I was being sarcastic. I didn’t think the /s was necessary. But apparently I was wrong.

But seniors should establish their own retirement plans beyond Social Security to ensure sufficient living funds, Cirksena said. “For retirees, the key takeaway is this: Social Security will change, but if you have a strong retirement plan that doesn’t rely on it entirely, you won’t be left scrambling.”

Yeah, the people who are no longer working and who probably can’t find a job even if they wanted to should just establish their own retirement fund now. Presumably with all that money they pull from the magical money tree.

Should people be establishing their own retirement plan before that point? Definitely. But what about the people who work hard for shitty employers who stiff them because they couldn’t find a better job elsewhere? I guess just fuck them, or something. /s

Edit: Added a /s

Ahh shit, you’re right!

Fucked around ✅

Found out 👈

Amusing that his Twitter avatar looks like a black hole, considering that’s where his abject incompetence is sucking the national infrastructure (and all of us) into.

On this latest debacle: Great idea Musk! Fire a bunch of people from an already stressed-out agency, then watch as a string of accidents happen, and then publication beg for retired controllers to come back.

Pushing tin is an incredibly stressful and intense job. Those who retired are probably a) no longer capable of dealing with that stress, and/or b) don’t want to deal with it and deserve a well-earned retirement.

But hey, maybe with all the bullshit stripping away of social security, Medicare, etc etc, they will be forced to come out of retirement to help. I’m sure that’s not a recipe for disaster!

For fuck’s sake, we live in the stupidest timeline, I swear. And we can’t even fully enjoy Musk ruining his ill-deserved legacy and humiliating himself, because all of us are the collateral damage.

I went to it on the Okay Store and uninstalled it. It didn’t commission and so far all phone functionality is working funny. It seems like an addon that’s not tightly bound to core OS components.

Well, there goes one of the few advantages Bing had over Google or some other search engines. Impressive of them to commit even more to being a meme. I didn’t think they could commit any further than they already had.

“When your brother’s date shoots his load at your sugar daddy.”

I’m going to hazard a guess that if they had been hating on trans people and culture, or promoting conservative values, in that work chat tool then they would still have jobs.

If nothing else, this whole situation is a very revealing about which Democrat politicians have proverbial balls, which ones have their balls in the clamp (probably for doing embarrassing stuff), and which ones have no proverbial balls at all.

So far only AOC, Sanders, Pritzker, and a handful of others are showing they have the guts to stand up on the bullshit the administration is pulling.

I hadn’t. I’ve also withheld to much and got a warning letter from the IRS. It’s at a point now where things have been optional for the last few years. But with the new tax changes Trump is bringing in, I expect I’ll go from getting a small refund to owing a bit next year.

Yeah, it’s a shit show over here. You kinda guess at how much you will need to pay in taxes, hold back that amount in your paycheck, and hope for the best. And if your life situation changes or the incoming government fucks around with the tax codes, your estimating will be off. Getting it down to a very small refund is the optional solution, but it’s not always as easy as you’d think.

Not that I can think of. That’s a good point you bring up about the data breaches. They will get your SSN regardless of whether you have a free account or not. But you are a bit more volunteering to data breaches with the account. So if that’s a concern you can always freeze/lock your credit without an account. It’s just a bit more of a hassle.

Glad I could help.

I don’t think a schism would be needed. Many of the current cardinals are ultra-traditional and want to return to more firebrand/traditional policies. And that is because some of the most powerful orders within the church (for example Opus Dei) already align very closely with project 2025 ideologies. They would love to dovetail in with the project 2025 team, expand it into other Western countries, and drag the entire Catholic Church along with them.

Innovis is a weird one. It’s much less well known to many people than the ‘big three’. But regardless, it’s used by some pretty big companies, and its origin stems from the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And some of their services/interface are comically outdated, which to me makes it potentially prone to abuse. And that alone warrants giving it some attention.

Your debit score is important because that’s what most financial institutions check against when you set up an account with them. They typically don’t use credit scores for account eligibility. So debit scores (which are almost exclusively controlled by FIS) can be susceptible to abuse from that angle and in that industry.

ETA: Yes, the response time for the credit bureaus is pretty fast. I recommend setting up a free account with each of Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union. They will try to trick you into the paid account during the account creation process, so watch where you click. But their free accounts are decent and get the job done. Plus they make it easier to freeze/unfreeze your credit score than using no account. Innovis’ process is easy too, and fairly quick, but it’s very old-school.

Yes, it objectively is. And so are various other text editor options that are out there.

But just speaking about Notepad++, you can scale it down to a very simple text editor (like Notepad), it you can easily ramp it up to a much more feature rich one. And for me, the ability to have a vertical list of files is a big plus. As is its ability to optionally show line numbers.

He probably felt Lemmy was too liberal.

Although as Stephen Colbert pointed out: reality has a liberal bias.

Yeah, it’s a bit annoying. But I think it’s worth it.

For anyone else who is interested, the four credit bureaus in the US are: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis.

You might also be able to freeze you debit score with FIS.

Edit: For credit scores I might be thinking of locking not freezing as being the free option.

Or COBOL, apparently.

Could it be they didn’t understand some fundamental information on how COBOL handles default date values? No, it must be the 150 year old vampires exploiting Social Security!

She played the role of a neurotic, anxiety-riddled ‘hoooor’ so well. Clearly she was a very good actress. RIP.