It’s too bad that cops are and COs think they are above the law. They WILL steal all your money, they MAY beat you up, and you MAY get a phone call if you behave like you’re their little bitch. They like that.

Where I’m at the mosquitos are fucking thriving. I spend a lot of my free time sitting on my front porch. They eat me up, and I have a severe reaction to them. Most of the cool insects are gone.

Oh yeah any climate change denier over the age of 20 makes me insane. Like, you don’t remember how things were in your childhood versus now? We used to get so much snow. Now we get three inches roughly three times a year.

Good looking out on the prep, I hope it saves you a lot of money. I have so many layers on right now.

I used to live in a mild climate river city in West Virginia. Climate change was becoming reality but hardly anyone called it that those days. The city sold the majority of its snow clearing equipment and the very next year we got a few feet dumped on us. They ended up pushing the snow into the river.

I’m still in WV and it’s 19F right now fuck my life.

A lot of those have been replaced with modern designs. Just like most things, the farther you are from a city the shittier things get.

Some of us know that our way out will likely be suicide because euthanasia may still be illegal or expensive. For me, I will not let myself or anyone else deal with my inevitable dementia if I make it that long.

The plan can be to end in suicide without being suicidal, make sense?

Thanks for the info.

Holy shit what state? That’s so exploitative of desperate people. I’d like to know the ID company name too if you don’t mind.

Kinda looks like a flak gun coming out the back. What’s the interior diameter of the barrel?

The forests are one of the few things left to love about my godforsaken state (WV).

Righteous.

Hey fellow laborer. Loved your comment but I just want to say there are many different kinds of intelligence. Don’t call yourself an idiot. Working with tools effectively is a kind of intelligence for sure. I’ve seen a person who seemed incapable of operating a screwdriver, but he was a network engineer. I wish I’d known I was good at it much earlier in life.

They covered this in the thread yesterday and OP believes they are not eligible because they passed some deadline to apply. People told them that no such deadline exists and it seems like OP is unwilling to apply for it. If you read this OP, please apply, it can’t hurt.

Yeah, many people hate the system yet for some reason also have to eat and pay rent. It’s so strange.

Turkey holding shit up as always. I don’t want territorial concessions either but I want the killing to stop so badly.

I don’t think Turkey is operating in good faith here.

Your privilege is showing.

Yeah I get what they mean but that’s much more complex. I suppose that’s what computers are for but it could make it even harder for people to understand and so many people do not understand the current system.

Definitely agree we need more brackets after the top one. Although this only goes so far, as the more wealthy a person is the more likely their income isn’t classified as income anymore. I’d love to return to post WW2 tax rates on the rich but we need to do something to make them pay some kind of fair share. It’s disgusting what they get away with.

I mean to a degree it is continuous. To simplify things the first $10 you make isn’t taxed. $11 to $15 is taxed at rate A, $16 to $20 is taxed at rate B, etc. This is what is meant by the progressive tax system. Obviously these numbers are much higher in reality.

People who can’t understand this are the ones bragging that they turned down a raise because it would “change their tax bracket”. With one exception at very low income, called the benefits cliff, the more money you are paid the more money you take home after taxes.

Does this make tax brackets less confusing? I want to help you and anyone else reading to understand.

Ukraine already is using “Dragon” drones to dump fire from the sky into treelines. Again, I can’t imagine what’s going on with a US flamethrower drone.

Oh yeah shit could get real wild. My wife, previously annoyed at best with my guns, just bought a pistol that’s appropriate for her small hands. I’m going to get a good rifle. If you are scared of guns try a class. They don’t need to be scary once you understand how to be safe.

Get armed, just in case.