Whats rustling your jimmies?
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Mandriana
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Over here in Alberta it's been nothing but sunshine, and piss flows of mass rain thunder showers.
But not really any fires.
Aamry
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Went to Vermont with my family for a vacation this past week, and became kinda obsessed with Maple Drops candy. It's a hard candy made with around 25% maple syrup. Well, we visited Montreal during the trip, and one of the touristy stores I stopped at had Pumpkin Spice Maple candies, and Honey and Lemon maple candies, but I didn't buy any at the time since it was early in the day and figured I could find some in any of the tourist shops arounds.
Nope. None of the other stores had them. I finally found the manufacturer online, Turkey Hill Sugarbush, doesn't ship to Florida.
Nope. None of the other stores had them. I finally found the manufacturer online, Turkey Hill Sugarbush, doesn't ship to Florida.
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I go to a (the only) local pain management place here in town. Their main office is in Vegas they have moved all their paperwork/billing/etc to a phone app with our good friend AI. I have an insurance card with a clear co-pay. Out of nowhere this past Thursday I see the app says I owe $225 but not why. When I ask I'm told they cannot see it as it's all done in Vegas so they will have someone call me. Today has been a week since and now the total is $270. If I actually owe it, no problem but I am not in the habit of paying people just 'cuz. Call today, get the AI blues leave a message. Then FF to me getting a call from an 800 number where an obviously Indian man says he's looking for me (by my legal name that I only use for stuff like this) and he's with the Kidney service? I asked him wtf he's talking about , then he mentions they do a lot of billings for different clients and it could be who I use locally (he mentioned it not me).
I asked how do I know this isn't a scam and he said if I gave him my account # he could help. It was obvious he was in a call center and indian so I said I think this is a scam and hung up.
Then my wife comes home said she stopped by the local place and all the accounting people are out so I won't hear from them until next week. How far compromised am I ? I've been part of every data breach since Nikki Haley gave away my tax records when she was the governor of SC in 2013. All my shit is locked down but this is only going to get worse as more and more places fire their local billing and outsource to AI companies where no one knows wtf is going on.
I asked how do I know this isn't a scam and he said if I gave him my account # he could help. It was obvious he was in a call center and indian so I said I think this is a scam and hung up.
Then my wife comes home said she stopped by the local place and all the accounting people are out so I won't hear from them until next week. How far compromised am I ? I've been part of every data breach since Nikki Haley gave away my tax records when she was the governor of SC in 2013. All my shit is locked down but this is only going to get worse as more and more places fire their local billing and outsource to AI companies where no one knows wtf is going on.
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Aamry
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RobXIII
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As with anything in life it's a balance. I try to only film for a few dozen seconds tops when going new places or family is doing something noteworthy, so I can both live in the moment and not be that annoying guy filming. And I'm glad I did as I get super nostalgic really easy now since losing the wife 2 years ago (in August), so it's neat to see her up in glorious 4k when I'm bored late at night and picking random videos
I've always loved the idea of digital pics and video since buying my first digital camera in 1995. I still have every picture saved.
I've always thought about what happens to that collection in 100 years when my kids are gone, will anyone care and save some? lol. 1800s had very few pictures so each one is a treasure. It's fun to look at 50s-90s, but once digital hit there is so much content out there that we really don't care anymore. I mean 40 MILLION minutes are added to Youtube daily, more videos than you can watch in a lifetime.
/Nostalgic rant off, sorry
Hoss
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That reminds me. My uncle videoed every Christmas when my grandparents were alive. I should ask him for copies.As with anything in life it's a balance. I try to only film for a few dozen seconds tops when going new places or family is doing something noteworthy, so I can both live in the moment and not be that annoying guy filming. And I'm glad I did as I get super nostalgic really easy now since losing the wife 2 years ago (in August), so it's neat to see her up in glorious 4k when I'm bored late at night and picking random videos
I've always loved the idea of digital pics and video since buying my first digital camera in 1995. I still have every picture saved.
I've always thought about what happens to that collection in 100 years when my kids are gone, will anyone care and save some? lol. 1800s had very few pictures so each one is a treasure. It's fun to look at 50s-90s, but once digital hit there is so much content out there that we really don't care anymore. I mean 40 MILLION minutes are added to Youtube daily, more videos than you can watch in a lifetime.
/Nostalgic rant off, sorry
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Don't worry, once you get 2 generations past your death the only person that will care what you looked or sounded like will be the one freak that is nearly unrelated to you but happens to be into genealogy. My oldest brother is that guy. He did individual interviews with all of the old timers in my family. I tried to watch one once, after 30 seconds of going... yup that what dads sister sounded like i was done. It's hard to imagine anyone caring more than someone like me and i found it boring.As with anything in life it's a balance. I try to only film for a few dozen seconds tops when going new places or family is doing something noteworthy, so I can both live in the moment and not be that annoying guy filming. And I'm glad I did as I get super nostalgic really easy now since losing the wife 2 years ago (in August), so it's neat to see her up in glorious 4k when I'm bored late at night and picking random videos
I've always loved the idea of digital pics and video since buying my first digital camera in 1995. I still have every picture saved.
I've always thought about what happens to that collection in 100 years when my kids are gone, will anyone care and save some? lol. 1800s had very few pictures so each one is a treasure. It's fun to look at 50s-90s, but once digital hit there is so much content out there that we really don't care anymore. I mean 40 MILLION minutes are added to Youtube daily, more videos than you can watch in a lifetime.
/Nostalgic rant off, sorry
Hatorade
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This is interesting thought process, for most of us the reality is after a couple hundred years no one will care about who you were or what you did. Historians drool over finding a local newspaper from way back because it details how life really was. So maybe in a few hundred years or so someone will unearth these forums and see just how shitty everyone was.
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Aldarion
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At the current rate, it will be about 3 years before society's literacy has degraded to the point that firesofheaven.org will be considered fine literature - kind of like Shakespear; the average person won't even be able to comprehend such old-fashioned language written in "text".
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