Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.

Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.

I feel like nonprofit should come with default quotations nowadays. At this point it’s just a way to avoid taxation during development until you have a feasible route to profitability.

Innocent until proven guilty is not a moral code, it’s a legal one. Courts do not dictate reality or morality, they are obviously imperfect social constructs and to pretend otherwise is foolish.

call bullshit on 2/3 of Congress.

Yeah… It really doesn’t have to be that dramatic. The GOP would be more than willing to bury any kind of evidence if it only endangered a couple of their mega donors.

I mean I’m guessing that the people wealthy enough to partake in pedo island probably aren’t a fan of paying taxes.

This is just the sunk cost fallacy though. You can inflate the paper value of assets by playing games like this, but the bill always comes due in the end. Yes, companies that do this can juice their books a bit in the short term, but they’re harming themselves in the long term.

I mean… That’s kinda what late stage capitalism is all about, squeezing blood from stones on a quarterly basis.

You could create a subsidiary and have that company rent out some of your floor space for absurdly high rates. But you’re ultimately just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Reminds me of the twin towers. One of the reasons it was such a catastrophe is because the towers were such a money sink that the city of New York subsidized the development by relocating a ton of government offices to there.

Fuck, these companies might actually be violating the law. Deliberately choosing unproductive business practices just to cook your real estate books is something Enron would do.

Pretty much the standard quo nowadays…why invest in things like labour when you can just inflate the worth of assets for free? Capitalism is about reducing cost while simulating growth, there is no reason to actually invest in the company if you can simulate investment enough to make share price go up.

Maybe if capitalism actually relied on competition for growth as capitalists often claim, however it’s pretty easy to recognize that corporations often work together to create their own demand.

You’re forgetting the whole…" I invested entirely too much in corporate real estate".

When there’s instability in the market a lot of fortune 500 corporations will start investing in corporate real estate as a “safe bet” to hedge more risky investments.

Skyscrapers and large office spaces are on paper horrible investments and have an awful time filling enough vacancies to offset their upkeep. The only thing that makes them a “safe” investment is that every company uses them as a way to bank equity. If those same companies pulled the rug from under themselves they would all lose that safe equity piggy bank.

Idk, I feel like allegorical communication is a bit different than someone believing that building a telescope is going to destroy the universe because it takes up too much ram.

I mean there are literal cults out there murdering people because they think AI is going to punish people who dont help AI take over the world.

There is something inherent about spending too much time with computers that warps people’s brains into compulsively perceiving everything around them in digital logic.

1. The Epstein files are full of Magastanis.

I mean, if there is some list of extremely wealthy clients… It would probably just resemble a copy of the Republican mega donors list.

Most people wealthy enough to vacation on a private island also really don’t like paying taxes.

And yet the people in charge of the judiciary are more religiously motivated than they’ve been in nearly a century.

It doesn’t really matter if we as a society are less religious than ever if the people with their hands on the tiller are not. There’s a reason they are called reactionaries…

I don’t know why people assume that the siren systems local governments install aren’t the affordable option…

What do you think is cheaper and provides the most safety…a single siren loud enough to cover a very wide area, or the state reimbursing hundreds of people to buy inadequately installed and tested sirens all over the place?

I can guarantee that if you had everyone install their own systems a significant portion would not be installed correctly, and another significant portion wouldn’t have the needed maintenance performed to maintain reliability.

I guess people don’t understand the innate cost effectiveness of consolidation at scale?

If it was from electrical failure, it’d be more likely to happen in the pilot’s thrust control than simultaneously in both engines. But usually if both engines fail after take off…my money is on fuel system failure.

Yeah… The article is conflating power failure with engine failure. It was a very odd plane crash, and it didn’t appear that they had power failure. It looks like they lost thrust on both engines, which is really rare in multiengine aircraft.

Not only that, but they also just love having a circus monkey at the pulpit. More people are tuning in whether you like or hate trump, it doesn’t matter to them or the advertisers.

I’d def agree with that before him wanting resources.

will post the recipe below/above.

Thanks, I’ll have to give it a try! I’m not a die hard puritan like my mom, I’ll basically eat/make anything as long as it’s tasty.

Idk, the gdp of Greenland is only 3b a year and it’s mostly from fishing. There’s really nothing the US could extract from Greenland that would be worth the cost of invading it. There’s some potential for mining, but you’d have to build an entire infrastructure to do it, and we don’t even want to invest in building infrastructure in the US.

Realistically the only thing that makes Greenland strategically important would be controlling the shipping lanes up north. However, the only strategically significant rival we have that utilizes those shopping lanes are Russia, whom the administration wants to buddy up too.

I think it’s just meat they throw out to the media anytime they want to distract from their failures, and of course our pathetic press just gobbles it up every time.

Oh neat, Ive never made Baechu kimchi with anything other than napa cabbage. Do you use fish sauce or fermented krill, or just add a little additional salt?

Always neat to see people expanding on kimchi, I really only know what my mom taught me and she’s what I’d call radically traditional when it comes to Korean food.

What’s hot pink kimchi?