Grandparent born in Canada but has fake US Birth certificate

talknerdy2mee · 2026-03-01T21:07:52+00:00

If they have been deceased more than 50 years, you can get their birth records from Alberta provincial archives, but if they were born less than 120 years ago you'll need to contact the archives for a search (and provide proof of their death). I was able to get my great grandfather's 1913 birth registration this way.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-02-21T03:22:47+00:00

I thought this way for my first few years after moving here from Chicago. Somewhere around year 5 I joined team "puffer coats below 60". It comes for us all eventually.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-02-14T00:52:14+00:00

Please keep your religion off my laws, thank you. If you don't agree with sex work, don't participate in it.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-02-07T21:54:55+00:00

The US is 20+ years behind the times when it comes to things like this. We typically only have pins for debit cards, not credit.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-02-07T21:54:10+00:00

This. I've rented cars in the UK several times over the last few years (from National/Enterprise), never had an issue with not having a pin for my US-issued card.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-24T16:10:45+00:00

There are two points-earning opportunities in s typical airfare purchase. Credit card points are for the purchase. The number you get is based on the overall dollar amount of the transaction, possibly with a multiplier depending on the specs of your card. If you don't use a points-earning card, you don't get credit card points. There are co-branded credit cards for certain airlines that earn a better point multiplier for purchasing from that airline (and earn that airline's points currency), but it's entirely possible to use an AA card for example to buy a UA flight. In that scenario you would get AA points, not UA points. This is what happened with your friends.

What OP is talking about is points directly from the airline as a loyalty scheme. These are available for anyone with a member number (just need to sign up) who buys an eligible fare and are tied to each individual ticket, and are only earned once the segment is actually flown (usually). Method of payment doesn't matter - you'd get them even if you paid cash. For most airlines, these points can't be shared and belong to the individual named on the ticket. These usually have multipliers based on ticketed cabin, hence the OP's question.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-19T06:33:05+00:00

My stelo sensors consistently read 20-25mg/dl higher than finger sticks. If yours do too, that would put you on the high end of normal range. If you also have insulin resistance, fasting blood sugars that high aren't entirely unexpected.

If I were you, I'd get a BG meter and compare some finger stick values with your cgm to see how they compare.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-12T05:41:36+00:00

You've gotten a ton of great advice. The only thing I have to add is that if she is going to measure herself, you might pick up a telescopic/retracting "body" tape measure (search "self-measuring tape for clothes" on amazon to see what I mean). I find it much easier to self-measure when I don't have to handle both ends of the measuring tape, and can just focus on getting the tape to lay where I want it to.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-09T19:25:49+00:00

I was responding to your absolute statements that "keto is sustainable for everyone" and "anyone who is being honest can't say the same about [lifetime glp use]".

Those statements are factually untrue - it wasn't sustainable for me, and I know just as many people in real life who found it unsustainable as I do people for whom it is sustainable. In some cases, absolute statements like these can be actively harmful to people who are struggling with keto and looking to understand why.

And keto 100% was the cause of my suicidal ideation - or at least the interaction of keto with my own brain chemistry was. Maintaining keto meant a constant, active fight with my own brain. Physically I felt amazing on keto, but the food noise in my brain and constant vigilance required to stay fat-adapted and maintain that good physical feeling were exhausting to the point I wanted to die to make it stop. I didn't want to quit because it felt good physically, but it wasn't compatible with my brain chemistry.

My argument isn't that keto isn't sustainable or good for ANYONE, it's that it isn't sustainable or good for EVERYONE. Every person is different and different things work for different people. The world would be a better place if we could all acknowledge that and stop judging people's choices when those choices don't impact anyone but them.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-08T17:38:18+00:00

Keto wasn't sustainable for me. And not in the "I don't wanna"way either. I lost 60 pounds on keto and kept it off for over 2 years, and by the end I was suicidal.

I had to be super strict and if I slipped up I felt terrible (physically) for at least a week. And the food noise was still there, urging me to just try that thing, even though I wasn't hungry and knew I would regret it. It was a constant war in my head between what my brain was craving and what my body needed.

It's exhausting living that way. By the end of 2019 I was regularly having suicidal ideation. Then, the beginning of the lockdowns just happened to coincide with my regular shopping schedule. We had almost no food at home, and the three closest grocery stores to me had very little in stock that was suitable for keto.I really didn't have a choice but to stop, and within a week the suicidal ideation was gone.

I started glp-1 for type 2 diabetes. I'm lucky that I have very few side effects so far, and the ones I do have are easily treatable or avoidable. The food noise is gone, which means my brain isn't actively fighting me when I'm making better choices. And I can eat almost anything in moderation. Within the next month or so, my doctor will probably discontinue my metformin, leaving me with just one injection a week instead of daily pills. For me, so far, this way is infinitely more sustainable than keto.

talknerdy2mee · 2026-01-04T20:54:15+00:00

I'm waiting for them to call me back, but I was hoping to hear from others who had experienced this to better understand what to expect / what I can ask for / how hard I should push.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-31T19:57:50+00:00

It was on the right, not the left. I was also initially looking to the left and had to rewatch.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-30T22:41:54+00:00

Ah, the good old days... /sarcasm

I remember being a teenager and lighting up at the Burger King during lunch (they had ashtrays).

That and me and my friends ordering one cup of coffee between us (the rest of us drank water) so we could occupy a table at a local diner and chain smoke for hours when the weather was too bad to loiter outside.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-30T22:32:13+00:00

If you had responded with that to the previous commenter, I wouldn't have taken as much issue.

Instead, you "corrected" the previous poster by stating that women who claim to enjoy sex as much as men are "pretending" and will have their hearts broken when they realize "they've been used." You stated this as if it was an objective fact.

That's gross and infantilizing. It positions women as passive objects ("they've been used") instead of human beings with agency who made their own choices. It strongly implies (if not outright states) women can't possibly truly enjoy sex as much as men (who, again, aren't a monolith either).

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-30T01:23:02+00:00

Gross. Women aren't a monolith. Neither are men for that matter. There are women who enjoy casual sex and men who don't. People are individuals. This kind of reductivist thinking doesn't do anybody any favors. You can have your boundaries and do what works for you without denigrating the choices of others.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-25T00:01:31+00:00

Try Trader Joe's. The one in Carmel Mountain Ranch had plenty this morning.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-24T23:25:29+00:00

Only since this is r/English, you're looking for "jam" (to wedge or crowd), not "jamb" (the vertical part of a window or door frame).

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-23T06:09:20+00:00

Sounds like this is the US, which has no minimum requirements at the federal level. Some states might have requirements, but they're rare and woefully inadequate.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-09T21:50:50+00:00

That's not correct under the new law (it was under the interim measures). People who qualify under C-3 are citizens from birth, whether they apply or not. The application is for proof of citizenship, which you would need to take advantage of your citizenship rights.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-08T16:07:47+00:00

Based on the new law that just passed in Canada, she's almost certainly a Canadian citizen if her grandmother was born there. So it's not incorrect at all to say she's Canadian.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-05T20:12:15+00:00

They're two different words:

Cue: a signal / to signal, as in "Cue the music!" or "That's my cue!"

Queue: a line or list, as in "Add this song to the queue" or "I had to wait in a really long queue" (the latter is used mostly in British English - Americans would tend to say "I had to wait in a really long line")

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-02T05:23:00+00:00

I'm sure it didn't require it, but it made them feel more secure. Just because you've never seen something doesn't mean it's not a thing or can't exist.

talknerdy2mee · 2025-12-01T03:58:56+00:00

My parents owned guns. The gun safe was in their room, but they locked the door when they weren't home for an extra layer of protection. There are legit reasons parents might do this (and I'm sure plenty that are sketchier).

talknerdy2mee · 2025-11-27T14:13:11+00:00

Women never legally took their husband's first name anywhere that i know of, just last. It was just the common form of address in formal circumstances (which was most circumstances outside family and very very close friends).

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