#state spending

[house-of-soft-pink]

According to my Calculations 🤓 ...

Assume that the average HRT user is paying $2k/y, and uses HRT for 35 years ($70k).

Assume it costs $140k, all things accounted for, to train a qualified gender therapist, associated staff, and build and run new buildings for them to work in.

Therefore, 10% additional tax on an average HRT user, would go 0.5% of the way to materially increasing the processing speed by the end of that service user's lifetime + the training duration.

Assume there are 100 basis units of processing capacity to begin with (100 therapists and associated capacity of depended staff).

Meaning every 200 lifetime users taxed 10% increases speed by 1 basis unit by the end of the above period.

Assume there are 50k users who have already been processed and therefore are taxable (people on waiting list don't generate tax for this calculation). (To keep things simple, we won't account for where each taxable person is at in their lifetime).

10% tax would therefore increase processing capacity to

100 + (50,000 / 200) = 350.

That would cut a 5 year waiting time down to 1 year and 5 months.

The tax per user would be $200/y.

20% tax ($400/y) = 600 = 10 months.

40% tax ($800/y) = 1100 = 5.5 months.

80% tax ($1,600/y) = 2100 = 3 months.

160% tax ($3,200/y) = 4100 = 1.5 months.

320% tax ($6,400/y) = 8100 = 3 weeks.

640% tax ($12,800/y) = 16100 = 10 days.

1280% tax ($25,600/y) = 32100 = 5 days.

Assume there would be a $250k+ lobbying cost to "encourage" the relevant politicians to pass the legislation, regardless what percentage the tax is set at (paying for lawmakers time), but this could be waived if bundled as part of an election platform.

If there are any glaring omissions in my numbers, please comment, but I've tried to keep the numbers round / easily divisible.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned

[captainjonnitkessler]

I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.

[captain-casual]

Next up: Biden continues to be a crusty piece of shit who ignores his voters

Story here

[wilwheaton]

Q: Why hasn't the SAG-AFTRA strike been resolved?

A:

[yeehawpim]

Beedle & Goodfellow

Goodfellow is a warforged barbarian dnd character I want to use if I ever get to play someday. Figured I'd draw his backstory even if I never do 😊

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.

[lystacre]

“We can rest now”

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

[chimchiri]

For the requests: maybe Dash and Spitfire are doing some bonding gaming with Scoots? I'm sure they enjoy some console gaming, but maybe they could be convinced to do some board games as well?

I had to color this in because I loved this idea too much. Scootaloo gets some help from Spitfire and learns an important lesson about strategy and playing the long game.

Poor Rainbow gets demolished.

[cracklewink]

some sketches of my guy

[egoarc4de]

it's been forever, i don't wanna wait too long

individual panels since im trying to work with smaller canvas sizes and i know tumblr's gonna play shrinkydink with the quality

[casualavocados]

#he doesn't want to fight with you ai di, he wants to Kiss🙄💘🥺

Nat Chen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[sforzesco]

hey! hi! the cartoonist cooperative has an e-sim drive for gaza, offering art for e-sim donations (instructions etc in the link)

[visenyaism]

we’re seeing levels of genderweird here previously thought impossible

[foryouthegays]

ok @ my european followers theres the stereotype that yall dont travel more than like half an hour away .what if u live far in like .university or college or smthin .do u just not go home for holidays ? whats ur Max Time youd spend on a bus/train to get home? bc im curently on a ten hour bus train combo and ive done this three times already this year (and thats not counting the two times i was driven up here which is 8ish hours)