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I had been planning on deleting my... I think 15 year old account? that I haven't touched since baconreader stopped working but hadn't pulled the trigger yet because I put so much work into those years of posts. But, you make a good point. I may need it for a thing someday.

They know that we know that they know that we know!

#2. 100%

Tired or not, you're absolutely right.

Yeah, a LOT of Americans are treating this as business as usual, and it most certainly is not usual. Just because bad leadership has blown over in the past doesn't mean this is the same thing.

People are not panicking anywhere near the level they should because we need to take care of this NOW. Like now, now. I can't believe it ever got this far to begin with, but you are 100% right in saying that 4 years is far too long, and by then, it will be too late.

I think it's more like a sibling that you grew up with who was taught the same moral code as you. They were living a healthy, normal life for a while but got offered a very high paying job that is at odds with those childhood morals. They decided to take it, and at first, they did just a few unethical things. Then, they realized that they could make more money by being more unethical and the people who were supposed to be chastising them were not very good at punishing people with money and were really easy to manipulate, so they leaned in to the lack of ethics.

They know what their doing is hurting people, and they don't care because they want to drive their Lamborghini to family Christmas and bring an ostentatiously expensive bottle of wine so that people can praise and fawn over them. But, if you call them on their bad behavior, they become enemies because how dare you?! Now we're the sibling who is powerful but has completely gone awry due to that same power.

I'm hoping we gave a nice family reunion someday where my country has learned the error of its ways and can once again be accepted by its lovely Canadian relatives.

Yeah, me too. I just started on that med, and I found that I have to schedule my meals with reminders and then force myself to eat some of them, or I will go the entire day not remembering/wanting to eat.

My understanding is that when they bite you, they also inject a bit of anticoagulant to prevent clotting as they suck blood out. The foreign material creates an allergic reaction that itches.

I don't think there would be much of an evolutionary advantage to irritating your victim until they start a pesticidal war against you and your kind.

And in my hair, promptly ripping a chunk of it out of my ponytail.

You're right; I don't have to be offended or take it personally. As such, I am neither offended, nor am I taking any of the comments in this thread personally. This is mostly because I'm addressing the issue at hand, not the person involved, so there is nothing to be offended by or about.

My point is that, you're attacking the person, not their ideas. I get that it's irritating to have someone question or throw a wrench into a post that was just supposed to be a good-old offensive time. Like I said, I'm no Musk lover, and I enjoy hating on him too - above bar or otherwise. But, OP brings up a good point by saying we should focus on the issues at hand as opposed to attacking what the person looks like. Also, since this is a public thread on Lemmy, if a person is willing to comment, it is obviously assumed that said comment then becomes the business of everyone on Lemmy (and, quite honestly, the entirety of the internet). Otherwise, why post at all? Is discourse not the point of this entire platform?

I don't think OP is a "fuck head" simply because they want to draw attention to the actual issues instead of being focused on circle-jerking about peoples' unspecified hate for Musk. I don't think they are offended by the post, just that we should be a bit better about the focus of our discontent. I get where you're coming from though, it's a shitpost community, and circle-jerk hate is very satisfying. As said, I, personally, do enjoy it, but I'm not the greatest human being, and I sometimes like to give in to that less reasonable part of myself. If that's the kind of thing that you want to post about, that's fine. Do it! Just don't be surprised when other people call you out on your logical fallacy. Otherwise, if you think there is no fallacy at play, then you may not actually have any counter-arguments to the ideas and claims that Musk makes, and that is where OP's concern lies.

You seem like an intelligent person, so I doubt your only reasons for disliking Musk are simply corporeal. I think you should continue to have fun with shitposts like this while OP should continue to draw attention to the fact that, while this feels good, it's not the actual issue that we're dealing with, nor does it provide a solution.

I think it's more about the ad hominem attack. I don't love Elon Musk by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't like him because of his ideas, beliefs, and the impact he's having on my country. It has little to do with how he looks or the shape of his body. It's his ideas and their implementation that people disagree with in actuality.

Attacking how he looks is just a lazy way of attacking someone without putting in the effort to refute the beliefs and ideas he has. Sensitivity isn't what is bothering OP. It's that we're missing the point by focusing on blind dislike instead of attacking the reasons that generated the dislike.

In my line of work, it's a legal thing and a balancing the books thing. The business can't legally keep the money because it is being held in trust for that particular person, and only that person is allowed to get those funds (unless they die, then it becomes part of their estate). We can't just wait a certain number of years and say ha! you didn't get your funds in time, and now they're mine!

While we have the funds in trust, the case isn't fully closed as far as our accounting department is concerned. Accounting doesn't want uncashed checks out there and doesn't like the idea of holding onto client funds indefinitely because they have to keep track of all of that, and we've had something like 40,000 clients in the last 30-40 years. Their goal is to get that account down to zero so there are no funds for that client left in their account.

At a certain point, if we can't hunt that person down, we have to get this money off our books. Otherwise, if it was legally allowed, we could be stuck holding these funds for decades and having to manage them that whole time. In my particular state, businesses legally have to submit it as unclaimed property after 5 years. The goal was to have all these funds in one location so people don't have to search at a bunch of different places to find unclaimed funds. Really, it's a benefit to both the business and the people searching for their funds. We get to clear it off the books, and they have a one-stop shop for receiving any unclaimed funds. It sounds like different types of funds have different waiting periods. I believe the department of revenue also makes efforts to find the owner of those funds.

Lots of different businesses use this system. Say you have a savings account out there somewhere that you completely forgot about, so it's been sitting there with no activity for years. Since then, maybe you've moved or gotten a new phone number. If the bank sends you letters and emails and calls you but still can't get in contact after 5 years, they are going to close the account and send those funds to the state. It could be submitted by an insurance company who has settlement funds or reimbursement funds for ending a policy. It could be that you overpaid on something, and the business is trying to return the difference to you, but can't find you. Basically, if some business owes you money in any way, but can't for some reason get it to you, they have to submit it to the state. I'm assuming it works the same if the next of kin can't be found for an estate.

I'm not sure how the business to business funds would work, but businesses here are required to have a registered agent who is responsible for receiving subpoenas or whatever else for the business, so hunting down the owner seems like it's a bit easier, but I've never worked on that side, so I don't really know.