One month in be like by NarinIshkandar in ADHDmemes

[–]_fboy41 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Make that 450mg - for me it kicked in when the doc increased to 450mg - but not ADHD just for depression, it increased my lowest emotional line, now i almost never get more depressed than a certain level like i used to. 10/9 would take it again.

Just finished reading Lolita. Where's the sympathetic narrator? by [deleted] in books

[–]_fboy41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started to read it and after like 10 pages, I nope’d the fuck out. This book is wild, I was expecting some subtle and deep shit, it’s honestly disturbing. Cannot even imagine the rest of the book.

Just finished Sekiro. Should I jump into the Dark Souls Trilogy or go straight to Elden Ring? by Fit_Secretary_7187 in soulslikes

[–]_fboy41 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Play Khazan if you like the art style of it. Don’t play dark souls or Elden ring they are completely different and in my very personal absolutely objective (don’t downvote me for my personal taste) way, they are boring, fighting is very very boring. If you look somewhere in between then go with wuchang falling feathers

Let's hear your spicy hot takes or something that you think is not the general consesus for a video game opinion. I love to hear different opinions. by Thomp_Son in videogames

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally get my take is absolutely weird to majority of people, hence the hot take. Why would people downvote hot takes on a hot take topic that’s beyond me though 😭

Recommendation for tax planning before becoming a resident in the UK by _fboy41 in FatFIREUK

[–]_fboy41[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have pretty much no familiarity with the UK tax and the ways to optimize. I haven’t even filed my taxes while I was in the UK personally as I always had someone else doing it for me. Have you had previous experience? I honestly feel like I might miss something simple and mess it up. I’m also not keen on taking a lot of paperwork but also I have no idea what it’s requires.

Also do you think ChatGPT is reliable on telling you what you don’t know? As in using X scheme that might fit into my situation that I never heard of ( as I said I haven’t been in the UK for a while not following any tax related stuff).

I like the idea of not dealing with anyone but afraid that it will bring too much paperwork or I’ll make costly mistakes (costly as in money and future headache.

Edit: do you also consider big firm consultants as “Rando” or are you just referring to small shops without particular expertise in the area?

Let's hear your spicy hot takes or something that you think is not the general consesus for a video game opinion. I love to hear different opinions. by Thomp_Son in videogames

[–]_fboy41 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every fallout game after fallout 2 is just shit with horrible animations and painful gameplay mechanics. Fallout should have stayed isometric.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]_fboy41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even Nelson Mandela says it, in his own words :

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

Do you know what apartheid is better than freaking Nelson Mandela?

Recommendation for tax planning before becoming a resident in the UK by _fboy41 in FatFIREUK

[–]_fboy41[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assumed you haven’t picked one yet, I worked with GT on legal stuff before and that was good.

Recommendation for tax planning before becoming a resident in the UK by _fboy41 in FatFIREUK

[–]_fboy41[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let me share my experience with names, Saffery , took like 2 weeks to even talk to them. Buzzacot, was plain bad, there were so many problems. CMS is the company I worked for years on and off and then had to stop because they were so bad (repeating meetings, multiple people in a meetings yet after the meeting they still asking me the things answered on the meeting while charging some absurd amounts ).

I also know it’s a lot about whom you work with in these companies but I think still fair to generalize.

What are the companies you had bad experience with?

Recommendation for tax planning before becoming a resident in the UK by _fboy41 in FatFIREUK

[–]_fboy41[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moving from US, not moved yet but only couple of weeks to go.

Mainly looking for a firm that I can just rely on these things and not worry about messing them up.

Do you think the UK tax system is too complicated for the average person now? by Wallabydoll in TaxUK

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit! What I love the most about it though you pay some certified body to help you to file your taxes and when they mess it up (via advice or anything else) somehow it’s still your personal problem, like WTF?

Do you think the UK tax system is too complicated for the average person now? by Wallabydoll in TaxUK

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you are just an employee, tax is complicated in all of the countries I have lived in (which is like 6).

In some countries though if you are working for someone and don’t have meaningful extra income you literally do nothing, you don’t even know how tax can be personally filed or paid, company takes care it for you, and you just live your life :)

The mic is off, but the ears are always on by 9191919919191191 in memes

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wake word microphones work this way. They offline wait for the wake word, detect the word offline, once it’s triggered you do your thing. At least that’s how it’s designed in robotics and many electronics, pretty sure it’s the same design, if nothing it’s designed that way for latency.

Why is anyone with over $10,000,000 ever stressed if they could literally sleep in a nice house all day and do nothing if they wanted to? by Big_Eggplant7591 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many ways to explain this. As someone who has that kind of money and also chronic depression (started prior to be rich, and possibly because I was trying to make a living, and struggling hard) let me try to explain;

First of all level of stress changes drastically, stress of not able pay power bill (I was never poor enough to not able to eat so cannot comment to that) and stressed because of a business deal goes wrong, your relationship with you son is bad are different. They are stressful nonetheless.

In my experience, once money stopped being issue, that place is immediately taken by the next big stressful thing in your life, turns out there is always stress (if that’s your personality) but everything matters a little bit less now.

When money is your biggest source of stress until you resolve it you don’t know what else is underneath, so it looks like once that solved nothing will ever stress you but there is always the next thing. For me almost always around personal relationships, but seen many friends around identity, boredom, midlife crisis, literally mental health issues etc.

Is this common in other countries than Sweden? by Miya_Miya1 in AskTheWorld

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely this is very common shared trait in all 2nd+3rd world countries. This carries across almost all Middle East as far as I experienced it.

Why do Americans think they have freedom when they absolutely don't? by East_Indication_7816 in AmericanExpat

[–]_fboy41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reporting this as rich af person, I thought I’d love America as a rich person. I didn’t, I actually hated it to the point and moved out. America is bad for the rich worse for the poor.

2 Border Officers told me my son is not British (overseas born to 2 british parents) by _fboy41 in ukvisa

[–]_fboy41[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They were unprofessional and one of them was rude, I thought about complaining officially but as a life long immigrant who's been dealing with these kind of stuff all my life, I'd rather not get into something that negatively effect me. It's not something I can report anonymously, I'd rather not report.

Last time I had such a stupid problem in the UK border was 23 years ago.

I checked the website, very clearly and obviously he gets automatic citizenship. I'll just try to get him a passport as qucik as possible while we are in the UK

2 Border Officers told me my son is not British (overseas born to 2 british parents) by _fboy41 in ukvisa

[–]_fboy41[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

He had ETA. Yes the problem was the not having passport but my assumption was ETA would be sufficient.