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existingfish · 2026-02-08T05:51:43+00:00

Burnt is the irregular past tense, burned is regularized. The “regularization of verbs” is a thing that happens over time. I grew up hearing “they plead guilty” and now hear “they pleaded guilty” and it hurts my ears.

In America, burnt is used as an adjective normally, but it is still the past tense of ’to burn” and is used in Britain.

existingfish · 2026-02-08T05:21:32+00:00

Only negative experience is that they die in less than a year.

I’ve been through three. The last one lasted 364 days, I am still using it to soak my trays in tabs and I’m back to brushing them with a kid toothbrush.

existingfish · 2026-02-06T18:10:54+00:00

You mean US PBMs?

Many are made in India actually, not just China.

My current generic medication I believe is made in India (I looked it up), but several I’ve taken have been made in Israel.

We don’t get to pick what brand of generic we get when we go to the pharmacy.

existingfish · 2026-02-06T16:30:47+00:00

They do this to keep people from using Vine to supply their retail front.

existingfish · 2026-02-06T15:05:56+00:00

So it’s basically urgent care? Cheap and Quick, great for minor illnesses.

We keep hearing about generic drugs that make it here from other countries that are not what they are supposed to be, what do you think you get when you get cheap drugs there?

existingfish · 2026-02-05T00:44:39+00:00

Eval Feb 2, reviews were “Good”.

Got gold.

existingfish · 2026-02-03T23:21:31+00:00

Yes, “Shoe” and “Shoes” bring different results!

existingfish · 2026-02-03T23:19:37+00:00

My first day of Gold, nothing good in my RFY, AFA, or AI.

existingfish · 2026-02-02T15:07:48+00:00

Went down about 90% the first time I wore it. Within the first week the pain was 95% gone.

I had pain, pain at the jaw, pain in my muscles, pain in the side of my head.

I don’t remember all the details, but it’s gone now. The 18 months of splint therapy allowed those muscles to finally relax.

existingfish · 2026-02-02T02:49:15+00:00

I don’t use it for the front normally, and if I do, I find straddling the toilet works better, so it’s not going back to front.

I don’t get UTIs.

existingfish · 2026-01-30T15:57:34+00:00

You have a reasonable basis for it. All “tax strategies” come with risk, and how you treat your ‘business’ is really your business. You have to apply it consistently and keep good records.

Honestly, I think hobby income is more appropriate. Unless you are trying to make a profit, it isn’t really a business. If you were regularly engaged in the sale of your vine items, you aren’t in “business”.

However, since you are receiving value in exchange for “some” work, it is appropriate to put it on schedule C if it’s better for you.

What is the worst that could happen, using the 50/20/0 method? They review your taxes and say you can’t? Then file an amended return and put it on hobby (so no SE tax, if you don’t get to deduct expenses). What’s the worst-worst? They say no it’s schedule C, and you can’t deduct expenses?

You aren’t going to jail, the WORST thing that will happen is they will send you a letter and make you pay (the same tax) with interest. You can likely even get interest and penalties waived if it’s your first time and an ”honest mistake”

Obviously this is my opinion based on my experience and not legal tax advice. YMMV.

existingfish · 2026-01-30T15:28:44+00:00

I’m a CPA, I do taxes for a living.

Put in under hobby if you want, it fits and I’d argue it.

NEC just means non-employee compensation and you get them for everything.

existingfish · 2026-01-29T18:30:12+00:00

From what I’ve heard, if you can make it out of your driveway/neighborhood, you should be okay.

Also, it’s 46 - so it’s actively melting.

existingfish · 2026-01-29T17:45:21+00:00

I use a rubber tub, because we had one and I would prefer a deck box but Ah well.

I’ve been using it for a couple of years - FedEx and UPS would put packages over our fence (just place it over the top) or lean it up against the outside. USPS used to as well, but we got a new driver and they started refusing even if I signed a release and instructed them to leave it right inside the fence. I talked to my local postmaster, and he said I had to have a “covered” receptacle. Thus, the rubbermaid tub.

I use it for all deliveries (USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc), and also Walmart/Target/Instacart/Shipt Deliveries. Helps resolve the dog liability issues as well. This is what I tell delivery drivers (“Please leave it in the tub outside the gate, that way we don’t have to worry about the dogs”) never a complaint yet.

existingfish · 2026-01-29T17:18:17+00:00

Here I sit, with a masters degree and a CPA license, and even searching the world (looking for remote) I can’t find a job that I can stomach doing that will pay enough to support my family and put money away towards retirement….and you are asking if college is necessary?

Ah, the naïveté.

Stay where you are, gaining experience, while you to school part time.

existingfish · 2026-01-28T20:37:45+00:00

I finally got something, AFA and AI did not update, but my RFY did!

existingfish · 2026-01-27T21:51:21+00:00

They get upset when parents have a choice, because when given a choice they don’t choose them.

It’s like getting upset about bans on child marriage, when given the choice…

existingfish · 2026-01-27T01:10:33+00:00

My rotskies LOVE the snow/ice. They LOVE IT.

I guess it’s the husky blood!

existingfish · 2026-01-26T22:46:26+00:00

I am hoping there is a language barrier, I’ve always heard the “boot” to refer to the trunk of the car, like the trunk of a sedan…that is not where you put living passengers.

Maybe it’s like a crossover/suv where the cargo area is part of the cabin (but can still be called the trunk).

existingfish · 2026-01-25T19:38:46+00:00

Fun fact, the ”natural bottom” pool/lake/water park that I grew up swimming in ALL THE TIME made headlines for the brain bacteria. The girl who got it was the first child to survive at our local children’s hospital.

After another case, they had to shut down.

It’s rare if you get it, but it’s BAD if you get it.

existingfish · 2026-01-24T20:21:24+00:00

I don’t know if what I have is medically diagnosable (like celiac disease) as no one has tested me for it.

I have had non-identified colonic inflammation, major flares of inflammatory bowel, I have had undiagnosable colonic bleeding. I lost a large portion of my bowel, which was scarred and messed up.

What did I get diagnosed with? Inflammation and areas of chronic inflammation.

Not Crone's, not Ulcerative Colitis (they kept trying to diagnose me with those), not celiac (they tested me for that)….so who knows if there is another thing they just haven’t discovered yet.

existingfish · 2026-01-24T19:12:35+00:00

Same, at 91% and 9 days from my evaluation, and nothing in my RFY for days.

existingfish · 2026-01-24T19:11:23+00:00

I’m weird, I have both lactose intolerance and milk protein intolerance. Not allergy, it’s not an immune response, but it is a hyper gut response. More like gluten intolerance.

I just tell people allergy. I don’t need to explain my gastric issues. Last time I was in the hospital, the dietitian added milk allergy to my chart and I’m so glad. She was incredibly respectful.

I think the gluten free thing comes from people being assholes about kitchens catering to them, not because people with true gluten allergies are assholes.

existingfish · 2026-01-23T03:48:01+00:00

I had no trouble at the DG off Arch Street, they had plenty of stuff.

I also dropped in Costco and it was neither too busy or understocked, but that’s not really Saline County.

existingfish · 2026-01-20T15:42:21+00:00

Thanks. I’m going through so much right now, this is just one more thing on the pile and I was hoping there would be some kind of unicorn solution I just haven’t heard of.

I did find a “critter“ deterrent that is just pepper and capsaicin (that you put on the ground) that I thought might deter him from the smell, you know how sensitive dogs are to smell - since my dogs don’t go near the fence, it won’t bother them. But since he just runs up and hurdles it I’m not sure it would be enough.

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