• I remember there was a time when you could use the self-serve kiosk at McDonald’s, order a bunch of plain cheeseburgers and remove everything so it was just a bun and it would credit back enough money that you could get a whole meal (plus a bunch of empty buns) for free.

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    My typing class had early computers that graded on speed but not accuracy. So you mashed the keys and got 140 keys per second, and an A in the class. So now I’m a 50-something year old who types like a 13 year old. Somehow the rest of the class didnt figure this out.

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      Similarly, in my typing class, they’d have you type the same paragraph a few times. The program didn’t notice copy and paste.

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      My typing class wanted me to learn how to type with my hands spaced just right, using different fingers to reach each key. But by then I had already been using a computer and just kind of developed my own way of typing efficiently and quickly mostly just using my index fingers. They’d correct my hand position whenever they saw me type, but I was one of the faster typers in the class, so I’d use my own way for the tests and passed easily. I’ve tried to force myself to go back and type like they told me, but by now I’m just much more used to my own spurious method. 🤷‍♂️

      Had a computer savvy friend watch me type once and he audibly went “what the fuck”

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        I used to be exactly like that, could even type blindfolded with my own weird way of typing. I eventually learned touch-typing (i.e. the correct way your teachers were trying to teach you) and a more ergonomic keyboard layout (Colemak), I haven’t gained any speed, but I do notice that I get a lot less strain on my wrists and fingers. So if typing is something you do a lot on a daily basis, then it’s worth learning to do it properly to not injure yourself in the long run.

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    Amex can get your money back on anything. Went to the vet they tried to gaslight me into doing an expensive procedure so I dispute the visit fee 75$

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      If you’re not abusing it, credit card companies are more than happy to do charge backs via disputes.

      And, what, the shady company that scammed you is going to fight a multi billion dollar corporation?

      I’ve used this a few times when I got fucked and the company doing the fucking didn’t respond or didn’t care.

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    If your bank can only deposit a certain amount of a check the same day and you need it all just cash it and deposit the cash

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        It’s still valid today.
        Payroll fucked up and I didn’t get a deposit a few weeks back. They gave me the choice of waiting 2 weeks and having the deposit added to my next paycheck, which is totally undoable, or they would cut me a paper check that day.
        I took the paper check.
        I decided it would be easiest if I could use my Bank apps Mobile deposit but it only allowed me to access $500 of it that day, the rest had to wait until the next business day which was Monday.
        If I would have thought about it I would have done it this way so I could have had access to the whole check before the weekend.

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      Eye, but not drinking feels like a loophole insofar that I’ve abstained for over 5 years and went from no money to having a down payment for a house saved up, all while improving my health by leaps and bounds. Can’t get a beer gut if you don’t drink 👌

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          Do they still call it a beer gut when you don’t drink? Shouldn’t they call it a pizza and fries gut or something?

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            I’d say it’s mostly energy drinks,

            but I found a really good zero alc beer that is also putting in work so technically still a beer gut.

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      Yep!

      But commiting yourself to the idea of surrendering to some kind of God is.

      So you can fail AA as a sober atheist, but pass it as a religious, functional alcoholic.

      Great system.

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    In the USA the FASFA is used to determine how much financial aid (grants, or zero interest loans) someone can get for university

    Unfortunately it looks at parents assets as well as the adult students assets.

    Unless

    • over the age of 25
    • military veteran
    • married

    So the loop hole here is obvious, two students should get married, then their financial need will be totally unmet and get the highest level of benefits

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      I’m fr curious if this can work. If it does, it seems beyond impossible to find a 25 year old college woman who would even want to marry

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        Two 18 year old students about to start university get married. I think it can even be same sex, marriage is marriage.

        Remember Marriage isn’t for life! You and your partner could get married with the understanding this is just a college marriage.

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            You’re thinking about this all wrong. The age of marriage and childbearing have been going up. Think of the kids who would just decide fuck it might as well just stay married and do this. This could be the arranged marriage of the future.

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            A loop hole that is technically correct is still correct.

            What is the purpose of marriage?

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              Legally it is a shortcut to establishment of a number of implied contracts, tells the courts how to unwind those contracts, and rights. In some cases the implied contracts are more effective than written ones. Medical decisions and visitation rights being first ones I can think of.

              I sm not a lawyer.

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              Two people bound together for life for the purposes of creating a family

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                  If it was for religious reasons, I would have specified it as a “man and a woman”

                  Also, if it’s more than two, that’s not a marriage; that’s a group chat.

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                  Only as a last resort. You shouldn’t get married without intending to stay together for life.

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                Yeah, you can miss me with the religious bullshit. This is a legal loophole in a legal system.

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                  If it was for religious reasons, I would have specified it as a “man and a woman”

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                “You shouldn’t use marriage to stop yourself being legally chained to your parents. The purpose of marriage is to legally chain you to your spouse.”

                If people could “divorce” their parents you wouldn’t have to worry about this.

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          “Hey, let’s just get married to be eligible for benefits. Yeah, we’ll just pinky promise that we won’t ever abuse the hell out of our ‘partner’ who we now share every single responsibility with. I also took out a huge loan to buy a boat, why are you asking, dear? Half of it is technically yours, why aren’t you happy?”

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            two penniless students are judgement proof, so even in this scenario when they divorced there wouldn’t be anything to recover. As a 18 year old with nothing, as long as you don’t have kids, there is almost nothing to lose.

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      I know someone who had to do this. Her parents were abusive and were refusing to do the FASFA paperwork, holding it over her head for something. She had already been in college a couple of years at this point. So, she found a friend she trusted and they got married, allowing her to get the funding she needed to continue to attend college.

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        My girlfriend was in a similar situation. The people at FASFA will work with you if you can prove that your parents will not comply and you aren’t financially dependent on them. As long as your friend wasn’t living with her parents, she likely didn’t have to get married.

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    Alright, so, in Texas you’re not allowed to own an opossum as a pet. There is no license for owning a pet opossum (they’re “fur-bearing animals”). However, there is a license that’ll let you kill opossums for their fur. Furthermore, said license allows you to trap them. The interesting part is that there’s no legal requirement for you to actually kill the opossum if you trap one. You can trap the opossum and take possession of it for however long you like.

    So basically a hunting license (might have been a trapping license?) lets you effectively own an opossum as a pet in Texas!

    Edit: also, yes, opossums are as soft as they look, which is why people used to hunt them for their fur. I got a chance to pet one and it was about as soft, if not softer, than a cat. Also very boney, like cats.

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        I’ve pet a lot of opossums. Not been bit by one… But those teeth are scary.

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        Nope, they’re mostly all bark, no bite. You have to actually harass them to get them to bite you, even if they’re showing their teeth. Their bite strength is one of the lowest among mammals too. That said, supposedly their teeth are actually really sharp.

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        I grew up in FL and had a “pet” opossum for a while. Her mom was hit by car when she was a baby and she crawled up to our front door during a rain storm. My mom was heart broken when she realized what happened so she let us keep her till she was old enough to be released. She was super cuddly and would crawl up on your neck and lick your hair. We partially potty trained her using dog pee pads. The only down side is she liked to borough in our couch so we had to move the couch often and clean it out.

        Once she was an adult we would let her out at night when other opossums in the neighborhood were around. She usually came back in the morning and would eat a bunch of food. One day she didn’t come back so I hope she integrated with the local opossums and lived a happy life.

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        My friend has one and nope, no biting! He pretends he’s a raccoon (she had a herd of raccoons as well)

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        I’ve never hung out with one, but they were common in my neighborhood growing up and they were honestly pretty nonviolent. They just play dead instead of aggressing , but I also never pushed them to interact

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      An ‘exploit’ along somewhat similar lines works for having a cat (or dog) as a pet in Waahington State:

      Tons of apartments or rented out rooms of houses will say that they do not allow cats.

      Basically, if you can go to a therapist, counselor, paychologist and tell them hey I really love my cat, he/she cheers me up when I’m down, I’d definitely become depressed if he/she ever ran away or I had to part ways with him/her…

      Now this cat is your registered emotional support animal.

      This costs you nothing beyond the normal cost of visiting your mental health specialist.

      By law, it doesn’t matter what a landlord’s stance on allowing cats (or dogs) is, if it is officially your emotional support animal, it can live with you, and the landlord is legally barred from charging you a pet deposit or monthly pet rent/fee.

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    There was a big freeway running over our city with a few exits which always backed up with traffic and didn’t go where I wanted. One of the exits led into a convention centre pay carpark, with ridiculous costs per hour.

    I realised I could pull in there and if you left within ten minutes they didn’t charge you.

    It was my personal freeway off ramp for years.

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    When I was in high school my friends and I were always finding creative ways to skip school and instead go out and do stuff. But, there was a limit of X days that you could be absent throughout the year, or else you’d have to make up the time by attending summer school.

    In a conversation with some school admin staff I discovered that if you attend just one class during the day, any absence for the rest of the day was counted as 0.5 days in the attendance system.

    So, we effectively doubled the number of days we could skip school by showing up for the first hour and then getting out to e.g. attend a dentist appointment.

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    There was a burrito shop that had a frequent customer card that you could use to earn points towards a free menu item. You could register the card online and for whatever reason you could add multiple cards to the same account.

    A friend of mine realized that if you registered a new card they would give you a decent chunk of points just for signing up, then you could merge that account in with your existing account and get free points.

    Every chance he got he would grab handfuls of the cards, activate them all, and get tons of free food.

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      A friend of mine found a loophole at a burrito shop as well. They had some old points system where you’d have to go to a url on the receipt, and enter a code for a free taco. Eventually the promotion ended because they stopped printing the URL, but they never shut down the webpage either. So he continued to get free tacos from the old webpage, but whatever proof of purchase was needed could be used from the same receipt used to get the previous free taco. He doesn’t do it too often so no one catches on, but he would eat for free there once or twice a week.

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      I had a similar thing with a promotional card at a bar called Wurstküche in LA some years back shortly after it first opened. The card said something like “one free sausage” on it. The intent was you use the card once, and then they take it away and next time you want a delicious gourmet sausage you need to pay. All of my friends had one of these cards, and eventually they all were taken away, but they never took my card and we kept going back to that bar over and over again to get sausages and drink beer.

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    Tried cancelling adobe. They wanted to charge for the rest of the year or something as a cancellation fee. Instead, I “upgraded” to a more expensive package, giving me their 14 day refund policy and was able to cancel immediately and still gave me access to the rest of the month. Fuck adobe