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As a senior I'm really not feeling any FOMO here. If the tools are going to get better and better, is there any need to be an early adopter, or build expertise in using them?

I would recommend looking for partners in your state, or somewhere you don't mind working. Get your resume ready, and figure out where you're at in terms of remote or onsite work. Reach out to org leads or recruiters and see if they have any matches for your skillset.

This is the national org for 1099 passthrough contracting shops. See if any of these folks have work. These organizations will perform the sales part with larger companies, and carry larger insurance policies than independent consultants can usually get. They'll take a cut, but there's still pretty good money in it. The work is typically staff augmentation roles on various large projects at F500 companies.

https://techservealliance.org/member-directory/

There's also a supplier directory it may be worth registering on.

It has gotten simpler in recent years. For people who just have regular jobs and families, you probably just have a wages statement from your employer (w-2). Most taxes are taken out already at payroll time. You add up all your w-2's and report on how many children you have and based on that you can calculate your taxes.

The forms used to calculate this are quite complicated because they are designed to be very versatile. For instance, in years gone by you could reduce your taxable income by noting stuff like healthcare expenses, childcare expenses, home mortgage interest etc. This is all now covered (for most people) by a standard income exemption that everyone gets.

The forms have not been simplified to match.

I agree. I think frameworks that hide the client server interplay are bad. This type of technology teaches magical thinking that doesn't live up to its promises as soon as you go a little off the beaten path and is more frustration than it's worth.

Having said that, first job is a first job. Take that c# you learn to a REST backend job once you have a couple years experience.

I think this really puts the lie to the idea that market based housing is going to be good enough. It is not good enough to reduce the rate of rent inflation, as housing is already not affordable enough.

We need local and state industrial policy that actually builds affordable housing.

I was also absolutely gob smacked at this. Will they care? Probably not. Are you putting yourself at the absolute mercy of them deciding not to care? Absolutely.

I would have a hard time sleeping... like this would be like being in IT and knowing the backups were bullshit.

Yep. We need massive new sources of green power generation, probably nuclear until fusion gets going. We need to build stable liquid hydrocarbons and inject them back into oil wells, and build new coal mountains to replace the ones we extracted.

It's a completely insane amount of energy and effort, and every fossil fuel we burn makes it harder.

I think it's possible and worthwhile. It isn't really any more cartoonish than the wastefulness of our current material culture.

Google is paying Mozilla to develop a web browser, to allow Google to develop a web browser without pissing off anti trust.

They're doing a merely ok job. It's not clear if that's intentional or because they're badly run.

There's a story there, this article seems to mostly be political winging.

I can not believe legal THC gummies are allowed to taste like candy.

Current state is like if whiskey had the drinkability of Sprite. People would be fucking dead left and right.

Weed consumables should taste * bad *. They should taste like you're ingesting a powerful dissociative hallucinogen. Eating more than three should be actually gross and weird.