I just turned 40. My dad died of COVID 5 years ago.

Fuck my mom.

Amex and Discover: “We exist, too!”

Huh. I guess cobras are poisonous as well as venomous.

There’s already an X marker in use–just use that as “undefined”, for everyone. Problem solved.

I think I’d be pretty distracted if they also declared the anti-trans rhetoric was all a mistake and actually we love and support LGBTQ+ of all stripes and here’s a big pile of money as an apology for earlier. Also we removed the sex and/or gender markings from all American passports.

That would help distract me.

That is more clever than I was thinking: hop on VR chat and ask my friend to do it for me.

I imagine it’s like the urge to lick a 9-volt battery or touch the plate after the waitperson says “careful, it’s hot”. It’s unpleasant, they know it’s unpleasant, but they have to check for themselves.

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No, you can look up what property someone owns, generally in the town or county records. It’s just if you own a property there’s a good chance it’s also your home.

I didn’t get these mailings back when I rented. Confounding factor: I was in a different union. Same employer, though.

So, you can look up the private address of most homeowners in the states I’ve lived. Usually these records are online, sometimes not. If you want to obfuscate your ownership of a property there’s some weird stuff you can do with having your home owned by a corporation and then you own the corporation or something. I don’t think that’s commonly done.

I’m a public employee, so my name is a public record. I own a home, so my address is a public record.

I’m not sure how they know which union I’m a member of, though. There’s at least 3 on campus.

I’m a public employee in a union and we get these types of anti-union propaganda mailed to us from the creeps at the Freedom Foundation.

Save money and celebrate your rights! Public employees save an average of $900!

There’s an “I want to leave the union” postcard filled out and attached, addressed to my union leaders.

That one was St. Patrick’s Day themed.

Not posting an image because it has all my personal details already filled out

I sure hope not. I don’t want to have to deal with new plumbing at my age, the factory-issued set gives me enough problems

I’d expect everyone is robed in heavenly garments, to save the embarrassment from having been raptured with your pants down.

[Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

I can confirm I am a well-rounded individual.

Can confirm. Am goblin.

TBH, I have a small personal massager I use for my face. Vibrating the sinuses helps make all the mucus and gunk move, like jiggling a ketchup bottle. It helps my sinus headaches.

But yeah, they knew.

My archive’s server uses Anubis and after initial configuration it’s been pain-free. Also, I’m no longer getting multiple automated emails a day about how the server’s timing out. It’s great.

We went from about 3000 unique “pinky swear I’m not a bot” visitors per (iirc) half a day to 20 such visitors. Twenty is much more in-line with expectations.

That’s a fair guess. I see her socialize with the other dog folk in the neighborhood, and that is mostly generic white. There are minority dog folk in the neighborhood, but none who I read as black. (I’ve not asked and it’s not my place to be certain about anyone’s background without being told)