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By Tony Pucca | July 5, 2026

THE CHASE ULTIMATE REWARDS DEBIT CARD PROGRAM. OR LACK THEREOF. So today I get something in the mail from Chase Bank. The envelope said that there was something going on with my ultimate rewards debit card program, so I opened it. Reading through the one-page letter, they were making it clear that the Ultimate Rewards…

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By Tony Pucca | July 5, 2026

This is why I won’t give two flying fucks if certain businesses go belly up because of this crisis: Just before The Shutdown I got my new iPhone at the local Verizon store here. With it (on the salesguy’s recommendation, of course) I bought a case and a decent glassine screen protector. Don’t know how much I paid but the price tag says $49.99 for the fucking little slice of plexi that he put on my screen for me. (Of course my phone & accessories purchase was ended with, “If you need anything come back and we’ll take care of it.”) Well, two weeks in, at the start of the shutdown, the fucking screen protector start starts to bubble up in the corner of the screen and peel up. I couldn’t get it back on. So considering the store just opened back up and people are getting shit done, I…

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By Tony Pucca | July 5, 2026

Lift tickets. Don’t know if you noticed on the head of a small online ski group. I started it on meet up.com several years ago, and it grew to about 250 people. Then I started charging membership dues because I realized I should be paying for meet ups web feed out of pocket. So I…