We’ll see if I get my refund. First time, I got a letter from IRS saying to process my tax return (done via Turbotax, just like last year) I would have to verify my identity. This included uploading photos of the front and back of my drivers license, social security number, several line items from the tax return, DOB, and using their app to scan my face apparently to verify I was alive? As you can imagine, with all the deportations and DOGE stuff I was leery of this being for something else, but it seemed legit, just new. At the end it said refund would take 8-9 weeks. I won’t say the process was poorly designed or overly complicated, but I doubt many of our grandparents could get through it. Probably a cottage industry will sprout up helping people prove their identity to the IRS so they can get their refund. Operating out of bodegas and payday loan places maybe. Or another opportunity for Turbotax to charge you for stuff, since Direct File is being axed.
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 5:18 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the customer sieve I ilke the turkey farmers i talk to around here, they laugh out loud, literally at the hype. same risk, yet no culling of flocks. Its a money grab on ag part, getting paid to cull also eliminate opex, and was a prior admin political tool is their general consensus. We have multiple national turkey farms throughout our region, I dont know why, maybe all the wind turbines blow the avain flu away. There are some though that are isolation farms, you have to shower to enter, but the others are open air. If there were a bird flu mortality at the mandate cull claims, we wouldnt have a turkey to speak of and all our other wild birds would be dead around here Those isolation farms dont really look complicated (or isolated) considering all the amigos go in and out without showering. Could be the reason the mexico farms didnt get hit is the amigos ward off the bug, what with all those ancient aztec temples, could be theyre still protected from all the non violent human sacrifices. To the original post though, I think Starlink is the tax refund car of 2025. Iphone didnt release a major model, On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I do wonder if you can get avian flu from an infected egg, but I don’t think that’s the issue. The mortality rate is so high in birds that all the hens will be dead within days, whether they cull them or not. Dead chickens don’t lay eggs AFAIK. From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 12:55 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the customer sieve >From what I've read and heard on a couple of market-watch type sources, the >egg situation is largely driven by avian flu, and it's particularly bad in the >US because egg-laying farms in the US are huge; often in excess of a million >birds. When they want to eradicate the flu from a farm, it's a big hit. By contrast, Canadian egg-laying farms are much smaller; typically less than 100,000 birds, and maybe more likely around 50,000 birds. They still get the avian flu, but the hits are smaller, and there are a lot more farms. With RFKJr in charge, he may choose to ignore the avian flu, so no big deal. Sell those eggs! bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/21/2025 10:17 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Egg prices are at the mercy of avian flu, unless/until something changes like hepafilters on the chicken barns or vaccinating the hens. Wild birds poop on the fields and wind blows the infected dust into the barns. This data doesn’t reflect April yet: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 Retail egg prices have also been somewhat artificial because grocery stores use eggs as a loss leader to bring people into the stores. That has maybe ended as stores ended up paying $8 wholesale and selling for $3 retail. So in the future, eggs may be priced more like gasoline, based on their most recent shipment, then either mark them up or sell them at cost. I did see a lot of stores though stocking up on eggs for Easter and running sales, like $3.99 plus a $1 digital coupon for a net of $2.99. They might have been using them as a loss leader for the holiday, stuff like ham and lamb was also on sale. I’m speculating March may be a bad time for avian flu because the fields are bare of crops and snow, migrating waterfowl have been pooping on them all winter, and if it doesn’t rain the wind will blow infected dust at the chicken barns. If the fields weren’t plowed and fertilized after harvest in fall, that may be going on in spring, stirring up the soil with the infected bird poop. From: AF <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 8:15 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the customer sieve Well, that's good news. I honestly hadn't bought eggs in the past month so I hadn't noticed the change. I wonder: Is the change because demand dropped to match supply? Or is March-April the time when chicks mature enough to lay eggs? Sorry, I don't know chickin stuff. _____ From: AF <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > on behalf of Chuck <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 12:51 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] the customer sieve Huh? https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2025, at 10:47 PM, Dev <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: It’s reassuring to know that those handling your food are high as a kite and the walls around them might dissolve into a rainbow any minute, they’ll be sure to pay attention to health standards. The whole economy seems to have entered a parallel universe land, where any day we might snap back to reality. I think people are just holding on for the shock, trying not to spend too much if at all possible. Because eggs require financing options, etc. On Apr 19, 2025, at 12:59 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: It’s tax return time and traditionally some people who are past due would catch up when they got their refund. I fear this year may be the opposite. Actually, I look at all the Internet options some people have (not even including government subsidized fiber) and wonder if we small ISPs get the ones who can’t go with a bigger company because of their poor credit and payment history situation. Nobody else will take them? I am reminded of a conversation I once had, wondering why some people work at really crappy fast food places when there are other ones with much nicer work environments. I was told they can probably only get hired at places that don’t drug test. 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