amrocha

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by amrocha 5y ago
Oh wow, I didn't know freelancers have a higher tax burden, thanks for the heads up!
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by amrocha 5y ago
Ah my bad, looks like I had the wrong numbers
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by amrocha 5y ago
Nowhere in the US has a marginal tax rate of 40% let alone actual rate at 100K. I'm also very suspicious that it would cost 40K per year to rent a reasonable place for 1 or 2 people anywhere in the US except maybe SF
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by amrocha 5y ago
I'm Canadian, I work in IT. Literally the only people who want to end the vaccine passport program are idiot boomers with brain poisoning. Most people are PISSED with anti vaxxers. Stop pretending you have the popular position because
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by amrocha 5y ago
I would expect him to not have worked anywhere longer than 4 months considering he just graduated and those were internships
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by amrocha 5y ago
And in case anyone thought this was an isolated incident, I have heard from 3 different people about this happening to them. As soon as they try to transfer they get put on a PIP.
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by amrocha 5y ago
Cars are the main source of noise pollution and air pollution in cities, nothing else comes to mind. Factories and such were either moved to other continents, or zoning was updated to ban them in population centers. I guess fossil fuel comb
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by amrocha 5y ago
You're incredibly sexist and yet completely oblivious to it. Men like you are the reason more and more women are choosing not to get married.
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by amrocha 5y ago
Cities don't "have" pollution. The pollution is brought there by suburbanites driving their cars into the city, and by car-centric city design.
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by amrocha 5y ago
Public transit in Tokyo is faster than cars for the vast majority of trips. The only exception is if there's no lines connecting where you want to go, and you need to transfer a couple times. Nobody complains about "lack of freed
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by amrocha 5y ago
Just because a business turns a loss doesn't mean it isn't sustainable. Public transport is unprofitable pretty much everywhere, because the explicit transactions don't offset costs of operation. However, the cost of not oper
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by amrocha 5y ago
Why do you think an anecdote where you don't even know all the details matters?
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by amrocha 5y ago
Just let people sign a waiver stating they willingly decided to not get vaccinated, and forego treatment at hospitals for any covid-related complications. Problem solved.
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by amrocha 5y ago
You know public housing is a thing right? You don't need to rent from the private market, that's just how it is right now
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by amrocha 5y ago
I think social media has proven pretty conclusively that giving the general population unfiltered information and enabling everyone to promote whatever they want is in fact a terrible idea
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by amrocha 5y ago
The war was a direct response to 9/11, they're directly related, just like vaccines and mandates are a direct response to COVID. The country was ripped in two back then two, you just didn't hear about it as much. I was wrong
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by amrocha 5y ago
After 9/11 a significant portion of the US was staunchly anti-war, organized some of the largest protests in US history, and yet they were ignored by the media and demonized as anti-patriotic. On top of that, muslim americans have had
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by amrocha 5y ago
You're assuming that GDP and papers per CO2 emitted are good measures of efficiency, and therefore of what are good uses of CO2. This is a false assumption. The reason African countries don't produce as many papers is not that the