jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I believe that really depends on where you live. Also did you mean net or gross?

Some napkin math I did now, if your gross is 100k....

After tax 75k

  • housing 2500
  • food: 250
  • Internet 100
  • phone: 40
  • health: 200
  • transit: 100
  • utilities: 200

Edit: I fucked up and did 4500 for housing not 2500. Cheaper housing gives a lot more room!

~~That leaves you with like $860/mo for fun or any other thing.~~

Of course that's a lot of assumptions that can change it. But I'd say 200k gross is the start of "don't have to think too hard about money"

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 35 points 2 weeks ago

Good. Great, even. Fuck these rich asshole climate criminals.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

This physically hurt my stomach

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 2 weeks ago

Paying more money for better results doesn't fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it's exploiting labor? I don't want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you use either of them on android? The syncing between android and desktop is nice in vanilla Firefox

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Firefox has been fine. I've thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven't gotten off my ass yet.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 67 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

They won't.

Many of them are stupid. Many are poorly informed.

But many of them are operating with stupid axioms. They would rather suffer and die personally if it meant those people got it worse.

If you offered free health care, guns, and hamburgers to everyone but it meant that black people got it too, a lot of Americans would say no

The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to have a stupidly large beard. One time a pack of girls was walking by in Manhattan, dressed like they were going to a club or something. After we passed each other, one of them said something like "I want a man with a big ol beard like that! Rwar!"

I choose to believe it was about me and that made me happy.

On the other hand, one time I was in an elevator and it stopped on a lower floor before the lobby. Door opened and a woman looked at me and the mega beard. She turned around and took the stairs.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's a horrible policy that people stop paying social security tax at like $200k or something. That's backwards. The first $50k or so should be untaxed, and it should ramp up from there.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Are you mad about parents teaching their children their values?

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