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Phone them?

US Military Industrial Complex: “Bet?”

People need housing.

I have read and agree to the rules.

Apparently it didn’t occur to the Russians that they might need EW assets on these airbases. A huge omission in retrospect.

These posts will never get past Reddit’s rules against doxxing. Sorry.

It’s the euphemism treadmill, only for terms used to describe different groups of people: https://cambridgeblog.org/2020/08/ableist-language-and-the-euphemism-treadmill/

You start with a problem: people are using a term that describes a group of people in a perjorative fashion. Everyone agrees this is bad & wrong so they decide the solution is to come up with a new term for the group that doesn’t carry any of the perjorative baggage. For a short while everyone is happy (except for the people who didn’t get the message that the acceptable words have changed & get caught out using the “wrong” ones). Inevitably however bigots start using the new term in a perjorative way & in a few years we end up back where we started again, only all the words have changed.

Stock & bond markets are both down over the last couple of months thanks to Trump-related fuckery.

That won’t change by investing into a different pension.

Stuff like this works until it doesn’t.

Exactly. & your answers had better line up exactly with what’s on the blockchain or in the accounts reported to HMRC by the major crypto exchanges!

Money laundering by “finding” crypto carries significant risk, since HMRC can go to a company that does blockchain analysis who will tell them that the person that “found” 10BTC had those BTC transferred to their wallet two months earlier.

Now that person has a problem, having lied about where the BTC came from. Either they came from one of their own wallets in which case they didn’t “find” them or else it came from someone else’s wallet. Either way they’ve lied about the provenance & are going to be asked some very pointed questions by HMRC.

Will HMRC bother to do this? Maybe, maybe not. But it’s definitely not a risk free way to launder your ill-gotten ££.

It’s pretty reasonable for unlimited data if you actually use a lot of data.

If you’re using less than, say, 20Gb a month you’d probably be much better off with a different contract or PAYG SIM deal. Most people use less than 5Gb a month.

I know people who have had similar issues with their children descending into a spiral of anxiety & depression that lead them become almost completely shut-in. One got out after getting a pile of therapy & is now doing OK, others are still struggling.

It’s really hard. As a parent you’re dealing with an adult who has the right to make their own decisions & ultimately your only available sanction is “do I continue to feed & house this person?”. If they flatly refuse to get help, then you’re left with some awful choices.

This sounds like a total internal mess by the Dartford crossing people if your appeals really have been successful but they’ve still sent out the bailiffs. Really shocking.

You could try contacting your MP & maybe see if you can get a newspaper journalist who follows up on these kind of consumer issues interested? Eg Consumer Champions at the Guardian.

Also, obviously, see if you can get in contact with the Dartford Crossing people /again/ and see if they can get in contact with the Bailiffs to refund your money.

It’s not that parents can’t transfer money to their kids: it’s all about anti-money laundering & anti-terrorism funding legislation.

Banks have been made responsible for investigating & preventing money laundering by criminals, so they routinely flag unusual transfers for investigation. An inevitable consequence of this is perfectly innocent transactions tripping internal bank filters that flag your account for further investigation. By law the banks cannot tell you why you’re being investigated if your account is flagged.

From the customer POV the entire thing is infuriating if you get caught up in it. Ultimately the banks are acting as government agents & doing exactly what is being asked of them.

Ordinarily a transfer from a parent to a child wouldn’t trigger an investigation, but if one of the parties has already done things that raise suspicion? (e.g. maybe the child has traded crypto-currencies on an offshore exchange - perfectly legitimate maybe, but also associated with criminality & terrorism...) Then that transfer might tip the balance & trigger an investigation.

Odds they’ve been compromised by the FSB?

You are a prize idiot if you think either ChatGPT or Gemini are able to correctly calculate your taxes.

Talk to your insurer & do what they tell you.

DVDs are dead media these days.

I’ve read that Soviet doctrine was for these things to be carrying troops through areas that had been softened up with battlefield nukes or chemical weapons. So the ability to seal the vehicle against external contaminants was more important than the troops inside being able to get out quickly.

Not sure whether this is true or just cope though?