Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about current taxes, not a hypothetical future wealth tax. Of course a wealth tax should exempt one primary owner occupied property until sold.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

This is the real blasphemy of these people. What he's doing is what "taking the Lord's name in vain" really means. Claiming to speak for God.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry, I didn't say that clearly. What I mean is you have to remember to use the damn HSA card when you go to buy Tylenol instead of your normal payment method. This is...where I tend to fail lol

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Christ how are people this ignorant? The ICIJ has several hundred people working for it.

https://www.icij.org/about/

And it wasn't a foreign government. Caruana Galizia was MALTESE. She was investigating her own government.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Normal red blood cells only live about 120 days, so they replace themselves naturally within a few months.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Nothing at all bad happened to the two German journalists who published the Panama Papers. Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier are both very much alive and well, and have started a nonprofit organization in honor of their friend and colleague, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered by an operative of the Maltese government officials who she was investigating for corruption that was revealed in the Panama Papers.

The investigations and revelations produced by The Daphne Project are ongoing. These are journalists who refuse to be silenced by one woman's murder.

But to understand that, you'd have to be interested in not being ignorant for five seconds instead of just parroting things you saw online because you think it makes you sound smart.

https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

I work on a small stepdown critical care unit, and we're struggling to ration our few negative pressure rooms to accommodate the folks needing high flow nasal cannula oxygen or BiPAP from Covid, RSV, flu, and all the god damned holiday COPD/CHF exacerbations.

(Dammit, grandma, take your fucking lasix.)

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's glorious 🥹

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, it's in the summary above:

"Our finding tells us that maintaining healthy, consistent sleep habits long-term may be important in optimizing brain health as you age."

Implying that poor sleep is directly causative instead of some underlying pathology being causative of both poor sleep and cognitive decline.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where the fuck is the property tax rate 15%?? Highest in the US is still less than 3%.

https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/property-taxes-by-state

I faced this exact scenario. I bought my house in Nov 2019 - right before the giant pandemic price increase. It's gained $200,000 in value and my property taxes went up by $200/month. Which at my income level is not an absurd burden.

I don't think we should have owner occupied exemptions on property tax, and I'm happy to pay my share of that tax to keep my city functioning. I DO think we should have burdensome sales/transfer taxes on non-occupying owners.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sign up for a health savings account and USE IT. (United States specific advice.)

It lowers your taxable income. The only caveat is you have to remember to use that money to buy things you were already going to buy anyway. Convenient hack to know what you can and can't use: Doordash now labels HSA-eligible items at CVS. You don't have to actually use Doordash to see which items you can buy with your HSA card.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will second this. YouTube can teach you step by step how to cut your own hair. I've been doing it for years, and currently have a fancy asymmetrical one side buzzed cut that I do myself. The learning curve is going to result in you looking awkward a couple of times, but the amount of time and money saved over the years is tremendous.

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