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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

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There has been a lot of misinformation on credible news sources regarding ways to "avoid moving into the next tax bracket". I've seen things about putting your money in a 401k, and IRA, an insurance fund. These aren't bad ideas, but they won't help you pay less taxes on the rest of your taxable income. If you live in the US, please educate yourself on the marginal tax system before listening to any of these articles.
So my co-worker, snidely grinning, explained how much smarter than me he was by turning down his yearly bonus because it would have put him from a 22% tax bracket into a 24%. He even showed me the article he read that explained the tactic that only geniuses like him know about. I seriously thought he was joking at first and eventually had to say the fateful words that started the 2 hour debate: "you know that's not how it works, right?"
We ended up calling his uncle, who owned 4 buy-and-hold rental properties. His aunt eventually got involved over speakerphone - They both backed him up completely and even praised him for his genius. I went on to get a CPA friend of mine on the phone and he laughed out loud for a good 30 seconds.
This is the saddest part: We both Googled the matter and he was able to find almost as many articles that backed up his argument as I was able to find articles that explained reality.
Toward the end of the 2 hour argument, he absolutely didn't agree with me, but I could tell he realized he'd messed up. He ended it with "lets just chalk it up to semantics...". The next morning he stopped me in the hall and thanked me for the lively debate the evening before, to which I replied "Hey I love debating, I learn something new every time I debate" (just to make him feel better), and he replied with "Well I didn't learn anything, but yeah... that was fun...". SMH

https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/am2cv0/my_coworker_turned_down_a_200000_bonus_because_it/

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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


Sure would be a shame to lose that $5000 out of pocket limit that turns into an infinite limit when the insurance company denies all claims as a rule.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Mr. Buttgag went on a CBS morning show and finally said the thing that I thought would be the obvious argument: every other successful western country has some form of Medicare for All, so why can’t we?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Not the Friday news I wanted to see. Oh well. Bitch better resign.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Gonna be a real awkward trip to Moscow for the next group of START inspectors

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

IRBMs will still travel across multiple continents so they're far from tactical. Depending on where they launch from within Russia the IRBM range basically covers the entire hemisphere except for southern Africa and Australia.

Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Feb 2, 2019

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Can’t wait to go to Costco today and have the samples to myself

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Cursed

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Help me understand why people are mad that one of the teams won the game so I can pretend to commiserate or gloat with coworkers tomorrow

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

colachute posted:

Polarized eyewear is against regulation though so it’s the perfect weapon unless soldiers want extra duty for 45 days.

Oakley paid the regulation fee despite being the ugliest sunglasses on the planet

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

I wonder how any organization related to this mess hasn't been shredding documents and acid-washing emails for the last two years but the cops keep finding treasure troves of info so :shrug:

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

The best part is that the guy is "presumed dead" of an extremely treatable disease just when he happened to be visiting India

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Melania barely holding it together as a mountain of goo squints and peers over her left shoulder

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

"Nominees stuck in the Senate" uh Dogg you still control the Senate

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


mlmp08 posted:

Super dumb SOTU tradition (beyond just Trump-era): Opposing side stands and claps for all non-controversial things the POTUS says.

Yes, puppies are cute, but maybe I don't feel like standing and clapping and smiling when the president says "puppies are cute" after a full paragraph of "let's do some racism."

Is it also a SOTU tradition to reassure insurance companies that your party will not be attempting any meaningful healthcare improvements on the same day that you clap wildly for the opposition party

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Proud Christian Mom posted:

if you still have a Wells Fargo account at this point you're a moron

I didn’t have a choice; they bought my mortgage without asking me

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Kawasaki Nun posted:

why the gently caress does everyone say apoplectic now adays? I keep loving seeing it and I never saw it before the aborted second season of true detective.

I just associate this stuff with marketing campaigns, like when Pacific Rim came out and all of a sudden everybody was talking about “kaiju movies” and not “monster movies” like they were called before.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

Speaking of imposter syndrome, I’m in grad school right now and it’s really weird dealing with really intelligent kids (I’m 5 years older than the next oldest person and 10 from my class average). They all have really bad imposter syndrome and are afraid to answer even the most basic questions in a group session or class.

Meanwhile my epitome of Dunning-Kruger self will blurt our poo poo regardless of the situation or if I have any understanding of the subject matter. I’ve had multiple students come up to me asking me how I’m able to not be afraid to speak up. I’ve taken to replying I’m an idiot incapable of basic emotions like fear or embarrassment.

I'm also in grad school and it is blowing my mind right now how becoming "that annoying old guy who won't stop talking about his experiences" makes the professors loving adore you.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


The chuds are trying valiantly to back him up in the comments yet are getting torn to shreds

How do boomers this stupid even find a way to log in to Twitter?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Vasudus posted:

THIS time the plan to make a largely plastic, fully modular rifle will work. I swear.

Lol if you think “working” is anywhere near the top of the list of priorities for the guys coming up with a new contract handout

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Just ask the people who got to experience the M16 trial run in Vietnam how inherently reliable mechanical parts are.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

egyptian rat race posted:

If you don't think that the complexity and difficulty of appliance and auto repair has increased dramatically over last two decades as opposed to the decades previous, I don't know what to say. My point is that the added utility gained over that time period doesn't always justify that complexity/difficulty and the associated cost.

Hey man you're the one who spoke favorably of 1980s tech.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Somebody please ask Trump what he thinks of the Underground Railroad as an infrastructure project

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Listen, I like personalized recommendations so I cannot condone searching for porn under Incognito mode

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


The organization that can’t figure out how to stop using Java without spending a billion dollars surely has a lot to gain from investing in the cutting edge of computer science.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


tHeY dEsErVe iT bEcAuSe tHeY gEnErAtE vAlUe

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Titanfall 2 if you're just talking FPS

Witcher 3 in general

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Apex is interesting because it actually makes playing a BR with pubbies tolerable, which is a huge plus for me because there's not really any room in my lifestyle for coordinating online games with friends

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Boy if you think boomers are depressing try being surrounded by 20-somethings with technical degrees that are all science deniers and say the same exact poo poo that the right wing talk show hosts do.

The only thing that gives me the remotest amount of hope in my generation is every so often seeing a poll that says we approve of not murdering the sick and poor at a rate above 30%. I don’t know where those people are though because I literally never encounter any of them ever in real life.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

DoktorLoken posted:

what region do you live in? That sounds kind of unusual. Meeting Millennial or younger chuds is pretty uncommon for me.

Denver but I’m still in/work exclusively with people in the defense industry. I realize that right wing nonsense is disproportionate in that population but that doesn’t make me feel any better about it. I often think about going back to scooping ice cream but my wife would literally die without proper insurance.

Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 9, 2019

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

shame on an IGA posted:

Rush Limbaugh Eats The Earth was a documentary

E: ^Electricity isn't going back in the bottle. There is no scenario whatsoever, barring the total extinction of humanity, that technology regresses to pre-1890s levels.

I’m with you there. Knowing electricity exists in the first place gets you 90% of the way

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


And if our infrastructure is so bad why am I have such great luck selling bridges to chuds

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Ever read Battlefield Earth? :cool:

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Chichevache posted:

Pretty sure consequences like losing your freedom still deters crime. It may not increase deterrence when the sentence is increased, but prison itself is still a deterrent.

If there weren't consequences, I'd definitely be criming all day.

This is not a thing you can be “pretty sure” about based on your gut feelings because human behavior is counterintuitive and contradictory.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Godholio posted:

The sick part of me wanted another shutdown. This is probably better, though.

I'll reserve judgment until after we find out what the Democrats agreed to

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

How much shorter can they make these CRs? Maybe we should fund the government a day at a time.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Not being valuable as social media marketing targets is probably a good thing

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Man this is messed up, there got to be something we can do about thi- sHaLl NoT mEaNs ShAlL nOt

https://twitter.com/socialworkitout/status/1095417122203807744?s=21

“I love my parents” is exactly what a parent would write. False flag!

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

That was the least interesting forbidden video I’ve ever seen

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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Casimir Radon posted:

According to people at drill last weekend she's the biggest idiot in the world.

Let me guess: "Where's the money supposed to come from!!???" as the federal government prints dollars to pay for them to smoke and run out the weekend clock

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