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OwlFancier posted:lmao @ terror of roundabouts Tenebrais posted:How does the electric kettles question account for America already having those
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Powered Descent posted:Since when is it illegal to drink alcohol outside? Since To Kill A Mockinbird at least...
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Americans are so cucked they’ll spend hundreds on TurboTax just to stick it to the evil gummint.
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mobby_6kl posted:The question is "can boil water quickly" which those can't, on account of the dumb 110v grid. True, to a point. Here, enjoy the Technology Connections guy telling you all about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
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Freaquency posted:Who are the psychopaths that want the zero-privacy stall doors
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Japan has hundred‐volt mains, and the slow kettle problem was solved there decades ago. You keep the water hot at all times in an insulated dispenser. Zojirushi is a major brand.
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I've already got a big one of those in my utility closet
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Splicer posted:People terrified other people might be doing a drug in them. If someone is doing a drug I would like to not watch them do it.
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sweek0 posted:I'm surprised bidets are more popular than the metric system. We already have automatic tax deductions. I don't understand why they're conflating that with how tax returns work.
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Dylan16807 posted:We already have automatic tax deductions. I don't understand why they're conflating that with how tax returns work. (A) The government doesn't calculate your tax withholding. You do, by filling out and giving your employer a W-4, and your employer does, by doing math on every paycheck. There is a lot of room here for errors and for employers intentionally screwing over their employees. (B) If you have income outside of your job, such as from self-employment, investments, or retirement accounts, there may or may not be someone doing the appropriate withholding. If not, you are in for a bad surprise at the end of the year. (C) Even if your withholding is all correct, this doesn't prevent you from needing to calculate your own tax and file a tax return, which is unnecessarily complex even for people with simple finances.
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Tenebrais posted:How does the electric kettles question account for America already having those You don’t understand, they are inefficient. You can boil water for tea like 30 seconds faster under the watchful gaze of King Charles III.
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OwlFancier posted:I think there's basically a set of people who just want society to be poo poo because it's always been poo poo. Be sure to give them your vote!
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Telegnostic posted:(A) The government doesn't calculate your tax withholding. You do, by filling out and giving your employer a W-4, and your employer does, by doing math on every paycheck. There is a lot of room here for errors and for employers intentionally screwing over their employees. I would love it if the government just sent everyone a completed tax form saying "This is correct to the best of our knowledge. If you accept our numbers, then sign here and either send us a check or tell us where to send the refund amount. Or if you have information we don't and which you want to include, like you want to deduct your gaming chair as a business expense or something, then great! Here's the blank forms, fill them out just like always and send that in instead." Unfortunately, H&R Block, TurboTax, and the rest of that crowd make enormous amounts of money from the 99% of us who would just take the government's numbers and be done with it, so they very effectively lobby Congress to keep things as they are.
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OwlFancier posted:I think there's basically a set of people who just want society to be poo poo because it's always been poo poo. Yes, but enough about the people who pretend traffic circles are good.
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Traffic circles are cool and good, you can tell someone's a bad driver by how much they complain about them. (weird mega-circles excluded)
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Powered Descent posted:Since when is it illegal to drink alcohol outside? On public property? Always as far as I can tell outside of places with unique open container laws.
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 It is pretty neat when you're in a foreign country and the convenience store cashier offers to open your beer.
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AnoHito posted:Yes, but enough about the people who pretend traffic circles are good. They're really easy to use and basically the ideal solution to mid-density traffic on crossroads if you have the space for one, and if you don't have the space for one then familiarity for them allows you to use mini roundabouts which basically are a crossroads with a self-resolving priority order.
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I've got a lot of alcoholic relatives living in Hood River, OR
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do not recognize most of them but the ones I do make me wonder what definition of "leftist" this is
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:
Pretty random feeling map. A rare state by state law map that you couldn’t just overlay with national electoral results or similar things.
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Traffic circles are the Dvorak keyboard of roadway design.
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It's literally easier than using a t junction, the traffic comes from one direction, do not drive in front of oncoming traffic, that is all. They are used at T junctions on major roads for this reason.
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Powered Descent posted:Traffic circles are the Dvorak keyboard of roadway design. Using traffic circles doesn’t rewire your brain to make it harder to navigate intersections with stop signs.
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Henchman of Santa posted:On public property? Always as far as I can tell outside of places with unique open container laws. Huh. I hadn't ever heard of this, but it seems to be a whole big thing. It never would have occurred to me that drinking a beer on the sidewalk would be something anyone would want to legally ban (unless they were straight-up alcohol prohibitionists, and then the sidewalk wouldn't be the important part), but I guess most of the country does so. I've learned something today.
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Powered Descent posted:Huh. I hadn't ever heard of this, but it seems to be a whole big thing. It never would have occurred to me that drinking a beer on the sidewalk would be something anyone would want to legally ban (unless they were straight-up alcohol prohibitionists, and then the sidewalk wouldn't be the important part), but I guess most of the country does so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YrWiwUM3FA&t=49s
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Powered Descent posted:Huh. I hadn't ever heard of this, but it seems to be a whole big thing. It never would have occurred to me that drinking a beer on the sidewalk would be something anyone would want to legally ban (unless they were straight-up alcohol prohibitionists, and then the sidewalk wouldn't be the important part), but I guess most of the country does so. You ever seen someone drinking out of a bottle with a paper bag over it? That's why.
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OwlFancier posted:It's literally easier than using a t junction, the traffic comes from one direction, do not drive in front of oncoming traffic, that is all. You might think differently if you had to use them with Americans.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Pretty random feeling map. A rare state by state law map that you couldn’t just overlay with national electoral results or similar things. You do have to wonder what the history is behind it
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Mister Olympus posted:You do have to wonder what the history is behind it Trying to figure out the cities where it's legal. New Orleans and Las Vegas: duh. Sonoma? Wine country. Erie and Butte??
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Henchman of Santa posted:Erie and Butte?? existential agony
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OwlFancier posted:do not recognize most of them but the ones I do make me wonder what definition of "leftist" this is
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OwlFancier posted:do not recognize most of them but the ones I do make me wonder what definition of "leftist" this is I agree with the propaganda column, I just don't know anyone other than Briahna from the trusted list
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Saints Row's gender slider was such a big step forward, it was a drat shame they rolled it back to a binary choice for 3 and onward
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Telegnostic posted:(A) The government doesn't calculate your tax withholding. You do, by filling out and giving your employer a W-4, and your employer does, by doing math on every paycheck. There is a lot of room here for errors and for employers intentionally screwing over their employees. Telegnostic posted:(B) If you have income outside of your job, such as from self-employment, investments, or retirement accounts, there may or may not be someone doing the appropriate withholding. If not, you are in for a bad surprise at the end of the year. Telegnostic posted:(C) Even if your withholding is all correct, this doesn't prevent you from needing to calculate your own tax and file a tax return, which is unnecessarily complex even for people with simple finances.
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in denmark theres two filings, one called the forskudsopgørelse which is based on the govt's best guess for the coming/current year. you can continually update that to change the withholding if say you change jobs or refinance your mortgage or something. then after year end there's the årsopgørelse which should be accurate (its based on reported numbers from jobs/banks) but you can change that too if you have to then if the govt accepts the (revised) årsopgørelse, any difference between the withholding and your calculated taxes is either billed to you or paid out to your nemkonto (main bank account that all are supposed to have) its only really necessary to do anything if you have major changes in finances over the year. im fairly sure my forskudsopgørelse is accurate (updated it twice cause i changed my hours at work plus i got a bank loan to pay my parents a ton of money i owed them from when i was unemployed a couple years back) but we'll see how accurate i was when my årsopgørelse comes (usually in march)
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For such a paranoid-looking graph, the message is pretty credulous. Since when is news the opposite of propaganda? e: vvv looks that way! Ragnar34 has a new favorite as of 09:59 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:Japan has hundred‐volt mains, and the slow kettle problem was solved there decades ago. Doesn't Japan have an unholy mishmash of both voltage systems? Splicer posted:People terrified other people might be doing a drug in them. Over here, in places where people are more likely to do drugs, they tend to put blue monochromatic lights in toilets. That makes it supposedly impossible to see your veins. Captain Hygiene posted:Traffic circles are cool and good, you can tell someone's a bad driver by how much they complain about them. There's a bit of a definition question here. I don't know how common this is, but over here, "traffic circles" refer to the mega ones with stop lights at every incoming road, or at the ancient design where cars driving onto the circle have priority over those already on the roundabout. It turns out that is a bad design that has even less throughput than a regular intersection. A roundabout, on the other hand, is the modern kind, where cars on the roundabout always have priority over cars wanting to enter the roundabout. It is both safer and has higher throughput than a regular intersection. Therefor, my opinion is that traffic circles are bad while roundabouts are good.
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