Your comment made me think of DJs. Not “real” musicians? Seems like a similarly-structuree argument.

Ugh, Rothfuss is such a fantasy heartbreak for me. Name of the Wind was brilliant… But at this point, I can’t expect to ever see that story finished 😭

Glory to you and your house!

Ha, fair enough. It is an admirable sentiment either way.

Torn between up voting the sentiment and down voting politics - I really don’t think this counts as a tech endeavor.

I see the same thing, 404. Maybe a federation issue between lemmy.world and lemmit.online?

I see [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], but they haven’t seen any activity in quite a while.

Two of my favorites are one-pot chicken riggies and baked ziti

Oh, I think that advice comes from a good place, it’s just misguided. People look at it and say “your partner shouldn’t be your cash cow”.

OTOH, I think it’s important for both people to be contributing to the household financially. That helps keep a certain balance in the relationship even if it’s just a token amount.

I think it’s more important that they come up with a system that they both think is fair. If moving in together leaves one person feeling like they’re being taken for a ride, it’ll wreck the relationship.

My wife and I lived together for a bit back when we were dating. We did some math:

Combined rent + $savings = my old rent + her old rent

Then we split the combined rent roughly 1/3 - 2/3 (my salary was higher than hers at the time) so that we were both paying less than we had been before.

We split utilities 50/50 which was kind of a mistake IMO – I regret the accounting chore that it created. One of us would pay the rent by hand (USA, so paper check to the landlord), but utilities were on auto-pay from my account. We’d have to tally up utilities and add it or subtract it to the rent in order to reimburse the other person when they paid the rent.

Instead of that nonsense, I’d suggest estimating your utilities and split that figure 50/50 - then maybe look at it again once a year in case costs change.

Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Err, read that.

The libraries in my area are wonderful. I can’t fathom not having one available :(

books

<3 libraries

Look up “loss webcomic”

Oh, I see. Carry on!

You deleted this before I read it, btw.

Okay. Thank you? I think you replied to the wrong person. I wasn’t asking for the definition of a flat rate income tax.

Assuming you want to keep tax revenue the same, we’re talking a $27k tax bill for each adult based on 2023’s numbers (nothing newer was available).

Ordinary workers get shafted by taxes going up (rough guess, under $200k/year income) A few (TBH I’m not sure how many, really) pay about the same. Really high-income people make out like bandits.

If you think the economy is harsh for “regular joes” right now, oof. You’re in for a doozy.

Duck duck go does the same thing, sadly.

printSF

If Captain Picard can read physical books in his ready room in the 24th century, I can quite well read them in the 21st, thank you very much!

(I don’t actually begrudge people who prefer reading on Kindles, but I like the feel of real books)

Recently, I’ve been reading the Interdependency series by John Scalzi. It starts with The Collapsing Empire, featuring an unlikely heir to the throne, a time of trouble and strife, and the likely impending doom of all mankind. A lot of the story focuses on the unlikely heir grappling with how to hold things together against the catastrophe that most people don’t really believe is coming.

Oh, whoosh :(

I don’t have an option to accept/reject alternative spellings – what I see is a message along the lines of “showing results for FUBAR; do you really want to search only for FooBar?”