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@ leadore @lemmy.world

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  • Exactly! Why does no one ever consider changing the time they do something instead of making the whole country adjust to time change? I know with schools, maybe their starting times are geared to when parents have to be a work or something, but surely they can figure out how to adjust their particular schedules around their particular needs and leave the rest of us alone.

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    ducks

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  • I read that some senator was working on a bill to permanently switch to half-DST, which is where we set our clocks to halfway between regular time and DST. I've been advocating for that forever so I hope it will at least get people thinking/talking about it. It should solve the argument between whether to permanently stay on one time or the other. Split the difference and just get it done already!

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  • Even worse is a friend of mine who doesn't even have kids but tells me all about her multiple sisters' kids!

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Yes! Especially Tatiana Maslany. You'd almost swear those parts were played by different actresses! The whole show was so good.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Thanks for the tip, I'll look it up.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Do you still remember the layout of all the houses/apartments you've lived in? Are there any other places where you still have a "map" of in your head?

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  • Yes, I thought back through them and I can totally remember and visualize them. But I've forgotten a lot of the address numbers.

  • 'This is dementia': Trump sets off fresh concerns by mixing up his father's birthplace

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  • This is dementia

    Don't catch him slippin' up

    Look what he's whippin' up

    This is dementia

    Look at how we're livin' now

    Police/ICE be trippin' now

    They just want the money

  • Trump Administration Withholds $260 Million In Medicaid Funds for Minnesotans

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  • Those are good ideas, though the court costs of fighting Fed lawsuits might outweigh the amount garnered. And/or the Feds would retaliate by withholding other fed money owed to the state (like it's already doing in some cases! Like the medicaid money for Minnesota, etc).

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  • Thanks, it's good to know that it wouldn't fall on the employee. I looked it up[1] and you're right -- if your employer withheld the money and you can prove it (either via the W2, or by producing your paycheck stubs showing the amounts withheld if there's no W2), then the Feds will go after the employer, not the employee.

    I also learned that if your employer didn't pay the feds and/or give you or the Feds a W2, then it falls on you to prove they withheld money by showing the IRS your paycheck stubs (or by managing to get that info from the employer), otherwise you will still have to pay the taxes. So the lesson there is to save your paycheck stubs (or electronic copies thereof), especially the last one of the year showing the totals, just in case!

    So, back on the topic of States trying to keep that money from going to the Feds, my previous argument would still apply, except that the employers would be held liable by the Feds instead of the individual employees, under current laws (AFAIK!). So if the State passed a law saying the companies have to give that money to them instead of the IRS, the companies would be in a catch-22 situation of Fed law saying Feds get it and State law saying the State gets it. So again, Fed law would supersede the State law and companies would have to give the money to the Feds.

    Do you know a way the States could get around that issue? It would be great if they could but I don't see how.

    [1] https://www.taxaudit.com/tax-audit-blog/2025/what-happens-if-my-employer-doesn-t-pay-my-payroll-taxes

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  • See my answer to glitch1985. I meant to put it here but accidentally clicked reply on their post instead.

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  • The federal government will hold the taxpayer responsible for not paying their federal taxes. The employers withholding federal taxes from paychecks and not forwarding that on to the IRS would be committing a federal crime, but the IRS would still demand their tax payment from each taxpayer, just like how it happens if the employer didn't withhold enough--the taxpayer has to send in a check.

    That's just how the system and law works. Federal law supersedes State law. You pay federal taxes to the federal government under federal tax laws, and the State has no power to say you don't owe them.

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  • It's a great idea, but the problem is people file their federal taxes as individuals and pay the IRS directly, so how are the blue states supposed to withhold the money?

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    TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years

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  • Um ... boomers and gen-x finished raising their kids a long time ago. Even their kids are done or close to done raising their own kids.

  • Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections

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  • She's a Repedolican, but I can see why you're confused because everyone likes to pretend she's somehow less extreme than the other ones. She's not, just puts on a little show of "being concerned" about things, but always votes right along with the rest of them.

  • Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections

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  • She knows it gives her the best chance of being re-elected.

    Do these people think they're going live forever? Something twists the minds of everyone who gains power. They become absolutely incapable of giving it up voluntarily.

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  • Go to an ophthalmologist if you haven't yet, they are a real medical doctor eye specialist. Optometrists only deal with a few basics and while they screen for eye diseases, they mainly just measure and prescribe corrective lenses, they don't give a diagnosis or prognosis.

    BTW my eyes used to get more and more nearsighted over time until I got bifocals. They have a different prescription in the bottom part so when I read or do close up work my eyes aren't fighting against a far vision Rx. If you read a lot or do a lot of close up stuff you might want to ask about that.

  • Senate Democrats block DHS funding over immigration tactics

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  • Yeah, things are going juuuust great for me, uh-huh. I know dark humor doesn't always go over very well but sometimes I go for it anyway.

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  • Yeah but delaying it until after I die would have been nice.