Everything posted by Apep
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2019 (for 2018) Income Tax Thread
You can take 179 on a residential rental, but just for 1245 property, not for HVAC. That was one of the TCJA changes.
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Star Trek: The USS Orville season 2 (Dec 30)
I was surprised that they didn’t look her up and find out she was Gordon’s ancestor.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
My wife is a teacher and we've been binging The Wire, which is the first time she's seen it. Yesterday she told a student "to stop acting like a corner kid."
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
I use Waze to take my kid to school. It's only a little over two miles, but it allows me to avoid traffic jams along the usual route. Sure, that's only once a year, but it's better than him being late.
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Mass College Admission Cheating Scandal
It is the CEO of a packaging company. See page 36.
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Gmail password hacked
Switch to the Authenticator app.
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Gmail password hacked
Switch to the Authenticator app.
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Shit's Borked
It is still unresponsive if I'm logged out. If I log in on mobile via the button at the bottom of a thread, the menu starts working if I tap on it. IOS 12.14, iPhone 7+, Private mode enabled on Safari.
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Shit's Borked
Signing in is borked in IOS again. It was fixed, but now the sign-in menu on mobile is non-responsive. I have to click into a thread to sign in.
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IBM's Racist Job Listings
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_racist_job_applications/ Last line is mine, not the article's.
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It appears Pope Francis is MUCH WORSE than Urban Meyer
Married men can be ordained. This is normal for Eastern Catholics. Even for Latins, formerly Protestant ministers can be ordained as married men. In fact, the documents that set up the so-called "Personal Ordinariates" for former Anglicans entering the Catholic Church allow the ordination of married men who were not previously Protestant ministers -- provided that Rome approves.
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It appears Pope Francis is MUCH WORSE than Urban Meyer
Most surveys put the number of homosexual Catholic priests somewhere between 15% and 60%. Informed observers, (such as the psychologists who treat them), put it higher for the bishops and cardinals. Since the Vatican consists of bishops, cardinals, and wannabe bishops climbing the career ladder, 80% would not be shocking. The situation is compounded by the fact that Italy is a hotbed of organized crime families whose members have always sought to suborn clerics to use in their schemes and that, in certain respects, there isn't much difference between the criminals and the Vatican bureaucrats. So even if a gay priest is celibate and chaste in his home diocese, when he goes to Rome the coke-fueled orgies are just too tempting. There was even one crazy example of (presumably bisexual) man who fucked girls before entering seminary, switched to dudes in seminary, and then quit the Church to go back to women. So sometimes it might be like prison. Some of these dudes may not even be gay, but they started seminary in their early teens and kinda went Spartan warrior. Who knows?
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What color shoes with blue suit for job interview?
Wear whatever color shoes Pete Campbell wore to daytime work events.
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Dumbass Shit on Nextdoor
My suburb requires solicitors to obtain a city license and to wear both a badge and a yellow vest. It's a good system and the police will come for unlicensed solicitors.
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Texas Catholic Church Sex Abuse Report: The Local Ecclesiastical Boogaloo
The thing about the Southern Baptists is that they operate much like the public schools. They don't have to shift people around within their organization. They just let the abusers go and don't warn the next district. Same thing with the Baptists.
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sock, shoe, sock, shoe Vs sock, sock, shoe, shoe
Sock-shoe-sock-shoe makes sense if you have cats that track litter all over the house all the time.
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Pencils, Mechanical or Otherwise
I have a sensory issue with normal pencils. The sound of lead on paper is far worse than nails on a chalkboard. By the time I was in high school, I'd switched to Papermate #2 mechanical pencils, the ones that look like real pencils and where you twist the tip to extrude the lead. These days the only pencils I use are colored pencils for ticking and tying small sets of hardcopy workpapers.
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Female Equivalent of BSD?
What is the female equivalent of a BSD? BSC? BSL?
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Look up the FB group “Tax Refund Madness”. SMH.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
He already said she can't remember the passcode to the one in the garage where it's her own birthday. That wouldn't work. A key fob-operated lock, OTOH, might.
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Jayme Closs case
The 911 call from the mom was shortly before 1 am. The dog woke up Jayme. Mom and Jayme hide in the bathroom while Dad checks the front door. That's not an unreasonable procedure at that time of night in a rural or semi-rural setting.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Do you still have halogen and incandescents? Even if you don’t, it could be almost Pavlovian at this point.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Last week, I told my wife that she had used my toothbrush. Me: I just wanted to let you know that you used my toothbrush earlier today, the green one. Her: That's my toothbrush. Me: No, you just got a new one and it's pink. Her: That's your toothbrush. I just got a new one, it was the last one in its package. Me (shows her that the pink toothbrush is unlike any of the others in the package and that the green one is the same as all the others in the package). Her: silence
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7-year old girl killed in unprovoked drive by shooting in Houston
The story is here. The arrested suspect is black and the shooting appears to be gang-related according to the article.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
I ignore much of what my wife says, but I have learned to repeat back the last few sentences without paying attention. This also allows me to identify if she says anything important.