This is going to sound wild, but sand timers. I swear by them. Hexagonal base ones are pausible even, when laid on their side. Get some of different times (15 min, 30 min, 1 hr) and do the thing til the sand runs out OR longer if you get into it. Sand timers don’t make sound when they complete!
This is all self-inflicted, or possibly Russian-inflicted by way of Trump and the fools who voted him into office. Again. But also, the degree to which so many people are complying is disappointing, to say the least.
I keep thinking of someone on here who skeeted comparing all of this with the way some public pools were filled with concrete instead of letting Black people swim. It’s as if the Obama presidency has triggered a similar self-destructive reaction.
I keep telling people that seeing a black man occupy the highest office of the land for not just one - but two! - terms unlocked the barely dormant poison of white supremacy in many Americans about what the American dream should look like, and who can access certain levels of it.
Yeah, I keep thinking of the debate where the pet eating came up! Or that Madison Square Garden rally right before the election. It is disheartening that all that racism had no detrimental effect on his Presidential ambitions, probably boosted them.
I think Stalinism is a really instructive historical analog right now. Stalinism was an absolute destructive wreck - both to the USSR and personally to the leaders who carried out his will. Yet it took natural death to bring the reign of terror to a halt. There's no innate firewall in human nature.
Earlier I started reading more about how empathy is being demonized, because heaven forbid we should view our “enemies” as human, heaven forbid we should find common ground. And I just cannot believe this is where we are, but here we are.
Yeah. When Buchanan ranted about "Culture War" in 1992, America recoiled at reheated Nazism. Now, it's where we are... people who don't seem "red-pilled" talk about "culture war" and "virtue signaling" as if these were basic realities of life and not demonizing propaganda.
I remember that speech. Weirdly a few months later I found myself a couple meters away from Buchanan at Boston Logan. We both looked at each other funny, and I noticed his fountain pen had leaked and stained his shirt pocket. A future of life in prison flashed before my eyes before I walked away.
I applied my refund to next year, usually don’t but it seemed prudent this time. (I normally have to pay estimated tax anyway so now I’m just paying less of it)
Whether your Social Security payments are taxable is complicated and depends on your other income. Not my expertise, if you have income in addition to Social Security, please consult a tax professional.
Brooke I dont even understand how the USA even functions now. Theyre killing the IRS, but say they're collecting tariffs which is a tax... Who is even watching, checking, doing anything? Are they all jerking off to Crypto now?
I found it to be a 1-to-1 replacement. They hold your hand and walk you thru everything and will even do that last-minute-checkup to make sure you didn't make any mistakes or forget anything.
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social if you do your taxes just find joy in the fact that it's the last time you have to do them, which is kind of neat if you ignore the whole "why" bit. 🤷🏽♂️
If you live in LA County and you'll owe anyhow, auto extension to Oct 15 for both state & federal b/c of the January fires. I'll owe on both so intentionally delaying not even to hold onto the money for a little longer but more to see if it's still even physically possible to pay federal in 4 months
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You know what smart people do when the stock market corrects, as it regularly does, just like 08, 20, 22, now?
"Be greedy when others are fearful."
🤣🤣🤣
Aw well, you can lead a horse to water because they're way smarter than libtards.
Kissie kiss!😍
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/pat-buchanan-gop-convention-tampa/
I agree
Whether your Social Security payments are taxable is complicated and depends on your other income. Not my expertise, if you have income in addition to Social Security, please consult a tax professional.
they'll never catch me
You have to pay interest on the remaining balance if you put off paying so if you owe a lot it’s pretty bad to procrastinate
Please square your circle.
The T-bill is starting to wobble.
I don't want to pay this government that amount of money. It feels icky.