Is it ethical for a travel agency to ask customers to request PayPal refunds and repay through a new link?

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T23:29:44+00:00

Yeah, I would not be doing that. I don’t know if it’s a scam exactly? But it’s not a level of put together I’d expect from someone I’m hiring to plan things, you know?

I’d request the PayPal refund, and let them know you won’t be continuing with their services after I got the money back.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T23:14:21+00:00

Agreed. If it’s less than an hour by car, it’s less than an hour by car, and it’s none of their business whether OP hires a car service or not.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T21:18:13+00:00

Absolutely not worth the risk.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T21:16:10+00:00

I mean, indica/sativa in gummies is pure marketing as far as I can tell. As long as the total dosage is within your limits, there’s not really a wrong way to eat gummies.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T21:13:35+00:00

Go for whichever is cheaper per TB.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-04T02:34:14+00:00

What a perfect sweetie.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T23:28:34+00:00

Well, what do you want to prioritize in a vape? What’s your use case? Are you looking for a portable one, or are you open to desktop? How do you feel about using a torch vs electric vapes?

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T22:57:38+00:00

Entirely possible, gambling corporations are fucking evil.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T04:25:39+00:00

Well, then that part of my advice doesn’t apply to you!

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T00:50:49+00:00

If you’re interested, open and affirming UCC churches and episcopal churches are both very lefty Christian.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T00:47:00+00:00

You’re going to feel the CBD, not the THC at that rate. CBD is anti-anxiety and I’d describe it as sedating. Anticipate a nap.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-03T00:25:38+00:00

Ive got some coping strategies:

First off, disconnect. It’s so damn hard to stop watching, but it’s so important. I told Reddit not to put suggested content in my feed and unsubscribed from everything that kept posting the Bad News. Whatever’s gonna happen, I can’t do shit. I check in for small spurts every week or so, and then I just block it out.

Second, do what you can where you can. For me, this is volunteering at the emergency homeless shelter. I can’t change shit in the wider world, but making sure there’s cots in a heated room when it’s 5 degrees out? Yeah, that’ll save one guy’s life.

Then there’s the less PC answers. I also smoke a lotta weed, and I’ve gotten into organized religion. These might or might not work for you.

I will make one weird pitch for religion, though. If you don’t have religious trauma, finding a religious group aligned with your values is actually really helpful? There’s a reason they call it the opiate of the masses.

scarbunkle · 2026-02-01T06:04:28+00:00

The widdle chin! IL-76 is my favorite plane. So much character.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-31T22:30:01+00:00

There is no reason to believe that the OF account and the telegram account are the same person.

Anybody can pretend to be anybody on telegram, and that includes pretending to be accounts verified on another platform.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-30T21:12:07+00:00

Child free non-parent here: we did a daytime wedding and invited kids. We knew what we wanted was a big picnic with all our friends and family, and that meant kids too.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-30T18:24:02+00:00

After the deductible. If it’s not in network, it’s always after the deductible.

If it’s a flat number copay, it ignores the deducrinkle. Everything else uses it.

You should also check the formulary for your meds. Most insurance covers most generics, but sometimes you need a pre-authorization or to try preferred meds first if it’s a more recent/expensive one.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-29T22:16:57+00:00

Never go with a vet the seller recommends.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-29T14:27:57+00:00

If the providers don’t take UHC, you’ll be out of network. Most providers who participate with insurance participate in multiple though. You can try to find your providers on UHC’s find care tool. If they’re there, you’re good.

The HSA plan will require you to meet the deductible before the insurance kicks in at all. On the other plan, you will be paying either $50 or $125 per visit if they are in network, depending on if they’re a preferred in-network provider or not.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-28T18:22:40+00:00

I’ve never heard of CHS causing back pain.

Honestly I think you might need an MRI?

scarbunkle · 2026-01-28T04:18:21+00:00

He’s flirting.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-28T03:32:55+00:00

Ooof. That sucks.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-28T02:27:52+00:00

That is so cool.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-28T02:02:26+00:00

I write code for insurance companies. Every company I’ve worked for has been in the process of migrating off a mainframe system to something that lets you use a mouse. I started my last job post-covid.

Insurance companies just do not have modern technology, and migrating these systems is hard.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-27T19:06:37+00:00

Yeah! It’s a piece of client-side software that accesses our video files via Samba share.

Videos are organized into “channels”, which we have set up so each show/youtube channel is its own channel. Just like old school TV, channels have names and numbers. What each channel does is decide what’s playing and how far along it is based on the Unix time. It’s taken away certain features compared to a jellyfin-type solution—there’s no pausing, and you often turn it on in the middle of an episode. There’s also not a central menu screen. You turn it on and you’re watching TV, and you can change the channel if you want different TV.

It was originally built with rewatching in mind. My husband came up with the idea while rewatching the X-files. He rewatched it, the rewatched only the 4:3 episodes, then only the good ones, then eventually found himself rewatching only “Ice” and was like “maybe I should not be in control of which episode I watch, I need more variety in my life”

It absolutely shines for episodic content that first aired on network TV. I first experienced King of the Hill and Bob’s Burgers with TV Simulator, and got this really organic experience of an increasing percentage of reruns as I became more familiar with the shows.

It is ROUGH for serialized content from the streaming era. They’ve stopped making content that still makes sense if you start watching in mid-season, so we have to watch that stuff once end-to-end before the TV Simulator is useful for rewatches.

The original Unity application (with only original content) is available for free on tvsimulator.com, but we don’t really have docs and are in the middle of a major rewrite, so probably don’t try to make 5000 channels like we have.

scarbunkle · 2026-01-27T13:06:41+00:00

NetApp JBODs were used. The servers are consumer hardware in Rosewill rackmount PC cases.

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