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Is this thread for the not so happy stuff too? Today we did the taxes for 2021. The timber block grant recovery money kick us up to the blue blood section. After all the toing and froing, we paid $21K, or about 12.95% of our income. Next year we will be back down to normal.
 
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injinji said:
Is this thread for the not so happy stuff too? Today we did the taxes for 2021. The timber block grant recovery money kick us up to the blue blood section. After all the toing and froing, we paid $21K, or about 12.95% of our income. Next year we will be back down to normal.
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If ya never had to put up with all the corruption, greed and racism for the last 50 years owning the government or enough of it, you'd be paying far less taxes and getting way more services for it. I believe is a strong military, but Uncle Sam wasted way too much on it, for way too long. I think it could have been done smarter.

In the end it is mostly racists who put these people in power, they elect con artists who just blow the dog whistle and little else. Another sort of politician they elect are the narcists, like Lindsey Graham, people with no moral center or values.
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
If ya never had to put up with all the corruption, greed and racism for the last 50 years owning the government or enough of it, you'd be paying far less taxes and getting way more services for it. I believe is a strong military, but Uncle Sam wasted way too much on it, for way too long. I think it could have been done smarter.

In the end it is mostly racists who put these people in power, they elect con artists who just blow the dog whistle and little else. Another sort of politician they elect are the narcists, like Lindsey Graham, people with no moral center or values.
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They're still forcing the Army to buy tanks they don't want or need.
 
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Do people who maintain low sodium diets, also do other things to promote good health?

It would seem to me they might be practicing discipline and have a atypical diet, which is normally loaded with salt. Perhaps they took care of their health better in general and this was an indicator of this? Were these things factored in, or were sodium levels just measured and other factors ignored or not accounted for? I'm not skeptical of the results, just wondering if the methodology affected the results. If you maintain a low sodium diet, you might well maintain a good diet in general, take care of your health and go for a walk every now and again!
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schuylaar said:
And for those of you men are married you know your wife's hair is her physical crowning glory and why she spends money on it.
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Yep, years ago, her hair costs were more than internet, cable tv and phone combined. It's no longer being tracked.

I'm happy to not have had a haircut in 749 days - tips to nips here and familiar with mask hair products. Finally look like I've felt since the first time I smoked hash at 14 with my oldest brother at the drive-in watching Cheech and Chong. :bigjoint:
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
If ya never had to put up with all the corruption, greed and racism for the last 50 years owning the government or enough of it, you'd be paying far less taxes and getting way more services for it. . . . . . .
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It's hard to bitch about the taxes when the majority of our income last year was from a government grant, a partial payment for the timber we lost in the hurricane.
 
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Ozumoz66 said:
Yep, years ago, her hair costs were more than internet, cable tv and phone combined. It's no longer being tracked.

I'm happy to not have had a haircut in 749 days - tips to nips here and familiar with mask hair products. Finally look like I've felt since the first time I smoked hash at 14 with my oldest brother at the drive-in watching Cheech and Chong. :bigjoint:
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I haven't paid for a haircut since 1983. I've cut it myself. The wife always had her hair cut professionally, but I used to cut Mamma's and my mother-in-law's hair. And since the pandemic, I've been cutting the wife's hair too.
 
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injinji said:
I haven't paid for a haircut since 1983. I've cut it myself. The wife always had her hair cut professionally, but I used to cut Mamma's and my mother-in-law's hair. And since the pandemic, I've been cutting the wife's hair too.
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I've been cutting/shaving my own head for decades. Still using the same Remington trimmer I bought over 20 years ago for under $15. I've had to tear it apart a couple times to repair it as the cord coming out of it shorted out but nothing me and a soldering iron couldn't fix.

When my hair really started to thin I wasn't going to be the guy with the comb over or wearing a ball cap everywhere I went. I shaved it off and sported my bald head proudly. I don't miss my hair one bit. The only thing that bothers me is that it fell out of my head but is now growing in places I wish it wouldn't.
 
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Don't Bogart said:
Baba Ram Dass.
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And every meditation teacher who ever lived, it's not just a slogan, but the result of training the mind like exercise to quiet it while living in yer senses. Yer senses operate in real time cause they have to and when you are in that mode of consciousness, you live in the moment inhabiting your body more fully. Your mind torments you constantly with the past and future, it's where we do most of our suffering, in our minds. It's called default mode processing and the only way to quiet down is to get into shape by meditating. The more stress we feel, the more we default processing, worrying and ruminating. There is a coupling that develops under stress, between the evaluative and experiential networks in the brain, with regular practice this coupling diminishes and goes away, the mind becomes silent and peaceful. You can think better than ever and see yer biases easier and what really motivates you to do what you do to be happy, happiness is an end, it has no ulterior motive. Thinking about shit is brought online as require, you use your mind and are not used by it.
 
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