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Anon gives back

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Many restaurants let people pay when they pick up or get the food delivered. So doing this costs the restaurant money, not OP. That's why he's spoofing his info too, if he paid they probably wouldn't care enough to ban the number.

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Questions raised over Trump profiting off his Secret Service detail while he campaigns

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He profited from the secret service (and by proxy, us) the whole time he was president when he made them pay full price to have rooms at his garbage resort in Florida.

I don't think this is true. I thought he increased the standard rate and charged them that. So it was like, double price.

Quick edit: I just looked it up, it was allegedly 4-5 times the approved government hotel rate.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-organization-charged-secret-service-much-1185-night-stay-trump-d-rcna52521

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There was a librarian who saved his whole life and when he passed donated I think 1 million dollars to his old university. That university then spent the money on a new score board for the football field. I bet if he saw that he would have wished he put some stipulations on his donation.

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Weird or unique hobbies.

Falconry. It's really more of a lifestyle than a hobby now though. I've been doing it for a little over 10 years now and am currently flying a cast (group of birds flown together) of 3 Harris's Hawks.

Quick faqs:

  • I use the glove and everything
  • It's a hunting sport, we catch rabbits 3-5 times a week
  • We all go out together, I flush they catch
  • No, they do not bring what they catch back to me, I go to them
  • They don't eat the whole rabbit, I trade them a small reward
  • They are completely free flighted when doing this
  • I've trained them just enough to get them back and work with me, they know how to do bird things naturally
  • They don't really go for your eyes, and getting bit hurts 50x less than getting footed
  • They are not rescues and are perfectly healthy
  • Mine are captive bred, but some are wild trapped
  • Wild trapping has 0 effect on native populations, 50-90% of raptors don't make it through their first year
  • Even though mine are captive bred they are still wild animals, they are just tamed.
  • This is the most regulated sport in the US

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Retirement in the USA is a scam

My Vanguard roth IRA is up 11% since 2020, and is up 30% just this last year. If you are investing into individual stocks yourself I would probably reconsider that strategy. Buying individual stocks is closer to gambling than investing.

I see you did total market funds now, idk what to tell you. But if you are not retiring soon it doesn't really matter. Time in the market is better than timing the market.

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Depending on how you count

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I know you are just being silly, but to answer your question, the point of those groups (ducks unlimited, pheasants forever, whitetail whenever, turkeys tomorrow, raccoons all noons, etc) is to put money into conservation of those animals so that their populations stay great enough that they can be hunted.

So yes, the goal is for the ducks to be unlimited.

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Somebody Fucked Up

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About 0 evidence to back this (only hearsay that this is what he does), but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump surrounded himself with only yes men agents and was running with a C tier team.