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Horses were a big thing for guys as well until vehicles got faster/better, I think. Basically 200 years ago every dude who spends too much on his truck would be telling you how he is getting a bigger, younger horse that costs too much, but it makes sense because he's sure he'll use it for work as well.
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I assume that I will work until I die. Or, more likely, die shortly after I am no longer capable of working.
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Aug 4, 2017 12:37
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That's why he still has his day job.
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Aug 6, 2017 18:25
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CellBlock posted:Not just a glut of lawyers, but also a huge wave of people in law school. (The last I heard the numbers, there were more people in law school than there were practicing lawyers.) IIRC, the problem is that they opened a bunch more ABA-approved law schools that are all poo poo tier stuff with no future. If you are graduating from the big three or top ten you're still probably fine, but there are thousands of people going to crappy bottom-rung law schools that didn't exist twenty years ago and they're either never going to practice or only be able to work doing soulless grind work until someone automates doc review. And those crappy schools still charge you six digits for your degree, so those people are seriously hosed.
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Aug 7, 2017 17:17
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I send every company I communicate with a one-time pad and require that all communication be encrypted through it.
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Aug 8, 2017 17:40
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It's growing weed.
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Aug 9, 2017 21:17
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I like to think of Leon carefully sizing up a new coworker or a friend of a friend of a party, judging their possible vices and failings. He waits until the perfect moment, when their guard is down and their judgment clouded, and then casually asks 'Have you heard about bitcoins?' They don't know it, but their fate is already sealed.
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Aug 10, 2017 15:53
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I bet not only does he buy it himself, he's required to have the latest generation devices so that he can pitch the newest stuff effectively.
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Aug 10, 2017 16:42
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golden bubble posted:They want a high-class butler, but they aren't willing to pay anywhere close to what a good butler costs. A high-class butler doesn't walk your dog and clean up vomit, he tells the hall boy and the the scullery maid to do that. Your butler only handles housekeeping if you are a shiftless bachelor like Wooster or an eccentric misanthrope like Bruce Wayne and can't keep a proper staff on.
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Aug 11, 2017 14:28
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Quick, someone on the west coast set up a Butlr app that lets educated, discrete, formally trained assistants bid pennies on the dollar to do your lovely grunt work. Edit: I would be legitimately surprised if there isn't already an app for getting people to do all your random poo poo for you for subhuman wages.
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Aug 11, 2017 14:51
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Fil5000 posted:I just assumed everyone commenting about butlers was a big fan of You Rang M'Lord? ate all the Oreos posted:It's called TaskRabbit, yes
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Aug 11, 2017 15:10
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spog posted:is 1938 old enough to be considered 'traditional'?
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Aug 17, 2017 17:47
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brugroffil posted:this sounds pretty apocryphal tbh Yea I am not really sure when that is supposed to have happened. Wedding rings are easily traced to as far back as the 1550s in just England, and the exchange of rings is probably thousands of years old. Also it wasn't just a ritual for wealthy people, it was a common part of the ceremony so it would be done by regular folk, who would frequently be exchanging rings without any particular wealth value. Also at least as far back as we know ring ceremonies were commonly conducted people were not wandering around freely, many were still bound to the land, so the idea of a widely roaming serial bigamist is... unlikely, at least to motivate an entire tradition.
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Aug 17, 2017 22:26
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Like a horse!
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Aug 18, 2017 21:22
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I dunno, its a lot more than I pay for my wife and I, but we're not 20 years old with a brand new car.
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Aug 24, 2017 03:40
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The thing that makes me skeptical about that is that if you are able to offer someone $100,000 to look after your kids, and have your own personal chefs (and presumably staff to look after your four houses), surely you have a rich-person employment/placement agency that would be better to find someone than posting on the british equivalent of care.com?
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Aug 24, 2017 16:50
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I wonder if 'debt' encompasses all debts like mortgages and student loans. Being in debt because you're still paying off your student loans or because you got an affordable 30-year mortgage is very different than someone with maxed cards or even carrying balances on them consistently. Having said that, this is the real killer: quote:18 percent of all workers have reduced their 401k contribution and/or personal savings in the last year, more than a third (38 percent) do not participate in a 401k plan, IRA or comparable retirement plan, and 26 percent have not set aside any savings each month in the last year. 
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Aug 25, 2017 15:46
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Turns out the people not putting money in there were on the right track all along!
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Aug 25, 2017 15:52
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Discendo Vox posted:iirc not usually, flood insurance is specific about water. But generalized disaster/damage insurance would. This raising the interesting question as to what point of concentration a liquid stops being water; I am sure that there are insurance companies that have dodged claims on the basis of 'oh well see that wasn't water that destroyed your home, that was mud/ash slurry/pigshit/orange juice'.
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Aug 28, 2017 21:11
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I love that he's on his parents insurance but doesn't seem to consider that getting a $65,000 car might alter that situation.
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Aug 29, 2017 00:53
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Propaniac posted:How do I address this? I obviously feel like this is my fault and shouldn't have even mentioned fronting the cost of the couch, but I never saw it blowing up like this. My current plan is to do my own thing and give him space, but we live together. Oh man this is the saddest part in there. It's not your fault and its not your job to coddle a petulant manbaby. Also, 
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Aug 30, 2017 14:20
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Many people train their horses to sleep standing up because a horse that wakes up laying down may be confused and think it has died, causing it to die.
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Volmarias posted:That happens wth traditional investments too. "Curses, I sold part of this stock to diversify, and it kept going up, up, up!" It's still the right thing to do but feels foolish when you have the benefit of knowing what the stock did afterwards. Yea. Sometimes I feel dumb for not buying into bitcoin when it first started and we all made fun of it, but then I remind myself that if I invested in everything that looked on par with bitcoin when I first saw it, I'd probably be homeless. It's easy to dwell on the crazy thing that actually paid off, without realizing that investment strategy would have also left me with a warehouse of pogs or something. It's kind of like playing the lottery. The day after the draw, of course you know what numbers you should have picked. That doesn't make playing it repeatedly a good choice.
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Sep 6, 2017 20:52
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On the bright side, as long as he streams his entire ordeal, he can claim all its costs as a business expense!
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Fritzler posted:Apparently people think it is this guy? I haven't watched the video yet, so apologies if its bad. (It probably is). I watched this so you didn't have to. Highlights: 1) This is actually his SECOND audit, because he previously tried to claim his divorce as a business expense. Somehow he managed to learn nothing from that about claiming insane poo poo or documenting anything. 2) He is outraged that the IRS wants to inspect his house to confirm he uses it as his business location, because he claimed the entire house; instead he is trying to give them a video tour so that they don't have to come see him. 3) Proceeds to show us all the rooms in his house and justifies them as business related because he shot a video there or someone he collaborated with on a video used the room. 4) Snidely points out all the personal stuff that has been in videos that he was gracious enough not to claim (like his lawnmower). 
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Sep 8, 2017 16:57
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He also spends a ton of time bitching about how his income has dropped, I guess due to something Youtube did re:monetization? It means he can't pay his sister in law as much as he promised for her to live in the shed and clean for them. It's amazing how hosed up his attitude is. Like I have been a W-2 employee my whole working life and I still know how much he's messed up on his deductions. He could probably have easily claimed the actual green-screen room and a couple other setpiece areas for his business, but instead he tried to claim two whole floors and a basement as being business use.
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Sep 8, 2017 17:28
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There are also times when he points something out, like a PS1 he has bought, and says 'I haven't decided if that's a business expense yet'. I really hope that there are some IRS agents getting a solid laugh out of it.
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Sep 8, 2017 19:49
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I do feel bad for his kids, because chances are he is not going to impart very good financial lessons to them. Also the dog he bought, but dogs have terrible financial decision making no matter what you teach them.
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Sep 8, 2017 22:26
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Terrible email formatting is the administrators quiet rebellion against the system.
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Sep 12, 2017 16:10
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Thank you, Dr. Morgentaler, the hero that we probably could have done without but I guess we'll take since you're a specialist in this area.
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Sep 12, 2017 17:50
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"It's my fault for trusting turbotax to have pop-up dialogues to warn me about these things" Beyond the fact that this guy was apparently making hundreds of thousand of dollars and didn't bother to get an actual accountant, it also seems like he managed to not save any of that money either?
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Sep 14, 2017 18:27
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Folly posted:I don't believe it. Earning more than $200k per year and having home/auto business deductions and depreciation should get you to yellow at least. Given everything else that he seems to have done, I am willing to bet that he didn't understand how the ticker worked. I mean this is a guy who tried to deduct his divorce as a business expense, got audited, and then decided that he still didn't need a real accountant for his hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Sep 14, 2017 20:26
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Zo posted:she probably only got $2 or $3 out of that since the site would take half and her studio would take another half, give or take.
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I bet they are just champing at the bit to go after people misclaiming their expenses.
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Sep 22, 2017 21:58
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Modern domestic horses, especially show/race horses, are pretty much the equivalent of all our stupid dog breeds. Like if you look at purebred dog with whatever hosed inbreeding it has that makes it unable to breathe/breed/run/causes it to sneeze it's eyeballs out and wonder how they survive in the wild, the answer is that they don't - wild dogs don't look like any of those things, which only survive because we expend a great deal of effort into keeping them going. Just like you get pretty stable mutts, actual working horses tend to be less suicidal, and wild horses don't have nearly as many problems. Although they are also generally much smaller, have fairly drab coats, and less impressive performances.
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Sep 23, 2017 05:40
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If I get bitten by a radioactive horse I wonder what powers I could get. Probably fragile legs and uncontrollable panic.
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Sep 24, 2017 00:19
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I would assume that if you do something as plainly dumb as trying to claim your divorce, the IRS is going to check up on you regularly forever because there is no way someone like that doesn't continue to make mistakes until they get a professional involved.
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Sep 25, 2017 13:30
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He says in a couple videos that he is working with the people from TaxAudit.com, which is I guess the people who provide the audit assistance if you get it through TurboTax? So I am guessing they would just say 'We're providing you with audit defense services, please talk to that person and listen to them and quit posting terrible incriminating poo poo everywhere'. Also its hilarious that he keeps bitching about how TurboTax hosed him by not stopping him from doing stupid things, but then is apparently fine relying on their audit defense instead of getting his own attorney or agent now.
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The IRS is allowed to inspect businesses as part of an audit to confirm stuff is real, and that includes a home office because you're claiming it as a place of business. Normally this would mean that they come to your house and look at one room, and apparently the auditor will often accept dated photos of the room as verification to save themselves the trip. Of course, this dude claimed the entire house, meaning that they would need to inspect the entire thing for an audit. I am guessing that he didn't think about how to evidence it at all and tried to get the auditor to watch his youtube channel on his phone or something, so they said nope, we're coming to see it and we're not accepting your whiny video instead. Note that in his video he's crying about how big an inconvenience it is for his family to be out when the audit occurs; the whole point of the deduction is that its a business place, so if you're doing it properly it isn't any inconvenience because no one should be living/sleeping/playing in your office anyway. So just the fact that he's kicking up that fuss more or less torpedoes the entire thing before they even get there and ask about the business need for a room with a child's bed in it.
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Yea, no wonder he couldn't take those limitations, seems like he was super eager to badmouth her selection as soon as he could. I also particularly like the part where he emails the entire situation to HR, and then gets petulant that the chair was brought into it. I can just imagine whatever HR person got that email getting halfway through before they were just 'Yup, ok, this is going right to the top, I am not going to be carrying the bag on this shitstorm'.
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