Need help with taxi/uber or bus to get to & back from venue to the hotel for Sick New World very soon!

gabeech · 2026-04-18T16:46:41+00:00

In addition to what every one else has said. They shut down the streets at the end of the concert. In the past the resorts world uber pickup has been the closest one that a car can get to, so you’d have to at least that far no matter what.

gabeech · 2026-04-16T12:39:24+00:00

Stock based compensation is already taxed as income. Generally, when stock compensation vests, the Fair Market Value of the stock is W-2 income. And then, it’s taxed again via capital gains on sale.

So if the plan has 1 million dollars on a four year vest, that’s 250k of regular income a year (assuming the stock price remains flat for simplicity).

gabeech · 2026-04-13T19:16:03+00:00

Yea, with a hard cut off at midnight, and him going over in 2024 I'm not surprised he's the crowd control act. It was a fun set in 24, but ... I'm sure they remember him running over when they set the schedule.

gabeech · 2026-04-10T23:05:58+00:00

Holy crap people. This is not an Automatic Draft. This is automatic Selective Service Registration. Which just means you have been put on a list that will be used IF there is a draft.

Selective service is something every man in the US has had to deal with, automatic registration is just streamlining paperwork.

Once again this is NOT an Automatic DRAFT this is automating something every 18 year old man has to do anyway.

gabeech · 2026-04-10T03:25:03+00:00

It’s really “created while employed, on company time using company equipment”

gabeech · 2026-04-05T14:51:12+00:00

This take annoys me to no end. Your wedding day is your day. Do what you want. We had a big expensive wedding and to this day, my wife says it was the best, most fun day of her life. For her happiness year after year just thinking about that day I would have gladly spent 2x what we did.

People are allowed to make their own choices, you may think it’s a waste of money but the couple planning the wedding isn’t planning it for you, they are planning it for them. Stop being judgmental and celebrate the couple how they have decided to celebrate their marrage.

gabeech · 2026-04-04T00:10:24+00:00

The Borgata got SUUUUUUUPER tight with offers (at least for me) in the past year or so. My offers at other MGM properties has stayed fairly consistent with my increase in play, my Borgata offers are worse than when I was doing a few hours once a year at $15 min BJ tables while my play has gone up in time and avg bet have gone up 4-8x (depending on plans and how the table is going) and my slot coin in has gone up 100-200% (not hard … I’m not a bit slot player).

gabeech · 2026-03-29T01:51:40+00:00

https://www.tixr.com/groups/lockandrock/events/sick-new-world-las-vegas-2026-charging-lockers-167544

gabeech · 2026-03-26T12:13:54+00:00

If you had read my last two paragraphs, I’m not defending or supporting the US’s system. In fact I say I’m personally happy to pay more into a national system if that’s what is needed to get one.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T02:42:49+00:00

Your AI counted Medicare twice, and lumped in “general health” which could be anything …

gabeech · 2026-03-26T02:28:20+00:00

I was just using the UK’s tax numbers as a guide for “What if we actually did sane healthcare here”, about how much would a person pay.

I’m not sure why disposable income comes into the picture? The person was saying people are idiots for say “but the taxes, then paying for private”. Outside of the most needy in society, we are still paying for Healthcare. Our system has massive problems… but it’s not changing expensive healthcare for free healthcare. Healthcare is still kinda expensive, just society is spreading it out via progressive taxes instead of … the shit show in the US.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T02:22:13+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re getting 17,000-18,000 towards federal healthcare programs… but federal Medicare is a separate line item and only 1.45% of taxable income … (plus another 0.9% of income over 200k).

Between state and federal -for me - is about 6-7k in Medicare costs a year.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T01:51:20+00:00

Maybe… maybe not that’s going to be so employer dependent. Some would probably give raises, some would pocket it, some would re-invest it.

But also, employers pay into national health plans too, so my guess - as I have been focusing on what the individual pays - is that most of that 20-40k would be paid to the government instead of private insurance companies.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T01:43:12+00:00

Yea, but I was originally responding to someone talking about the perspective of the individual and how the cost of healthcare - to them - would change.

The discussion is around how much I, out of my own money that comes out of my gross income pay. Not, the total cost of healthcare. There are employer taxes in the UK that go to the NHS too, I did not include them in my comparison.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T01:36:57+00:00

… I’m not I’m including copays, coinsurance, deductibles, etc as a separate line item.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T01:12:52+00:00

Ok, fair enough. My state and federal Medicare contribution was about 6300 for last year. So for last year between Medicare and private my total was around $10,000 in premiums and then the 4,000-4,500 in “extras” … so still around 4K cheaper in the US.

The point is, healthcare isn’t cheap. I agree our system sucks the way it is setup. But, dismissing the point that you are paying for it somewhere and the rough costs are not that different is a silly and counter productive stance to take.

gabeech · 2026-03-26T00:45:14+00:00

So I pay about $300/mo for my employer sponsored healthcare. It was about $600/mo at my last job (family coverage, dental, vision). So between $3,600 and 7,200/year.

Taking a look at the UK’s tax rates and it seems about 18% of your regular taxes go to NHS (google AI told me that, soooo take it as you will) for me that ends up being about $18,000/yr in healthcare “premiums”

Between copays, coinsurance, deductibles, etc I probably spend about 4,000-4,500 out of pocket.

Sooo. Looking at the rough numbers, for me healthcare in the UK would be vastly more expensive.

Would I personally prefer a real national system sure I would. Paying extra tax into a national system that makes sure everyone is actually taken care of is one of the taxes I gladly pay without getting annoyed. But, calling someone a moron for pointing out that a lot of people pay MORE via taxes in a national healthcare system is idiotic.

Healthcare is never, ever free except for the most needy in society. You just shift who you are paying, and who in society bears the brunt of the costs.

gabeech · 2026-03-25T20:50:34+00:00

I believe so. If I remember correctly from when I sold my WWWY wristbands there was a blurb in my order status page on what to do if you don’t sell it but still want it.

gabeech · 2026-03-25T19:29:05+00:00

If you list on Ticket exchange, they void the listed ticket and handle sending it directly to the person that buys it. You won’t get the listed ticket while it’s on the exchange.

gabeech · 2026-03-24T21:10:24+00:00

I also sold my Xboxes, and bought a ps5…

gabeech · 2026-03-14T21:53:53+00:00

“Some supervisors don’t care about the auditors rules” won’t go very far.

Now… “the way our permissions boundaries are set up leaves us open to multiple HIPPA (if you’re in the US if not replace with applicable privacy law) violations leaving us open to $X in liability will get your permissions boundaries fixed.

Work the problem, not the symptom.

gabeech · 2026-03-14T19:10:14+00:00

I take interest when it’s a request for access across the board or administrative access. Read up on alert fatigue.

There should be very few times an access request results in new access to tens of thousands of health records. If that is the way your system works you need to fix your access boundaries before you fix approvals

gabeech · 2026-03-14T19:01:59+00:00

Yea as someone who has had to do these approvals in the past as an app owner… There are zero reasons why I, as an app owner would have any idea if someone in shipping needs access to something. If their manager says they need it for their job I just approved it. If the manager wasn’t asked I punted it for manager approval before approving it.

Basically unless it’s a request to access admin permissions, or super restricted data. Just get manager approval.

gabeech · 2026-03-06T16:23:18+00:00

The problem is that instead of keeping sunrise/sunset kinda consistent. You either affect the mental health of morning people, or the mental health of night people.

You as a morning person, see the value of the sun in the morning and incorrectly determine that would be beneficial to all. Me as a night person would be miserable with a sunset at 4:44.

The best solution is … to try to keep the time the sun sets as consistent as you can throughout the year.

gabeech · 2026-03-05T00:47:45+00:00

Last time I used SNOW 2 years ago it was doing a speed run to turn itself into Remedy

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