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lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

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the reason i was looking for it was to buy a replacement ipad for my kid.

turns out, i had no idea amazon's price on this ipad literally just bounced from 399 to 489 from week to week? the fuck kind of strategy is this. 

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On 8/21/2025 at 4:17 PM, 52-80 said:

lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

Wouldn’t it be a $900 gain?  

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On 8/23/2025 at 10:17 AM, 52-80 said:

Depends, do you work for the IRS? (You have to say if you do)

I work my ass off all year long for the IRS.  Unfortunately, I pay them all the money, though.

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We were shooting the shit at an impromptu happy hour at the office. Somehow the conversation moved to global warming, and my science denying coworker harumphed and said global warming is a HOAX and scientists are pandering to the politicians for grant money so don't believe a word they say. He somehow got the idea that even if all the glaciers melted, the oceans would only raise about 2"!!!

So we did what geeks do on a Friday night. We googled the data and did the math...

Antarctic glacier area is 5,400,000 miles², with an average thickness of 1.4 miles, so 7,560,000 miles³ of ice.

The area of all the oceans is 139,000,000 miles².

So if the Antarctic glacier completely melted, sea levels would rise about 0.0544 miles, or ~287 feet

 

My coworker, who honestly is a really nice guy until you bring up uhhh.... science, harumphed again and said you can't trust the data.

Anyway. SCIENCE BITCHES!!!

 

Also, doing simple math 3 whiskies in on a Friday night is harder than you think.

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