Costco Same Day Delivery

[ironyak]

PT - We've been trying for the longest to get a same day delivery from Costco.
PE - Good idea! If there was a group of Puna residents who ordered on the same day...
Ok everyone, time for a reading glasses check (remember, you may have pushed them up on your forehead ;)

Durian Fiend already gave you the lead you are after. (although you probably have enough already stored upstairs ;) - "According to "Hilo Happenings", some guy named Sean Wailin O'Phelan does Costco pickups for $50."

Here's a FB convenience link with his contact info. Good luck, let us know how it goes if you either get groceries or donate them to the driver, and don't ever say the youth never did anything for you (other than fund your retirement and health care upon the threat of imprisonment, oh, and fetch long-distance specialty groceries apparently ;)

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

time for a reading glasses check 

Reading glasses are for wussies.  I’ve had REAL glasses since 4th grade. 

So it’s not the glasses.  Could be the memory? Person, woman, man, camera, TV.  Still got it!  A+! Not that either, but thanks for the link!

[HiloJulie]

reading glasses check
Reading glasses are for wussies

(Let's see who gets some good old fashioned "boomer" humor):

ME: "What's all this fuss I keep hearing about people needing asses?"

(Yak's voice in my head): Umm, I hate to correct you, but that was "reading glasses."

ME: "Oh, that's different."

ME: "Never mind."

(Think of the joke I could have gone with using "wussies!")

[ironyak]

kalakoa - In Hawaii, that Doordasher needs to rent office space or get a Conditional/Special Use Permit
Experience tells me you have a HRS/County Code in mind, so care to share the deets? Also, can one get a SUP for an unpermitted jungle shack in a non-confirming subdivision? Seems contradictory, but yeah, Welcome to Hawai'i Fantasy Island.

HereOnThePrimalEdge - Reading glasses are for wussies.  I’ve had REAL glasses since 4th grade.
Sound(ed) like quite the creative solution - "don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly [pedagogical] glory". I always went with the squinty yawn, and Malcolm X-esque finger-on-the-side-of-the-eye trick. As-salamu alaykum, fellow kids with glasses they tried to sidestep.

that’s what I did since the 1980’s.
Yes, yes, you paid for your elders' retirement and golden years under coercion like Ms. Rand and now want someone to reimburse you. But just because you got shaken down for your creamy, creamy milk money back in the day (did like me a frozen custard when was forced to be back in the area), doesn't mean shaking down the kids for their coconut milk money is pono now. Maybe, those businesses with the billionaire owners, record profits and stock valuations, and whatnot could pay the entire ~15% and break the cycle of the intergenerational ponzi scheme abuse?

Could think of it like a "have pension will travel" for all those still working and forced to job-hop every few years as the economy crumbles/transforms around them. Sort of a going away gift from the demographic with the largest number of voters. Elsewise other solutions are going to become more and more common - "All you had to do was pay us enough to live."

Even gig workers' venture cap middle-men tech bros could be required pay into it as apparently Hawai'i had the fastest growth in people with a second job at 34% for 2022-23. Who says no one wants to work these days? (rhetorical question, we all know who says that ;)

Could be the memory? Person, woman, man, camera, TV.  Still got it!  A+!
Well, you're clearly as qualified as the current guy, probably moreso as you understand what a joke of a standard that is to be highlighting. I got my Hawai'i election notification card already so I'll be sure to write you in as my candidate on August 8 and November 3. If you don't win clearly the elections are flawed, ballots have gone missing, and we riot (I'll bring a Hibachi on knobby-tires version of this to handle the "roads" so we can grill some shiitake and pineapple during the "mostly peaceful chaos" ;)

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

doesn't mean shaking down the kids for their coconut milk money is pono now.

Can we meet in the middle?  I saw what happens when the elderly become a burden to society on The Twilight Zone.  When citizens reached a certain age they were escorted into the Disinatron.   I’ve been looking over my shoulder at young folks since I was 10.

[ironyak]

HereOnThePrimalEdge - Can we meet in the middle?
Nope, it's the Green New Deal or nothing (the "Soylent" is implied ;) But more seriously, maybe? What do you mean, like at Mauna Kea Recreational Area to exchange Costco groceries for kala, or what other type of meeting in the middle?

I saw what happens when the elderly become a burden to society on The Twilight Zone.  When citizens reached a certain age they were escorted into the Disinatron.
I thought Twilight Zone was all "Kick the Can", metaphorically of course, and wandering off to Neverland, not into the snow, but maybe I missed an episode, like George Takei's, in the shadow of Pearl Harbor and Korematsu, episode "The Encounter"?

The Disinatron strikes me more like Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" (available in short form on Old Time Radio), or Logan's Run, or Atwood's "Torching the Dusties", which has all of her acerbic wit condensed down into short story form (Burn Baby Burn, It's Our Turn. And now let's take some calls from the listeners - "Don't trust anyone under sixty" and they all laugh)

I'd suggest that there would less of a burden imposed if money wasn't being taken from insufficient paychecks from two or more jobs in Hawai'i, just to give it to those that already own houses, and stocks, and 50%+ of the total wealth. Not sure if you're seeing as many "Only livable wages can prevent warehouse fires" and Luigi emojis in the Overton window on the world from your perch in Puna, but they've caught my, and many others', attention.

I’ve been looking over my shoulder at young folks since I was 10.
Well you got to, or you'll get pantsed, or bra snapped, or that thing where they kick the bottom of the your foot as you're walking down the hall and you step all silly - good times. That reminds me - "What do you call it when trying to learn pidgin? Training Brah." Maybe can get those in bulk too at Costco along with some Rap on DVD and BluRay.

[HiloJulie]

I'd suggest that there would less of a burden imposed if money wasn't being taken from insufficient paychecks from two or more jobs in Hawai'i, just to give it to those that already own houses, and stocks, and 50%+ of the total wealth. Not sure if you're seeing as many "Only livable wages can prevent warehouse fires" and Luigi emojis in the Overton window on the world from your perch in Puna, but they've caught my, and many others', attention.

Once again Yak, another brilliant suggestion.

Here is an idea.

As we discussed prior, an employee of a company pays 6.2% for Social Security tax and another 1.45% for Medicare tax for a total of 7.65% of earned wages. The company that employee works for then MATCHES that same tax, thus remitting to Uncle Sam a TOTAL of 15.3% of the wages earned in your name.

That 15.3% tax rate is applied to the employee and the employer until a total of the gross wages earned is 184,500 in 2026. Wages earned above 184,501 are taxed at the rate of 1.45% for Medicare for each the employee and employer for a total of 2.9%, however, once gross earnings hit 200,000, the employee ONLY pays an additional 0.9%, while both the employee and employer continue to pay the 1.45%.

How about we make the 15.3% an EMPLOYER only contribution up to the 184,500, and then go to the split contribution but keep the same 15.3% on wages after the 184,500 to say maybe 300,000, then continue on with the same 15.3% but put it entirely on the employee earning the money with there never being a cap on any wages earned. And lets face it, even though the DJIA is not at 50,000 anymore, it did close today at around 48,500, so I am sure Wall Street could withstand a slight hit to those income statements, although it might cost the CEO a few hundred grand in their target bonus payout or the amount of stock option grants to be awarded. Boo hoo.

Now, admittedly, and sorry HOTPE and DD Granny, that really doesn't help the self-employed entrepreneur much, but boy, it sure just might make the term livable wage mean something for most. They might be able to buy that house, invest in stocks and accumulate wealth so then when they get to the age when they can sit and look out the window on the world from their perch in Puna, they got a nice big nest egg to look forward to being refunded to them and can maybe have a steak for dinner once a week, instead of spending 4 hours at the church food bank standing in line to get week old expired cereal no one likes?

But if you really want to shake the tree, how about we reclassify stock option payouts as "earned income?" 

And I also notice you also like to use the colloquial "YOU" and "YOUR" a lot instead of the more appropriate collective "we."

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The Disinatron strikes me more like Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky"

It may not have been Twilight Zone.  Perhaps Outer Limits.  Star Trek?  Definitely not Lost in Space.  The morning after Twilght Zone and Outer Limits were broadcast, the 4th grade boys would gather on the playground before school and analyze episodes for monster ratings, coolness, scare factor and more.  It was universally agreed Twilight Zone was the higher quality program, but we still had to watch Outer Limits for possible hidden truths.  

I viewed way too much science fiction as a kid.  The gold standard of course was Forbidden Planet.  It’s hard to beat even now.  But sometime day to day observations of truth are even stranger than fiction.  Case in point:

There is a middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Threads of Punaweb.

[leilanidude]

How about we make the 15.3% an EMPLOYER only contribution up to the 184,500, and then go to the split contribution but keep the same 15.3% on wages after the 184,500 to say maybe 300,000, then continue on with the same 15.3% but put it entirely on the employee earning the money with there never being a cap on any wages earned.
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Won't work. Employers will agree to pay employees more in either stock or deferred payments.

However, by law, the cap is there because there is also a cap on the amount paid out via that monthly SS check. Raise the amount coming out and you have to raise the amount paid out. In other words, tax me more, pay me more.

[randomq]

There are no guarantees that you "get out what you pay in" for social security, medicare, etc. The cap could be removed, and the definition of income expanded to cover alternative forms of compensation. It's not happening because the high income earners are also contributors to political campaigns. But it would benefit the overwhelming majority of Americans, especially if combined with a wealth tax on combined holdings over one billion dollars. Come on, cry for the billionaires...

It would be cool to say Hawaii could be progressive on this, but it only works if all the states (or fed) do it. Even then, some billionaires may leave the states. Fine, adopt laws that favor American citizens and American businesses that do pay the taxes. America first, etc.