Odysseus32

There's no reason to buy a gas powered mower unless the yard that you're going to be mowing is over .25 acres.

Just buy a battery powered mower and a battery powered weedeater.

You'll save on gas, maintenance, and time.

Whole Foods Hot Bar is so good.

Kind of expensive, but you need to be strategic about what you get.

There are definitely better "deals", but you can get actual vegetables and stuff from the hot bar with good protein.

That makes my blood boil.

Horrible.

It's disturbing watching the videos of people dying.

The more disturbing part to me is that I am sitting here watching it, living my own life, and someone's life is breaking down. It makes me think about if the roles were reversed, there would be some guy living his life, maybe seeing it and typing about it, and then will move on in an hour.

It's really unsettling.

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If you can enforce the standard and hold them accountable for results, you may have something. The wild card is student home life. Good teachers can only do so much with that.

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For the sake of my example, I think you're right and I also think that is one of the downwind effects that would occur.

50k teacher is stressed. Kid with shitty home life is acting an arse. 50k teacher is dealing with financial stressors. Needs to work a gig job to make sure they don't pay extra interest on their debt. They are tired, they don't have the capacity to deal with bad kids. The shitty home life kid gets ignored and turns to the streets because lord knows the teachers didn't give a shite.

120k is not stressed. Got 2 more hours of sleep than the 50k teacher after watching a movie. They wake up with a normal stress level. Not on top of the world, but not fed up. Same scenario happens, kid is acting an arse. Attitude goes from "frick this kid" to "Hey man, what is going on". Does it fix everything? No. Down the line when the kid is faced with an opportunity to make a bad decision, he remembers that teacher. He showed grace, he would not like what he is going to do. He hesitates, doesn't act on impulse.

Same kid who would be in the system is instead working a job, trying to do right. He has a child, who he raises right. The system perpetuates from there.

I know that's a made up scenario, but I have lived it. Whenever I think of doing something stupid I remember my social studies teach from 7th grade. We all loved him. He was a great man. He was underpaid, but he did his best to show up for us every day. All of us hold him in high regard. A lot of us were from incredibly poor families and we are all doing anywhere from okay to successful, and we all attribute that to him.

I'm as guilty as everyone else of loving individuality. But so many of these things that go in that are direct results of your local government have an effect on you whether you like it or not.

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It's the opposite of that. We in the US pay more than anyone for this garbage product these people put out. We pay too much already. The whole industry needs an enema from AI. That's how this ends up anyway.

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I understand your initial reaction, but this is actually a reductionist view of the issue.

Your assumption doesn't consider 2nd order effects or any that will follow.

I know this is difficult to understand, but waste occurs right now precisely because we give so little in the way of wages to those doing actual work. People in these positions are of lower caliber because the pay repels higher quality people.

So you give money to an institution that historically attracts lower quality people. Those lower quality people rise up in a pool of dirty water. Those lower quality people take any excess funds for themselves and stifle wages. Government workers are still underpaid and low performing, and now you're wondering what the hell it's all going to. Why do I pay taxes if stamps have gone up and my mail is slower?

So you have a $50M budget let's say, $10M goes to workers, the other 40M is "waste". And they want to raise wages for these people? They already waste your money!

Reverse that.

Teacher pay is now $120k starting. You have a swath of people with good intentions and skills who were previously doctors, lawyers, CPAs, etc. who can make pay similar to what they were making and get to do something valuable. All of a sudden those jobs get more competitive. The people who rise to the top are higher quality people. They understand how to stop government waste and they are actually in a position to do something about it.

All of a sudden you have a $50M budget, $30M is going to the workers, and only $20M is "waste". You're paying the same, government workers are now more effective, things are running more smoothly, and you feel like your tax dollars are well spent.

A lot of you need to realize you really do like government. Our local ones are just trash.

frick em

Don’t rely on the government.

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My best friend recently quit his job as an electronics tech to door dash He says the money is fine, but the hours are great

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Did he recently start doing doordash?

Doordash pushes good orders to new dashers to incentivize them to keep dashing.

After the initial push it will dry up and quickly.

You can legit make 25-30 an hour when you start. After you're settled that will drop to about 15 unless you're in a really good market.

frickers getting excited for hurricanes. Probably nothing.

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rds dc

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So they can write off your hard earned money as a donation

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Yall need to stop with this shite.

That money is not income. There is no deduction to be had. I don't know the exact accounting but I'm assuming it's something like

Dr. Restr Cash
Cr. Donation Account Payable

Then once the donation paid the balances offset.

There's no taxable event. It's essentially an escrow service for random folks.

Even if it was, there are limits to charitable deductions. Just for simplicity's sake, let's say 10% of taxable income (this changes). So if they had donations of $400M throughout the year, and their net income was $780M, they could only deduct $78M of that. But that's moot, because that is not the way it works.