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Auto-pay is convenient, sure, but have you considered what would happen if the company billing you decided it wants to take the money from your account 15 days earlier? and that the amount they're taking might be a wild overestimate of what you actually owe?

However, the utility does appear to have instituted a new policy as of Oct. 15 for auto pay customers. These customers have an arrangement with their bank that automatically allows the billing amount charged by Nova Scotia Power to be withdrawn from their account. But that convenience now comes with a new wrinkle. Nova Scotia Power has posted a message for these customers informing them their money will now come out of their bank account 15 days before the bill is actually due to be paid.

November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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oh my god there's even an actual big strong man with tears in his eyes story tucked in here too

The veterans were met at the arrivals gate by streams of well-wishers.

"I had tears in my eyes," said Army veteran Joe Parr. "I just couldn’t believe that there were that many people around who remembered us and were there to greet us. It was just unbelievable."

November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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the comments on the r/nfl post about Trump showing up for the Commanders game, uh..

every single post has been deleted by the mods

November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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[taps sign again]

post from me some time ago:

While there are bigger, more criminal fish to fry, the reason I think the next admin should hound and possibly prosecute people like Leavitt is to demonstrate that there are patently severe costs to being a lickspittle for fascists.

November 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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no! no!!

NYT headline story cropped so it's a photo of Prince Andrew but the headline is just "Prince Andrew to Be Stripped"

October 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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I guess the optimistic view is that every person who votes is such an incurious dumbass that they can be persuaded to believe literally anything, and that can theoretically be harnessed by the forces of good

sad guy / happy guy on bus meme, and both are saying "the median voter is so fucking stupid"

October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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who can forget that classic Billy Joel song Uptoown Girl

video game guy running up a subway (?) platform (?) and the green sign above says "Uptoown"

October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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I fully believe Whitmer is cooked for 2028

[tapping my homemade sign]

screenshot of post I made about a week ago:

it sounds crazy but is also entirely believable in the current moment that Chris Van Hollen probably has a better shot at becoming the 2028 Democratic nominee for president than, say, Gretchen Whitmer does
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I think this has become evident as the main intra-Democratic fault line in 2025 has emerged between the politicians fighting back and the ones acting like everything is business as usual. Seems like both groups have members across the spectrum of lib/left/moderate views.

October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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screenshot from Futurama of Bender among other robots saying "conquer Earth, us bastards!" after Mom activated their secret control circuitry to command her robot army

October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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frame from The Simpsons Movie where Kent Brockman is anchoring the news from Springfield, which has had a giant dome placed over it. the on-screen graphic behind him is a coffee cup with a lid that says "Trappucino" and Brockman's facial skin is sagging to an exaggerated degree because Springfield has run out of Botox as a result of the dome cutting off access to the outside world.

October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM

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tale as old as time

Mar. 29, 1976 cover of The New Yorker, depicting a perspective of America where Manhattan consumes more than 50% of the image in the foreground, while the rest of the country is compressed into the remaining background beyond the Hudson River

October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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the real victims of the richest man in the world becoming a virulent antisemite and transphobe who uses his wealth and megaphone to attack vulnerable people? that's right— Cybertruck owners!

Screenshot from article:

What was sad?

Well, for the CEO of a company that makes a product that a lot of Americans buy and use on a daily basis to put us in the middle of everything because of his controversies. Because when everything was going on, we were the targets. We saw wives and kids being harassed and affected by strangers just because we were driving a Tesla. There was so much hate coming in. So it was shocking, and it was hard to describe and just fear. But thankfully that went by. And among all that, there's a lot of love.

October 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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[record scratch, freeze frame]

yep, that's me. you're probably wondering how I got here, all frowny sitting behind the presidential seal

October 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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hooting and hollering at the pitch to investors

“Spoiler alert! The secular elites who currently reign over late-night tv are about to find out the joke’s on them!” Ziklag’s pitch email read. It lauded Metaxas, a conservative radio host and author who was an eager proponent of the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, claiming: “His comedic bent has gone largely unnoticed until now that is…”

October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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are you *sure* about that?

October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM

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is this driven by corruption? by stupidity? by having the ethics and sentience of a soggy napkin?

let's find out on this episode of: the Ro Khanna cycle!