Other good locations are weekend car shows, libraries, and local auctions.
On mobile. Big hands and a small phone keyboard doesn't cooperate much, so sorry for errors. Also this has been sitting in my drafts for months so sorry if things don't exactly click perfectly.
Before I start, I want to preface and say that I have High Functioning ASD (Autism) and so my social skills are limited but I try to work my way around it being as social as I can. So that's why you don't see a lot of conversation in this post compared to my prior posts here. That, and my work surprisingly doesn't have many Karens running around given our location (we’re smack dab in the middle of a retirement community, but we’re the only store for the western side of my state).
I thought my Entitled Parents stories would end with my now prior neighbor but alas, Entitlement has hit my work.
I work for a hardware store in the US as what they call a Customer Sales Associate. I'm one of 6 CSAs who are tasked to work in our paint department within the days. Out of those 6, I volunteered to do closing hours (I'm a night owl so I usually don't wake until 1-2PM).
Tonight was a quiet night for me and the closer for our sister department until I had two women, who I can assume are mother and daughter, approach my paint desk with some very worried and irritated expressions.
I walk by and ask how they're doing and what I can help them with. The mother (Mid 60s) explained that she returned her paint due to it having the consistency of jelly. I get confused and grabbed the can from our Return to Manufacturer cart so I can examine and try to diagnose it.
Lo and behold they were right, it was like jelly. I asked them the usual questions about storage and use and saw no clues in how it could've reached this state IN their home. I then referenced about our freight and how sometimes stuff like this happens.
I explained to them that I will remake the paint and even discount it with a Manager being notified. As I'm toiling through the list of Assistant Managers and Department Supervisors on the radio apps for the inventory phones, one of my Assistant Managers walks by with his lunch/dinner and I catch him and ask if he could spare 5 seconds to look at the paint to confirm a discount. He says sure and examines the paint as I'm citing why it was returned and the customers who wanted it replaced. He said to discount it by 20%, which is HUGE given we only discount paint by $2-$5 depending on the issue. This $40 paint was now $31 but I decided to deduce it to $30 to round it out.
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OK so let me start by saying
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this is NOT a replacement for DRS; this is COMPLEMENTARY.
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CS is for infinity pool; shares not to be sold
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by ensuring they're not sold, the entire remaining DTC volume must be repurchased
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if anything, selling from CS will slow the rocket more than selling from DTC brokers
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so CS shares are essentially the promise from one ape to another.
On the basis that CS volume isn't shrinking, and every share of mine that lives in DTC will need to be purchased at my sell price... buying in those brokers is essentially buying synthetics at a discount. (also any IRA shares need their own local infinity pools since they can't DRS)
I was thinking about how to best transfer some of the wealth that this will generate.
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I mentioned to a friend that they could gift/transfer 1 share to their adult child at current value, with no tax implication since it's under the $15k limit. Note the implications for recipient: taxes (sale is now under their name), also they may need to register as 13H. But the accounts are live in their name so you're trusting them not to paperhand, and this only works for other adults since minors can't participate in contracts to the broker.
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A ROTH, being different because it's for retirement, caused me to make a half joking comment.
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Then I started looking. turns out, YOU CAN... several brokers allow the creation of ROTHs for minors... whether children, grandchildren, or "other" (I didn't investigate this)... BUT: the minor does require income to deposit. And as custodian, the activity (transfers/positions/etc) are mine to manage / diamondhand.
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So first I opened accounts for a couple of minors.
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Then I performed an official ceremony with them. I gave them their $200 (technically a few dollars off but close enough); earned for their hard work in personal and educational growth and efforts (being good at home and at school). We then discussed putting that money into a "special piggy bank" where it can hopefully grow. This allowed them to buy one synthetic share at the amazingly low sale price of pre-MOASS.
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The price for one share also happens to fall well under any reporting requirements. I'm not sure where the requirements would come from, I was feeling that it was somewhere in the 300/600 range, but goog
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Specifically, because everything is 25% off when she sells it (which is a pretty good discount and I have no complaints there), it means that sometimes things will have and an 8, a 3 or other random numbers in the ones place. Since we can’t get less than ten bullion at a time, it would be nice if the values were rounded up or down to end in a zero so it doesn’t make bullion counts look extremely weird.
In the country I'm from (Sweden) we have laws regarding misleading and/or fraudulent marketing practices, and this would basically be considered illegal here.
People like seeing things like "50% discount". It incentivizes them to buy it, for fear that it's going to be more expensive later or just because it seems like a good deal. It's just psychology, it's how human brains work.
So I, someone who wants to sell something, could either just sell it for $40, or I could claim that it's actually $80 but I'm selling it at a 50% discount. And most of the time, doing it the second way leads to more sales. But in so doing, I'm being deceitful. The reason why I'm deceitful, is because I was never actually going to sell it for $80, I'm just pretending that the real price is $80 so that I can make people think it's more valuable than it actually is and so that I can use the word "discount" in my marketing.
Like I said, in Sweden, this would be illegal.
Here, you cannot claim that the actual price is $80 if you've never sold it for that price. You cannot launch a new product that's never been purchasable before, at a certain price, and claim that you are selling it at a discount. A discount from what? A price that it's never had?
The Planeswalker Bundle is not being sold at a discount, because this is the only price it has ever had in the market. $40 is the actual price of the bundle, not the discounted price. They are only pretending that the actual price is $80 so that they can use the word "discount" in their marketing. It's misleading, it's bordering on fraudulent, and even if it wouldn't be illegal in other countries it's still scummy as all hell.
Any questions about this topic I will answer below.
#EDIT: Discount selection. If you pick a tank before the event end, I believe the discount will stay.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
"You would think I'd set the planet on fire with the way everyone jumped ship out of their council positions," Dreams muttered, staring at the Council's deliberation chamber where it was projected by the holotank. "Look at that. Twelve thousand seats, and all that is going on are four groups of Lanaktallan playing video games by using their high speed ansible links," she grumped, pointing at first one group of a dozen and then another group of four.
"They're playing a 4X galactic domination game with sixty-eight still active players after starting with four hundred," Speaks smiled, pointing at the first group. "Those ones are robbing a bank in a co-op crime simulator," he said, pointing at the second group, "Those are replaying the Black Horizon Campaign of the Clownface Nebula Conflict," pointing at the third group. He pointed at the fourth group that was pantomiming playing musical instruments. "Those six have formed a band and are touring dive bars on Mars."
Dreams sighed and petted Mr. Rings, who was busy peeling apart a puzzle treat by twisting the shell three times until it clicked and removing the third shell layer.
"Has this ever happened before?" she asked.
Speaks nodded. "A few times. Very few. Diamond Dan the Man, ruler of The Ice Bound Fjords on Terra, when he was impeached, gave a speech that ended with 'so long, suckers!' right before he used a jetpack to fly off through the stained glass ceiling and escape in a hovercraft flying a banner that read "U SUK!"."
Speaks snickered.
"He was never seen again, robbed the treasury of hundreds of trillions of Icegeld, stole nearly a half ton of gold, had trillions of dollars in bearer bonds in his pockets, stole copyrights and trademarks and put them in his name, and moved thousands of patents to his name. Rumor says he's still out there somewhere, on a gold throne, eagerly awaiting any contested election in the Ice Bound FJords. He's considered a IBF folk hero," Speaks said.
"Gee, thanks for that," Dreams said. She looked at the four Lanaktallan, who looked completely ridiculous pantomiming stuffing stuff in bags, shooting weapons, or dragging something away. "They don't even care that
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Amazon exaggerates the product descriptions (usually uses a template description) of items that have cosmetic imperfections or have been returned and sell them under their Amazon Warehouse seller account. Typically (not always) these are just products that don't include original packaging or have minor cosmetic flaws, yet they are heavily discounted. If Amazon is not the seller then this may not be the case. Expect the worst and hope for the best. You can return the item if it's worse than described.
Why YSK: You can sometimes get a 10-20% discount on products that have only been returned.
In the Minority Report, the main character fights future crime that is predicted by "Precogs" or human clairvoyants. When John Anderton (Tom Cruise) witnesses a murder that he is going commit in the future of a man he doesn't even know, he goes on the run to clear his name.
The general assumption is that John's main motivation is to prove his innocence and he can only do that by doing his own investigation. He reaches out to the inventor of Precrime who tells him that there is sometimes an alternate future that is predicted by one of Precogs that contradicts the rest. The existence of this Minority Report is what his whole innocence rides on and turns out to not exist.
With all that in mind, it's interesting that they never hint at another motivation he might have for going on the run. A major part of John's character is that he has been mourning the disappearance of his son 6 years prior. He says at one point that everyday he thinks of two things 1. What his son would look like now 2. What he would do to the person that took him. So if he saw himself killing someone he didn't know, he may have deduced that it must be the person that kidnapped and killed his son, because that is the only person in the world he would actually consider murdering.
Whether or not this was the intention of the writers, the main piece of evidence that shows he may have avoided arrest so he could be free to murder the killer of his son is what he says when talking to the inventor of Precrime. He says "I can stay away from him" as a way to prevent his murdering, and yet when he ends up at the building where the murder is supposed to take place and Agatha tells him that he can simply leave, he refuses.
Agatha tells John that seeing his future gives him the power to choose. He chose to continue on the path that would lead him to murder. He didn't want to miss the chance for revenge.
Having this in mind while watching doesn't change the story all the much, but it explains why he doesn't take his own advice and stay away from the murder he's trying to prove he's innocent of. Also I think it fits his character really well.
Idk, it's a old movie that I watched and had a thought about.
tl;dr The main character is supposed to be trying to prove his innocence, but really he might be trying to free himself to commit the murder that he is predicted to commit.
Edit: From the comments this theory is either:
- Stupid, because John is surprised to find evidence of Leo kidnapping his
