40 Bits Of Knowledge People Learnt That Feel Almost Illegal To Know, Shared In This Online Group
People realized that knowledge is power very early on and the phrase is often attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General (1613-1617) and as Lord Chancellor of England (1617-1621).
Not everyone possesses the same knowledge, but not everyone is allowed to. At the same time, there are things that you think you shouldn’t know because it’s not your place, but actually it’s not classified information, it just sounds like it.
If you would like to hear some examples of such information, this list contains all sorts of cases when people think that it’s almost illegal to know what they know. The thread started when craftygalcreates asked “What's a piece of information you learned that now feels almost illegal to know?” In two days, the question got almost 40k upvotes as people were interested to read the secrets that are not really secrets.
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When I was a kid, my dad taught me how to pick a lock. I became very interested in different kinds of locks and purchased a lock pick set. I practiced for years and became pretty good at certain types of locks. So over the years every now and then, if a neighbor locks themselves out of the house or a friend loses the key to a padlock or a lock box I’ve been able to help. But the reactions I tend to get from people, even while I’m helping them with their lock is mainly one of mistrust. I’m not a cat burglar. I just like locks.
Well I'm in med school and funny enough learning how to not kill a person involves learning about a s**t ton of ways to kill a person
(This is England knowledge, other countries may vary) If you are struggling to pay bills, make water the first one you skip. Access to water is protected by law so the utility supplier cannot cut you off.
You can ask scientists for their research paper that you usually have to pay money to view in a journal. They are allowed to just email it to you no questions asked and they like to do it!
Totally another route of what everyone else is posting but.... the lion at The Animal Kingdom safari ride isn't chained (Disney World park). He is fed a huge piece of meat every morning and sits on a rock that is changed to the perfect temperature for him everyday so he has no reason to attack anyone on the safari ride.
Unionization saves you more money than it costs you, you cannot be punished for attempting to do so, and it is NOT in any way illegal, rude, or improper to discuss your salary with your coworkers.
It feels illegal because every company on the f*****g planet has tried to make people think unions are evil monsters trying to get you to pay union dues for no return. This is false because union dues are much less expensive than a company underpaying you and trying to work you to death, which a union fights against. Unions are there to prevent worker exploitation, stop it if people were being exploited when they got there, and get you a fair wage that will actually let you live off of one job instead of needing 4-5 or to work criminal amounts of overtime.
Not "on the f****ing planet...Only USA..in Italy we have "sindacati" and it's a normal thing..
Most Americans have been led to believe unions are just for commies though. In Europe we understand the nuances between communism and having a fair social structure.
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The unions used to come to my shop to unionize my people and I always let them My people would run them out with just a few questions. We paid better than the union, we had better insurance than the union, we had a 401K and profit sharing and usually, people could work all the overtime they wanted. If a company does the right thing for their people, they don't have to worry about unions, but most companies are driven by greed not decency.
I'm really pleased to hear you treat your employees properly.
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In Ireland unionised rates of pay are published on the web for all to see to remove gender bias pay and professional unions are needed for licences and they demand (and legally upheld) minimum pay rates for their professionals from engineers to plumbers and minimum wages are legally enforced by government for all workers, even fast food workers
I tell people all the time this one, it’s important, hospitality is rampant with scammer bosses, so you need to have your ass covered from the often illegal or unfair things they can do.
Sorry, I worked for a union - never again. They protect the indifferent and inept, are 100% adversarial to management, and they collect dues that take money out of my paycheck and I get nothing in return. I was better off without one.
Some unions don't do a good job, that's true. I've worked in four or five, some were in bed with management so they would roll over for the company. In other cases they've been very good. About 30% improved take home (sometimes more) and much better protection against bad management. Moral is, don't let one bad experience be held up as the whole story. Unions are only as strong as the members.
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It's not just a US problem, though. There are a ton of European folk on BP, but anti- union sentiment is a fairly widespread problem in a lot of non-european countries.
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My husband's union is literally the REASON he and his coworkers are overworked for multiple reasons. He works at the airport in airline operations. They and they are severely understaffed. Training for the job takes a long time and they have a long list of people who belong to the same union in a completely different role who think all the people in his job do is sit on their butt when in reality their job is very hard. Those people transfer in, train for six months, then decide they hate the job and leave and a new batch of like-minded people comes in and the whole thing happens again. The union makes it so no external people can apply until they get through this list of over 100 lazy people. Also, the union started forcing lunch breaks about a year ago. This is hard for two reasons. One, in operations, it's almost impossible to stick to a scheduled lunch break, and two, it makes the work day longer for people doubling because of the understaffed thing. (read reply for more)
When the management tried to cut out the breaks again (meaning people would just grab a meal when they had a free block of time which ALWAYS happens) the union leader who does not work in that job pitched a fit even though EVERY EMPLOYEE IN THE JOB WANTED TO GET RID OF THE BREAKS. Thought unions were supposed to fight for you.
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And DO talk to your colleagues about their pay and other privileges. It is not illegal, and if your employer tries to stop you you will have the full support of your union.
This was always such a foreign concept to me. I worked several jobs in two different countries, and every time I had access to clear and open data about what each position at that company pays. (In the same level. I wouldn't necessarily know what the bosses boss was making.) So I never had to ask my colleagues what their salary was, I knew it was either the same as mine, or how much more and why (e.g. extra years in the position or extra language knowledge might give one a bonus).
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I am not anti union at all but it very much depends on the union you're in. My husband's employment is union so that they may be able to bid on union only jobs. No one comes in to their location, no one helps the employees, no union rep...it is just a basic money grab and a means for the company to make more money.
DK here. One of the highest living standards and richest countries in the world, almost no unemployment and massively unionize. Check the "Scandinavia model".
The trouble is, Unions are a sign of bad labour laws for everyone, and they lock that in except for their own members. We need to own our jobs, not pay an extra layer of management.
My husband is a pilot and they love their unions . They have to fight with them sometimes , but the union usually takes good care of them
I use to work for a company that had Union. I wish all companies had Union. They saved my job. The plant manager didn't like my opinion (as everywhere I've worked, when they asked), and fired me. A union representative, asked me why, I told him. He was an actual witness that I was telling the truth in the situation. Got me job back, the plant manager was demoted within a few months. Left the job, only because I didn't want to work 2nd shift, while raising my kids. That was in 2006. Today in 2022, I have a job that I make more than when I worked for a Union company.
I'm a Teamster and know the shitty working conditions would be unbearable without being one.
Just saying, most employers and employees dont want you talking about how much you make bc of the drama and animosity it creates.
Not always true. Imagine getting well above a living wage and great benefits in a highly competitive micro-market favoring the employee, such as NYC, SF or any major metropolitan area surrounded by more rural locals with lower cost of living. Now imagine a union negotiate a package that benefits the entire district, slightly bumping some wages & drastically reducing others. The position with most employees of my family business has a union negotiated entry wage of $22. We are non-union & pay $36. The local non -union average is $26. The state average is $18.
Many Canadian workplaces are unionized and many people will not work without one.
A union is a business first and they will protect their business at any cost... at the worker's expense.
I don't talk pay with coworkers because I don't care what they make and what I make is none of their business
Gaslighting at its finest. Most first jobs will present propaganda of the evils of unions.
My father was a union delegate so I have a valid aspect on this topic. I went on to work blue collar jobs etc, paid union fees but the only person who seemed to benefit from that was the union delegate. Union hierarchy can be every bit as corrupt as employers. A no win situation at times but better than nothing I suppose.
Seriously? This isn’t a fact, rather it’s a set of talking points. The validity of the talking points is neither here nor there, but this simply doesn’t belong in this list.
All you have to look at is how many big Corps. Amazon, Starbucks, are against unionization to know it's something every worker should vote for.
Dollar General is pretty against unions. One of the "computer based learning" tools is dedicated to just them not wanting their workers to unionize
Unions are useless in right to work states because the employer can fire you for any reason including nothing at all and the Unions can't do a thing about it.
Um, horseshit. My husband was in a union here in the states and they bled him dry. Looked great on paper, but his $37/hourly rate turned out to only be about $22 in actual pay.
Every company in *America. Unions are kind of normal in a lot of other countries.
My experience was so so. Never did anything for me. Did everything for the board members. Threatened to go out on strike everytime contact negotiations came around. Which meant I had to strike even if I didn't want to. It never came to that. The stress of it all wasn't worth it. If, if they (we) went on strike and paid my bills I would have had to pay them back. The only way paying my dues helped me was on my taxes. Not a fan. Back in the day unions were a good thing, today not so much. IMHO.
I was fired from a popular massage chain for trying to start a union. One of the other therapists dimed me out.
I don't think I unions are commies. I have been a Teamsters member while working for UPS in 1995. The union observers that walked around the loading dock were a nuisance. The observers forbid me or the UPS managers from helping each other. Several times over the two week period one of us loading work knock over our boxes and when a UPS manager helped pick them up the union went haywire complaining that the manager shouldn't help anyone, instead he should hire someone. Then after working there for two week I got my paycheck and the union dues was 20% of that check. Now maybe I would have only paid that in one check a month, but it was too much for me. I quit the day I got paid. My experience is that unions exploit the businesses they work with, and don't do much to help the workers. Maybe that was just the Teamsters in 1995, but the experience soured me on unions.
Not all unions. My husband worked for a company that had a Nikon. Each time they would brag on how they helped their members, no layoffs that year, but the following year you would see at least one or two employees laid off. insurance getting a small cut. The small cut in insurance didn’t bother me as much as his insurance had been much more than we expected, but each year their was a layoff meant he would have to cover a larger area and at the end he was covering repair work in three counties in south Florida. He might be anywhere from Key West to northern Broward. Key west was a four hour drive and although it didn’t happen frequently could end up his staying over a night to be able to finish a job. What the company was doing is subcontracting more and more, he wondered what they would do if customers would do if the subcontracted repairs went bad. Their contract stated it would specifically be the companies employee. He was eventually let go, his choice was to move to TX.
In a country where unions are norm it does feel like some unions are just waste of money, when you can just pay for unemployment benefit organization which will then cover you if you get unemployed. Most unions are probably good and beneficial but I did leave engineers union when the payment discounts ended few years after my graduation. And now even if Im not part of the union I still get benefits from the union that represents people in my position (dont know if there is good translation, but "senior/higher official" or something like that), still the raises/benefits they manage to negotiate seems miniscule and Im sure the union reps are getting fat pay checks for their "efforts".. still in the grand scheme of things, unions are good even if our employee protection is pretty good anyways.
But, in America, why are so many people moving away from union friendly states and into right to work states? (This is an objective fact, not an opinion).
Texas is a "Right to Work" state so that is an issue for forming a Union.
I live "on the planet" and I am perfectly within my rights to talk about how much I earn with anyone I care to. I think it's only you poor unfortunates in the US that are told this lie.
I was a union steward for 5 years in the Auto industry and I know for a fact the union will do 2 necessary things for the people. Protect their jobs and protect their wages. That is just a couple of things. There is much more that the unions can do for you. Thats why it's rare in the south to have unions. They want complete control and wages are very low compared to the north.
Margret thatcher was the uk prime minister that started the war on unions in the UK and it still has an impact on people who think about joining a union. My dad works for the local council and in his department there’s people who have joined the union and then like my dad who haven’t but almost everyday there’s a story about a guy at work who should have been fired for many many different reasons who has managed to stay because he is in a union and they keep him safe due to technicalities it has been a walking advert for joining a union. If I was still able to work (and by God I wish I could) I would run to find out about joining the union as soon as I pass my probation period.
I joined unison just because there was a rumour we would be accountable for transcripts of police interview tapes (not true, the officer who signs them off is liable) I was so glad because I found I should have got overtime and ended up getting £15k backpay (I won't go into the nasty little things they did to wriggle out of this) bless you Jennifer
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So happy I work for a company that seems to value their employees. I get a pretty fare wage and they don't over work us. Also a pretty decent benefits package is included. Its not an American company though I live in the US, so maybe that makes all the difference.
In the US: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/your-rights-to-discuss-wages
How much of the union dues go toward your retirement? Just asking cause I don't know. Never been in the union.
I'd say it depends... but my presumption is nothing.
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It depends on the union. One in my area completely scammed all the old heads out of their pension. Which not only that, made it so that in order to even get a penny out of the settlement from the lawsuit they had to stay another 5-10 years past when they could have originally retired. Also the fact that when you have lazy workers they are near untouchable, so you'll have some guys above you that do the bare minimum on a easy job because, seniority. They get you mandated (forced overtime) because you and one other person of the 50 people below you actually work. Then the lazy higher seniority guys get to go home. So instead of even trying to deal with the union and terminating them they just mandate from you down. Also they let the guys below you just sit on their thumbs. Yeah, you don't "need" to work overtime. But you have to. Then the icing on the cake is when they bring in scabs (temps) and pay them triple what we make because everyone is lazy. Then those same lazy people cry
If you feel like you need a union at your job, what you really need is just a different job.
Unfortunately you would be in the tiny minority if the different job didn't need a union also
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Creating Nitrogen triiodide. When in liquid form it is stable but once it dries so much as a fly landing on it creates a purple smoke explosion. It's so unstable that alpha radiation can be used to detonate the stuff.
It's actually easy to get the materials and create the stuff. Filled my high school hallway stairs with purple smoke on the last day of school.
Police are allowed to lie to you. So are military recruiters.
One thing I learned is in the state of California if you are squatting a property for five years and have been upkeeping it with proof, you can file a claim of ownership with the courts and take over any property as long as it was deemed that the original owner never tried to remove you within the same timeframe.
It is legal to grow opium poppies in the United States, but only if you don't know they can be used to make drugs
Read a personal finance book that recommended calling your providers once a year (credit card companies, TV/internet providers, cell phone company, etc) and demand a lower rate or price. I’ve been following that advice for two years and have not been denied once.
Last week I saw a commercial for my internet provider offering a super low introductory rate so I called to demand that I get that rate. They said no problem and now I save an extra $700 a year because of a 5 minute call. I am a very passive introvert so it’s not the most easy or comfortable thing but the money I save is worth it. They may so no initially but if you ask a few times or ask to speak to their supervisor they very usually give in.
*Edit the book is called “I Will Teach You to be Rich” (cringey title, awesome book imo)
I call bs. When has a call to an internet company ever lasted less than a half hour.
Hospitals have but don’t tell you about a program to reduce your bills depending on how much you make. You can go to their website and find a usually hidden link for financial assistance policies and really cut your bill down
Well, I gave my 9th grade chemistry class a detailed report on diacetylmorphine (heroin) for a project about organic molecules, including how to make it. It was pretty interesting to do and fun to present, but I feel like I broke the law somehow.
When you have a debt with a collection agency you can pay the debt and then call back a few weeks later and say, “I was told when I called and paid that you’d remove this from my credit score.” And then you ask for documentation saying they’re gonna do it. Apparently collection agencies don’t keep super good records on stuff like that; they just want your money. It worked for me, and I hope it can work for you if you need it in the future.
There is a book called "100 deadly skills" that teaches you how to do all sorts of potentially illegal stuff
I don't know if it's still a thing, but if you listen to Pandora radio the songs download into your temp folder under your browser. Just add the. Mp4 after it and you can play it.
I spent lots of college listening to Pandora, and if I liked a song I'd save it. If you paused the song in time then the most recent song was the top one in the temp folder.
In Canada you can record any conversation with someone without their knowledge, unless it is in furtherance of an offence.
I had to do this with an auto restoration shop in order to do a Visa chargeback when they did nothing to my car but steal parts for almost a year (Curtis Customs in Nova Scotia - I don’t mind mentioning them because there are already news stories about their scams)
EDIT: A lot of replies from people possibly misreading. If "you" are recording a "conversation with someone," you are part of the conversation and would be the consenting individual (one party consent). It's definitely wrong and illegal to record just any conversation between two or more other people
Yeah, my wife had a disciplinary at work, I bought her a USB pen (not admissible in court) but she used it to transcribe. The audio distorted slightly when her boss started shouting at her though (she sued and won for constructive dismissal).
When companies ask for your name/age/sex/race/occupation/salary/etc. you can just lie.
You’ll never be able to remove the information about yourself off the internet, but you can muddy the water quite a bit.
Aluminum foil can block the thefts detection signals in super markets.
Confidence can open a lot of doors. A lot of times, you can get away with more with some swagger than you otherwise would being meek about it.
90% of home locks are easily pickable with a little know how and a couple pieces of metal.
Despite this, most burglars either find an open window or break the glass. So locks are generally effective at their intended job.
That in Ireland there is no legal age to get tattoo. Legally you can tattoo a newborn as long as the parents consent. We can get done for bodily harm to a minor if their is no consent. We have an industry standard of 16 with parent or 18 with ID. I'm a tattooist in Ireland.
I worked for a giant tech company and apparently share the same name as a very high up hardware engineer, got put on email threads I definitely didn’t belong on.
Had a co-worker who made me stalk my boss. Found out he had a girlfriend and was paying for her apartment. Felt awful every time his wife called. Kept my mouth shut though. Looking at you Cliff D.
I had a stats prof who used to work for the US government. I'm not sure exactly what his job was, but it definitely involved evaluating the status and readiness of nukes, both ours and the USSR's (he was probably at least 70 and had been retired from that job for a while). One day in class he just started talking about the percentage of nukes that fail (ours and theirs) and why they fail and all kinds of other, seemingly sensitive, information. I don't think he would have told us anything classified, but his personality was boisterous and irreverent enough that I am not sure. I literally expected a team of spooks to bust down the door at any minute and drag us all off for interviews in windowless rooms.
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How to make a few different drugs. Organic chem at uni
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How to make many illegal drugs
Freelance Pharmacy institute of research and testing
LittleOrangeBoi said:
When you're on a jury you can vote for someone as innocent even if you think they did it. Most common reasoning for this would be if you just think that they shouldn't be punished for whatever they did. I can't remember the term for it something like Third Option.
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Jury Nullification. It's definitely a thing in the U.S.
In regards to military grade bombs and missiles, it takes actual effort to make one go off on the ground. Like, you literally have to go out of your way to arm the fuse, then sit around for a timer to detonate said bomb.
Its not like in the movies, where a soft breeze or some nutjob with a hammer, will make a bomb just explode for no reason.
You can say no when cashiers ask for your email or phone number.
Yeah I say no all the time; I do not want companies blowing up my inbox
1284x is a Ford fleet key. Not chipped, can be found on Amazon for $7 and perfectly legal to replicate.
Searching "1284x" filetype:.pdf site:.gov
Will pull government bids that involve that key, and also show you what agencies you could open up or drive away a police car.
The last airplane you rode was likely assembled with parts not fully conforming to qc standards but passed through inspection anyways.
Can confirm. I have friends who work at Boeing and they say that the QA people and the Manufacturing Line people are always butting heads.
When you do a kfc survey you get free food, you can do them over and over again Steps- go in the survey site, it’s usually (franchise)listens on google Next enter a random code and keep refreshing for a good 15 seconds, then do anything on the survey because they don’t care, then just show them your code at the register, they also have to do it because it’s part of their job, this also works for crispy cream and other places to, don’t do it heaps because it’s sorta scummy (but enjoy)
If you rent out your home for 14 or fewer days a year, you do not have to pay taxes on this income….Section 280A(g) of the Internal Revenue Code
Regardless of the amount of rent? "No I didn't win the lottery. Someone rented my house for a million dollars per night."
Most large retail employers don’t have a policy against recording your interactions with your bosses.
The tricks doctors use to distract you when they’re trying to check your reflexes
How to make Thermite. I don't know why, Thermite itself itsn't actually all that useful or destructive. It burns hot sure, but it's not going to melt anything very well without a proper vessel to contain and direct the heat into the thing you want to melt.
The Ukrainians have found that it's good for permanently parking Russian tanks
51 is divisible by 17
What the inside of a British post box looks like
My (now long time latent) anxiety disorder made me realize some truths about life, nature and our place in the universe that I don't discuss with others to not bring them existential despair. I'm doing OK by the way.
I have to keep a lot to myself too. Hugs to you, if you don't mind accepting them. It's a bit lonely sometimes, isn't it?
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The small dirt lot down the street from me has a water spigot coming out of the ground. That's where your "bottled at the source" Northern California spring water comes from. Big tanker trucks pull into this dirt lot off the street and connect to this little pipe with only a padlocked little fence around it and fill up with my town's water and then sell it in fancy bottles for $$$$$
That's gotta be a big spigot. Most tankers fill from 4-6 inch lines because a regular spigot would take something like 50 hours to fill a taker truck.
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In Ontario Canada a resident of a long term care home cannot be evicted for non-payment. The LTC can remove perks like cable and move you to a cheaper room but cannot make you leave. If you really want to play it smart one could give their kids most of their money as an early inheritance (also saves taxes since it is a gift) and keep enough to pay only a few months. Hopefully the kids will spend money on a good ipad and internet plan for you and buy you some nice meals
Former long term employee of a large sporting goods company. When you go to any store to get a regular soccer, football, volleyball, ect. it doesn't matter what brand you get. Nike, Wilson, Spalding, & many more meant for stores in foreign countries ALL come from the same manufacturering plant in China. It was relatively common open a box of "our" deflates only to find a competitors product in the box. So unless it's 'An Official Game Ball' (ie made of real leather) then it doesn't matter what brand you buy it's literally all the same. Just pick the design you like best the Brand Name means nothing.
We don't pay for water in Northern Ireland it's part of your house rates ,, only farmers pay what they use for livestock plus the area I live in the mournes there's a old folk tale that because of the men from mourne built the biggest dam silent valley that supplies most of Northern Ireland if it did come to us paying we would be exempt
In the USA you can buy and drive a 18 wheeler on a class c driver's license if you are not using it for commercial use. (Like taking it to the store to get one gallon of milk.)
A lot of tgings on the internet that are somehow legal, but have damaged me
I used to have the Anarchists cookbook on disk (Amiga text files). I never tried anything on it and lost the disk years ago but you would most likely get into a lot of trouble just having a copy these days.
In the US if you want to avoid taxes on a small amount and you trust your spouse, you're allowed to make a one time gift to them of up to 30K tax free as long as it goes into a separate account just in their name. You can really give it to anyone, but the recipient then doesn't need to claim it on their taxes. So if you trust your spouse, give it to them and file taxes separately. You'll lose other benefits of filing jointly, but if you don't have kids or really benefit greatly from that filing, then you can keep gifting 30k to each other every year and take it out of the bank and hide it under your mattress or whatever.
My (now long time latent) anxiety disorder made me realize some truths about life, nature and our place in the universe that I don't discuss with others to not bring them existential despair. I'm doing OK by the way.
I have to keep a lot to myself too. Hugs to you, if you don't mind accepting them. It's a bit lonely sometimes, isn't it?
Load More Replies... The small dirt lot down the street from me has a water spigot coming out of the ground. That's where your "bottled at the source" Northern California spring water comes from. Big tanker trucks pull into this dirt lot off the street and connect to this little pipe with only a padlocked little fence around it and fill up with my town's water and then sell it in fancy bottles for $$$$$
That's gotta be a big spigot. Most tankers fill from 4-6 inch lines because a regular spigot would take something like 50 hours to fill a taker truck.
Load More Replies... In Ontario Canada a resident of a long term care home cannot be evicted for non-payment. The LTC can remove perks like cable and move you to a cheaper room but cannot make you leave. If you really want to play it smart one could give their kids most of their money as an early inheritance (also saves taxes since it is a gift) and keep enough to pay only a few months. Hopefully the kids will spend money on a good ipad and internet plan for you and buy you some nice meals
Former long term employee of a large sporting goods company. When you go to any store to get a regular soccer, football, volleyball, ect. it doesn't matter what brand you get. Nike, Wilson, Spalding, & many more meant for stores in foreign countries ALL come from the same manufacturering plant in China. It was relatively common open a box of "our" deflates only to find a competitors product in the box. So unless it's 'An Official Game Ball' (ie made of real leather) then it doesn't matter what brand you buy it's literally all the same. Just pick the design you like best the Brand Name means nothing.
We don't pay for water in Northern Ireland it's part of your house rates ,, only farmers pay what they use for livestock plus the area I live in the mournes there's a old folk tale that because of the men from mourne built the biggest dam silent valley that supplies most of Northern Ireland if it did come to us paying we would be exempt
In the USA you can buy and drive a 18 wheeler on a class c driver's license if you are not using it for commercial use. (Like taking it to the store to get one gallon of milk.)
A lot of tgings on the internet that are somehow legal, but have damaged me
I used to have the Anarchists cookbook on disk (Amiga text files). I never tried anything on it and lost the disk years ago but you would most likely get into a lot of trouble just having a copy these days.
In the US if you want to avoid taxes on a small amount and you trust your spouse, you're allowed to make a one time gift to them of up to 30K tax free as long as it goes into a separate account just in their name. You can really give it to anyone, but the recipient then doesn't need to claim it on their taxes. So if you trust your spouse, give it to them and file taxes separately. You'll lose other benefits of filing jointly, but if you don't have kids or really benefit greatly from that filing, then you can keep gifting 30k to each other every year and take it out of the bank and hide it under your mattress or whatever.
