boonhet
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- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 5 hours ago:
Ah okay, you guys get taxed a lot less then. We have an income tax free portion that slides to 0 by I think 25200 euros annually, at which point you always have to pay 22% of your gross, next year it’ll be 24. And your employer always has to pay 33% on top of your grose too.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 6 hours ago:
They’re all interest free in my country, but if you need a longer period, you can get an installment plan that has an interest rate comparable to a credit card.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 12 hours ago:
Probably varies by country. My gold card was something like 5 euros a month which isn’t a whole lot, but it’s still money for something that only serves to make it way too easy to take on debt and has little other value.
- Comment on I have uses for presents or coal 1 day ago:
The n in your name is a few characters too far to the right
- Comment on Hope my landlord likes pizza! 1 day ago:
Land of the free, home of the worst office pizza parties apparently.
In the places I’ve worked that did pizza parties, there’s usually been too much ordered so everyone’s full and there’s still leftovers.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 1 day ago:
With credit cards you’d have to pay in full next month or pay interest. Here the installment plans go to to 3 or 6 months without interest.
- Comment on If we are going to rename the Gulf wouldn't this be more appropriate 2 days ago:
I should write this one down for my RPG that will never get made
- Comment on If we are going to rename the Gulf wouldn't this be more appropriate 2 days ago:
My favourite thing about XKCD is how every now and then someone links one but other than that I keep forgetting to check it, so any time I return there’s several new ones!
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 days ago:
How’s income taxation?
Here in Estonia we have 22% income tax if you earn enough, but also there’s a 33% tax on the employer’s side + some tiny ones on both sides. 22% sounds completely fine except your pre-tax income is NOT what your employer pays for you, they pay a significant extra. Which is still coming out of your salary in the end, because your employer has to offer you a lower pretax income lol
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 days ago:
I’m not, but I looked into the CoL as it’s the highest paying country in the EU for software engineers. Maybe it was just the it private ones that are paid and I was looking at those implicitly because I was looking at international ones where it wouldn’t be expected for kids to speak Dutch at home already
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 days ago:
Ah fair enough, not sure the reduced VAT for bread of children’s clothing is going to matter much compared to the insane 1000+ euro kindergarten fees per kid monthly (in the Netherlands). Some of the rest might be nice places to live though.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 days ago:
Exactly. I get free healthcare like someone who’s being paid minimum wage (or an unemployed person who has registered as unemployed), but I also pay a significant amount in taxes and for most of my working career, that has been money that comes from outside the EU, as I’ve worked for multiple software companies selling their product/services to foreign markets.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 2 days ago:
Someone wanna tell me one of those countries with reduced VAT for children’s clothing or bread?
We get reduced VAT on hotel stays and medicine only. Bread, children’s clothing (or more importantly if you need to use it, milk formula, which is going to cost you more) are all full VAT. Estonian here.
- Comment on Who would be the 14th if they make Ocean's 14? 4 days ago:
I saw him in the cast list for some vampire movie and went “Didn’t I see that already?”
I had not. Different Nicholas Hoult vampire movie.
But he do be charming and for now he’s probably cheaper than everyone’s other favorite fun charming guy, Van Ryan
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 4 days ago:
There’s no true alternative to cloudflare because cloudflare provides you with a ridiculous amount of nice things, many with generous free tiers.
Deflect has a 10 dollar minimum which is basically nothing, but at the same time, way more than cloudflare where basic protection is free.
Yes, I’m also a CF user for my personal and business domains. Not sure if I’m happy about it but then again I haven’t paid them a cent yet.
- Comment on guys... :( 5 days ago:
Yeah, same. I think Fresh Prince also did one of those every season after the first one and I just hated them. Like I just binged that season a day ago, why show me?
I suspect in the 90s it would’ve been a longer time since you’d last seen the earlier seasons of a show, but even then I imagine it would’ve been boring if you anticipate new content but have to rewatch old shit instead.
- Comment on guys... :( 5 days ago:
Kinda I think. At the end they all went to jail for being selfish assholes. George was never a likable character but he was relatable because you see all your own worst parts in him (and then some)b and with Jerry and Elaine also you see that they see themselves as main characters. Kramer is actually less self-centered I think, but then he literally pinches pennies and schemes to make… Pennies
- Comment on guys... :( 5 days ago:
Yeah. I could probably be bored to death watching his standup, but not laugh to death. That said, the show was kinda funny at times. Laughing Jerry and the rest of them, not at Jerry’s jokes.
- Comment on Heels 5 days ago:
Well yeah but then the cracks get deep and it kinda starts hurting.
- Comment on Heels 5 days ago:
Scholl makes a battery powered rotary tool for this. Great if you’re lazy or have a really thick layer already.
- Comment on Don't put it in a crazy 1 week ago:
The last few ladies in my life have been met on Tinder. Where else are you going to meet people? Work? Gonna be fun if there’s a breakup. Gym? Doubt the pretty girl with the nice yoga pants wants people approaching her. For a long while I was a regular at a bar but I “only” made a load of friends there.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, we must first further enrich Larry Ellison. The man clearly doesn’t have enough money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Probably going to do his ass a lot of good when he moves out. Both in terms of saving money and wooing potential partners. I can’t say I’m a great cook, but cooking food a few times a week when mom had long days at work meant I could at least improvise some sauces and stuff.
- Comment on The thing about the 80s is that all these people were under 18. 1 week ago:
Isn’t that like half the current US minimum wage while costs have increased several times?
- Comment on It's okay if you let me down brain. I let people down all the time. 1 week ago:
This is life with ADHD and having a consulting gig instead of a full time job lol
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 week ago:
It’s just a host they both use. Exposing it is not a bad thing inherently, but unless you know what you’re doing you’re probably better off hiding it behind cloudflare. Cloudflare can handle a DDoS a lot better than some regional hosting provider.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 week ago:
But now it’s been posted online so it’s no longer useful
- Comment on Time to chop wood 1 week ago:
I’ve never actually seen one in my roughly 3 decades.
- Comment on 90% of porn videos from the 2000s [Day 48] 1 week ago:
I’ll take couch over all the fauxcest tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Tankies are out here calling for peoples’ deaths every day. I know this because I was born in the wrong country so tankies seethe just seeing the instance TLD. So many tankies think we should be executed for breaking free of the empire.