trump. A 22-year-old first-time voter, she saw Joseph R. Biden Jr. as more of a safeguard than an inspiring political figure, someone who could stave off threats to abortion access, gun control and climate policy.
In other words, your standard-issue aspiring midwit.
/reads rest of article
It’s clueless young people all the way down.
Without reading the article, I assume it’s lots of “Why hasn’t he canceled my student loans!?! Why do I still have to pay rent?!? We need someone who will save the planet by canceling capitalism!!!”
Just pray they don’t JFK him.
JFK was shot in brain. So that wouldn’t work.
“America’s representatives at the French Ambassador’s residence this week.”
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1547987214923051010
OFFS!!
What percent of the world is on board with this? 10%? Remember when Trump was an international embarrassment?
Good response.
Anyone want to take a poll?
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/07/14/swat-standoff-in-hollywood-ends-with-home-being-set-on-fire/
Man fatally shot by deputy after coming ‘aggressively’ toward SWAT members with long pole, BSO says
Was the pole pointed?
https://youtu.be/ZwrCnrJOm-A
So he DID touch someone with a 10 foot pole?
Malice is really good at the game.
I’m starting to think she is somehow more stupid than evil.
Why not both?
LOL
https://unherd.com/2022/07/how-we-became-the-dropout-society/
End of History, Right?
Is it me or does this sound like a dystopian hell? The instability and totalitarianism of this “society” sounds horrific.
I mean in many ways “the Great Reset” is trying to do exactly this. Keeping the proles dumb and poor reduces the welfare checks and prevents them from rebelling. And a massive police state will be needed to keep order. Oh and reducing the global population will reduce the number of proles and the need to pay them or surveil them.
Does modern tech make this inevitable? I hope not…
Oh come on, I hear from reliable sources that those idle people will suddenly become motivated to become artists and musicians once they get all that free time.
I guess if we actually had capitalism….
Except that would mean acknowledging that the “liberal world order” is flawed and getting worse which is “populist” and “reactionary” or something…
Or, if academia was actually teaching what free market capitalism actually is, instead of propagandizing the youth into Marxists.
Hola Glibs – still behind on reading most posts this week – not busy at work, but limited computer access.
Mentioned a week or two back, but I will be in San Diego for about 10 days starting next Tues. Guess San Diego Comic-Con is over the weekend – but obviously been sold out for a while. Not sure how crowded the restaurants/bars in the gaslamp district get – guess I might need to hang out closer to my hotel or base.
The spillover that’s outside of the ticketed Comicon stuff is alleged to be pretty fun too. Lots of cosplay and crowds having fun.
Up to you whether you want to mingle or steer clear.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/san-diego/everything-you-need-to-survive-comic-con
Interesting way to make the economics work.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/15/1111409130/a-self-serve-grocery-store-helps-feed-a-small-minnesota-town
I miss living in a small town.
Nice! As a Minnesota boy, it warmed my heart that Velveeta was first on the Suggestions board.
Surprised it wasn’t Jell-O or tater tots!
Dontcha just combine the 3 for hot dish?
Fucking heathen.
No.
Tater tots go on top of hot dish, jello belongs in a mold with canned fruit and velveeta is for when you are feeling fancy and want to have that special Mexican treat: Nachos.
Another 1.5bn
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-state-department-approves-potential-sale-himars-estonia-pentagon-2022-07-15/?taid=62d1d6841dfd7b00012a98b5&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
At least it’s a sale and not just giving money away, for a change.
True…I was enraged to not notice it was a sale to Estonia. Seems we are arming the whole Eastern front.
I don’t know why we’re complaining about the economy. The defense and pharmaceutical industries are making BANK this decade.
Estonia, Norway, and South Korea should bitchily ask why they aren’t getting free weapons.
Who’s giving them the money to buy the weapons?
Money printer goes WHIRRRRR!!!
My (ostensibly important) project to maintain our domestic nuclear stockpile has been paused until September due to lack of federal funds. But by all means, let’s keep stoking the fire in East Europe.
Who needs a nuclear deterrent in current year?
Update on my budget. I had 6000 left over for supplies to maintain equipment and I am being told its getting yanked. Outside of our normal logistics and payroll, I am operating without a budget. We are begging for shit like rags (for oil cleanup) and hunting for things.
FedGov is normally a shitshow with bad money management but right now…its outright obvious we are funneling budgeted monies to Ukraine.
This is really not going to end well.
I preferred “America First” to this crap. Especially since we have a pretty good idea that Biden (via Hunter) is profiting from this, and that he is highly motivated to keep details of his dealings with Ukraine from seeing the light of day.
I pasted a link to flashback article from Jan 20, 2021 at the end of the Stoicism dead thread. It’s about how Biden was going to help Ukraine reform and purge itself of corruption.
Just pile the oil-soaked rags somewhere warm and wait until it burns the place down.
Was there salt on the margarita?
I question whether the nuclear weapons program should remain in the Dept of Energy at all. It’s clearly a defense program, and there’s is a major schism between the folks who want to emphasize clean energy and saving the environment, vs those who want to ensure our nuclear weapons will work if we need them and also develop ways of detecting nefarious nuclear weapons stuff our enemies might be up to.
But there is one DoE budget, and one Energy Secretary.
Honestly, I’d be more concerned if there wasn’t a teen out there somewhere breeding frogs for the world’s largest frog army.
* checks on my teen’s locust army *
I have an ant army, but I have yet to take control of them. I am allowing them to build their defenses before I reign supreme.
I’ve got a contingent of ladybugs in the fridge and 2 praying mantis egg sacks waiting to hatch.
I think that Emmanuel Macron’s job?
Anyway maybe R.J.could do Ben or Willard for movie night.
Well, here at Glibs, our secret labs are working on the squirrel army!
I see nothing at all wrong with this, as long as my amphibian minions toad the line.
Interesting. Her issue was with her union, but it would appear the union got her canned from her employer. As usual the damages are insane.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2022/07/14/ex-southwest-airlines-flight-attendant-wins-53-million-lawsuit-over-abortion-activism/
Friday Funbags wants to invert your yield curve.
https://archive.ph/NK7bW
Strangely enough, my demand curve is raised but my supply curve isn’t.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1547897025907159041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547897025907159041%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smalldeadanimals.com%2F
The Economist should just change its to Current Thing.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_1
Important context to Mill’s support for experiments in living.
Barbarians = Brutals
Apropos of nothing, today marks the 25th anniversary of Gianni Versace’s murder.
I must admit, I’ve wandered by his former residence before, but the last couple of times that I’ve been to South Beach, I’ve gone to a different iconic spot.
Huh, that came up in conversation yesterday with an old friend. At the time, I was living in aka Jolla with him and he was a classmate of the murderer. Hard Copy and Inside Edition kept calling the house trying to buy his yearbook and score some tasty hearsay.
,Relevant
Oh you are linking maps of my old stomping grounds for a time.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/national/murphy-takes-over-governors-association-amid-tensions-feuds/article_b53f664f-d527-5720-ac6a-01336b5c84aa.html
Sander races.
Correct link: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/belt-sander-charity-races-return-to-berties-inn-in-exeter/article_31f2718a-047e-11ed-9c4a-438fb1958c8e.html
Looks silly. And fun.
Friday… Friday…
::begins tap dancing::
I’m baked up on “Night Charmer” – a very nice 50/50 blend of Indica & Sativa. It has – in moderate amounts – a nice sedating effect. In larger amounts, a bit of time warping occurs. It’s also very, very good for insomniacs like me, reducing the time I stay awak. With that comes a reduction of anxiety. So it is “medicinal” but also uplifting, and just a good all-around night smoke.
We’re also drinking stouts; and I started doing the Jack and coca-cola route.
So, Glibs, enjoy yourself tonight and live every day with a happy song in your heart 🙂
btw: Night Charmer goes for $20
(excluding tax) for a 3.5G jar. Now that is a bargain for the high.
Lovely. I think I am going out for a movie.
Made it! Been busting tail all week. Getting an old fashioned and watching the new Minions movie.
Try Jack and Ginger (ale).
The two flavors complement each other. As a matter of fact, I’m having one right now.
I’m a small cog in the machine this Monday : I have jury duty 🙂
Just stand up and shout “I believe in the Constitution!” Works every time.
I thought lawyers didn’t get jury duty?
Yes. Shout that instead.
Ikr ? Last time I ran a trial I pitched a spouse of an attorney. I expect to get pitched too but right now I’m just a number.
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/qMJojJKW0VU
Lamont for Congress!
This is turning into a giant headache. As I reported earlier, an ATM ate my bank card last night. I went to the bank where it was located, this morning. They wouldn’t just retrieve it from the machine and give it back to me. That’s not their policy. I have been on the phones with my bank in Montana all day, it seems like.This may come as a shock to some of you, but the banking/financial system is a goddam clusterfuck. Once upon a time, you could walok into a bank and cash a check even if you weren’t a customer. Haha, those days are long gone.
I went to Fred Meyer, thinking they could cash a personal check for me. Nope. What about a pre-loaded debit card? Can I write a check for that? Nope. Cash only. What the everloving fuck?
After a little internet research, I see “reloadable” debit cards which you can add money to from a “linked” bank account (whatever that means). At this point, I’m wondering if I can go back to Fred Meyer, or to Walmart, and get a card for twenty bucks or so, and then load’er up from my bank billpay. I have been contemplating doing such a thing for a while. I sure as Hell don’t want to expose the card attached to my Ameritrade account to the risk of loss, theft, or hacking.
You need a backup bank or credit union.
Biden is such a condescending fuck.
Here he is in Saudi Arabia at a press conference after he met with MBS.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11018721/Biden-says-DID-bring-Khashoggis-murder-MBS.html
He really is an asshole. Trump rightly caught hell for his childish name calling, but Biden IMO is worse. He constantly implies that the person asking him a question is ignorant for not knowing the “correct answer”.
“C’mon, man!” = “You idiot. Why the hell would you think something so stupid?”
He’s a cranky old man who’s frustrated at being questioned in any way.
Some of my favorite Biden comments that show his arrogance and contempt for the lesser people:
* Dog-faced pony soldier.
* Called reporter Doocy “Stupid son of a bitch” on a hot mike.
* [if you don’t vote for me] “Then you ain’t black”
* “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
* After a black reporter asked him if he’d taken a cognitive test: “That’s like saying you . . . before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not,” Biden said. “What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?”
The list goes on.
And my bank called this afternoon to tell me they need a notarized photocopy of my driver’s license, for some reason. I have had this account since 2005 or so. Apparently this will put a stop to money laundering. By people not named “Biden” anyway.
WTF? They just can’t issue you a replacement? I didn’t notice one of my ATM cards expired. So it didn’t work in the drive-up ATM machine. So I parked my car, walked into the bank, and they gave me a new card in a couple minutes. I didn’t have to show any ID or anything.
Exactly. Send a ****** replacement card to the address on the account.
Hey Tundra!
In my continuing quest to find stuff that you might like to listen to that you might not have already heard, here’s The New Pornographers (Canadian indie rock band) doing “Falling Down The Stairs of Your Smile”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyHg2kPY5xA
Awesome! Now that’s a solid pop song.
I remember them from the early aughts, but it appears that I need to add them into the rotation.
Thanks, brother!
I’d do anything to First…but I won’t…do…that…
Is commenting first the thing you won’t do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SoqMPhDXQ
“@EricDJuly’s newly launched non-woke comic book defies cancel culture, brings in over $1.7M in first four days”
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1548027167920992258
It’s $1.9M now.
I’ve been following. It’s amazing how the Establishment reacts to people who take their “Well, why don’t you just make your own then?!?”
Good for him. Razorfist is promoting, too.
Sweet!
You need a backup bank or credit union.
I have a bank account. Just not down here. I have been kind of thinking about what to do, but after today, i think I’ll just stick with my small Montana bank and learn to do it on line.
I have zero interest in fucking around getting a new bank account.
The bank is sending me a replacement card, but it will come in the mail. Meanwhile, I’ll be wanting some walking around money.
Go downtown and get your $20.
My son had to explain a t shirt to his mom.
“I’m not gay, but $20 is $20”
LOL
Not a big deal – at least not yet, but I discovered while in the grocery self-checkout that my debit card was missing. No problem – used the credit card (which gets paid off every month.) Got home, thoroughly searched billfold, purse, and car – no luck. Happily, when I got online to check the account, there were no transactions since the one I did last night at the Wendy’s drive-through.
So I called the number on the back of the old card and end up with Miss Bangalore. I’m kinda used to that, but jeeminy criminy she was hard to understand! She blocked & cancelled the card, but seemed confused about issuing a new one, so I think I’ll just wait until Monday and get with one of my co-workers to get a new card. Got enough green foldy for the weekend. And I fully expect to find the card any minute now that I’ve cancelled it.
“ And I fully expect to find the card any minute now that I’ve cancelled it.”
Sounds about right.
Hah! My wife couldn’t find her passport the morning we were leaving for Europe. So we broke speed limits to go downtown and get an emergency one for $XXX. Got back home just in time to leave for airport. There’s her passport right on her dressing table.
The fastest, easiest (well, maybe not in the case you described) way to find something is to replace it.
JFC
Don’t go crying to him; he’s up next with communion-wafer chalices for wine.
HA!
The US representing at the French Ambassador’s residence in honor of Bastille Day. Unfortunately Corporal Klinger was unable to attend.
https://thepostmillennial.com/biological-male-biden-admin-officials-celebrate-their-oppressed-identities-at-french-ambassadors-bastille-day-party
I didn’t realize that event was for Bastille Day.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY
We’re not sending them out best…
But at least the Biden Administration has restored America’s reputation and dignity abroad.
Er something.
(What type of being dates those types of beings? Other transwomen? Women? Men?)
According to them, heterosexual dudes. Any men who won’t date them are transphobes.
I’m actually really curious whether Levine still has any sort of relationship with “her” children, after divorcing “her” wife in 2013. But I doubt the media would ever report on that.
I did not know this:
It was a pretty big story for a minute.
The obvious choices to send to a Bastille Day celebration.
And I fully expect to find the card any minute now that I’ve cancelled it.
*okay sign*
Does what I said make sense to you, GT (wise in the ways)? Go get a reloadable card using a minimal cash load and then do an ACH transfer from my bank account? I could do that and be good to go by tomorrow. Load it and then get c ash at an ATM (not the one that ate my card).
Make a check to yourself and cash it at your bank?
It’s old fashioned. Most banks here are open Saturday.
I’m by no means an expert on that process, but a reloadable MasterCard- or Visa-branded debit card certainly would seem to be at least a way to tide yourself over. I’ve not used one myself within recent memory, so I don’t recall how you add value to them. I believe some outfits actually do all their payrolls that way, and if I recall correctly, our Professional Employer Org will do that for an employee who doesn’t provide an account number for the usual direct deposit. (I don’t believe any of our folks have actually made use of that option.)
Male American embassy staffers attend French Bastille Day party in drag?
They should have gone all the way, and dressed as Marie Antoinette.
My bank is 250 miles away.
Make a check to yourself and cash it at your bank?
That’s how I did it for a long time.