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@Seb321@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @ariaflame@masto.ai @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @Ilka4You@mastodon.social maybe if you had done more than watch it would have been different. we'll never know.
@foone@digipres.club you are, unfortunately.
a friend of mine who is a thousand times the cider coder I will ever be, who is pretty all on on ai - just short of the "I can't talk to you because I don't want to catch brain worms" level - told me "the code only has to run until you sell the company."
@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu not even close to as much money as he'd pay under the tax. Less than 1%.
doesn't change your point, which I fully agree with, but let's be accurate.
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@SeanCasten@mastodon.social the problem is that even THAT frame grants that originalism is an actual THING - that it's got some kind of intellectual validity, even if one based on a racist framework.
it doesn't. it has always been pseudo-intellectual nonsense, a made up excuse for Scalia and his disciples to claim that whatever bullshit they made up this week wasn't just their political preferences dressed up. that somehow he had the unique ability to mind meld with the founders.
@Seb321@mastodon.social @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social @ariaflame@masto.ai @Robotistry@fediscience.org @Ilka4You@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @hotelzululima@mastodon.social I fled my country because of people who don't vote so yeah, fuck those guys.
@SeanCasten@mastodon.social what an utterly bizarre take. you're acting like they don't understand the consequences of this course of action - when accomplishing those consequences is the whole POINT.
this is how the Roberts court works.
@smutmag@mstdn.social I agree with every single thing you say, but on top of that, R+J has, hands down, the best writing of any of Shakespeare's plays. two of my favorite speeches ("these violent delights have violent ends" and "I see Queen Mab hath been with you"), Romeo and Juliet's initial meeting is a contender for my favorite scene anywhere in Shakespeare, and... Mercutio. and Tybalt. (I have seen two performances of the play where the actors played the two as ex lovers and I CANNOT GET ENOUGH.)
@smutmag@mstdn.social and Romeo and Juliet is so much more universal.
and SHOCKINGLY feminist. I had probably seen it 20 times before I saw a version where Juliet climbs down off the balcony rather than Romeo climbing up to it, and it recontextualized the entire play for me. I reread it, and Juliet is really clearly portrayed as the smarter of the two, the one who is leading the relationship while Romeo is struggling just to keep up. she talks absolute circles around him... good thing the boy is pretty!
@regina_nyckelharpista@sunny.garden it is literally the patriarchy.
we have ONE ACTUAL ADVANTAGE over you - our clothes have pockets, therefore you need to ask us to help you carry things. if women's clothes had pockets you would soon realize we serve no actual purpose and then we'd be in trouble.
@Ilka4You@mastodon.social @baearea_lenita@mstdn.party @vnikolov@ieji.de @BruceMirken@mas.to @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @Seb321@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @ariaflame@masto.ai @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social no, I. do not think you usually do that.
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org also, that judges should get to determine when the proper "conditions" exist for the legislature to legislate.
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@mycotropic@beige.party @Nonilex@masto.ai oh you sweet summer child. the idea that this supreme Court is consistent - and not making decisions based on the political leanings of the litigants is to laugh. as soon as the admin changes, this rule will vanish.
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@jilleduffy@mastodon.social wow. that's amazing! And makes me feel even more like That Guy, telling you something you not only knew, you knew much better than I did :-)
@futurebird@sauropods.win and realistically, I don't begrudge anybody making a living. if you were to tell me "hey, you can make $X writing a great book, or you turn that book into a series, which is slightly worse, but you make $5X for the sequel, $10X for the third book, maybe hey a movie or TV deal..." well I gotta tell you I wouldn't have to think very long about it :-)
@jilleduffy@mastodon.social I would contact a trust and estate lawyer. many are likely to be willing to give you this info for free.
As a lawyer, I would *never* trust information like this from an llm. I don't trust legal responses from an llm in my own field, using specialized llms; this is a high-stakes question and the reader does not have the expertise to identify errors or double check them.
shit, I was just That Guy, wasn't I. sorry.
@troy_frizzell@mstdn.social @bluewave_kiwi@mastodon.nz @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online oh! thank you for the definition. I was thinking that is the only context I know for that acronym, and it couldn't possibly mean that, so.. :-)
@JHein@mastodon.social @RickiTarr@beige.party as a state and local tax lawyer who consults extensively on these issues, I can tell you for absolute certain that millionaires or billionaires hear about tax rates raising, they call my office, talk to us for a while, decide moving is not worth the energy, and don't do it.
@RickiTarr@beige.party I am a tax lawyer who frequently consults for ultra wealthy people trying leave text jurisdictions.
with California's proposed one-time wealth tax being the one exception in my career, people NEVER leave because of tax increases. I want to make this clear. NEVER. not one single time in my career.
people DO leave because they are about to make a gigantic amount of income - selling their company, usually - and don't want to pay tax on $100m in New York, so they move to Florida.
@regina_nyckelharpista@sunny.garden that was originally why kilts were invented.
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@andrew@esq.social @j4ck@iosdev.space @atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I mean, I started in the tax Field in 2019, and this issue has been more or less constantly under discussion for the entire time I've been a tax professional, so I certainly took with a grain of salt the idea that this was some sort of secret or hidden provision. I think it quoted a hedge fund tax manager saying that they were unaware of this, and, well, that person is incompetent and should not have their job :-)
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@newstik@social.heise.de @j4ck@iosdev.space 174 is refundable, which means it can be a source of cash for companies that don't have taxable income.
@PhoenixWright@ieji.de @benroyce@mastodon.social if it means nothing to you, you need to pay more attention and educate yourself.
it's a you problem.
@PhoenixWright@ieji.de @benroyce@mastodon.social again, as long as you understand that point of view is 100% a you problem, go for it!
@atlovato@mastodon.social @fesshole@mastodon.social ... why?
it's so British to serve something good at a party but expect people to go for the shitty option...
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@SheamusPatt@mstdn.ca @llebrun@mastodon.social I don't like her but her arrest seems like complete BS.
@kbal@fedia.io @AkaSci@fosstodon.org some shadows would get weird.
@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems sigh. maybe go back and read the post you responded to.
anyway, have a good day.
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@PoetsOldBones@mastodon.social @knack@aus.social @nonehitwonder@tenforward.social so when you look at someone like, let's say, Alexander the Great - an imperialist who attempted global domination and engaged in mass enslavement, thousands of years before "capitalism" would be a word... what's your theory there?
was Thutmose a capitalist? was dynastic Egypt a capitalist system?
capitalism sucks, and it's a system that enables the worst in human nature to come out. but the problem is human nature. so build systems that fail well.
@anxious_opposition@threads.net I don't know your life... but looking at your picture I don't think you are.
@gleick@mas.to that being said, if it were used properly, that is a beautifully poetic phrase.
@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems to go to a different country or state and take the tax money they pay with them. that's the threat.
@nahuellofeudo@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io "you can't keep going up forever, so at some point you will come down." that's true, my friend. but sometimes you come down a hill back to the level you started. and sometimes at the top of the peak you go off a cliff.
@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net I don't think Trek sugar coats this. While individual Vulcans are portrayed positively I can't think of a single situation where Vulcan society is. Vulcan society is prejudiced, inflexible, and arrogant.
@baearea_lenita@mstdn.party @Ilka4You@mastodon.social @vnikolov@ieji.de @BruceMirken@mas.to @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @Seb321@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @ariaflame@masto.ai @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social turtles punish the wealthy more frequently than America does. that doesn't mean Europe does it often :-)
I definitely agree very strongly with your other points though.
@smutmag@mstdn.social wow. first of all, I love the idea of a world where we are all traveling artists living in buses.
Applying that test so literally means he must have been against anyone doing anything but being a farmer. otherwise we all die.
second of all, it's absolutely the wrong way to look at it. there are a lot of things in the world that are great and small amounts but, yeah, wouldn't be ideal if everyone did them. is he against homosexuality for the same reason?
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@mvilain@sfba.social @elronxenu@mastodon.cloud @mclare@recurse.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr @altonbrown@bird.makeup I don't know that I would admit in public that you have a breast pump as a kitchen gadget.
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@nonehitwonder@tenforward.social @PoetsOldBones@mastodon.social @knack@aus.social no. I'm not saying a system with better fail-safes. the United States is actually a system with some great fail safes that has survived longer than any other similar system. and that's BAD. It let the United States get so powerful that when we finally did fail, we very well might take down the entire world with us.
you can't build systems that are resistant to human nature, so build systems that break easily, with a minimum of death and disruption.
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@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Petesmom@kolektiva.social or do you honestly not think living in a moment of political realignment on a global scale that we haven't seen in almost a century is newsworthy?
@juliank@mastodon.social please explain this moral imperative. What is it? What is its moral basis? what else other than llms would it apply to?
@PoetsOldBones@mastodon.social @knack@aus.social @nonehitwonder@tenforward.social wow.
you're obviously wrong - like, REALLY wrong - but rather than actually try to defend your indefensible lack of knowledge of world history - or show that you're right (hey, I might be wrong!) you're immediately falling back on ad hominems.
which, by the way, are designed to be performative to your in-group.
you are not a serious person, and this is an interesting discussion. so good night!
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@knack@aus.social @nonehitwonder@tenforward.social you don't. You can't magically will humanity into goodness; no matter how hard you try, money and power will always end up accretting and things will get bad. So instead, focus on building systems that fail well - that collapse easily and cleanly when they start being corrupted.
Jefferson was right that you need a revolution every generation or two.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai I don't want to flame someone doing good work in the world (but I'm gonna)
how stupid do you have to be in 2026 to think this act is because they "don't understand" the effect this is having? what does it take to get people to internalize that they DO understand it, and the reason they're doing this is because they understand it!
@lkundrak@metalhead.club @futurebird@sauropods.win if you see it everyday, it should be easy for you to post a video of it, no? please do that.
@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems I don't think that's the threat. this is the only time I've ever heard that proposed as a problem, and as you point out, it really isn't.
@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems but you think "I will take my factory to a different state" is?
what do I know, I'm just a state and local tax lawyer who works on this issue pretty much every day...
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@slowenough@mastodon.social @SeanCasten@mastodon.social I hate the "to people on the left... to people on the right..." framing, because one of these things is objectively true and one of them is objectively false.
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@PoetsOldBones@mastodon.social @knack@aus.social @nonehitwonder@tenforward.social the root cause is "basic human nature." I don't think you're proposing human extinction. but there is nothing going on now which has not happened in every human society in all of history. the only problem is that the United States built a successful system that has let power grow and accrue without failing for way too long.
build systems that fail well.
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@PoetsOldBones@mastodon.social @knack@aus.social @nonehitwonder@tenforward.social you are missing the point - or, I think more likely, you have your own different point and it is causing you to totally ignore things that don't agree with it.
what you just said maybe true. it may not be. but even if we assume you are 100% correct, it's simply doesn't matter. no matter what, power will accrete, systems will become corrupted. for some examples, look at literally every society in all of human history. So build systems that fail well.