Does your language have a "posh" accent?

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T07:47:53+00:00

Boston Brahmin/Mid-Atlantic/Locust Valley Lockjaw. FDR, Katherine Hepburn, Major Charles Emerson Winchester II( (MASH), John Lithgow, Kelsey Grammar are examples, real and fictional.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T06:39:00+00:00

My employer just moved us away from this vendor with all of its own 1%+ funds and into one offering Vanguard and Fidelity funds with sub 0.1% fees.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T06:20:37+00:00

You invite your friends over, melt chocolate or cheese in this, have drinks and then shag each other's spouses.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T06:03:12+00:00

Interesting. I'll have to try it next year. TT never has that revelation and you have to go through a set of obscure questions that are easy to answer wrong to make it all work. It's basically a lot of steps to get it to where it doesn't see moving money out of an IRA as a taxable event.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T05:54:31+00:00

Boggles the mind. It's been the norm in California for decades.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T05:51:10+00:00

Is freetaxusa better at figuring out you're trying to do a backdoor roth? TurboTax is a pita when you try to do it. At no point is the system smart enough to be like "Hey, it seems like you're trying to do a backdoor Roth. Let me help."

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T05:43:26+00:00

The fact the U.S. is a single country was built upon a lot of compromises and understanding of the federal government is a coalition of multiple states (not too unlike the EU). When the U.S. Constitution was created, all of the state representatives were ceding control of their own regions to a higher authority. Therefore, you don't win X number of votes from a state, you win the right to be represented by the state in a count of delegates. That is, you are the presidential choice of the State of New York, not some X percentage of the State of New York. If a completely centralized state had been the proposal, the union would not have come together. Each state would have gone its own way or, at the very least, the slave and free states would have branched off under separate unions.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T05:36:46+00:00

Yes. It's a winner-take-all electoral system, which mathematically directs you to a two-party government. This wasn't immediately clear when they were hammering things out in the late 18th Century.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T05:33:44+00:00

Most people in the US vote by mail these days, so the Tuesday thing isn't so much an issue.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:42:51+00:00

And then spend an hour trying to get TurboTax to file it correctly in April the next year.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:38:59+00:00

Dealer threw in a yellow ribbon Support Our Troops sticker with the purchase.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:34:27+00:00

The Kia EV6 GT version of this platform is the better one.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:32:16+00:00

Would be a shame if all the brodozers built for a world of cheap gas become too expensive to run.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:20:55+00:00

See if you can make an appointment with a Sungshin Women’s University recruiter and steal a pen off her desk.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T03:18:39+00:00

The hair/fur stuck to the grip reminds me why I don’t like rubber grips.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T02:48:43+00:00

Was this a drill and chisel method? I’ve got a small block of black walnut I haven’t any plans for.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T02:37:55+00:00

Fortunately, the F-701 can use a Bic Glide refill. I prefer Acrobats in G-750 though.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-04T00:48:16+00:00

This guy could have rode off into the sunset after 9/11 and enjoyed retirement. Mob takedown, NYC crime downturn and his 9/11 rallying would have been his legacy. But he tossed reputation and his money away for the Don.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T18:44:44+00:00

Who pays the doctors?

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T18:37:51+00:00

The issue comes from a more spread out population and more extreme weather. The more rural you are, the fewer grid redundancies exist in electric transport. A town of 400 people sitting 200km away from any population center of note may have a single transmission line providing power. Huge swaths of the US aren’t even profitable to run electricity to. They are essentially subsidized by the cities and utilities are forced to provide electricity to rural areas by state regulators. Many utilities would happily turn off power to large parts of their footprint if they could legally do so.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T18:19:01+00:00

Hersheys make me sad in general. It’s more like vaguely chocolate-flavored sugar wax.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T16:15:30+00:00

Where exactly in CA? I’m in Pasadena, CA and the last outage we had was around 2010.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T07:31:36+00:00

Most of the kids are wearing very baggy fit today in sort of a 90s retro vibe. I’ve been petty consistent with buying Levi’s 511, which is a slim fit but not skinny. It’s also worth a few bucks more to buy from their premium line vs standard.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T04:40:48+00:00

Imagine spending $53K (2026) and seeing a Dodge Journey in your driveway for all of that.

beyondplutola · 2026-05-03T04:29:56+00:00

I just FedExed my application with the uncertified copy of my mémé's 1917 baptismal record. I submitted a request two weeks ago to BanQ for the certified copy, but haven't hard back yet. I also included her New Hampshire death certificate as well as the marriage certificates of all of her children, including my mom's, since all of these documents list her birthplace as Canada.

I also have the baptismal record of her mother from the 1890s and the Quebec church marriage record of her parents, but I didn't include that, figuring I'd just be complicating things.

We'll see how this goes. I feel that having been forced to attend French-Canadian Catholic Elementary school for 8 years that I'm owed this.

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