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But the end result is the same. You don’t “make 50k, and lose 15k to taxes”, you just make 35k. That’s is. That’s what you make. If you want more, talk to your employer.

No, that's exactly what happens. Have you ever filed a tax return? We're not debating subjective interpretation here. You make a gross income that is then taxed by the government. The income tax that the government takes is taken from your gross income.

Your employer is taxed on your income by "Payroll tax", which is a tax against the employer and is not income tax:

Payroll taxes include amounts paid by both the employee and the employer to cover any federal taxes due, while income taxes specifically refer to the amount owed by the employee to cover their individual federal income taxes owed.

Source. I'm not trying to be pedantic -- in your original post, you said "Income tax is just a fine charged on the company for having employees" which is objectively not true. Income tax != payroll tax.

That's not true. Income is taxed against the individual. Employers are required to withhold income taxes in many cases, but it's not "a fine charged on the company." It is a tax on the individual's income, withheld from the individual.

Can we please get bookmarks to remember your most recently used folder? Whenever I want to open a bookmark, I'm forced to start at the root folder and navigate around to find the folder and bookmark I want. If I just used a bookmark from some subfolder of my bookmarks, then I go to open a new one, the bookmark folder should be the last one I used. Instead it always starts at root.

It's incredibly annoying. All other browsers (including Firefox on iOS) get this right. There have been multiple requests / bugs filed for this for years, but so far nothing.

He’s trailer trash that just happens to have money.

Have had money. Past tense. He's flat broke now and probably spiraling in debt, especially now that New York is deleting his businesses there.

And 1,200 layoffs at Qualcomm!

Did you read the article? This won't affect the rich, white, affluent people in Alabama. It's going to affect predominantly poor, black communities in Shelby and Monroe counties. These communities already lacked sufficient access to prenatal and postnatal care, and now it's getting much worse. Nearly 40% of Alabaman voters (roughly 1,000,000 people) vote democrat, skewing heavily towards poor and minority communities which these policies disproportionately (and some might argue intentionally) harm.

But sure, take the easy cheap shot and vilify an entire state of people as if it's one giant big bad guy, then joke that it's better to be dead than from there. You say you spent years living near the border, so I'm tempted to follow your lead and make a cheap joke about the education you must have received to think it's better to be dead than from a specific area of the USA. But I was born and raised on that border between AL and FL, and I'm capable of wrapping my head around the wild, liberal idea that states are not monolithic entities that take the shape of big bad guys to make easy jokes for you. Alabama, like all states, is full of all kinds of different people trying to live their lives, and they deserve our compassion and our energy to try to make things better, not jokes that they're better off dead because they were born there.

I'm ashamed that you and I spent time in the same area of the country. I'm hoping you don't consider yourself liberal or a democrat, because your simple way of thinking is anything but those things.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

What part of that interaction makes you think they'd want to work there after their contract expires?

That golden parachute turns into a golden coffin I guess.

I have KP as my health provider. A few weeks ago I had a really bad eye infection after doing some wood work. I went in to get it looked at, and they gave me an antibiotic ointment, but said there was a good chance I had developed an infection over and around a small piece of wood in my eye, and I needed to see an opthalmologist asap to get it removed. So they put in a high priority referral and I was told I should call and would be seen in one or two days.

I called when I got home, and the opthalmologist's office said the earliest they could see me was in six weeks. I told them the other doctor said I likely had wood in my eye that would need to be removed, but that didn't change their answer. So I went back to urgent care the next day and this new doctor removed it and gave me a second ointment to use.

Don't get me started on their mental health services. I tried to do an intake and set up recurring appointments with a therapist. After they did the intake and accepted me for therapy, they said the earliest appointment was in six months, to be seen for one hour every six months. So I didn't even bother.

I don't hold any of the medical professionals at fault, there's just not nearly enough of them to provide quality care or any semblance of continuity of care. KP's statements about being fully in compliance with staffing requirements are absolutely Hollywood accounting. They're not even close in reality.

Where?

Or, ideally, liquidated and sold a department at a time to existing competitors, to ensure actual competition

Oh my sweet, summer child...

Gotta cut everyone some slack when estimating time since the pandemic. 3 years was 10 years ago.

Companies do not use valuable metrics to run their... ah screw it.

Technically correct is the best ki... Wait where am I?

I don't have historical data for the initial time period where I was trying to use this "normally" / using the default mode. However, here's a screen shot of last month's usage. Two adults in the house.

I have this exact model, and I wish I didn't. It turns out there's a flaw in the logic that controls the heating elements. When in "Energy Saver" mode (the default mode), the lower heating element won't heat the water. So when you start to use the hot water, as the hot water goes out, the replacement cold water coming in isn't getting heated at the bottom. This drops the temperature of the existing hot water in the tank, and it takes several hours of no hot water use for the tank to get to your desired temp. For my family it means we get about 1 1/2 showers (showers last about 7 or 8 minutes) before the water starts coming out lukewarm. You can see this happening on your unit by activating the diagnostic mode on the panel and watching the lower element water temp.

I went several rounds with Rheem's customer support (including have two separate techs come to my house to inspect it) before someone finally acknowledged in writing that there's a known defect in the logic of the controller board. They tagged my unit as defective, but so far have not been able to replace it since they haven't engineered a fix and started producing a new version of the water heater with said fix.

My advice, stay away from Rheem hybrid water heaters for a while until they get it sorted out. Also, pro tip: Keep it on the "High Demand" mode so that it's always using electricity + heat pump to heat the water. That gives you the most aggressive heating profile and does not contain the flaw where the lower heater element won't activate. This was the advice their engineer gave me, and it's allowed us to have hot water for more than a shower or two.

That's... not how bills work. Someone has to pay for the electricity, internet traffic / connectivity, and rent / mortgage for the server to exist somewhere. That's true whether it's self-hosted in someone's basement or in a data center somewhere.

LJ, first thanks for doing this and bringing us here. You're a big reason for the spike in lemmy traffic recently and it's very promising.

I just wanted to add my $0.02 that the pricing to remove ads seems prohibitively high. I think you could encourage more lost redditors and former reddit Sync users to try this out ad-free with a very low price point. Give it some sort of marketing hype term like "Founder's Premium": a one-time payment of $8 gets you sync for Lemmy with no ads, forever. Available to early adopters until Sept 1st.

Maybe add higher priced tiers for those who have the cash and want to essentially donate / thank the author, and give them bells and whistles like fancy custom name and flair styles to show off.

Lemmy is new and unknown to a lot of folks. Sync feels like coming back to sit in your favorite comfy chair, but in a strange and foreign house. So people are going to be wary. Asking them to either subscribe or pay a huge one time premium is going to discourage folks at a critical time where they should be encouraged instead.

Totally agreed. Encourage more lost redditors and former reddit Sync users with a very low price point. Give it some sort of marketing hype term like "Founder's Premium", a one-time payment of $8 gets you sync for Lemmy with no ads, forever. Available to early adopters until Sept 1st.

Maybe add higher priced tiers for those who have the cash and want to essentially donate / thank the author.

Lemmy is already strange and unknown to a lot of folks. Sync feels like coming back to sit in your old favorite comfy chair, but in a totally new house that feels very foreign. So people are going to be wary. Asking them to either subscribe or pay a huge one time premium is going to discourage folks at a critical time where they should be encouraged instead.