Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    Good luck with the move. Always sounded like a lot of trouble moving continents. And moving out of the USA seemed worse, dont they have some weird taxation system for people who moved away?

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Nah it’s not too bad the IRS guide is only 40 pages! somebody save me

      • All US citizens get to file US taxes every year regardless of if they have any US sourced income
      • Foreign income is also taxed (but see next two points)
      • The first 126k of foreign income earned while living abroad is excluded from taxation (Foreign Earned Income Exclusion)
      • Income that went to paying foreign taxes is also not taxed (Foreign Tax Credit)
      • Banks hate opening accounts for US citizens since we’re subject to FATCA filing requirements and thus generate extra paperwork
      • Also certain foreign mutual funds are taxed heavily (PFICs), requiring care in planning investments.
      • There are a bunch of tax treaties with different countries, which may influence the exact details.
      • If you do have deferred compensation that was granted in a state but that was vested or exercised while a non-resident of that state you may also have to file state taxes (e.g. FTB Publication 1004 for California)

      I haven’t run through this in practice yet and I will probably give up and hire a professional.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        31 minutes ago

        Oof im sorry, that sounds horrible. But hey welcome in the modern world, your other taxes will prob not be that much trouble.

    • jonhendry@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      It’s the same taxation system, you have to pay US taxes still, but I think you can deduct taxes paid in the new country from what you owe the US.