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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Yeah Intuit and H&R Block lobby like crazy to keep taxes difficult to file Love to get emails from TurboTax beginning January 1st inviting me to file now. I have like one of the documents I need, not really looking to deal with an amended return.
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ASAPI posted:Same boat. On the subject of tax chat, strongly recommend creating an IRS account. Aside from being able to review your old info, creating an account prevents bad actors from creating an account for you and pillaging your past returns: https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account
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facialimpediment posted:Reconciliation framework introduced tomorrow: That's good, pass the big stimulus and if the GOP wants to try to block it make them do it formally.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/tomangell/status/1356339098609397764?s=19 I read a book by former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper who is quite progressive especially for a cop. He argued for legalization of every drug except PCP as people on that were uncontrollable. Dunno if that’s in the cards but would be good to make pot legal federally. Regarding Cruz’s book buys when I was younger and dumber I went to a mega church where the pastor got caught doing the same thing. If he had given up a little power and accepted oversight his churches might be creeping on Olsteen levels by now, but that combined with a few other scandals led him to give up and leave town and the many fast growing church campuses were gone in less than half a year.
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Feb 2, 2021 03:45
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Considering that Elon has proposed, essentially, indentured servitude for a trip to Mars, for people...I would not be surprised. Didn’t he say earth laws wouldn’t apply on Mars? Would like specifics on what is currently illegal that he would like to be doing.
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Feb 2, 2021 22:01
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Best Friends posted:If it's any consolation, neither Elon musk or any living human will colonize Mars. The game Surviving Mars (pretty, pretty good) is about that. Has a bit of mood whiplash in the notifications: "First child born on Mars! You get the Marvin the Martian achievement!" "The tennis courts are now taking reservations!" "Your failure to building adequate healthcare has led to the first alcohol related suicide!"
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Feb 2, 2021 23:41
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Argh Dems, just pass $2000k checks like everyone was expecting. If the Senate were 49-51 absolutely nothing would happen. Also lol reddit drama. I remember years ago wondering how if accounts are free to make and simple to rereg, wouldn't it be impossible to kick out troublemakers? Turns out I wasn't missing anything.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:39
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Best Friends posted:I'll believe in their philanthropy as soon as one of them actually spends enough to decrease their net worth. Bill Gates has over twice the wealth he had when he first promised to give all his wealth away. For sure, if Bezos’ climate pledge equaled his divorce payout I’d take it more seriously.
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Feb 5, 2021 02:15
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ASAPI posted:I would love viable train systems. The wife and I looked into a train ride, we would have to fly out of state, then pay 3 times the cost of a plane ticket to travel half the distance over the course of a week. Dang now I’m trying to remember the last time I rode a train. 2019 while visiting family in Boston we rode the subway. It was fine.
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A Bad Poster posted:They send cars to customers that aren't even fully painted. The Stalingrad tank factory production method.
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Feb 8, 2021 22:42
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Kinda wonder why trump is bothering to offer a defense at all. Just send one acolyte to move the trial along and object to nothing, then enjoy your 50-50 acquittal.
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Feb 9, 2021 19:52
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Mr. Nice! posted:Will it affect them in elections? Who knows? Is it affecting the british people? Significantly so. Brexit is loving them up badly and the majority of britons are feeling the pain. That's a good question, I'm not an expert on UK politics isn't part of the problem that the Labor party is a bit of a mess at the moment? I know they have more than two parties but it seems like the Tories will be insulated from some consequences if there isn't competent opposition.
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Feb 10, 2021 17:02
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The P90 must have a fantastic agent. Best gun in Goldeneye and standard issue to Stargate Command.
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Feb 11, 2021 04:32
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RFC2324 posted:but was there an audiobook? Yes https://www.audible.com/pd/The-9-11-Commission-Report-Audiobook/B002V5BUYM
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Is there a reason the Taliban doesn't simply stop offensives for a few months and claim to be following the peace process, wait for NATO to depart, maybe give it a month, then overrun the rest of the country? Unlikely that the West would be interested in reinvading. Do their leaders not have enough control to do that, or would it risk an internal Taliban coup in favor of more attacks?
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Feb 16, 2021 22:03
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Feb 17, 2021 18:13
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I went to college in a fairly conservative area, and it was surprising to learn how big of a deal Rush was. He’d carefully repeat the names of New Democrats his listeners needed to hate, and when I went to a friend’s house saw the Rush newsletter on their coffee table. Later knew a guy who routinely listened to the whole show every day and barely thought about it. Eye opening to see that’s he’s not just a radio guy but had a massive propaganda operation that was a huge part of people’s lives.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:26
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1362449508186128385 I totally thought he was wounded at Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944 but it was much further north in April 1945.
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Defenestrategy posted:As fun as it is to dunk on Texas, remember people through no fault of their own are affected and the people responsible for it arent. Yeah like most bad things the worst effects hit the poorest and most vulnerable who were not the ringleaders, while those responsible have generators or employees to fetch them supplies, or just jet off to a Mexican resort.
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Feb 19, 2021 17:28
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GoGoGadget posted:Is this whole thing affecting military bases in the area, too? I know it's a weird thing to focus on, but the thought of how much it'd suck to be in BMT with no water or electricity briefly came up. Would they have generators for essential operations? Seems like a base being knocked out from a power outage is something to be avoided.
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A Bad Poster posted:Can't say for sure, but I do know a guy who left his job as a wheeled vehicle mechanic MOS to change to whatever MOS works on the big generators that bases use for backup power. Apparently you go straight to doing literally the exact same job on the civilian side but making a minimum of six figures doing that. Dang that's a good gig. A friend retired from the Coast Guard after years as a chief engineer (I think with a focus on engines) and went into working for telecoms keeping a data center (or data hub? whatever the buildings that keep cell networks going) running. If the place went down it could wipe out local communications so it requires a security clearance he already had, and I think they always have to have an engineer on site just in case. It's good work and not much happens each shift.
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Texans have over 200 electric companies to choose from. How could this go wrong?quote:His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752. quote:“My savings is gone,” said Scott Willoughby, a 63-year-old Army veteran who lives on Social Security payments in a Dallas suburb. He said he had nearly emptied his savings account so that he would be able to pay the $16,752 electric bill charged to his credit card — 70 times what he usually pays for all of his utilities combined. “There’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s broken me.” quote:The steep electric bills in Texas are in part a result of the state’s uniquely unregulated energy market, which allows customers to pick their electricity providers among about 220 retailers in an entirely market-driven system. “Griddy” quote:The company passes the wholesale price directly to customers, charging an additional $9.99 monthly fee. Much of the time, the rate is considered affordable. But the model can be risky: Last week, foreseeing a huge jump in wholesale prices, the company encouraged all of its customers — about 29,000 people — to switch to another provider when the storm arrived. But many were unable to do so. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/texas-storm-electric-bills.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I figure the next step is them suspending standardized tests because it'll make this patently obvious. It'd be interesting to see ACT and SAT scores as well compared to pre-COVID times. If a high school senior is willing to provide a $40k yearly check there are dozens of colleges happy to have them with no regard for academic ability or there being a chance in hell they finish four years or even one. At my not great Christian college I dunno if anyone got rejected, and there were guys sleeping through finals or known as being “that burglary guy” feeding a gambling addiction. They just stopped being around after a few months but now had a whole lotta debt.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It still amuses and depresses me to see Rick Perry continue to wear those completely ornamental "lookit me ah'm smart" glasses. I have a coworker who does that. Dunno if the glasses are working as they prefer a two hour daily commute despite WFH being ok so sometimes they video into meetings while driving.
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Sacrist65 posted:Ben and Jerrys did this, with the CEO capped at 5x the lowest paid employee. The founders wanted to create a more just world. They changed it to 15x when the founder retired so they could attract a "talented" CEO, who then sold the brand to a conglomerate whose CEO probably makes several hundred times more than the lowest paid employee. Hahaha now owned by Unilever. Dunno what their CEO makes, his wikipedia page looks like it was written/scrubbed by their PR dept with minimal info, like the Walmart heir pages.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:How does an employer knowingly pay a non-legal resident in the first place? Without breaking the law themselves, that is. The employer isn't paying the farm workers or meat plant employees, they don't work for him. He pays the contractor who hires another contractor who recruits the employees. The contractor is of course assumed to be doing all the legally required compliance to ensure the workers are allowed to be there, are paid the right amounts, and abide by overtime laws. As your crops sit in the field with a extremely limited window for harvest that the local economy depends on.
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Grip it and rip it posted:Did anyone fly an F-22 or F-35 when congress was attacked? Seems like we have more pressing national security concerns I think an F-35 showed up in Die Hard 4 when DC was under attack but McClane dropped a highway on it or something.
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