Guy posts on Nextdoor.
Wants a female puppy. Pit or German shepherd.
Specifically says he wants the puppy NOT to be spayed.
Woman calls him out, commenting sarcastically about how this area needs more backyard breeders.
I reply to her comment saying "they should just ban all animal-related posts for this area".
OP chimes in "No one cares what you think, Ricky boy".
Meanwhile, loser is liking his own post and his own comments.
Like okay buddy. Good luck with your white trash business endeavors.
Maybe if your dog gets plowed enough, you can retire early. /s
So I just got Pokémon Scarlet cause I've been wanting it for forever and wow the graphics are crap even after updating the game. They better not do this crap with Legends Z-A. They made a perfectly functional Legends game. If they make the next one laggy JUST to try to make people upgrade someone needs to be beaten.
Anyone else just love the Facebook dolphin emoji?
We use it all the time.
Something crazy happened?

Just got done writing a facetious sentence?

Don't know what to say?

Actually talking about dolphins?

Our city allows chickens, but roosters are noisy and can warrant noise complaints, and the city can make you get rid of your whole flock.
The last few days one of the chickens starting crowing. Not very loud. But still. Hens don't crow typically. After asking a friend of my in-laws who owns like 30+ chickens in Kansas and sending her pictures and video of the crowing, she said it was a rooster.
After waiting a couple days to see if anyone on social media would want the bird, and calling around to see if there were any places to process it, we had no choice but to cull it today. I have never killed an animal on purpose before. It was tough, but I hope my method was humane enough. I didn't want to use the broom stick method, so instead we pinned it to the ground with the broom and I used loppers to cut the head. We petted it and cried. I'm still upset. Sierra is taking it better than me, but then again she wasn't the one who actually did the deed. I'm so sad. It was a beautiful bird. I really want us to get land so that we never need to kill out of fear of someone else complaining to the city again.
PSA: Nintendo Switch scalpers are NOT small businesses. We do actual work, they just go to Target and charge you more. Do not support those low lives. No matter how much you may want the console. Wait for a restock if it's sold out.
So since I'm basically home all day once Sierra goes to work, I've decided to try learning Japanese. I tried a few times when I was a teenager but gave up because it was difficult. However, Duolingo and other language apps have changed A LOT in the last decade, and I'm determined to keep a streak going. It seems to actually be sticking as well.
Trying to learn as much as I can to surprise Sierra because she has always wanted to go to Japan. Wouldn't being able to speak a bit be cool?
My main concern is still writing. Duolingo has some writing exercises, and they seem to help. But I've also only learned a few symbols of Hiragana so it's too early to tell if the app is really helpful to learn the writing systems lol.
I forgot how fun Minecraft was. So I've been playing it like every day for the past week and a half. Anyone else play on console/Bedrock?
I really can't believe how lucky I am sometimes.
Dude in the area from NY brings me his laptop and wants it scanned. I tell him $50. He chews on my ear for like a good 15 minutes about made in America and junk. Obvious Trumper. I get it back to him in like 2 hours. No viruses. He comes back and gives me $100 cash and thanks me for the great service and the conversation we had earlier.. Literally just stood there and said "yeah" and "uh huh" so I dunno what he thinks but hey whatever 😂
Is this what people in urban America do to be petty?
I answered the door yesterday for a woman from Children and Youth Services. Someone (probably a neighbor) made an anonymous report saying the kids have no food, that there's roaches, fleas, and mold, and that the baby is left in his playpen for hours on end to scream.
I let the lady in and she clearly sees two kids that aren't emaciated, a fridge, freezer, and chest freezer with food, and the baby doesn't even use his playpen any more.
She said the complaint said the place was "disgusting" but she saw everything and said that it just looks lived in. Toys on the floor, dishes in the sink, but no mold or anything of the sort that was reported.
People around here always manage to amaze me.
Yeah so like, IUD birth control is a scam and doesn't work.
#3 coming either November or December.
Good news is that we can claim them for next year's taxes and get around $13k back. The new difference in our refund can go towards refurbishing our "flip it" bedroom filled with tools, miscellaneous stuff, and holes in the (potentially) asbestos plaster walls. It'll be our bedroom while the kids can have the other 2. Fully grounded 20A rewire with addition of a few new outlets (because 2 of the 4 walls have no outlet at all wtf), new windows, and then a thin drywall to attach right over the plaster since safe removal just costs too much IMO. I mean we still don't actually know if it's asbestos or not since we haven't tested it, but it's always better to just assume it is.
We'll lose a tiny bit of square footage with the remodel obviously, but one day I wanted to turn it into a full master bed with bath and extend the room out over our patio. But for now we just will need to make the room habitable and more up to date.
We have a theme in mind for the room. Our entire upstairs is going to be painted special colors that have a certain meaning. I'll have to show you guys what I mean when our laundry room is finished being repainted.
Of course now that my car is paid off I'm making less money. Lost my eBay top rated status due to lack of sales/revenue, haven't had a website order in over a month, and right now my driving work is not paying me as much. $65 yesterday doing Doordash and Roadie was like pulling teeth and I had to drive a ton. I should still make around $200ish off this $31 tank of gas but still. And I need an alignment, new tires, and an oil change. T_T
Guys help.
I have a potential customer that needs Windows reinstalled. But the issue is that they were previously hacked and the person used BitLocker.
They want Windows reinstalled after Best Buy wiped it. If I do a fresh install, does the BitLocker persist? If so, can I just install a new storage device (if possible)?
Tax refund came. My car is paid off. For the first time since I was 16 years old, I don't need to worry about a car payment.
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Okay so now I'm starting to worry.
If the Department of Education is dismantled, that could mean that student loans get handed off to private lenders. Private lenders that offer very little to no help with making payments.
No more Income Driven Repayment. A person like me, with around $8,000-$10,000 a year in taxable income (after all business expenses/write offs), would be required to make a BS $300+ monthly payment. Even if we use this year's tax return and pay off my car, the $327 monthly payment for that would be replaced by a student loan payment that I could barely afford.
And if I default, that could cost us our home. I'm not quite sure yet. I'm not on the mortgage, so I'm not financially responsible for the home. I'm just on the title. Best case scenario is that they could put a lien on the house and we'd never be able to make money by selling it. Worst case they could still argue my ownership matters and despite not paying for the house they could seize it.
I'm hoping people aren't seriously dumb enough to vote in favor of getting rid of the DoE. How is the economy supposed to be great if everyone is crushed by loan payments?
Privately funded low income assistance programs are a joke.
Because of the credit card debacle, we applied for assistance through Aqua and PPL. Aqua seems dope from what I understand; based on your income they remove the standard "customer charge" (a flat fee every customer pays) and then give you a 50% discount on your bill up to 2,000 gallons. So basically we'd get an immediate $20 off plus 50% off any actual usage.
PPL is bleh. I applied to OnTrack. We had to cancel our supplier and have PPL directly supply us with the power at a higher rate, then on top of that it sounds like we will still be paying $89/mo, with OnTrack credit only paying the difference in the bill once the bill goes above $89.
The whole reason we applied was because we were falling behind. Our bill is already like $90 a month! The only nice thing about OnTrack is that if we pay the $89 on-time and for 12 months straight, they forgive our overdue balance of like $200. But they give you a $1,250 credit for 12 months.
Why not use the credit to pay off/forgive the overdue balance, and then simply divide the remaining $1,000ish by 12? That would give us a monthly credit of like $83, which would bring our bill down to a manageable $6-$10/mo. Either way these bastards get the tax credit, so why can't they do it like that? They made me drop our supplier and we will be going from paying 7 cents per kWh to 10.5 or whatever. Then they still want me to pay basically the same amount anyways??? What kind of "assistance" is this supposed to offer aside from overdue balance relief?