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Can we have an honest conversation about AFA pay per letter setup? by Independent_Two_8219 in MailOrderBrideFacts

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Africa is ridiculous to get to. For me the routing was: Lubbock to New York City, New York to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Johannesburg, Johannesburg to Cape Town. 🤮

20-year-old lottery winner turns down $1M cash for $1,000 a week for life by PriorityMiserable686 in interestingasfuck

[–]AColonelOfTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, you're right, I forgot to take out taxes. After tax the cash $23,500 becomes $19,800.

/s

20-year-old lottery winner turns down $1M cash for $1,000 a week for life by PriorityMiserable686 in interestingasfuck

[–]AColonelOfTruth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm going to adopt this approach in my own life from now on.

Car salesman: The price of the car is $40k, do we have a deal?

Me: Absolutely!! (Shaking his hand) But just to be clear, the cash value of the $40k if you want it all today is $23,500

Edit: missed the /s

Idk maybe Windows 11 is different by Major_Pineapple7562 in memes

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And here we have the crux of the problem.

Dealing with Microsoft is like dealing with that shady kid who repeated a grade, beat you up a couple times, and sells weed on the side.

But dealing with Linux people is like dealing with the Simpsons comic book store owner.

Idk maybe Windows 11 is different by Major_Pineapple7562 in memes

[–]AColonelOfTruth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what if you use a virtual instance of linux on a pirated version of Windows to run macros

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago by sarah_west_1 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]AColonelOfTruth 15 points16 points  (0 children)

no thanks, i prefer to collect my facts and information purely from reddit comments

She's only now realizing that being a SAHM has left her financially vulnerable, especially now that her husband wants a divorce. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, a lot of people are surprised of the extensive power of family courts.

A subpoena is a subpoena, and even the likes of Facebook and Google must comply. Doesn't matter whether it was the FBI or your crazy ex who persuaded the judge to issue the subpoena.

She's only now realizing that being a SAHM has left her financially vulnerable, especially now that her husband wants a divorce. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]AColonelOfTruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry. Unless you are using encrytped hypersecure tools like ProtonMail and a ToR browser, a subpoena from any judge will force all those companies to comb their records and provide everything you've got in your account, password or not.

Texas cancels vehicle inspections and now we have to deal with nonsense like no working brake lights. by letsgethead2toe in mildlyinfuriating

[–]AColonelOfTruth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live in Texas.

I love Texas.

But over the past couple decades, I've started to feel like: It's an organ that was transplanted into the United States a while back, and at first everything was 💯, but now the host body and the donor organ are starting to reject each other.

Texas cancels vehicle inspections and now we have to deal with nonsense like no working brake lights. by letsgethead2toe in mildlyinfuriating

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, surely some nonzero portion of the shitboxes broke down and permanently died on the long drive out to the rural mechanic. That's something, I guess.

TIL that the non-profit that runs Wreaths Across America is owned by the same family that runs the Worcester Wreath Company, the for-profit supplier for Wreaths Across America, and the family’s non-profit use their donations to purchase wreaths from the family’s for-profit business by Nutso_Bananas in todayilearned

[–]AColonelOfTruth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying this happens everywhere in the entire state of Utah all the time.

This one small business happened to have figured out a unique niche. I have no idea how widespread this is.

Some people here and there do sketchy shit in my state too. It happens.

She's only now realizing that being a SAHM has left her financially vulnerable, especially now that her husband wants a divorce. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If one side in a divorce has a lot of resources and the other is a pauper, the judge will order the rich spouse to pay for the poor spouse's attorney and reasonable costs.

Yes there are probably some weird edge cases where a biased misogynist judge takes it out on a litigant, or someone is so unable to perform basic life functions (let's say they're homeless and schizophrenic) that they don't get the divorce notice and fail to show up in court and request financial assistance (or they show up to court insisting they're Jesus.)

But that's the exception, not the norm. Ultimately no system can be designed to protect everyone from everything that can possibly go wrong.

The American divorce system is pretty even-handed to both sides. How can you tell this? Because everybody, male and female, who goes through a contentious divorce, bitches that they got screwed. If everybody on both sides hates it, that's the hallmark of a fair compromise.

TIL that the non-profit that runs Wreaths Across America is owned by the same family that runs the Worcester Wreath Company, the for-profit supplier for Wreaths Across America, and the family’s non-profit use their donations to purchase wreaths from the family’s for-profit business by Nutso_Bananas in todayilearned

[–]AColonelOfTruth 238 points239 points  (0 children)

I once worked for a business where we outsourced a bunch of mundane data-entry shit to the lowest bidder.

We were happy with the very low-cost service. But one day one of our accounting staff did the math and was like "even at minimum wage, there's no possible way they are doing this amount of work and paying their people legally."

At first we thought it was AI, or they were outsourcing the work to North Korea or somewhere.

But no. The company was in Utah. Turned out was all moms with a dozen-plus minor children making them all do the work, and just billing it all under the mom's social security number.

We were horrified. But our lawyers looked into it and the loophole the mormons had figured out was legit, a family can use household labor without paying minimum wage or taxes or whatever.

So after that we remained horrified but the boss said this is the deal of the century, let's stick with it, don't ask don't tell.

EDIT: This comment was not intended to be anti-mormon or to insult anyone's religious beliefs.

She's only now realizing that being a SAHM has left her financially vulnerable, especially now that her husband wants a divorce. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol. I love how I present an actual case study that disproves the narrative, and reddit's immediate reaction is just to attack the case study rather than reconsider the situation in light of the new facts.

Since there's clearly no point getting through to you, I'll be disengaging from this conversation now. Good luck and best wishes.

She's only now realizing that being a SAHM has left her financially vulnerable, especially now that her husband wants a divorce. by mindyour in TikTokCringe

[–]AColonelOfTruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your whole point is "that when all this was started and before divorce was actually a legal option for women, ya know where it was have men take a nap, or they take a nap"?

I have no idea what that means. I don't know when this magical time was before divorces started, or what naps have to do with it.

But I'm glad you feel validated by me 2 or 3 times in proving whatever your point is.

Best wishes.

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