My mortality! Hit 45 this year and it kinda feels like it’s all downhill from here.

Health is ok but that seems tenuous as I’m pretty out of shape so I feel like I’m not “set up” yet to be a healthy older person. When something does go wrong I’m not sure if I should worry about getting it treated or just live with it.

It seems futile to learn new skills and such since I’m not sure about the payoff (ROI).

Family/kids/job/money are all pretty great so I don’t have anything to complain about, but I’m still kind of feeling like I’m about to crest the hill of life and want to ensure I’m making the best of it and prepared for my eventual demise.

I don’t want to die! I really like being alive and kind of wish I had immortality (with a safety kill switch of course so I don’t have to endure the heat-death of the universe or get stuck inside a star somewhere lol)

Sync for Lemmy has a translation feature. You could try that.

When working on an office, it’s great and all that you have “the power of accurate observation” but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.

Just think of your computer or server as a huge building with thousands of doors. Most are closed, but you purposely open a few to allow traffic in and/or out of. Those that are open are only open for a specific purpose and will only lead in or out of a specific place in the building.

This is opposite of what OP is asking. If you claim zero exemptions then your employer will pull the most out of your check, giving you a bigger refund come tax time and smaller net paychecks.

OP wants to do the opposite by having their employer pull no tax withholdings (deductions) from their check.

Yeah you can just say zero. I used to do that back when I was young and didn’t earn enough to owe taxes.

The worksheets, exemptions, and filing status data you fill out on a W4 is not reported to the IRS or anything, it’s just so they can look up a withholding amount in a table for you, but if you want something different withheld, just say so.

Remember that if you owe taxes that will mean the full bill will come due come tax season. No refund and sometimes a big outlay!

Hot take: I have never regretted being circumcized and never met anyone who regretted being circumcized so banning it doesn’t make sense for that reason alone. Some parents pierce their children’s ears without their consent, some give them frenectomies, pull teeth, reshape heads, bind feet, or do a variety of other “elective” procedures so I’m not sure why circumcision has so much hate.

My wife and I collect souvenir lapel pins from places we travel to. We write the date on the back, and keep them in a shadow box on the wall in chronological order.

It’s nice as it’s not very expensive to buy them, and they don’t take up a lot of space to keep, and we have a nice little history of our travels at a glance.

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Bought the lifetime a few months ago when it came out and haven’t regretted it!

Glad they’re finally cracking down on Hamas.

I support Israel. It’s time for the Palestinians to move out, forced or not. It’ll suck for them to relocate and resettle, but at least we might finally have peace in the middle east. Better than more war.

The decline in comments is all the mods banning people for supporting Israel.

It’s disgusting that as a result of this article, you still feel the need to come here and say Israel is bad.

I knew this would bring out the despicable “quick, blame Israel!” crowd.

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You must be young and naive, as you have obviously been taken in by anti-jewish propaganda. If you get caught up in this line of thinking, you’ll end up a Nazi and we know what happened to them…

Educate yourself, dude. If Israel wasn’t “strong” then they’d be immediately obliterated via genocide by the Islamic Jihad. This has already been attempted once by the germans. That is what you’re advocating for. You’ve picked the wrong side.

Cuz it’s a constant Hamas propaganda machine in here and we’re sick seeing endless posts supporting the bad guys.