good thing we got rid of fema in 2025 then
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im just not gonna worry about the sun
It's gonna get you!
They said we weren't prepared for a pandemic, either.
Shit we gotta fix this.
Man you know it’s bad when you’re rooting for this or a civil war or nukes. Just to reset everything. I’m so over being an American.
If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.
You won’t have to pay anything unless you’re pulling in the equivalent of >$126,500 USD in foreign income. Then you’re taxed on what you make above that. My H&R Block lady here in Germany told me all about it when I file every year. And boy howdy is fuuuuucking stupid that I’m having to file US taxes every year. I could stop, but then everything falls apart for me.
That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it's not a hard threshold below which you're totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It's not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.
Even if you're making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.
I’ve filed for 7 years straight and never owed a cent. Oddly, got a little back, 2 years straight. Might have been the covid money, which even more laughable as I didn’t set foot, much less work, in the US for the entirety of the pandemic. Single, no property or other taxable assets and no additional sources of income outside my monthly paycheck from my Euro employers. If I, me broke that $126k threshold, then I’d have to pay something. Getting there. Let’s see if the USA doesn’t collapse on itself first*
(* I hope not.)
This is news to me and so fucked up for a country that considers itself “land of the free”. I hate it here.
You know those stories where the world is reduced to a post-apocalypse after a natural event? What if that's only what happens in the US, and the rest of the world recovers with ease due to extant rescue services?
Oooh, so that's why apocalyptic movies are almost always only US oriented
There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the 'hit'. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).
It is a little more complex than that. You cannot only consider how big is a country or how big is its grid.
If the Europe would be hit by a solar storm, assuming that not all of it was hit we can recover the grid in about a month and the blackout would not be longer than maybe a week.
But a solar storm would destroy also everything else, so how big is the grid is really irrelevant when you basically have every other piece (excluded the few hardened enough) destroyed.
I remember a Tumblr (maybe) post with a similar concept, but about Australia and the Mad Max series.
If it wasn’t for the stupid Darrel Dixon show, my head canon of the walking dead only affecting America would still stand.
They literally just walk, and it would be pretty obvious that everyone is infected after the first year or so of people dying from the flu and shit. Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.
Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.
True but you underestimate people stupidity.
Imagine the zombie rights guests on a Joe Rogan podcast.
Yeah we need to stop giving dumb idiots microphones
Exactly
I’ve always thought that if I’m in a zombie apocalypse im just gonna carry super soakers filled with hydrogen peroxide
After experiencing the covid-19 outbreak I am now fully convinced that a zombie apocalypse is feasible, there would be people denying the existence of the zombie virus, just going to the infected an getting bitten because they wanted a pizza or something, that and people just drenching themselves in bleach or something because they heard that keep the zombies away from some dude online. Stuff like that.
Stuck having to go to work in a zombie apocalypse because you're an "essential worker".
Isn't that the case in the 28 X later series? Like England fell to a zombie apocalypse but the rest of the world is doing fine?
Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually...
...and simply agrees to never, ever, set foot in North America.
I'm in.
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America, Mexico, and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours to The Wastelands.
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours...
Fuck Mexico, I guess.
My sincere apologies, Mexico is definitely on the good list.
Just uhhh... Build a wall, I guess?
Don't look up
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