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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
@Old_Joe "The Social Security anti-fraud team has worked around the clock in person to improve technological capabilities and they are now able to identify fraud on claims filed over the telephone."
OK, my computer guru, Does that mean robots will m…
Difficult to compute how Bullish even garnered a blip much less 28.5%. Where do those folks see the sunshine?
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow
You're always, a day away
No tariff on Russia. That point has been made. I do believe Ireland is missing from the list, too. Curious. At any rate, the method for computing each nation's tariff charged by the USA is... um.... f***ed.
Maybe the creative Trump algorithm showed…
But election security is so bad they want voter ID to solve it. Have it both-ways-ism is getting quite popular these days. And, it appears to sell well. The Wisconsin election results seems to indicate the voters buy into the voter fraud meme.
Some benefits, such as survivors’ claims, can’t be filed online—making an in-person visit the only option for grieving families.
One way to get kill off old people. Maybe they will starve or end up in the street and just die like we DOGErs planned.
Opps - peeked. What goes up...must come down. Hopefully forming a rather symetrical hill. Ski day has cometh. I simply must go find something useful to do.
But then people will shift their attention back to the destruction of the entire government instead of their retirement accounts. Can't afford to stop the destruction of the world economy until said destruction of the US government is complete. Dist…
Based on morning news:
Does it fortell any trends that China is fighting back but Vietnam is capitulating?
Understanding the US Tariff List: Implications for Vietnam
Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 54% – Overview and Trade Implications
But is it buy or sell time?
So, I guess OPEC lowered prices. Good for US oil companies. Not their stock today. Chevron and Exxon down 4 to 5 percent. ConocoPhilips almost 10 percent. But, with cheaper OPEC, prices at the pump? down?
Nah, they would only enroll in for-profit or religious schools dedicated to the goal of making them more ignorant but politically correct. On taxpayer dime, of course. GED content can change depending on who certifies and pays for the content.
Years ago I worked in a lab that was tight on space. One team leader, when space would open up, seemed to know it before anyone else and would grab the space before it was available by going to the next higher boss and tell him that he had a visitin…
Maybe they have cornered the market on super beets and are going to find, based on a research paper published by renoun scientists at Super Beets, that it is the cure-all for everything. Research proves that, not only will it cure cancer, replace fa…
@Mark For login.gov, after I went through all I described above, login.gov simply asked at a new site if I was OK with sharing my information so, after SSA, I shared it with OPM and VA. The IRS only uses ID.me so it was the only one I had, prior to …
@Mark You made me curious about ID.me so I first logged into IRS to make sure it worked at a site I had successfully used it for (last time maybe a week ago). Then I tried id.me at SSA.gov and it worked there too (I don't think I have ever used id.m…
A couple of days ago people started reporting that they could not even login into their social security accounts. Since I have had both a login.gov and ID.me account since their inception and, since getting them setup, have never had a problem, I de…
I keep having this vision from "Coal Miner's Daughter" for some reason. For example, deportation of local farm workers and limiting green cards means a subset of future US citizen need to live in such squaller that they beg for farm work. That means…
I have been so afraid of this. And, now, they have discovered and are coming after NIST. They are too under educated in science and measurements to make such decisions. NIST is and has been the main stay for measurement science, techniques, calibrat…
If I recall, the original concept was to keep non-investment controversy off the main forum. I don't think there has ever been a rule to keep investment discussion, when affected by controversial subjects, off the off-topics forum. It would seem, to…
I guess I just assumed he retired to have time to set himself up to own or lead the private entity that becomes the FedExUSPS service. With Musk and boys in charge, no need for De Joy to take small bites out of the USPS. You know small envelopes, $1…
The moment of truth will be when the Supreme Court issues rulings against the Trump administration.
Will the administration brazenly disregard these rulings?
I truly hope this does not happen.
We will have a real constitutional crisis and all hell …
@Mark Oh, you just have to have the Cybertruck Transformer Version. It transforms into a junk pile as you drive it. It is the ultimate in today's disassembly Transformers.
The Cybertruck has MAJOR issues
@Mark Thanks, I downloaded and did some sorting on the data but much work to do much with it. OTOH, the map on the page you linked has the by state data for "FEMA IHP & PA, and HUD CDBG-DR, data from September 2003 to January 2025". Interesting …
Is there something like a ten year total federal expenditures for disasters by state? It would be interesting to see, after FL and CA, which states would need to raise huge amounts of reserves for unforseen events. Many states have laws about spendi…
I received a refund of $70 a few weeks ago but I knew why. They had charged me IRMAA on Medicare D plans when I don't have a Medicare D plan. My insurance had, without my permission, signed me up for an AETNA D plan during open season that I had dec…
Did the Kentucky delegation give a stamp of approval and celebration for this? As far as Scotch goes, who in the US makes competitive Scotch liquor? If US prices of whiskies increase, will untaxed stills increase or will DUIs decrease. (Note, I wond…
