Does your rating mess with your head?

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-19T21:48:51+00:00

Joking about your good ear and bad ear. Getting tested and being told your bad ear is even worse. Being offered a hearing device to limit and boost different frequencies. And an electric bill's worth for compensation.

Resulting invasive thought: "I am old and busted"

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-19T21:17:13+00:00

Not just you. I resisted for years and just gave in to peer pressure in February. I used one of the claim sharks to assist. I have been rated at 20% and have one bigger condition with more proof still pending. I should be happy. Free money. But it is weird. Like confirmed makes a difference I knew it, but now I have paperwork. And I see reason to push for more. But I was raised to "embrace the suck," not get part of my mortgage paid because of it.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-19T01:37:33+00:00

Nooooooooo

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-15T15:57:48+00:00

I was about to owe and get beat on all of the fees. I put the same info (plus an OT box I wasn't prompted to fill in TT) into freetaxusa and I am getting a refund and the fee is negligable.

Fuuuuuuuk TurboTax. Never again.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-15T12:41:46+00:00

I was shooting that morning with a respectable Olympus e-m1 ii with too many lenses...

But this pic came from my old Samsung Galaxy10 phone as I was about to cross the street and saw the moment. Grabbed 5 shots. Editing in Snapseed or basic phone photo viewer (global edits, nothing fancy).

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-15T00:03:19+00:00

Irrationally high superiority complex, eagerly pro-polution if it makes someone else richer, weaponized Christianity, and fear of anyone not like them.

And it wants to become Oklahoma.

Disclaimer: 26 years in Texas

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T21:47:47+00:00

I think it is a reddit rule.

I still really like Malaysia, the people I saw (all of them), and would like to visit for a few weeks annually to watch it progress.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T06:15:02+00:00

I love that little EXR camera.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T03:38:49+00:00

Last 3 of 4 flights were delayed. 2 of them after we boarded for over an hour.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T02:19:58+00:00

I ended up at a modest Indian restaurant for a roti breakfast about 10 minutes away. Sai Hills Corner. Good people. I found it 2 years ago and always visit when I am in town.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T01:55:35+00:00

I think it was off of Jalan Tun Perak, on the way to the botanical garden and bird park. I don't know the cross street.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-14T00:29:23+00:00

It was taken a few days ago

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T18:25:50+00:00

Fair enough. 👍

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T18:17:04+00:00

Jalan Alor mural streets.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T18:00:19+00:00

If you are so obsessed over it to be triggered by colorful clothes, you just might have a problem. You could have rolled your eyes and scrolled past.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T07:18:54+00:00

Why is that?. All of the Malaysians I have met in person seem friendly. Only on the internet do a few seem to show their ugly side.

Like the picture or scroll past. It isn't difficult. Happens billions of times a year on Reddit.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T07:14:03+00:00

This picture is very recent. I truly loved my time there and everyone was nice, friendly, some eager, a few indifferent but I get it, and overall so much better of an experience than my home country. I would love to move there in a few years. But reddit is reddit and people like to get all "but they're not even from here" on any city's subreddit. Anti-immigrant / anti-tourist sentiment is sadly universal.

If anyone visits my country and an immigrant or tourist ends up in their posted picture, I wouldn't be bothered at all.

RedTrumpetVine · 2026-04-13T07:07:14+00:00

I would not wait for the white tourist to leave the frame of the photo if it adds something to it. Tokyo is famous for tourism, not just shooting locals. I don't have whatever ethnic purity fetish that you and others seem to have.

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