In the United States there is federal corp tax taken from documented workers and paid to the national government (federal tax) by businesses. State tax is also taken the same way and paid to the state.

This just income tax, but there are many other forms of taxes. Vehicle tax, gas tax, food tax, clothing tax, restaurant tax, etc. These all go to the state and vary in amount depending on the state.
This is also why our prices don’t include tax. So apple/amazon can show a single price and your state tax gets tacked on at checkout.

So this “undocumented Immigrants paid X in taxes” is them paying taxes on good but not income. Businesses can pay these people in cash under the table and not paying taxes or benefits for them.

I’m there now finally… I want to retire from here. The stress is just gone. Pure dev. No prod. No emergencies. No on call.

There’s an app to make web apps icons. Or just use Firefox to add the bookmark to your homepage

Hermit - Lite apps browser

First. I hope your family is OK.

Second its total bullshit the medical insurance companies can just declare something isn’t needed (usually by a doctor on thier payroll). Then use that as a justification to decline coverage.

This is supposedly a standard tactic for them too. Decline all big claims and see who fights it.

That’s insanely immoral especially because anyone with a huge medical bill clearly has some shit going on and the last thing they need is the massive stress of a massive medical bill.

We have movies and TV shows that poke at how bad our medical coverage is and we Americans just accept that the plot is acceptable.

The ones that come to mind are:
The Rainmaker kid dies of lung cancer because insurance declined treatment due to it being “experimental”.
Breaking Bad yeah. Cooking meth to pay for cancer treatment

Correct. I’m just stating the logic/mindset of carrying two.

Murica: Everyone knows it’s faster to switch than reload!

Thinkpad X280?

LENOVO ThinkPad X280 12.5 LCD Ultrabook - Intel Core i5 (8th Gen) i5-8250U Quad-core (4 Core) 1.60 GHz - 8 GB DDR4 SDRAM - 256 GB SSD - Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (English) - (Renewed) Title https://a.co/d/4ylP22d

Cheaper than dinner at a fancy restaurant.

Edit: schedule date. Meet at coffee shop. Book a 1 hr appt. Spend the hour. Hit a bar with date to laugh/cry over drinks.

+1 for yt-dlp

That’s my biggest peev about JSON actually. No comments!! WTH!

And adaptors

landlord

Slumlord… This screams “investment property”

If I ever have a tenant (might buy a 2 family and rent one) I plan to treat tenants with respect and decency.

Hire someone to do it right or do it right yourself.

I rent. Got mold in the bathroom. Talk to my landlord and worked a deal to just paint it myself with good quality paint. Took me like 3 hours on a weekend and I got to keep the leftover supplies/tools.

Hopefully i get good tenants and ill treat them like family. Stick around and don’t fuck up my house please.

And I LOVE that USB-C is uni-directional.

I tend to buy 90° connectors for all the things and it’s such a treat that USB-C is well designed.

Captchas are good for slowing down bots scraping data. Better than nothing…

Systemwide RFC-3339 Dateformat

I meant RFC3339

Rfc3339 plus kebab case for many things

2024-09-01_lname-fname-resume.pdf

100% this.

I’ve seen shops where workers are handling food and then working the register all with the same gloves on.

Then there’s this Korean spot I go to for fried chicken. They process payment and then put on fresh gloves right next to the register. Not making a show of it. Just workflow. Then they go handle/pack food and discard gloves after handing your order over.

Blew my mind.

Never stayed in a hotel?

As a kid. Me either… I think the first time I stayed on a hotel was my 20s

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Women are the same as women 🤼‍♀️ is a huge number of men are not women and women are the only one who have a lot more women than men and men are not men