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Hadn't heard about this one. https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2021/10/close-the-carried-interest-loophole-that-is-a-tax-dodge-for-super-rich-private-equity-executives/ I'm surprised he's targeting "private equity barons who get away with murder" at their low taxes. I don't know enough about it to have an opinion one way or the other, but I just was not expecting something like this. I guess Blackstone had 2 billion of this in 2020? That name seems to make lots of people mad.
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In real news, here are the President's tax priorities he just laid out to the Rep legislators: 1- no tax on tips 2- no tax on SocSec 3- no tax on overtime pay 4- renewing the tax cuts 5- adjusting the SALT cap 6- eliminate all tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners 7- close the carried tax deduction loophole 8- tax cuts for made in America products
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Guiding vs. Allowing to Learn from Mistakes
NeuroTypical replied to Carborendum's topic in Advice Board
Heh. I'm having similar experiences with my adult kiddos. Especially one or two occurences of "Daddy gave me bad advice". Those hurt! My general deal is to give advice if it's welcome, with the understanding that I'm not perfect. I think the healthy line is in how dependent/independent they are. Plenty of adult dependent children out there. If parents are still paying bills/helping out/providing housing/whatever, parents should have great sway in things. If kid is truly earning their own way in life, it's just a function of advice giving and then the adult makes their decision. -
I asked it about Taiwan and wasn't impressed.
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This got lost in the last several weeks of executive orders, and needs a bit more visibility:
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Conversely, if people are unable to keep the commandment to love all and forgive all, they don't have to worry about whether their abuser is in the celestial kingdom or not, because they won't be there themselves. It's an incredibly sobering thought, especially for folks who have tasted some of the worst things humans have to offer one another.
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Indeed. Although it's more important to understand how it works, than to expose any single scammer. I'm still not sure you've got a full grasp of who you're dealing with. There's no persecution complex. There's no real identity attached to this account that has been set up to appear as an American english speaking woman. 12:30 AM your time is about noon in India (although it might be coming from any of a dozen other countries). Scamming is just a regular old job, where people work in offices, with a manager, and a pay structure, and opportunities for advancement. You're dealing with folks named Amir and Siddhartha and Aditi, who filter through stacks of data looking for leads to pass on to the next person. There are endless million fake accounts, with thousands more created every day. Even if the account that messaged you is US based, and a live human clicked send on it, the face attached to that human is not the face from the facebook account. The name isn't real. There's no opportunity to become a "certified Disney travel agent". What they want from you is data. DL#. SSN. Credit card info. It all starts with fishing for a hot account, someone willing to respond to the hook they cast into the web. My wife admins some FB accounts with tens of thousands of followers. She gets contacted at least 5 times a week. Scammers, phishers, data miners, catfishers. The catfishers are fun, because they are real humans, usually young dudes, and they'll invest significant time trying to make a connection. The way to "make 'em pay" is to see how much effort you can get them to spend on you. It keeps 'em from spending time elsewhere. But my friend, the person who messaged you isn't even a catfisher. He's a 23 year old Punjabi named Hari, and he never even read your response. He's just not that into you.
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Oh good! Here, let me update my informGator.txt script: --- It might help if you think of the guy who sent you a text like this: Somewhere in India, our friend got to work by 9am. Today's first job involves canvassing 38,000 FB accounts looking for live ones. His boss got the accounts from a data leak - all these accounts were linked to Disney in the last 2 years. The list came with a script to use written by one of his team with good English skills. He writes a script that will take the words from disney.txt, and send it to all 38k accounts via Facebook Messenger. It's quick to do, and he moves on to other tasks. Tomorrow morning he'll run a scrape on all the pings back, and generate a "hot list" which he'll forward to his entire team, so they can prioritize who to contact for their various scams. Somewhere in that list is Gator's FB messenger info. Because you responded. --- I mean no, it's hardly the end of the world. It's just that your initial "no thanks" was responding to an automated script, and now you'll be contacted by actual human scammers.
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Oh dude you texted back. All that does is confirm you are a "live number", which means you'll be added to a list and sold worldwide for the next gazillion years. It might help if you think of the guy who sent you a text like this: Somewhere in India, our friend got to work by 9am. Today's first job involves canvassing 38,000 cell numbers looking for live ones. His boss got the numbers from a data leak - all these folks have spent money at Disney in the last 2 years. The list came with a script to use written by one of his team with good English skills. He writes a script that will take the words from disney.txt, and send it to all 38k numbers. It's quick to do, and he moves on to other tasks. Tomorrow morning he'll run a scrape on all the numbers who responded, and generate a "hot list" which he'll forward to his entire team, so they can prioritize who to contact for their various scams. Somewhere in that list is Gator's cell number. Because you responded.
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In Trump’s last press conference, he specifically mentioned twice that Musk makes suggestions, and gets approval to move or not move on them. You show me someone who is yelling about this being where he shouldn’t, I will show you someone who is very uncomfortable with people knowing what they have been up to. There are people whose job it is to approve the spending, state they were ordered never to deny a request. They have spent their entire careers never having rejected or delayed a single bit of paperwork. $80 million for condoms in Gaza. $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma. $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab. There’s a couple of news stories of waste, overreach, funding terrorism hitting the news every day. Oh, and $3 million to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), for “firearms and ammunition” training. Funding sent January 3, after PASF carried out Attacks against Israelis. https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-quietly-funneled-3-mil-to-palestinian-government-security-forces-for-weapons-training-after-its-members-carried-out-attacks-on-israelis/ “What are you afraid of him seeing?“ That’s a fine question to ask anyone who is mad at Musk gathering data.
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Please tell her thank you from all the humans who use the app.
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Glad to see this particular evil seeing some daylight. Because that's how you stop this particular evil - by dragging it into the daylight. Shame on the ACLU.
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Yeah, when every single 9th circuit judge, and the SLTribune point out how dumb your lawsuit against a church is, it's time to pay attention. As a side note, I'm always glad to see the traditional rivalry between the church-owned Deseret News and the godless heathen Salt Lake Tribune is still going strong. Personal story: My dad was a printer in the 1970's that worked in the building in which both newspapers were printed. Giant machines almost 2 stories tall. Dad was a typesetter and proofreader for both newspapers. The two newspapers shared plenty of similar content, shared a lot of writers, had similar layouts. The differences were sometimes funny. I remember he once came home from work with a page from each newspaper. The Tribune ran a story about a sports team, with a two-sentence mention of the consumption of liquor. On the same page the DesNews instead ran a story about old ladies knitting blankets. Dad was a proud card carrying heathen, given to loud laughter and mocking sacred things. I eventually entered my surly rebellious teenager phase and started reading DesNews just to spite him. He would have absolutely been on Team Huntsman here, and the 9th circuit smackdown would have provoked plenty of swears.
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Well to be fair, this is one living human (@Ironhold), and one AI chatbot. The rule for AI is to verify everything it says with a human, so I place a higher value on Ironhold's memory than the claim from my post. It's entirely possible IH read an early edition of the book where dude yelled at his friend for failing, and dude revised the story in later editions of the book. I do remember endless hype about the whole 7Habits/Covey way of living professional life. It seemed a tad MLMey to me, and I really disliked how many people seemed to think that a franklin planner was required for anyone claiming to be a good Mormon. I found plenty of good principles to internalize and helpful habits, but I understand why people got turned off at all the hype.
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You're talking about "The seven habits of highly successful people"? It was wildly popular back in the day as both a self-help book, and also good for corporate training. My global company threw a session for managers 15-ish years ago that I got to attend. One criticism at the time came from returned missionaries: "Covey was a mission president, and all this stuff is basically what we learned the first week at the MTC." Be proactive Begin with the end in mind Put first things first Think win–win Seek first to understand, then to be understood Synergize Sharpen the saw I was just starting out in adulthood when I encountered these. It was my introduction to how to set goals and organize life. They were great to learn, as I didn't really have anywhere else to learn such things. I can't think of a single one of them that isn't self-obvious and relevant and applicable to life in general. My franklin planner honestly was one of the most important tools that helped me juggle work/school/life. I had one until online calendaring tools like Microsoft Outlook appeared, now I use it and cloud-based notes and spreadsheets instead. Don't worry about questioning my intelligence - I was not impressed with my level of maturity back in the '90's. This book was one of the many life lessons I learned that helped cure me of much of my stupid.
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I'll just open a potential can of worms... Can ICE enter temples?
NeuroTypical replied to Backroads's topic in Current Events
Something I posted in 2017. Jeffs figures the CIA was in on it as well: Whenever Jeffs issues a new revelation, my ward gets a copy (addressed to a former bishop). Current bishop knows my weird hobbies, and gave it to me, because he rocks. In case anyone is interested, it mentions the following: - Celestial sun-star orbs, like Onidi - a quorum of Eloheim of Elohim - "By morrow midnight, over one billion and seven hundred million murder spirit people on now world" are gonna croak - Instructions to go look at Estonia and Latvia, because half of the population are supposedly missing - We're exhorted to read the Pearl of Great Price. - President Trump is urged, by name, to "now do full deliverance of my now innocent Keyholder" - The CIA pays a judge a yearly bribe of $1,500,000 to keep Jeffs behind bars. - Verse 25 reads: "CIA was, and now is not. Amen." I asked the bishopric if anyone wanted to switch teams and start sending our surplus tithes up to these guys instead, nobody seemed too interested. Which surprises me, because Jeffs' revelations are so much more entertaining to read. -
A billion dollars saved, just by canceling DEI spending within existing government agencies. Holy crap. A billion dollars. A thousand million. More money than I'll ever see in my life. All on stuff like training folks to see race and how to examine their unconscious bias.
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Yep, judge and jury are supposed to be the impartial ones. Everyone else has a side. Wife and I were involved a few decades ago, when a relative was accused of doing horrible things to another relative. The event polarized the family, with most of 'em standing with the accused, and my wife and I were the only ones standing with the victim. That's where I formed my point I was trying to express. I loved everyone in the room, but I had to chose who to sit behind. Who to call the cops on. Whose bishop to tell so they could get the excommunication going. I dearly hope that God's perfect system of justice and mercy doesn't involve that kind of side-taking.
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Yeah, God gets to say who lives and dies, and we're invited to live the 2nd great commandment even unto death. Humans still have to figure out how to deal with each other, and we'll do it in imperfect ways. I'm still looking forward to see this whole "perfect blend of justice and mercy" deal I keep hearing about. Court rooms are interesting things. When you're involved, you either sit on the defense side or the accuser side. There are no middle seats. I'm thinking it ain't that way on a heavenly level.
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I'll just open a potential can of worms... Can ICE enter temples?
NeuroTypical replied to Backroads's topic in Current Events
This happened in the 1930's? Very much a different time, different culture, different people with different values on life. I've heard the notion from multiple WWII red blooded American vets: One thing they liked about hitler was he "emptied out the prisons and insane asylums". Our grandparents and great grandparents thought such things. We have to be careful drawing analogies between interrogators then and now. Without a deep understanding of American history and culture and how it has morphed and changed over time, we're basically just talking out of our butts. -
All of that is there, but so is the stuff about cutting off Laban's head and "go kill everyone in this city" and the Lord will destroy your enemies and fight your battles stuff. I'm endlessly fascinated to think about the last days that usher in the millennium, when the wicked will be burned as stubble. I'm told that everyone will eventually bend their knee as Christ returns and takes on the government, because anyone who refused will have been killed. I mean, nobody puts it that way, but it's pretty clearly that way.
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I'll just open a potential can of worms... Can ICE enter temples?
NeuroTypical replied to Backroads's topic in Current Events
Actually, there are two folks of my name in Colorado. One of them is me, the other one occasionally makes the news for being one of the last people on Colorado's death row before they dumped the death penalty. Sometimes there's a news story about him as he's off filing lawsuits and appeals and stuff, and I come in to work and count the # of people looking sideways at me.