Dibs on Vault 12!
Dibs on Vault 12!
@Zip2@feddit.uk explained it:
I think it was even better than that. It wasn’t just the tax on the costume, it was the entire cost of them could be deducted from their tax bill. The more extravagant and expensive, the smaller that years tax bill!
There you go. Thanks for the explanation!
I think that’s it, yeah. This way they avoided paying tax on their costumes.
It made me start thinking about it and then it bothered me enough to try to figure it out.
As we often hear over in Lemmy Shitpost, “I know this is a shitpost, but…”
It takes them a whole month and the world’s still in the state it’s in?
Somehow, I don’t think these are especially powerful gods.
I think I figured it out!
They were going to have to wear costumes regardless, but they would be able to not pay taxes on them if the costumes were crazy enough.
That sounds exhausting for both the kids and the adults. And the parents taking the kids who have to listen to the same fucking joke every couple of minutes.
“Trick or treat!” is faster and easier. Especially when there’s a line of 20 kids at your house.
Also, pro tip: don’t give candy, order a bunch of cheap toys, temporary tattoos, etc. from a site like Oriental Trading Co. instead. Even the teenagers love them. We’re one of the favorite Halloween houses in the neighborhood. Light-up rings and glow-in-the-dark high bounce balls are especially loved.
We’ve heard, “yes! It’s the toy house!” multiple times over the years.
I’m guessing they didn’t pay for the costumes themselves. They just got to write off the cost because they were wearing them. But I don’t know how it works for sure.
Yes. You’ve figured me out. I’m a MAGA troll because I don’t automatically believe things without evidence. 🙄
There was zero evidence his life was in danger. He just decided it was because he’s a whiner.
This was when Snowden leaked all the info to him, which was 2013. He spent like 3 years regularly saying his life was in danger. It was not.
If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. It seems like an idea worth trying. What is there to lose?
Greenwald complaining that the U.S. would come and get him at any moment. Long before Balsonaro was in power.
Who knows? Depends on the zombie. Before Night of the Living Dead, they were all supposedly raised from the dead by voodoo, which I imagine a lot of Haitians found pretty fucking offensive, but NOTLD was already in the '60s.
Also, I may be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure one of the Return of the Living Dead movies (not to be confused with Night of the Living Dead movies) featured zombies coming out of graves.
I’m guessing all the skeletons will be a clue.
Astounding! And of course, that’s assuming that it has been in use at the same rate the entire time.
It could be that for 20 years, almost no one lived there so there were very few burials, but at another point there was a war or a plague and they were burying 100 people a day.
Edit: I forgot to mention that it’s actually more than that now.
The cemetery saw heavy fighting during the 2004 Battle of Najaf. It is estimated that during the Iraq War, about 200 to 250 corpses were buried there daily; however, in 2010 this number had decreased to less than 100.[5] Approximately 50,000 new bodies are interred in the cemetery annually from across the globe.[14] This figure is an increase on the approximately 20,000 bodies, primarily from Iran, that used to be interred annually in the early 20th century.[15] Most Iraqi and many Iranian Shi’ites have a relative buried in the cemetery.[16]
Awesome! This sounds like a much better way for me to share the occasional video of either or both of my dogs being super cute on c/dogs (and on other non-Lemmy forums) than relying on an anonymous YouTube account.
(I may have partially used this post as an excuse to share a video of one of my dogs being super cute.)
He’ll get back to reading his Barenstein Bears book any time now.
Such as?