I don’t think you’ll find a free, ready-made tool.

The easy solution is to get a commercial tax package like TurboTax and run different scenarios.

The other option is to make a big spreadsheet that mimics the tax forms, with linked cells and logic to match the instructions on the forms. It’s very time consuming, but at the end you will understand your tax situation much better because you’ve sifted through all the details.

The Reddit API exodus in 2023 brought hundreds of new instances and tens of thousands of new users to Lemmy. Unfortunately, many of those instances had open registrations, Lemmy’s moderation tools were very basic (they still are), and there were not enough mods/admins to provide 24-hour coverage on the larger instances. A handful of trolls took advantage of the situation by posting grotesque stuff for lulz: CSAM, scat porn, racist memes, etc. Sometimes it would stay up for hours until someone with the right permissions noticed and took it down.

The situation is better now. Though there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Lemmy is community-centric like Reddit, rather than user-centric like X/Twitter. If you want to follow specific users then look for a microblog platform like Mastodon. Or try mbin, which combines multiple platforms as another commenter mentioned.

Windsor, ON has entered the chat

I’m hoping for the faint smell of old cigarette smoke that’s permanently baked into every surface.

That’s really neat!

At 28:23 somebody forgot to enter the year of the P. Diddy sample. It just says “(year)”. Lol fuck P. Diddy.

This is a better fit for !politicalhumor@lemmy.world. I’m going to remove this one due to the community “no politics” rule.

Go team Burrowing Owl! They had a good showing last year. This year it’s time to go all the way!

Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood.

Andrew Jackson was also a bastard, especially for his treatment of natives. But I meant Johnson.

It is complicated because the rules are different in each state. Also, Trump was convicted in New York state but he resides and votes in Florida.

For out-of-state convictions, Florida defers to the other state’s rules. New York would allow Trump to vote if he resided there because he is not currently in prison, so Trump can vote in Florida legally.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-felony-conviction-can-he-vote-b95e7b4c9158d999e8bc89b00fbda911

Not a weapons expert, but I imagine a 2000 lb guided bomb could fuck up a building pretty well. The tool ignored the whole “while minimizing collateral damage” part, though.

While W. sucked in many ways, there is no way he is the worst. Off the top of my head I can easily think of four better contenders: Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan (both guilty of pro-slavery fuckery before the Civil War), Andrew Johnson (fought to let the Confederates off the hook after the war and opposed the 14th amendment), and Donald Trump (first president to be impeached twice, first to be convicted of a felony, and may be remembered by future historians as the spark that ignites the next Civil War).

Go big on reflective clothing. Rather than having small reflective patches on your clothes or bike, you can get jackets where the whole garment is made of reflective fabric. When a car’s headlights hit you that jacket will light up like the sun.

Ortlieb’s high-vis panniers are similar.

Seems like the world has moved away from that

Assuming that the world was once just, and recently changed to become unjust, is completely flawed. History provides endless examples of people with power and money doing horrible things and facing little or no consequences.

Oh, I completely get it. It’s a battle of delayed gratification versus instant gratification. I can take care of business now and have stress-free fun later, or I can have fun now and let future-me deal with the consequences.

Smooth, predictable operation requires forethought, planning, and willingness to stick to a process. It’s not nearly as fun as living in the moment and improvising.

Thank you, kind stranger!

Can we get a NSFW flag, please? This literally almost became an uncomfortable conversation with my coworkers.

What is up with that blue car? I’m imagining the owner parked at a strip mall, selling car insurance, vehicle registrations, and automotive decals to whoever walks up.