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So I am not a veteran myself, however, my grandfather is. He's honorably discharged from the Vietnam War (USAF) and is a service-connected disabled veteran. The past couple of years, I've truly learned that we never started treating veterans better. I heard it was real bad way back when (I'm quite young, only 22), and I thought it got better but no. The exact opposite. If anything, with the COL nowadays, its definitely worse.

For one thing, Hurricane Beryl hit us, and one thing I know is that from that moment on, our roof has been broken to frick and back and its gotten worse and worse over time since we can't afford to fix it. VA disability, social security, ironworkers pension, none of that pays nearly enough to actually fix it because every single dime goes towards bills. Savings account? What's that? Never heard of it. That's how we live right now, and how we've lived for years, since COVID roughly. It hasn't gotten better, if anything its gotten worse.

Anyways, roof is damaged, we have roof leaks, water spots, water coming into our house in some areas. I had to fight FEMA for 6 months straight to get even a dime out of them. That is pathetic, and honestly so aggravating. If I didn't have the tenacity to fight and have activist passions in me, we would have never seen that money. Well, the money comes and its $1,000, nowhere near enough to fix the roof, which I think by that point, the roof needed an entire replacement.

My grandfather, long story short, got scammed by a guy shortly after Beryl for his life savings to "fix" the roof. He didn't know what he was doing, broke the roof even worse than it was originally and...we have no recourse. Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Home Depot Foundation, veterans organizations even, all turned us down. Red Cross had a program for Beryl but we didn't learn about it until it was too late because its not like they put out a PSA. We don't have home insurance since we live on a floodplain and its illegal to have one in Texas on a floodplain, at least if you're in a mobile home.

Habitat for Humanity claimed they lacked funding and couldn't help. The veterans organizations couldn't help since we couldn't transfer the house deed from his deceased wife to him. Legally, under property laws, he does own it since his wife didn't have a will and they were married 50+ years HOWEVER, you can't transfer the deed unless the property is tax good, which it is not. We're paying on back property taxes because his wife sucked at money, and wouldn't let him manage or see a dime of it.

Overall, I'm just ranting about how veterans are treated. Not even the VA wanted to help. Its very upsetting to know that a lot of you are probably in similar situations and have nobody to turn to. I'm not even the veteran and I'm getting upset and I'm lost on where to go. Anyways, thank you everybody for reading this rant, and I apologize if I've made whoever's reading this a bit sad or depressed. I just had to get it out there.

So I'm not gonna bore you all with the full story, mostly because I'm not looking for sympathy, mostly help. Essentially, we live in Texas near the Gulf Coast in a mobile home. Since FEMA has declared this area a flood zone, due to state laws, and due to this being a mobile home, we are not permitted to purchase home insurance, so we don't have it even though one of our family members outright owns it (no mortgage).

Hurricane Beryl hit and it absolutely started havoc on our roof and its only gotten worse with disrepair. It got a lot worse when the home owner, an honorably discharged veteran who fought in 'Nam, gave his life savings to who turned out to be a scammer and made our roof worse than it was prior to them touching it. We have been unable to reclaim that money. We have been through it with FEMA, where I fought them for 6 months straight in bureaucracy to get a measly $1,000 payment out of them for the roof fixes, which didn't nearly cover it, and due to us being way below the federal poverty line, we couldn't stash it into savings. It all went towards bills, which go up by the month.

We've looked everywhere including places like ServPro and most of them don't offer payment plans. The ones that do, we don't seem to qualify for. The ones we do? The terms are so bad it, if anything, makes the repair less affordable than if we paid outright. One example was this contractor who gave us payment terms of like $500 every two weeks which we CANNOT do.

I even made a Gofundme and it has really gone nowhere. This is honestly, so disheartening that a veteran could be treated this way. Organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and the Red Cross have even refused to help, citing lack of funding or resources and its just, where the fuck do we turn to then?

I've only come here because I'm desperate. I have nowhere else to go. I know its risky to trust random internet strangers but do I have any other choice?

Since a couple of days ago, my app no longer works. Like everything works, except when I try to pay or when I try to manage my payment methods. The payment method screen infinitely loads, so I can't even manage my payment methods, and Google Pay just flat out fails to work, for some reason even though I go through the payment like normal but the McDonald's app says it failed. Today, I tried ordering McDonald's again as I wanted it again, however it still wasn't working and I tried clearing cache, clearing data and even uninstalling and reinstalling the app, and if anything, it made the issues slightly worse. I decided to go in-person and order McDonald's at the touch screen kiosk and it said I had 5,000 points but the app said I only had 1,000 points (and earlier today it said I had 5,000). To make things weirder, the app said I had an active order but it wasn't a current order but an old order with an order date of NULL???

I don't know what's going on but please tell me this isn't just me. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy A36 5G, relatively recent and modern phone.

I was onboarding a new mod and obviously I don't know much about them but I granted them access to "Users", "Config" and "Flair" when inviting them, I didn't want to give them "Everything." They accepted the invite and then told me they couldn't approve or remove posts? I look at their permissions and suddenly I have more options to choose from (that's strike one, for failing to show all perms on the invite screen). Strike two I would argue is not granular enough permissions (what this post is about). Like I'd like the ability to give a mod access to everything, whilst not being able to manage mod access and permissions. Like its very clear to me that there are permissions locked behind the "Everything" checkbox and I don't like it: "Full access including the ability to manage moderator access and permissions."

I want anything that you can do on Reddit as a mod separated as its own permission, I don't think its too much of an ask. Make it a separate permission to add apps/bots, make it a separate permission to add mods or change the mod order, things of that nature. Please tell me I'm not the only one who wants to see something like this.

Just thought you'd all like to know. Now, as somebody who's majoring in cybersecurity (currently a junior in my bachelor's) and has cybersecurity experience firsthand, paying a ransom is quite ill-advised, and the reason is because you can never trust that they'll actually follow through. Given what people have said about phishing lately, its either:

A: Such an odd coincidence (or maybe something else was hacked and we don't know it yet)

OR

B: They still leaked it regardless, just took it down from their data leak site

So story is, a package was dropped off 2DA at the UPS Store today, and the dropoff was recorded on site. It was dropped off at 4:11 PM PST. The UPS Air pickup time for that specific store was 5:00 PM PST. I'm almost worried it got missed even though it was dropped off almost an hour before pickup time. I did call up the UPS Store and they said it should have been picked up given when it was dropped off, and from my experience, majority of the time (~99%) a pickup scan does show up a little bit afterwards.

It is currently 7:57 PM PST and there is no pickup scan. Is this normal? Will it scan upon arrival at the local facility? For logistical reasons I would actually much prefer if it did go out today as opposed to tomorrow as if it goes out tomorrow, it stands a higher likelihood of hitting inclement weather in my area when it arrives for delivery.

Appreciate UPS as always, and stay brown!

I did a poll recently that just closed: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeviStrauss/comments/1svschv/would_the_community_like_it_if_we_added_a_rule/

Per the results of that poll being overwhelmingly in favor of banning price checks, effective immediately, Rule 11 now exists and prohibits explicitly price checks or valuations in any way, shape or form.

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