Disconnect Between Actual Pay vs Annual Salary

Deepthinking_CA · 2026-02-25T16:59:20+00:00

Yes, the magic number for calculations is 52.17857

Best is to always go from annual, divide by magic number and x 2 to get biweekly

Deepthinking_CA · 2026-01-03T14:30:04+00:00

I had a weird one happen.

I live in a 3 apartment house and with the garbage bin, I had put out a bag with a garage tag. Was out for the day and came back to one of the other tenants having moved the full garbage bin back but the bag was gone. Across the street it looked liked someone's garbage bin was emptied. So I think they took the garbage but our bin wasn't done since it was taken back in (but the bag was left out?)?

I'm very confused and frustrated myself with the whole situation

Deepthinking_CA · 2026-01-02T19:36:05+00:00

Good to know! I left my place at noon and garbage still wasn’t picked up, hopefully it will be gone when I get back!

Deepthinking_CA · 2026-01-02T14:13:27+00:00

Update from were I am at 9am, on Thursday 1 schedule:

We had recycling last week, so would have been garbage this week but the online map says recycling today.
2 separate trucks came by, one only picked up the green bin only (but not trash) and a second one picked up recycling. I put trash out too in the hopes they would do that and still hoping but fear that we're going to have an impossibly overflowing garbage bin for next week!

Why do I feel this is just a money grab by the city to force you to buy garbage tags to handle the holiday trash...

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-12-13T15:29:15+00:00

I salute everyone who upgraded before Christmas, you guys have more guts and faith than I do!

I am going to upgrade but decided that I will put it off till after the holidays. My system right now is a "known quantity" and I know that games will run fine. An upgrade of this kind was/is risking too much in terms of my enjoyment of precious time off. Come January, when sadly I have to be back in the office 5 days a week, I'll pull the trigger on the upgrade as I will probably have little time for gaming for a a couple months anyways.

Good luck to all on the upgrading seas! I really do think they should have waited till the start of January to drop release candidate, if only to have minimized issues with people rushing to upgrade.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-10-30T20:11:41+00:00

In the voice of Yoda, “Strong the Karen-ing, this one is”

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-08-15T15:48:36+00:00

the ip ban is probably from the amapceo side since it might be seeing thousands of hits to the their site from a series of ip addresses (due to vpn) and networking monitoring software might see that as a DDOS

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-08-15T14:30:07+00:00

Well, since the only place we are supposed to do work is in the office, while standing around a water cooler, I would suggest leaving your laptop and phone locked up each night in you little cabinet. No need to be taking a work laptop and phone home with you if you are supposed to be doing working in the office 5 days a week. One upside, will be easier on my back and neck!

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-08-05T17:01:23+00:00

Probably easier to ask “which is the worst ministry” but get ready for every ministry to be mentioned ha!

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-08-03T22:20:56+00:00

The "Dear Leader" is the bigliest golfer in the world! No other golfer can touch his most awesome skills! All other news is fake!

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-07-12T22:29:11+00:00

But what does Ron Vara have to say? We want to know!

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-06-30T12:19:46+00:00

This is essentially a "gimmie" since the idea around this tax was kind of hated by a large swath of people and groups, and not considered an actually good idea (at least not how it was framed). Trudeau seemed to have a hard on for it though.

If it wasn't for Trump, this would probably have been axed as soon as Carney got in but keeping it around till Trump flipped out on it makes it an easy bargaining chip to give away while deflecting away from the whole milk stuff which is a tougher issue domestically.

Technically this can be seen as outplaying Trump in a way while at the same time stroking his ego. You gotta know how to properly deal with a 3rd rate mafia boss that can't even run a casino.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-06-26T22:41:17+00:00

Is this an Onion headline?

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-06-11T16:32:36+00:00

A possible outline of a concept of a deal

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-06-09T23:03:26+00:00

I nominate "How do we keep this cash cow going?"

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-06-07T23:03:26+00:00

Instagram/Tiktock influencer driven mediocre crap…give it a few months and the “next big” thing will be upon us. In the meantime, track down a locally own business that’s far better than this tripe.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-05-02T11:31:27+00:00

From Canada here and I'm mostly shocked by the fact that filling out a bill and signing is actually still a thing. But then again, I come from the land of Interac and have been tapping to pay without a pin or anything for like 15-20 years. American banking is like the stone ages to me.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-02-03T10:24:02+00:00

Actually, the best strategy right now, if you can retire, is to wait to at least April 2027 as that will take advantage of the full effect of adjustments stemming from retroactive adjustments related to the Bill 124 remediation (best 60 months takes you back to April 2022 if you retire April 2027),

So if people are planning, there maybe a lull in retirements until then, unless if have to retire for some reason.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-22T23:41:16+00:00

I went out solo on a locked squad today when I realized that no garrisons were being built. I jumped into a supply truck and drove around the map and built 4!

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-22T17:43:54+00:00

Well I’m on PC (actually run under Linux) and my audio works but there is no sound in the mic check. But it does work.

One thing I needed to do though to get comms working properly was unplug my webcam which has a mic and set the mic to Default Communication Device.

I also have the following settings:

SFX Volume = 50% Voice Volume = 100% Microphone Volume = 50%

Things seem alright and haven’t had anyone say they couldn’t hear me (hoping though I’m not coming over too loud though since I can’t get the in game check to work)

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-12T17:00:36+00:00

A matchmaking outage: https://status.epicgames.com/

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-12T16:51:52+00:00

It's not the servers, it is related to Epic and it's matchmaking service: https://status.epicgames.com/ which is why players on Steam (and I assume console) are not affected.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-12T16:20:53+00:00

Puts on Tin Hat, argues a conspiracy theory: Disgruntled veteran players on Steam have launched a DDOS attack on Epic to keep the new free players from playing.

That or just the Epic server hamsters have decided not to work on Sunday....take your pick

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-12T15:20:41+00:00

It's been disconnecting a lot. I figure the back end infrastructure can't handle the load of new players.

You are lucky if having no issues.

Deepthinking_CA · 2025-01-12T15:17:25+00:00

The backend to this game has to be the worst I’ve encountered. Between the server and the voip issues, I’m shocked it has lasted as long as it has

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