A Chained VPN would solve that problem, unless they look really close.

I believe the word is fraud. If you live in chicago you need to actually live in Chicago 183 days a year and pay the state's 5% income tax.

Bartending is a young man's job, the opportunity to be a 50 year old, male bartender are few and far between. Further, the job is not good for the soul, it may be fine for a young, single guy but the hours, the booze and generally toxic environment of working in a bar/restaurant is not good for an adult. Let's also not forget that most service jobs don't include health insurance and other benefits that while may not seem like much at 30 they are super important later in life.

It would also take the OP a year, maybe two to get into a nursing program and then the program is 2 years and a CRNA is an even longer program (again if you can get into the program). In addition most of the better hospitals want an RNBS, so add more time. If the OP is looking for a quick turn around nursing is not the way to go.

Using a sawzall is probably your best bet, certainly the fastest way to knock it out. If you want to actually remove the posts you need to get a hose and soak the area around the post (water the post like a thirsty plant). once it gets really wet use a post puller (you can pick one up for $30-40) and a lot of muscle. Honestly I removed the chain link fence at my building and my neighbors and I pilled out probably a dozen posts with the concrete and then I just flush cut the posts and a few years later you can't really tell the difference.

I finished in 1990, but worked in sports for a few years more and yes the vast majority of athletes were taking something. There were a few that didn't be they were genetic freaks and now with the amount of money being thrown around it's almost a requirement to stay in the game.

I think people fail to realize how deep the bench really is and that there are lots of people not only willing but wanting to help people but they are never asked. I'm glad this young man has someone to play video games and hang out with.

They've been beating the drum of a massive recession since 2015 and the beat goes on.

of course but burning stuff is not going to end anytime soon. So while we are waiting it might be a good idea to try to clean up the mess we're making.

The average person in the US creates 16 tons of co2, so ~$625 a year or $52 a month. We pay more than that for our cell phones. Let's put this thing online and start embedding a $10 carbon capture tax in airfare and $5-10 for a license plate and a couple of pennies per gallon in gas. Even if that only pulls 25% of the co2 out of the air it's a great start. Hopefully the economy of scale would kick in and reduce costs and that would be even better.

Well that sucks. I used to work for a company that gave loans to people with poor credit and my advice to you is to get your financial house in order ASAP. Make all your payments on time for the next year and then try to refi -this is what most of the people we had tried to do, granted 40% defaulted and another 20% always paid late but these companies used to report to the credit agencies every month so if you actually do pay on time it's good for your credit. Good luck.

When times are good, times are good. Sure right now unemployment is a 3% but right now the fed is actively trying to change that. Good times don't last forever and companies hate paying market value, so flex while you can but what you are seeing now is not the norm.

> walked in to my bosses office on Monday morning (counter offer was made on Friday late afternoon) and told my boss “so I guess the only way to get a decent raise around here is to start interviewing elsewhere?”

And my boss said yep, if you want a decent raise.

You're a little fucked. I'd look around and see if anyone will refi your debt, my guess there's someone who will give you a personal loan at 10% opposed to the 20-25% you are likely paying on those credit cards. Cut up your CC's and learn to live on the cheap for a few years -more likely a decade.

totally. As I said I was a messenger way back when so I don't have a lot of love for people in cars, they don't like to share the road and don't take a lot of responsibility for driving a 4000lb piece of steel. Every messenger I knew had at least one bad wreck, I went through 2 windshields in my short career and neither was my fault -both drivers excuse was "they didn't see me"....when they drove into me. The thing is there are enough assholes to go around on both sides, but the guy on the bike is always going to lose. I do think part of the issue is that cops just ignore the guy on the bike unless he's being a complete ass and they are "clamping down" or "making an example" -they just need to enforce the law, if some bozo blows through a light write them a ticket, it's not hard. Both sides need to learn to respect the other side and both sides needs to take some more responsibility for their actions.

>a decent regular bike is like at least 400- 500$

maybe if you are buying a huffy or some other punch out bike at Wal-mart but any name brand bike is much closer to $1000 than $500.

under 50cc's no license is needed. When I was a kid you could get a moped license at 14 -every kid between 14 and 16 had a 49cc moped.

>but in a city you rarely would be going faster

Have you been to NYC or Chicago in the last few years? Every food delivery guy is on an Ebike going as fast as they can in the bike lanes. Regulation is coming I just don't think the government knows how to handle ebike -hopefully they see the good in ebikes and don't do something ham handed but they likely will.

I believe the moped in question was a puch

Very few people on bikes, e or otherwise pay attention to stop signs or traffic lights. I'm totally fine with treating stops signs as yields (like they do in the Netherlands) but stop lights are a different story. I've been biking in a city for 35+ years and spent some time as a bike messenger so I know how to ride in traffic and blowing through a light at 20+mph on your ebike is a quick way to go to the hospital.

I think we are reaching critical mass as far as e-vehicle regulation. Call them e-whatever they are still motorized vehicles and need to be treated as such, I love the idea of ebikes, they are a great alternative to a car and I will likely buy one in the next year or two but the execution has just been a free for all.

I don't think the companies care how they get their money but the customers want opex and not capex so everything is a subscription and nobody owns anything. It's just another accounting trick and when the IRS gets tired of this bullshit the rules will change and so will the model.

even if they do have health care a lot don't include hearing aids including medicare -can you believe that medicare doesn't cover hearing? Anyway, for under $1000 it's going to help a whole lot of people.