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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Nobody’s selling debt to collectors after a couple months, especially not large debts like to a contractor. They want the thousands owed, not pennies on the dollar from a collection agency.

    Your phone company will send your debt to collections almost immediately because it’s not worth the hassle of fighting to collect $200 from you when they can get $50 from a collection agency instead.







  • Lobbyists are people working on behalf of companies whose job is to meet up with politicians to discuss their issues. Typically that involves some back and forth that may or may not be considered bribery.

    You want a law to protect your business? You go talk to lawmakers behind closed doors about how some laws are needed to better protect children and also data centers, and subtly let them know that maybe your company might have a job for them in the future.

    Those lawmakers then go out and propose these laws and they sell the idea to other lawmakers who approve them for the children and datacenters.