Youtube comments of roachtoasties (@roachtoasties).
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My first job was at a Taco Bell in the Valley. It was decades ago. They told us during robberies just give them the money. It's not worth losing your life over what's in the register. For counterfeit money, it's different. If the money is counterfeit, don't accept it. I remember accepting a $20 from this big guy who gave it to me rolled up in a ball. It look counterfeit to me, but I took it. The guy look totally unstable. A short time later, during an employee meeting, the manager told us the bank didn't accept a bill that was counterfeit, and said we should be looking at the money more carefully, and if we were unsure, ask a supervisor/manager. I didn't say a word. Even in my late teens, when I was working there, I knew I didn't want to lose my life over this near minimum wage job. At night, there are a lot of crazy customers. You got to be careful.
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This is new? People have been making stopovers in different cities while traveling since the existence of traveling. It's not free either. If you stopover two days in Iceland, the airlines are not going to give you a hotel, and all the other incidental expenses, during your stopover there. Of course, if you plan on sleeping on the streets, only walking/hitchhiking, and dumpster diving for food, or catching and cooking squirrels, during your stopover, that's cheap, but few do that.
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I have a serious question: I've come to the logical conclusion that my name, SSN, DOB, etc., has been stolen many times. Yours have too. Dozens, maybe hundreds of times. How many times does the same information need to be stolen? It's an attention grabber in the news when this happens, but the horse has already left the barn, and keeps leaving that barn. I do have my credit reports frozen, and only unfreeze them when applying for credit. That only helps with a tiny part of the problem. The scam emails, texts, phone calls, hacking, etc., has got out of hand. I don't believe anything I'm contacted about anymore.
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People are being burned because they listen to "experts" like Tom Lee who keep repeating the same line: "Bitcoin will zoom" and then quote some astronomical price prediction. People then believe this thinking this guy knows something more than they do. The thing is, these are only guesses, that they base on an assortment of theories. My guess, your guess, anybody's guess, are as good as the "experts." The thing to keep in mind is Bitcoin, and all the other Altcoins out there, have yet, and may never be, a dependable currency. Right now it's a bet, like going to the casino. You may be right, or you may be wrong, and you got to be prepared for eventual losses if you are wrong. That said, Bitcoin is not really a deflationary currency, based on a limited supply. Every time this cryptocurrency forks, others do, or other cryptocurrencies are created, the supply increases. All this supply then fights for the same dollars (or whatever currency) people might want to throw at them. We're now awash in crypto.
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If Disneyland was raising employees salaries in proportion that they raise ticket prices (now about $170 for a one day pass) they would be making a good living. That said, Disney has the upper hand with the city. Disney knows they can't just pack-up and move Disneyland, and Anaheim knows they can't force all their will on Disney. I guess they could block all the streets to Disneyland, so nobody can visit, but it hasn't come to that.
That said, there has to be some initiative on the employees' part. Saying Disney is a great place to work and saying at the same time they've been a victim for decades as they only pay them peanuts, just isn't logical. If Disney is only paying poverty wages, then it isn't a great place to work. Plain and simple. Maybe, at 58, there isn't much to move on to, but if you're young, just think of Disney as a stepping-stone, unless your goal is upper management and you're actively pursing that. This is true with many service employers, such as hotels, retail, or McDonald's. Unfortunately, they are not going to make the rank-and-file employees upper class, or upper-middle class, or even middle-class. I've moved on from garbage jobs myself. You just aren't going to make it in a job greeting customers or slinging hamburgers. That will never change.
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I'm in the fog about how many dimes were taken. The reporters kept changing the figures. If it was 1,000,000 dimes, a single dime weighs 2.268 grams. I got out my calculator. If my math is correct, that's 2,268,000 grams for a million, or 2,268 kilograms, or 5,004 pounds. After carrying 2 1/2 tons of dimes, the guy has got to be hungry. McDonald's should be on the lookout for someone paying for his Big Mac Meal in dimes.
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LAX "Airport in the Jet Age" Revised 2022 Edition: No more helicopter air taxis to get you to the airport from downtown. It's now being jammed in a standing room only bus, or taking the Metrorail Green Line that has the added smell of a previous passenger who threw-up (no extra charge), or being ripped-off by a bandit taxi or Uber driver. It takes hours as traffic creeps through the city and the airport terminal. You then get to the United terminal, where you wait in a line that stretches all the way to the Bradley terminal. After you're stripped search by the TSA, you think the worst is over. The monitor next to your gate tells you the plane is leaving six hours late. You finally get on board and think you've dodged a bullet by not being bumped, but you're wrong. The flight attendant makes an announcement that four passengers will need to be ejected to make room for four employees. Nobody volunteers to leave. The police come on board and start hog-tying, body slamming, dragging, and throwing out passengers to make room. You hide in the bathroom and they somehow miss throwing you out the door. The plane takes off, where you enjoy a seat that barely has enough room to comfortably seat a gerbil. You're served a "gourmet" continental breakfast consisting of a stale roll and orange juice, that cost you $15. You finally make it to your destination and disembark the plane with all the comfort of a herd of cattle being lead to the slaughterhouse. Welcome to modern jet travel.
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One big difference from 100 years ago is how mobile we are now, which makes the virus more mobile. Fast cars, fast trains, fast planes. We can get anywhere fast, even to the other side of the world, bringing the virus with us. 100 years ago, things weren't fast, by far. Since things are so fast now, the virus will not be going away fast. It very well may be around longer, and much longer, than the 1918 pandemic.
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I have a ton of old VHS tapes: Purchased movies, ones I've recorded, various screeners, and so on, piled in a closet. I do have some VHS tapes players too, including a couple still unopened in the box, because they got so cheap. The things is, I haven't looked at these tapes in years and years, and many never. With VHS tapes, they do degrade, especially ones you recorded yourself. Another problem. It may be nostalgic, but I'm unsure how long that will last.
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You do need to be realistic. I'm estimating there are about 130 In-N-Outs in Southern California. If there are two managers in each store that make a six-figure salary, that's only 260 potential job openings (assuming you need to wait for a current manager to quit, plus adding a handful of new In-In-Outs that open each year). Compare that to the population of Southern California (23.8 million) then figuring out how many people in the region are in the job market. Not many potential jobs. You'll need a Plan B, like computer software technology. Enormous job openings, along with good salaries, there. Like many of us, my first job was in fast food. It's a lot of work, long hours, and standing all the time. It's basically a young person's job. It's not something I would see myself wanting to do until 65. Unless your goal is upper management (not working all the time inside a restaurant), slinging burgers for 30 to 40 years isn't something you would want to do. At least that's my feeling. Anyway, if it's something you want to try, go ahead. Don't let me stop you. Good luck.
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The reporter was mentioning the 8% increase you get per year for delaying Social Security benefits, but what's the point CBS? First, inflation is 8% so that negates it. On top of that, you're not collecting any Social Security for that year. If you would have got $1,500 per month, that's $18,000 for the year. It will take a long time to make that up, and then, inflation still is creeping up. There's no guarantee you'll be in the same health in future years. Just collect the money now if you're retired, and don't work at your construction job until your over 70, to get the maximum benefit. You'll wear yourself out, and might drop dead at 71. Besides, what are you going to do without your Social Security benefit if you need it but are waiting? Live on the streets? If you really don't need it, still collect it, but save it. I get tired of all these so called "experts" that tell you to delay it. It's nonsense. Social Security just does an actuary type of adjustment. They're not paying you more in the end.
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Those are the old TSPS positions. The lower right corner is where an operator's right hand would spend most of its time, typing in phone or calling card numbers. Above that there were two rows of buttons for the type of call (collect, third number, person-to-person, etc.). From what I recall, the red lights on the top row indicated the call coming from a pay phone. White lights, the call was from a non-pay phone. An operator could hold three calls in those slots where paper tickets could be held for active calls and vertical buttons in the middle. Most all calls, though, could just be let go (released), and not held at the position. To release a call, the button was near the lower left. The display was just numbers. I believe these positions faded from use in the late 1980's. Now, an operator, has got to be a person in front of a desktop PC with a couple monitors, just like the rest of us. I can't even remember the last time I called an operator. There might be an office or two of telephone operators somewhere in the U.S., but technology and the business has long moved on.
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If the boyfriend did it and dumped her somewhere, then she could be anywhere along where he traveled. There's about 2,000 miles between Utah/Wyoming and Florida, and he didn't need to drive in a straight line. There's a lot of everything between those two points. If he turned off all cellphones while he traveled, then there's no cell or GPS data from them. His van probably didn't have any sort of OnStar type features, so nothing there. If he paid cash all along the way, then there's no debit/credit card trail. I'm thinking people might remember him at rest stops, etc., so that might help. All this leaves the police with hoping he talks. If he doesn't, and her body is lying somewhere, unless someone happens to come upon her, it's well beyond looking for a needle in a haystack.
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I wonder how it's "fraud." If someone stole your Amazon package, that's one issue. If someone is sending stuff you didn't order, it's annoying, but what law is being broken? If this ever happened to me, I'll just drive the boxes to the Goodwill store a couple miles from me. They'll give me a receipt for a charitable tax deduction. One thing I don't get is doesn't Amazon have any business rules/restraints to detect this? If an Amazon driver, warehouse worker, or Amazon software, detects a bunch of stuff, day after day, being sent to the same residence, they should be able to stop this internally. Amazon drivers should be able to detect and report this. If I was an Amazon driver, I wouldn't be happy delivering 100 boxes of crap up five flights of stairs to an apartment where the resident didn't expect or want this stuff.
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But really, such jobs are stepping stones. Unless their goal is something like restaurant management, it's not a career for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years. I'm saying this from experience. My first job was in a Taco Bell when I was a late teen. I worked there for 1 1/2 years, and moved on from that. I don't think I could have physically taken all the standing, cleaning, cooking, etc., for decades. Even at their new $20 an hour wage, it might help, but it's far from a wage for a comfortable life. Anyway, if they're happy, I guess that's all that matters.
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That was one, cool, liquor store owner at 2:05 . The customer didn't have enough money for his favorite libation, and in true British fashion, he stands there calmly as the customer leaves and smashes a few brewskis on the way out. In the next scene, the same customer is at the bank, probably in line to get money for his booze. The liquor store owner will probably welcome him back and fully understand when the customer tells him he slipped and didn't mean to smash those dozen bottles. I live in Los Angeles and that's not the way it will go down here. A wrestling match will ensue on the sidewalk afterward, with the rest of the liquor store inventory smashed. The police will come, hog-tie everyone, throw them all in their cop cars and haul them away. Local TV news helicopters will be over the scene, so that everyone in the city can enjoy the action. Everyone will get out of jail in no time, to continue the brawl the next day. ;)
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I didn't watch all of this, but if you hate airports so much, just don't travel anymore. Nobody's forcing you to fly. Problem solved. There are issues with any form of transportation: Driving, taking a train, bus, metro, walking, going horseback, etc. You got to deal with it if you plan on going anywhere. I get sick of people complaining. I live in L.A., and know LAX isn't the best thing since sliced bread, but at least it works and there have been ongoing improvements. If airports are so horrible, volunteer to be on a community airport commission and fix things. That probably still won't work, but it's at least doing something. Making videos complaining accomplishes nothing.
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@Dr._Atom Since we don't have spacecraft fast enough to do the same thing, we'll never know if circling the earth so fast will really do this. The way I look at this, is Superman just needed to rewind the clock for about an hour. That's about how much the earth rotated backwards. At that point, Hoover Dam didn't collapse, and Lois Lane was still alive trying to start her car. Of course, everything else in the solar system, galaxy and the entire universe, still advanced in time, so things will still be off with atomic clocks, satellites, the moon, etc. The movie didn't explain all this, but maybe Superman did some last minute tidying up later on. :/
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As far as crime, lets look at murder (the worst of crimes) per capita. Statistics have California about in the middle, then look at the states in the top positions. It's filled with a bunch of red states. Anyway, you're concentrating on the cost of rent. Rent is up everywhere, but obviously more in California because you started at a higher price in the first place. I have no intentions in moving. For people living here for decades (like me) it's dirt cheap. My home is paid in full and property taxes are Prop. 13 regulated. For expenses and taxes, it's about $500 a month for me, and often less. Some pundits keep talking about the $20 minimum wage. It didn't cause the world to come to an end. In-N-Out raised their prices about 5 or 10 cents. If that is killing you financially, eating less burgers is healthier. My employment is in the L.A. area and only a 2 1/2 mile commute. No traffic issues. Pay is good too. If you want to move, it's personal decision, but when I see news reports cherry-picking statistics, I look the other way.
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I live in California. My home is paid in full and my commute to work is only two miles, with a good income. Much cheaper here, at least for me. No need to "upgrade my lifestyle," with a four-hour commute each way, while living in 110 degree heat during the summer. I don't know, but whatever smaller mortgage payment you might have looks to be more than offset by wearing out a car every year, not to mention the cost of all that driving with increased odds of getting into an accident. There are other stresses living and working in Las Vegas, with much of the population very transient. The whole west is running out of water, and certainly Las Vegas isn't creating more water for every new home built. While it's probably a smaller number, there are always people moving the other way. Without saying how many moved from Nevada to California, this TV news report is incomplete. My guess is the 22,000 figure is half that, once people moving the other way is computed.
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I live in California, so I'm sure the restaurant employees are getting paid at least minimum (most likely more) unless the employer is somehow screwing them. I really don't care if someone else in line, or someone who is with me, sees if I don't leave a tip at a place like Lounge Burger (I usually leave them a dollar). What is awkward, is you're looking right at the cashier, who will immediately see if you don't leave a tip on the screen. It's a place where you usually don't leave a tip, but are nudged into leaving one. I'm not against tips, but really, the employers should pay their employees decent salaries. If the prices are slightly more, so be it, but at least the customer is not making an employer decision on what their employees get paid. Recently I read a story about a Starbucks customer that had a $4,400 tip added to their credit card, and they were having a hard time getting the charge reversed. It was in the drive-up, no doubt, but even if it wasn't, no logical person would think that such a huge tip for ordering a couple of coffee drinks is somehow correct. As far as self-checkouts, I've used them at Target. Never saw a tip window there. I would be totally surprised if that option did display. I've used self-service kiosks at Panera Bread. Never noticed them there. If there was one, then it can be debated there are people making your food and cleaning the dining room, so maybe tip. Again, for such a place, I might leave a dollar, but certainly wouldn't select "20%."
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I don't know. If there was a Northridge type earthquake in New York City, I wouldn't want to be there. Modern buildings may survive, but most buildings are old. Unreinforced brick, homes and apartments not property bolted to the foundations, and the like, will just fall with people inside them. California has learned lessons over the decades. New buildings are quite tough, while older buildings have been retrofitted. The same with infrastructure. Highways, bridges, tunnels, etc., have had things seismically strengthened. I can't say that about the east coast.
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I'm unsure about the "beautiful life" part. When I was a younger, I did take a job with AT&T/Pacific Telephone as a TSPS Operator in the San Fernando Valley (I'm a male). I'm not going to go into the details here, but things didn't end well and I ended up taking legal action against them (we settled out of court). You basically sit there at your operator's position all day, expected to average 30 seconds a call acting like a robot, while there is usually a supervisor in the corner of the room monitoring you and others. I lasted about 32 months. After that stint I went on to other employment, finished my university degree, and eventually became an application developer for a major organization. The pay, how you're treated, freedom, benefits, etc., I can't even compare how better things are.
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The food has gotten worse since this report. My first "real job" was at a company owned Taco Bell in the San Fernando Valley. Back then (longer than I care to mention), I thought the food was crap, but compared to how they prepare food now, employing loads of short-cuts with cheaper ingredients, it was better. The goal of 65 second service I have an issue with. I'm willing to wait longer for a good product, than being served a bag of slop in 65 seconds. The work environment at their Irvine, California headquarters is a fantasyland. Working in the restaurants is hot, stressful, greasy, hectic, tiring, standing on your feet all day, and so on. No rec rooms, gyms, lounges, parties, dot-com start-up atmosphere, etc., in a modern air conditioned building. The 99.9% of Taco Bell employees who don't work at headquarters, will never see anything close to that.
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So, according to the statistics you're reading, even on the cars that lasted the longest, less than 2% of them were still on the road after 200,000 miles. Anyone using a statistic like that to purchase a car needs their head examined. Why would anyone who isn't out of their mind, base their car purchase decision on whether the car they're buying has a 1.2% or 1.7% chance of lasting 200,000 miles? You did find one bloke (the guy who wrote that article) who liked that statistic. I bet he's the "life of the party" when he's striking conversations with people saying he bought his new car "because it has a 1.7% chance of lasting 200,000 miles." I've owned many cars. They all have passed away, or I traded them in, long before they lasted 200,000 miles. The two longest lasting cars I had was an 1984 Honda Civic (about 120,000 miles). I got rid of it because the cost of a repair was well beyond the value of the car. The ultimate longest was a beat-up Plymouth Fury my father gave me. That lasted about 150,000 miles. The engine sounded like there was broken Coke bottles inside of it, but it was still running. The shortest lasting car I had was a 2005 Honda Accord. it only lasted 40,000 miles. It got demolished by a drunk driver who hit me. Stuff happens. At least I survived, which I'm more thankful for than the longevity of any car.
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Their Access Investing website still looks the same today. I was curious whether a debit card was offered with such an account, but I doubt it. In looking at this product, maybe it fits in with immature millennials who just want to brag that they're a "Morgan Stanley client." Of course, this $5,000 account isn't the same as what multi-millionaire investors get. In any event, there's always E*Trade. They're now owned by Morgan Stanley. While they're still separate operations now, they'll probably combine their online experience sometime in the future. Whether the E*Trade name will be kept in the long term, I don't know, but in opening an E*Trade account, you're still part of Morgan Stanley, except currently without the Morgan Stanley name.
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I'm the wrong person to ask, so I have questions. First, is about time. I'm thinking when did time start and how did we get to this point? Even if we go back trillions of years, there's an infinite number of years before that. We can keep going back in time forever. The same with space. Space is infinite along with time, leaving an infinite number of possibilities. Are there other universes, trillions and trillions of light years beyond ours? Since space is infinite in all directions, logic has it that it contains an infinite amount. All this doesn't answer the question of where did matter come from? There was a big bang, but where did all that matter come from? Previous big bangs or was it just created during the initial inflation? I've been told since grade school that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but somewhere along the line it had to be created. If this wasn't the case, space would just be an infinite vacuum, with not even one atom.
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It's whatever you want and not what these "pundits" on Fox say, that have their own agenda. One thing about college is you need to look at high school. I learned little, and little of real use, in high school. Whether it's public or private school, high school alone prepares you for nothing other than working at a fast food joint. I really didn't learn until I got to college. My career (in I.T.) didn't parallel my degree, but I have no regrets on going. It still worked out for me, and met some people that I still have contact with and influenced my life positively. As far as high school, that wasn't the case. I haven't set my foot back inside that high school, since the day I graduated. Anyway, if you want to be a plumber, there's nothing wrong with that. The thing is, with what high school is, few are really sure what they want to do as soon as they get out.
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My first job was at Taco Bell (a company owned store). As far as being "one of the healthiest fast food chains," I doubt it, but when fast food as a whole is not healthy, that's a useless comparison. It's like asking "Out of all this extremely unhealthy food, which is the least unhealthy?" What's the point? Customers are not going there to eat healthy, but to eat cheap. As you pointed out, the quality is low. Food can be basically just slapped together in no time, with little care by the employees. You get what you pay for. I might stop by at a Taco Bell once a year, just to see what's new. Eating it regularly is probably not a good idea (fat, sodium, possible food born illness, etc), but if you want to eat there a bunch, that's up to you. As far as the beef not being beef, from my work there, they do use beef. It's not the highest quality product, but it's beef. It's mixed with seasoning to enhance the flavor. I'm unsure what was in that burnt orange colored seasoning, but I didn't think they were keeping it a secret. Probably just a mixture of season you can get at the supermarket.
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No solution unless everyone wants to cruise in hazmat or space suits. Cruises, by their very nature, are a lot of people sharing the same, relatively small space, for a period of time. Face masks aren't the answer as air recirculates, and of course, people eating in the cafeterias obviously can't wear masks while eating. Cruising may start again, but it isn't an if, but when, passengers board with an asymptomatic virus, spread it to others, and then this whole quarantine thing starts again. A couple of those, and you can put another nail in the cruise industry coffin.
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With the high price of housing in the Bay Area, you do what you got to do. But really, in socializing with all the students, didn't any get suspicious that he didn't attend any classes with any of them? They must have asked him "his major," and at least some should have had the same major. Heck, when I went to college and talked to other students outside of class, many, if not most, were in at least one of my classes and I went to a big school (CSUN). With this guy, he just hung around the dorms, but it doesn't look like he hung around any classroom buildings, libraries, labs, and so on.
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I can't even remember the last time I talked to an operator. During the late 1990's and into this century, basically there wasn't a need to automate what an operator does anymore, since there ended up being no reason left to dial 0 or an 0+ call. In watching this again, I see the operators were concerned this technology would end their jobs. The thing is, now, even if operators went back to using cord boards, there still would be no need for operators (other than maybe a handful of them). Now, it isn't the automation of their jobs, it's nobody calls the operator anymore. The technology and the business left their jobs obsolete. No more payphones, along with better smart phones, VOIP, etc., left operators with nothing to do. With the spread of robocalls, now nobody even wants to pick up the phone. The operators in this video eventually needed to look for another job, inside or outside the phone company, or retire, regardless of this voice recognition technology.
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Also, out of curiosity, I went to their website and clicked on "Am I a Candidate?" I picked the worst case scenario of everything from the pictures, and selected I also had an "overbite/underbite," which could mean surgery, but of course you can't diagnose what is needed just from here. Anyway, after entering everything, up comes a screen that says, "Good news, you have options!" There's no way from what you enter on that website it will say you're not a candidate.
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I'm not going to waste my time watching this, but Robinhood isn't the best brokerage. I'm not going to list all the reasons here, as they can be found elsewhere on the web, but one big reason is zero customer service. You could have an issue with your account, or worse yet, your account could be locked or hacked. Good luck calling them as you can't. You can message them, but you'll be lucky if they reply within a week. Anyway, I can go on with other reasons. They advertise they just hit 10 million accounts. That's probably so, but they don't say what is the average or median account balance. For all we know, it's $9.95, with most accounts not even active. From some recent articles I've read, many Robinhood accounts are a playpen for many immature millenials, or others trying to hack things (need I mention the margin trading fiasco from several weeks ago?).
That said, I won't discourage anyone from opening a Robinhood account. I have one myself and am waiting patiently for when I move to the top of the debit card waiting list, whenever that is. Just don't tie up too much of your money in the account. If you do have a lot in your account, it wouldn't hurt to transfer those large positions elsewhere. Other brokerages will gladly pay you the $75 Robinhood charges for a transfer out. Just ask.
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$74,000 is about $35 per hour, or about $2,846 per two week pay-period BEFORE payroll deductions. Just do the math. If you want to rent an average one-bedroom apartment in an expensive city (around San Francisco, New York, and the like), you're out about $3,500 or more per month, and don't forget the vacancy rates are low. After that, you might have about $1,000 per month for everything else. Using that calculation, it's not close to middle class. If you owned your home for so long, that you no longer have a mortgage, with the same income you're above middle class. That's my two-cents.
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What is happening are residents of U.S. cities are asked to approve a tax increase, usually a sales tax, for development of mass transit. What then happens are residents vote down these new taxes (who wants new taxes?). What is left are residents stuck in ever bigger traffic jams, because there's no money for transit improvements. Residents complain, but nobody wants to foot the bill. Los Angeles has been late in the game, but since 1980 has approved four sales tax increases (a total of 2%) for transit needs. Things are slow, but at least are heading in the right direction (I'm not going to get involved in an argument here about taxes in California). Doing nothing and complaining though, seems to be an American pastime. It's the same with development of intercity rail, but that gets clobbered in Washington. Other countries can do it, but the U.S. in comparison, can't even figure out how to tie their shoe.
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I feel it's genetics and chance. After all, how many combinations of human attributes can there be. If you look at other animals, like squirrels, they all look alike. With people it's less likely but can happen. When I was younger and working at a fast food restaurant in the San Fernando Valley, a couple employees told me they thought I was visiting on my day off buying some food. After a short while, they figured out it wasn't me, but told me my identical twin visited. I told them I don't have one. I never really met this person but do know who they're talking about, because there is an old training video from an unrelated restaurant, that's also now on YouTube, with him as one of the actors. I look at it once in a while, and can't believe how his features resembled mine when I was younger. The personality is different, but other than that, it's like I'm looking at myself.
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Well, Disney charges about $110 just to visit Disneyland, and that doesn't include everything else you end up buying. I read that Disney is increasing starting pay to $15 an hour, but that isn't much when an average apartment in Anaheim rents for over $2,000 a month. I know, people will say if you don't like the job, just get another. I wonder what Disneyland would say if they were asked if they don't like paying a living wage in Anaheim, well just move. Of course they can't. Anyway, I don't, or have ever worked for Disney, but feel the company should pay better than poverty wages.
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It's just a cloud. With any cloud, whatever the cloud looks like depends on the angle you're looking at it from, the time of day, other atmospheric conditions, and the like. From one angle you may see a cloud, and from another angle you might see nothing. Whatever that cloud formation looked like, it didn't look like that for long. A cloud is just water vapor. It doesn't mean the end of the world, or what a crazy person, or Fox News, might say what it means. It might mean rain, but that's about it.
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I wouldn't call a 401k a waste of time. If it wasn't offered to employees, most employees would end up saving nothing for retirement. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. About not being able to access your money until 59 1/2, or until you retire, that's what the plans are for. If you want to buy a bunch of Teslas, or blow thousands on beer and hookers, you'll need to find the money elsewhere. There are though, quite a few reasons to access at least part of your 401k/IRA without penalty at an earlier age (certain education expenses, medical expenses, disability, etc., plus you can always withdraw your own contributions from a Roth). I'm unsure of all the statistics you mentioned, but something that makes sense for one person doesn't make sense for another. If you've got a bunch of stocks in your brokerage account that you're confident of for the long term, that's good, but there's no rule that you only can invest one way. The long term capital gains tax isn't written in stone. Next week it could be revised to 90%. Not likely, but stuff happens. I have brokerage accounts, a Roth IRA, 401k, a roboadvisor account, bank accounts, and so on. I even have a traditional pension I'm work (I'm one of the lucky few there). Invest in them all, if you can.
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You were all over the map in 16 minutes. Dwelling on what you got from dividends in April is avoiding the point. You mentioned that future months/quarters will probably be worse, but the dividends you did get in April were declared before that, and obviously were from income earlier this year or last year. Before things came crashing down. Dividends come from earnings. Without earnings, or minimal earnings, no dividends. I don't have to remind you that common stockholders are dead-last when it comes to creditors. If anything is left over after everyone else is made whole, then stockholders get something. If not, there goes the dividend. If a company goes bankrupt, 99% of the time stockholders end up with nothing. Anyway, all is not roses/pleasant today, and from the looks of things, and how the government is responding, we're heading for some bad times (both with the virus and economic).
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I was not commenting here, but on other Voyager videos, most of the year, I was telling people not to touch that company with a 10 foot pole. I got quite a bit of tongue lashing. I don't care. It was literally a cult, as people were brainwashed that Voyager was the best thing since sliced bread, mainly because of their experienced leadership, it's a public company, their reward structure, etc., etc. A couple people did respond to me saying how I was right on, but the cultists refuse to admit they were wrong.
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It's whatever works for you. Maybe you just don't want to be worried about paying for repairs after three years. New cars are safer and more reliable. Lease payments are based upon anticipated depreciation, so they're less than a finance payment. Maybe you're OK with that. After a three year lease, you still have the option to buy the car, if you want to. Buying a car from a dealer is never an investment. If it was, rich people would be loading up on new cars. If you buy a car with three years of payments, at the end of three years you have a car that has lost half its value, if not more. It's not like buying a house. Anyway, if I had Suze O's money, I would lease. New car every three years with no worries about the thing falling apart on the freeway. If it costs a bit more in the long run, so what. You can't take your money with you when you're six-feet under, so just enjoy something new in your life, and it doesn't have to be some super-fancy car you're leasing. The standard models are quite comfortable and full of features these days.
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I visited Shanghai several years ago. To compare this to my experience, it is just two different worlds. Now it's no travel, no economy, no shopping, no eating out, no tourism, no vibrant city, nothing. How long can this go on? I thought we've reached the point with COVID-19, since we have vaccines and the like, that this will just have to be managed, like the flu. Just face it, COVID is here to stay. The likelihood of it being eradicated is very, very small.
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I think he said something about not telling people not to get the vaccine, but he did enough on his radio show to discourage, make jokes about (the Vaxman), and create skepticism about it. I wonder how many other people got sick, got others sick, and/or died from listening, or somehow affected, but this. I shouldn't have giggled, but someone posted on another video "If only there was something he could have done to prevent this." Anyway, this is what happens when you make stupid political points based on nothing about a public health issue. He cashed in with this nonsense, but in the end, it was Darwinism at work here.
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There are two ways to get into the best colleges: First method: Take all the AP courses you can, study, get that high GPA, study more, get a high SAT, study even more, do loads of extracurricular activities, etc., then hope you get admitted. Second method: Be a child of rich parents, pay $500,000 to some well-connected people. Then get admitted through the fast lane. Nothing new.
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Am I the only person who likes real ice cream out of the freezer better than this soft-serve crap? My solution is easy: Sell real ice cream. All McDonald's employees know what a freezer is before even working there, along with how to operate a ice cream scoop. Freezers are already at McDonald's, rarely break down, and have plenty of room for a variety of flavors. Problem solved, with none of the expense of maintaining, operating, repairing, or even buying, these overly-complicated soft-serve machines. In the old days, the soft-serve machines didn't have all this computer software stuff, needing Wi-Fi to communicate to the soft-serve help desk in India, etc., and worked fine. Why did things change? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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I didn't watch it, knowing it would be just a regurgitation of Trump's "greatest hits" in a long and boring presentation. That, plus I wasn't interested. Whether Trump support is fading away is another story. It could be, but there will always be a large group of Trump supporters (his cult). In Trump's mind, as we know, it's all about himself. When you're so narcissistic and conceded, you'll do anything to keep getting attention. He doesn't care. If he feels things aren't going his way, he'll just run as an independent. That will split the vote, and guarantee a GOP loss in 2024. As far as not being allowed to leave the room, will the guards stop you if you said you must use the restroom? It's either go in the restroom, or go right where you're standing. If the room was on fire, maybe they would let you leave, but maybe not. :/
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Still, all things being equal, if the employer is deciding between an applicant with no degree vs a degree, guess who will probably get the job? For things like law and medicine, you won't become a lawyer or doctor without a degree. Also, guess who will be getting the higher paying jobs? Unless you happen to be some I.T. whiz, having no degree means you'll be starting at a low pay. Having a degree does show you put your mind to something and achieved it, whatever the degree is in. Anyway, there are trades, like being a plumber, but you still got to go school. In the end, it's whatever works for you.
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This is an old video, but one thing that's not explained is when he was laid off after 29 years, one year shy of a full pension, what is the difference in his pension if he did work one more year? There are vesting requirements with pensions. It's not like if he worked 29 years he gets no pension and 30 years he gets a full pension. He must have got some pension, although slightly reduced. If this did happen, pension laws have to be written to prevent this. Although pensions like this are now not as common, they do exist. If a company can get rid of someone in the 29th year, 11th month, and tell them you're no longer needed, and by the way, your 30 year full pension is now worth zero, that's totally not right.
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You mean Jack and Rose wasn't for real? 🙃 Well, Jack was dumb. He starts messing around with Rose and the boat sinks with both of them stuck in the ocean. Jack finds a piece of wood and lets Rose lie on it. Jack then freezes to death (a horrible way to die) as he holds on to the side of it. If it was me (Roachtoasties) and Rose, things would have been different. I would still find that piece of wood, but that's where things change: "Rose, it's time to get things straight. This just isn't going to work out. I'm not rich, your family doesn't like me, we get handcuffed to a pipe, your fiancé wants to kill me, and now this boat sinks. What's next? Go find your own piece of wood." Roachtoasties makes it to America and becomes very successful. Rose ends up being fish food. It's not this teary-eyed ending, but this is how it is in life.
Anyway, this review reminds me about another Titanic episode on the 1960's TV series The Time Tunnel. Our time travelers, Doug and Tony, happen to find themselves on the Titanic. They try to warn Captain Smith that the ship will hit an iceberg. They got to change course and/or radio for help ahead of time before it's too late. The captain/crew didn't believe them. The ship sinks and our time travelers end up being sent to another place in time. If only Doug and Tony were successful. The ship would have never sank. :/
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I know what you're getting at, but the title to this video is wrong. Robinhood didn't pay you anything, unless you're on their payroll. Robinhood credited you with the dividends for stocks you have in your account. Again, as you mentioned, dividends aren't guaranteed. That also brings up what a common stock is. They kind of represent ownership, but I just look at it as owning stock in the company, not owning the company. Your rights as a common stockholder are next to zero. You could vote your shares, but it's an election where the board of directors get their way 99.999999% of the time for various reasons. You could get dividends, but that's up to the company if they want to pay them. More importantly, common stockholders are dead last in collecting anything if the company gets into financial trouble, even minimally. Employees, creditors, bondholders, banks, even preferred stockholders, etc., are all ahead of you. If a company goes bankrupt, chances are the common stockholders who hold on to their stocks to the bitter end, will get nothing. Anyway, that's my two cents.
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Cybersecuritygirl says not to trust everything you see on the internet. She got that wrong. She should have said don't trust ANYTHING. It's also more than passwords. But if we're going to talk about that, make them complex, don't use the same ones elsewhere, change them often, and use two factor authentication. Even with that, there's no guarantee. We hear about these scams all the time. You might think her "friend" asking for $250,000 to get out of jail is screaming scam, scam, scam, right in her face, but people's emotions get in the way of logic. With that Post It type of note, that's easy tell it's a font pasted or typed in there. Pick a letter, like "a" or "e." Look at all occurrences of them. They're all written exactly the same. I don't know anyone who has handwriting skills where every letter is exactly the same. The scammers can sound very convincing, so don't believe anything. Anyway, no scammer will be getting $1 million from me. That's for sure, because I don't have it.
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We'll never have a paperless office, so forget the predictions. Everyone where I work has one or two PC's (maybe more) and two monitors, with networked all-in-one printers/faxes/scanners/photocopiers everywhere. They're churning out paper all the time, and will be, until the world is out of trees. We also have a supply room, like where you interviewed this woman. Any employee can go down to it to pick up forms, and even more paper, along with stuff to help you with your paper (folders, staplers, notebooks, paperclips, pens, etc., etc., etc., etc.). In fact, there's an old storage closest next to my office. It's big. It ends up being a dumping grounds for paper and supplies that are no longer needed or forgotten. There are items and documents going back farther than when this video was made (1979). The stuff can be thrown out, but nobody has the motivation to do it.
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With Fox News, it's just the cost of doing business. They pay at the last minute, so they can continue to broadcast nonsense to their viewers like nothing happened. Their viewers live in a bubble. For some reason they only view, and for that matter, can only comprehend, what they see and hear on Fox News. Even if they accidentally tune to CNN, MSNBC, or the major networks' news coverage, it doesn't get through to them. It's a brainwashed cult. I doubt this cult is capable of reading the news. When you're brainwashed, you don't realize you're brainwashed. As far as Fox's statement about "acknowledging the court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false" that's all they're doing. If the court said "the world is flat," they can acknowledge they said that, but it's basically meaningless.
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So the company was not worth "10 billion dollars" as this news report says at the start. It's just that naive and taken investors thought it was worth $10 billion, but instead it was 10 cents. Just a "small" mistake or rounding error. Even "Mr. Know-it-All" Jim Cramer on CNBC, belched out the virtues of Theranos. How can one claim you have groundbreaking technology, when it hasn't been invented yet? Saying that "they're working on it," "it may be coming soon," "we have the brightest people in the industry," and so on, doesn't count. Words are cheap, but it doesn't create a product that can test less than one drop of blood for hundreds of tests. In the software world, that's called vaporware, where most all of these concepts never become reality.
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I did some quick math, and their $14,200,000 annual food bill is quite cheap. If the 4,500 soldiers, on average, eat at the cafeteria twice a day, that's only $3,155.55 per year to feed each soldier, which is $8.65 per day per person, or $4.32 per meal (even less per meal if they're eating closer to three meals a day ($2.88 if all the soldiers eat three meals per day there). I hope the civilian staff working in the kitchen get to eat the food too. It's a benefit they deserve, as working in the kitchen isn't a high paid job.
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The tapping is totally stupid. Not worth it as every other brokerage that offers a cash management account (Schwab, Merrill Edge, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, IBKR Lite, etc.) offers a debit card with no wait. If you want something near 1.8% interest at those places, just find a money market mutual fund within the account and move your money into it. Another reason the tapping is more than idiotic, is if everyone tapped 1,000 times a day, the net result of that would be a zero effect on what place anyone has in line. We're all spinning our wheels for nothing. I've moved up from about 205,000 to about 178,000 since October. It will be a long time before I can apply. I'm estimating they process about 2,000 - 2,500 applications per business day. The line is now over 1,000,000. At this rate, customers near the end of the line will need to wait for something like two years. Anyway, since no-commission stock trades have become the norm, and other brokerages offer more investment options than Robinhood, the main reason to trade with Robinhood (free trades) has faded.
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These scams are everywhere, with Texas probably near the top for a variety of reasons. I'm not a math wizard, but if he was able to buy these solar panels for cash ($59,000), at the rate of being paid for the $95 of electricity per month they produce, that will take over 51 years to earn his $59,000 back. That's not including inflation, maintenance, the panels won't even last close to 51 years, he'll be over 130 years old by then if he lived that long, and few people even live in the same home for that long. A scam any way you look at it. It's not that solar doesn't work (it does), but scammers and unscrupulous salespeople take over the scene when they see a quick way to make a buck.
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If the person locked out goes to the front desk and doesn't have ID, because it's locked in the room, the hotel desk should verify it's someone who belongs in room, which one way would be escorting them to the room, unlocking the room for them, and then only giving them the key once they're sure. It's staff that end up forgetting hotel policies. The thing with the chopped off finger was gross. Even though it was an intruder, it could have been hotel staff checking on the room for some reason that also didn't follow policy. I wonder what happened to that person. Obviously a bloody mess that has a lot of DNA evidence, and they must have gone to an emergency room. This reminds me when I went to a cellphone store because I needed a new SIM card. I gave them my phone number, they looked up things and gave me a new SIM. I thought later on that anyone could have gone to the store, did that, and hijacked my telephone number. Obviously the cellphone store staff forgot to check ID too. You just never know.
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This nonsense gets me angry. If "they can control the weather," then we have nothing to worry about. I live in California. We go through all weather extremes. Droughts, floods, winds, heat waves, etc. Just order the weather like you order from a restaurant menu, and we'll get the perfect amount of rain, snow, temperatures, etc., with pinpoint accuracy. Problem solved.
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