Something people don't tell you is you can file federal and state taxes at completely different places (they're 100% separate anyway so it really doesn't matter). I did this one year using freetaxusa for federal, and some other tax software that did state for free but charged for federal.
This next year though I'm hiring a CPA because my shit has become complicated.
Never thought writers would have to deal with that too, but i guess everyone thinks they should write a book now. Software engineers experience the same shit. "It's Facebook, but inconsequential feature that no one will use". I've started quoting people twice my hourly rate from my full time job and it's gotten it to largely stop.
This is entirely a cultural problem if that's what you experience with remote employees.
My company is remote-first with WeWorks for those who want them. Every meeting 90% of people have their cameras on, and the other 10% are either attending to something more important than the meeting or just not feeling it that day. No one questions them or gets onto them because we're not children.
If many people regularly have their cameras off in meetings then maybe your meeting isn't worth their full attention, and they're working on something else. Not every meeting needs everyone to be there. I'd wager part of the reason my company doesn't have this problem is we have an extremely low meeting culture. Impromptu meetings/discussions are encouraged and we often Slack huddle for 5-10 minutes when needed which cuts out a lot of the bullshit.
At my prior job we accounted for 2 hours a day of meetings when planning and it was a fucking drag. Now I have 3 1/2 hours of recurring meetings per week, with a sync for new projects/initiatives every few weeks. I get so much more done every day because I'm not listening to an endless stream of information which should have been an email.
The other solution is to work for a remote-first company if your job allows it and you can swing it. Best decision I've ever made.
No people in the real world say this
I've heard similar things from women when I was in college, and not someone joking around or being ironic.
This whole thread seems filled with people who view men as victims of something. They aren't.
This is a thread of men supporting each other emotionally, and venting about how society largely disregards any problems that affect primarily men. There are a few shithead bigots who are gonna try to shove in their vile opinions, but they're all pretty down voted and a small minority. All the top level discussion seems pretty reasonable to me, and venting about the very thing you're doing with this statement.
Men, as a group, are not general victims of anything they didn't choose.
I don't think the young men in Russia who were forcefully conscripted and sent to die in the Ukrainian war (or a Russian prison) chose to do so. You can't just generalize the struggles of an entire demographic and brush them aside as their fault. It reminds me of the rhetoric of women being sexually assaulted because they dressed a certain way. It's extremely sexist and gets us absolutely nowhere, only pushing people further into extremes.
Men, in general, have higher job mortality rates, higher suicide rates, shorter life expectancy, and higher homelessness rates to name a few things. None of us "chose" this. However, because the problems affect men they're often swept aside.
You can benefit from a system in some ways while still being a victim of it in others. I completely agree that much more work needs to be done for women and people of color, and that there are much worse/more skewed injustices that they face (which is why that's where society's focus is/should be right now). However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't acknowledge the struggles men face when they're brought up.
Especially because those younger kids don't even think about it. Getting beat up a bit is the entire point of going to class in Muay Thai. If you're not getting beat up you're not progressing, and if you're not progressing then you should be moving towards doing so.
Everyone has been beaten up by someone younger/smaller/weaker than them in the sport. It's a rite of passage and is a large reason why the sport is filled with humility and discipline. There's always someone better than you, and it's extremely important to keep that in mind especially when working with those who have less experience.
I started when I was 14 and after 6 months of working my ass off to become proficient enough to spar for the first time, a girl half my size made it very apparent I had 0 clue what I was doing. I'm 24 now and I still get regular, similarly grounding reminders. A few weeks ago I trained with someone who made me feel like I was still learning to jab, and I learned more from them in one class than I had in the prior few weeks.
After upgrading I built a system with it that my mom was using until 6 months ago. I ended up getting a 5800X3D and built her a system with my R5 3600. It was starting to show its age but was doing damn well for a decade old CPU.
Same year for me, but I built a PC with an i7-4790k and a 760. I had just started high school. I also have a bachelor's and could be any of your coworkers.
LLMs aren't gonna replace anyone's jobs anytime soon. Their true power is making people even more productive.
I keep getting told that AI is gonna replace devs. While copilot at work is fucking awesome to use, it's also created the scenario where AI doesn't have to compete with devs anymore, it has to compete with devs who can use an AI to automate the easy stuff and do even more impactful work. You can apply this to basically all jobs. So until the LLMs can outperform a human + AI we're gonna be fine.
Not to mention until an AI can coax out what the fuck anyone even wants us to build in the first place I think we're safe.
Fair enough, but as someone who has worked closely with the Decky Loader maintainers and contributed my own stand alone plugin I get it. We basically all have day jobs as devs and it can be mentally taxing to do more PRs at home. Not to mention sometimes there's just not enough time in the day, and I don't even have kids.
Maintainers are ultimately volunteers doing work with hundreds of dollars an hour for free. I've had some PRs take 20+ days to be looked at, it's just how it goes.
California. Highest taxes in the US, yet we generate 14.2% of the country's GDP despite being 11.7% of the population. We have an economy the size Germany (who has the world's 4th largest economy) with 46.4% the population.
People talk shit about the state, how awful it is, etc, and while we do have many problems we're doing pretty damn well all things considered. If we get housing and healthcare fixed (both active efforts by our government) we'll be in an amazing position as a state.
Many of the conservatives in California are still liberal by Texas standards. I grew up in the central valley and it's not nearly as hard right as people believe.