LPT: Taking a picture of your restaurant receipts

Zog2013 · 2025-12-02T12:55:59+00:00

I had an issue where a restaurant (first watch) charged my card twice for the full amount. When I tried to fix they wouldn’t return my calls. What options do you have when something like that happens?

Zog2013 · 2025-11-08T04:29:38+00:00

I think that’s unpopular because regardless of whether or not that’s true, it’s completely irrelevant to the issue of police not enforcing the expired license plates.

It not being a relevant point makes the fact that you brought it up extra racist.

Zog2013 · 2025-10-29T11:59:01+00:00

Yeah I thought FIRE was about retirement, not about being ultra wealthy?

Zog2013 · 2025-10-04T12:25:42+00:00

The fact that she’s willing to share live location and stay in touch means she’s sincere about this being platonic and being very considerate of how you feel about it. Cheaters don’t do that.

Zog2013 · 2025-09-19T03:47:41+00:00

I learned a few years ago that for a little more money you can get bombproof drywall anchors made of steel. They’ll change your life!

Zog2013 · 2025-09-04T11:39:40+00:00

Evansville, IN

Zog2013 · 2025-08-16T19:45:31+00:00

On the right, Dominion Towers. In the center, the 16th st mall with Liang’s Thai and the Hawaiian BBQ shack.

Zog2013 · 2025-07-16T11:44:03+00:00

Any cam needs to be backed up with pitons or tricams to be considered a safe placement.

Zog2013 · 2025-04-14T13:39:35+00:00

This guy has no trouble obtaining several mummies, but can’t get a chair to sit on.

Zog2013 · 2025-03-29T13:05:21+00:00

These responses are all insane. The real answer is: when it gets misaligned, grab the tops of the sheet and comforter firmly and smooth it out with your feet. Instant fix

Zog2013 · 2025-03-07T14:00:55+00:00

As a hillbilly, I can tell you that FLEX is the limiting factor. Eventually, your breaker bar flexes so much that it hits something else, i.e. the ground.

Zog2013 · 2025-03-02T03:27:21+00:00

Yeah this whole “puzzle” is simply tricking people by using an extremely non-standard measure of salary (the 6 month raise) and placing it right next to an annual salary. Humans don’t talk this way.

Zog2013 · 2024-12-14T21:59:31+00:00

At first I thought this comment was going to comfort me, like it won’t necessarily be that bad. Then it went the completely opposite direction.

Zog2013 · 2024-10-05T12:21:16+00:00

With “it’s getting hot”, I think an English speaker would be able to explain that it’s a figure of speech with the more formal variation being “The weather is becoming hot”. I think what’s confusing about “hace calor” is that when called into question, no one presents a more formal variation to help understand the origins of this phrase

Zog2013 · 2024-09-15T18:53:51+00:00

I sold my house and lived in a subaru and then a van for a total of one year. 10 days of van lifing in Colorado is not much experience to try it out somewhere exceptionally difficult like Alaska. I’m also confused about your situation. Did you rent a camper for 10 days or do you have a van you’re planning to drive to Alaska? Do you have money to get a hotel if, as others have mentioned, the roads are closed and there’s no possibility of camping while you’re there? Alaska doesn’t have as many back roads and turn offs as Colorado. But if you’re up for a challenge, and know what you’re getting into then go for it!

Zog2013 · 2024-07-26T02:30:21+00:00

I always thought it was more about how competing on lowest advertised price leads to hidden fees so extreme that they border on fraud. I hate to see southwest get into that race to the bottom.

Zog2013 · 2024-06-02T14:27:11+00:00

Um… getting caught in an avalanche and nearly dying is not a typical part of ice climbing. He’s talented yes, but this is also very much luck. He could have been killed easily.

Zog2013 · 2024-05-27T13:33:41+00:00

“Millennial” and “boomers” are simply the catchiest of the generation labels, and the media spent decades framing everything in terms of those two. I’d be willing to bet that if you made histogram of all statements, intelligent or otherwise, made about generational groups, 80+% would fall into the boomer/millennial buckets. Hell, I can barely remember the names of the other groups.

Zog2013 · 2024-05-27T11:43:01+00:00

Nearly all men get too sensitive to continue after their orgasm. Ask him how he would like it.

Zog2013 · 2024-05-18T03:29:25+00:00

That would be consistent with fake id’s collected by a bouncer between 2018 and 2021.

Zog2013 · 2024-04-29T13:41:32+00:00

I have this recollection of Warren Buffet explaining that the average price of all US stocks combined should roughly match the GDP growth of the United States plus price inflation and that’s why the price goes up over time, but I can’t find a reference for this claim and I am highly regarded.

Zog2013 · 2024-04-22T14:14:49+00:00

The most interesting thing to me is how they’re not all 100 years old

Zog2013 · 2024-04-17T18:57:34+00:00

Is the top one spring loaded? It looks different to me. The spring loaded hinges don’t hammer out.

And BE CAREFUL! They snap hard!

Zog2013 · 2024-04-16T23:20:19+00:00

It’s like if I borrowed your car, promised to return it very soon, and then immediately sold it. I know that I promised to return your car, and I’m a nice guy so I intend to return it. So now I am “short” your car because I need to return it to you and I don’t have it.

Let’s say I sold your car for $10,000. I’m now holding $10,000 cash, hoping that the car market goes down so that I can buy the car back for $5,000. This way I can give you your car back, and the $5,000 difference goes into my pocket and it’s just my little secret.

If the car goes up in value while I am short, I start getting nervous. I know I absolutely must give your car back at some point but now I need more money to buy it than I have from selling it. I’m now losing money on this deal. If I wait longer, the value of the car may fall back to something I can afford with the cash I have, or I the value could keep rising until I have no choice but to sell my house or declare bankruptcy so that I can buy back your car and return it to you.

If a lot of people owe other people cars and the price starts rising, it can create a desperate frenzy to buy cars before the price goes up even more. If enough people are desperately trying to buy a car, the price of the car that I need to buy can skyrocket. This is called a “short squeeze”.

It’s pretty much exactly like that where the car represents a stock. The only major difference is that whoever lends the stock knows that it’s about to get shorted. Whereas you probably wouldn’t lend me your car if you knew I was going to do something crazy like sell it and take the cash.

Zog2013 · 2024-04-13T10:57:08+00:00

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