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Roundup Ready posted:For further reasons, when I met my wife she was a bartender, working maybe 20 something hours a week. She's type 1 diabetic. By not declaring her cash tips, she qualified for state insurance and didn't have to pay for her multiple, multiple specialists and prescriptions. It's she had declared, she'd have been forced to pay for a garage tier plan that didn't cover rx or specialists. She'd have been paying thousands per year for the privilege to pay about a thousand a month on meds. Fuuuuuuck this country for a lot of reasons, but she literally has to either stay poor to get state insurance, or somehow pull a high six figure job to pay for the right to live. It's a common myth from that one dude at your work who says "if I earn more through overtime, I'll get bumped to the next tax bracket and make less!". This is not true in the US with marginal tax rates. The ONLY time this is true is in situations like you described where there's a cliff/donut on benefit coverage.
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fuckingtest posted:NEW USCSB VID JUST DROPPED YO! Jesus their graphics just keep getting better.
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fuckingtest posted:NEW USCSB VID JUST DROPPED YO! It's a winner, sit down with a nice hot buttered bowl of popcorn polymer and enjoy.
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Sequel to Maximum Overdrive lookin' good.
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Man, if that's where Tesla was going with electric truck design, I could get behind them at least a little bit
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Nenonen posted:And then there are summer jobs, either seasonal work or replacing full time workers who are on summer holidays... This just triggered a long repressed memory of an early summer job. My next door neighbor's college age son worked in some capacity at the nearby racetrack the next town over. Good kid, nice guy. I was maybe 12 or 13, and always looking for ways to earn a little cash. He mentioned that he could probably get me and my best friend jobs cleaning up/pulling weeds and doing basic outdoor grunt work. Nothing too taxing, but stuff kids growing up in the boonies could handle. $5 an hour, which I think was a bit above minimum wage. This was all going to be paid in cash, under the table because of course. What better way to exploit youth. So the two of us get dropped off at the track, and fill up a couple big water bottles and get to it. There's the track, get weeding. It's early summer, May in Wisconsin, so not super hot, but very warm and sunny. Water is cool enough, and plentiful, and we were kind of dumb so when we were too hot we'd splash each other with some water and cool off. However, we did not plan for as much sun as we encountered and didn't properly sunblock, so we got pretty burned up. Dumb, but whatever. We're kids, but pretty well motivated and we managed to get the weeding job taken care of in about 5 hours, which was also agreed upon ahead of schedule. We head up to the main office, and meet with the race track boss. I think our ride, friend's mom had shown up at this time and went with us. I'm probably misremembering but I seem to recall him looking and sounding like a fat Sam Elliot. We hadn't met before, but he had (apparently) agreed with the $5/hour pay. We were also directed to see him directly for payment, not Debbie in HR or my neighbor or anyone else. So us being dumb-ish kids we talk a bit and he basically goes "So, what did we agree to? $5 an hour?" And we nod along, and say, yup, that's right. He goes, "OK, 5 hours, at $5, that's $25 each." Yup, uh-huh. Keep nodding. "Ok boys here you go." And he reaches into his wallet and pulls out a $50. Cool. Didn't seem too off put by having to give some kids $50 in cash. And before he hands it over, he pulls it back and goes "oh, wait." He then proceeds to tear the bill in half and gave one to me the other to my friend and basically ended it with "There you go." He may or may not have added "Pardner" We're stunned and probably slack jawed. It felt like all the other adults minus mom had huge smiles all around. Right about then my friend's mom is better able to read the room than we are, and just gets us out of there. She manages to make a detour to the closest bank, and with what was way more haggling with a teller than I thought would have been necessary, gets the $50 broken down into smaller bills. I learned my lesson that day and never went back to work for that rear end in a top hat. My friend on the other hand kept working there over the summer. This was the first in what I would later recognize was a long, long list of poor decisions on his part.
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https://i.imgur.com/cecsGpT.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/NevHB8l.mp4 Storm in Croatia. The imgur post says somebody was in the crane cab when it fell but didn’t die, just injuries. The crane landed in the street and didn’t kill anyone.
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Weembles posted:https://people.com/human-interest/astronaut-scott-kelly-reveals-real-story-behind-viral-video-gorilla-suit-aboard-space-station/ Thank you for the details! I had never heard about this, and you made my day better. 
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. Do people just... shoot at passing trucks and cars?
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PurpleXVI posted:Do people just... shoot at passing trucks and cars? What else is there to do?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. At least it wasn't double-aught truckshot.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail If all you have is a house full of guns, you are in America
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PurpleXVI posted:Do people just... shoot at passing trucks and cars? I know someone who was shot at while driving, and I know someone else that was shot at while riding a bike.
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You can do a lot of poo poo to paper money as long as the serial number is readable.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. What a Dick move
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Mr. Nice! posted:When your monthly bills are more than your take home pay, it's pretty clear that something is up. It isn't too hard to figure out that people are under reporting on taxes with a simple audit. So how do I square my roommate splitting our rent?
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. The birds are tired of getting run over, I guess
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:One of our drivers caught a little bird shot while driving through PA. I thought the "shoot the hurricane" impulse was a Florida thing for a long while. turns out, we just have a weird amount of public access to police incidents, so Florida ends up being the ugly visage the country sees in a mirror. my dad's family is from Ohio, my mom's family is from Florida. I find the biggest difference is income + Florida people know they're racist.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I know someone who was shot at while driving, and I know someone else that was shot at while riding a bike. I've been shot at while driving twice. Once in Oregon and another in Missouri.
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https://i.imgur.com/bD7JYE1.mp4LifeSunDeath posted:I know someone who was shot at while driving, and I know someone else that was shot at while riding a bike. https://i.imgur.com/inVMxSy.mp4
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HolHorsejob posted:brb loving around with thousand degree molten metal after doing zero research The fact that the human body can eventually recover from something like that is actually amazing Incredibly happy for these two lads 
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timp posted:The fact that the human body can eventually recover from something like that is actually amazing They only lost one shoe, no need to be dramatic e: 
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