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Subjunctive posted:People keep saying this about donations, but I've never heard of a tax regime in which donating all of a sum of money leaves you with more money than not donating it and paying part of it in tax. Can someone drop a link or something? None of the finance people I've asked seem to know of any either, but they aren't tax specialists. It would seem to be a very popular thing though, and I'd certainly like to get in on it! You are, of course, correct, but amazingly the vast majority of people fill out their tax returns every year without having any loving idea how taxes work. See also: the "don't want to get bumped into a higher tax bracket" myth that is also incredibly stupid.
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Choco1980 posted:Well the tax bracket stuff matters, but only when you're near the edges. No, it doesn't. If you make more money before tax, you make more money after tax. There is no mythical place in the tax bracket system where you can get a tiny raise and take home less money. Furthermore, your story is bullshit. The reason it's bullshit is that all of your old income is taxed exactly the same as it was before your raise, but the new extra bit of income is taxed at a slightly higher rate. So, for example, say you earned 20 bucks an hour and calculated over a whole year this comes out to you taking home 18 an hour after taxes. You get a raise of 20 cents, and it just so happens that this exactly pushes you over a tax bracket, so all your new income is in that new bracket. Your original 20 bucks is taxed exactly the same, so you still pay that same 2 dollars, but of that new 20 cents, you pay 3 cents instead of the 2 you would have paid under the old bracket. So your take-home income is now 18.17 - less than you would have expected if you hadn't gone up a bracket, but still more than you earned before the raise. You do NOT have all your income taxed at that new rate, which would have you paying 3.03 and taking home 17.17, that's just not how it works, that never happens, and 
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mcbexx posted:Why does the right end of the branch pass right through the vertical beam of the railing? The stick rubs against the railing and slides past it, and because the end of the stick is hidden under the horizontal beam, and because the perspective is just so, it looks weird. You can see the dog's head turn to the camera's right, and the other end of the stick wobble, as the stick gets stuck, then slides past.
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Jun 24, 2016 06:46
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Foxhound posted:Latest failarmy is out. I understand the people who try to do a flip or skateboard fast or whatever and land on their head. That's pretty understandable, even if it's really dumb. They're trying to do a cool thing and it could work, at least in theory. But I'll never understand someone who voluntarily drives their car into waist-deep water, or drives away with a boot on their wheel. What the gently caress. You're just guaranteed trashing your vehicle for no loving purpose. What goes through someone's head when they do something that stupid?
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Aug 19, 2016 22:24
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There's a dildo thread? What makes an elf dong different than any other dong?
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Malachite_Dragon posted:So long as we're getting rid of subforums can we get started on that plan to shoot TCC into the sun?  ?
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Crocoswine posted:I don't like this can we go back to posting short videos, vines or otherwise Hell yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x84GKqcpY4E
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Oct 28, 2016 07:08
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Outrail posted:Homo florensis existed until a few thousand years ago I think. Wikipedia posted:This hominin had originally been considered to be remarkable for its survival until relatively recent times, only 12,000 years ago.[4] However, more extensive stratigraphic and chronological work has pushed the dating of the most recent evidence of their existence back to 50,000 years ago.[5][6][7] Their skeletal material is now dated to from 100,000 to 60,000 years ago; stone tools recovered alongside the skeletal remains were from archaeological horizons ranging from 190,000 to 50,000 years ago.[8] Even initial reports put it at the edge of pre-history, not "a few thousand years ago". And it turns out they're much older. Still very recent from an evolutionary perspective, of course, contemporary with homo sapiens but definitely NOT with civilization (and hence probably not with racism).
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Jan 18, 2017 17:53
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Ride The Gravitron posted:A blind umpire would be bad at his job. So to get this joke, you have to assume that the sign on the umpires' room is only for umpires to read? What about anyone else who is in that corridor trying to find out which room is which? Farooq is a bad poster and is posting like an idiot right now, but he's right about this stupid picture.
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I can't tell if Phanatic believes: a.) relationships between older men and 16-year-old or whatever boys is okay, because that's the age of consent (pro tip - that's not okay, that's still statutory rape and also super creepy) b.) Milo doesn't believe (a) (even though that's what he said) c.) something else??? I mean he started off kinda-sorta-not-really having a point with the word "Nazi" getting overused for people who are merely anti-feminist alt-right shitheads, but holy poo poo did that go off the rails.
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Phanatic posted:Huh? If the person is above the age of consent, then it's not statutory rape. That's what "statutory" means there. If the person is too young to consent, it's statutory rape, but someone who is of the age of consent is not too young to consent. Oh, so it was (a). Well, upon further research this morning, it seems that different states have different laws about this. And some do, in fact, consider 16-year-olds fair game for everyone, even though that's super creepy. But there is a difference between the age at which children are allowed to gently caress each other and the age at which adults are allowed to gently caress children. Unfortunately for this conversation, these are both sometimes called "age of consent" apparently. So, just because a child can consent to some sex doesn't mean they can consent to all sex, and regardless of the law, a fully grown adult having sex with a 16-year-old is still super creepy. I hope I don't have to explain why.
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Picnic Princess posted:I once saw a lady faceplant after tripping on a tiny twig that was laying on the ground. She just stepped on it with her toes, it was maybe 1/2" diameter and 3" long, and somehow that threw her off her kilter and it took almost 5 seconds between "I stepped on a twig" to "I'm goin down!" It was one of the most bizarre things I'd seen at my job. 5 seconds? Pssh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x84GKqcpY4E
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Maybe it was a typo and they meant to say the marlin of the left? RIP that guy's no doubt very expensive fishing pole.
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He may have been trying to say "badass," but he said "piiiiiiiss."
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Man drives car into brand new 10 Commandments monument at Arkansas state capitol, yells "freedom" while doing it. This man may be completely loving bonkers, but he's a goddamn hero. 
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wait, so are we on Delta's side this time? I think it's supposed to be a reverse Alien vs. Predator: whoever loses, we win.
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Subjunctive posted:Is there anywhere that it's made with unadulterated sugar? I thought it was always HFCS or similar. Yes; everywhere. chitoryu12 posted:Dr Pepper themselves sell a version with real sugar, I think around the whole US. It's their Throwback line and comes in with a bright green label. HFCS is real sugar (mixed with a bit of water, but whatever, Dr Pepper has water in it anyway). If you want to split hairs, what y'all are talking about is the difference between HFCS (a mixture of glucose and fructose, two types of monosaccharides (one-ring-of-atoms sugars), generally derived from corn) and sucrose (a disaccharide (two-rings-of-atoms sugar) made of glucose and fructose stuck together, which is generally produced via sugar cane or sugar beets). By the time the sucrose gets to your bloodstream, it has already been broken into its parts by digestive enzymes, making it chemically identical to HFCS. The two forms of the sugar do taste slightly different, and many people think that sucrose tastes better in sodas (although since the recipes are proprietary, this may be due to different amounts of sugar in the different versions, rather than a difference in the chemical properties). But don't go around calling HFCS not sugar; that's a ridiculous statement that only serves to spread anti-science fearmongering about things with chemical names. (And I know you didn't mention this, but I wanted to nip it in the bud: people who extol the virtues of sucrose over HFCS often claim sugar is healthier. It's not. Like I mentioned earlier, they're chemically identical by the time they get into your bloodstream, since the sucrose will have been split into its fructose and glucose parts.)
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Weatherman posted:It's 30.9999999999... degrees here in Tokyo which is the same as 31 degrees. Something something fans on a treadmill so the planes stay cool as they take off, and on that plane is an autistic man who kicked a kid after he was served an open-faced hotdog pizza pie. Read this post while making GBS threads, now it's time to stand up and wipe
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I don't know how any cop hears "well did you stop any ACTUAL criminals today" and doesn't immediately yell "YES, YOU, JACKASS!"
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A friend and I were having a discussion recently about how many of the videogame companies we used to trust to make good games have lost that reputation, what with things like Blizzard devoting its life to Hearthstone and Overwatch, Valve dedicated to Steam and microtransactions, Maxis now owned by EA, etc. And we came to the conclusion that these days, the most trustworthy developer is loving Bethesda. The Glitch Kings of the loving industry are somehow now better known for making good games than the companies that brought us Starcraft and Half-Life. 
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Aug 9, 2017 23:06
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Trivia posted:Can't remember which thread it was, but someone posted the "you are who you pretend to be" quote. Seems pretty apt to me. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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mds2 posted:There is a possibility that I know you irl. Wait, someone poo poo in a bathtub and tried to push the poo poo down the bath drain, and you think there's a possibility that it wasn't alcohol related?
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Let's say you're the dictator of your country, and you're asked what to do in the following situation: A person comes into the hospital with a problem that may be life-threatening. They are poor and say that they can't really afford the cost of a doctor diagnosing/treating them, and also they don't have private insurance. Do you: (a) turn them away like a heartless bastard, condemning them to possible death, and possibly spreading disease further (b) treat them, pay for it with public funds, and then try to recoup the cost by hounding them with repo men for the rest of their life, until they die and the government is left with an amount unpaid that ends up effectively paid by taxpayers (c) treat them and just be content to let the nation's treasury pay for it, again effectively spreading the cost among taxpayers, and as a bonus, making it easier for poor people to access healthcare decreases the spread of disease and improves the economy (a) makes you an unbelievable rear end in a top hat that most people wouldn't hesitate to call "evil", (b) doesn't work very well and increases the cost because of the extra bureaucracy and also makes you kind of an rear end in a top hat, (c) is all upside and will make your people love you. So why the gently caress do right wing pundits and politicians in America insist on (b) and talk like (a) is their wildest dream?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Lobbyists. I know, it was a rhetorical question
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violentlycitrus posted:Excellent stop, drop and roll technique. Putting himself in a situation where he had to do it though, not so much. I am just amazed that he stopped, dropped, and rolled at all. I've seen hundreds of idiotic fire gifs itt and this is the only one where the guy remembers to do it. Everyone makes stupid mistakes sometimes, but from what I've seen, this guy is unique. So, bravo, guy. You kept your head in a stupid situation.
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So, there's two possibilities here: 1. He's mad people are protesting racial injustice -> he's an unapologetic racist 2. He's mad people are protesting while the national anthem plays, so mad that he's decided to protest it while the national anthem plays -> possibly the most  thing I've ever seen
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Gorilla Salad posted:Which always annoyed me. Annoyed you ever since you saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY ?
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gently caress, did the "2 fast 2 furious" emote get deleted? I thought it was :2fast: but that doesn't work and I can't seem to find it on the smiley page.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Goddamn. I'd love to write that off as stdh.txt but I've heard so many stories about people being ignorant of basic hygiene I just can't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjIDQ9dIxow
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Memento posted:Yeah you're not actually allowed to pay College Footballers. Something something tainting the spirit of the competition something I can't hear you over the sound of my private jet. Plus, y'know, the chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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What I find mind-bogglingly, pants-shittingly crazy about this whole situation is that, regardless of whether anything comes of this investigation, regardless of whether anyone in the Trump administration/campaign colluded with Putin's Russia to help Trump win the election. . . it's still an established fact that Putin's Russia helped Trump win the election. Whether it was at Trump's request or not. This foreign leader whose interests on the world stage are, in many ways, in direct conflict to America's interests thinks that Trump being president of America is good for him/his country. Whether he wants to utterly destroy the West or merely weaken America to help increase Russia's power overseas, he thought that electing Trump will help do that. That is loving terrifying.
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Zesty posted:People don't religiously ( They will as soon as he's President.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Huh, shark camo does work. Guess I have to go back and edit out all those hate-filled take down posts about seals I've made over the years. I'd guess that the shark was probably completely unaware of the dude until they made physical contact. *boop* 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yes, that's what makes sharks apex predators, being completely unaware of things 20 feet in front of them. The thing about being an apex predator is that you don't have to be constantly on alert. The shark looks like it might even have been sleeping. It's literally just swimming slowly in a straight line until it bumps the guy's head and jerks away. I'm pretty sure that an aware shark would have, y'know, not bumped into an obstacle.
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BovineFury posted:Somebody needs to tell him about : There's gotta be more than that. What did Jefferson swear on?
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