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Barry posted:Totally. Spill it girl, spill it I'll save him the trouble; it's all in my post history anyway.
I also bought an expensive car, don't contribute to a 401K, shop at farmer's markets, send my laundry out, and sometimes pay others to prepare meals for me. I haven't yet found anyone to buy the movie rights to my life, but I haven't given up hope.
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Why would you not contribute to a 401k? At your income level in California your tax bracket must be murderous.
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Oct 16, 2015 06:41
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Cicero posted:Why would you not contribute to a 401k? At your income level in California your tax bracket must be murderous. Dude's a C-Level Executive at Facebook. He is obviously smarter than the rest of us. Facebook is a revolutionary company changing the paradigm don't ya know?
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Oct 16, 2015 06:45
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Because I don't intend to be in the US when it matures, and with penalties it doesn't really work out in my favor to do so. My marginal tax rate is "one for me, one for everyone else", so the tax savings themselves would be appealing if I was going to be in the US long term. My employer has started matching, so I'll probably contribute this year if the post-penalty, hope-Canada-agrees numbers work out, but it won't net much.
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Oct 16, 2015 06:51
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Subjunctive posted:I'll save him the trouble; it's all in my post history anyway. Isn't grocery delivery free in most major cities these days?
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Oct 16, 2015 08:55
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Cicero posted:Why would you not contribute to a 401k? At your income level in California your tax bracket must be murderous. Canadian citizens who are only temporary residents of the USA contributing to 401k's is bad with money. So is residents of Canada who plan to move to the USA in the future contributing to a TFSA. Asymmetric tax policies suck.
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Oct 16, 2015 09:09
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Switchback posted:I spent $15k buying my own engagement ring. It's a pink argyle diamond so it's not big or impressive so I get no social recognition for it. <---- humblebrag ^^^^^^ a bad post mods please make talking about your own actions probatable or exilable
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Oct 16, 2015 10:46
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Sorry I am bad at posting on the internet. Thank you for contributing that to the thread.
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Oct 16, 2015 11:02
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Switchback posted:Sorry I am bad at posting on the internet. Thank you for contributing that to the thread. Don't feel bad, half his posts in this thread are bitching about others not posting stories while simultaneously bringing none to the table himself. The other half is crabbing about Zaurg. There was a nice story about budgies though  BWM is my neighbor. She didn't do routine PMs on her air conditioner so it pissed water into my house for a solid week and a half until I could figure out where it was coming from. So far the cost has been $1800 for drying/mold mitigation and $7000 for rebuilding my house. Homes vaporize money so fast it's scary. Do Never Buy. Thank goodness for homeowner's insurance.
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Oct 16, 2015 11:16
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Switchback posted:Isn't grocery delivery free in most major cities these days? Even if it were free, I still wouldn't want to use it though. How do these services work out with fresh fruits and vegetables? I know I'm constantly calling audibles when I go to the grocery store and I see that something I was planning to buy looks awful. I wouldn't trust someone putting those things in a box and me paying for it before I have a chance to see it. I guess it would be BWM if you then threw the groceries out ahhh gently caress it who cares this thread is derail central anyway.
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Oct 16, 2015 13:37
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BloodBag posted:Don't feel bad, half his posts in this thread are bitching about others not posting stories while simultaneously bringing none to the table himself. The other half is crabbing about Zaurg. There was a nice story about budgies though Whose homeowner's insurance? Yours or her's? Poor homeowner chat, I walked outside on Monday to water on my sidewalk. Busted water main. Checking online I was looking at, on average - $800 to $1400. Final cost? $500. Yay for honest plumbers and my easy to reach leak in the middle of my yard.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:09
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BloodBag posted:BWM is my neighbor. She didn't do routine PMs on her air conditioner so it pissed water into my house for a solid week and a half until I could figure out where it was coming from. So far the cost has been $1800 for drying/mold mitigation and $7000 for rebuilding my house. Homes vaporize money so fast it's scary. Do Never Buy. Thank goodness for homeowner's insurance. I put off servicing my air-con for nearly 3 years because I didn't feel like doing the work. It started dripping water, and the water ruined my wooden shelves. Had to throw them away because of the mold. And I still had to do the servicing.
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Oct 16, 2015 15:22
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Krispy Kareem posted:Whose homeowner's insurance? Yours or her's? Hers. My insurance is pursuing her insurance for subrogation. Hopefully I'll get my deductible back.
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Oct 16, 2015 16:51
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Switchback posted:I spent $15k buying my own engagement ring. It's a pink argyle diamond so it's not big or impressive so I get no social recognition for it. So people with basic horses would literally be better off selling the the horse for leather, making a pair of shell cordovan shoes out of the butt, and selling those at full retail?
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Oct 16, 2015 19:25
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Turns out it wasn't a historic low, rates dropped like 2.5% between then and now. Hindsight 20/20 and all but taking a 5/1 ARM in 2005 was pretty GWM
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Oct 16, 2015 19:44
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Turns out it wasn't a historic low, rates dropped like 2.5% between then and now. Hindsight 20/20 and all but taking a 5/1 ARM in 2005 was pretty GWM Turns out it was historic-ish, but the logic was sound. Once rates dropped sufficiently, I refinanced. ^^Exactly.
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Oct 16, 2015 19:48
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I don't think "historic low" means "it will never be lower" but rather "it has never/rarely been lower so far".
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Oct 16, 2015 20:02
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Renegret posted:Even if it were free, I still wouldn't want to use it though. In my neck of Australia you can get free delivery on groceries if it's over $100. I could see it being attractive if you're a stay-at-home parent (especially if you only have one car in your family) or work from home and are really lazy/don't have a car. You have to sign up for a 2-4 hour delivery window and be home to sign for it (makes sense considering potential spoilage issues) so it would otherwise probably be *less* convenient for a lot of people. Had never even considered that aspect of it, although I buy far more vegetables than fruit so it wouldn't be as big an issue. I could see it being maddening for avocados.
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Oct 16, 2015 21:50
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In places where I would physically carry my groceries home, I could see myself ordering canned foods and other heavy, bulky non-perishables online once every few months, but never for veggies. I already get candy delivered from Amazon Prime because they have everything.
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Oct 16, 2015 22:04
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Oh I so want to cheat and dirty up my diet with a big bag of Chewy Runts, but no one has them anymore. Since I'm a BFC regular, I can't bring myself to be BWM and pay whatever ridiculous sum any seller would put on them.
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Oct 16, 2015 22:26
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I would pay a lot for old runts, the kind that had lime in them.
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Oct 16, 2015 22:45
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Pompous Rhombus posted:In my neck of Australia you can get free delivery on groceries if it's over $100. I could see it being attractive if you're a stay-at-home parent (especially if you only have one car in your family) or work from home and are really lazy/don't have a car. You have to sign up for a 2-4 hour delivery window and be home to sign for it (makes sense considering potential spoilage issues) so it would otherwise probably be *less* convenient for a lot of people. In my experience these services are super picky about produce, because they know people are skeptical about that. I think most will do refunds sight-unseen if the produce isn't up to your standards. I've had texts telling me that they didn't have any $whatever that was up to scratch, did I still want it? Once with a photo even! I've never had a problem with it, though I don't order a huge amount of produce. The 2-hour window I don't find to be a problem, since I'm usually home 6-8pm or 8pm-10pm or similar. I'll have to try avocados next time and see how it goes!
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BloodBag posted:BWM is my neighbor. She didn't do routine PMs on her air conditioner so it pissed water into my house for a solid week and a half until I could figure out where it was coming from. So far the cost has been $1800 for drying/mold mitigation and $7000 for rebuilding my house. Homes vaporize money so fast it's scary. Do Never Buy. Thank goodness for homeowner's insurance. Living anywhere with humidity is BWM. I never understood why I'd always hear about mold, mildew, and rust problems until I moved out of Colorado. Those things don't exist here. Also, you never get sweaty, which is good with life and body odor. Humid climates also tend to have all of the horrific bugs and require expensive air conditioning. Denver rental and home prices are distinctly BWM, however...
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fits my needs posted:Dude's a C-Level Executive at Facebook. He is obviously smarter than the rest of us. Facebook is a revolutionary company changing the paradigm don't ya know? The funniest part of your weird obsession with subjunctive is even with the cross referenced database you're keeping on him you can't get his job right despite it being a googleable fact.
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BossRighteous posted:Weird, I am reading it as the complete opposite of that. Plus it's weird to bump a month and a half old comment. You misread my response. I'm saying Jeff went into OS type work since web dev/digital media is full of business school underachievers and creative writing majors
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pr0zac posted:The funniest part of your weird obsession with subjunctive is even with the cross referenced database you're keeping on him you can't get his job right despite it being a googleable fact. There's some weird poo poo going on in this thread. Why do people know so much about this person? I wonder if I have my very own SA stalker.
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Comrade Flynn posted:There's some weird poo poo going on in this thread. Why do people know so much about this person?
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Oct 19, 2015 02:24
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Comrade Flynn posted:There's some weird poo poo going on in this thread. Why do people know so much about this person? I chatted in chat threads, and I guess fitsmyneeds kept meticulous notes. pr0zac works with me, so he's excused.
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Oct 19, 2015 02:30
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http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/ Eat the rich. Especially their adult children.
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Subjunctive posted:In my experience these services are super picky about produce, because they know people are skeptical about that. I think most will do refunds sight-unseen if the produce isn't up to your standards. I've had texts telling me that they didn't have any $whatever that was up to scratch, did I still want it? Once with a photo even! Yeah, I figure they would, and you can probably peep it real quick and refuse it at the door. My thing with avocados would be them not knowing the consistency to go for; when I'm buying them at the store I'll look for a certain firmness based on how soon I want to use it. Of course, you can slow the ripening way down by putting them in the fridge, or speed it up by putting them in a brown paper bag, but it'd still seem rife with the possibility of them inconveniently not being able to read my mind 
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Oct 19, 2015 04:46
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My colleague just went out for lunch and bought a $38 salad. To be fair, it looks like a really good salad.
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Oct 19, 2015 04:48
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canyoneer posted:http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/ Many rich people may be heartless capitalist bastards, and for those that ruthlessly manipulated others and clawed their way to the top, worked incredibly hard and were extremely clever, or those who otherwise got lucky at the right time, let them have their reward. Their kids can suck a bag of syphilis-ridden dicks though. Estate tax should be much firmer to avoid these sort of poo poo stains on society.
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Oct 19, 2015 05:58
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Switchback posted:My colleague just went out for lunch and bought a $38 salad. Well? What was in it? ...Did it come with a complimentary blowjob?
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Switchback posted:My colleague just went out for lunch and bought a $38 salad. You're in Singapore, right? What's market rate for a salad?
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baquerd posted:Many rich people may be heartless capitalist bastards, and for those that ruthlessly manipulated others and clawed their way to the top, worked incredibly hard and were extremely clever, or those who otherwise got lucky at the right time, let them have their reward. Their kids can suck a bag of syphilis-ridden dicks though. Estate tax should be much firmer to avoid these sort of poo poo stains on society. I'm fine with this philosophy. If we're going to have a cutthroat meritocracy, great. But when rich rear end in a top hat kids get handed a future bereft of work, responsibility, and worry, that's not a meritocracy.
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Isn't that how it's always been, though? I'm all for people giving their kids a jump start in life, but ostentatious assholes should get some sort of penalty. Make America a huge "should they inherit it" reality show
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Not a Children posted:Isn't that how it's always been, though? Yes, but it's getting worse. quote:I'm all for people giving their kids a jump start in life Well, if they are going to do that, they shouldn't be allowed to claim that poor people just need to work harder or have better ideas, because apparently the real answer is that they should be born to the right person. Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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Oct 19, 2015 14:46
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Please think of the rich people. Their lives are difficult just like black people. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/17/wealth-therapy-tackles-woes-of-the-rich-its-really-isolating-to-have-lots-of-money
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cowofwar posted:Please think of the rich people. Their lives are difficult just like black people. I'm pretty sure that's snide critique on the part of the Guardian. They do this sometimes http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/07/crewing-on-superyachts-wealth-careers
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