chitoryu12 posted:

You don’t learn about tax brackets, what forms to file, or what counts as a deduction, taxable income, gift, etc. You know, the important parts.

Handiklap posted:

This, exactly. And echoing other posters, I didn't even know that it was precisely how common core was teaching my kids until I saw something outside of rote memorization that forced me to walk through it. Is this not something that everyone just does without realizing?

Tiggum posted:

The bit I remember was people who learned that method going "it's just the same way everyone naturally does it in their head anyway" and people who didn't learn that way going "no it isn't". I don't know whether any particular way of learning arithmetic is better than any other but the usual "it's more intuitive the way I learned it" always seems to come down to people not realising that they've just internalised a particular learned method.

dialhforhero posted:

Ah yes. School. Where you don’t learn how to read words and numbers. No wonder you can’t do your taxes! How is anyone supposed to understand these explicit instructions with words about where to put numbers?!?

Picnic Princess posted:

Our tax forms come with very detailed instructions that you follow along while filling out, so I never felt a seething rage that my school let me down by not teaching me how to follow them.

TinTower posted:

https://twitter.com/moonie_l/status/1128748497447063553?s=21

Owning the libs by posting the sexual harassment that got you chucked out of the Labour Party.

AlbieQuirky posted:

I am extremely good at reading and pretty good at math and IRS instructions are ridiculously convoluted if you have anything other than straight wage income.

Powered Descent posted:

The trouble is that there's really no way to practice doing your taxes, or to check your return against an "answer key" once you're done to see if you've done it correctly, other than sending the thing in for real and hoping for the best. And if you get things sufficiently wrong, you're well and truly boned.

Croatoan posted:

In all fairness we really should have a class that teaches kids how to open a bank account, balance a budget, do their taxes. poo poo like that sometimes never gets taught to kids because the parents just expect you to pick it up by osmosis. Home ec I is still basically teaching you how to make biscuits or cookies and it's not a mandatory class. Skip the cookies and teach the basics of money management and hopefully it'd prevent a bunch of stupid mistakes people make early on in life.

Azzur posted:

Oh, man. I know this is from awhile back, but I knew this guy. Sorta.

Years ago when I played World of Warcraft, there was just a strange guy in our guild that everyone just called "Dragon Fucker." He would insert himself into any and all conversations and bring it around to "how great it would be to sleep with a dragon." This was back in the days that you would fight a lot of dragons in high level content, so there were certain nights where we were exposed to this for hours. The guy running the guild thought it was hilarious and most of us assumed it was a gimmick or something, so we kept him around. Even when he was caught masturbating with an open mic during one of the raids, everyone still thought it was a shtick.

This did eventually lead to people piecing together that this wasn't an act, which lead to some bullying. At the time, I thought it was going overboard (They convinced this guy to eat his own semen. Twice.), but in retrospect, maybe they stopped too soon? Christ.

Azzur posted:

This did eventually lead to people piecing together that this wasn't an act, which lead to some bullying. At the time, I thought it was going overboard (They convinced this guy to eat his own semen. Twice.), but in retrospect, maybe they stopped too soon? Christ.

its all nice on rice posted:

I've been going back and forth with a relative on FB all day about why anti-abortion legislation is A Bad Thing and why it's not actually about "saving babies."
It's me. I'm the ISOM for touching the poop.

quote:

The Saratoga Springs tulip caper has finally ended.

Socialite Michele Riggi posted on Facebook Tuesday that the two young women who allegedly had taken the flowers from the ground near her lamppost had returned them with an apology note and the Saratoga police officers had delivered them to her.

Their excuse for the deed was that they thought the flowers were pretty and wanted them for Mother's Day.

Riggi wasn't buying it.

"They stole them at 8:15 Mother's Day night!!!My children sent me my Mother's Day flowers the day before Mother's Day and brought them to me on Mother's Day I highly doubt they were going to see their mother at 8:30 Mother's Day night.Pathetic just pathetic!" she wrote on Facebook.

Their excuse for the deed was that they thought the flowers were pretty and wanted them for Mother's Day.

Riggi wasn't buying it.

"They stole them at 8:15 Mother's Day night!!!My children sent me my Mother's Day flowers the day before Mother's Day and brought them to me on Mother's Day I highly doubt they were going to see their mother at 8:30 Mother's Day night.Pathetic just pathetic!" she wrote on Facebook.

Riggi added that she was still seeking revenge against the duo, saying it was the last straw in a series of perfidious pilfering by Skidmore College students from her mansion, which she calls Palazzo Riggi.

"I'm not done with them yet they are totally going to have to pay for what they did one way or the other .. this time I'm fed up and they're going to have to answer to me!!!"

Riggi's reaction inspired someone to create gofundme page to raise $10 to replace the two flowers. Using the hashtag #RiggiStrong, the tongue-in-cheek fundraiser notes "Palazzo Riggi is barren without these two beautiful tulips, but you can help." The effort promises that any excess money would be donated to the Skidmore Scholarship Fund.

It's unclear what actions Riggi expects to take. It is also not clear why she suspects the flower thieves are from the nearby college.

She added that she was disappointed that the college did not do more in the aftermath of the stunning act.

"And it would've been really nice if the head of Skidmore reached out to me with an apology for this nonsense for their children at their highfalutin school to be doing this to residence on their street of the college!" she wrote.

Riggi, the director of the National Museum of Dance, enlisted her social media followers to help track down the sticky-fingered students.

That included a former star of the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality show.

Beth Chapman, who is the wife of Duane "Dog" Chapman, ran the Idaho license plate numbers for the car that allegedly fled the scene Sunday night and then publicly posted a link to Facebook page of the girl she believed was behind the brazen deed, writing, "let the shaming begin."

The girl's Facebook page has since been deleted.

Riggi refers to her stone mansion at 639 North Broadway as "The Palazzo," where she cares for what she calls her "posh pups" — about three dozen small dogs that share her home.

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Caught red-handed!!!!! but took off..... this car and two girls ...one girl driving and one girl puled out tulips from my flower bed around the lamppost tonight at 8:15 if anyone knows who this is please call the cops! I filed a report Of course they ran the plate and couldn't find it it's an out-of-state plate from Idaho the girls headed towards Skidmore.The cops just left my house they filed a report they're going to look for the car!The girl that pulled out the tulips was Asian.If we all work together maybe we can find them along with my lawn jockey. I just got off the phone with Skidmore security and filed a report with them,they are going to look for this vehicle!

Mak0rz posted:

https://twitter.com/DTru1222/status/1129029137178472449

ghost emoji posted:

Every person who died in childbirth or due to pregnancy complications was also a baby once, too. Why don't they count?

Arivia posted:

Which apparently I do have to do after SRS, but a year after surgery, not three months. Please slow your roll. I promise I am taking care of my health.

ghost emoji posted:

Every person who died in childbirth or due to pregnancy complications was also a baby once, too. Why don't they count?

Roblo posted:

Wait. Heated lawn? Heated lawns are a thing?!

trickybiscuits posted:

Find some information about Republicans' views of embryos held by fertility clinics.

Haven't seen this yet on the thread. Over the weekend, a socialite in Saratoga Springs called the police and filed a report because two young women stole from her. What did they steal? Two tulips from her garden.

There's nothing in the article that doesn't make me sympathetic to the two tulip thieves.

This hits close to home for me because my brother went to Skidmore and every time my family went to see him we went past this house, a hilarious McMansion in a neighborhood of beautiful old houses.

extra thing I found while searching: " . . . a jaw dropping, elaborate 24,000-square-foot family estate in upstate New York that boasts an authentic English pub, Balinese wellness spa and perfectly heated lawn that is designed to keep the paws of the family's 35 dogs warm year-round."

eta: here's the text of her first Facebook post.

This is what happens when a human being doesn't have to deal with real problems.

trickybiscuits posted:

Find some information about Republicans' views of embryos held by fertility clinics.

Haven't seen this yet on the thread. Over the weekend, a socialite in Saratoga Springs called the police and filed a report because two young women stole from her. What did they steal? Two tulips from her garden.

There's nothing in the article that doesn't make me sympathetic to the two tulip thieves.

This hits close to home for me because my brother went to Skidmore and every time my family went to see him we went past this house, a hilarious McMansion in a neighborhood of beautiful old houses.

extra thing I found while searching: " . . . a jaw dropping, elaborate 24,000-square-foot family estate in upstate New York that boasts an authentic English pub, Balinese wellness spa and perfectly heated lawn that is designed to keep the paws of the family's 35 dogs warm year-round."

eta: here's the text of her first Facebook post.

This is what happens when a human being doesn't have to deal with real problems.

MageMage posted:

Hi,

You only have to get a pap smear if you have a neo cervix. Most trans women don't get a neo cervix for this reason. Ask your surgeon if they gave you one. Most don't unless you specifically asked for one. Anyway, have a nice day.

zoux posted:

trickybiscuits posted:

Find some information about Republicans' views of embryos held by fertility clinics.

Haven't seen this yet on the thread. Over the weekend, a socialite in Saratoga Springs called the police and filed a report because two young women stole from her. What did they steal? Two tulips from her garden.

There's nothing in the article that doesn't make me sympathetic to the two tulip thieves.

This hits close to home for me because my brother went to Skidmore and every time my family went to see him we went past this house, a hilarious McMansion in a neighborhood of beautiful old houses.

extra thing I found while searching: " . . . a jaw dropping, elaborate 24,000-square-foot family estate in upstate New York that boasts an authentic English pub, Balinese wellness spa and perfectly heated lawn that is designed to keep the paws of the family's 35 dogs warm year-round."

eta: here's the text of her first Facebook post.

This is what happens when a human being doesn't have to deal with real problems.

Brawnfire posted:

Martine Admiralty Law

https://youtu.be/XGxl3q1vWV8

zoux posted:

What's the entomology of martine?

LawfulWaffle posted:

That's some good idiot, marred slightly by the implication that said idiot is converting someone else into their brand of crazy.

zoux posted:

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Neo Cervix? Wasn't that the bad guy from Crash Bandicoot?

Mak0rz posted:

https://twitter.com/iiTalW/status/991905585174986753

trickybiscuits posted:

Find some information about Republicans' views of embryos held by fertility clinics.

Haven't seen this yet on the thread. Over the weekend, a socialite in Saratoga Springs called the police and filed a report because two young women stole from her. What did they steal? Two tulips from her garden.

There's nothing in the article that doesn't make me sympathetic to the two tulip thieves.

This hits close to home for me because my brother went to Skidmore and every time my family went to see him we went past this house, a hilarious McMansion in a neighborhood of beautiful old houses.

extra thing I found while searching: " . . . a jaw dropping, elaborate 24,000-square-foot family estate in upstate New York that boasts an authentic English pub, Balinese wellness spa and perfectly heated lawn that is designed to keep the paws of the family's 35 dogs warm year-round."

eta: here's the text of her first Facebook post.

This is what happens when a human being doesn't have to deal with real problems.

Jurgan posted:

I’m not sure what makes someone a “socialite,”

Jurgan posted:

I’m not sure what makes someone a “socialite,” but I’ve never heard of someone described as such whom I didn’t hate. Also, the fact that this woman owns a lawn jockey is the perfect icing on the cake.