SteveKirk
2yr ago
Raz illegally transfered "semiautomatic assault weapons" without a background check, which is a crime in WA and supposedly an enforcement priority for the party. Needless to say there was no attempt to prosecute anyone involved, because the law was only intended to be used against political enemies.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Wth, my 2018 pc only had 16 until I recently upgraded to 32. I think you were in the top fraction of a percent of users.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Right now users just need to manually set their location to Japan to see R18 content, but who knows how long that will last.
In other news DLsite gave up trying to placate visa and MasterCard, but I'm told they can still be used to buy things through a third(?) party points system or rakuten card.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I remember articles from the activist groups demanding that body cam footage be sealed and only released at the request of the accused. Remind me to find them later.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
BLM was the previous vehicle for institutional leftism to take over everything. "Decolonization" is the new one.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Diverted uncounted billions of dollars to leftist activism to give sinecures to hordes of useless college graduates, putting fringe "critical theory" activists in charge of university hiring, science funding, and formerly apolitical NGOs with massive endowments and prestige.
I don't know what goals you think they had other than "all power to us, loot the system for our ingroup"
How can people still pretend the institutional takeovers of 2020 just didn't happen?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Remember that everyone said this exact same thing about BLM protests in 2015. The movement was a joke, just some crazy college kids.
This is just another loop on the death spiral.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Some sort of respiratory thing I got visiting a friend put me flat on my back for two days, brain fried, fever, hucking up gobs of firm yellow phlegm during coughing fits.
Luckily I've got precooked meals in the freezer, milk, Gatorade, and plenty of cough syrup, but I'm scared that if it'd gotten any worse I'd have had to call on friends who I really don't want to risk getting sick.
I'm normally an extremely healthy person in every way, but recently about once a year in the spring or summer some virus absolutely floors me. Last year one came on so suddenly I almost fell off a deck while installing a window.
What the hell, is this what getting old does to you?
A few years ago he was on a Paleo diet shooting his own goats for dinner. I think he could better be described as "completely unmoored" rather than sailing in a specific direction.
As he ages I wouldn't be surprised if he fell into a silicon valley life extension or uploading cult. Except unlike the 90s maybe they'll really have the secrets of digital immortality.
, if it's something that generates a return other than through appreciation (e.g. a dividend paying stock or real estate), by holding to it longer, you realize more of the value in a form that doesn't count as a capital gain
Those dividends are capital gains though (or worse, interest income if holding treasuries), and you can't choose when to realize them.
Optimal tax efficiency is selling stock yearly to realize ~$50000 cap gains per year, paying 0% if it's your only income, then immediately rebuying the stock because the wash sale rule only applies to losses.
If you sell all at once you end up in the highest bracket. If you were already in the highest bracket you'll pay the same whether you sell yearly or all at once, but the latter lets you defer the tax.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
This is already being effectively prevented. Every national science grant requires a DEI statement now, evaluated by a DEI committee. Even astronomers need to talk about how their work will empower marginalized communities and engage with indigenous ways of knowing. The system is set up at every level to ruin weirdos, dissenters, and anyone who isn't at the forefront of party dogma.
The absurd hypotheticals already happened years ago without anyone noticing.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
That would be a crazy coincidence, but it was the other college where this happened last week. Wish I'd gone to Vanderbilt, but couldn't pass up a no-loan full ride.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You know I worried about that before posting, and should have contextualized the quote more.
The office tweeted a statement with identical wording too. The phasing of "general description (specific tort you should sue for hint hint)" feels like a very deliberate attempt to open source Consequences for the protesters.
It bothers me immensely and I'm struggling to finish an essay trying to explain it clearly.
Do you know Lewis's "The Inner Ring" speech? I think it's related to how concentric rings of social circles form, with people at each layer sneering at those in the outer layer, while apeing the fashions of the inner layer they're desperate to be inducted into.
The other (hierarchy) is not printed anywhere. Nor is it even a formally organised secret society with officers and rules which you would be told after you had been admitted. You are never formally and explicitly admitted by anyone. You discover gradually, in almost indefinable ways, that it exists and that you are outside it; and then later, perhaps, that you are inside it.
There are what correspond to passwords, but they are too spontaneous and informal. A particular slang, the use of particular nicknames, an allusive manner of conversation, are the marks.
It has no fixed name. The only certain rule is that the insiders and outsiders call it by different names...” From outside, if you have dispaired of getting into it, you call it “That gang” or “they” or “So-and-so and his set” or “The Caucus” or “The Inner Ring.” If you are a candidate for admission you probably don’t call it anything. To discuss it with the other outsiders would make you feel outside yourself. And to mention talking to the man who is inside, and who may help you if this present conversation goes well, would be madness!
The "shell game of implausible deniability" is how people advance in leftist circles. The dev I mentioned must affect all the correct mannerisms to be admitted to a higher circle in his ideologically captured industry. But to name that circle would be unthinkably gauche!
To label it with a term like "woke" announces you're an outsider, the worst kind of scum who has despaired of any social advancement, and anyone hoping for admission must publicly shun you.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
IANAL, but the combination of conspiracy charge and restitution looked to me like a tactic to expose the funding organizations to lawsuits (ActBlue, Community Justice Exchange, the whole leftblob of billionaire money laundering)
No, funnily enough the same thing happened at my college, where I have sources on who the factions were.
The PLO occupied the admin building, and the black woman college president announced they're being suspended. But behind the scenes it's a fight between the remaining Jewish senior admins and the new wave of third-worldist profs and deans, who are each doing their best to manipulate procedural outcomes and whip up a mob, respectively.
The schism between senior old-lib Jews and new-left juniors keeps repeating in colleges, newsrooms, and government. I can only imagine the same thing just played out in the Google arrests+firing, but don't have insider information there any more.
Watching people wave Hamas flags and chanting "Al-Qassam you make us proud!" has shaken them out of a trance.
Free expression is fine. She's saying she will run her organizations according to those arguably illegal principles.
I wouldn't want to fire a guy for tweeting "There Might Be Niggers Here, He Thought to Himself etc."
But if the chairman of the national science foundation started posting "don't feel like giving any grants to niggers this year lmao" there should be questions asked about whether he's violating the law.
At least this is the distinction being used to justify his tactics among liberal types. After the New York Times went after middle school girls for singing along to rap lyrics I'm personally happy to make them eat their own shit for eternity.
Did anyone see the SF DA's press release about the Golden gate blocking arrests? The perps were booked on a felony conspiracy charge, and it concludes
anyone who was detained against their will (falsely imprisoned) on the golden gate bridge... Is urged to contact the CHP at ### and provide a statement detailing what happened to you... So you can be alleged as a victim. You may be entitled to restitution and have other victim rights guaranteed under Marsy's law
(Edit: to clarify, this statement was addressed to anyone who the protesters blocked from crossing the bridge, declaring them victims who can seek restitution from the protesters! TTBOMK I'm not aware of a statement like this being issued after a left wing protest/riot before.)
They're not throwing the book at them, but does this seem like a setup to finally go after the leftist orgs funding these protests and inflicting financial harm on them?
It's strange for an SF official to be pursuing a strategy from Rufo's Twitter feed! "False imprisonment by rioters" has been a talking point on the right for years now, but it took urban liberal Jewish/* lawyers to deploy it in practice?
/* Don't @me, you know it's a safe assumption on this issue!
Twitter.com/Artiah669/status/1778933764984320157
It's been a real thing for years. The call is "NORMALIZE X", where X is a deformity, mental illness, obesity, etc. it's the natural result of "representation matters.".
You can see it in all the comments: "Damn apparently every character needs to follow strict societal beauty standards rooted in white supremacy" etc. etc.
Once again it's only a conspiracy theory when outsiders notice what the insiders celebrate.
Even that dev who was recently making excuses about how face modeling is hard snuck in an "and actually it's good to challenge cis hetero beauty standards and we're doing it deliberately" towards the end.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Flat sales tax with a rebate partially solves it, although in practice you would need a horrible VAT system to stop people living off their employer tax-free (like the tech companies already do to some extent)
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Thanks for raising this btw, because I'm doing a Banned Book Review and this exact issue comes up in the text. (Spoilers: the heroes ethnically cleanse the LA area in a rough and ready fashion)
Cost basis is "stepped up" on death. I buy GOOG for $1, it's now $1000, I never sell and live off loans backed by the stock. When I die my heir gets the stock with a new cost basis of $1000, sells it for $1000, and pays 0 capital gains.
Except for the almost extinct inheritance tax of course, and whatever I end up paying on the dividends/sales used to pay interest on the loan
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The new "female" model is just the male model with boobs stapled on
Oh no no no, they can't just bait like this, it's not sporting. And the worst part is PoGo is one of the few videos games that has an actual female player base rather than male not-models with boobs strapped on.
It'll be interesting to watch the universal condemnation turn into "only the chuds hate this" after the articles come out. It happens every single time, like people just forget what they used to think.
Because they don't want people making and distributing porn independently of party control. Even the "liberatory queer sexuality" team want it managed like the government affiliated "kids BDSM" clubs in Germany.
Or the Sozialwerk.LGBT+ club for kids 13+ in Switzerland that made the news recently, with the big box of sex toys on the table.
These groups don't want natural sexual expression, and certainly don't want it tainted by capitalism! They want it broadly repressed and its release carefully managed by Licensed Queer Social Workers.
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