I'm still kind of mad about the restaurant last night. I don't normally feel this way. I will now enter complain mode.
It was not at all busy, they just had 1 person for the entire place. It took 40 mins to get our waters and my beer. Our food didn't come out like everyone else's and it was odd. The waitress basically like loudly shamed me about my food being spicy and demanded to bring a milder version while I was in the bathroom. I'd been eating a lot of my girlfriends since it's family style and mine was the messiest thing ever and hers was a bit less so and I was wearing a suit.
We got our check 2 hours later at the same time as a couple that had arrived at least an hour later.
Grumble.
My gf brought me chipotle and we watched Kill Bill 2
Vday win!
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
in the US there's a pretty wide leftist spectrum in the Democratic party
the mainstream would never dream of advocating huge cuts to our military and global hegemony, but the house progressive caucus (which keeps putting out budgets that actually fix the deficit AND the safety net, is larger than the Tea Party, and is wholly unknown to the media) does, for example
What would be best is if we could have instant runoff voting so we could actually split into a bunch of parties, I doubt anyone but an R or D would get the big chair but the various Is would scoop up congress seats
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I honestly didn't know Trudeau was not beloved. That is definitely not the narrative spun in the states
He's beloved by some. In a lot of ways he's like Obama; to some people he's like the fucking Second Coming, pinning all their progressive hopes on him to fix everything even though he's a centrist who won't actually do very much in the way of progressive policy.
For those of us on the Actual Left, we're like "don't believe his lies" and scowl hard at the rest of the world giving him a handy, especially on such hard hitting political analysis as "is pretty"
I'd give my left nut to have a centrist who is an enemy of perfect.
Yeah well, in Canada I don't have to settle.
I'm sorry things are like they are in the US. I genuinely am. I understand the "must be nice to have a genuine left wing" sentiment.
But it's really frustrating to see that sort of mentality infect my own countrymen, who are just happy Trudeau isn't Harper and I'm like
Jesus fuck you can do better, we are not our southern neighbors, not yet
Go back to the election, though. Who would have been better? If anything, I'm disappointed they didn't end up with a minority government, but generally speaking I'm pretty pleased with how things worked out.
I'm still kind of mad about the restaurant last night. I don't normally feel this way. I will now enter complain mode.
It was not at all busy, they just had 1 person for the entire place. It took 40 mins to get our waters and my beer. Our food didn't come out like everyone else's and it was odd. The waitress basically like loudly shamed me about my food being spicy and demanded to bring a milder version while I was in the bathroom. I'd been eating a lot of my girlfriends since it's family style and mine was the messiest thing ever and hers was a bit less so and I was wearing a suit.
We got our check 2 hours later at the same time as a couple that had arrived at least an hour later.
Grumble.
::looks at calendar, feels no sympathy for Castle::
Actual Left sounds a whole lot like a No True Scotsman. Not that your feelings aren't valid Pony, or that your criticism of Trudeau's supporters doesn't have legs.
But
'Actual Left.'
Really?
Well
At least in the US, "the left" is such a huge net of a term that is not terribly useful. It ranges from center-right democrats to socialists to anarchists, so one person's left is someone else's right. There seems to be a common misconception that everyone on the left is on the same side, when it's actually a bit more complicated.
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I'm cool with the mandate but just letting employers have 100% of the control and completely cutting employees out from benefits at arbitrary points of income, and not letting the employee take things into account like student loans or other bills you can't just not pay is the problem
And everyone pretending this is all on the GOP, it was like this in the initial version of the bill too, as far as I recall - the Dems are in favor of this
What is the this?
Also take a look at P970 chapter 4, maybe it would be of some help?
@override367 it looks like you can possibly subtract interest paid on your student loans from your income (maybe even after taking the standard deduction?) so if you are just barely over a threshold and haven't done that maybe look into it.
Actual Left sounds a whole lot like a No True Scotsman. Not that your feelings aren't valid Pony, or that your criticism of Trudeau's supporters doesn't have legs.
But
'Actual Left.'
Really?
Yes really.
Not gonna argue with that.
Everything I've googled says that the liberal party are firmly in the centre. Not the left. So, yeah, the actual left, as opposed to not actually the left.
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I'm still kind of mad about the restaurant last night. I don't normally feel this way. I will now enter complain mode.
It was not at all busy, they just had 1 person for the entire place. It took 40 mins to get our waters and my beer. Our food didn't come out like everyone else's and it was odd. The waitress basically like loudly shamed me about my food being spicy and demanded to bring a milder version while I was in the bathroom. I'd been eating a lot of my girlfriends since it's family style and mine was the messiest thing ever and hers was a bit less so and I was wearing a suit.
We got our check 2 hours later at the same time as a couple that had arrived at least an hour later.
Grumble.
::looks at calendar, feels no sympathy for Castle::
no they were not busy at all dude
oh! well fuck them in their belly buttons then.
are YOU on the beer list?
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Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
I'm cool with the mandate but just letting employers have 100% of the control and completely cutting employees out from benefits at arbitrary points of income, and not letting the employee take things into account like student loans or other bills you can't just not pay is the problem
And everyone pretending this is all on the GOP, it was like this in the initial version of the bill too, as far as I recall - the Dems are in favor of this
What is the this?
Also take a look at P970 chapter 4, maybe it would be of some help?
@override367 it looks like you can possibly subtract interest paid on your student loans from your income (maybe even after taking the standard deduction?) so if you are just barely over a threshold and haven't done that maybe look into it.
According to HHS you literally use the gross income on your W2 as the measure
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I just had the butt pees but it's okay because @bowen shit himself once.
are YOU on the beer list?
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i wish i had a full back xray. i might be able to get a composite from older xrays but suffice it to say i literally have a metal spine.
god damnit, I can't get the HMO through work because I live in a different state, the cheapest health insurance I can get is absolute fucking garbage, still costs $214 a month, and has a $3500 deductible
so under the ACA if I don't buy it I get a fine, because the dog shit is $12 under being 8% of my annual income, but I definitely won't be able to afford to use any of these except the most expensive one, which I can't really afford the monthly fee for, and is over 10% of my income and should qualify me for a subsidy - but won't because the dog shit exists
yeah the mandate sucks
just a real bad idea
No, the mandate was a fine idea, implemented terribly. Thanks GOP and Blue Dogs!
I'm pretty sure the very existence of the mandate is one of the bad ideas we can thank the Blue Dogs for?
*holds forth on personal views about the fundamentally rotten nature of insurance as the funding source for public goods*
i mean
it doesn't work well with the mandate and states refusing to expand medicaid
it doesn't work at all without the mandate
I mean, that last bit is the talking point industry lobbyists sold to politicians, but I don't think it's bearing out?
It seems more like the mandate sets the (high) price at which insurance companies can comfortably ream poors who don't quite qualify for any real assistance; charge them a little less than the massive tax hit they would take, offer a barely legal policy that is basically only useful if you need invasive surgery or chemo
I've been poor for the last 4 years in a state with expanded Medicare, and the only time the mandate didn't cause some kind of financial crisis for me is when I had cheap health insurance through a full-time job
there's no way a risk pool works where the only people paying in are those taking out more than they contribute
Yes, but a mandate paired with weak price controls and weak quality controls is basically just a license to mug
I think it just gets back to for-profit health insurance being a fundamentally bad idea with broken incentives
well, yeah, the mandate is a not great way to work with a terrible system
but the existing system would be worse without the mandate
I think I can agree with this?
Chanus our long national nightmare of not clicking agree... is it over?
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
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Chelle's spine looks like someone who stayed at a holiday inn filled in for the surgeon.
Bless your heart.
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Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
welp i'm fucked
na I'll just ask you to like murder a bunny or something and OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU ACTUALLY MURDER THE BUNNY IT WAS A FUCKING TEST CHELLE!
SSDI actually has a hard cap where if you make too much money you don't count as disabled and are no longer eligible
Inability to engage in substantial gainful activity means that if a person works, they earn less than a certain amount of money.
spoilers: this is incredibly dumb and our benefits programs should not penalize people for working as much as they are able
SSDI isn't disability as you're probably thinking
SSDI is specifically an additional amount of money disabled people can get if they are both disabled AND unable to work
keep in mind that you literally get like 36 months of full benefits or some shit while making your pay before they cut it off, so in that way it's basically to help you get working
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Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
welp i'm fucked
Just point to parts of pictures with street signs
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I'm cool with the mandate but just letting employers have 100% of the control and completely cutting employees out from benefits at arbitrary points of income, and not letting the employee take things into account like student loans or other bills you can't just not pay is the problem
And everyone pretending this is all on the GOP, it was like this in the initial version of the bill too, as far as I recall - the Dems are in favor of this
What is the this?
Also take a look at P970 chapter 4, maybe it would be of some help?
override367 it looks like you can possibly subtract interest paid on your student loans from your income (maybe even after taking the standard deduction?) so if you are just barely over a threshold and haven't done that maybe look into it.
According to HHS you literally use the gross income on your W2 as the measure
gross income or AGI? those are two different things and AGI is after your deductions, which would include your student loan interest deduction
but i dunno which it is, just offering the possibility
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
welp i'm fucked
na I'll just ask you to like murder a bunny or something and OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU ACTUALLY MURDER THE BUNNY IT WAS A FUCKING TEST CHELLE!
lol actually i'd be good to go then
ask me to murder a trump voter and i might have some temptation issues
god damnit, I can't get the HMO through work because I live in a different state, the cheapest health insurance I can get is absolute fucking garbage, still costs $214 a month, and has a $3500 deductible
so under the ACA if I don't buy it I get a fine, because the dog shit is $12 under being 8% of my annual income, but I definitely won't be able to afford to use any of these except the most expensive one, which I can't really afford the monthly fee for, and is over 10% of my income and should qualify me for a subsidy - but won't because the dog shit exists
yeah the mandate sucks
just a real bad idea
No, the mandate was a fine idea, implemented terribly. Thanks GOP and Blue Dogs!
I'm pretty sure the very existence of the mandate is one of the bad ideas we can thank the Blue Dogs for?
*holds forth on personal views about the fundamentally rotten nature of insurance as the funding source for public goods*
i mean
it doesn't work well with the mandate and states refusing to expand medicaid
it doesn't work at all without the mandate
I mean, that last bit is the talking point industry lobbyists sold to politicians, but I don't think it's bearing out?
It seems more like the mandate sets the (high) price at which insurance companies can comfortably ream poors who don't quite qualify for any real assistance; charge them a little less than the massive tax hit they would take, offer a barely legal policy that is basically only useful if you need invasive surgery or chemo
I've been poor for the last 4 years in a state with expanded Medicare, and the only time the mandate didn't cause some kind of financial crisis for me is when I had cheap health insurance through a full-time job
there's no way a risk pool works where the only people paying in are those taking out more than they contribute
Yes, but a mandate paired with weak price controls and weak quality controls is basically just a license to mug
I think it just gets back to for-profit health insurance being a fundamentally bad idea with broken incentives
well, yeah, the mandate is a not great way to work with a terrible system
but the existing system would be worse without the mandate
I think I can agree with this?
Chanus our long national nightmare of not clicking agree... is it over?
Although Chelle now that you're a robot I can no longer trust you and you're going to have to prove your humanity if you want sanctuary at my compound.
welp i'm fucked
na I'll just ask you to like murder a bunny or something and OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU ACTUALLY MURDER THE BUNNY IT WAS A FUCKING TEST CHELLE!
lol actually i'd be good to go then
ask me to murder a trump voter and i might have some temptation issues
I was actually talking to the wife about meat procurement since she's okay with land now and how like rabbits would be better than chickens and it did not go well.
are YOU on the beer list?
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My gf brought me chipotle and we watched Kill Bill 2
Vday win!
the mainstream would never dream of advocating huge cuts to our military and global hegemony, but the house progressive caucus (which keeps putting out budgets that actually fix the deficit AND the safety net, is larger than the Tea Party, and is wholly unknown to the media) does, for example
What would be best is if we could have instant runoff voting so we could actually split into a bunch of parties, I doubt anyone but an R or D would get the big chair but the various Is would scoop up congress seats
Go back to the election, though. Who would have been better? If anything, I'm disappointed they didn't end up with a minority government, but generally speaking I'm pretty pleased with how things worked out.
no they were not busy at all dude
Well
At least in the US, "the left" is such a huge net of a term that is not terribly useful. It ranges from center-right democrats to socialists to anarchists, so one person's left is someone else's right. There seems to be a common misconception that everyone on the left is on the same side, when it's actually a bit more complicated.
Everything I've googled says that the liberal party are firmly in the centre. Not the left. So, yeah, the actual left, as opposed to not actually the left.
yusssss
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
I'm With Left
The Other Left Meat
oh! well fuck them in their belly buttons then.
That's some solid nerding right there. *nods*
welp i'm fucked
both of them say yes
According to HHS you literally use the gross income on your W2 as the measure
I think I can agree with this?
Chanus our long national nightmare of not clicking agree... is it over?
You have been disqualified from joining the Democratic party.
na I'll just ask you to like murder a bunny or something and OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU ACTUALLY MURDER THE BUNNY IT WAS A FUCKING TEST CHELLE!
Accountants should be welcomed at your sanctuary cuz I'll count all your bullets and food and stuff
yep!
SSDI isn't disability as you're probably thinking
SSDI is specifically an additional amount of money disabled people can get if they are both disabled AND unable to work
keep in mind that you literally get like 36 months of full benefits or some shit while making your pay before they cut it off, so in that way it's basically to help you get working
That depends, do you use H&R Block or TurboTax
Just point to parts of pictures with street signs
gross income or AGI? those are two different things and AGI is after your deductions, which would include your student loan interest deduction
but i dunno which it is, just offering the possibility
lol actually i'd be good to go then
ask me to murder a trump voter and i might have some temptation issues
NOW KISS
I use a human hide and a freshly plucked crow feather dipped in sacrificial blood
I was actually talking to the wife about meat procurement since she's okay with land now and how like rabbits would be better than chickens and it did not go well.
excellent point p10 this provides the perfect segue for my 10 part treatise on why we should abolish the income tax
AMX?