This sounds like the schools don’t handle the payments for lunches. A third party does and as an electronic payment processor, they probably don’t provide a physical address where a check can be received.

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Awesome, thanks for sharing! I ordered my free replacement. Glad I got the 3 year warranty.

That sounds absolutely adorable!

I got the litter robot. I’ve had it 9 months. I have a cat that loves to dig and the rubber liner doesn’t look like it’s going to hold up for more than 2 years because she scratches the same spot relentlessly, but I still love it. I’d buy a new one every other year if I needed to.

My conservative parents have also been complaining about the economy and their financial situation. In April they spent 4k to get a box at a baseball game and asked me for money to pay for it, citing that its a special spend to celebrate my dad’s 60th birthday. Then last week I found out that they are going on a 16k eastern European river cruise this summer. Talk about temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to give you a hard time, just sharing how drastically different housing markets can be. I could sell my house in California and buy a 400k house outright from the equity that has accumulated. Alot of middle class Californian are doing just that, selling their houses and buying in the south or midwest with cash. It’s part of what is inflating your housing costs because your market is more affordable than mine. For comparison, the median houshold income in my city is 89k but the median house list price is 1 million, making your market more affordable and attractive for those that need some relief from inflation.

Those numbers mean nothing without knowing the local wages. In my neighborhood the lowest priced 800 sqft homes are 950k and one bedroom rent is $2400. So your area sounds like a killer deal.

This is a discrimination case, which currently only applies to protected classes, such as race, religion, age, etc. But age discrimination can begin at 40 years old, so it’s a class that everyone eventually gets to be a part of…if they are lucky enough to live that long.

We bought in 2016 with 50k down at 3.5% and our payments were $2,800. We refinanced and now our payments are $2,400. Zillow says if we bought our same house today, at today’s rate with the same amount down the payments would be $7,700, an utterly unfathomable amount.

I started taking a medication recently that has “enlarged spleen” as a side effect. Okay doc, I’ll keep an eye on my spleen.

In theory yes, you could air root and transfer a plant but it’s harder in practice and the grapes may not be the same if the soil type and water type are drastically different in the new location.

Older models, yes but not the newer ones.

UC San Diego.

(I'm very pro union but…)

I just started a college class after a 20 year break. It's an online, asynchronous, class so the only "interaction" from the teacher is that she made a youtube video for each chapter that I can watch. The videos are terrible and were obviously made in 2016 and from the phrasing she uses, it's clear that these videos are used for course at several colleges in the area. The teacher doesn't have office hours and said we can only ask her questions via text.

How much should one earn for teaching a class in 2023 by playing videos from 2016? She even monetizes her YouTube channel and makes us sit through ads. We use an integrated online textbook that handles all the homework and testing and automatically calculates grades. Her job is more like collecting residuals than a real job. Shes not really putting out new efforts and she could easily be working another full time job at the same time. I'm pretty shocked to see what the college experience has become.

My boss doesn’t work on Fridays and I’m starting to push for this flex setup. I’ll check my emails and do the hour or two of work that might come in those days, but I want to do it from home while getting my household chores done before the weekend.

It’s the actual term.

San Diego has been the same. Unseasonably cool lately. I’m certainly appreciating it while it lasts.

We went to the big island during an eruption in 2018. I didn’t want to go but my family wouldn’t cancel. The air was full of vog. It was gross and everyone in our group was cranky. I’m sure your neighbor will not get the trip they planned for.

Legal field for me, but I’ll be honest. I was planning on quitting Reddit cold turkey and doing something else with my free time but my software project manager husband kept talking about Lemmy, so here I am.