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BarbarianElephant posted:Funko Pops are $10 each, so he bought 60 of the bloody things. At least he isn't into candles I guess. I kind of want a Zoidberg for my office at work, I'll put it on next month's budget.
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My wife has two of them that we got from some Harry Potter loot crate. Not sure what you're supposed to do with them. Luna Lovegood is staring at me right now from the office bookshelf.
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Mar 30, 2017 21:45
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Organic, grass-fed ground beef is roughly $4 a pound at Costco, ($5 at Aldi), which is a quantity our family consumes roughly every week (probably 3 weeks out of 4 but who's counting?) Maybe we have steaks every month. Let's figure we really splurge, grass-fed organic beef or something. $10 steaks. 24 steaks plus a pound of beef a week puts us at, what, $500? We could afford to do this AND buy a NEW Weber gas grill (and the propane to run it) every single year for the price of his stupid cow plan. A half cow is something like 200 pounds of beef, it would suit your cow needs for 4 years
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Mar 30, 2017 21:45
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Eat less beef. No.
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Mar 30, 2017 21:49
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Funko Pop figurines are also the shittiest most pleb-tier of vinyl figurines and are a beacon to all your nerd friends that you don't know what you're doing and have no taste in anime waifu statues 
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Mar 30, 2017 21:49
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Eat less beef. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQynViAF6Ds
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Mar 30, 2017 21:58
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I'm so glad Funco Pops weren't a thing about 10 years ago. That would've been really bad for 10 year ago me.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:04
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potatoducks posted:My wife has two of them that we got from some Harry Potter loot crate. Not sure what you're supposed to do with them. Luna Lovegood is staring at me right now from the office bookshelf. You throw it in a garbage and then throw your pathetic anime man child rear end in with it.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:09
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Neither of us watch any anime. 
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ate all the Oreos posted:Funko Pop figurines are also the shittiest most pleb-tier of vinyl figurines and are a beacon to all your nerd friends that you don't know what you're doing and have no taste in anime waifu statues Is Futurama anime? Does another company make Futurama vinyl statues?
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Mar 30, 2017 22:24
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My waifu is named Marie Kondo and she says throw Luna in the woodchipper, then throw away the woodchipper. she speaks to meeeee
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Mar 30, 2017 22:25
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I don't buy a lot of useless physical crap but god drat those humble bundles. gently caress. I haven't played all of the games I've gotten in them but I have been introduced to some really amazing ones because of them, so it all breaks even in my book.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:25
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Doc Hawkins posted:My waifu is named Marie Kondo and she says throw Luna in the woodchipper, then throw away the woodchipper. That might work. My wife was into that stuff before she realized it meant she would have to throw away all her shoes. When she gets home, I'll ask her whether Luna sparks joy.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:52
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Doc Hawkins posted:My waifu is named Marie Kondo and she says throw Luna in the woodchipper, then throw away the woodchipper. yes but don't forget to hug your woodchipper and thank it for its service first
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Hoodwinker posted:I don't buy a lot of useless physical crap but god drat those humble bundles. gently caress. I haven't played all of the games I've gotten in them but I have been introduced to some really amazing ones because of them, so it all breaks even in my book. I only occasionally get them as I don't have a lot of time for gaming lately. I did pick up the $30 for 30 games one recently. Some pretty cool games in that and it'll keep me going for a long time. Actually starting to get through my backlog of unplayed steam games too. I'm pretty sure my gaming budget is under $100 per year now. On the masters degree discussion from earlier. I got a specialist masters and it is my entire career and business. It's been GWM for income and tax write offs. Although my friends that want to get a generic MA I'm not sure why they are bothering as all they will end up with is more debt and a wasted year of their life.
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Mar 30, 2017 23:07
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Devian666 posted:I only occasionally get them as I don't have a lot of time for gaming lately. I did pick up the $30 for 30 games one recently. Some pretty cool games in that and it'll keep me going for a long time. Actually starting to get through my backlog of unplayed steam games too. I'm pretty sure my gaming budget is under $100 per year now.
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Mar 30, 2017 23:23
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ate all the Oreos posted:Oh I was thinking it was like a cow timeshare, like you get to milk the cow every other week, switching off with someone else. Yeah...milking. That's what we're going to do with our half of the cow. Does KingSlime know anyone who writes stuff about cows?
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Mar 30, 2017 23:43
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Hoodwinker posted:I more or less stopped playing WoW and that has given me many more hours to devote to playing the zillion games I've bought and also more time to work on my own game. Getting burned out on MMOs is GWL. MMOs are fun to a certain point. Unfortunately too many mechanics centre around spending a lot of time and achieving very little to stretch out what little content there is. The social side of MMOs can be good but often leads to even less being achieved. No MMOs usually means that you get more sleep which is GWL.
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Mar 31, 2017 01:14
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You should just play GTA V RP instead of MMOs
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To be fair on the videogame dev guy in SoCal, his questions aren't that dumb, Also I believe you can deduct rent on your California State tax return, just not your federal one (I am not sure I work in Washington and pretty much never deal with state taxes) I can see how he would be confused about that. All the other expenses make sense if they use a home office and work from home, or do their own weird freelance development poo poo. On the flip side if they are non-employee contractors they probably dump all that crap on a Schedule C. Hoodwinker posted:I don't buy a lot of useless physical crap but god drat those humble bundles. gently caress. I haven't played all of the games I've gotten in them but I have been introduced to some really amazing ones because of them, so it all breaks even in my book. My personal rule of thumb is games are probably the best $ to entertainment time, so honestly as long as you aren't doing weird poo poo like buying the  gold clan mechs in MW:O generally some dude buying $1000 of steam games that he only played half of is probably getting more total hours of entertainment than blowing $1000 on a pair of NFL tickets.
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Mar 31, 2017 03:51
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Hoodwinker posted:I don't buy a lot of useless physical crap but god drat those humble bundles. gently caress. I haven't played all of the games I've gotten in them but I have been introduced to some really amazing ones because of them, so it all breaks even in my book. I've stopped buying games except in humble bundles, and I tend not to buy the high tiers so I stay under $10 per. My annual spending on games is less than $100, and I have all the games I could want to play and then some. I don't mean the humble monthly, I just mean I buy the bundles when they look good.
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Getting a master's was gwm for my wife because she gets a decent automatic raise as a teacher. Choosing teaching as a career not as gwm though.
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brugroffil posted:Getting a master's was gwm for my wife because she gets a decent automatic raise as a teacher. Choosing teaching as a career not as gwm though. Teaching compensation is all kinds of messed up. I did a policy analysis of teacher compensation back when I was lobbying and it is the most byzantine set of rules I've ever seen. Most teachers make way below a "market rate" for their skills/degrees, but certifications and degrees are automatic pay bumps. And 99% of schools don't care where your degree is from, so an online community college is just as good as Harvard to qualify for the raise. So, some teachers can stack degrees and certifications to end up making over 200% (that is 3x!) the average salary. You have two teachers in their mid-40's teaching the same subject, but one makes 96k and the other makes 41k. Plus, pension plans are calculated based on your highest 3-5 earning years. This can make the compensation gap around S1+ million between two teachers over 30 years. There's also weird instances where lunch ladies can get nutrition certifications that give them raises. It makes no sense. 60% of people in education/academia are getting screwed on their salary, but 10-15% are making out like kings by navigating these rules.
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If you haven't driven out to the field to pick out your cow and pet it before you ate it, I just don't know what to tell you. With a deep freeze, even with a power cut, that much frozen beef will stay frozen for a while as long as you leave the lid closed too.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
I had a teacher in middle school who was collecting his 30 year pension from one school district while teaching in mine. Getting a Ed. M I believe made it harder for me to get a job out of school (I was in a 5 year education program to get it) so I moved to another country to make less money teaching with no real pension. And not even get SS quarters because there is no reciprocal agreement between the governments here. Maybe if I want to move from country to country every few years to get big bucks teaching in an authoritarian shithole but I don't want to do that. And my wedding is going to cost me around 20K too so I'm always BWM
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GoutPatrol posted:I had a teacher in middle school who was collecting his 30 year pension from one school district while teaching in mine. Cops, military, etc all do this. Pensions (well, for teachers at least, can't forget about ARE TROOPS and ARE COPS) will all be a distant memory when the Boomers die off. Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Teaching compensation is all kinds of messed up. I did a policy analysis of teacher compensation back when I was lobbying and it is the most byzantine set of rules I've ever seen. It's a very hetrogenous system so generalisations like that seen questionable to me... from the few places in the US I've looked around at it seems quite bare-bones what they'll pay you extra for in terms of education outside being on your way to a Master's/PhD  You can add a bit with taking on extra roles (coaching, admin stuff, etc) but generally it's a poor return of time:money. Some districts will try to incentivise things like working in difficult schools or bringing up standardised test scores, but as I'm sure you became aware of in the course of your lobbying work, there are frustratingly few clear answers. Education by its nature will always be a field where labour is exploited, because teachers are too willing to sacrifice for their students.
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Our children are the future, and that's why we'll overwork and underpay their primary source of non-parental growth.
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Hoodwinker posted:Our children are the future, and that's why we'll overwork and underpay their primary source of non-parental growth. If your parents loved you or wanted you to succeed they would have coughed up the money for private school, Timmy
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ate all the Oreos posted:If your parents loved you or wanted you to succeed they would have coughed up the money for private school, Timmy Something something bootstraps.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Cops, military, etc all do this. Pensions (well, for teachers at least, can't forget about ARE TROOPS and ARE COPS) will all be a distant memory when the Boomers die off. Every single bailiff, except for 1, in an entire state court system (Common Pleas) I looked at was former military or police. Once you "retire" after 10-20 years to be pension eligible in those positions, they go to the courts because it has a separate pension system and isn't as physically demanding. Plus, you can leave whenever you want. quote:It's a very hetrogenous system so generalisations like that seen questionable to me... from the few places in the US I've looked around at it seems quite bare-bones what they'll pay you extra for in terms of education outside being on your way to a Master's/PhD This is absolutely true. I didn't even look at a full sample of the U.S., so my personal data might not even be wholly representative. We did 10 states + DC. It does vary wildly, but every state does offer automatic bumps for degrees and certifications. There are quite a few certifications available that are hardly even taken advantage of as well. We also came to more or less the same conclusion. That giving automatic raises for degrees and certifications doesn't really make sense, but not incentivizing teachers to better themselves or stay up to date on the latest research doesn't make sense either. And without a clear career track (you can't get promoted from Social Studies teacher to Executive Social Studies Teacher) they have to develop some compensation system that rewards staying with your employer, but also bettering yourself. Education spending is BWM, because every student body, teacher supply, and infrastructure is so different that you can never be totally efficient. Back to true BWM: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2vk3tv/im_paid_in_bitcoins_abroad_i_want_to_pay_taxes/ quote:I'm paid in bitcoins abroad. I want to pay taxes and be legit. I have no idea how to do that in my current circumstances. quote:you might owe taxes in the country where you registered for your entrepreneur license (or whatever you wanna call it). The country where you pay medical + social. quote:Generally, if you're working in Europe, you either need to have an employment contract with a company, stating that you are their proper employee; or a license to be an independent contractor, an entrepreneur. If you are working in Europe and do not have either, you are operating outside of the law. quote:I don't know where the btc comes from to be honest. I do send them immediately to coinbase and sell them which goes directly to my bank account. So there is a traceable source of income. I'm trying to prevent future burdens if the source of those deposits come into question and I have to verify my work history. There's a bunch of people arguing that being paid in bitcoin is actually a great thing, because not being able to cash out your paycheck immediately means that you have to hold onto it for longer and bitcoin is only going up. So, you get a raise on all your paychecks.
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I love that he emphasizes that the work he is doing is legal and then says poo poo like this:quote:I don't know where the company resides. quote:I have no idea what the nationality or geographic location of the people paying me are. It's not even a company.
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blugu64 posted:If you haven't driven out to the field to pick out your cow and pet it before you ate it, I just don't know what to tell you. With a deep freeze, even with a power cut, that much frozen beef will stay frozen for a while as long as you leave the lid closed too. Costco sells generators that will power your deep freeze, fridge and probably a heater or A/C that run of your natural gas line for like 2.5k installed. Before I buy another large section of animal, I believe I'll be doing that.
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Inept posted:I love that he emphasizes that the work he is doing is legal and then says poo poo like this: How can you tax my company if it's not even a company 
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ate all the Oreos posted:If your parents loved you or wanted you to succeed they would have coughed up the money for private school, Timmy From what I heard from teacher relatives that public schools actually pay better than private however you usually get better students in private (for a variety of reasons) and you generally have less discipline issues amongst other things. Can't confirm as I went to public school, but by Highschool it felt half of every class was the teacher dealing with bullshit other than teaching.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Costco sells generators that will power your deep freeze, fridge and probably a heater or A/C that run of your natural gas line for like 2.5k installed. Check your house insurance. Many include specific coverage for spoiled meat due to power outages.
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Jack2142 posted:From what I heard from teacher relatives that public schools actually pay better than private however you usually get better students in private (for a variety of reasons) and you generally have less discipline issues amongst other things. That's because in private schools, teachers don't have to be certified, they just have to be willing to work for poo poo wages and (usually) be willing to teach some religious classes. Also if Timmy is an rear end in private school, they can easily kick him out, so discipline problems get punted back to public schools. But in general, don't go into teaching. The pay is falling behind relative to other careers and it is a ton of stress.
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BWM: assuming the government is going to follow through on a student loan forgiveness program. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/business/student-loan-forgiveness-program-lawsuit.html
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Hahahaha gently caress academic medicine I guess. It is shocking that this administration has not done a single thing that I support. I'm not even liberal. Where are my tax cuts at least.
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potatoducks posted:Hahahaha gently caress academic medicine I guess. If they couldn't handle healthcare, they sure as hell can't handle taxes.
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potatoducks posted:Hahahaha gently caress academic medicine I guess. You know this started under Obama, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/...swer-is-no.html quote:In December 2014, Ms. Voigt received a letter from Jeff Baker, an Education Department director, which said that the public education services that she provides did not make her eligible for forgiveness unless she had been educating students and families. “We regret any confusion that may have been caused by our earlier opinion,” the letter added. Yes we can't
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