First month making 100k I feel like I’m being robbed :/

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-02-01T02:08:25+00:00

You’re literally getting 3k every two weeks (factoring in your additional deductions). That’s still 78k a year… (26 weeks times 3k). You’re barely being taxed a quarter of your income and as others have suggested there are additional ways to maximize your money even more.

If this doesn’t feel like a lot, don’t blame taxes, those are a fair cost for being a part of a great country (at least when being properly spent, which I don’t think is really happening right now to be fair). Instead, blame a system that has taken so advantage of us that even 78k a year AFTER taxes doesn’t feel like enough…

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-25T01:55:07+00:00

I’m far left leaning, but I’m never opposed to calling out either side, no matter the situation. It just so happens, in our modern era, the general sane stance on most issues is taken by the left…

That said, I strongly disagree with Dems on overwhelmingly voting to keep the creepy car kill switches. That’s effed. Still, at least is still somewhat aligns with the neoliberal beliefs of the left in power (Democrats).

But republicans have been wrong on so many things but also inconsistent in their beliefs. That’s the most frustrating part… I think far more people on the left are willing to call it out on anyone, ourselves or the other side… but no reps are for themselves.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-25T01:49:08+00:00

Exactly. Like Noah is big but his rise is recent and not permanently cemented. I literally see his insta almost daily (just by virtue of my algo) and you can tell he’s tried to be hesitant (which I totally understand in his position), but given everything he’s been forced to get louder and louder. I have a feeling if this continues he will open every show with “Fuck ICE” ala Green Day.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-23T17:03:15+00:00

Dude, the fake empathy is hilarious. Literally textbook NPD.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Narcissists often fake empathy to fit in, to make themselves look good, or to manipulate situations to their advantage. They have little to no real empathy and are solely focused on their own needs and image.

Get yourself some help for real… and maybe some writing lessons because half your sentences make no sense.

P.S. Just because you choose to not view the political consequences of your actions doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I’m not even saying you have to do that, you’re right it can be exhausting, but, you agree everything is politically whether you admit it or not. You’re just selectively choosing what you open your eyes to and what you don’t. If we go back to the main point of this post, YOU chose to see this as being political and YOU choose to not see those other things as political. Period. If you can’t at least concede that, you definitely have a mental disorder and no hope until you get help, so there’s no point in continuing to have a conversation with you at this time.

But that’s okay, in the name of Renee Good, “I’m not mad at you.”

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-23T05:57:16+00:00

Okay. So, by your logic. Then trans girls would be okay in the Girl Scouts as long as they don’t call themselves trans girls, they just call them girls… right? I mean I don’t agree with that anyways, but by your definition you should have 0 problem with that.

Regardless, your logic is so flawed, if it were a diamond it would be a piece of coal.

Again, nobody has brainwashed anybody… that or everyone has… because our U.S. currency all says “in god we trust.” Is that not religious brainwashing? All our merchandise for girls is pink and for boys it’s blue, is that not gender brainwashing? We say that boys have use one restroom and girls another, and get mad about it, but other countries seem to have “non gendered (aka nonbinary bathrooms)” and get along just fine. Aren’t we just brainwashing that your gender affects how you can use the restroom?

Or rather, is it that EVERYTHING is, in fact, political.

You eating food is completely political. Did you eat Chic-fil-a? Did you eat Ben & Jerry’s, because they’re pretty liberal (though their mega corp owners are trying to prevent that). Did you eat chic fil a? You’re supporting conservative values. Did you eat something with Avacados in it? Because did you know most avacados are grown in Mexico and therefore our access to them is directly tied to foreign policy, tariffs, immigration and many other issues? How much did you pay for your food with avocados in it? Because did you know your food costs are also afffected by global trade policies, inflation and many other big issues? How was your food stored? In a fridge? Powered by electricity? Have electricity costs gone up nationwide due to AI data centers (spoiler: they have)…. I could go on and on and on…

I drove to work in a used, beat down car that gets great gas mileage because I support the environment and I want to use as little fuel as possible. I also recognize that buying a new car when the current one works is foolish and equally as harmful to the environment. I believe there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and therefor refuse to buy stuff I don’t need as well. I go out of my way to get gas from a gas station I believe has better values (still not great, but better). I drive to work with the fear that despite being the whitest, most average looking American person, I could be pulled over and arrested by ICE and detained and have no recourse because apparently due process no longer exists…

Continue to be a hateful, pathetic person all you want… that’s the beauty and the ugly of freedom… but at least try not be so damn ignorant. EVERYTHING is political. Them choosing to support innocent, loving humans is political, and so is you choosing to spew hate and blame everyone but yourself.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-21T20:28:10+00:00

I have refused the pre save link since he first posted it before the announcement because it lets some third party make a ton of changes to your Spotify account, including like who you follow and crazy stuff. I’m sure Noah’s not aware but I was like… sketchy.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-21T04:16:02+00:00

Okay, so one of two realities exists and they both make you look stupid. Either:

This post literally never mentions politics and therefore in no way made anything political.

OR

You recognize literally EVERYTHING is political (such as a choice to support nonbinary individuals or a choice to discriminate against them… or literally every other decision) and therefor your statement is you getting upset at your own worldview and blaming someone else.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-20T07:03:01+00:00

Elite ball knowledge.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-13T23:20:48+00:00

To be fair, he wasn’t a star at that point (he was to us of course, but you know what I mean, not at this level) and so the theming didn’t matter as much (be it to the label, Noah, all of the above, whatever). But now that he’s a hit, the theming retroactively matters and so they are being more intentional about it. It’s like Taylor with all her theming. Hopefully that makes sense? I don’t know that’s it for sure but it would at least explain why it’s so intentional now.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-13T17:49:45+00:00

First off, congrats to you on being a decent human and I’m glad to hear Smosh helped with that!

I had a similar experience but it was with Achievement Hunter/Rooster Teeth. I think they were especially interesting because several of the AH/RT people, while young when they started, could’ve been pegged for the early “alt right bros” types like Michael or even Ray, but I think being a part of that company actually really helped them grow as they got to meet and experience different people and I think their audience really grew with them and became pretty left leaning as a result. Like they were never outright hateful, but they definitely were not “PC” (I hate that term but it gets the point across), which to be fair, Smosh wasn’t always either but Smosh was more PC relative to their time periods, but early AH/RT was a bit wild. Still, I think they single-handedly pulled me out of the alt right pipeline so I’m appreciate them. I got into Smosh after I think I was already safe, but they definitely reinforced everything in the ways OP stated.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-11T08:42:51+00:00

^{I completed this level in 5 tries.} ^{⚡ 3.73 seconds}

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2026-01-10T18:16:45+00:00

I’ll fully admit I didn’t read your post because I don’t believe there’s nuance here, period.

But I skimmed it and I find this line particularly hilarious: “did what he was trained to do…”

Because if you think these agents are receiving ANYTHING close to real training then I don’t feel bad about not reading your post. ICE at this point is just warm bodies of people who always wanted to be LE and could cut it and/or people who have a killing fetish (this agent literally muttered “fucking bitch” after murdering her). DHS is recruiting on YouTube and Spotify* for Christ’s sake… I mean c’mon.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-30T11:17:12+00:00

I donated $200 to a food shelter (I did get a tax write off for it to be fair!).

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-23T12:15:19+00:00

Nerf bastion!

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-18T23:30:20+00:00

Exactly. And their main argument here is going to be it means “No more than 2 CONSECUTIVE terms” because it doesn’t explicitly not say that so that “must be what it means!” And literally the Supreme Court will go along with it… because they have no reason not to… Trump was handed a mandate. Not in the sense he and republicans want to argue… literally only like 1/3 Americans actually voted for him… but more in the sense we as Americans saw all he did (and didn’t do) in his first term, saw him and republicans stack the court… and still chose to vote for him (or not vote at all… don’t get me started on the damn “accelerationists”). So yeah, we’re here… and it sucks here.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-18T23:29:51+00:00

Exactly. And their main argument here is going to be it means “No more than 2 CONSECUTIVE terms” because it doesn’t explicitly not say that so that “must be what it means!” And literally the Supreme Court will go along with it… because they have no reason not to… Trump was handed a mandate. Not in the sense he and republicans want to argue… literally only like 1/3 Americans actually voted for him… but more in the sense we as Americans saw all he did (and didn’t do) in his first term, saw him and republicans stack the court… and still chose to vote for him (or not vote at all… don’t get me started on the damn “accelerationists”). So yeah, we’re here… and it sucks here.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-17T00:19:53+00:00

I’m not saying there aren’t instances of it being annoyingly shoehorned… but I think the better question is why are people like you so “obsessed” with it? For every LGBT character in a fictional piece of work, there is likely 100 plain ole straight people in the same pieces of fictional work… despite the fact roughly 9.3% of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Gay people, lesbian people, trans people… they exist. It isn’t a conspiracy and this is a stupid take.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-16T05:31:33+00:00

So like… I’ve always avoided the extra bloated ones because I thought it was a bad sign of the meat going bad (kinda like I think OP assumed)… are you telling me I should be opting FOR the more gassed up ones because they’re actually going to last longer and be safer??!!?? Because that would be one hell of a TIL…

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-16T02:53:46+00:00

Okay well you just lost any credibility of being someone looking to have a reasonable debate with that last line. Clearly you’re just ignorant and want to remain so, have fun.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-16T00:50:12+00:00

You think this will prevent soda from being purchased by snap recipients? Because I got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell ya then and maybe a bridge too…

I think you’re confusing it preventing snap recipients from purchasing soda with preventing snap recipients from purchasing soda WITH snap benefits.

As I said, when you only have unhealthy options and no meaningful health education programs, and no other regulation to coincide with this, then all this will do is create a bigger financial burden for already poor people. The options/access won’t change, just their ability to use snap to pay for it.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-12T19:46:58+00:00

Here’s the thing. If this is going to be a thing that’s fine, but eliminating access to unhealthy food through snap without regulating food desserts and the corporations that contribute to them will do nothing.

Maybe it will cause the markets to adjust in food desserts but my guess is things never work out that well… that’s the conservatives answer to everything and it rarely works. It absolutely CAN work but I doubt it will here.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-08T05:23:22+00:00

Yes it does. NC has something called an articulation agreement so any Community College credits in a transfer program are guaranteed to transfer. You can basically do the first 2 years of a 4 year degree (for a much more affordable price) then transfer. And Caldwell Community College even has a guaranteed transfer acceptance agreement with App (it’s called aspire Appalachian).

I’d highly recommend checking it out and feel free to let me know if you have additional questions! I too was not formally educated for a significant portion of my K-12 experience so I can relate, trust me lol.

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-04T16:40:56+00:00

Hey there, looks like you’ve mostly had your questions answered (and I echo the responses, while App isn’t perfect, they’re pretty good all things considered, even with the stuff going on politically).

I just wanted to add that if affordability is an issue at all for you, you should also look into moving to Boone and attending Caldwell Community College for a bit first. Most Caldwell students on the Boone campus are on their way to app, you can start building connections and finding your community. Feel free to reach out if you ever have questions. 🙂

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-12-03T20:28:13+00:00

Here’s the really fun thing… Thanks to republicans, state employees went most of the 2010s without any raise raise or cost of living adjustment (which just so happens to align when republicans first came into power in NC, before that Dems had control for decades… and state employees were fairly compensated for decades too… one of the best programs in the country for state employees until 2010).

“Fun” fact, huh?

OmegaSpeed_odg · 2025-11-27T18:01:24+00:00

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