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Cyclotourist said:
Lowe's has AC, while HD has evap coolers. It's a wash in winter, but during summer Lowe's it is!
Besides Bill Gates is tracking my 5G chip anyway.
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I used to be a TTI rep (Ryobi, Rigid, Milwaukee and more) and worked in the Home Depot’s. In the summer it would be dead inside the store due to Bakersfield’s heat. They finally put A/C to hopefully draw customers back in. But I will gladly go to Lowe’s over Home Depot, it’s such a sh*t show with them.
 
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If you're truly paranoid, you avoid all commercial software and compile your own from scratch tailored to the machine you use... :inlove: I lived that way for about 15 years. No worries for me when the _NSAKEY controversy hit... :cautious: :p
 
Faust29 said:
If you're truly paranoid, you avoid all commercial software and compile your own from scratch tailored to the machine you use... :inlove: I lived that way for about 15 years. No worries for me when the _NSAKEY controversy hit... :cautious: :p
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Unless someone here is on the NSA Watch list....I'm not too concerned. :cautious::cautious: I don't wanna be considered guilty by association.

Otherwise they can track all the other mundane crap that I browse through.
 
Faust29 said:
Um... Have you met some of these guys?!? :p
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If you had to pick one…
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UPSed said:
I received my first debit card in the early '80s. I'm pretty sure I've been tracked ever since.
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I got my military "secret" security clearance in 1982. That just guarantees that the government has no idea where I live, who I associate with, or what my political stances might be.

I went into a Social Security office to get a replacement Social Security card and they looked at me like I had just arrived from Mars... despite having a driver's license, passport, and Global Entry card. Apparently it was ok for them to print my Social Security number on my dog tags so that my body could be identified if I were killed in combat... but to get a replacement card was asking too much!

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BonsaiNut said:
I went into a Social Security office to get a replacement Social Security card and they looked at me like I had just arrived from Mars... despite having a driver's license, passport, and Global Entry card. Apparently it was ok for them to print my Social Security number on my dog tags so that my body could be identified if I were killed in combat... but to get a replacement card was asking too much!
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You did it wrong. I created a SSA account (so they'd know nothing about me) and ordered a replacement via that. Showed up in a few days.:thumbsup:
 
Runs with Scissors said:
You did it wrong. I created a SSA account (so they'd know nothing about me) and ordered a replacement via that. Showed up in a few days.:thumbsup:
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Well... I didn't want to get into the gory details, but I HAVE a SSA account. I went online to order a replacement card, and they said I couldn't do it online and that I had to go into an office. I went into the office with three forms of ID, and (after waiting in a queue for more than an hour) they looked at me... looked at my ID... and then said "hold on a minute" and then a bunch of them huddled for a whispered conversation in the back of the office. Then the manager came to the window and said that there was a "problem" with my social security account, and they couldn't tell me what it was, and that I had to come back with a certified copy of my birth certificate. (Note that I have been receiving annual Social Security account statements from the first year I started working decades ago). So I get a certified copy of my birth certificate, return to the office, wait in line for over an hour, and fortunately get a different window with a Marine vet who said "let me get to the bottom of this". Turns out they had to correct my Social Security account because it had my birth location listed as "LOMBARDUPA"... which as far as I know is not a location on this planet. Sitting in the waiting room I had my mom on the phone and she was like "tell them if they can't figure out where you were born that I'll be happy to talk to them because I was there!" LOL! Don't make me unleash mom on you!

End of story - they used my birth certificate to edit my place of birth in my Social Security account... and then sent me a new card :)
 
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BonsaiNut said:
Well... I didn't want to get into the gory details, but I HAD a SSA account. I went online to order a replacement card, and they said they couldn't do it online and that I had to go into an office. I went into the office with three forms of ID, and (after waiting in a queue for more than an hour) they looked at me... looked at my ID... and then said "hold on a minute" and then a bunch of them huddled for a whispered conversation in the back of the office. Then the manager came to the window and said that there was a "problem" with my social security account, and they couldn't tell me what it was, and that I had to come back with a certified copy of my birth certificate. (Note that I have been receiving annual Social Security account statements from the first year I started working decades ago). So I get a certified copy of my birth certificate, return to the office, wait in line for over an hour, and fortunately get a different window with a Marine vet who said "let me get to the bottom of this". Turns out they had to correct my Social Security account because it had my birth location listed as "LOMBARDUPA"... which as far as I know is not a location on this planet. Sitting in the waiting room I had my mom on the phone and she was like "tell them if they can't figure out where you were born that I'll be happy to talk to them because I was there!" LOL! Don't make me unleash mom on you!

End of story - they used my birth certificate to edit my place of birth in my Social Security account... and then sent me a new card :)
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And I'm suddenly reminded of Kafka's "Before the Law". :eek: :facepalm:

Everyone should take 5 minutes and read some Kafka... Just understand that the original German is far superior to the translation. :D

https://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html
 
Faust29 said:
And I'm suddenly reminded of Kafka's "Before the Law". :eek: :facepalm:
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It did give me a slight understanding for the plight of people who have their identity stolen, or people who are mistakenly listed as "deceased".

The whole reason why I wanted to get a copy of my Social Security card was because I needed it to get "VETERAN" printed on my driver's license. I had the original copy of my DD-214 (my official government record of my military service) and amazingly - it has my Social Security number printed on it. But apparently that wasn't good enough, and I needed ANOTHER form of ID with my Social Security number on it. Talk about a rabbit hole.

And of course, three months after I got "VETERAN" on my California driver's license... I moved out of the state. LOL!
 
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