winter gods 🕸️⚡❄️ @guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe

if someone criticised Rube Goldberg i would simply flip a switch that activated a miniature train, pushing an egg into a series of tubes that lead to a wind-up car toy with a needle taped onto it, popping a nearby balloon which caused a small weight to fall on a button that starts a sowing machine which pulls on the fabric it's sowing, releasing seven small marbles that one by one fall into a bucket, weighing it down until the frying pan it's attached to falls from its shelf and bonks them on the head

@guerrillarain Well, that was an easy find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

@guerrillarain brb 1812

Je suis pas passive agressive. Je suis juste agressive.

Despite what a lot of people believe, you can't ever take home less money by getting a raise, under the current US tax system. If you "move into a higher tax bracket", you're still getting taxed at the lower rate for the income you were making before - the higher rate only affects the income within that bracket.

And now you know!

So you take home $16,000.

But this year you got a 3% raise. You now make $20,600.

Many people believe that you are now taxed at 25%, so you'd be paying $5,150 in taxes and taking home $15,450 - LESS than before your raise. Mais, non.

You pay 20% on your income up to $20,000, and 25% on your income between $20,000 and $40,000. So you pay the same $4000 on the first $20k, plus $150 on the $600 above $20k. That puts your tax bill at $4150 and your take-home at $16,450.

In the US, we have graduated tax brackets: for your income IN EACH BRACKET, you pay a certain amount in taxes. It's important to make that distinction, because you don't pay the top tax rate on your full income - just on the income that falls in that bracket.

An example: let's say the bottom two brackets are:

* $1-20,000: 20%
* $20,001-40,000: 25%

And let's say you make $20,000 a year. You fall into the first bracket and pay 20% ($4000) in taxes.

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@guerrillarain cory booker reminded the teacher about the homework

@guerrillarain cory booker told the teacher i had a gameboy in class

#CoryBooker

"In Newark, we have a local grass-roots effort to try to bring Amazon there," Booker said.

L.M.A.O. Bitch you and your real estate buddies are not 'A GRASS ROOTS EFFORT'🤣🤣🤣

I would like to talk about some of my experiences using what's called birth control but basically is my hormone therapy. But it's not therapy (I have never discussed gender with my GP), it's def not HRT but I don't want to use the term birth control either. I don't take it to control the birthing, but to control my body cause it stops me from menstruating which is a dysphoric thing for me personally. What would be a better word or phrase to use instead of birth control?

Boost are ok. Nasty people will be blocked faster then lightning can strike.

Thank you for your help thinking along with me. <3

Ps; English is not my first language.

#Mexico #🇲🇽

Viva Mexico🇲🇽 ! GO GO GO✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽!

https://popularresistance.org/mexico-faces-largest-strike-in-north-america-70000-sweatshop-auto-workers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3DYEumvBw