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grafonola 2 points ago +2 / -0

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

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

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grafonola 2 points ago +2 / -0

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.

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grafonola 6 points ago +6 / -0

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

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grafonola 3 points ago +3 / -0

And who knows what a woman really is?

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grafonola 2 points ago +2 / -0

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.

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grafonola 1 point ago +1 / -0

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.

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grafonola 1 point ago +1 / -0

that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front operation

It's not a secret bunker if you keep telling everyone where it is!

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grafonola 1 point ago +1 / -0

It could turn out to be like how Pennsylvania used to regulate the bakery industry.

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grafonola 2 points ago +2 / -0

Computer parts are a well-abused fraud channel since the scammer gets an easily unloadable device.

I get that at times when ordering from an SBC dealer here in the states. Things like Raspberry Pi units are good as gold on the open market.

That's not apologizing for your bank's asshattery, usually when I have an issue I can just call my card issuer and say "Yep, I made that purchase for $xxx from $company and they're all k thx bye.

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grafonola 8 points ago +8 / -0

We had one of those too here in 'murka. Some dude named Biden (and a couple of his cronies) just walked away from the disaster they created without repercussion.

We feel for ya and will drink a bourbon shot for ya. Come on over and we'll finish the bottle.

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grafonola 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's a device that follows a signature cut into a block of metal. One stylus traces the cut, the other follows it holding a pen. They're used a lot for mass autographs, checks (before the rainbow imprint we use now,) - literally anything that you'd expect to be signed but where the signer couldn't possibly sign all of the items.

If you've ever seen one of those pantograph devices that allows you to copy a piece of artwork by following the lines, it's similar save it follows a set path.

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grafonola 1 point ago +1 / -0

The Post Office pension prefunding law, which required the USPS to prefund retiree health benefits, was removed on April 6, 2022, with the signing of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.

The Post Office defaulted on most of these payments.

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grafonola 3 points ago +3 / -0

The post office is under the control of the executive branch. That's why postage rates have to be approved by congress.

Otherwise, they are required to operate like any other business except they can't set prices of product to meet costs.