I just checked the SS website and I was correct, the payment date is based on your birthdate, unless you started receiving benefits before 1997. SSI is different and if you are receiving both the schedule is different.
Link goes to a calendar, the info I referenced is at the bottom of the calendar.
I endured 30 seconds of it, and now my brain is throbbing! 
What it does for kids is a bit controversial.
Essentially it goes to supporting an Orthodox Jewish children’s outreach program, mostly for kids in the northeastern US (mostly New Jersey). They don’t ever disclose who it’s for and how the money is used. All of the work is done “in house” so it’s difficult to tell how many of the proceeds actually go to kids and how they do it. This obfuscation has caused the charity problems before. Both Oregon and Pennsylvania fined the charity for deceptive advertising.
In their defense, given how prevalent antisemitism is the past decade or so, it’s hard to blame them. And they have at times donated proceeds to children outside of their specific religious program.
It’s also worth pointing out that their jingle is the official theme song of The Bad Place (Hell).
June is bugging me now… literally. I was out at my late in-laws house on Saturday, mowing the yard and pulling weeds (and just about killed myself in the heat and humidity). Sunday evening I noticed my ankles feeling kinda itchy, pulled off my socks, and saw I had a ring of chigger bites around both feet.
The thing is, I know the in-laws yard is a chigger haven, and it’s my own stupid fault for not putting on bug spray before I went out. On the plus side, at least they stopped at my feet and didn’t go all the way up my legs like they usually do!
I had forgotten about that. Gold.
A couple of days ago my mom texted me and her brothers a bunch of photos showing my cousin taking his young son to a Trump rally. They’re so happy covered in MAGA stuff. I tried to think of a proper response and decided the best one was none at all, because there is nothing I could say that wouldn’t just lead to bitterness.
Then she posted a follow-up, so that her brothers knows who he is. (He’s a cousin on my dad’s side of the family, not hers, so they probably don’t know who he is.)
I chose the “block and delete this conversation” option. I don’t want to be part of that crap.
It’s sad that not only will people celebrate a convicted felon who broke the Espionage Act, attempted an insurrection, committed election fraud, sexually assaulted women, and actively attempts to destroy the basic foundations of democracy in our country. But I’m closely related to some of those people.
Just don’t bring up your MAGA shit to me. I’m not in your pathetic bubble.
Ditto. I’m sorry. I have a lot of imaginary conversations with my MAGA relatives, and always wind up at the conclusion that we should never try to speak of these things in reality.
Um, yeah. I have a cousin, I love her dearly, extremely fun person to be around, who is aggressively pro-life, and who once said to me, in perfect seriousness, “There’s no better time to be a poor single mother than right now. There are so many programs and services available!”
We don’t talk about politics.
And let me add:
Our car insurance premium this year is $4,000??? Are you fucking kidding me?
It went up $1,000 over the course of the last year?!!
What the actual fuck. Time to find a new carrier.
I have suddenly become well over $9000 poorer while just sitting here minding my own business. It took less than a second.
OK, I admit it. I’ve been a Bad Dog. I’ve let my property taxes slide and they were now more than a year overdue. So … I took a deep breath, a huge swig of vodka martini, logged into my bank account, and just like that, I’m suddenly more than $9,000 poorer! Suddenly I’m on side with libertarians who consider governments to be thieves. Municipal governments are the worst and most unforgiving bastards.
I have to wonder what the hell I got for my money. Two new schools nearby that I have no school-age kids to attend. A park I never go to. A very fancy rec center that nobody asked for and that I certainly have been even been inside of. Snowplowing in winter when it snows, which it almost never does. Garbage collection which costs almost nothing. Water and sewage, you say? Hah! That’s a whole separate bill – not covered by taxes.
Ah! But there is one new high-tech thing I’m paying for. They’re installing photo-radar cameras on some of our streets so that the motherfucking cocksucking bastards can automatically send me speeding tickets without having to deploy actual police officers.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think I’m gonna cry.
I find that term both homophobic and misogynist
I can’t ever imagine having that much money!
I have been in poverty all my life and always will be.
Wow. 9,000.
For about twenty years, I lived on social security disability and ‘loans’ from relatives. Now, I make about 36,000 a year. If I can do it, surely you can too.
I find that term both homophobic and misogynist
I would think those two actions referred to by wolfpup would be in separate social circles… (as well as separate Venn Diagram circles).
Allow me to explain then. Gay men (presumably) felate other men. Thus ccksck*rs is a derogatory term for them. Women (hopefully) also felate men. The insult is that a man is degrading himself by taking on the role of a woman- because women are less than men. Thus, the term is misogynist as well.
I find you to be thread-shitting and exercising perfomative outrage.
This is a thread for ranting. I was unhappy about having to send those bastards that sum of money for no real purpose except that “you live here, we get to tax you”. I was expressing genuine emotions. You were just being a disruptive ass.
As, I have explained, I find that term homophobic and misogynist. Since you’ve doubled down rather than apologising, I’m beginning to have doubts about you.
Tree limbs between the pole and my house have been knocked down my power and cable wires last night because those wires run through the tree’s limbs. The trees are between the street and the house.
The power company fixed the power lines. The cable company is coming tomorrow. And I’ve left a message for the town’s tree dept that they need to trim that tree.
Have you actually checked the history of this board, you fucking dumbass? There are dozens of similar references. Have you exercised your perfomative outrage in all of them? Or are you just a moody disruptive ass who likes to sabotage discussions whenever it suits you? “Having doubts about me”? Hah. You can fuck right off.
Just a few examples …
I’ve expressed disapproval of every instance I have seen. I am unable to see every post as it is made.