Notices by maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte

if you've got a tax kink it certainly is!

it allows you to pay a flat £24k in taxes and be done with taxes for the year without having to declare any off shore income.

worth it if your tax bill would be more than that amount.

former Prime Minister Sunak, and his wife, took advantage of that. nothing shady about it at all ...

@mattly

overtly ... not exactly, but the overall impression is that Lumon is sketch AF and not to be trusted with anything.

not to give anything away but the season 1 finale speaks the most to it, and sets the mood for season 2.

the characters are all evolving.

@skinnylatte

not a rice cooker, but my instant pot's "rice" button does a really good job every single time.

@skinnylatte

as is her right and responsibility.

#tortitude

@mekkaokereke

leopards just see faces. they're not prejudicial like that.

@skinnylatte

🙀

@skinnylatte

The UK still has Tier1 visas which, now, are basically buy your way in visas. The retired Tier1-General you could self certify and as long as you made enough money (which increased over the years).

The Tier2 is basically the same as H1B.

Tier1-General was great as it was in between work permit and permanent residency (green card) with no company ties. I got it when req'd income was only 40k.

The UK "hates" immigrants too, and since brexit are now paying for it

@skinnylatte

"geez hooman haven't you figured this out yet?"

@skinnylatte

Rising rents also killed off a lot of NYC family run local businesses - some that had been passed down through generations - and replaced with loss-making chain coffee shops.

It's a weird balance.

There was a hole-in-the-wall family sandwich shop in London that did solid business for decades until they put all kids through school, and retired. No chain has survived there since.

Plus chain-shop jobs =/= wealth (relative) and retirement makers like the sandwich shop

@skinnylatte

it's even weirder with remote working and WFH these days- there's just nowhere to escape to for an hour or two for a change of scenery without having to drive somewhere.

when I lived in London, there were at least 4-5 places withing walking distance to get a coffee and sit with a laptop, or local shops, or local pubs if you really weren't into being productive although some wised up and got fancy coffee machines too.

in Canada where I am now - nada.

@molly0xfff

not at all a surprise.

old school financial institutions can't conceive of people doing anything differently from 50 years ago, and have no idea why upstart online only banks are taking more and more of their business.

my former business bank would lock me out of my account for "suspicious logins" because it couldn't deal with my accounting software using the bank's own mechanisms to reconcile my books daily. 🙄

@skinnylatte

the UK just made it prohibitively expensive to bring spouses and dependents along.

and then the anxiety around the "hostile environment" for immigrants meant that lawyers were an absolute must adding even more to the bill.

Of course you could do it without one, and a friend did - she was without her passport for 18 months while they decided her permanent residency.

I paid 3x to get mine on the day with help from my lawyers.

Moved back to Canada 2 years ago.

@molly0xfff

the Crooked E running a crypto project ... on brand ...

@skinnylatte

it is the way.

@StillIRise1963

at the very least ban private ammunition sales.

Chris Rock had it right at $5000 per bullet. You need a 3rd job, 3rd mortgage and save up for a year (or whatever it was) to shoot someone in the butt.

@StillIRise1963

that's already part of California law, or proposed anyway - the firing pin has to be coded to the gun, so each shell casing will have a stamp on it from the gun that it was fired from

@liztai

they're on a date. 🤦♀️

@goatsarah

was thinking of the Money Mone used for Lady M
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/scottish-conservative-baroness-puts-lavish-yacht-for-sale-for-11-million-199579.html

@goatsarah

don't forget the houses for mum&dad, and new sailboats company owners had to pay for

@mattly

sounds familiar.

an e-commerce site wants me to have a business account too. I'm a one person consultancy that only has one phone number (which I barely use full stop) and can't do MFA for 2 accounts with one number so no business account or me.