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can't hardly believe this were original released 2001. HA! Good Fun!

Dear UC Santa Barbara: Don’t let a petulant billionaire build a prison dorm on your campus "Munger’s “revolutionary” design is really about jamming as many bodies as possible into as little square footage as possible — well beyond the typically soulless dormitory high-rises on campuses around the country (which at least come with windows)." HA! Good Fun!

am not understanding why ming-na wen keeps getting these roles. admitted, we only saw a few episodes o' agents of shield before we lost interest. also, is not as if she has been particular terrible in the previous star wars and marvel stuff; she is ok. the thing is, the roles she is getting is what other actors/actresses would probable be willing to sell a kidney just to be considered. meh. am knowing there is expanded universe boba fett material, but am personal knowing nothing o' fett other than what were in the movies and the recent madalorian tv show. the prequel movies managed to make us a bit less interested in boba fett, so is not exact something which piqued our interest. however, jennifer beals as a twillek is kinda fun. HA! Good Fun!

what is wrong with you? that isn't the way it works for gawd's sake. we cannot disprove the conspiracy theory that aliens was behind the kennedy assassinations. there is no reasonable or scientific burden o' proving the negative, a fact which you should be aware. replacing any sorta causation argument with assumptions and correlation bs is exactly what the qanon folks do. burisma is no different than pizzagate or trump's election fraud nonsense. is believable to you because you already are convinced o' the conclusion and not because o' any actual evidence. the actual evidence supports a conclusion opposite o' your belief, but that don't matter, 'cause you believe all politicians is bad, and as such, a conspiracy which has biden engineering international malfeasance in broad daylight is similar believable. ... mr. spock read your post HA! Good Fun!

so you assume a conspiracy is likely to be true regardless o' evidence and you don't change opinion o' the specific politicians involved even when your belief in the conspiracy theory is disproved? ... HA! Good Fun!

doesn't work like that. the value of assets is art as 'posed to science, right up until you sell 'em. the more complex is portfolio, the more improbable it is to determine value. is why we generally don't do such with US taxes. capital gains is the option used 'cause doesn't matter what value you believed were appropriate for the property at 562 maple st. 'cause the selling price were actual $475,000, and you is gonna be taxed based on $475,000. and look at the past year. during the summer, property were even more inflated in value than is the case today. so let's say the value o' the property is determined "asof" june 20, 2021, but you sell november 1, 2021. if is in Gromnir's neighborhood, that house on maple street were likely worth at least $50k more in june as 'posed to today. doesn't seem fair to be taxed as if the property were worth $525,000 when you were only made $475,000. just to track values o' property o' rich people would require a veritable army o' appraisers. again, is why the proposed tax is specific limited to marketable assets such as stocks. is also creating the obvious loophole we mentioned earlier 'cause it don't apply to everything else. as for @Guard Dog, you don't care if the conspiracy is proven, as were evident with burisma. and yeah, it don't actual matter if the conspiracy is later proven true if you believed specific because it were a conspiracy which suggested politicians is bad. if doesn't make a difference what is facts or evidence, then yeah is still conspiracy even if eventual facts show the belief to be true. you believe because o' the conclusion and often in spite o' facts. is a conspiracy theory 'cause is based on assumptions which cannot be disproved and not 'cause o' actual evidence. ends up being correct is inconsequential as to why the conspiracy theory label is appropriate. and again, you believe is all true because o' conclusion and regardless o' facts, so... HA! Good Fun!

doesn't matter. they are all bad. today is billionaires but tomorrow is the guy making $50k a year. politicians suck, because they are politicians and they all lie and they all steal. tease gd with a conspiracy which suggests a politician is bad and he instant believes, 'cause it doesn't matter if the specific conspiracy is true or not when the conclusion is already a certainty-- they are all bad. heck, apparently every charitable organization with a goal o' combating world hunger is also part o' the problem. next time some kid with a little orange unicef box shows up and asks for a donation, be like gd and tell the kid to pike off. no way are you and gd gonna fall for such thin veiled villainy, yes? cartoon character predictable. HA! Good Fun!

have no idea if the sauce is ketchup, which for such a meal is a condiment only appropriate for little kids and donald trump. however, the "egg yolk" is clear a slice o' parsnip and not the least bit odd. HA! Good Fun!

am all in favor o' selling, seeing as how am planning to sell off as much as possible in the near future. however, we don't need to buy simultaneous. also, unless you really need the money, if you got a place you genuine love, am suspecting the pros v. cons analysis you do as part o' your decision regarding selling is gonna have a substantial con which needs countering, yes? well, good luck regardless. HA! Good Fun!

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another example o' form following function. if you don't win the housing lottery as a ucsb student, you need find non-university housing. Must UCSB Students Live in Their Cars? result is proposed housing which looks very institutional, yes? is just no acreage to build a sprawling housing development on campus, so you get a design stressing efficient use o' space. edit: am gonna admit to being disappointed in the UC system. munger hall is most definite not an enlightened or creative solution to a persistent problem. design choice is also a teaching opportunity. the chosen solution is barely deserving a passing grade as only minimum requirements is met w/o anything innovative or unique being contributed. HA! Good Fun!

we have something similar in the US. assets held less than a year get a different rate... get same rate/brackets as ordinary income--10%/12%/22%/24%/32%/35%/37%. keep in mind, this is just fed. states, many states, also tax income and capital gains. fed capital gains rate in the US for long-term assets, particular for wealthy, is gonna be far lower than income tax rate. rates for capital gains, based on income, is 0%/15%/20% with an additional bump for ultra-wealthy in certain situations. the anecdote 'bout warren buffet paying less than his secretary is incredible misunderstood and often misrepresented. when obama made the observation, he specific pointed out that buffet's functional tax RATE were lower than the secretary and not that mr. buffet were paying less tax. as the vast majority o' mr. buffet's taxes were being paid on capital gains and not income, his overall rate were lower than his secretary's. as for homes, personal residences get special capital gains exceptions, but is a five year minimum o' ownership and need have actual lived in the home at least two of five years preceding the sale o' the asset. btw, and not directed @Gorthfairness is also a landmine concept when it comes to taxes. most americans, by a huge majority, believe rich people ain't paying enough taxes. the thing is, when same people is asked what is a max fair tax rate, the problem is those same americans also overwhelming agree rich people is paying too much. 'tween state and fed, people in higher tax states such as ny and ca is paying above 50% for highest rate. americans near universal agree that nobody should pay 50% o' their earning to the government, but that already happens in many states. HA! Good Fun! ps additional observation regarding property taxes. this year am paying $75.12 more in property tax on our personal residence compared to last year. *insert an expression of feigned rage in this spot* am knowing this 'cause am s'posed to pay by nov 1, 2021 though is no penalty if we pay by dec 10, 2021, which is just odd. anyways, given how crazy is the housing market, the value o' our home increased by more than $100k since last tax year.

well, this is the crux o' it. most adult americans claim to own stock. also, even though is increasing unlikely, most americans believe they is gonna own a home. 64% of americans do in fact own homes, but that number ignores signifficant discrepancies based on race where generational wealth has been one o' those aspects o' systemic US racism too many like to ignore. some o' the champions o' tax the rich might be singing a different tune if the plan were to erase homeownership and then redistribute to achieve parity based on income & race. and young people indeed cannot afford to buy a home these days, unless they get help... Where Do People Get Money to Buy California Homes These Days? Often, From Mom and Dad another aspect o' a long history o' systemic racism and the resulting generational wealth disparity. but again, 'cause is ez to miss forest for trees, all these proposed tax schemes is directed at billionaires or multimillionaires. for home ownership and property taxes, there is always a cap-- even if the value o' your home explodes, your max property tax is gonna be not considerable higher than what you is likely current paying. what is being suggested for billionaires is most assured not like your property tax assessment (though dp analogy makes sound similar) nor should it be. billionaires is prospective having their disposable wealth being taxed, whereas a yearly tax on your personal residence is in fact, in the case o' most americans, a tax on the bulk of their retirement plan. is no way the two situations should be analogous. similar, 401 k and iras held by people (most people) not named musk should indeed be taxed different than the proposed billionaire tax. ... as an aside, is in fact way too many people buying houses they cannot afford. is a 2007 problem which is repeating. housing inventory is too small, particular in places where people wanna buy, but banks is willing to make loans to people who cannot afford to pay. obvious this is gonna reach a point o' collapse, yes? am not sure why the three wise monkey approach is being adopted by near everybody who could possible do something 'bout the problem. HA! Good Fun!

it also ain't nearly as ez as it sounds. property tax is usual based on crude county formulas which either approximate market value or some other value which is then used to form the basis o' the tax. is not as if a property assessor comes out to each homeowner's residence on a yearly basis. and keep in mind that billionaire estates is not the kinda thing which shows up on zillow. is rare gonna be comparable property sales to make the value o' mega mansions and included sprawling properties capable o' ez assessment. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-seventy-three-million-dollar-tax-refund-is-the-biggest-outrage-of-all trump audit has taken more than a decade. why? is in part 'cause is complicated trying to figure out what somebody like trump actually owns and what is the worth o' such assets. am s'posing difficulty in quantifying values is why the proposed billionaire tax is only applicable to marketable assets with known values, which brings us back to our concerns 'bout the problems o' implementation. if only the billionaire's personal and marketable assets is subject to the tax, then am suspecting there will sudden be fewer billionaires (at least on paper) and the remaining billionaires is gonna be less reliant on the public traded stuff which is subject to the tax. maybe there is solutions to such concerns, but if there is we ain't seen such. keep in mind (not specific directed @Achilles)this is not a new idea. tax the rich is one o' those catchy three word slogans which is gonna appeal to the majority who ain't rich. how to best tax the rich w/o hurting the not rich has always been the hurdle. why is there so much resistance on both sides of the aisle to raising the corporate tax rate, which were part o' the biden plan mere weeks past? well, most corporations is actual small, and even those which is rich and or multinational is gonna reasonable pass along their increased cost o' doing business (the tax) to consumers. all too often, tax the rich functional becomes a tax on the poor. btw, am actual in favor o' biden's proposed capital gains increase which he announced before a joint session o' Congress earlier this year. the thing is, am believing the earlier proposed plan doesn't quite cover the cost o' even the currently slimmed-down infrastructure proposal. HA! Good Fun!

am perhaps giving trump too much credit, but recognition o' your observation could be the ultimate driver behind the truth platform. tell the faithful that the mastodon license precludes the existence o' the truth platform is not gonna stop investors. the fact trump is promoting this means many people is gonna believe it has value, in spite o' any evidence to the contrary. the trump organization doesn't care if truth ever comes to fruition. elizabeth holmes may go to prison. trump's organization will make millions. HA! Good Fun!

there is a capital gains carve out for personal residence. lord knows nothing 'bout the proposed billionaire capital gains adjustment is gonna change such. our imagination is capable o' taking reality into account when confronted with hobgoblins and boogeymen. the biggest issue we see is implementation as 'posed weird notions o' fairness. am predicting billionaires is gonna send more o' their assets to their own foundations to avoid thresholds. many billionaires could quite easily not be billionaires on paper practically overnight. think o' it as akin to the recent meta rebranding, or when johnson and johnson created a subsidary to take the fall for their cancer causing baby powder, or whatever it were. billionaires will still have a billion dollars, but some signifficant portion o' their wealth will be held as trust or foundation assets. does make a difference if the home is owned by richie rich or instead by the OMEGA foundation which is run for the benefit o' richie rich? and yes, there is gonna be a smaug issue where billionaires make their assets not subject to the tax by investing in less marketable assets which are not subject to the tax. a picasso would not be taxable, but millions o' dollars in traditional stock would be. literal buy not gold stock, but a big pile o' gold, and the billionaire avoids tax issues? HA! Good Fun!

Donald Trump’s latest business venture, Truth Social, is a brand-new social media platform that is going to be a publicly-traded company via a reverse merger with a SPAC. Consequently, it sits at the intersection between finance, law, and technology. When you combine Trump’s legendary financial acumen—he has only six bankruptcies on his record—with his uncanny eye for legal talent like Rudy Giuliani and tech wizards like Brad Parscale, what could possibly go wrong? HA! Good Fun!

probably isn't immediate recognizable, but the tables in the prison lunchroom is immovable. more obvious is all the windows in the multipurpose room o' the school. the thing is, the stuff being shown is gonna look similar for church retreats and youth camps too 'cause there is efficient ways to achieve goals and until somebody invents a better mousetrap, you is gonna see a replication o' means. cafeteria style lunches is gonna be an efficient way to feed a large group o' people. buses is an efficient way to transport large numbers o' people. side note, am never seeing the old skool buses being used for prison transport in ca these days. gonna bet those beasts is expensive and the contract to modify such is lucrative. HA! Good Fun! ps one o' the more amusing quirks o' corrections facilities is food allergies. residents self-report food allergies and is always the folks who believe they has gamed the system by choosing the right food allergies to get the best meals possible. various pasta w/tomato sauce entrees is not popular, so is many residents who claim to be allergic to tomatoes. have eaten the meals the residents get and most o' it is good, but am admitting the meat & tomato sauce accompanying pasta were kinda terribad. unfortunate for the folks gaming the system, maybe once a month or so, there were a food item on the menu near everybody loved-- the mcrib sandwich. 'course it weren't mcdonalds, but if you had the mcdonalds version and the corrections version side-by-side, chances are the superior version would be the corrections offering. double-whammy for the gamers: pork; tomato. the barbecue sauce were tomato based. converse, am recalling a guy who were listed as being allergic to strawberries. in addition to meals, these guys would get snacks... brand name stuff as often as not. cheeze-its were common, and messy. pop-tarts were also a frequent provided snack, and there is a strawberry variety o' poptarts which, go figure, actual has enough real strawberries in it to send a guy with a strawberry allergy into anaphylactic shock. so you got staff not recognizing the food allergy and a resident who is quite literal insane and suicidal, and next thing you know the paramedics is showing up to rush the loon to a hospital and the negligent staff is all but certain he is gonna be fired.

gd loves tobogganing (it's a thing people in wisconsin do for fun) down the slippery slope. every argument is based on the NO Compromise philosophy. why can't we have meaningful gun control legislation such as were the norm in the US until the mid 1900s? 'cause if you give in to them and allow 'em to limit your gun rights, then next thing you know, they will be breaking down your door to take your perfect legit weapons. you can't trust them, not with guns or taxes or government condemnations. there is only one gd post regarding the government. sure, he dresses it up different each time, but is always a defense for no compromise 'cause they are inherent untrustworthy and flawed. HA! Good Fun!

am not sure why sacramento valley tv news stations bother to pay for a weather personality from mid-june through late september. how many ways is there to describe a hot and dry forecast? having lived in the dakotas, chicago, western ny and a couple other places with crazy weather, one might expect we would be thankful for the predictability o' central ca weather, but you would be wrong. summers are long, hot and in recent years the wildfires have affected air quality to a degree such that outdoor activities is literal unhealthy/hazardous for months. mercurial is underrated if the alternative is monotonous horrible. sacramento, ca summers and williston, nd winters has been the worst kinda monotonous we has experienced... and am thanking the good lord we only had to spend two winters in williston. not as much snow as you might imagine in williston. arid. have also been in places colder than williston, hard as that may be to imagine, but the wind... am literal recalling weeks o' -70F temperatures when adjusted for wind-chill. HA! Good Fun!

meta, among other aspects, is that which exists above and beyond. "cleverly self-referential." bruce, at best they validated assumption that what zuckerberg wants from you is your metadata. you have nothing to fear from the meta, not because fb is harmless but precisely because you are an individual. insignificant. trivial. maybe you have seen meta compared to the borg. silliness. the borg is interested in that which makes you unique and wants to assimilate you. in your vanity you believe you have something worthy of assimilation. meta doesn't care about you personally or anything which makes you unique-- those qualities and attributes which set you apart are rounding errors. only the algorithm matters. so do not fear the meta, because as an individual you are beneath its notice. hell, they went so far as to choose a version o' ouroboros as their new logo? takes some hutzpah to pair meta name with ouroboros and try and sell a kinder and gentler fb. perhaps zuckerberg gets a limited mass effect license to use one o' the original game characters as a corporate mascot? would be an ideal fit. ... am mostly joking. mostly. HA! Good Fun!

given how many broken features is in the game, am not feeling guilty over indulging a bit o' cheese to circumvent such such problems. two quick observations: 1) when our tb got busted and a switch to rt did not fix, we typical needed to complete exit the game to get back our tb functionality. 2) when you reload from your alt+b save, initiative will be reordered, as if combat had started anew... which is where some serious cheese may occur. our first angel character were a high wisdom inquisitor who took improved initiative and mythic initiative feats-- we always were able to act first in a tb combat round. hadn't actual considered this previous, but IF we wanted to cheese a boss battle, we coulda' taken our action with our archer inquisitor, used alt+b to create a save, then reload. by reloading initiative would be reordered, and we would no doubt get to act first... again. could easily have done a rinse-and-repeat with the bosses literal never getting a chance to take an action during combat. HA! Good Fun!

the workaround does work in many (not all) situations. the switch to rt need only be for an instant, during which time gameplay is auto-paused. re-establishing turn-base has a high percentage o' clearing the problem, and does not mess with battlefield control as even after the momentary switch to rt, all battle participants keep their initiative order. however, am gonna suggest that if the switch to rt does not fix the issue, then is a good idea to use the alt+b bug reporting feature to create a save during combat, 'cause you may need do a reload to regain tb functionality. 'course crusade battles getting borked is not salvageable using the aforementioned option. is in fact a whole lotta features still busted which do not have fixes, and predictably, a few fixes has made broken stuff more busted. HA! Good Fun!

meta? nothing at all sinister 'bout that. why not just go all in and call it, OMEGA? HA! Good Fun!

no... depending on what you mean. no skald gets kenning, which is a big deal. the other stuff which didn't work, still doesn't work. in fact, the ability to take rage powers has been removed, so the question regarding the capacity to share such with party members is now m00t. a slight buff to spell damage has been added to replace the removed stances. the one thing the court poet does do which is not capable o' replication is its ability to pump party member intelligence and charisma scores and ignore any kinda stacking limits. if you got a party which is heavy with paladins and intelligence or charisma-based casters, the court poet is still a good choice, but is in not working as one would expect based on the original descriptions. HA! Good Fun!