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jestdotty
13d

holy shit I swear taxes are like the government trying to tell you you're a peasant to them

my medicare card is about to expire and FOR SOME REASON now the process to renew is a fucking interrogation about various documentation the government has given you. before it was just your damned name, date of birth, and a new photo for the card.

evidently they were supposed to send you snail mail 3 months before expiration. evidently also the only way to renew is get this said snail mail.
and evidently I have to go through this "catchall" change your address with everything in the government process
which is a little ironic
because
to use this service you need to give them something called a notice of assessment, which is when the government accepts your taxes they send you back one of those
well I haven't had access to my tax portal for years. I keep filing them and getting excess money back but I can't actually see any of my returns.
so I tried this time
12 pages of verification and more verification... you do one step, it says wrong info because if you have to write in 2,474 well turns out the , fucks it up and your info doesn't match what's on file and if you fail more than 3 times you'll be locked out. repeat. page after page. how many fucking pages are there? what format are they expecting? nobody fucking knows. you'll get to find out if you pass just this one more!
after about 4 hours of this shit
and they have 2 factor authorization now?! wtf.

then this next step is id verification or we snail mail you a code (WHICH AGAIN IS IRONIC)

I chose id. health card doesn't count, it notifies me later. thankfully I have a passport. bad news, passport expires this September so guess who is gonna be having more fun later
the app of course can't use my camera in the browser I have, so I start downloading fucking other browsers and finally hit one that works
also they lied. they also want a selfie. then it tells me I failed to look like myself. if you fail to look like yourself 3 times you are denied.

ok. so I try snail mail. the page says if I revoke consent to id I can go do the snail mailed code. they lied. if you revoke consent it exits the whole wizard. you enter all the verification steps again.

I try to get them to snail mail me the code. they want some basic info they asked me like 16 times now, and a postal code. ironic. well this is the tax people, so by this point I found all my previous sent in tax returns (though I can't access the government's replies). checked. yep. address all the same. put in the postal code. nope. somehow it's wrong. 3 times I put all this random info in in different ways. 5 times and I'm locked out.

now fucking what.

THE FUCKING IRONY OF
I NEED TO CHANGE WHERE I LIVE SO YOU CAN SNAIL MAIL ME SOMETHING
AND TO CHANGE WHERE I LIVE I HAVE TO CONFIRM WHERE I LIVE SO YOU CAN SNAIL MAIL ME SOMETHING FUCKING ELSE

the government just fucking dunks on you

guess we're all not having fucking medical cards anymore. all we do is pay taxes, and can't even see the paperwork to those taxes we pay.

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  • 0
    13d
    Noooo comment! You’re convincing me more that Canada is run by retards
  • 2
    12d
    Well hey, at least you arent in my situations... like during the height of covid bs they sent my car registration stuff to *not me* so when i contacted to manually renew they told me to go online. Online way required some code from the snail mail registration they didn't send me causing the issue. I call again. I'm told that if i know my VIN number i can go to a self-help kiosk (like a Secretary of State ver of an ATM) and give me 2 addresses... both no longer had a working machine. Then I'm told i need to make an appt and go to a physical SoS branch. Even if the appointments weren't all over 2mo out, well past invalid car registration dates... so technically, legally, i wouldn't be able to drive there. Plus there's the whole issue with being handicapped with a condition that randomly flares up and having immune issues... vs cramped SoS office in covid spikes.

    The IRS also hates me and audits often. I do get the amusement of their frustration at the recurring positive(to me) outcome.
  • 0
    12d
    @jestdotty you should join Kiki’s Antarctic expedition! Youre both east European so cold shouldn’t be an issue lol. I need somewhat warm with lots of humidity so that’s out of the question, I make my place a sauna deliberately during summer

    Seriously I always thought Canada was the “more polite” version of the US where they have better schools, better syrup, and better grizzly bears. Well ok the latter two are more likely. lol
  • 1
    12d
    @TeachMeCode think we have better schools over US, least back when I was in school

    my new health issues actually literally seem to slow down my metabolism and I was suffering greatly from cold... thought I'd die in room temperature was legit concerned. been doing cold weather training stuff now and if I can tolerate the cold better my health issues are better 😭
  • 0
    12d
    @jestdotty u puttin on weight (fat)?
  • 0
    12d
    @TeachMeCode hmmm no. but I'm eating few calories. in the past if I ate so little I'd be losing weight. I also don't get hungry when my issues flare up. I don't think I'm strong enough to digest food properly when they flare up, often eating will make me colder, more foggy minded after and it seems to correlate to how bad my issues are and how heavy / nutritious the meal

    i've never really been fat. when I was a kid I looked anorexic and my mom was concerned. I'm a picky eater though, so that's why as a kid it was like that.

    even had years where I'd eat only junk food and I did get a bit fat but it was still in the normal range over here -- like 4k calories burgers, BMI just listed me as normal. being fatter reduces your energy levels though and I don't like that

    I've also eaten like whole cheesecakes in a sitting. apparently that's supposed to make people sick. but my family has a literal cake that was 50% butter and we made it 4 times a year so I guess my stomach is used to that
  • 0
    12d
    now tho I eat like 100 grams of salmon and I need to lay down for 2 hours

    lol

    fuck forgot to mention despite eating so few calories I'm oddly not losing weight right now*
    some dude on Twitter said I need to eat more and it's dangerous
    but I kind of literally can't lol

    averaging 700 calories a day

    before I could eat 4k burgers in a sitting 😭

    some days I think I can get to 1000...
  • 0
    12d
    @jestdotty u lack muscle, probably from whatever health issue ur going thru. So a slice of bread will feel like a walrus in your gut. Was gonna say lift weights but you’re training your ass off.
  • 0
    12d
    @TeachMeCode I have pretty good muscle now. been taking creatine for a while

    I can't eat bread... but for a different reason. seems to cause inflammation and this gives me brain issues

    I just cut up 3 cucumbers and a tomato and dumped a bunch of olive oil on it and that was lunch for me. would be more calories than bread I think

    and in the mornings I drink protein powder in milk and some kefir

    and evenings I do meat for dinner. either chicken, a porkchop, salmon, or maybe I'll be lazy and just open a can of beans

    I also eat cashews, sunflower seeds, pistachios throughout the day

    this is peak appetite all year. before I was having trouble just eating a dinner. then when I got better my appetite improved some
  • 0
    12d
    @jestdotty that sounds decent, probably a hormone issue in you.

    I don’t know why but my fitness skyrockets during spring. Workouts that wiped me out in winter feel alot easier and I don’t see much change in other params.

    Maybe the warm weather, u should move to the US where it’s a bit warmer and more to the south, depending where u are in that maple flagged cesspool lol. Canada sounds like a living hell

    Damn I feel like I gained a bit. I ate a ton of potatoes this week with my breakfast eggs and cheese blend
  • 0
    12d
    also muscles cuz working out*

    do Pilates every day, a walk every day, sometimes I'll do something else random to try it
    used to lift weights but still sneak in sometimes to knab the weights again. they were my roomie's but I gave them back to him

    have muscles in places i've never had before. my calves aren't as big as they used to be when I was in college tho

    maybe I'll take up jogging again whenever it stops being freezing ass winter, in place of my walk. tore a ligament in my knee and never went to a doctor but I think I figured out how to make it... recover or whatever. might be a problem might not idk
  • 1
    12d
    @TeachMeCode it's probably the sun exposure so you're making vitamin d

    lack of vitamin d causes depression for whatever reason

    in Canada most people supplement with vitamin d in the winter. even summer we don't get much sun
  • 1
    12d
    @jestdotty weed helps appetite and a bit with inflammation. Shrooms apparently help a lot with inflammation (recent discovery), but im not sure shrooms would be great for you specifically.
  • 1
    12d
    @jestdotty I used to LOVE weights, had ridiculous leg and core strength in college, squatted almost 2.5x my bodyweight with just a belt, used cardio steppers to make sure I hit depth (parallel) so I don’t do half squats and look ridiculous. I hit 1.7x my bw going all the way down until I couldnt anatomically get any lower (they call it ass to grass) paused for a couple secs and shot right up, just flimsy gym shorts no special belts or wraps.

    But my cardio is the weakest link. If I don’t do it enough I start puffing like a choo choo train
  • 0
    12d
    @jestdotty oh yeah u mentioned creatine, that stuff did wonders on me as well. I used to take a lot of creatine back in the day lol, my pre workout mix was that plus nitric oxide and rockstar or Red Bull. I’m lucky to still have a heart. I would then get really lightheaded after a workout and wait until it’s safe to drive lol
  • 0
    12d
    @awesomeest ooooh. I actually have some chocolate with shrooms in the fridge. might be old now idk

    weed did help, but haha. I also have ordered a lot of drugs. by comparison I don't know if weed was that notable.

    losing my brain can be bad, yeah. I can mostly function on shrooms unlike weed tho, where I get too distracted

    exercising increases appetite better I think also
  • 0
    12d
    @TeachMeCode nice. lightheaded means a lot of oxygen in blood

    BCAA improved oxygen for me. I felt like I was suffocating before but then would eat it and could breathe. I didn't even know.

    and doing wim Hof, which seems to help me the most long-term, you're supposed to make yourself light-headed. evidently people kicked this stuff if they went to hyperbaric oxygen chambers who increased blood oxygen for a time

    when I was unfit as a kid and moved somewhere we had to run 2 km every day I'd get so dizzy after running. yeah I def need to go jogging

    yooo taurine improves lifespan of most animals by 30%, and they put that shit in red bull. was one my theories, that I ran out of taurine. my theory was low taurine leads to myocarditis, and Red Bull put it in there to counteract the Red Bull lol
    also your eyes and brain use a lot of that stuff
  • 0
    11d
    @jestdotty I’m weird, I’m built more like a lobster. REALLY Strong shoulders hips and core, but not as much meat in the limbs. Except for the calves for some reason. You ever eat one of those big large New England lobsters with side rice + butter and while mutilating the creature you were kinda disappointed with the lack of meat in the limbs lol.

    Weird, I was under the impression lightheadedness is from the brain screaming for oxygen
  • 1
    11d
    @jestdotty Indica made me less jittery and I felt it more in my body when I used to do that stuff, it was much more rewarding, but all ambition went down the drain and leaving the couch was like asking me to run a marathon with an elephant on my back. These days liquor is enough for me lol

    The head highs were the WORST, I used to be scared of street lights driving home at night, they looked so weird and creepy. I had numerous panic attacks from the heady stuff, and my heart raced so bad I thought I was going to have a heart attack which fed into my fears. Everything was frightening!
  • 0
    11d
    @TeachMeCode I know, the oxygen thing is so confusing!

    and yeah I've met... "square people"
  • 0
    11d
    @jestdotty ur not calling me boring right?
  • 0
    11d
    @TeachMeCode lol I smoked a lot of weed for a time. I was mad at my job so I would smoke every day so I could sleep. was like 2-3 years of that

    at baseline I "think a lot" though and if high I don't. I like thinking a lot though.

    used to trip out real bad on it way back, like time would slow down and 20 minutes felt like 3 days type shit. but now even if I don't smoke and smoke again it's maybe like x3 time dilation and I never freak out or anything regardless of the weed. smoked a lot of it back when it was illegal and you never really knew what you were gonna get. actually legal weed now I swear it's just weak? it's not as fun. I would smoke high indicas though, because they made my body feel like clouds

    but either case I can't direct my attention well on weed, and I also can't think as well... so complex tasks aren't gonna work...
    I do take vacations where I smoke a lot and watch b rated horror films and etc tho. cuz high creativity / paranoia makes it fun
  • 1
    11d
    @TeachMeCode lol I mean the body type
  • 1
    11d
    @jestdotty ah ok! You meant square as in body type! My bad, sorry for the alcohol fueled hostility. I completely forgive you
  • 0
    11d
    @jestdotty very sorry 😢 I hate it when I lash out, fuck. I’m on zzquil and vodka, I’m not this way always
  • 0
    11d
    @jestdotty fuck zzquil destroying my brain! ADHD coupled with GAD is such a cursed combo, I get the fluid creativity with ADHD which is a plus and the catastrophic thinking with anxiety so if we combine the two I’m left creatively thinking of lots of bad scenarios when I try to catch zzz’s
  • 2
    11d
    @TeachMeCode I did not know you were lashing out lmao
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