Sarmyth

joined 2 years ago
[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting. The interest from my mortgage payments and property taxes take me above the standard deduction alone, then I have work expenses as well.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

IRS doesn't know my deductions til I tell them. I'm certainly not rich either. I just get to write off alot.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe in the future, the citizenry should kill religious extremists that take over their government instead of just protest? I could think of a few places that might be warranted right now to curtail future violence. I just can't legally give a good example right now.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who's doing that? I think people universally are against baby killing, but some feel there is no other option to root out combatants using them as human shields.

We can disagree but we aren't being shot at or have boots on the ground.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tokenboomer back on the clock again. Gotta earn those rubles! Showing himself to be a shill once again.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I'm exactly the same. I also used to use a generic "have a good one" because I didn't know what time it was during my evening shift. I did have a person make a minor scene once, saying he hated when people said that because he didn't know what "one" was in reference to, though.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

This is so true. Get ready for compromises. I'm coming up on the 2 month date, and the number of times we've just been too tired to shop or reticent to interrupt naps for trips is more than I expected by far.

The "buy it for life" mentality only goes so far when they outgrow everything in a couple of months or you discover your kid just runs hot, so a bunch of clothes that were bought barely see use or they just don't like the shape of one bottle nipple vs others etc.

I'm glad to have the convenience of generous return policies and not having to stand in a customer service line.

The Amazon registry did use really well, but we signed up a bunch of them to nab all the free stuff. I highly recommend the Enfamil gift box. It had some really good stuff in there!

They're all just gonna sell your data anyways to advertise to you. You might as well sell it yourself and get the goods!

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you referring to Amazon Basics stuff? The major brands with good safety records are all also available of Amazon. This just feels like fear mongering.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The paid service will start without ads, and then they'll put them in just at the beginning and end for a video, then they'll ad them in like they are now and blame rising operational costs.

The playbook has been out in the open for a while now.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 98 points 2 years ago (12 children)

It really is a joke. I remember a decade ago talking about how pirated movies were a better user experience than buying a DVD because they were making you sit through ads on the paid product before you could view it, but the pirated product just let you get to what you were watching immediately.

The whole experience is completely backward!

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is my stance as well. You don't lose your job, but why would I promote an employee who disregards policy. You're not being asked to round up Jews. This isn't some evil, "just following orders" moment.

Keep your job, but don't expect to advance in a company who's requests you decline. It's far too entitled to think a person deserve a raise for telling your boss no.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Certainly, presidents have some responsibility for things that the military does during their tenure, but people talk about these events, like he was told they were striking a DWB facility. I suspect he was told told they had located their target, and he approved without knowledge of the location and potential blowback.

His Whitehouse always struck me as more savvy than that, which led me to believe some of these were the result of omissions during communication from overseas.

That said, I totally believe they would bomb a wedding if they felt a high enough priority target was there (even if they were wrong). I felt the military was given ALOT of freedom to make decisions on their own while Obama was in office.

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