I recently converted my townhouse to an orphanage/school for spies (I dubbed it the Moloch Sreet Home for Youths of Unusual Aptitude) and I have undertaken the long and expensive process of trying to get the place fixed up and nice
Much-needed help
You fill empty cupboards, warm cold rooms. You contract a tailor to alter the clothes to a suitable size. You purchase wooden toys (and ensure there are none of the more voracious clockwork variety among them). Your assistants line up the urchins in your parlour to explain how you, their benefactor, have just improved their lives. They have laid out a cold collation to celebrate the occasion.
One of your orphans wrinkles his nose. "Is this turtle-cheese? I 'ates turtle-cheese. Why don't we ever get nuffink nice?"
Another orphan is smearing something mucoid on the underside of your table. There is a yell as a small girl attempts to insert a small boy into an ottoman. It was ever thus.
They found out I was eating healthier and they have been relentless stopping by my office offering up treats, snacks, and baked goods. Usually they ignore me 100% completely, the only time I'm told there's goodies up front is after the front office staff picks it bare and the back office staff makes a commotion about it.
But they are purposefully trying to derail me and it's annoying because the hunger pangs are real. But I'm sick of being fat. They will not win.
what the fuck? this seems like a bizarrely cruel thing to do
just like thoughtless, pointless sadism
welcome to the average American workplace
it's just crab buckets at every level
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
I recently converted my townhouse to an orphanage/school for spies (I dubbed it the Moloch Sreet Home for Youths of Unusual Aptitude) and I have undertaken the long and expensive process of trying to get the place fixed up and nice
Much-needed help
You fill empty cupboards, warm cold rooms. You contract a tailor to alter the clothes to a suitable size. You purchase wooden toys (and ensure there are none of the more voracious clockwork variety among them). Your assistants line up the urchins in your parlour to explain how you, their benefactor, have just improved their lives. They have laid out a cold collation to celebrate the occasion.
One of your orphans wrinkles his nose. "Is this turtle-cheese? I 'ates turtle-cheese. Why don't we ever get nuffink nice?"
Another orphan is smearing something mucoid on the underside of your table. There is a yell as a small girl attempts to insert a small boy into an ottoman. It was ever thus.
@Jacobkosh i haven't played much since i started seeking the name... i am scared but...
THIS IS FOLLY
i'm hoping it's really cool in the end everyone says to stop
okay fine i gave in and bought Battle Brothers. it's just too much the game i've fantasized about playing/making to resist.
You're gonna get murdered
(You can name soldiers after people you care about! Get good and attached to them! Develop rich, complex backstories for them! It really enhances the experience!)
my strategic genius is unparalleled; i'm sure i will lose not a single soldier.
taxes are easy over here, there's literally an app for it
it costs about 10 or 15 bucks each year but it's totally worth it
I spend I think $80/yr doing it through H&R block
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
it is pretty cool that in america taxes are designed such that if you're middle class you're probably accidentally committing tax fraud every year and if you're rich you're reducing your liability to near zero perfectly legally
okay fine i gave in and bought Battle Brothers. it's just too much the game i've fantasized about playing/making to resist.
You're gonna get murdered
(You can name soldiers after people you care about! Get good and attached to them! Develop rich, complex backstories for them! It really enhances the experience!)
my strategic genius is unparalleled; i'm sure i will lose not a single soldier.
name all of your soldiers after me thanks
they'll all be named Archie, yes
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
i have never done anything but the standard deduction so my taxes take 5 mins
no women no children just like LEON
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
I recently converted my townhouse to an orphanage/school for spies (I dubbed it the Moloch Sreet Home for Youths of Unusual Aptitude) and I have undertaken the long and expensive process of trying to get the place fixed up and nice
Much-needed help
You fill empty cupboards, warm cold rooms. You contract a tailor to alter the clothes to a suitable size. You purchase wooden toys (and ensure there are none of the more voracious clockwork variety among them). Your assistants line up the urchins in your parlour to explain how you, their benefactor, have just improved their lives. They have laid out a cold collation to celebrate the occasion.
One of your orphans wrinkles his nose. "Is this turtle-cheese? I 'ates turtle-cheese. Why don't we ever get nuffink nice?"
Another orphan is smearing something mucoid on the underside of your table. There is a yell as a small girl attempts to insert a small boy into an ottoman. It was ever thus.
@Jacobkosh i haven't played much since i started seeking the name... i am scared but...
THIS IS FOLLY
i'm hoping it's really cool in the end everyone says to stop
i won't tell you to stop but you should definitely wait until you are further in because it requires brutal stat checks and a ton of grinding and the grinding is way easier once you are a POSI
and failing those checks doesn't just like
mean you get to try again later
some of them fuckin' like permanently kill your guy so you are stuck restarting the entire actual game
People get grumpy with me because I'm short and to the point like a typical IT person so people here/at-work think I'm an asshole occasionally.
But really, when you work with these people, you almost have to be an asshole because as soon as you give them an inch they got off your arm and steal it.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
taxes are easy over here, there's literally an app for it
it costs about 10 or 15 bucks each year but it's totally worth it
I pay 70 for turbo tax.
But it has the audit detector.
It is the best.
I pay like $17 for TaxAct, state and federal.
I've actually been audited twice, but both times I was like "Here's what actually happened, here's some forms to back it up, here's where that tax was paid." and the IRS just send me back an okie dokie letter and a 'bill' for $0.
it is pretty cool that in america taxes are designed such that if you're middle class you're probably accidentally committing tax fraud every year and if you're rich you're reducing your liability to near zero perfectly legally
i always worry that A. I'm committing tax fraud by omission of ignorance somehow and that B. i fucked up my deductions and witholdings or whatever and am suddenly going to owe $$$$$ tax season instead of them giving me my money back
it is pretty cool that in america taxes are designed such that if you're middle class you're probably accidentally committing tax fraud every year and if you're rich you're reducing your liability to near zero perfectly legally
i always worry that A. I'm committing tax fraud by omission of ignorance somehow and that B. i fucked up my deductions and witholdings or whatever and am suddenly going to owe $$$$$ tax season instead of them giving me my money back
I omitted something once when I was a grad student. Had to pay a penalty since I filed near the deadline and the audit came back and was like, welp, now you're late. It was only like $100 I think, but at the time I was p poor so it sucked.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
taxes are easy over here, there's literally an app for it
it costs about 10 or 15 bucks each year but it's totally worth it
I pay 70 for turbo tax.
But it has the audit detector.
It is the best.
I pay like $17 for TaxAct, state and federal.
I've actually been audited twice, but both times I was like "Here's what actually happened, here's some forms to back it up, here's where that tax was paid." and the IRS just send me back an okie dokie letter and a 'bill' for $0.
But with the audit detector it's all like your likelyhood for being audited is medium. Maybe I shouldn't show that I'm as charitable as I really was *wink wink* Your chance being audited is low.
Ship it.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
it is pretty cool that in america taxes are designed such that if you're middle class you're probably accidentally committing tax fraud every year and if you're rich you're reducing your liability to near zero perfectly legally
i always worry that A. I'm committing tax fraud by omission of ignorance somehow and that B. i fucked up my deductions and witholdings or whatever and am suddenly going to owe $$$$$ tax season instead of them giving me my money back
working as intended
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
I recently converted my townhouse to an orphanage/school for spies (I dubbed it the Moloch Sreet Home for Youths of Unusual Aptitude) and I have undertaken the long and expensive process of trying to get the place fixed up and nice
Much-needed help
You fill empty cupboards, warm cold rooms. You contract a tailor to alter the clothes to a suitable size. You purchase wooden toys (and ensure there are none of the more voracious clockwork variety among them). Your assistants line up the urchins in your parlour to explain how you, their benefactor, have just improved their lives. They have laid out a cold collation to celebrate the occasion.
One of your orphans wrinkles his nose. "Is this turtle-cheese? I 'ates turtle-cheese. Why don't we ever get nuffink nice?"
Another orphan is smearing something mucoid on the underside of your table. There is a yell as a small girl attempts to insert a small boy into an ottoman. It was ever thus.
uhhhhh
what POSI upgrades can you get if you don't want your house to be full of Urchins?
@credeiki well you don't have to live there :razz: in fact, I don't think you can - you move out when you convert your townhouse into either an Orphanage (+Watchful, +Shadowy, +Respectable) or a Salon (+Persuasive, +Respectable, +Bizarre).
Orphanages and Salons take up your Affiliation slot but there are other Affiliations you can gain that don't require the use of your hous eproperty at all. I'm not sure what all of them are but one of them is joining God's Editors, the scholars who have created the revised and updated post-meeting-devils Bible
I recently converted my townhouse to an orphanage/school for spies (I dubbed it the Moloch Sreet Home for Youths of Unusual Aptitude) and I have undertaken the long and expensive process of trying to get the place fixed up and nice
Much-needed help
You fill empty cupboards, warm cold rooms. You contract a tailor to alter the clothes to a suitable size. You purchase wooden toys (and ensure there are none of the more voracious clockwork variety among them). Your assistants line up the urchins in your parlour to explain how you, their benefactor, have just improved their lives. They have laid out a cold collation to celebrate the occasion.
One of your orphans wrinkles his nose. "Is this turtle-cheese? I 'ates turtle-cheese. Why don't we ever get nuffink nice?"
Another orphan is smearing something mucoid on the underside of your table. There is a yell as a small girl attempts to insert a small boy into an ottoman. It was ever thus.
@Jacobkosh i haven't played much since i started seeking the name... i am scared but...
THIS IS FOLLY
i'm hoping it's really cool in the end everyone says to stop
i won't tell you to stop but you should definitely wait until you are further in because it requires brutal stat checks and a ton of grinding and the grinding is way easier once you are a POSI
and failing those checks doesn't just like
mean you get to try again later
some of them fuckin' like permanently kill your guy so you are stuck restarting the entire actual game
I suppose the only possible option then is to abolish the IRS entirely.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
i haven't paid more than probably like $20 interest on my amazon card in three years though because i only put budgeted expenses on it for the most part
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it costs about 10 or 15 bucks each year but it's totally worth it
I suggest standing outside your nearest Canadian embassy and loudly bellowing the questions you just posted
The only thing you can't trust me with is a massive AI that controls information flow to people, because I'd abuse the fuck out of that.
Not that I'm convinced we'd be worse off, but.
@Podly i would expect no less....
esp if it involves a ridiculous scheme like putting on a wig and like, trying to pretend to be an orphan or something
welcome to the average American workplace
it's just crab buckets at every level
we have those for people who don't have unusual tax situations
but once you're not just "plug W2 into tax form" levels of doing taxes, they don't work as well and can lead to a lot of fucking up your taxes
keep me informed
i'm hoping it's really cool in the end
name all of your soldiers after me thanks
But it has the audit detector.
It is the best.
amazon prime store card was always 5% back??? however the APR is loltastic 25.99%
i bought my TV w/ it tho and got a smooth $80 back and just paid it off immediately
I spend I think $80/yr doing it through H&R block
Dude
DUDE
they'll all be named Archie, yes
no women no children just like LEON
I hear it's a big country but ya I will be in Toronto if that's near where you are
i won't tell you to stop but you should definitely wait until you are further in because it requires brutal stat checks and a ton of grinding and the grinding is way easier once you are a POSI
and failing those checks doesn't just like
mean you get to try again later
some of them fuckin' like permanently kill your guy so you are stuck restarting the entire actual game
People get grumpy with me because I'm short and to the point like a typical IT person so people here/at-work think I'm an asshole occasionally.
But really, when you work with these people, you almost have to be an asshole because as soon as you give them an inch they got off your arm and steal it.
I am sort of contemplating one
I buy a lot of shit through Amazon
They are probably my #1 retailer and I've had prime for years
Nukes are so not the way you would kill us all.
I pay like $17 for TaxAct, state and federal.
I've actually been audited twice, but both times I was like "Here's what actually happened, here's some forms to back it up, here's where that tax was paid." and the IRS just send me back an okie dokie letter and a 'bill' for $0.
Keep me and @Dread Pirate Arbuthnot @Rear Admiral Choco in the loop Im right outside Toronto and they live there.
i always worry that A. I'm committing tax fraud by omission of ignorance somehow and that B. i fucked up my deductions and witholdings or whatever and am suddenly going to owe $$$$$ tax season instead of them giving me my money back
We'll tell him to meet us somewhere and then we'll hide in waiting and take his stuff
Give 'em a proper Canadian welcome
nice nice I like that you're already in two dress mode
Lemme know bb
I omitted something once when I was a grad student. Had to pay a penalty since I filed near the deadline and the audit came back and was like, welp, now you're late. It was only like $100 I think, but at the time I was p poor so it sucked.
Ship it.
it's great i basically just put all my regular expenditures on that card and then get free shit from amazon every few months
EM is like, close
But also not so close that I've bothered to meet him
But I have met @Richy , and he was up in Thunder Bay at the time
Also I've met @Pony and he's in BC!
Though he wasn't when I met him >_>
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store card feh
for plebs
they're doing it with the actual credit card now
and who pays interest on a credit card?
@credeiki well you don't have to live there :razz: in fact, I don't think you can - you move out when you convert your townhouse into either an Orphanage (+Watchful, +Shadowy, +Respectable) or a Salon (+Persuasive, +Respectable, +Bizarre).
Orphanages and Salons take up your Affiliation slot but there are other Affiliations you can gain that don't require the use of your hous eproperty at all. I'm not sure what all of them are but one of them is joining God's Editors, the scholars who have created the revised and updated post-meeting-devils Bible
that's the point i think
An abstract concept
o...oh
ok i am quitting
i need 100 in all stats to be a POSI yes
Hm
I suppose the only possible option then is to abolish the IRS entirely.