Stella
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I handle lots of shipments out of India. Kib, I clear them through customs. Anyway, everything out of India has to be fumigated. One fumigation...

Canada just signed some sort of trade deal with China. Don’t know details.

Iris, do you use Apple Numbers at all? I use it a little, one of the budgeting templates. I despise Excel, so I use it as little as possible outside...

Word is .doc or .docx, the last being the most recent one.

That's not just ugly, it's FUGLY!

As Apple says, "It just works."

Iris, do you send your Pages documents out in .doc file format? Word can read that. I usually use PDF unless someone needs to edit, but I will use...

I definitely agree with Iris that I want convenience. I don't play the shopping morality games either.

I get both a lot of stuff AND my groceries from Amazon. Groceries are Amazon Fresh. Prices are really good. I'm in the Chicago area and I have no...

IL, are you trying to send a document you wrote in Pages? Just curious.

Videos from observers of ICE activity. I see the same type of stuff filmed by local TV stations. So it’s not like someone is making this shit up.

For those of us living in the Chicago area (me) and Minneapolis, our LOCAL news is full of this. I have no reason to believe that WGN tv/radio...

So all the people on my local Chicago area and Illinois sub Reddits are making up the videos that they’re posting?

So sorry to hear.

Read this from EFF about the surveillance shopping spree ICE is going on. ...

Tybee, maybe for the brown grandkid, the parents can take a photo of kid’s birth certificate and keep it on their phone.

Here you go. https://support.apple.com/en-us/123719

Is she white or brown? The scum in charge of DHS had said they’re going to start making people prove their citizenship. I have a passport and...

Wired just had an article on this. Hope you can read it. https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-if-ice-invades-your-neighborhood/

I found the original forum around 2000-01 ish.

Just for context, I'm single, no kids, and 56. I have more than enough to save. I've got $17K for savings currently. I keep $5K in the savings...

Thanks!

Well, that was a bust. The salary was $30K less than I currently make. There's no way that would work for me. I was making that back in 2020! Plus I...

Pre-screen interview (video call) at 730 am central tomorrow. Fingers crossed, please!

You really think 9/11 would have happened without Islam? Really wrong. Suggest you read The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. I was...

Islam is backwards as f*ck. We’ll throw that Ilhan Omar in there, too. I don’t like Trump, but I’m all for kicking Muslims out.

Don’t forget the grooming gangs in the UK who are Muslims. True, they’re not diddling little boys like the Catholics, but they are going after under...

Catholics are not out to kill us, commit hijackings, or were the cause of 9/11. Period. I grew up 30 minutes from Dearborn, MI. Nuff said. ...

I would me not be sad at all to see Iran’s government fail. I’ve always called them the Great Satan, a turn around of what they always called the US....

I'm so tired of being the only source for customs related information at my company. I want to work elsewhere with more people for resources.

Didn't happen yesterday.

Came back to work after nearly two weeks off to a ton of BS. Been there nearly five years. It was so bad that I checked the website of a good big...

Here in IL, we have gambling places all over. They have women’s names like Betty’s. Then there’s the sports betting. Plus we’ve had casinos for...

Indian half of the owners at work was a complete turd today, as he usually is. He's not been in the office for at least 6 weeks (been traveling). It...

There could be a ruling in the tariff case Friday. Waiting with bated breath.

I have checking and savings with Chase, who are huge here. High yield savings account with Vanguard, where my investment accounts are. I like having...

The New Yorker is available via the Libby app from my library. I bet it's accessible via yours, too. You'll just have to wait for the next digital...

Nice looking truck! I've recently upped my 401K contributions by an extra $400/month. I have a target date fund. Last time I looked (few months...

Today is my last weekday off before I go back to work Monday. I just went through the three drawer plastic cart thing I use for storage at my LR...

I now refuse to put any checks in the mail now. Just for shits and giggles, I tried two checks from bank bill pay to my church. Didn’t find out until...

It literally doesn’t matter when or how I vote in person. The walk kills my knees. Shopping at Aldi (small store) destroys my knees.

Maybe this will get the procrastinators off their butts. I’m on permanent mail in ballot. My knees hurt too much.

Happy New Year! Stayed in last night after an early evening church service. Cold in the teens today, so staying inside and cozy.

Opened the rest of the Christmas cards and since I was going through stuff today they went right into the trash, except for one very nice card...

I ended up getting a deal for $33 a month for 26 months, saving me $12 a month. It doesn't lock you in, it's just a reduced rate from a holiday sale.

Mint's plan has nothing to do with the actual phone, as long as the phone can be used on the plan. I'm going with Visible by Verizon. Unlimited talk,...

Which plan are you on?

Good God, Commieland? Watch out with whatever electronics you take.

Don’t you have a Barnes and Noble near you? Or why didn’t you order from another bookstore if you despise Amazon?

Check fraud has been up since the pandemic and the USPS keeps getting slower.

I read with mine in the tub all the time.

I’ve been buying online for years. For clothes, I stick with places/brands I know the fit of. Other than a few places such as Dr Bronners or Republic...

They go to stores and buy stuff in person.

I upped 401K contribution from $500/paycheck to $700/paycheck. And yes, I had really only started seriously saving late last year.

Your DH is crazy. The people I was surrounded with on Christmas were either Boomers, Millennials, or Gen Z. I was the only Gen X. There were as many...

Iris, this was actually a topic of conversation on Christmas. I'm all in with tech, online stuff, electronic payments, etc. I was surrounded by...

Do you have a Kindle Paperwhite? If so, it's waterproof. Great for reading in the tub or otherwise near/in water.

Rosa, not family gift exchanges, but I remember one work gift exchange around 2007ish that resulted in so much cheap junk that I threw it all out...