job~ma! Kat & everyone who needs it
That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
hippocampus - Apr 02, 2008 7:59:21 am PDT #8914 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
shrift - Apr 02, 2008 8:07:23 am PDT #8915 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I see that today is going to be the kind of day where I do everything I completely spaced on doing yesterday.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 8:09:04 am PDT #8916 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The show used examples of toddler helping strangers by picking stuff up that they were reaching ineffectively for. The comparison was inherently flawed, since by the time a human has worked out how to solve the chimp problem (and those chimps were slick) the morality issue would be clouded by so many other variables.
Aims - Apr 02, 2008 8:15:35 am PDT #8917 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Immoral or amoral? I would tend to think amoral simply because at 8 or 9 do children have moral standards?
Amoral is what I mean.
Well now how are we to discuss the differences between the two and at what age one starts to comprehend societal standards if you're just gonna say, "That's what I meant"? Where's bon bon????
Kat - Apr 02, 2008 8:20:51 am PDT #8918 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Gloomcookie, read, responded, backflung.
Today is like Monday. But midweek, so even more distressing.
bon bon - Apr 02, 2008 8:21:52 am PDT #8919 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Ha! I'm sorry. I've been trained out of trying to speak intelligently about morality. I figure it's Not My Problem.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 8:28:49 am PDT #8920 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's bon bon????
No shit.
The show I was watching was conflating cooperation with sentience, and marking chimps down one because they'd only cooperate if there was something in it for them. We're all moralled up because sometimes we'll just help, apparently. Maybe we're just playing a longer game than the chimp.
Kristen - Apr 02, 2008 8:56:28 am PDT #8921 of 10001
A co-worked of DH's figured out that he needs to claim 9 to exactly owe nothing and get nothing back on his tax return. I think it took him years to figure it out.
I think this is a little known fact but the IRS has a calculator on their website. You enter information from your most recent paycheck, estimate what your deductions should be (based on last year's tax return) and they tell you how much you should expect to owe/get at the end of the year. Then they tell how to change your W-4 if you want to not be owed a bunch of money at tax time.
ETA: IRS Withholding Calculator
msbelle - Apr 02, 2008 9:10:56 am PDT #8922 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I should do that calculator at home when I have my stuff, but the reality is, I will just make a stab in the dark if this guy calls me back with my current number. I think I might be at 3 now and should go up to 5.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2008 9:20:56 am PDT #8923 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Bah -- I just accepted a meeting for Friday. So much for my day off!