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moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•13 states will join the IRS direct income tax filing pilot in 2024 - The Verge911·2 years agoThis is awesome! Now the IRS just needs to send me my already completed taxes that I just verify, sign, and return, like they do in Sweden.
moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Did the take Star Trek the next generation off of paramount+?2·2 years agoThe app is objectively terrible. Barely useable.
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moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•GOP donor known for racist tweet, American flag outfit dies in attempted murder-suicide12·2 years agoWe need more investigations into these kinds of domestic terror networks.
Good point! Thanks 👍🏻
Wouldn’t the plastic straw melt in the hot tea? Maybe need metal or silicone straw adapter hooked onto plastic straw in heat exchanger 🤔
I grew up poor (rural Arizona, living in a trailer we couldn’t afford to heat in the winter, mom worked at Walmart, dad was a mechanic, just to paint a picture of what I mean). Both my parents are more progressive, we moved from the Bay Area of California when I was ten because we couldn’t afford it and also so they could get away from their druggie friends circle. Thankfully I liked science and had people who encouraged me, and I now have a PhD in molecular biology and my partner does computer programming and makes a lot.
But before I decided on science, my progressive parents + being poor + Intro Philosophy + Against Me anarcho-syndicalist punk rock made me want to major in some combo of history, economics, and political science so I could change/overthrow the system from within. I still have the anarchy tattoos behind my ears, though! But I think Scandinavian style Democratic socialism is better suited to modern technological society.
And now I’m in academia, most people here grew up middle class or upper middle class, and the entitlement is mind boggling sometimes. I’m learning more and more how to blend in with them, my partner is upper middle class academic family. But sometimes I still feel like some of them can tell I’m a dirty poor.
It just pisses me off so much that there’s soooo much wealth in the world and it’s all locked up by rich people. I read somewhere that a study by the Swiss bank found that if all the wealth in the world was evenly divided amongst every men women and child, each person would get like $30,000. That would be amazing! No more world poverty! A living wage would be a great start.
Anywho, it’s late, I’m tired and rambling. TLDR: eat the rich.
Yup, I’m 41 and I haven’t gotten less radical, just more detail-oriented in how we make it a reality.
moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•South Jersey pickup artist and ‘relationship strategist’ gets four years in Capitol riot case111·2 years agoAm woman, can confirm that I want a non-asshole, genuine, caring dude. I’m lucky I found one. Funny/sad how these incels don’t just ask WOMEN what we want (like we don’t know?), they ask other men. These incels need to lurk in women’s online spaces for a few months, it’s free and more representative of women than the bs from spewing from these pickup fartists
moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Death rates from energy production per TWh102·2 years agoThis about sums it up
moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a personality trait that you’re working on?3·2 years agoI like that approach where you just assume that the person who cut you off REALLY has to poop and is rushing to get to the bathroom 😄
I also feel like Lemmy is less toxic and therefore more enjoyable. On Reddit I would never browse the default front page or r/all because it’s a cesspool, but I can browse All on Lemmy and it’s quite enjoyable. That’s actually how I found this thread 🙂
moosepuggle@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court2·2 years agoI like the idea of terms being twenty years and judges being selected randomly from existing sitting judges in lower courts. Takes all the air out of the balloon around Congress fighting over approving SCOTUS judges.
This is great! I’m glad it includes provisions for changing zoning laws, that seems to be a major reason for housing shortage in many areas.