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Ornery and Hornery posted:I love the puppy  I also love the Batman pants.
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My wife and I paid H&R Block to do our taxes last year since we got married, she moved states (one of which had an income tax), got her divorce and sale of house finalized (before the marriage), and they were open on a Saturday. All told it was like $100 with the additional bells and whistles, which seemed like not a bad price to pay to just hand all our poo poo to someone, answer some questions and have them figure it all out.
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Find a CPA if you have anything other than a bone stock standard return
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Nodoze posted:Find a CPA if you have anything other than a bone stock standard return This would be my advice too, but I know a lot of times they obviously get booked up, or aren't available at the times you are if you work certain types of jobs. HR Block will meet you at 3:00 AM with 45 minutes notice and accept payment via paper bag full of cash in a Waffle House parking lot.
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Leperflesh posted:I have good news for you about inheritance taxes: they don't exist, at least for us poors. The lifetime gift/inheritance tax exemption above which you owe any tax is currently $13.61M (double that for married couples) and it goes up every year. Outside of people not at all understanding progressive tax brackets, the fundamental misunderstanding around inheritance taxes is probably the funniest financial misconception. Just like tens of millions of service sector workers arguing that the government doesn’t deserve half the proceeds of their water bed and Xbox liquidation. I paid taxes on those already!!! DEATH TAX!!
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Gonna be honest, I had a misconception on gifting rules when it came to taxes that I realized after the fact came from the Shawshank Redemption.
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The United Stated of America gave me $163 dollars. gently caress yea...
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RG333 posted:The United Stated of America gave me $163 dollars. 16 reregs
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Abugadu posted:We had a weird IRL version of this, where we were living with a roommate named Paul who did couch surfing; he gets a text one day from our mutual friend in the Northern Marianas Islands, Keith, who says he's currently hosting an Icelandic woman who happens to be staying with Paul (us) the next day, as she is trying to visit every country in the world, and asks if Paul is going to pick her up from the airport at 6PM. Paul, who can be absentminded on the best of days, agrees, despite not remembering to host anyone that week. This is pretty funny. You stole my Icelandic woman!! Years ago I got a wrong number call from a bank declining a loan for someone with the same relatively uncommon for Americans but not bizarre first name I have, my first panicked thought was that it was some sort of scam/identity theft but after a few moments of puzzled stuttering and querying the legit-sounding bank official who was calling on what appeared to be a legitimate caller ID from a loan/bank company, we determined he'd fat fingered and transposed the last two digits of the number he called, and the declined loan-requestor and my names being the same were just a weird coincidence. Still odd as hell.
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Nodoze posted:It's too bad The Witcher sucked rear end so much he didn't want to do it anymore Odd way to recap what happened there but ultimately Witcher wasn’t very good - so you’re not wrong - and the adaptations for film are what caused the rift between him and the producer so I get it.
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LeeMajors posted:16 reregs He could have gotten a phenomenal burrito made with that money and the account may have lasted like a day before getting perma’d again
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LeeMajors posted:16 reregs What was the RG3 permaban for anyway?
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Shrimpy posted:What was the RG3 permaban for anyway? Not posting the artisanal burrito.
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And now he just gets drunk and decides to rereg and drunk post and get banned immediately
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How much are you people paying for burritos??
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swickles posted:Not posting the artisanal burrito. Also maybe some attempted date rape
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The lawsuit over compensation that cost Musk billions was brought by a former metal drummer that held only 9 shares lol, lmao
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Yup any shareholder has standing, but any large shareholder does not actually want to do something that endangers the value of their shares, such as suing the company's CEO. So I believe it's not that uncommon for shareholder suits to involve getting someone with a very small amount of shares to be the face of the suit for the purpose of having standing in the court.
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You have to be a genius level idiot to be able, as a corporation, to get rekt by the Delaware chancery court who's literal Only Job is being predictable for businesses.
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Welp scammers got my uncle. He’d already sent them a few thousand dollars between August and now and I just caught wind of it. Scammers telling him they had videos of him they recorded from his laptop and they were gonna send them to friends and family if he didn’t pay up. He doesn’t even have a camera on his laptop. Had to talk him off a ledge because they said if he didn’t pay them $8000 by tomorrow they’d send them out.
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Ah christ. Yeah I've had two different elderly people in my family sending thousands of gift card codes to scammers claiming to be defending their bank accounts from hackers, after those parents called a random phone number popping up on a website claiming they're being hacked and then installing remote desktop to let those people watch while they view their bank account so the scammer can see how much money they have like, after specifically warning both of them of this particular scam and telling them to call me, not anyone else, if they think their computer is hacked last week that same mother in law's laptop's keyboard is failing in an interesting way and she told me - not asked, announced - that she was hacked. I said no, the keyboard is broken, it's like one key is being held down, that's why when you select emails with the mouse they're all getting moved to the spam folder, it's like some mouse+key click shortcut. She goes oh, I see. This woman was a technical phone support staffer for AT&T for over forty years. Her first instinct is still "I'm being hacked" even after every single time, it's something else. My stepmom was scammed twice. Slightly different approach each time. She has almost no money, but she gave away her last dollars a few years ago and then a couple thousand two years ago.
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He’s not even that old! He’s 55! Even after showing him links to articles and people on Reddit dealing with literally the same thing he was still saying they sounded pretty convincing. I’m not sure he 100% believes me. I’m hoping he doesn’t send it anyway
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Joey Freshwater posted:Welp scammers got my uncle. He’d already sent them a few thousand dollars between August and now and I just caught wind of it. Every device with a camera (minus my phone) gets one of these. Of course this brings up the bigger question, "What was your uncle doing with his laptop where video evidence would be used as blackmail?"
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If someone said they were sending vids of me waxing the pole unless I gave them $8K, well, uh… sorry mom, just don’t click play
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Yeah, tell him not to worry. The videos were on Twitter this morning, and most people agreed they'd seen smaller
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Android Apocalypse posted:Every device with a camera (minus my phone) gets one of these. old people think it's shameful to have kinks
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Android Apocalypse posted:Every device with a camera (minus my phone) gets one of these. it's always masturbating One of the things I've seen is if you have an email/pw combo in one of the databases of hacked email/pw combos, the scammers send a message to that email and tell you that password and then tell you that means they had access to your computer and recorded you etc. etc. It's more convincing because that pw is in plaintext in the email. I've gotten them due to a email/pw combo that LinkedIn leaked a few years ago.
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I think y’all are missing where he doesn’t have a camera on his laptop so there’s no way that videos could even exist and he still paid them
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Computers are magic
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How many MAGA hats does he have?
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Leperflesh posted:it's always masturbating My FIL gets those exact same scam emails, and they list a password he used (I looked it up on Have I Been Pwned and it was from a breach from a rental car company he used years ago), and he was smart enough to ask his kids if it was real. But also he was using his ISP's email and man those things just are a floodgate for scam / malicious attacks.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I think y’all are missing where he doesn’t have a camera on his laptop so there’s no way that videos could even exist and he still paid them Does he even realize that? I got one of those scam emails a year ago too and if anyone got a video of me they were polite enough not to tell me. My new work computer has a built in slide to cover the camera anyway and you better believe that thing is always covered.
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Ether Frenzy posted:How many MAGA hats does he have? lol none that i know of but he lives in Florida and thinks DeSantis is doing a bang up job. I love the guy but he’s never been the brightest and he’s incredibly naive and takes things he hears on the news and Facebook as gospel.
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People often feel real existential dread when their reputation suffers. You don't always think clearly and rational when you feel that way either. lovely situation for the bloke.
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Unrelated to getting scammed for crankin' my hog, and to the topic of home renovation... Has anyone installed a water recirculator on their water heater? It looks simple enough. It can take over a minute to get hot water out of most of my faucets, and this seems like a water saver. My only issue is my water heater itself is very old (10ish?) and when I had it inspected, the guy suggested not flushing it since I wasn't sure if it ever had gotten a flush and doing that once at it's age may bring up a bunch of sediment at the bottom and gently caress up the water heater. Either way, my water bill is annoyingly high, and with my plan of replacing toilets (despite thinking I'm not one of those guys who turns 40 and runs out and buys fancy new toilets) I can get this number down.
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seiferguy posted:Unrelated to getting scammed for crankin' my hog, and to the topic of home renovation... Why not just install a new water heater? It's about at the end of it's expected lifespan anyway edit: unless you've been changing the anode rods I guess then they can last drat near forever
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Black Sunshine posted:Why not just install a new water heater? It's about at the end of it's expected lifespan anyway Yeah, I was thinking about that anyway especially since my local utility company gives credits / rebates out for energy efficient water heaters. I'm running a natural gas water tank so I'd be happy to go to a heat pump for it.
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seiferguy posted:Unrelated to getting scammed for crankin' my hog, and to the topic of home renovation... Aside from switching out your water heater, which will probably be the cheaper option, do you have a way to run a pipe from your furthest fixture back to your water heater? Also, is your water heater in a basement, or at least lower than your furthest fixture? If so, then you can create a recirc line without the need for a pump.
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I went tankless and it was expensive but worth it. We're no longer keeping hot water hot all the time, and we also can no longer run out of hot water. Drawback: the gas line to the location was so small that we couldn't get a really good sized one, so only one shower simultaneously and if someone turns the hot water on in the kitchen while you're showering, your shower goes cold. We could have paid more, to run a new gas line to the tank, but our old water heater had actually broken so we were living without hot water for a week at that point and did not want to wait more days for them to run a new line. If your heater is still working and you are OK with dropping a few grand extra, you can have unlimited hot water to every faucet forever and also save money in the long run on the gas to heat it.
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