Mine was accurate. I don't take kindly to insults. And how would YOU characterize, "Shove your soapbox up your ass."?

If you look up the chain one more post the convo is about a job. Unless this person in Pittsburgh wants seasonal work at very low wages, his living near farmland is pedantic at best.

Have you read your HOA CCR's? My bet is no. If you want the house, you take the conditions. Further in the US, anything built after around 2000 is in an HOA. I'm in a small neighborhood, 17 houses. You'd think HOA, wtf? Well, we got one. And if you think anyone on the street has read them, think again. Mine is pretty benign as their is no fine mechanism in it. Fortunate. EVERYONE and I mean everyone would have been fined by now. Just the no more than 2 cars in the driveway would get most people everyday. And I have tried to get it dissolved. Weirdly, those same people with 2 cars in the drive every day are the vociferous voices to not dissolve. Everyone is afraid someone is going to paint their house purple. And even after I explain there is no fine mechanism, whatcha gonna do? Head shrugs.

As middleroad also said, this is the answer to the rhetorical question. There is a new big dog at the bowl, and it is ravenous. And the owner is letting the big dog have all it wants.

In the US, you almost certainly do not own the mineral rights. Worse, if they are discovered on "your" property, the owner of the mineral rights can come in and start mining while you live there. It is usually in the fine print of your title. I think the "Bush" family owns mine and I live in a very urban area. Those rights go back generations.

Heck in the US, your HOA can take away your property for hanging christmas decorations too soon. Welcome to America.

So in winter, you plan on traveling south and living in a tenement while working the fields? I don't think you understand the farm worker job.

I'd add one more thing to hammer the point. For those on /. think about your food budget, and I'm talking about if you ate at home and bought your food. Eating out adds dramatically to food costs. What % of your budget would go to food. I know for me personally it may be near the bottom of my monthly costs. My health insurance is double to triple food per month as just one example. Our high standard of living depends on not spending much on food, so we can spend it on other stuff, including eating out, where someone else does the work of food prep/cleanup.

I've built many of my own "remote" control stuff. I do have a cloud server with a static IP so I can get my hone dynamic one though. Majority would not have that advantage so "home" IP could be impossible to get while away. Pi's and beaglebones make great little controllers.

Amana like my kitchenaid is just rebranded whirlpool. I actually do expect simple appliances that use old fashioned methods will still last. Its the "premium" that breaks. Next fridge I might go without icemaker. I've replaced mine a couple times. I think i paid around 200 for the part. Was a pretty easy install. The old style mechanism are a mechanical marvel. Simple, clever minimum ways to break.

Agree, and don't even allow my TStat's to connect to wifi. But curious, has anyone started to see ad's on a TStat? It is a screen.

My "premium" KitchenAid was around 2K when I bought it 25 years ago. Still chuggin. You can get a non stainless exterior fridge today for less than 1K I think. And really given what I've heard about the reliability of modern "premium" fridges, I'm not sure I want one with or without an ad screen. If mine dies, I'd probably get a non-premium one with less stuff to break.

Unfortunately probably true. We may well be the FSA (Fascists States of America) by Christmas.

The BLS request I got was via USMail. They reminded me full force of law not to comply. It was a dumb survey. I filled it out (several year(5) survey they kept sending year after year) even though it was not really applicable to me. I think you'd be wise to do the same. I don't recall the exact penalty, just recall it was large enough to put a serious dent in my bank account. I guess one of the "features" of doing an S-Corp is the privilege of more forms to fill out.

I believe IRS gets W2 info from SSA a couple months after they are due to the SSA, which if I remember right is Jan 30. But as someone who has filed the form with SSA, I know they really don't get them all until end of Feb, and I think employers can revise them after that if they want. And then SSA bundles it all up and delivers to the IRS, I think around late May. So boiled down, IRS knows what you made in 2024 around May of 2025. It is one of the reasons people could easily file a false 1040 in your name. They'd lie about the W2 info on the 1040 and IRS would not know until way after the refund.

As to estimated, I've no idea what the parent is talking about. Safe harbor provisions alone means the current year's estimated taxes can be grossly incorrect relative to taxes. You can literally pay zero estimated tax for a year and have a tax liability of a million bucks for that year and owe no penalty with safe harbor. Heck it could even be a billion dollar liability. Safe harbor has no limit once conditions are met.