"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Sneeds said:
@Null Should I be glad that most if not all of the gas stations in my area have no ads playing on the screen?
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For now, it's only gonna get worse:

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The phenomenon Null talked about, about how addicts are often most vulnerable to death after a rehab stint, is how Amy Winehouse died. She eventually finally went to rehab, was clean for a lil bit, and then went and did what had been a standard alcohol binge for her... and up and died from alcohol poisoning. The addicts lose the physical tolerance to their chosen substances while in rehab, but then they still have like a muscle-memory of the old behavior, so they just pick up where they left off, instead of building back up to it.

It's really eerie to bring up with Ralph, because I hadn't thought about it until Null brought it up, but now I can't think of that not happening with Ralph. I don't even think he has time to get a life insurance policy that would actually pay out for him.

gagosian said:
I found the original post they reference in the documentary, they also changed the username it seems.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/fat-acceptance-movement-fat-girlcows.2042/page-253#post-4064348 It looked like she confused her DOB with her SS number. Was that posted at any point? If not getting them to issue a correction would be funny.
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Ah, I was confused about the SS number claim. Like, since when do we post those? I'd bet it was an intentional misrepresentation to make her whinging look more legitimate, because she knows people on her side won't look, and that she can claim confusion if she actually were to be called out on it.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
Josh loving the USPS makes me happy. What do you think of seeing the classic Grumman LLV mail truck now that you're back in the states Josh?
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Those are currently being replaced by the Oshkosh NGDV, which looks like this.
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Also, many of the mail trucks people think are LLVs are actually the later FFV, which is longer and easily distinguished by a window over the cargo area which the LLV does not have. FFVs are more common than LLVs in many cities due to them being less old and beat down.
 
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beautiful person said:
It's really eerie to bring up with Ralph, because I hadn't thought about it until Null brought it up, but now I can't think of that not happening with Ralph. I don't even think he has time to get a life insurance policy that would actually pay out for him.
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The chances he is actually going to rehab instead of doing a 2 week offline drug binge with hookers are extremely low.
 
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Null said:
do they not have a fan or something on the dash?
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When I used to load the trucks before being moved, it honestly depends

Sometimes they got fans bolted to the front of the dash, along with doors to keep it cool, and some other cars don't have any of it.

Its quite literally random
 
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Oxyjen said:
Say what you like about the NGDV, I bet it has air con
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Having looked at the specs, as far as the mailman's experience goes the NGDV might as well be heaven on earth compared to the FFV and LLV. Air conditioning, way better visibility and comfort, and more. Also, most of the fleet will be battery electric vehicles, which AFAIK is by far the largest mass adoption and fielding of BEVs in United States history, possibly the world. It'll be great for data on large numbers of electric vehicles being used very hard over a very long period of time, I wonder if the government accounted for the fact that the batteries are all going to have to be replaced in 5-10 years though due to the large number of charge-discharge cycles they'll go through.
 
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Those are currently being replaced by the Oshkosh NGDV, which looks like this.
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Also, many of the mail trucks people think are LLVs are actually the later FFV, which is longer and easily distinguished by a window over the cargo area which the LLV does not have. FFVs are more common than LLVs in many cities due to them being less old and beat down.
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Oshkosh made that? Where's the conical bottom and remote control turret?
 
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Elm Sinclair said:
Where does the figure come from about 15% of every dollar going to the IRS? In 2023, the US government collected about about 4 trillion dollars in taxes and the IRS had expenditures of about 16.1 billion, unless I'm reading their data book incorrectly.
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I mentioned the same thing to him early this morning. I looked into it a bit. The $16 billion figure really is their budget to operate the agency. Josh was working with a figure that represents the absolute total amount allotted to the IRS to pay for tax refunds, tax credits, and other payment obligations, in addition to operating costs. Josh saw the $784 billion figure and took it at face value but didn't originally look at the breakdown. Now he's aware of the breakdown.

Now to Josh's credit, there are a few categories besides the $16 billion that sound like operating costs, such as "Enforcement" and "Operations Support", and these bring the total up to around $60 billion, but that's still about 1%.

Regardless, I still believe Trump should bulldoze the IRS and feed every employee into a woodchipper feet-first on the slow setting.
 
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A family member delivered mail for many years. But they were a rural carrier and had to provide their own vehicle. In the beginning the USPS was selling old postal jeeps so you could buy them. Later a few right hand drive models were available in the US, like the Subaru. I think towards the end the rural area finally got provided vehicles, but yea they weren't great in the hills with winter weather.

I suspect a rural carrier doing mostly mailboxes without having to get out might benefit from A/C. But many others doing packages, businesses, foot routes, apartments, etc would not.

My current county of under 100k people is all done by carriers using their own vehicles as far as I'm aware.
 
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