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May still able to get access to the records, mind. Either whoever took over for her or whoever inherited the records are not entirely unlikely to still have 'em around. Can also give a go at contacting anyway; send a snail mail letter or somethin' to make it less intrusive. Apologize for interrupting the retirement, ask if she happens to remember or could direct you to whoever might still have the records, etc. Ain't been stopped yet, just stymied a bit.

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... anyway, that feeling when someone asks you to look over some paperwork, and you notice that for the last year or three family has been paying for license plate renewal on a car that's about as much burnt out husk as car. Like, we're not talking "oh, there's some fire damage" we're talking "most of it outright unsalvageable, probably not worth selling for scrap metal". And they were keeping the plate up to date. I kinda' understand (as in, it's been justified to me as that, but I haven't actually checked the net costs involved) there can be reason to do that if you're expecting to get a new vehicle soon-ish and intend to transfer the thing... but it's past soonish by several months, and they have neither the finances nor intention for getting another one. Not without doing stuff that, if they were inclined to, I wouldn't be dealing with this to begin with _{hoarding behavior can go straight to hell}

Seriously need to figure out what to do about this kinda' thing. I'm not in good enough shape to keep overwatch on 'em by with the amount of help I've been getting... especially without power of attorney/full financial access. Rough bit is if this shit keeps up, and it shows no sign of slowing down (rather the opposite), this bunch of the family's probably going to get in a bit of a spat getting that from 'em within a year or two. Folks in question still think they're mostly competent, and that's increasingly becoming less true and more cognitive degeneration causing them to think they are. Double bonus(?) points it's kinda' happening to me, too, with less delusion and more slow building despair

... huh. Apparently the senate's released their version of the healthcare travesty? Tentative reactions I'm noticing seem to be suggesting it's... largely what the house had. Which is somewhat concerning, bleh.

Though mind, it could help jobless if folks felt like changing that bit. Don't have to be above the cutoff point for tax filing to file anyway. Actually tends to be a pretty good idea, since if you're that low it's fairly likely you'll be able to mitigate some of whatever taxes or related stuff you did run into over the course of the year.

They did get the vote out. The problem is that, with all the publicity and whatnot for this special election, so did the Republicans.

And even with that, turned a 20 something point red area into a (sub-?)5 if not purple than close enough it barely matters one.

People (hell, myself included, I didn't pick up on it until a day or three ago) seem to like to forget special elections generally only happen in extremely safe districts. Winning would have been a coup, but getting that close isn't something to downplay, either.

And in the real world, those things don't exist.

Yeah, ree, hate to break it to you, but they actually exist. It's called company policy and behavior standards, for example, and it gets your ass kicked out the building if you start spouting shit the management doesn't like. The real world does, in fact, have many, many areas where your speech is limited de facto or de jure. You can call them whatever the blazes you want, but it boils down to the same thing.

Amusingly enough, if you want to continue that line of concept torture, you could easily say colleges indulging in safe space related stuff actually are preparing people for the real world, where sometimes you have to keep your mouth shut on any number of subjects when in a specific area, or keep out :V

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Respect, maybe, sure. But respect wasn't what was on the table

Yeah, right to work's basically it. The grounds to achieve wrongful termination in those places are pretty specific.

Also, I have a theory that it's harder to hear bad acting in other languages. Maybe I just tune out the voice when I'm reading subs, though.

Nah, I'm like 90% sure that's true. If you're not familiar enough with a language to pick out certain things being off, it's harder to tell if someone's screwing up. Are they mispronouncing or stumbling over every third word? Is it a dialect, affectation intentional or otherwise? Hell if you know, and things can be better than way.