JasonDJ

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 17h ago

That woman thinks wrong and should think the way that I, a man, say she should.

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

My employer sends out a sheet every year that itemizes our entire comp package.

The single most expensive is my insurance, a family EPO with a $750/1500 deductible.

I pay $8200/yr. My employer pays nearly $33,000.

Forty. Thousand. Dollars. For one family.

Plus another $10k or so for Medicare and Dental and Vision.

$50k, per year, all told.

That is equal to roughly half of the median household income in my town.

And then deductibles, co-pays, etc.

And then...the fuckers...you put money in your FSA but can't locate the receipt for reimbursement? Fuck off man, that money is for your employer now.

Our President is fucking children with zero consequence, and I need to show a fucking receipt to reimburse a fucking $3 prescription, with my own money that I put there.

After myself and my employer already paid $50k combined into the system?

Fuck this country man.

Edit to add: the fsa thing is a perfect example of what's wrong with this fucking country. Put your money into a special account dog-eared for medical expenses, and in order to use it, you have to submit a receipt for every fucking thing. If you don't drain it by the end of the year the money disappears (actually goes back to your employer for them to do whatever they want with).

What's with all the hubbub about receipts and documentation? To prevent fraud. The contribution limit for FSA for 2026 is $3,400. My tax bracket ($103,351 to $197,300) is 24%.

So, at most, I could defraud the government out of...$816.

Is it worth whatever we pay for that bureaucracy, to prevent the possibility that a middle-income family might defraud the government out of up to $816?

My reimbursements were all hand-audited...they have different comments all meaning the same thing. Including a $3.00 copay one. Which, If my math is correct, would be 72¢ of taxpayer money that I may be stealing.

Somebody spent time at work, not even at a government job but at the FSA facilitator, reviewing my paperwork and denying my claim, because I might be defrauding the government out of the cash equivalent of one half of a candy bar.

What. The. Fuck.

So my employer gets to keep my $3.

Why can't I just get a check minus income tax due for the balance?

Why can't I just get the claim reimbursed minus income tax?

Mind you, I'm not potentially defrauding the government. This is my money that I put in, pre-tax, that they are keeping me from spending, over an amount of money that couldn't even get a bouncy-ball out of a dollar-store vending machine.

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

When you're a star, they let you. Ipso facto, not rape.

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Careful now, some social media sites might ban you for three days for saying way less

Hey Trump, if you're gonna go around bombing world leaders, there's one I'd really like to see taken care of. Pull it off and you'll be more famous than the guy that killed Hitler.

Happened to me.

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Fallout Boy (or, specifically, Patrick Stump) also does the theme song for "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" and "Hot Wheels: Let's Race!"

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

I tend to buy T-series laptops once they are about 5 years old, and still have tons of life left in them.

I'll probably be looking for a T14 Gen 2 this year. Nothing wrong with my T495 'cept that my kid spilled water on it but fortunately only killed the hall sensor.

In fact, I thought the laptop was dead but I. Noticed a little corrosion on the hall sensor board, unplugged it, laptop started right up.

And it's still got plenty of life in it to hand down to my kid for Minecraft and such.

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Not nearly as big of a story but you should hear about BER - The Night Begins to Shine..

Written in 2005 as an assignment to "create an 80s-style song for a music library's
In 2014, appeared in an episode of Teen Titans Go for fewer than 10s as a throwaway joke.
Immediately Hit #23 in Billboard charts
Inspired TTG to make followup miniseries with covers by bands like Fallout Boy and Ceelo Green

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Genies out of the bottle now man.

Look forward to an arms race and eventually a cold war. This is our generations nuke.

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

That's why Bezos has his secret mansion on the dark side of the moon.

JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Ehh it's worked before.

Spain, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 3,000,000 files that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.