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I may have to take the site down for short periods of time while I tackle this.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Half-joke, half-serious. Complete rant.
Would anyone miss skunks if the species went extinct altogether?
I mean, what role do they play on the food chain? What other species would be negatively impacted if skunks suddenly disappeared from the surface of the Earth? What predator approaches a skunk and thinks "this probably tastes great"...?
I just went through a couple of weeks of 30C+ (close to 40 with humidity), and during that time period, opening windows at night hardly did any good. Now that we finally got a break from this, right after going to bed last night, I had to get back up at 11pm to close the windows because of a nearby skunk...I re-opened them somewhere around 4:30am, and had to close them again around 6am.
Nature gave these creatures an effective defense mechanism. I fail to see their place on the food chain, or have them play a role that is necessary to keep some other species in check. I'm sure some other animal could easily take their place.
The bleeding hearts are free to come over, pick them up, and keep them as pets in their house.
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Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails as well as being prey for owls and raptors (which have little or no sense of smell), plus coyotes and domestic dogs (if they are hungry enough and no other prey is available).
So they do have a place in the ecosystem, just like wasps and other "pest species".
It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US states (and you'll need a special permit in most of the others - as well as understanding and tolerant neighbours). Pet Skunk Legal States 2024[^]
Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's also illegal to keep them as pets (i.e. in your house) in most US state
Land of the free... not. 
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails
I'm pretty sure we already have plenty other animals that can take care of all of those.
OriginalGriff wrote: Canada won't let you import them as pets at all.
I'm trying to export them out of Canada.
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Skunks I don't mind and they do eat alot of Ticks which is very helpful where I am from. I really save my loathing for Mosquitos.
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Yes! Yes! Count me in!
Mircea
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That stinks. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I got a tax refund cheque today - completely out of the blue - so I went to my bank app to pay it in*
And they have changed it. I've got to set up security all over again - which needed a new photo of my ID (which it wouldn't accept in the default auto mode, because of "glare", "blur", and / or "shake" but took right away in manual mode), then a security number, then a email link follow - finally get in, and wade through all the "welcome to ..." guff which tells you nothing about how to use it.
Right, where's "pay in a cheque"? nope, not there, not over there, not this menu, no I didn't mean to close the damn app, ah! There, under "make a payment". Should have thought of that...
Put the cheque on a plain background, click the button and ... only up to £1000 ... 15 minutes wasted.  I gotta post it (which means working out where I hid the paying in slips 10 years ago when I last used one) or go to the bank to pay it in. Which is a twenty mile round trip, but it's better off in my account than the tax mans!
Leave these things alone, or provide a decent migration path guys - you just piss people off with this crap.
* I don't know if you left ponders can do this, your banking system does seem to be about 20 years behind the times ... In the UK, we've been able to pay cheques in to our account by sending a photo of it via a secure banking app on the phone. You login (using biometrics etc.), take a picture of the cheque and it's in your account the next morning (provided it doesn't bounce). Really handy, quick, and easy, used it quite a few times over the years.
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What bank Paul ? You can register your/an account with HMRC which cuts all this crap out
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I can't - it was Michelle's taxes (which they demanded £400 of last November as she'd underpaid). I'm not getting involved in persuading HMRC to let me access her account (and since they know she is no longer with us, I'd hope her login (that I set up) has been cancelled at their end ...
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Santander - they are normally fine, but the idiots are worming their way in ...
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My wife received a letter from Tesco today saying their bank is being taken over by Barclays - god help us - we only have a Tesco credit card for the loyalty points on the shopping - the points usually pay for the Christmas shop
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My app got updated a couple of months ago. I'd previously tried the pilot version, but couldn't see any improvements. Then, one day the 'normal' app said it needed to update.
I assume there's changes under the hood, but the main visible one seemed to be it wanted to display a picture on the logion screen. Can't see the point of that really.
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HMRC? His Majesty's Royal Coffers?
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I feel your pain. I hate it as well.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Yes, we have the take a picture of your check (American spelling) to deposit feature. We have to sign the check on the back to endorse and take pictures of both the front and back.
We aren't THAT behind.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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My bank over here has had it for quite a few years (large but not behemoth, with a culture of customer service). I'm not sure what the amount limit is though. I know we've deposited at least $1500 (1180 pounds) via the app. A 1000 pound limit sounds quite small.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
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The IRS (US) and CRA (Canada) direct deposit into my account. In Canada, it's also easy to set up an account to send and receive payments via e-transfer, using an email address, although the amount you can send per day is limited to something like $2,500.
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Whenever I get a tax refund, I have it automatically deposited in a bank account just as if it was from an employer.
You'd think the government would support that. So, it's totally on your bank to accept that.
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As a left ponder, I sometimes wonder at how anyone can remain calm in the UK with the heavy regulations and stupidity in your government at all levels. Now it sounds like your banks have caught the stupid disease.
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We wonder the very same thing every day. 
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obermd wrote: As a left ponder, I sometimes wonder at how anyone can remain calm in the UK with the heavy regulations and stupidity in your government at all levels.
Pots and kettles...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Can you imagine if car makers moved the steering to be left foot operated and the clutch was a knob on the dashboard, just to "freshen up the UI" yet, effectively, that's what they're doing here.
Breaking a known and working UI. Extend, yeah, ok. Fundamentally change for why? No.
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