#tax on singles

[clownsuu]

Holy cow there’re a lot and I really do mean A LOT of Welcome Home AUs, and more coming too. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it makes sense considering WH doesn’t have a lot to work with so it leaves tons of room for fans to play around with. I just hope it doesn’t get outta hand like what happened to Undertale with its AUs.

People are free to have creative liberty on what aus they wanna make- like you said there is very little canon content to munch on so people will pull a “fine I’ll do it myself” JCHFHDHU-

I personally don’t mind it as well, but I do enjoy the aus where they purposely change Wally’s height just to make him more simp-able LMAOO

[bitchesgetriches]

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[reasonsforhope]

YES, PLASTIC BAG BANS HELP PREVENT POLLUTION REALLY WELL

"Plastic bags are everywhere - littering our streets, clogging up our rivers, and choking wildlife in the ocean.

But after years of campaigning from environmental groups, many places have banned them entirely.

Over 100 countries now have a full or partial ban on single-use plastic bags. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of public policies intended to phase out plastic carryout bags tripled.

The results of such tough rules are starting to show.

What is a plastic bag ban?

A plastic bag ban is a law that restricts the use of lightweight plastic bags in shops. Sometimes they are totally banned, and sometimes consumers have to pay a fee to buy them.

The bans often only apply to thin plastic bags, with thicker, reusable ones still available for purchase.

Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a ban on plastic bags back in 2002.

Such total bans are common throughout Africa and Asia. These areas import much of the Global North’s ‘recyclable’ rubbish and so face the consequences of plastic mismanagement more acutely.

In addition to plastic bags, many countries ban other types of single-use plastic like in the EU which has got rid of single use cutlery, straws, balloon sticks, and coffee buds.

Which European countries use the most plastic bags?

In Europe, 18 countries have imposed bans on thin plastic bags - including France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, and Albania.

A further 23 countries require consumers to pay a fee. Two more - Switzerland and Norway - allow the plastic industry to impose a ‘voluntary charge’ on the use of the bags.

Plastic bag consumption is highest in the Baltic and Nordic countries, Eurostat data from 2019 reveals. Latvia (284 bags per person, per year) and Lithuania (332) consumed far more plastic bags than any other European country. This could change, however as from 2025, Latvian shops will no longer be permitted to give away free plastic bags. A similar prohibition will come into force in Lithuania this year.

The lowest plastic bag usage can be found in Portugal (8), Belgium (17) and Poland (23).  Portugal banned the bags in 2021, two years after Poland. [Note: To be clear, that is 8 plastic bags per person per year! Way lower than I thought was currently possible!]

Do plastic bag bans work?

Plastic bag bans have so far been highly successful. A ban on thin plastic bags in California reduced consumption by 71.5 per cent.

Research shows that taxes work too. According to a 2019 review of existing studies, levies and taxes led to a 66 per cent reduction in usage in Denmark, more than 90 per cent in Ireland, between 74 and 90 per cent in South Africa, Belgium, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., Santa Barbara, the UK and Portugal, and around 50 per cent in Botswana and China.

And the impact is visible on the ground too.

At a 2022 annual beach clean in New Jersey, US - where a ban was recently introduced - the number of plastic bags collected dropped 37 per cent on the previous year. Straws and takeaway containers dropped by a similar amount.

“It’s really, really encouraging to see those numbers trending down for the bags, straws, and foam containers,” said Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf. Clean Ocean Action is a charity that is instrumental in organising the beach clean."

-via EuroNews.Green, 4/5/23

[ducksbeloved]

i think it says something very interesting about kipperlilly's character that she chose to go to therapy with jawbone. and even continued for three whole years -- based on the riz stuff and the info from the files, it seems like she was there making some genuine effort or at least being truthful. which, if she was some pure evil scheming villian, would be deeply unstrategic -- revealing these sentiments to someone who lives with her rivals? penelope everpetal (our blueprint for a fh teen character who is mostly presented as "simply evil") certainly wasn't going to jawbone or that other guy, she wasn't even confiding in sam! if this is a long game effort to take over the world or something, going to counseling like this would just be an unnecessary risk (especially because jawbone literally lives with half of tbk) or a waste of time.

so imo this suggests that something must have changed, or some influencing factor must have come into play (maybe over the night yorb summer?) that led klck and the ratgrinders to be in this position -- like the level of relevance and the intra-group issues (ex: buddy homicide lmao) given to the ratgrinders make it soooo clear to me that they're not just pure evil fodder for the bad kids to beat in a fight. after all, in a season about the harms of a school system that pushes overworking and grades over students' wellbeing, aren't the ratgrinders, these kids who've fully bought into it at great personal expense, victims too?

[unpretty]

I feel that accounting post so hard. I’m not an accountant but I work in the back office of a credit union and I’ve run into so many similar situations. Like we need a copy of a driver’s license or other form of photo ID for certain transactions/applications. Sometimes people take a photo of it if they don’t have access to a scanner, which is usually fine. I came across one where the person was in their car and holding the driver’s license in front of the steering wheel but the camera was where the driver’s head would be, so it was really tiny. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Like we do actually need to see the text on the license, not just that it exists.

i've had department heads hand me timesheets like "here's duncan's timesheet" and i'm like "who is duncan" and they're like "he's the new guy i hired" and i'm like "i don't know who that is" and they're like "well i hired him" and i'm like "i do not have a single piece of paperwork to tell me who duncan is, what his job is now, what he is paid, how he is paid, or even evidence that he exists" and they're like "he's actually been working for a while now so he needs retroactive pay also" and i'm like "do you understand what a labor law is"

then they call duncan to tell him he needs to come fill out paperwork and he's like "i'm pretty busy this week" and i'm like "we can't pay you" and he's like "you can just make a paper check out to duncan and that's fine" and i'm like "do you understand what a labor law is"

then duncan manages to make time to come in and i'm like "do you have any proof of your identity and also proof that it is legal for us to hire you" and he's like "my bitch ex-wife got those in the divorce, does it work if i show you a picture of an ohio drivers license taken by a potato and texted to me by my teenage son from a canadian number not saved to my contacts" and i am like "work on getting replacements so that we can pay you please"

he then proceeds to fail the mandatory DOT drug test required for CDL holders, which is necessary for the job he was hired for, so his employment is immediately terminated. he still has not produced the documentation i need to pay him. no one ever explains to me how he managed to not have a drivers license if he was hired for a Class A CDL position.

[zzoupz]

finished my first playthrough of death and taxes

[danganronpa96]

hayasaka dad content pls

Shunsuke Hayasaka, single mother of five

[sscarletvenus]

🚨ISRAEL BOMBED THE OUTPATIENT CLINIC AT AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL IN A NEW MASSACRE ‼‼‼

The clinic housed war-displaced people, injured civilians, and families displaced from their homes ‼‼‼

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[eastsidepapi]

We live in Hell

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

im at the part of the unemployment/health chores where i am continually (politely!) harassing four different entities. why isn’t my shit done. why did you lose it. hello are you alive

[mangoofthesea]

How many things do you think need to be set on fire to disrupt capitalism enough to create a livable society? Asking for a friend

[cubesugarss]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[reykjavik-municipality]

We have started writing a script for a sequel to Argylle but it's only about the domestic life of a writer out of stories and her husband with a cat allergy.

Then she discovers Nordic crime novels and becomes a great success again.

[nicnotnicotine]

[asslockpick]

they need to invent cute clothes that i can afford

[magnoliamyrrh]

its been insane witnessing the full force of propaganda and american imperialism with my own two eyes as an adult these past few years. obviously ive known abt it plenty and seen it before, but witnessing it at this age with this much force is... dystopian and crazy