Trainguyrom

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

Now, if it was a flat tax, a fixed percent…But they gotta make sure the middle class is paying 22% of their income to the feds and the billionaires pay one tenth of a percent… you know… for reasons.

I fall into the lower end of the middle class (nationally) and my income tax is about 11%, but on top of that, after deductions and credits I end up deducting myself into the lowest tax bracket and collecting credits so I get a nice chunk back every year. To actually pay a full 22% of your income in income taxes, you must be making pretty good bank (and probably spending pretty good bank if you're still considering yourself middle class)

Flat taxes are extremely regressive. The whole idea of tax brackets is that those with more ability to pay pay more and those with less ability to pay pay less. If you only make 22k/year you need all of that and that $2200 can be pretty lifechanging, but if you make 220k per year you can live without that $22k. There's also fun stuff with how much tax revenue the government can actually bring in depending on who they tax harder, and generally it favors taxing the rich at a much higher percentage rate than they do the poor.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

I even had to make a login.gov account to apply to some federal jobs (ironically enough one was with the IRS even!)

On a related note, it appears based on their job listings that the IRS will not hire anyone who owes them money

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

Huh! Thank you very much for the detailed answer that's extremely interesting!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 6 months ago

You should NOT have a WG tunnel from the home network to the VPS with fully unrestricted access to everything.

This is what I came here to make sure was said. Use your firewall to severely restrict access from your public endpoint. Your wiregaurd tunnel is effectively a DMZ so firewall it off accordingly

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The really nice thing about tailscale for accessing your hosted services is absolutely nothing can connect without authentication via a professionally hosted standard authentication, and there's no public ports for script kiddies to scan for, spot and start hammering on. There's thousands of bots that do nothing but scan the internet for hosted services and then try to compromise them, so not even showing up on those scans is a good thing.

For example, I have tailscale on my Minecraft server and connect to it via tailscale when away from home. If a buddy wants to join I just send a link sharing the machine to them and they can install tailscale and connect to it normally. If for some reason buddy needs to be cut off, I can just stop sharing to that account on Tailscale and they can no longer access the machine.

The biggest challenge of tailscale is also it's biggest benefit. Nothing can connect without connecting through the tailscale client, so if my buddy can't/won't install tailscale they can't join my Minecraft server

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

The biggest red flag is the up-front payment for a year

Another comment pointed out this was probably to prevent them from signing up for a month then using that month to bounce to another provider

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

like what midwesterners get up to when they dream up new “casseroles.”

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t he travel a good distance to “defend” a business

If I remember correctly he traveled from a neighboring town to Kenosha WI. But people get hung up on how he traveled from his home in Illinois all the way to Wisconsin to do this without bothering to look at a map and see that Kenosha is right on the border with Illinois

But he also immediately after getting bailed out went and did a photo op/party with white nationalists, I think I remember he even made white nationalist gestures for the camera so guilty or not he's a piece of shit

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Presumably they could make entering or leaving the country very difficult. So if you have family/friends in the US or ever have a reason to travel back to the country (pleasure or business) you could find yourself saddled with more debt than you might ever be able to repay

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's countless desktop music players out there, so there's no real need to reverse engineer it

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

My dad switched for vista, I switched for 10 for a while. Who knows, maybe I'll switch for 11 too

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