Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Come on, man.

In after Baud. Damn.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

The words do not have to be perfect.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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  1. 1.

    Sab

    So should we in the rest of the world be knitting pouches and mittens for Australia’s future use? I am not being snarky. When my mom died she left a lot of unfinished kniting projects. Nobody much wants the wool, and I have lots of sweaters already, so I don’t need more. I already knit scarves and hats for locals, but I would love to knit pouches for future use in Australia.

  2. 2.

    germy

    I found this twitter thread both fascinating and horrifying:

    Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

    — myk prefers interdependence to eternal war (@mykola) November 24, 2019

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    I have always had a soft spot for Koala bears.  My uncle met a girl when he was stationed in Australia during WWII, went back to marry her and never returned. I never met him, but his friends would travel to the states now and then over the years, and they would always stop by to see our family.

     

    I was the baby of the family and they always brought me Koala bears – I had quite the collection!  This brings back nice memories from childhood, but the devastation from fires is horrible.

  6. 6.

    Jay

    I assumed Cortelyou Road was a corruption of/reference to the Cordeliers & their aforementioned district in Paris, but no, of course not, just a slaveholder. Time to rename most every street here except for the stretch of Rogers Ave that honors Dessalines https://t.co/jOrTW6RT2i— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) November 29, 2019

  7. 7.

    Pete Downunder

    The fires have been horrible and are, in large part, due to the worst drought in many years. Farmers and graziers are really doing it tough as they rely on rain fall which we haven’t had. This should be the start of our rainy season but apart from a few intense and brief thunderstorms we have had virtually none.

     

    • Meanwhile our government led by the Liberal Party (drastically misnamed) – think slightly less rabid Republicans – is denying climate change and promoting coal fired power stations and coal mining.
  9. 9.

    patrick II

    If you like dogs and detective fiction, Robert Crais has written two books, “Suspect” and “Promise” (which I just finished) about a military dog named Maggie, who is wounded in war and finds new life as a Los Angeles police dog.  The description of the world from the point of view of Maggie has remarkable empathy, her sense of the world, her loyalty and her remarkable skills.  Good mysteries too.

  10. 10.

    Minstrel Michael

    Am I right in thinking that the koala population was already in trouble because of disease? And if so, would the rescue dogs also catch it?

  13. 13.

    Sab

    OT: I never had kids but I did spend a lot of time with an eleven years younger sister, and many stepchildren.

    Is it normal to criticize your kid’s every move and behavior in front of all your assembled relatives and your kid, who can speak and understand Emglish, when the kid is only being minimally cranky when his routine has been totally disrupted for the day? My sister and my husband think it is just moms being moms. I was kind of shocked: these kids can hear and also speak English. I realize they just tune Mom out, but still.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    @Pete Downunder:

    You’re in our thoughts here in California, because we’ve been there, done that, burned up the other, and are much smaller in area. The future isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

  17. 17.

    Jay

    NYT has been playing up the same campus moral panic stories since 1903

    1903: https://t.co/AfYmCcVklZ

    1918: https://t.co/t3ZosfQoVc

    1935: https://t.co/B0otkmOn4i

    1970: https://t.co/QuK2IOimFw pic.twitter.com/AsfzzZbVYj— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 30, 2019

    And the same is true about people going on about the so-called "War on Christmas."Whether it's Henry Ford in the 1920s, the John Birch Society in the late 1950s, VDARE in the 1990s, or the modern Christian right today, it's all the same message playing out over and over— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 30, 2019

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @trollhattan: First of all, they’re new at this.  They don’t want to give tenants their snail mail address and are too cheap to set up a PO Box.  They’ve owned the place for 9 months, I’ve had to use this method of payment 7 times(they were physically present for two payments) and I’ve had problems 2 out of 7 times.  Plus going to their bank is a pain in the ass(yes, the issue has be raised with them).

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @John Revolta: I’m not sure that would work either, and it wouldn’t solve the problems that I’ve had when I’ve gone into the branch office, today they said the account number was wrong(it’s the one I have, I checked when I got home).

     

    (Edit wasn’t working for my comment).

  32. 32.

    John Revolta

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve had spotty results with Edit too.

    Sometimes it only allows you one, or none. When site was new it used to reset to 5 min. after an edit but now it doesn’t. Small price to pay though for not having to type in your info every time.

  33. 33.

    Sab

    @debbie: Not one her. Two out of three moms. I was frankly shocked, and did not want to be in the sane room with them. I do not think this is normal or even acceptable.

    Also, we were at a big table with no sideboard. Big jerk at the middle ( one of the dads) would not pass food. So everything at either end of the table stayed that that end because it couldn’t pass him. I am 65 years old and have been to many family gatherings and have never seen that particular jerkish  behavior. We didn’t get half the food available because that jerk wouldn’t let it down to our end without a big hubbab. I would have liked to have a few veggies.

    Family harmony is great, but I don’t think we will go to Columbus again for that particular crew. We will happily go out to California for them, but leave the Columbus (not native to the city) jerks behind.

  35. 35.

    zhena gogolia

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

     

    No, but I do know a guy who used to have to take his family’s rent payment to the office and give it to a snotty 14-year-old named Donald John Trump, Jr.

     

    Palos Verdes Sunset! Wow!

  37. 37.

    Sab

    @rikyrah: I want it. I cannot figure out how exactly to get it. We have tv cable from Spectrum. I also have a Nook with Spectrum wifi. I prefer my tv to be big screen, but I would be happy to have it on my Nook  (my spouse is Irish American and has a strong visceral  reaction to any accent he perceives as “English.”)

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    Hey, jackals, my husband and I just enjoyed our post-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, turkey breast, stuffing, and cranberry sauce, with lots of input from the BJ community. It was delicious!

  40. 40.

    zhena gogolia

    If Steeplejack comes around, I misled him. It was James Wolcott, not Patton Oswalt, who was pushing Knives Out. I live in a miasma of twitter feeds.

  41. 41.

    Yarrow

    @Sab:  It’s wrong for the mom to criticize her kid’s behavior like that. Everyone hears it, especially the kids.

     

    As for the food hog, could you not just get up and get the dishes the jerk wouldn’t pass? Get up, walk down to his end of the table, grab the dish and sweetly say, “Oh, we’re so looking forward to trying some of these delicious-looking green beans at this end of the table” and walk back to your seat with the green beans. Do it as many times as you need to. You can always add, “I didn’t want to trouble you to pass them down” if you get dirty looks.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You might want to pass along CA law on this matter.

     

    Except as provided in paragraph (2), a landlord or a landlord’s agent shall allow a tenant to pay rent and deposit of security by at least one form of payment that is neither cash nor electronic funds transfer.

    You don’t need to be a dick about it, but they do need to provide  you a different means of payment. If they have a property manager, they can accept rent payment through them. You can use this to negotiate a more convenient means of payment. Venmo or something like that if you’re comfortable, or I think you could just demand that they pick up the check from you if they  won’t give an address to mail it to

     

    [Edit] They can put a dropbox on the property and have you use that. I’ve seen that done before. Since it sounds like they’re local, they just need to swing by to empty it out. That way you don’t need to coordinate with them.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Martin: Thanks for the tip on state law.  They’re LA local but as I noted, I think West LA or South Bay so driving up to collect in  person isn’t optimal for them.  They payment method they demanded it really a pain in the ass(drive or walk to their bank, fill out a deposit slip and wait in line and then deal with issues a quarter of the time).

  56. 56.

    Martin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, if they have  3-4 tenants, they only need to swing by once  a month to collect all of them. A PO box is about $20 a month, depending on where you get it.

     

    It’s on them to provide a different mechanism. You can work with them to identify a mechanism that works best for you.

  57. 57.

    Faithful Lurker

    We’ve had Britbox for a while. There’s not that much that we watch, but they do have the best version of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream I’ve ever seen.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yarrow: We told them 6 months ago that this method didn’t work for us, she said “well it works for tenant x”.  So they’ve represented this as the only method.  Oh, one other problem, this method won’t work tomorrow, bank’s closed.

  62. 62.

    debbie

    @Sab:
    Let me guess. You were in New Albany?

    I can’t stand that mothers don’t realize the damage they’re doing to their kids. Especially when other people are around!

    As for that table pig, I’d have just gotten up, walked to the other end, picked up the dish, walked back to my seat, and shared it with the table neighbors. It wouldn’t have taken much shaming for him to grow the fuck up and start doing the right thing.

  63. 63.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Martin: I’m pretty flexible, but it shouldn’t involve a great deal of effort on my part(that’s just good business you want to make it easy for folk to give you money).  Them picking it up is fine, a drop box works, mailing it to a PO Box works(we suggested that), credit card works.  Venmo won’t work cause there’s an upper limit($500).

  64. 64.

    Yarrow

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  Sounds like they don’t want to be accommodating. Do you know Tenant X? Maybe it isn’t as convenient for them as you were told. If there’s also Tenant Y and Z and they also hate it, perhaps you could all ask together for another way. Best to have a few suggestions, though. You have to decide if the inconvenience is worth it for the place. Sometimes it is.

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    Sure Lurkalot

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

     
    What does it say in your lease? When I was in the biz, any more or less standard rental agreement included provisions about payment, when, where, type etc., even if a blank line to be filled in by the landlord.

    Regardless, I do hope you and the new owners agree on a system that works for everyone.

  69. 69.

    debbie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    I miss the days when I could walk my check down to the super who lived on the ground floor. Now I mail my rent. I could drive a couple of miles to their drop box, but it’s worth the price of the stamp just to walk to the corner mailbox.

  71. 71.

    Fair Economist

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’d just be hard-nosed and say they can come by pick up the rent or give you a mailing address. What are they going to do, evict you? Cali is a renter-friendly state and their case is ridiculous.

  72. 72.

    catclub

    @Fair Economist:  I would be fine with them giving me deposit slips to mail to the bank. Now you don’t know their snail mail address. You know their bank account number and the bank’s routing number.

  74. 74.

    Gvg

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: um, my experience does not sound quite relevant but it might be. Weird can equal fraud. I was living in an apartment complex and paid my rent by check, turned in at the office. It wasn’t my first apartment so it never occurred to me to ask, that was the way it always worked. I had no problems until I had a deposit on a house and they were doing the credit check. I came back to the apartment to eviction notices on mine and 90% of the apartments in the complex. People were walking around asking what is happening and I found out from maintenance that the manager had been taking money and reporting to the company that people weren’t paying the rent. Suspected gambling problem. Just before out of town company owners got suspicious, manager disappeared. It turned out that with a high number of first time renters (collage town) she had told many of them to just pay her cash, or write the checks to her not Lyons apartments. Some didn’t get receipts, some didn’t keep them.

    i had to get copies of 2 years of canceled checks to get my credit cleared and had a very stressful first time home purchase. My credit union was great, put a rush on a Saturday morning emergency copy request. My fathers lawyer friend and my realtor both said the management company was breaking state law by doing those eviction notices improperly but they wanted the proof fast in case they could catch her.

    I think maybe you should not believe the story they are telling. It’s hinkey. They need to act like a reputable landlord, or maybe you need to move before they at a minimum damage your credit.

  75. 75.

    Mary G

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: When I rented out my house there were timing problems – mortgage due on the 4th and timely-mailed rent checks sometimes delayed caused panics. My tenant arranged auto payment of rent from his bank account into mine. It was great for both of us. See if your bank can do it?

  76. 76.

    BBA

    Biden has a new campaign slogan: “No Malarkey”

    A bold stance, and I’m looking forward to seeing the other campaigns responding with their takes on balderdash and codswallop.

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    Yarrow

    @Gvg:

    I think maybe you should not believe the story they are telling. It’s hinkey. They need to act like a reputable landlord, or maybe you need to move before they at a minimum damage your credit.

    I agree. Something isn’t right there.

    @Mary G:

    My tenant arranged auto payment of rent from his bank account into mine. It was great for both of us.

    This would be the best way. It might be worth your time talking to landlord’s bank about how that could work to avoid fees on landlord’s end and talk to your bank about how it would work for you to avoid fees. There are lots of ways to transfer money. Some have fees, some don’t.

  78. 78.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Minstrel Michael:

     

    Koalas have been under threat from disease, predation by dogs, road kill, but most of all from forest clearing for agriculture and urbanisation.

     

    Until now. Now they have to cope with so-called 100 year droughts and accompanying super bushfires happening every 10 years due to climate change. This is going to take out koalas even in the remote mountain areas.

     

    In 20 to 30 years there will be almost none left outside of zoos. But don’t tell our government, that would be an example of alarmism.

  79. 79.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Gvg: Thanks for the heads up, I think they’re legit, they kicked out a long term tenant out front and have renovated the place and have it listed.  I do have a vib that they want tenants of their choosing, but as Fair Economist said, CA is a renter friendly state.  It’s just really a problem every month especially when the 1st falls on day when their bank isn’t open or days when parking is a problem when I return here(I usually don’t leave home on those days).

  82. 82.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mary G: They raised my rent in August, along with the security deposit that the previous landlord hadn’t done when he raised the rent every 18 months.  My rent(between the two landlords) went up almost 30% in the past 2 years.

  84. 84.

    Matt McIrvin

    @germy: I’m skeptical of that thread because the responses in the field I was trained in (physics) are mostly bullshit, likely coming from people who are not actually in the field or pushing some hobbyhorse.

  85. 85.

    Yarrow

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  Can you go to the bank prior to the 1st of the month when the 1st doesn’t work (Sunday/holiday)? Is there a grace period?

     

    It still sounds like something isn’t right. Maybe they have 3-4 tenants now but what if they buy another place and have 10-15 or more? It’s not manageable for all those people to go to a bank to deposit a rent check every month. Something is weird.

  86. 86.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Miss Bianca: Yes, I went to their bank with a filled out check and deposit slip.  The teller said the account number was wrong, I’ve deposited rent checks for the last 8 months(last month was in person since they were here to kick out my neighbor).  The last time I had an issue(they eventually accepted the deposit) they said the name didn’t have llc on it.  The landlord’s business is obviously in flux since they’re setting stuff up and changing things.

  87. 87.

    Barbara

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Would it be possible to use an e-check? It would go directly from your bank to theirs, no shoe leather needed.  Some people don’t think Zelle is secure enough, but that is another way to transfer money directly.

  88. 88.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Barbara: We looked into Zeelle but they have an upper limit(I think $500).

     

    ETA: We’ve looked at other payment options(E-payment via Quicken which is more for credit cards) and talked to our bank.

     

    @Yarrow: I’m not sure about the grace period, there certainly will be this month since I hauled my ass to their bank sharing a  parking lot with a Costco and Best Buy.  I’ll text her that there was a problem and I’ll try again on Monday.  To be quite honest, I think the teller misread the account number(It’s the right number and is pretty legible).

     

    The story about the landlord is they’re a young couple(I’d say in their mid to late 30’s) that bought the place, this is their first experience with owning rental property so they had nothing really setup at the beginning.  They’re also trying to make things as easy and cheaply on their end.

  91. 91.

    Doug R

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    1947.3.  
    (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a landlord or a landlord’s agent shall allow a tenant to pay rent and deposit of security by at least one form of payment that is neither cash nor electronic funds transfer.

    (2) A landlord or a landlord’s agent may demand or require cash as the exclusive form of payment of rent or deposit of security if the tenant has previously attempted to pay the landlord or landlord’s agent with a check drawn on insufficient funds or the tenant has instructed the drawee to stop payment on a check, draft, or order for the payment of money. The landlord may demand or require cash as the exclusive form of payment only for a period not exceeding three months following an attempt to pay with a check on insufficient funds or following a tenant’s instruction to stop payment. If the landlord chooses to demand or require cash payment under these circumstances, the landlord shall give the tenant a written notice stating that the payment instrument was dishonored and informing the tenant that the tenant shall pay in cash for a period determined by the landlord, not to exceed three months, and attach a copy of the dishonored instrument to the notice. The notice shall comply with Section 827 if demanding or requiring payment in cash constitutes a change in the terms of the lease.

    (3) Subject to the limitations below, a landlord or a landlord’s agent shall allow a tenant to pay rent through a third party.

    (A) A landlord or landlord’s agent is not required to accept the rent payment tendered by a third party unless the third party has provided to the landlord or landlord’s agent a signed acknowledgment stating that they are not currently a tenant of the premises for which the rent payment is being made and that acceptance of the rent payment does not create a new tenancy with the third party.

    (B) Failure by a third party to provide the signed acknowledgment to the landlord or landlord’s agent shall void the obligation of a landlord or landlord’s agent to accept a tenant’s rent tendered by a third party.

    (C) The landlord or landlord’s agent may, but is not required to, provide a form acknowledgment to be used by third parties, as provided for in subparagraph (A), provided however that a landlord shall accept as sufficient for compliance with subparagraph (A) an acknowledgment in substantially the following form:

    California Legal Code

  94. 94.

    Origuy

    @rikyrah: I have it. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it. I got it mainly for QI, Mock the Week, and documentaries. The first two are usually uploaded to YouTube eventually and they don’t seem to add many new docs. I tried to give a subscription to a friend who loves mysteries, of which they have plenty. I typed in the wrong email address and their customer service wouldn’t fix it.

    I stream it to my laptop and the service works fine, though.

  95. 95.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Doug R: From my reading a check would be an alternative to cash, section 2 makes that differentiation.  The bank wouldn’t count as a 3rd party, they’re just taking a deposit to the account.  I’ve triple checked the account number on the deposit slip, still correct(unless they changed something on their end and didn’t tell me).

  100. 100.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sab:

    Big jerk at the middle ( one of the dads) would not pass food.

    What the actual fuck?  Seriously.

    (haha, fuck autocorrected to dick)

     

    ETA – read it was in Columbus.  The other end of the table weren’t all Michigan fans, were they? :)

  107. 107.

    bemused senior

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Also many banks have internet banking. Our bank lets you set up another person’s account as a payee and then pay into. subsequentlythe account. There are two kinds, one is just like a check, the other is a wire transfer and has a fee.  Also, the first time you do a payment, you have to leave time for it to go through in case there’s an error to correct. Afterwards it works smoothly, and you can make an automatic schedule.

  109. 109.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @bemused senior: That would be nice, but would require effort on their end to set up and they don’t seem to want to put in any effort on that end.  I’ve tried to explore other options and present it to them but they seem fixated on this approach.  There’s obviously too many places for this approach to break down and I don’t know why they seem to be so fixated on it.  As I said, I ran into a problem before with the name on the account being different(I guess they changed that to have a LLC as part of the account name), that should have been a warning as to how it can fuck up.  But she just chalked it up to a stupid teller.  There are just too many points of failure with this approach.

  114. 114.

    Baud

    A Saturday night good faith op-ed in a paper that cannot be mistaken for garbage.

     

    The Case for Bernie

    NYT > Top Stories / by Ross Douthat / 2h


    The Democrats need a unifier. It could be the Vermont Socialist.

  117. 117.

    dmsilev

    @Baud: I’m waiting for Meghan McArdle and Tom Friedman to make their endorsements before I decide on a candidate. What’s your plan to win their nods?

  120. 120.

    TomatoQueen

    @bemused senior: I do this for all my regular bills. My landlord is a property management company that allows paper checks in the rental office dropbox, or electronic payment on their website, or credit card if you like a fee per payment of something like $60. Once it became the trend around here among the big landlords to do electronic payments, it was the default. Alexandria is notorious for slow mail and has been for years, so I converted everything to electronic payment, and haven’t written a paper check in years.

  123. 123.

    Citizen Alan

    @Yarrow:

    Eh.  They’re hardly the first black people to make their fortune from supporting white supremacy.  And they’re less damaging than Clarence Thomas and Dean Baquet.

  132. 132.

    The Pale Scot

    @Sab:

    my spouse is Irish American and has a strong visceral  reaction to any accent he perceives as “English.”

    If you’re not already, you have to start watching “Derry Girls” on Netflix. He’ll love sister Michael

  133. 133.

    Citizen Alan

    @debbie:

     

    You were in New Albany?

    I assume you do not mean New Albany, Mississippi where I spent Turkey Day. Or else I will have a freak out.

  136. 136.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Geez the YouTube commercials have gotten really awful, I was watching at Photoshop tutorial and they cut away every 5 minutes for commercials and some are several minutes long.

  137. 137.

    columbusqueen

    @Citizen Alan: No, it’s the Ohio one, now the home of rich snobs led by Epstein-coddling prick Les Wexner.  When I grew up there, it had its problems, but snobbery wasn’t one of them

  138. 138.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @TomatoQueen: sounds very similar to us.  After the post office here lost both the mortgage and the HOA checks, my spouse switched us over to online payments for everything.  The local post office is notorious from Virginia all the way out to Minneapolis for how bad they are at losing packages and letters.

  139. 139.

    Kayla Rudbek

    And since this is an open thread, has anyone here used Rosetta Stone or Babbel for learning a language? And if so, which one would you recommend? (I am boycotting Duolingo because they screwed me over with transferring data/status between the iPhone app and the iPad app.  I’m working on the Irish Alzheimer’s early!)

  141. 141.

    Jay

    “Bc of the security situation, intl aid agency’s have had to pullout, leaving the Kurds w/no one to rely on but themselves. —it’s very difficult here bc it’s very cold,especially at night.They don’t have enough food, they don’t have electricity, &the water is not good.” #Rojava pic.twitter.com/m18pYcWnWI— Samira Ghaderi (@Samira_Ghaderi) November 28, 2019

  143. 143.

    Jay

    Wait so people started pointing out that it looked like the cop may have lied about the name “PIG” being printed on his Starbucks order, and now suddenly — after going to the press with the story — the cops are done talking b/c they “have more important things to worry about.” ? pic.twitter.com/NnZGAkjwYK

    — Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) December 1, 2019

  146. 146.

    frosty

    @Kayla Rudbek: I used Rosetta Stone for Spanish. I’d had several informal classes and it helped pull it all together. It was the first time I really learned all the prepositions!

    Never tried Babel.

  150. 150.

    Jay

    The scandal that's been unearthed at the Orange County Sheriff's Department & DA's Office is just mammoth. Evidence mishandled in 30,000+ police reports. Deputies lied, said they booked evidence that they never booked. 9,000 cases potentially mishandled. https://t.co/aOEQq8zqZv— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) November 30, 2019

  152. 152.

    SWMBO

      @?BillinGlendaleCA: Since you have a phone number and can text it, I’m assuming it’s a cell. You have their name?  Have you tried to do a records search on their name?  Here in Florida, if it’s an absentee owner, the tax records show the name and address of the owner.  If you run the tax records for the property you are renting, does it give their name and address?  (For some unknown reason, tax assessors want to know where to go to collect their taxes.) Once you find the name and address, you could text them and ask if you could just mail a check there?  You said they were new at this.  Maybe they aren’t quite aware of how much is public.

  154. 154.

    Felixmoronia

    @rikyrah: If you have or can get NordVPN ($3.xx per mo.) I can walk you through the steps to stream the BBC and ITV without haveing to subscribe to Britbox. Streaming also avoids having to pay for again all the programs that are on Netflix or Amazon Prime.

    My e-mail (throwaway) is: coffeedogatbresnandotnet

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    Origuy

    @mrmoshpotato: No, they apparently don’t. There’s a show called Brexitcast, which isn’t really comedy, but is occasionally funny, considering the subject matter.

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    Anne Laurie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I sent a text to the landlord about the issue, she replied that the account number has changed.

    I am in no way an expert on property law, but it sounds like they’re trying to hide their earnings from someone. The government? An ex-spouse? Outstanding creditors? Extended family members who’ll try to get their hands on “extra” funds? Some combination of the above?…
    Understand why you don’t wanna (have to) move, but I’m glad you’re saving all your receipts! Can you archive all correspondence with them, too?

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