Did she expect a Payday?

"compelled" because it was "difficult"

You're not our kind, dear.

Perhaps. It wasn't that long ago that rat shack was still around. But their computers? No, other than perhaps a Color Computer. Most of those 1000 series machines were just bog-standard DOS machines with the PCjr graphics array and sound chip. No reason to keep them around when they became obsolete or broke, so they got recycled.

Tandy would do that here. Bring a radio in from Hong Kong, solder a wire on, boom! Made in USA and lining the shelves of your nearest Rat Shack.

I'm still giggling over the time when Instantshit went from iOS only to Android and beyond.

The apple-flavored tears sustain me to this day.

Pluto is a dog. Goofy is a dawg.

There's nothing there to do. It's a city of welfare bums. Bethamphetamine lives there.

Indeed it was. The fact that it's barely double what it was 35 years ago is crazy.

Just keeping up with the government's funny-money numbers, it should be about $11, if you start at the late 80s.

In 1978 it was $2.65 an hour. It was $2.50 the year before.

Minimum was never $3.25, it was 3.10 in 1980 and 3.35 in 1981. It stayed at 3.35 until 1990, which was nuts.

The Hang Seng was down 13.22% today. That's jaw dropping.

I know. I can't afford to buy the house I have today. It wasn't $625 a month when I bought it 28 years ago.

It's absolutely insane to see how things have changed. It's unsustainable.

That's something like $92 today, almost 200k a year.

I think we paid $60 for River Raid when it came out. That's about $200 now.

Pelosi AND Big Mike are both men? I guess it's good we don't know what a whamyns is these days.

Going to be a long drive, being overseas and all.

Unless they're driving a mailman's Subaru, that is.

Don't forget spite. It's The Spice That Makes It Nice™

I suppose that code could mean that it was never issued to the person in question.

The date database certainly seems to indicate they would have reissued it in the 70s, if it were eligible to be reissued.

SSNs are a thin veneer of identification. I'm honestly surprised the system hasn't just disintegrated into dust by this point.

edit: did some digging, that code literally means that the number does not exist in the SSN files - i.e. it was not issued to anyone in the 1970s. SSNs aren't reused, so it can't have belonged to Bounel either.

What database provided that result? There may be more information attached to it.

Interesting. That must not be a thing anymore. Either that, or I misinterpreted the info.

Probably the latter.

I don't know how it is now, but you didn't need to get a SSN immediately. For example, mine was issued 4 years after birth, when a sibling was born.

There is, however, a factor in getting a passport if your SSN was issued a substantial amount of time after birth in the sense that it's a lot more difficult to do. I can't find that information right off hand but I seem to remember that I fell under that limit by a year or two when I got mine.

edit: looked mine up, it was a year after my brother was born. Probably when I had to start school, and now you know I'm an old shit.

https://stevemorse.org/ssn/ssn.html

The number, if issued, would have been in CT in 1976-77.

That's a moot point since the traceback says it was never issued.

I thought that was the case. Couldn't remember the exact date save that it was before I was buying anything like that on my own.

why did trump do this

They should learn to code.

And who knows what a woman really is?

The impreza lost it's manual with the 2024 year, and I believe that was the last one save the WRX.

Even those are slowly transferring over to CVT, because the car can't drive itself with a manual. Stupidroo believes that you don't know how to drive your car.

Subaru assembles cars in the USA at the SLA (Subaru Lafayette Assembly) plant in Lafayette, Indiana.

The EJ25 engine with the head gasket isn't made anymore. You just had to put up with bad wheel bearings after that.