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Who Told You That Traditional Marketing Is Gone? Read this to Know The New Trends

Who Told You That Traditional Marketing Is Gone? Read this to Know The New Trends https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/traditional-marketing-dead-before-you-bury-itread-ajala-abiodun?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

June 25-30, 2024 - ???

Not for the first time [x] [x], Supernatural decided to increase everyone's blood pressure by trending for absolutely no reason. It's been jumping at random trending slots on and off, but as far as I can tell, there's no specific source, other than the universe hating to see us at peace.

Unless- @mishacollins do you know something we don't?

[xxgoldie]

Imagine being all hurt and upset, feeling poopy because of your period (LIKE I FEEL RN .... 😢) and you see him and all the pain goes away because you see him and all the butterflies erupt in your tummy and it doesn't hurt anymore yippee.... but if he asks you how you do or whatever you feel a bit sad because you're moody, so he goes next break to buy you some chocolate or whatever he thinks you might like... I don't know man... I just need college Lighter in my life... 😭😭😭😭 just normal stuff like catching the metro together, out for a snack in between courses... studying together, even though you might have different majors, doesn't matter... and he's like big and strong and sgsngdngsnfwnwf

...sorry for that... I'll just go, hide in a corner 😭😭

-🐇 anon

ur so right ur so right like he's such an absolute sweetheart in every universe but as a uni student good God. I need uni Lighter in my life. like he'd be the slightly intimidating campus crush at first, true oomf material, but then u get paired in a project w him or talk to him at some party or find out you have friends in common and suddenly you're friends and figuring out he's actually so nice, just genuine and thoughtful and funny and kind, and it's kinda hard to not fall in love with him a little bit.

and ughhhh daily uni life with him would be so fun. getting groceries together, study dates at a café, movie marathons and late-night walks and stressing over deadlines and sharing gossip, like it'd all just be so Perfect with him. he's always up for shenanigans, he'll go to the random events like pottery painting and house plant sales that your uni organises with you every time just to keep you company because he knows you don't like going to them alone. ideal man.

[senatortedcruz]

Turns out I’m the female with a do nothing email job the groypers are always reeeeeing about

[akajustmerry]

its crazy how almost all "generational wars/differences" are actually expressions of injustices relating to class, race, and public policy. it's almost like unjust systems want to push narratives that reframe injustice as an immutable symptom of age because it prevents mobilisation and solidarity between different generations and ensures the maintenance of the status quo.

[proustianlesbian]

happy 66th birthday to THE fictional man of all time !! my beloved for real

[consistentsquash]

Auckland is a city where people sleep in doorways and alleys on Queen Street every night and undeveloped public housing projects rot away, while the palaces of the rich stack up higher in Remuera, Epsom, and Waiheke Island. Every concession that New Zealand has made to the profits of private landlords pushed Scarlett Pavlovich into Gaiman’s arms. She had nowhere else to go. None of the women like her do.

[suenitos]

calling gay people over 29 old as a recession indicator

[docholligay]

Okay, I guess I am gonna balk at this. Me and this show are clearly coming from different points of view and different conclusions. I don't think the ending to Drosselmeyer's original story was UNHOPEFUL. THis idea the prince had, that the world was worth GIVING HIMSELF UP FOR, I find that beautiful. To hear, "If you do this, you will become a shell of yourself. You will never feel anything ever again" and to look back at the world and go, "Yes. I'll do it." I think that is hopeful and courageous and noble.

So to act here like Drosselmeyer has never heard of hope, just because he doesn't want a story where a duck can inspire everyone to be real cool all of a sudden through the power of a whole fuckin lot of pirouettes, is annoying to me.

I get that this is just two people who look at the world differently and I am sure this writer finds this all very heart swelling, but unless she's prepared (she is not) to have Ahiru actually drop dead Red Shoes style, I refuse to be like, "Ah yes, this is a story about hope, and the story where someone chose to hollow themselves out for the love of others is drivel"

[cherryblossomshadow]

No (Federal) Taxes on Tips

No Tax on Tips by the Daily Show ft Desi Lydic

Desi Lydic: It's weird he's even talking about sending teachers to the gulag, because Trump has more popular policies, like his proposal to end taxes on tips, which is so popular that Kamala Harris now says that SHE supports it. And Trump is not happy about that … Look, to be fair, Kamala did copy Trump's no tax on tips idea,

which would make it the first time in history that a woman got credit for repeating a man's idea.

We did it, girls. And she didn't stop there. Kamala also completely ripped off his idea to lead in the polls by 3 points against a rapidly deteriorating candidate. That was his thing. That was his thing.

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Harris v. Trump on Taxing Tips by Robert Reich

Kamala Harris, Saturday, in Las Vegas: Raise the minimum wage. And eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers Donald Trump, at Mar-A-Lago: We’re gonna have no tax on tips. Very simple

Ali Velshi from MSNBC: The Trump plan sounds like it's for regular people, but it could easily be a backdoor way to give big tax breaks to rich people who can reclassify their commission income as tips

Robert Reich: You betcha. In fact, we are going to see all kinds of things reclassified as tips. You can bet that private equity managers and hedge fund managers, who are now in the seven or eight digit classification, suddenly a lot of what they earn will become tips. At least under Donald Trump's proposal, because it's not — there are no guardrails. There's no limits to who can declare what as tips Ali Velshi from MSNBC: The key difference in Kamala Harris’ no taxes on tips proposal is that it's only for service and hospitality workers RR: I think it could be helpful if combined, as Kamala Harris wants to do, with a minimum wage hike. And also limit it so that Wall Street commission professionals can't sort of reclassify their income as tips. By the way, let me just say one further thing about this, and that is that the Labor Department under Donald Trump DID change the regulations to allow employers to take the tipped incomes of their employees and use it for their profits.. I mean, it's quite rich that Donald Trump has jumped on this one

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Americans For Tax Fairness (@/4TaxFairness)

"No taxes on tips" isn't the win you think it is. Most tipped workers wouldn't get much of a tax cut at all. But you know who would? Corporations that employ tipped workers and the wealthy who can relabel their income as "tips" at will. Pass.

(Title of the above image is Table 1: The No Tax on Tips Act would provide no or paltry tax cuts to many tipped employees – far less than restoring American Rescue Plan tax credits)

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Robert Reich (@/RBReich) quote-retweeted with:

Trump keeps touting plans to not tax tips. But estimates show that a majority of tipped workers wouldn't benefit.  Who would benefit? Big earners like hedge fund managers who could convert their fees into "tips" and get big tax breaks. It's another Trump tax scam.

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Why Trump's and Harris' proposals to end federal taxes on tips would be difficult to enact

By Dee-Ann Durbin | The Associated Press

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips.

But experts say there’s a reason Congress hasn’t made such a change already. It would be complicated, not to mention enormously costly to the federal government, to enact. It would encourage many higher-paid workers to restructure their compensation to classify some of it as “tips” and thereby avoid taxes. And, in the end, it likely wouldn’t help millions of low-income workers.

“There’s no way that it wouldn’t be a mess,” said James Hines Jr., a professor of law and economics and the research director of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Both candidates unveiled their plans in Nevada, a state with one of the highest concentrations of tipped service workers in the country. Trump announced a proposal to exclude tips from federal taxes on June 9. Harris announced a similar proposal on Aug. 10.

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Harris’ campaign has said she would work with Congress to draft a proposal that would include an income limit and other provisions to prevent abuses by wealthy individuals who might seek to structure their compensation to classify certain fees as tips.

Her campaign said these requirements, which it did not specify, would be intended “to prevent hedge fund managers and lawyers from structuring their compensation in ways to try to take advantage of the policy.” Trump's campaign has not said whether its proposal would include any such requirements.

Even so, Hines suggested that millions of workers — not just wealthy ones — would seek to change their compensation to include tips, and could even do so legally. For example, he said, a company might set up a separate entity that would reward its employees with tips instead of year-end bonuses.

“You will have taxpayers pushing their attorneys to try to characterize their wage and salary income as tips,” Hines said. “And some would be successful, inevitably, because it’s impossible to write foolproof rules that will cover every situation."

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Though supporters say the measures are designed to help low-wage workers, many experts say that making tips tax-free would provide only limited help to those workers.

The Budget Lab at Yale, a non-partisan policy research center, estimates that there were 4 million U.S. workers in tipped occupations in 2023. That amounted to about 2.5% of all employees, including restaurant servers and beauticians. Tipped workers tend to be younger, with an average age of 31, and of lower income. The Budget Lab said the median weekly pay for tipped workers in 2023 was $538, compared with roughly $1,000 for non-tipped workers.

As a result, many tipped workers already bear a lower income-tax burden. In 2022, 37% of tipped workers had incomes low enough that they paid no federal income tax at all, The Budget Lab said.

“If the issue is you’re concerned about low-income taxpayers, there are a lot better ways to address that problem, like expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit or changing tax rates or changing deductions,” Hines said.

In her speech in Nevada, Harris also called for raising the federal minimum wage. (The platform on Trump’s campaign site doesn’t mention the minimum wage.)

Changing federal tax policy on tips would also be costly. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan group, estimates that exempting all tip income from federal income and payroll taxes would reduce revenue by $150 billion to $250 billion between 2026 and 2035. And it said that amount could rise significantly if the policy changed behavior and more people declared tip income.

Whether Trump or Harris wins the presidential election, tax policy will be high on Congress’ agenda in 2025. That’s because Trump-era tax cuts, passed in 2017, are set to expire. But Hines said he thinks Congress will be in no hurry to add “vast amounts of complexity” to the tax code.

“A presidential candidate can say whatever they want, but it's the House and Senate that have to do it,” he said.

[cerusee]

Ceru! 17 and 22 for the ask game?

17 - What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?

I was rereading my latest published chapter on Kept Safe—I do this a lot when I’m publishing an ongoing WIP even when it’s technically all written; it’s very helpful in deciding what last-minute tweaks I might want to make to the next one—and I just really liked that chapter. It might be the best chapter after the first one, honestly! I felt like I did a solid job of foregrounding just how incredibly, immediately traumatized WWX was by his accidental murder of Jin Zixuan and the terrible consequences thereof, and having that as the lead-up to the reveal that he not only agreed to but kind of leapt at a memory wipe as double whammy form of atonement/escape from actually dealing with anything. Wei Wuxian, you love running away from your problems! Alas, they are persistence predators.

22 - Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?

I did the same thing I always do every time I finish a fic, and the bigger the project, the more I do this: fucking panic and try to dive right into my next one. The last time I rested on my laurels, as it were, was the monthslong hiatus between sloooow-drip leaving my last fandom, as I realized I simply had nothing more to say, and no interest in engaging with where the canon was going, and tentatively starting to write for my current one.

I’ve developed the habit of mostly only actively working on one fic at a time (I know this sounds crazy, since I published a BUNCH of other stuff while I was writing my epic longfic, but when I did that, I was tending to take breaks on the longfic, rather than toggling between WIPs), which is pretty great for focus and getting a project done, but tends to leave me with Fic Writing Hangover, where I struggle to shift gears, but feel uncomfortable breaking the habit of actively working on writing.

Generally, it sorts itself out within a week or two at most. I think this makes me a more productive writer, but at what cost, man.

[sporkspud]

one thing I find very. charming? about old and foreign media both is that I have no idea how much anything costs. just throwin out these numbers straight past my head. like yes maybe I'll look it up afterwards but in the moment I'm peering around at the characters like oh? is that a lot? how much a lot? ooohhh big money big money baby shoes!

[pxgeturner]

age regression is not always a trauma response and it is not always involuntary. a lot of people enjoy engaging in sex acts while age regressed, when they have already established boundaries and expectations with their partners in advance.

my anon specifically points to reddit communities where there are various examples of this. people state their preferences. some enjoy sex in little space, others do not.

i’m not conflating age regression and age play, but there can be overlap. your experience is not universal, and neither is mine.

the definition of age regression, sweetheart, is an involuntary defense mechanism in which a person reverts to an earlier state of mental development. this response is caused by intense fear or stress. (hm. sounds like a trauma response to me. but how do you define trauma? because intense moments of fear or stress pretty much hits the nail on the head for me.)

children cannot consent to being sexualized. so an adult who is in age re cannot either. age play is completely separate. the people who u pointed out on that subreddit are age players not regressors. they are in subspace, not littlespace. that term is only for age regressors and not submissive age players. yes they both use the term "little" unfortunately. but they have different definition depending on the context. if you ever see me reference littles I will be talking about regressors not ageplayers.

it is true some littles might enjoy age play but not while they are in little space and it is also a thin line to follow as age playing might make then slip into littlespace which can be dangerous. so like I said. a thin line.

it is SO TRUE that there are varying experiences of littlespace because depending on what age you regress back into, your behavior will change. but age-re≠age play. at. all. you are conflating age play and age-re by saying that there is frequent overlap. overlap is very very rare.

I don't like bringing him up, but Sigmund freud, the man who first studied age-regression is rolling in his grave because of the way you're spreading misinformation ❤️. please please do research !

also. if you think it is ok to engage sexually with people in the midst of an age regression episode I would highly suggest you seek out mental health resources near you because that is not healthy. adult littles can totally engage in sex! its fun and healthy! except in littlespace.

[lesbiansanemi]

Why does every single career involving writing hinge on NETWORKING AND BASICALLY BEING AN INFLUENCER AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH