Hey folks so my Car number is XX DC 0222 (Hiding state alphabets to preserve identity) but recently I am getting messages from fasttag regarding that toll has been deducted from your fasttag with car number XX CD 0222 from XYZ toll plaza.
I tried to check by putting number of the unknown vehicle via Parivahan app and other apps but it shows no record of the vehicle. My concern is that if it's some kind of mistake or error from fasstag or the person registering the vehicle but why a vehicle with such a similar number is being connected to my phone number ?? Should I be worried because despite being a lawyer and legally aware citizen I have never heard of such a case related to fasttag.

Who am I?

As stated in my profile's description, I am u/syko-san. Yes, the name is a bit cringe, but I made the account when I was an edgy 13 year old. Let's be real, a lot of us were pretty cringe in middle school. Anyway, I am a 19 year old university student and am currently working on getting my bachelor's degree. I have thought about getting a master's degree afterwards, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. I do, in fact, suffer from mental health issues, but they are unrelated to Reddit and are mostly under control. I am being treated appropriately and, while I can't say I am quite as functional as the average person, I survive relatively okay thanks to the treatments and the help of people around me.

The Origins of Pixel Counter Bot

Let's start at the beginning. I knew about countablepixels long before the creation of the bot. It would come up in my feed and I'd also link it to posts with egregiously low resolution. One day, I noticed people actually counting the pixels in the comments and a thought occurred to me. "What if I automated it?" It seemed very doable at the time, as I've messed around with the Reddit bot API in the past for much smaller things, so I spent an hour or two haphazardly throwing the bot together, using a lot of old code I had stashed away from that past experience. I honestly expected people to get annoyed with the bot and for it to get banned within a few days of it going online for the first time. Imagine my surprise when I got contacted by one of the moderators, thanking me for my contribution to the subreddit's growth and giving me moderator status myself. This little dumb project that I made on a whim was getting a lot more love than I was expecting.
Anyway, so the bot continued to get more attention and one night, I woke up at like 1am and checked my phone to see how the account was doing. I saw a reply to one of its comments saying "Fuck you" so I had the bright idea of logging into the bot account and replying with "Shut the fuck up." to see if people would find it funny. It got a lot of attention, so my aggressive responses to things started becoming a theme of the account.

How I genuinely feel about the harassment

As with most bots on Reddit for some ungodly reason, the account got a lot of sexual comments and DMs. This made me very uncomfortable at first, and I decided to reply to them with my trademark exaggerated levels of aggression. After a while, I kind of got used to such comments and started ignoring them a bit. They don't bother me nearly as much anymore, and while I do find them pretty cringe, I'm not losing my sanity over them. Trust me, I've been through much worse.

The "war" with AnarchyChess

I've known about AnarchyChess for a long time as well. It's also a subreddit that would frequently appear in my feed. I was an avid chess player a very long time ago, so I understood most of the humor just fine. That said, please do not actually challenge me to a game of chess, I'm nowhere near as good as I used to be and will probably lose.
Anyway, a bot I knew about sent me a DM with a very descriptive marriage proposal. At the time, I was mostly done giving these comments and messages any attention because there were too many for me to reply to them all, but this one caught my attention. I decided to reply to it and keep an eye on things, then reply to some of u/MartinFromChessCom's comments with my trademark exaggerated aggression. It went okay at first, but things began escalating from there. Martin's creator messaged me on my main account making sure everything was okay, and I explained to him that it was mostly just theatrics, and I thought a "war" between subreddits could actually be pretty fun as long as nobody took it too seriously. He posted a screenshot from our conversation a little while ago, so feel free to take a look. I will also say, please do not send a any hate or harassment his way. I am on good terms with Martin and there is zero genuine beef between us. It was all just to put on a bit of a show.
Regarding my "ban" from AnarchyChess, I was never actually banned from the subreddit. I added a filter in the bot's code to make it ignore any posts from that subreddit because my presence there seems to have only caused trouble, and I do not want to cause any headaches for the moderators there. Additionally, please do not send any harassment towards the moderators of AnarchyChess. They have not wronged me in any way and have actually made statements trying to protect me.

The mysteries of IG continue to baffle me. This Algo Rithm fella is very fickle. Can anyone relate? And more importantly advise. I've taught myself and learnt a lot over the last several months, but still...
Explore! Reach! FolloweNon-Follower split! Reels, Schmeels!
I have a new-ish creator account (since Jan 2024). It's doing broadly very well. I have 3.3k-ish followers. My content is high quality (I get many requests for art prints, and lots of big compliments). Yet, I am continually confused about how different posts perform and how contradictory it all is.
My likes and engagement are growing nicely (from 15-20 likes to 30-40 likes to 70-90+ organic likes). Shares and Saves growing too. I'm getting onto Explore with a majority of posts, too (single to mid-double figures – not sure how that rates).
BUT there's some weird things I don't understand.
1. Explore page, huh?
Compare these two posts:
Strong performing post (for both Likes and for Shares/Saves) - BUT no Explore.
vs.
Weak performing post (low likes, 1 share, 4 saves) - BUT on Explore = 52 (and IG even notified me about how well this did in terms of reach, huh?)I have a few instances of this. And I don't understand it.
2. Reach, wait what?
For a few weeks now, my posts' Reach split is 98% Followers/1-2% Non-followers, it varies a little. (This is while I still have good overall data, and get on to Explore, which implies good quality).
From my research though, this split might mean low-quality content, however, the rest of the data/comments/DMs seem to say I have good content (and I'm pretty certain it's strong). Those splits shift a bit after I boost a post as new people are brought in to look at those posts which increases non-follower exposure.
3. Reels, schmeels.
Reels don't really work for me. I've tried several and they don't perform that well. My work is static photo-based and I have to create a video slideshow which isn't very entertaining. I haven't noticed that they get any more reach (non-followers) than a post.
4. Absolute Zero
I gain literally ZERO new followers through organic posting - almost all new followers are coming from me engaging with other accounts and following and them following back, and also primarily from Boosting/Ads which I run maybe once a week (Don't get me started on the gulf between the Estimated Reach for a boost and the Actual Reach numbers – way, way off).
5. I'm Green
I have all Green check marks on my Account Status page. But among my very loyal and strong following, I also have quite a lot of bots followers. But those are slowly disappearing. Could this be causing an issue? Is IG punishing me for that? That might be all it is.
Unleash the comments!

Hello everyone, I want to preface this by saying in my opinion, I know I’ve made certain mistakes and I have taken accountability for those mistakes, however I feel as though my leadership has also made mistakes pertaining to my specific situations and there was no accountability or change made on their part, and all that’s left is me suffering. I really need help because I want to go to IG but I’m afraid nothing will happen and don’t know what will be the right route to take.
Firstly, let’s start two years ago. I missed work because I was sick, I informed my direct supervisor I was sick and could not make it to work. He replied with a thumbs up and (because he never got anyone to cover me), the fault came down upon me and I was served an LOR. In the LOR from my direct supervisor he attached a screenshot of our messages where he deleted his reply. In my rebuttal, I attached the screenshot of the text message with his reply. Because of that, the LOR was demoted to an LOC, however I don’t believe I should’ve received any paperwork because I notified my supervisor and my supervisor prior, that is what I would do when I was sick. I never had an ACA with this direct supervisor so he never set guidelines. Additionally, he served me this LOR during an ACA, where he also put me down as a human being essentially saying nobody likes me.
When the LOR got demoted to an LOC, this was in a meeting with my SEL and old supervisor and new supervisor (because I requested a new supervisor) and my SEL told me I could’ve gotten worse paperwork for “malingering” and then told me (after I told him I have a real heart condition) “that happens to people like you a lot” (talking about my race) as he further said “I knew a Hispanic man who ran on the track and died”, imagine how scary that was for me.
Secondly, I received an LOR from my OIC for not reporting in blues on a blues day. The day prior, I had just returned from a month long TDY (I returned on a Sunday) where I had no access to my email. Nobody from my chain of command notified me of having to be in blues, and I didn’t purposefully not wear blues because they weren’t ready or whatever the case. Right before I went on TDY I had a blues inspection, so my blues were ready. I simply did not know. They justified it because the other member I went on TDY with reported in blues. However he had a personal computer with a CAC reader so he was able to check his email when he got back, I did not have a personal computer with a CAC reader.
Third, I received an LOR from my commander for reporting to PT in OCPs and leaving PT 15 minutes early. I took full accountability as I really did forget my uniform and I was under the assumption PT was 45 minutes and they were just playing for fun at that point. I am also on a waiver that says do not participate in PT nor at my own pace. After receiving the LOR, I was told “oh you don’t have to go to PT anymore because you’re on a waiver”
Fourth, I tried to commit suicide and after being inpatient, my first sergeant and my supervisor served me a RIC. This RIC was only setting standards my supervisor wanted me to follow since I would be in and out of treatment. My first sergeant said verbatim “I chose a RIC because it’s easier to fill out than an ACA” and convinced me that it wasn’t administrative or punitive, so I agreed.
I am now required to get an MFR signed from any medical appointment I go to stating I attended the appointment, I’m required to check in with my supervisor every day before 0830 (since I’m in treatment), and I’m not allowed to take leave (even on weekends) unless I remain in the local area.
Because I’m in treatment and high interest list, they’re required to do weekly safety checks however I can count on one hand how many weekly safety checks I’ve had since November.
Because of this, the last piece of paperwork I received (for arriving to PT in OCPs and leaving 15 minutes early, which I took full accountability for, I forgot my PTUs and I was under the assumption PT was 45 minutes not an hour), before I received it, I informed my first sergeant i wasn’t on medication and if they were serving me with any negative news/paperwork, to please hold off until I am medicated, as it could be detrimental to my life. They still served me with the paperwork, not checking if I was on medication (which they would’ve done if they did their safety checks, which led to me again attempting to take my life. (I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder, so it’s easy for something to set me off into a major depressive episode where I attempt to take my life if I am not medicated)
Aside from my new SEL saying several things that affected my mental health and what my supervisor said, as well as my old SEL, many of this seems wrong. I am expected to do more than any other airman and am still treated like a DBA.
I wrote this kind of fast, and I’m sure there’s many details I missed. But this is the gist of it. If you have any advice or any questions please reply. I seriously need help as even being around anyone from my squadron at this point is affecting my mental health.

I received several missed calls at almost midnight last May 13 by a number I don’t recognize. I usually screen calls but those calling at an ungodly hour could mean an emergency so I answered the call. The person on the other end started to ask to confirm my mobile number and he said that he has sent Gcash mistakenly to my number. Now, I was woken up and rattled by a midnight call from an unknown number thinking it was an emergency from a family member (Thank God it’s not) and the next thing I hear was the caller telling me he mistakenly transferred money to my Gcash. So instinctively I thought this was a scam call and I told him I don’t have Gcash several times and he can contact Gcash customer service instead. I tried to end the call as fast as I can as I have read some incidents when a call that is long enough from a hacker can get the hacker access to your mobile phone and I don’t want to stay on the line so long since I also was checking my Gcash account then and I did not notice any incoming transfers during that time (the latest transaction that night were all me transferring money out of my account). I then proceeded to block the number from my phone for fear of receiving more pestering calls from the scammer.
The following night my Gcash account was put on hold! I sent several tickets and sent the photos requested from me several times. It did not occur to me that the previous night’s call was related since I never saw any incoming transactions that previous night.
The call was May 13. Today, May 16 afternoon I received an email from Gcash informing me that my account was put on hold because of a complaint of an unauthorized transfer report with details reflecting the last 3 digit of the number that called me as the complainant and the amount was worth P600 but the transfer, accdg to the report, happened May 11 (2 days before I received a call).
I have no idea if this is true or not since I no longer can access my Gcash acct and Gcash no longer texts any transfers that have been made.
According to the email I have to submit a notarized affidavit of settlement with the complainant. How am I to do that if I don’t know any details of the complainant aside from his number and I live an airplane ride from Manila. I don’t think the complainant lives anywhere we can conveniently meet face to face to have the form notarized.
I’ve read in one of the posts that the OP reached out to the scammer who had her account blocked and the scammer lifted the complaint in Gcash. Should I decide to take this route (which I will most probably will just to lessen the hassle of everything else) can anyone please tell me how to cancel or withdraw a complaint in Gcash? Just so if the complainant is willing to do so if I will transfer P600 to his account I can tell him to do so step by step?
Such a hassle and it has left me so confused why my account was on hold since I did not receive any prior notice from Gcash that there was a complaint filed. I have read that if there was a mistake in sending money that Gcash’s suggestion is to have the 2 account holders to talk and settle the issue amongst themselves. So why is Gcash dipping their toes in this or was I reported as a scammer (which I definitely am not).
So frustrating.
Thanks for reading up to this point and any suggestions are much appreciated.

Based in Berkeley, CA; Work was in Mountain View, CA
Back in December, I worked as an independent contractor for a nonprofit 501(3). They gave me a check for 700 dollars for my work. I have not worked with them since. When tax season came around, I spent a long time going back and forth with their payroll department as they never sent me my tax documents. They made me join their payroll on ADP in promise that that is where I would get my tax forms, but I never received them. (I made sure to report the income with the information I could find). I had checked my ADP account today and noticed that they reported they paid me 700 dollars April 15th, 2024 and May 15th, 2024. I never received this money and, again, have not worked for them for several months. I have reached out to them again, but I have a feeling they are going to be as unhelpful as they were the first time. What are my options if this doesn't get remedied or they report more payments I never received? Will this become a bigger issue for my taxes next year or will I be fine?
ADP does not appear to have a help line for employees. The company's entire administration is small and their payroll person is also the executive director, so I don't know if there's another person I could contact from the company if this doesn't get fixed. Any help would be appreciated.

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1. Escalate the Complaint: If you are not satisfied with the response or resolution provided by the customer service team, you can request to escalate your complaint to a higher level within SBI. Ask to speak with a supervisor or a member of the management team who has the authority to address your complaint.
   
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I'm a new "DELVIERY DRIVER ASSOCIATE" at Sherwin Williams.
Recently management has started to attempt to get me to train for cash register amongst other duties that are not in the job description. Now I don't mind helping out the sales associates when I have no deliveries or backstore stuff going on. But I'm not doing their job and mine for $14 an hour. What can I do legally speaking?

• the official job title is "delivery driver associate" not hybrid.
  
• the job description says nothing about cash register duty but does say I have to answer customer questions, which I don't mind.
  
• I'm supposed to be doing a daily vehicle safety check form but my manager hasn't provided me with the paperwork or any help with that. He doesn't care if it's done or not.
  

Hello, I am reaching out about this issue to see if I am the only one experiencing this. I have been having payment issues with varsity tutors. I have called, and they directed me to email the payments team, which can never give me a reasonable answer regarding what is going on with my IPS account. I recently invoiced a session on May 14th, which was dispersed on May 15th when I checked Invoicing on my varsity tutors account. When I log into IPS, I cannot see the dispersed funds on my IPS account, which they call paystubs. I have my active direct deposit set up, and they have my address, but I need an answer to where the money is being dispersed. They told me I was receiving the checks through the mail, which I had yet to receive.

Hello, was wondering if other men have experienced this?? I made an account on the apps and have almost 0 matches/likes. In person however, I get a ton of attention from attractive women and even have some approaching me and giving me their number. I get a lot of women checking me out yet feel like a piece of garbage on the apps lol
What types of men actually get likes??? I get told I'm attractive, go to the gym daily, tall, and good career. My profile was pretty decent I've been told.
Are women swiping on the top 1% of guys or are there just tons of extremely successful men on there?

My homework from my therapist is to have a friend keep me accountable on my eating. Due to high amount of stress going on in my life, it's been REALLY difficult to eat. Mostly dealing with lack of taste and nausea. I mostly give up or just don't have much of appetite. My therapist thinks it would be best to have a trusting friend to keep me accountable and check in if I'm really eating. I understand why but I can't help but feel stress about putting someone in that spot. I did reach out to my friend about it but I worry that when she does check in, I might react badly or get super defensive. I'm awful at accepting help and this is why it's my homework. Does anyone here deal with friends keeping them accountable? If so, do you have any advice? Also is there anything your friends do that is super helpful? I just don't want to put too much on my friend. It's kind of a fucked up ask of someone x.x I'm super self conscious.

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https://timesofmalta.com/article/minister-respects-siggiewi-flats-ruling-defends-identita-officials.1092565?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2vNy_xkJnw_HbQI8nkeaIbU7pe1_0xyIKsNnlkICnwiu7WybtQXg_PigI_aem_AajzFdLVhkeSvt0JglXZI__ESRYkEiqvV1jFVWqYULJ6NdNe1rahcSBrOkmazqKSY_od3Je2UQKGJ4HkxE233qaF#Echobox=1715875202
As the leader of the Malta Catholic Democratic Party, I would issue the following statement:
Statement on the Siġġiewi Flats Ruling and the Role of Identità Officials
The Malta Catholic Democratic Party holds the principles of justice and the rule of law in the highest regard. We are aware of the recent court ruling regarding the manipulation of voters’ addresses in Siġġiewi and the subsequent defense of Identità officials by the Home Affairs Minister¹.
We respect the court’s decision and emphasize the importance of upholding the integrity of our electoral process. It is essential that every citizen’s right to vote is protected and that their address, which determines their electoral district, reflects their actual place of residence.
While we understand the operational challenges faced by Identità officials, we must ensure that all procedures are followed without compromising the fairness of our democratic system. The allegations of voters being registered at uninhabitable social housing apartments are serious and warrant a full investigation.
We urge the government to take immediate action to address these concerns and to implement measures that prevent such occurrences in the future. The trust of the Maltese people in our public institutions must be maintained, and any actions that could potentially undermine this trust should be rectified promptly.
The Malta Catholic Democratic Party will continue to monitor the situation closely and advocate for transparency and accountability at all levels of government.
This statement would be shared with the public and media to communicate the party’s stance on the recent developments concerning the Siġġiewi flats ruling and the defense of Identità officials by the minister.

I matched with this really cute girl who messaged me first and asked me about a lesser-known artist that showed up on my linked Spotify page.
She said she wanted to check them out and asked for my favorite songs etc, i thought it was really cute that she wanted to learn more about one of my interests.
Her messages were pretty flirty and then she sent me her snap username and said add me here. I was at work, not having a great day and was distracted and responded pretty short compared to her messages and just said 'ok i will'. And i forgot to add her on snap right away.
Then, a few hours later when I went to do it, I saw that she had unmatched me and the convo was gone. I don't know her snap but now I am beating myself up for missing out on what could have been a great opportunity to get to know someone with similar interests to me.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, that I created a new Bumble account, found her (pretty easy) sent her a 'compliment' saying that my phone died while I was at work before I could add her, apologized and sent her my snap. No response or add. I figured this move was borderline weird / creepy but also could have been interpreted as cute that I went through that trouble to do that.
TLDR: I responded very short / borderline rude to a flirty message, got unmatched, kicking myself for it now

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Ok, love is not the right word, I just wanted to stick with the spirit of the Sellers inspired title. Here's the timeline, sordid details following:
5/8-5/24/23 - Job offered, finger printed, E-qip done, soft credit pull, no interim 7/?/23 - Interview scheduled with investigator, this was probably mid month, my in-laws were in town 8/14/23 - follow up interview w/ the same investigator, by video 10/20/23 - received LOI for things previously discussed with investigator - immediately retained safetyblitz44 4/24/2024 - finally turned in all documentation required by LOI
I waited 3 weeks to contact the FSO from the hiring company. I received a call back from the program manager pretty fast - they profusely apologized that I should have been notified 11 months ago that they were on a hiring freeze and could no longer offer me the position.
I let them know that this was OK and understandable - BUT, that I had still been in contact with DCSA, had an interview, LOI, etc. and that regardless my case should reflect that. They asked me to send my resume and told me they'd call back.
Not even 2 hours later, they call and let me know that YES I have been adjudicated favorably BUT that's when the company dropped my case. I will remain in this status for about 6 months total, during which time I need to find a job to activate me. This is not the end of the world, the PM referred me to a sub and I'm interviewing next week and I am reaching out to my network - someone is going to pick up a software engineer ready to be cleared, that's probably a non issue. I'm very lucky to find myself in this position at all.
Long version...
I was unemployed from late 2021 to early 2023 when I finally bit the bullet and went back to cleared work. I'm a software engineer and I've been cleared before, I didn't think it would be a huge deal, but I was wrong.
I have filled out the SF-86 a lot, I'm in my 40s and it started in the army in 1999. I have had cleared roles without much issue but I never really had red flags either.
This time I had some IRS issues and I checked "yes" to the having used drugs box. It was weed and I had stopped during the pandemic - it was a social thing and the pandemic sucked all of those aspects right out of it. Sharing seemed to make sense til then and I was never one to sit around getting high alone so it naturally tapered off more than a conscious effort to quit. But, I have no intention of doing it again, so giddyup.
When I met with the investigator for an interview it became clear why I hadn't gotten an interim this time but not why it never came up before. They asked me about "an arrest in March 1997" and all I could say was "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S ON THERE?!"
Now, having re-read the SF-86 a ton, I still can't quite figure out where I would have listed this other than at the end because all of the arrest questions from rev 2016 are "past 7 years" but, some way, somehow I will list this in the future because this was 26 years prior when i was 15.
When I was 15 I was at a bus stop by the school in my city when a friend drove by and stopped - a bunch of us got in. I was sitting shotgun and saw the vehicle we had just entered had no ignition and realized it was stolen and we were all going to get arrested, which we did. No charges, none of us stole a car, including the driver - she was riding in a second hand hot car - we were just in the thing. It was teenage stupidity all the way down. I never thought of it again other than as a hilarious anecdote because we were arrested and released to our parents and that was the end of it til that interview! LOL!
The investigator told me in no uncertain terms that this was why i needed an interview. They said they would have never had to do it otherwise. But, I'm still not sure where I would have listed it or what would have made me think of it. They showed me the FBI report that just said it was an arrest assumed felony. There's an EVER question about being charged with a felony but I was not charged. That was no issue after I explained it and I assume the FBI finally followed up with the rest of their report.
Otherwise we just talked about the stint with MJ use, long over, my IRS issues, and I brought up a bench warrant that I had in another state but explained there was really nowhere on the form to list it and that it was for an unpaid ticket from the year 2000 (misdemeanor) with no statute of limitations. I had only found out about it right before the pandemic, it became a low priority real fast. Same with the IRS stuff. I had stopped filing for a bunch of years just because I couldn't afford the 1099 I had been on one year. When you don't file once it's easy to keep not filing! But, in 2021, before the layoffs, I had hired an accountant to help me get it all straightened out. I just needed to file the missed year but I wasn't sure if that was the right move or not. I owed but I was broke and dealing with layoffs plus the IRS hadn't said anything - it's only human to hope they never do! LOL. I never did find any real sources to corroborate a time limit on failing to file, though, so I didn't really want to push that envelope.
When I got the LOI it was only for the 2 tax years I hadn't filed and the bench warrant. Just the words "bench warrant" told me I should get a lawyer and I did. Getting those tax returns processed and getting the warrant lifted took 7 months. Each time a deadline came up from DCSA I submitted everything I had - screenshots, correspondence w/ the attorney working on my bench warrant and the state the case was in - and each time they extended me further.
I ended up needing 2 lawyers - I initially hired the user mentioned above and they found someone who was bar'd in the state I needed. The bench warrant was for an unpaid parking ticket (that I could swear on a stack of bibles was paid at the time, but I can't prove that, so). It took several months to get proof. Same with the IRS stuff. I sent a large payment on the 2nd of January and it took til April to fully reflect on my account. It was excruciating. If you owe taxes and it's a one off, do yourself a favor and call the people who can waive the penalties. I was able to make reasonable payment arrangements online and THEN get 1/3 of my bill cut.
Mainly the lawyer made sure my "final" packet - the one I turned in for the first due date with all of my statements - was clear and correct and would reflect the steps I was taking. Wording on the LOI response is crucial to success along with proof - they will help make sure you are addressing the issues as requested by the LOI without overthinking it. I'm not a terrible writer but that isn't exactly the point. Once I hit that juncture I really wanted to be as sure as I could be that I was doing the right things. They can also help you put your case in perspective - they have experience with weirder or worse than yours. Plus, if you found them on reddit you can respond to them in gifs and memes and know they'll get it. All told for 7 months of counsel, an entire additional lawyer, and including all fees from that process, this cost $2500 and my retainer remainder was refunded as soon as we closed. No hearings or court time necessary, everything was remote and asynchronous.
One of the best parts of this outcome is how great it feels to know I'm truly "squeaky clean" again. It doesn't take too long, depending, I guess. If you look at my account you'll see one of the last weed plants I grew in 2015. Cultivation is one of those "in the past 7 years" questions and I was in year 8 which I may always get a silly kick out of. I did let the investigator know as it was relevant to some other info - but, I'm a horticulturalist at heart, which is also fully reflected in my hobbies. I have no desire or need to grow weed again but it's a thing I have done and have experience with which is nothing to be ashamed of.
Be honest - with yourself AND investigators. Don't be too squeaky of a wheel when it's taking a long time - sometimes that's a really happy accident. Get another job while you wait or keep your current one. File those late taxes now, not later. Old warrants for misdemeanors are cheaper than you think. Sometimes stuff really does come up that you had no reason to list but it isn't necessarily the end of the world.
Oh, and I've been naked on the internet and no one cared.

Does anyone know if we will get a notification when our account is transferred? Went in to check my account because it was not auto-debited today and Mohela reflects $0 (definitely not forgiven) so I assumed it was transferred. However, when I tried to make an account on EdFinancial, it said it can’t locate my account. I’m just worried about missing a payment and am very anxious. Thanks!

When has anyone ever received both checks ? My account was closed but chase allowed me to open a new one jn my statement it shows 2 checks sent out the same day 5/8/24 . Ive received 1 just wondering whats next and how long ?

So, this might be a big fat load of nothing.
But Nijisanji isn't blue-checked anymore. They aren't subscribed for the benefits or visibility boost.
In case you need a reminder, after a certain idiot techbro bought Twitter, he converted the old verification system, which was only used to mark that a poster had verified an account was linked to a real person (and which was a persistent bizarre bugbear with folks in certain circles), into a subscription system with the blue check now being a mark that a poster was paying to use Twitter and receive various benefits like increased post visibility.
This mostly came in for a lot of scorn, but it's been pretty normal for corporate VTubing accounts to buy in for the sub; on the grand scale of successful VTubing, it costs very little and it helps post visibility, so there's not much reason to not go for it in that context, outside of Cred in certain circles or personal objection to the direction Twitter is going.
Now, it is still possible, last I checked, to hide your blue-check if you don't want to show it, though the Twitter owner mentioned a bit ago that the option would be going away; I dunno if that's been implemented yet. So this could be that. But Niji has never cared about showing/hiding checks before.
So either they suddenly decided to hide their check... or Anycolor no longer sees maintaining a $7 a month fee on EN's main branch Twitter as necessary.
You can draw your own conclusions about what that could mean.

Ciao! I moved to Florence recently and went to a Fiorentina game last month (vs Brugge) and loved it. So I thought I’d join the club and went online and got an InViola premium card. It arrived today and I went to register it here : https://inviola.acffiorentina.com/account/register
But when I put in the card number, it tells me that the card is not valid? Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong here? Do I have to register it some other way? Do I need to wait for some time? Any advice gratefully received. Grazie mille!

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