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Yah I plan on emailing them in the morning anyhow. This is an apartment complex, so I feel like it’s all fairly uniform.

It sounds like they're applying a 5% late fee for not paying the rent on time, not for each day late. But yeah I would ask them to be sure.

One of the lucky perks so far for where I live is if I'm late on the rent, it's a $50 late fee. Of course, they do serve you with a memorandum (another word for "eviction notice") but as long as I let them know when I'll have the rent paid with the late fee, it's fine... just a process they have to follow.
There was an apartment complex I looked at moving closer to where I work... they charge 10% late fee... luckily I decided it wasn't worth it because of the requirements, and the rent was more than what I pay here FOR THEIR SMALLEST ONE BEDROOM which is smaller than here... I think it was almost double what I pay now.

I've asked Facebook no less than 8 times, over 2 years, to memorialize my Dad's account... They have not.

Today is his bday, and randos, who were clearly good friends, are posting happy bday comments.

Is it a dick move, to login as my Dad, to comment on their posts?

- "#ThanksImDead"
- "Gary passed away two years ago. Apparently you were good friends."
- "Thanks, I don't think I'll be celebrating this year, you know... Dead and all."
- "Hey, thanks!"

No, but to be honest, it's definitely something my family would do.

Heck whenever someone asks how mom is doing I tell them she's at home, comfy, inside her cremation urn. Same with dad. He's got an apartment at the cemetary.

That usually shuts people up, heh.

If you can login in as your dad, do so and delete his account.

MrBean wrote:

Is your problem that they don't realize he passed away? Or that they do know but are still wishing happy birthday? If the latter, I'm not sure how I feel about that one. A lot of people seem to do it. Not just in this way, but they'll make a post "My dad would have been 75 today, etc etc, happy birthday dad!" So I think for a lot of people they mean it as a positive sentiment.

Why the hell are airlines such douches???

My MIL is currently visiting her sisters in Florida, and my wife wants to take our 2 kids down for a few days to visit them. We have a local airport near us that we want to fly out of, and Frontier is the airline that flies out of there.

Anyhow, she was planning on going Thursday - Tuesday and tickets round-trip for all three were about $580. Not too bad to go into Orlando.

Then, the crap starts. You have to pay $30/person each way to select your seats: $180 total
Carry on bags are $47, and a checked bag is $67 each way. Oh, but you get a free bag fee if it's a backpack.

So essentially, the baggage fee + seat fee brings the cost to over $900 (closer to $1,000).. WTF!?!?! Airlines suck.

Note: We have looked at other airports, but they don't have tickets that work with the times that they would need to go. And the airport they would fly out of is only 15 minutes from our house vs. 45-60 for any other airport. Oh, and we will NEVER fly Spirit..

So I started the search today for my biological Mom. I doubt I will ever find the bio dad going on the information I do have. I have always wanted to find her and thank her and maybe meet my half sister, but was scared. I think I was scared of the possible rejection and what other people might think to a lesser extent. I know the last one is silly because I really don't care for about 99% of things. I had a dream however last night that I met her. I spent hours thinking what it possibly means? Did she pass on and is contacting me now? I am not a religious person by any means and neither was my mother that raised me but we talked about this kind off stuff. So it got me thinking about that, Why now? I have never had a dream about it before. I have thought a little less about it since my child was born and filled a hole I had my entire life, I wanted to thank my birth mom but I also wanted to meet someone who was a genetic relation as I never experienced that before.

I know I should find out for my daughters sake since she will have questions and I will have no answers and I am of the thinking that she has every right to know about her history so it's no longer about just me. I thought about 23andME and while I have not closed the door (I am more open then I have ever been to the idea) I am just worried about putting my genetic information out there. I mean 23andME just had a HUGE data breach.... I could always go with a private firm but they lack the customer base that Ancestry has (23andME is also linked) and will not likely yield the type of information I am looking for.

On one hand I am focused than ever when it comes to this topic and on the other still scared and confused. I suppose this is why I went with the easy way first. If there is a letter wishing to meet then I suppose everything is taken care of. Time will tell. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

theJaw wrote:
The way I understood it was that if the rent isn't paid on time, then there is a 5% fee applied immediately. But I certainly wouldn't think that it's an additional 5% on each additional day.

(If you didn't yet ask, maybe don't. Perhaps they'll say "oh yeah, of course it's 5% stacked per each day," even though that's not what it really was. Just a thought that popped into my mind)

shadyfozzie wrote:

Every business is implementing practices that make them as much money as possible.

There are two competing pricing philosophies in business today. 1.) Comprehensive pricing where everyone pays the same price regardless of whether or not they use everything that is included, and 2.) A la carte pricing where one only pays for what they actually use.

In the past, an airline ticket came with an assigned seat and included one piece of luggage. I don't know which airline began a la carte pricing, but it came with so many benefits to the airline that almost all others adopted this pricing model. The industry realized that some people were willing to pay more for options like choice seats and early boarding. When I travelled for business, I often made day trips or a had single night stay I could handle with a carry-on and didn't need to check baggage - so why should I pay a baggage fee? I'm only 6 feet tall and I used to ask for the exit row (or get in the first boarding group for a Southwest flight so I could get it). Legroom on airplanes has shrunk to the point where I might decide to pay extra for a prime seat in the future.

A la carte pricing also allows airlines and hotels to advertise a much lower price than the actual cost. I've encountered mandatory "resort fees" at many places I've stayed in the last several years. I don't use weight rooms or tennis courts and rarely use pools, but I can't opt out of the fees - even though they are not shown in the stated price of the room.

When I worked at McDonald's in the mid-70s, the menu included both the Quarter Pounder and the QP with Cheese. Cheeseburgers cost more because you were adding cheese to your burger. Today, the only options on the menu are cheeseburgers. You can ask for no cheese, but you pay the cheeseburger price. Chipotle charges extra for guacamole and queso, but Qdoba increased the price of their burritos and now advertise guacamole and queso are "free".

I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom. I waited to play it partly to save some money but also so that I can look things up if I get stuck. This strategy worked well for me for many years. It worked fine for Breath of the Wild. What I've been finding with TotK is that the wikis and such are missing a lot of information. I wonder if some sort of shift is happening where the people who used to write wiki pages are doing it less.

bill wrote:

I think most people are just posting videos now

Folks don't write wiki pages or FAQs anymore because some jackass with a scraper will just take it and repost it to make money or just plagiarize it at a crapty Fandom wiki.

benstylus wrote:

Yeah, almost every time I've looked up something for BotW or TotK, I'm watching a video.

3.7gb update for super smash Bros ultimate? Why so large? I had to delete several game save files to make space.

Our pest control service sends someone to our house every quarter. Today, the person who came was talkative and I enjoyed hearing what she was talking about. She said she'd just been to Japan for her honeymoon. She loved it, and had a great time. She had even learned Japanese beforehand. She said it was very clean there. She gave me a 100 yen coin. The coin has a flower on one side of it. It's a sakura blossom (cherry tree).

bill wrote:


Our pest control person at work (Orkin) just sprays everything without saying a word. One holiday party I saw them sprayed the table leaning against the wall we would later be serving our holiday lunch on. (Not my job)

I was later told they were instructed to spray the wall/floor intersection, regardless of what was there, and to not lift or remove anything. Our company supplies us with fruit... it's stored against the wall... the poison is "human safe"... 0_0

bill wrote:

That's really cool. I would love to visit Japan some day. If I could only choose 1 non-US place to visit, it would probably be my top choice.

nonamesleft wrote:


It sucks. I remember trying to play RDR2. Damn near 100GB mandatory download at launch. Took me 2 days before I could play it at launch.

KCPenguins wrote:

I wish there was a way to download stuff before you buy the game, like its already installed when you fire it up.

shadyfozzie wrote:

No, fudge you for buying physical. Only for digital are we willing to sometimes deign to let you preload your data and unlock it at a certain time. And you'd better have preordered the digital version. You know, so it doesn't run out or something.

-Gaming companies.

Downside to digital... we don't really "own" it. I know this cause some years after I bought a digital album off Amazon for a band I was really getting into... I had to purchase it again when I lost the mp3 files so I could put them on my mp3 player.

HybridCRoW wrote:

If you lost your CD you would have had to do the same thing...

Yar he ho he har he harr.

HybridCRoW wrote:

"Owning" something digital through a streaming service is actually just "right to use". You can't resell a digital item like you can resell a CD, book, or DVD/ Blu-ray movie. You can't share it with a friend without giving them your password(s). If the service fails and some other entity doesn't take over their accounts, you lose everything.

Yeah that just happened recently too as Sony is shuttering Funimation digital and funneling to Crunchyroll. Digital copies that were bought will no longer be available etc I don't buy digital so it doesn't impact me but it sucks and will probably drive some people to piracy.

Avast, mateys! We have cookies.

Edit: In case it's not clear, I am more than happy to pirate stuff when the companies we buy stuff from just decide that no, you can't have the items you paid for anymore. Licenses be damned. I paid for it and I'm keeping a copy.

I already lost over a hundred albums when Loudr went down without warning. I'm still trying to get copies of all the items I paid for, years later. Some stuff was irreplaceable.

I sold my PS5 and Series X locally this week. Waiting for tacos to arrive and then I think I’m gonna go get some more tattoo work done. I know one of the things I want and where I want it, and I have a good idea what I’m looking for as far as a 2nd/3rd one as well. I didn’t think tattoos would be a thing for me but here we are.

DOGE on the rise...

Gypsy wrote:

To my knowledge Funimation never directly sold digital-only copies. The just included codes with some of their bluray/DVD sets so you could watch the show more conveniently.

So it still sucks but it's not the grand betrayal people are making it out to be.

Unless those people bought cheap secondhand codes from people who didn't care about them (despite it being against Funi's TOS), in which case they knew the risks going in.

It's like when people get mad at Netflix for cracking down on password sharing. They know what they are doing is against the rules and they could be caught, they just didn't think they would.

MrBean wrote:

Everything is up. DOGE, BTC, ETH...

Thought seriously about selling half of mine... But still holding so far...

Very curious of @Bishop's views on things...

John wrote:

So close to finally breaking even and being with this Rollercoaster once and for all.

Very curious if you plan to sell if DOGE hits your break-even?

What's your break-even again? You said before, but now I can't remember and I'm too lazy to go look.

Just under 21 cents. Shoulda been averaging down more for the past couple years.

I have a hunch it's gonna dip hard at 20, but will continue to climb after. The money has been gone for so long that now it's just bonus. I'm torn... I'd love to break out, get off the coaster, pay down some debt... But man the alure of it going up and then getting pissed I didn't hold.

Don't have a ton, 72k, but could weild some great money, decisions!

"Don't have a ton"

/owns $12,000 worth of DOGE.

MrBean wrote:

You really need to get yourself a trustworthy financial adviser.

Drunken decisions were made the night of the Elon snl skit. I was buying/selling on the way up, then way overdid it... Right before it crashed. I was averaged at 65c when it crap the bed. Averaged down for awhile and then stopped as the money pit was getting too big. I'm pretty sure I'm selling once I'm even and never touching any of this again. Gonna focus solely on 401 and employee stock for now.

There's no great reason to wait for it to be even. Not paying down debt with it is costing you (interest you pay on that debt) while you wait. It may never rise to where you're even. It may drop like a rock and be utterly worthless.

If you're reporting capital gains on your crypto (you should as far as know), you should also be able to use the loss to offset other capital gains. It even carries over to the next year if you have too much.

Crypto sure seems like a Ponzi scheme to many of us... get out while you can, imho.

bill wrote:

You're absolutely right on every note here. It was simply too hard to stomach being down over $10k, so I've waited and thankfully, my exit may finally be here.

It's absolutely a scheme, but man, I would have loved to have been one of the ones on top. I originally bought in at like $0.00002, but like a dummy, sold wayyyy early and made nothing.

Oh well, here's to finally being out of it and ignoring it from here on out. Back to traditional grind!

bill wrote:

This is 100% the reason you need a financial advisor @MrBean - If you want to get out they can help you do it the most financially sound way possible.

@benstylus agreed! I have my consultation this week. Hoping to have someone much smarter (clearly I'm not) deal with this going forward.