Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

GOD SMITES MUSK for misusing Latin quote ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei.'

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This won’t get a lot of attention and it wont get covered by the press, but I just want to say that Hitler was an especially evil person and anyone who likes him is insane.

The Oregon Trail awareness poll for PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA:
Did you know of the game during the pre-internet era, and have you played it back then?

Uh-huh.

It took two months, but the House Judiciary GOP finally deleted their "Kanye. Elon. Trump." tweet.

It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.

It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.

You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.

With all of us.

Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.

Be here now.

both Andrew Lawrence of MMFA and Dean Baker of Beat the Press have been suspended from twitter, anyone who follows those guys knows their only sin is poking fun at the right and they aren't even major shit stirrers. Suspect the lefty purges will continue

I am hoping there is a few tax lawyers or at least tax informed peops out there in Mastadon land.

I have a unique tax puzzle/situation

Alaska resident, stationed in Virginia. Active Duty Military. retire in a few months, which in itself has a lot of tax implications I am not used to.

everything is set up to go to school using my MGIB. as long as I go to school full time I remain an Alaskan resident. I get to keep my vehicles registered in Alaska, and dont pay Virginia taxes. i can make a little extra income with a fed program, tax free but limited to 20 hours a week at Virginia min wage. first couple months and first year out is anticipated to be the most difficult financially, very much on my mind. I suspect I'm not calculating a lot things that will have inpacts.

Problem set 1 - if i work, or maybe even think about working, Virginia forces me to change residency, pay Virginia taxes on my military pension, and switch my vehicles over (which may or may not include use tax). it also means i cant get unemployment as I am not a Virginia resident, and wont be in Alaska.

Problem set 2 - I have a CDL i got through the military. a good deal i thought, so i did what was needed to submit everything, took my written tests...kinda been a pain honestly, real id was a nightmare. Virginia has some grey area stuff and I'm not so sure that Virginia wont make me switch it over even with full time school. there was some vague text in the law when i was looking into it. didn't get warm fuzzy answer that was solidly yes or no. part 2 of this is I was intending to go home to Alaska and work during the summers while in school. those jobs require an Alaska drivers license or CDL. if Virginia switches it over ill have to switch back and forth through out the year which is a pain. possibly dangerous as i wont have the stability or backing of the military/laws with that aspect so I'm a bit transitory. my home of record wont be usable anymore, family hasn't lived there in decades. wont have enough history in Virginia. May get stuck without anything switching license back and forth.

Problem set 3 - here is the 2020-2022 issue. remote work has become more prevalent. in theory if i work remotely i would pay taxes based on either my home state of Alaska, or the state the company is in. so technically i can get around some of these issues. i keep finding the little nagging voice in my mind that states simply haven't dealt with the problem enough yet and suspect Virginia may come after me later.

Really just looking for advice on how to not get a surprise bill for my left leg, lifetimes worth of wages or future of spring in surprise back taxes, while also not trying to lose my residency or get trapped in no win scenario. hints/tricks on setting this stuff up. i have seen things about several of these issues, but not combined like this. the first year of school/military separation is going to be rough, so i wont have a lot of leeway for a bunch of surprises. the remote work thing really twits things up even more but maybe a decent solution for part time work. I fear ill lose my mind if I don't do anything when not at school.

#alaska
#Veteran
#student
#Taxes

Is it too late for House Democrats to get ahold of the translator's notes from Helsinki--you know, from 2018 when the White House occupant betrayed America to side with Vladimir Putin?

Let Data Breach Victims Sue Marriott

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/let-data-breach-victims-sue-marriott

#Privacy

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

Also with the news Twitter has ended the Covid misinfo policy, starting to transition away rapidly and locked my account.

As I made mention over on the bird app, the fact one of my unions has an anti-vaxxer for president, this will make it more difficult to argue the case to continue safety protocols against COVID at work. Protocols that kept disabled/chronically ill folks safe on set. That plus the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and racism….I’m out.

It’s also unusable now.

@mmasnick Principled and consistent with their utilitarian view of the law as a tool to be wielded to gain or maintain power.

“The entire Twitter information security community has moved to Mastodon.” https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/