To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@mik said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
Look at the average age of posters here, Phibes.
I'm still trying to work out whether Jon writing 'iff' was a typo or a too-clever-for-his-own good use of mathematical terminology, which shows you what a romantic devil I am!
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I take it that having two toothbrushes in a cup in the bathroom is insufficient proof in California?
(As an aside, I wonder if the plural of toothbrush shouldn’t be teethbry?)
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@bachophile said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
(As an aside, I wonder if the plural of toothbrush shouldn’t be teethbry?)
It's teethsful. You need to look at the head's dependents of the noun.
In British English, it's still just "tooth" for dental rather than grammatical reasons.
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@doctor-phibes said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
@mik said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
Look at the average age of posters here, Phibes.
I'm still trying to work out whether Jon writing 'iff' was a typo or a too-clever-for-his-own good use of mathematical terminology, which shows you what a romantic devil I am!
Obviously the latter. You have to fight autocorrect to type it (it thinks you mean 'off').
I knew Horace would catch it.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
@doctor-phibes said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
@mik said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
Look at the average age of posters here, Phibes.
I'm still trying to work out whether Jon writing 'iff' was a typo or a too-clever-for-his-own good use of mathematical terminology, which shows you what a romantic devil I am!
Obviously the latter. You have to fight autocorrect to type it (it thinks you mean 'off').
I knew Horace would catch it.
I wish we could use it more often ∀ our discussions. It would save a lot of time.
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The only time the government intruded in my life is in the distant past, when I held slightly extreme libertarian views to the point of ignoring the filing of income taxes for several years. I used to be a very selfish person. I hate that about myself.
I no longer hold those views. The fact that I had to cough up more than enough money to buy a house, and decimate any chance of early retirement, had no impact on my views changing. It only strengthened my hatred of the government at the time.
I still do not like the government, but for many other reasons that I will not discuss here, or anywhere.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@mik said in To what degree has the government ever intruded in your life?:
My nephew is following in your footsteps. Hasn't filed for several years. The dumb thing is he would probably get it all back.
If you don’t owe any taxes, it’s not too big a deal not to file, from what I understand.
