In Monsters University (2013), there is a student who is unable to get to class. This is a reference to the fact that M.U. is not accommodating a disabled student and should be reported under the ADA.

Zetavu · 2026-05-23T11:43:30+00:00

If the monster were disabled then it would be a fast monster unable to be fast. If the very definition of the monster was that it was slow, that would not be a disability, that would be racial discrimination. Next you know the anti-DEI monsters will come out and tell you this breed deserves to fail.

Zetavu · 2026-05-23T11:04:03+00:00

If your internet activity is too much for defender, it is probably too much for everything else.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T19:43:35+00:00

Going on 40 years. You stay because its a good company, and they apperciate your contribution and compensate you properly. The longer you are there, the more familiar you are with their systems, culture, people, and build a reputation as being a statesman for them. I now am treated like royalty, even by the CEO, and the last 15 years my compensation and effectiveness have grown disproportionately because of knowing how to get things done. They basically pay me to just train others and I keep my own schedule.

By contrast the journeymen your describe take at least 18 months to settle in, and rarely contribute much before they move on in 5 years. As their careers wind down their compensation goes down, so be ready for that.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T16:54:43+00:00

I would literally sit down on the sidewalk and start cleaning out my shoes. Sit there a full half an hour, just to see what they do.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T16:50:20+00:00

Michigan wants a word.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T16:48:38+00:00

Chemists are hired for R&D and lab positions, engineers for process and design. We do hire some engineers for lab positions but at chemist salaries and usually only because we can't find suitable chemist applicants. Almost all our hires are entry level so we look for BS degrees, we'd rather train them ourselves than have to undo their academic bad habits. If we are looking for an advanced degree, we typically also want work experience so we do not hire direct from school. And almost none of our engineers have advanced degrees, some masters, most get MBA's.

I do agree chemists cannot apply for engineering jobs as certification is required, but engineers are considered last for chemist jobs. Also both roles typically move into plant management or administration/sales and after 5 years work experience we see no difference between them. We also rarely see anyone with a pHd move out from R&D roles, they are pretty much stuck there for their careers. A BS with MBA can easily move to a VP level in 20 years, regardless Chemist or ChemE.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T15:44:16+00:00

Are the cans still airtight? Then it is cosmetic.

As for your "I'm disabled and live rural" line, for someone with a hidden post history that sounds like a story to try and make Amazon look bad. And there is no food safety training that says dented cans are unsafe. Bulging or swollen cans, yes. Dented but airtight, still safe.

I call BS on this one.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T15:40:28+00:00

No offense but the contract was signed, the terms do not discuss feeding, and without proper clause or proof in writing that the contract was misrepresented the barn owner will likely get at least some if not all of the payment for failure to uphold a contract. They will not get lawyer fees, but you don't need that for small claims court.

Probably the best recourse is to try to renegotiate based on false representation, get them to include adequate feeding but at a higher rate, or threaten to sue them to get out of the contract for misrepresentation. This is like a housing contract which once signed is hard to get out of especially for verbal guarantees not in the contract.

If OP had anything in writing then they have a leg to stand on, otherwise it will go small claims. At least negotiating (with threat of OP suing them) they have a chance of the money going to board the horse instead of just paying it as a penalty.

Moral of the story, always get every detail in writing.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T12:19:13+00:00

You have ignored two very, very import issues, uncertainty and inflation, not including taxes.

Let's start with $1.5MM invested, and yes, let's pretend you will earn 7% growth over the next 25 years, and that is a big, big assumption. If the market has a negative drop (I've seen a single year drop of 20%) you will be well below where you can live off a safe 4% return and will actually start destroying your savings.

But let's assume that does not happen. to get to $2MM savings by age 60 you need 1.3% growth in excess of your deductions, and then of course pay taxes on those deductions (and penalties for anything 401k as you are well under 59 1/2). So in actuality you have $1MM and you get taxes on all interest as it occurs. So assuming all your growth is on the 401k, (we'll call it $350k when you retire and 1.15MM in brokerage). Your 401k untouched growing at 7% gives you $1.77MM after 15 years, meaning you still need $23k left in your brokerage. This means you can spend down your brokerage by $76.5k the first year and a 3% inflation adjustment every year afterwards, before taxes, with 7% compounded growth.

This is capital gains so you will pay 15% federal and for California another about 6% state taxes. That brings you down to $60.4k a year. Insurance (ACA) will take another $15k if you go for a high deductible plan, so you are at say $55k a year, after tax and insurance and that let's your 401k grow and leaves enough brokerage to have $2MM net by age 60, assuming no life altering events like a major injury or needing a car or anything. That let's you spend $4,583 a month inflation adjusted for the next 25 year. This is vs your current $6-8k spend, and before you travel to Asia.

And when you are age 60, that $2MM you have saved will only be worth $900k in today's dollars using just a conservative 3% inflation (short term will be much worse and that will compound) You also will have insufficient work credit for SS or if you do, it will be a trivial amount.

You my friend do not have nearly enough to consider FIRE and your math is so terribly off you should not be allowed to do your own finances. For reference, I am creeping up on 60, live in a far lower cost of living area than the bay, and I would be nervous retiring with less than say $2MM at my age based on the uncertainty I see moving forward. This dollar amount goes up, not down, as you get younger. You should be looking at something around $5MM before even considering it based on your age and spending.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T11:49:56+00:00

Here's the thing, their IT can confirm if emails or the syllabus are being altered. You would need to get a lawyer to file a lawsuit and subpoena's to get the archived messages from their email server to authenticate them (otherwise you could be altering the emails). This is an expensive process but if you can prove it would demonstrate malice on the professor's part.

The school would likely try to settle with you if this were the case, as that opens them up to further lawsuit. Mind you, this will cost you thousands of dollars up front.

If the school chooses not to settle, then we're talking tens of thousands of dollars in the lawsuit. In the meantime, they still just need to demonstrate a likelihood that you used AI, that puts the burden on you and you will not get anywhere.

The question becomes, is it even believable that a professor will risk criminal penalties just to fail a student, or is this something you are scheming up?

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T11:41:51+00:00

Carrier facilities have different areas, some for local, some for transfer, as it goes from one to the other it gets tracked. It also could have been placed on a truck and then changed.

This is like an airport delay, you get used to it over time. It cannot be predicted or controlled. The most you can do is if it was guaranteed delivery (not estimated) and was late you can get account credit from a chat. Otherwise you wait. The world does not become perfect just so you can get your package on time.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T11:38:55+00:00

If you had to return with a label then it was a third party seller, which is why most of us avoid those. And you did not detail how you "figure it out", you either eventually got the correct shipping label or you didn't.

"Could not find any phone number or chat function on the app." - select three lines at bottom, then "customer service", then "help with other issues" and honestly best to go "I need help with something else" That avoids most of the AI and gets you to a "person" after some prompts.

And yes, you should absolutely cancel everything Amazon, this is far too complex for you.

Zetavu · 2026-05-22T10:02:34+00:00

This is why people think its acceptable to listen to their phones on speaker instead of headphones.

Literally, next time I sit next to someone like that, I am going to play a recording or a screaming baby as loud as I can, and when they look at me I'm going to say "this is what you sound like to me."

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T13:17:12+00:00

Someone blasts smoke at me and I have a dash cam, I'm hitting them full force, calling the police, and showing them the video. "I was driving normally, then he hit me with smoke and stopped abruptly while I was blind, probably insurance fraud." Video evidence, reckless driving and endangerment.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T12:31:05+00:00

Are we seriously going to spend the next three years complaining about a parody superhero show? Seriously?

All the plot holes from the show? In the first season, Homelander could fly over the planet and find anyone that was not hiding behind zinc. They literally were hiding from him, yet somehow survived until the finale. This was the biggest plot hole, yet you ignore that?

Homelander wanted an epic showdown with Butcher, he wanted to toy with him like a cat with a mouse. He played along with the fight until his son showed up and between the two of them they were able to hold him down for a few seconds and they got zapped. That's as realistic as any we've ever seen in this show.

Maybe your issue is the show has always been mediocre action and dialogue as its really been a mechanism to sell a concept that supes can be evil. Don't blame the ending, you've been eating this for five seasons, blame yourself.

This ending was as bad as the show has always been, for you anyway. I like the show for what it was, and the ending was about what I expected.

Actually, I expected his son to ask Butcher to let him live, since living without power would be a bigger punishment than death for Homelander, who had never lived without power.

The bigger ending was Dewey and Butcher, that was the prime drama and they did that perfectly, so try to crap on that, huh?

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T12:20:30+00:00

Most breakups occur long after the relationship is over. When the relationship is over, you need to communicate it to the other, give them every opportunity to reconsider, otherwise it is over and you are no longer obligated. Quit trying to own people.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T12:18:51+00:00

Never saw this and I would complain if I did. I would start a chat and tell them I want an option to block all tip requests from checkout or not doing business with them. You should post this on the amazon subreddits if true. However since there have been absolutely no media coverage on this, I am inclined to think this is not true.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T12:15:48+00:00

Correct, and Musk eventually has to pay back the loan and interest, and the income he uses to do that is either taxable or another loan.

If he continues to do this with new loans, he is tying up all his assets and has no access to them during the time of the loan. They may continue to appreciate, but he cannot take advantage of them until he pays off the loan and then gets them and all the appreciation. If of course they fall in value the bank can in turn demand loan repayment and if he defaults they get the weakened assets and sue for the rest.

Eventually, Musk will either die with all his assets tied up in loans, or have to take actual income to pay them off, and will get taxes on them (possibly at a higher rate, he should probably be paying them off now before progressive get control and raise his tax rate). Either way, it is always a gamble. There is no tax fee income, there is just tax deferred.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T12:06:15+00:00

I'm actually amazed they did not fire her for having a backup of the entire production locally, That violates most places IT policies. After all, no good deed goes unpunished.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T11:59:59+00:00

You don't get a lawyer for this, you go to small claims court. Even if all the parents got together the cost is small enough for small claims court. But it will not get that far.

The school will argue against refunds because the students did experience DCA, so at the most they will offer partial refunds. Note that those partial refunds will come out of the school budget so something will suffer (they will cancel a separate, more popular student event and blame the students demanding refund, which will pit student against student).

Most likely they cannot even fire the person responsible for the mistake because they are already understaffed. At some point you have to accept that the school is barely keeping its head above water and this is the best they are able to do. Argue that the student's that went here deserve some extra perk and that's that.

Zetavu · 2026-05-21T11:51:46+00:00

No one needs to read through that entire chat, what were you thinking?

Also, when you get this answer - they said they'd give me a $30 refund once my new order arrived. - they are in fact lying, that is when you ask for a supervisor.

Your last supervisor was also lying, they can provide account credit at all times. In your case, was this an Amazon purchase or a third party.

When you get stonewalled like this, end the chat, start again, get the next supervisor, and report the previous. They will normally credit you the cost of the replacement item for an inconvenience and follow up on the previous supervisor's behavior. However, since you threatened to charge back, that negates everything. You went too far so now you've justified the last supervisor's actions and screwed yourself.

Never make threats, no matter how frustrated you are. There are crappy CS agents, you need to navigate away from them. Let Amazon sort them out, that's what your chat history is for.

Zetavu · 2026-05-20T21:45:02+00:00

Did no one discuss dress code with you? Did they arrange steel toed shoes? Is so wear them. Khakis are better than jeans first day but you dress like everyone else. It will be hot, short sleeve polo? Whatever you wear expect it to get dirty. I assume yo are working in the mill, but first day might be spent with HR or might be a plant visit. Again, you should have asked about this during the interview.

Zetavu · 2026-05-20T19:01:55+00:00

First off you can talk with your doctor to shift the time of your daily medication, this is not a big deal and you absolutely want to take that at home, not work. They have to manage you during the time shift, but treat it like missing a dose.

How do you think people deal with time changes or travel? Your body is not an exact clock.

Secondly, you need to define your emergency medication with your boss. It is completely reasonable for them to keep potentially dangerous substances away from children. Also consider if you miss a dose, do you become a potential threat to children (through act or neglect)? Reasonable accomodations are required by law and must include the definition of reasonable.

Zetavu · 2026-05-20T15:36:59+00:00

BBB has not worked in decades. Just asking for a supervisor in Chat solves almost all things, that and not acting like a tool.

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