wacky1980

this guy. bestbuy.com fought me for two hours before pulling the plug while i was on the final order processing page. walmart sold out before could get one in the cart (did get a 2nd controller ordered though). target? nope. gamestop's entire site went down for a bit, and it came back up and sold out while i was fighting bestbuy. so that was a fun evening.

moscow mule i mean the AMERICAN MULE mothafockas!

we've largely ignored venus as a POI because the soviet vanera missions didn't end in failure...the probes were actually interrupted. vanera 13 transmitted surface data back to the soviets for 2 hours before failing, and the only images they released were of the rocky hillside surrounding the landing site. but the last image captured beings, two of which appeared to be armed with some form of gun or blaster. the following three months saw some of the most intense communication attempts with the beings from the yellow planet. in early june 1982, a communications breakthrough resulted in the ability of our scientists to decipher their message, which made their intentions clear: "we do not accept peace with your people. we do not accept trade with your people. if you attempt further invasions, we will bathe your planet in radiation and end your tenure as the dominant earth species." two days later, what scientists described as a "massive solar flare" split the earth's magnetosphere and caused widespread communications interruptions. while science described the source as our sun, the actual source was from the surface of the planet venus. it had directed an unprecedented photon assault at our planet. the message was received, and all further attempts to study venus were restricted to far-remote observation. communications have continued with the venusians, however they are mainly restricted to object tracking and occasional (always failed) attempts at diplomacy.

hey op, you had a rat or something on your leg just a minute ago. you gotta be more careful.

he's concentrating SO HARD RIGHT NOW

well if you're handing out cash, your dreamdick owes my wife some rent money too.

next time that happens, i hope you nut into your own eye.

what if the eyepatch goes on the bad eye tho?

it would be easier to stay asleep if i didn't keep having dreams of being attacked by wolves and getting random bj's from my wife. that's how i woke up every day this week at around 5am. it's like dream roulette, and i'm not sure if i recommend it or not just yet. maybe it's the edibles...?

i prefer "cheap date" but mhmm

1) no but that will probably change in a few weeks 2) n/a

i use some edibles from the dispensary. two gummies (5mg each) kicks my ass right over the edge.

you lost all your privileges here when you got perm'd. get the net.

well then ... cool.

it's running again?

thank you for your knowledge. it sounds like we can probably make this work! if i can get enough people interested to support it, i'll probably be in charge of putting something together...unless someone else wants it, which would be fine with me. i still need to get a few of the right people on board before i start getting shelters' permissions. and hopefully if everyone comes together, the momentum won't be spent by then.

you said you were leaving after your self-promo post in the "banned" thread...?

i'm thinking, it has got to be pretty expensive to bring a few hundred animals up to speed on shots and getting them fixed...plus flea/worm/etc treatments, feeding, grooming, and housing. the shelters would eventually recoup some/all of those costs if they can find enough folks to adopt, but that might take awhile. if we could toss maybe $20k at them, that's like $50 per animal...should take them pretty far through the process.

we're sending items to three different shelters so far, all of which have taken some animals from this bust. one is a humane society, one is a privately-funded no-kill, and i'm pretty sure the third is also private. the humane society one is the biggest question mark for accepting cash. the no-kill is one we've worked with on different fundraisers in the past, and i know they accept cash. unfortunately, all three shelters are 45+ minutes away. we're a drop point to make it easier for people in our town to contribute.

so there was a bust over the weekend of a local pet breeder. they had ~300 cats and dogs removed from their properties, but i know they hid more in random remote areas around the county that have not been uncovered yet (they somehow got a tip from law enforcement before the raid), and from the rumors i'm hearing, the number of recovered animals could go as high as 500 before it's all said and done. the local animal shelters are all over-run with cats and dogs right now...many suffering from neglect, and pulled from horrible living conditions. we've started accepting donations of supplies and food at the bar, and have loaded up two trucks in two days to take around to the shelters. but lots of people are interested in donating cash, and i'm not too keen on the idea of handling potentially lots of untraceable cash for all the obvious reasons. so ... gofundme? i've never set up a donation thing online before, and i've yet to reach out to the local shelters to see if they're interested in the idea, or if they can even accept crowdsourced donations like that. so before i dive too deep into this rabbit hole, does anyone on here have experience with this sort of fundraising? is it a good idea, or are there better options out there?

yes and yes and yes

at least now you can catch it.

tesla split 5:1 not 4:1

fuckfuckFUCK i'm still stewing over that bullshit. i did find an appeals process, so maybe there's still a chance i can get this thing figured out. it just pisses me right off that i even have to revisit this god damn clown contest in the first place.

fucking murphy's law. we applied for a state grant back in may. it required a FUCKING TON of paperwork, including 3 years of tax returns. i couldn't get my accountant to move our return filing up in order to meet the deadline on the grant, so i had to instead provide a P/L estimate. my best guess on that was a 2019 loss of about $3600 on paper. so pretty much break-even, which is where we'd like to be historically. we submitted the application -- in may, with a stated 30-day turnaround -- and waited. and waited. in the meantime, we finally got our taxes done in july, and quickly left that accountant behind. and as it turns out, we did turn a profit on paper. great, cool, whatever, passthru corp so we had to personally pay the taxes on the profit. no big deal, right? well i finally got a response on the grant this afternoon. we were denied...because we showed a loss in 2019, making us a risky investment for the grant program. so we got denied. denied because of my fucking stubborn loyalty to an accountant who was going thru some health issues and had fallen behind on her work, but had been our accountant for 10+ years prior to that. denied, because i chose to make as accurate of an attempt at a P/L statement as i could, without having the actual books in front of me. i could have easily make those numbers show a profit, but i wanted to be 100% honest. fucking denied, because some asshole bean counter over at the capitol decided a measly $3600 loss in a year when we took on $75k of new debt to expand the business, was overwhelming proof that we were a risky investment. fuck this game. if playing fair doesn't count for shit, i'm done doing it.