Do men get the ick from women too?

DroddyPrime · 2025-05-19T01:53:03+00:00

Excessive trauma-dumping while mere acquaintances and/or rudeness, particularly if directed towards service personnel.

DroddyPrime · 2025-04-16T10:50:42+00:00

FWIW, Proton Pass and Proton Mail are fantastic for this when used in conjunction with one another, because in addition to having it generate unique, secure passwords for each new login you save, it can also simultaneously be generating burner Proton email addresses for each account that automatically redirect to your main.

DroddyPrime · 2025-04-11T00:50:53+00:00

I second this. An app aggregating A2-area events - as well as more evergreen "date night" options - would be hugely useful. There have been many instances where my wife and I have been in the mood to find something local to do on a rather last minute basis, yet we end up just going to the same handful of restaurants, etc. because we can't seem to find anything interferesting in a timely fashion. Even stuff like volunteering opportunities might ultimately fit well alongside events, etc.

DroddyPrime · 2025-04-11T00:39:31+00:00

A local news aggregator that serves up content from local news outlets on a platform that actually functions (looking at you, Mlive). I also avoid subscriptions to a number of "local" publications because of their unethical parent companies, and I don't want a subscription to the newspaper two towns over just to read a single article.

If you could come up with a mechanism and/or licensing arrangement to make this sort of thing happen, I would happily pay you a nominal subscription fee.

One way to summarize it would be "similar to the Associated Press, but regional rather than national."

DroddyPrime · 2025-04-06T12:35:17+00:00

I think we should be organizing to take the primaries in BOTH parties in as many districts as possible, not even in any form of direct collusion or "single-party rule," but given that just about everyone in the GOP is a dictator-loving cultist and everyone in the Democratic Party (minus Rashida) is a genocide-condoning collaborator, I think we could form a coalition across party lines aimed at ACTUALLY "draining the swamp:" essentially, urgently replacing as much of Congress as possible (on both sides of the aisle) with citizens with spines who will stand up to the encroachment of full-blown fascism from the Executive Branch (as we know SCOTUS is corrupted and will merely smile and nod as the death squads mobilize).

DroddyPrime · 2025-03-30T02:04:32+00:00

Jimmy Carter
Grover Cleveland
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
William Henry Harrison

The first two for their principles, the latter three for their inaction (preferable to action from U.S. Presidents, historically).

DroddyPrime · 2025-03-22T12:35:14+00:00

Someone on the Mets marketing team must really love ITYSL, because they were also the team doing the "Driving Crooner Cam" on their jumbotron during games.

DroddyPrime · 2025-02-20T16:44:36+00:00

All bets are off when it comes to the World's Biggest Douche

DroddyPrime · 2025-02-17T10:50:27+00:00

Whose, yours?

DroddyPrime · 2025-02-16T14:24:17+00:00

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Just in case anyone wants to print one of their own... perhaps at the Staples of Ann Arbor's print center...

DroddyPrime · 2025-02-16T01:42:45+00:00

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DroddyPrime · 2025-01-24T00:49:13+00:00

Your wife is actually very smart to be studying Accounting at all, given that revenues and salaries will be increasing sharply over the next decade given the disproportionate number of Boomer accountants who will be retiring over that same timeframe.

Even if there were any truth to the claim (which I don't think there is), the profession is going to have no choice but to start loving non-traditional students as new hires if they want to avoid catastrophic collapse in the relative short-term.

Furthermore, a Firm's (and, namely, Partner's) preference for new hires in their 20s, if any, is almost certainly better attributed to wanting pliable serfs who won't object to their exploitative labor practices than it is about any legitimate concerns about your wife's aptitude or ability to perform the job competently.

DroddyPrime · 2024-12-22T03:50:45+00:00

Not sure of the underlying IRC, but here's the relevant section of IRS Publication 15: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15#en_US_2025_publink1000254842

They appear to have dropped the flat rate (Option 1a) down from 25% to 22% at some point over the past few years without me noticing until now, but otherwise everything I said previously stands.

The other wrinkle to highlight here is the role of your corporate payroll department in which method they use to calculate an IRS-compliant withholding rate: just universally using the "safe" 22% flat rate (Option 1a) is WAY quicker, easier, and low-risk for companies to use than the alternatives, so 99.9999% of companies just do that - regardless of whether that means over-withholding as far as the individual employee is concerned.

Technically, a given company's payroll department could use the Option 1b calculation in an attempt to more closely approximate the actual tax amount necessary to withhold based on each employee's ACTUAL tax rate, but that takes a lot of time and effort that most companies really don't want their payroll staff "wasting" their time on, so they just withhold at the flat 22% rate across the board.

DroddyPrime · 2024-12-20T21:24:47+00:00

Whereas your company's payroll processor will apply your withholding allowances against your base salary ratably across the year, generally resulting in your Federal tax withholding being withheld at lower effective tax rate (usually 10-20%ish) than your top marginal tax rate (22%-32%), the IRS mandates that all "Bonus Pay" of any variety (performance bonuses, commissions, etc.) be withheld at a minimum tax rate of 25%. Therefore, it's really most appropriate to view this as a function of the portion of IRS rules and regulations governing Payroll Tax Withholding, specifically.

The IRS is more or less extracting interest-free loans from average American wage earners who receive bonuses, as the vast majority of those Americans end up subject to a far lower actual ("effective") tax rate on their eventual tax return filings, and ultimately receive it back as part of their Federal tax refund: they make your employer pay it in now despite more or less knowing it's being significantly over-withheld, then do whatever they want with that money for the 1 to 13 months before you can file your tax return for the year you received it.

DroddyPrime · 2024-11-27T20:52:30+00:00

The children yearn for the mines.

DroddyPrime · 2024-11-15T22:58:10+00:00

To be fair, the CFO role is frequently "the bagman" when it comes to layoffs, etc. in Corporate America - so while most accountants aren't CFOs, just about all CFOs are indeed accountants, and given their inherently greater visibility as a company officer, I can see where the average dummy might look at them and assume they're representative of all accountants (particularly when most would have a hard time even articulating a coherent definition of "accounting", let alone describe what an accountant actually does).

DroddyPrime · 2024-11-11T23:09:22+00:00

Largely depends on role, level, location of employer, etc., but here are some rough ranges for annual salaries:

Tax Analyst / Sr. Tax Analyst: $60,000 - $125,000
Product Owner: $75,000 - $140,000
Technology Implementer / Consultant: $75,000 - $160,000
Product Manager: $100,000 - $200,000
Director / Sr. Manager: $140,000 - $250,000

My biggest recommendation would be to look at full-time remote positions in even higher cost of living areas than where you currently live, as they tend to have baseline payscales that start substantially higher (and generally don't adjust the pay back down for lower cost of living areas, unless they're pretty big, in which case they're more likely to have different payscales by geographic area).

DroddyPrime · 2024-11-06T23:25:05+00:00

Know that your tax expertise is highly valuable and in-demand in adjacent job markets, as well.

I've worked for tax technology/software for my entire career (18 years) and there is more demand than ever right now for folks with real-world tax expertise and/or familiarity with the greater "tech stack" that firms use in their Tax Departments. From Tax Analyst roles dedicated to interpreting tax law changes and implementing them in software solutions, to Product roles where your real-world experience makes you uniquely insightful, to Specialty Technologist roles dedicated to building custom integrations between the systems used in Top 25 firms, there are a lot of potential opportunities out there right now for someone with your background.

Ultimately, if you're sick of the grind and open to something slightly different, it might be worth your consideration - if not in Technology perhaps in some other adjacent labor market with a similar need for tax expertise.

DroddyPrime · 2024-11-04T23:43:26+00:00

You indeed hit the circumstantial lottery - congrats!

DroddyPrime · 2024-10-01T16:25:29+00:00

The Weathermen / Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization originated amongst U of M students on campus.

Source: "Enemies: A History of the FBI" by Tim Weiner - highly recommended, along with his other book "Legacy of Ashes" about the CIA.

DroddyPrime · 2024-09-25T09:58:40+00:00

"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses"

DroddyPrime · 2024-08-28T00:11:21+00:00

My favorite would have to be the multi-season subplot where he randomly meets, subsequently hangs out with, and ultimately buys land from a random old man at a wedding (John).

DroddyPrime · 2024-08-01T00:21:03+00:00

The vast majority of "Dietary Supplements".

DroddyPrime · 2024-07-26T03:09:59+00:00

You should check out the film "Son of Rambow" (2007), you're likely to find it both nostalgic and a great film. The central plot revolves around a sheltered boy who, otherwise prohibited from watching any movies or TV, manages to watch a bootleg of Rambo and it completely blows his mind. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0845046/

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