OT. NO cashiers at Wally World

[Rod Speed]

And citrus isnt ?

[rbowman]

Like tomatoes, optimization for harvesting, packaging, and storage has nothing to do with optimizing for taste. I like Granny Smiths too but I haven't seen them locally in some time. The tastes here run to sweet apples.

[Cindy Hamilton]

I've got four more years before my husband qualifies for socialized medicine. Until then I'm carrying him on my employer-sponsored health insurance. When he turns 65 I'll be almost 68, so I'll probably be ready to retire.

Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

For me, fruit is all about the fiber. Citrus doesn't have as much.

I can get plenty of nutrients from other sources.

Cindy Hamilton

[FromTheRafters]

Does that come when you turn 65 or does it come when one retires? I'm

65 later this year but ny retirement age is 66 and two months.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Medicare is when you turn 65. You should study up on it, because AIUI, you have to apply before you actually turn 65.

Cindy Hamilton

[thekmanrocks]

Cindy Hamilton:

"AIUI"??

[Cindy Hamilton]

As I Understand It

Cindy Hamilton

[thekmanrocks]

__________ Now that didn't hurt, did it - to type that in full?

[rbowman]

iirc part A is automatic. Part B is optional but if you don't get it at

65 and enroll later the premium is adjusted to make up for lost time.

They're good at notifying you. When I was approaching 70 they contacted me and said I should apply for SSI since it wasn't going to get any better. That's another roll of the dice. If you don't need the money at your eligibility date, the monthly payout increases up until 70. From an actuarial viewpoint you get less for longer or more for a shorter period.

[Jim Joyce]

AFAIK, most people would have understood it, IYKWIM.

[thekmanrocks]

________

Very funny.

I just prefer to spell most things in online correspondence(aside from LOL), instead of trying to act like a Millennial.

[Ed Pawlowski]

FWIW, most of that comes from texting on a 10 key phone or sending email on a 300 baud modem.

[thekmanrocks]

_______ The internet worldwide is largely beyond that stage of development or existence.

Like I said, beyond simple abbreviations, such as LOL or SMH(shaking my head (in disbelief)), an effort should be made in onlne correspondence to fully spell out as much as possible. Keeps the conversation flowing and eliminates any risk of ambiguity or misunderstanding.

[Ralph Mowery]

I quit buying tomatoes in the normal grocery stores years ago. Just no taste to them. I grow my own or find some source that grow the varities that do taste good and are fresh off the farm.

Lately the bananas from Wally World have not been very good either.

[Jim Joyce]

Possibly due to Panama Disease. It's apparently wiping out banana plantations that grow the bananas that we like, such as Cavendish, so growers are shifting to less desirable, but more disease-resistant, varieties.

disease, also called banana wilt, a devastating disease of bananas caused by the soil-inhabiting fungus species Fusarium oxysporum forma specialis cubense. A form of fusarium wilt, Panama disease is widespread throughout the tropics and can be found wherever susceptible banana cultivars are grown. Notoriously difficult to control, the disease decimated global plantations of the Gros Michel banana in the 1950s and ’60s, which had dominated the commercial industry until its downfall. Its replacement, the modern Cavendish, has been threatened with a strain of the disease known as Tropical Race (TR) 4 since the 1990s; in 2019 TR 4 was confirmed in Colombia, marking the first appearance of the strain in the Americas.

Devastating banana disease may have reached Latin America, could drive up global prices

In a long-feared development, an extremely damaging banana disease has apparently reached Latin America. Late last week, the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) in Bogotá confirmed that four plantations in northern Colombia have been quarantined because of suspected infection with Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4), a fungus that kills plants by clogging their vascular system. Already widespread in Asia, the disease can wipe out entire plantations.

[Ralph Mowery]

I had not heard of the Panama Disease. Might explain why they seem to go bad shortly after buying them.

[gfretwell]

There was an Excel script floating around when I was getting close that said the crossover point between taking SS at 62 and waiting for

70 was 84 years old. At 84, you would have collected more money if you waited. My theory was if I took the money and invested it, that crossover date would be older with the advantage that if I croaked earlier, my family would get the money. When you die, SSA claws back that money to the exact date on your death certificate and no more is coming. I have been pretty good about not spending it but I do splurge now and then and dip into it. Last time was a new motor for my boat. It didn't make a dent in what I had.

[gfretwell]

WTF

We actually started using abbreviations back at IBM when we got our PTs (a Blackberry type thing before the Blackberry). The texts were cropped at 55 bytes.

[Rod Speed]

That’s mad.

No it doesn’t.

Its trivial to look up the ones you don’t recognise.

I didn’t even recognise your SMH, it isnt used very often.