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budgetthrowaway1209 OP t1_jdwvwp1 wrote

Reply to comment by leg_day in [OC] 2022 Income & expenses Sankey for family of 3.5 in SoCal by budgetthrowaway1209

Thanks! That’s a lot of what I was looking for with this post (beyond making pretty color lines) - some benchmarking for tax, savings, spend.

I think our tax rate was helped a lot last year by some renovations we did that had federal and state tax credits (e.g. solar) and our (outrageous) mortgage interest & state taxes.

And get me wrong - will take every take break we can get… I’m fairly liberal, but hope for our sakes the new proposed SALT cap lift gains traction. I can understand its not the most progressive and probably shouldn’t be lifted entirely, but at least make it $20k so it’s fair…

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PyrrhoTheSkeptic t1_jdwvc1o wrote

Reply to comment by Imaginary_Scene2493 in Age distribution of passenger cars in Europe [OC] by mrscript_lt

I don't think we are going to reach that point in 20 years from now. I think it will be much later on, unless government regulations require them to close down.

Right now, the EU is planning on allowing the selling of new gasoline cars up through 2034. Since it is 2023 now, if gasoline were no longer distributed 20 years from now (2043), there would be cars that are only 9 years old when gasoline would no longer be distributed in the EU. That would cause significant hardship for poorer people who cannot afford new cars.

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Notice, even in Luxembourg, which has the highest percentage of newer cars (according to the chart of the opening post), over 25% have cars over 9 years old (it is 25% who have cars over 10 years old, so it must be more than 25% for those having cars over 9 years old). All of the other countries have a higher percentage of older cars on the road.

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In the U.S., where I live, it is likely to be longer that gasoline will be widely distributed than will be the case in the EU, so I expect to not run into that issue with my current car.

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ElectroFlannelGore t1_jdwvbd2 wrote

Reply to comment by RadFriday in 1 month job hunt of an ex-FAANG engineer with 6 years experience [OC]. Made with SankeyMATIC by captboscho

The bone stock basics are this:

Take a period of time during the day or several periods of time. I recommend honestly starting with 1 minute and then 5 minute chunks 4 times a day.

In that time you want to sit somewhere vaguely comfortable. Even your desk chair is fine.

Then focus on your breath. Find an aspect that you can focus on. Different aspects are easier fo different people.

Some like to focus on the feeling of the air passing through the nostrils on inhale or exhale.

Some focus on the feelings of the lungs filling and the ribs expanding.

Others focus on the entire cycle of breathing.

Then the final step is when you notice your attention wandering to anything at all, you label that "thinking" and move your attention back to your breath.

The point isn't to "Stop Thinking" the point is to notice your thoughts, feelings or emotions as they happen and stop following the narrative of the thought. Don't judge the thought. Don't indulge the thought.

Some also find it helpful to repeat "I am breathing in, I am breathing out, I am present." However as your practice goes on and evolves you should try stopping the mantra and just focusing on the breath.

Like any exercise you are working a muscle. It's going to be difficult at first and almost seem impossible.

Common complaints are,"I just keep getting off track!" Or "I catch myself daydreaming!"

Awesome. Great. That's literally the practice. Catching yourself and bringing your attention back is flexing the attention muscle.

I'm present this secularly and have plenty of information in that realm but this is, at it's core, a Buddhist practice for me and I'd be happy to expand on that as well.

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