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- 16 Feb 2021, 17:04
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9333
- Views: 529284
Re: Observations of the Random sort
Before you answer, I'm not sure you are in the safer of the two testaments in this regard.
- 12 Feb 2021, 16:31
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Re: Post Urbanism?
I think most if not all municipalities and cities have an income tax in KY. Like in this case I'm talking about Covington of CovCath maga kid fame. My wife was on the road for many years working for the same company with a theoretical desk in the offices that are in the larger municipality centered ...
- 12 Feb 2021, 16:16
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Re: Post Urbanism?
We see disputes on earned vs lived area taxation all the time in my industry. It's constant squabbles about who is entitled to the income of someone who lives in NJ but works in the city but then moves to Florida to quasi retire but only snow birds.
- 12 Feb 2021, 16:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Re: Post Urbanism?
Yes. 2.5% in the city in question. NYC it's like 3.5 or something I think.
- 12 Feb 2021, 14:29
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: What are you drinking?
- Replies: 576
- Views: 182301
Re: What are you drinking?
Have found a drink I'm really happy with: 4 oz cold brew rooibos chai 2 oz unsweetened cranberry juice 1 oz caramel syrup or golden syrup Shake with two ice cubes, strain into glass. It comes out super smooth and really nicely balanced. (Though one of the weird things about getting a perfectly bala...
- 12 Feb 2021, 14:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Re: Post Urbanism?
My role is basically being asked what we want to do. Our management structure will basically be doing what most people decide. There's talk of a hybrid approach but my sense is the real estate costs simply won't justify one day a week at the office or whatever. Now, I don't have kids driving me craz...
- 12 Feb 2021, 11:22
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Re: Post Urbanism?
There’s an underlying premise in our current tax system that urban centers entail a large positive externality to labor performed within their boundaries. Amenities, spillover from network effects like “Wall Street” and so forth. If we unwind that premise, life under Covid showing little actual decr...
- 12 Feb 2021, 11:20
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Post Urbanism?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 391
Post Urbanism?
Need a better title. Musings on what long run effects if any we may see on urban environments post covid. So I work in most years on a campus for an employer that is by far the largest source of tax revenue for the city in which that campus nominally resides. Let’s call it 4,500 employees at good wa...
- 12 Feb 2021, 09:52
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The Well-Dressed Man
- Replies: 1596
- Views: 107556
Re: The Well-Dressed Man
For clarity - athleisure is pajamas in this model.
- 10 Feb 2021, 19:15
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The Well-Dressed Man
- Replies: 1596
- Views: 107556
Re: The Well-Dressed Man
We can probably safely close (clothes?) this thread down. The battle is over, pajamas won. I've been converted. It was already going anyway but COVID killed more fashion sense than people by a mile.
- 10 Feb 2021, 17:11
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
- Replies: 557
- Views: 69384
Re: Whither the GOP? (post-Trump edition)
I don't think belief in any proposition is related very much to sincere thoughts that the proposition is true. Not for a great majority of people. It's more like belief in a proposition is an organizing principle for groups of people who can reliably identify the Bad Guys Over There. We call that co...
- 01 Feb 2021, 09:27
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
- Replies: 457
- Views: 37540
Re: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
The only real mistake is insufficient cynicism.
“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of pandemic policies. “Because I don’t.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/nyre ... -quit.html
“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said of pandemic policies. “Because I don’t.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/nyre ... -quit.html
- 28 Jan 2021, 18:28
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Universal Corona Income
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8401
Re: Universal Corona Income
Also would suggest a $75k cutoff is stupid high for "relief". Which it was. As is demonstrated by the desperate need to buy garbage stocks. Not financial advice.
- 28 Jan 2021, 11:53
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Universal Corona Income
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8401
Re: Universal Corona Income
It isn’t really stimulus. We don’t need stimulus. On the low end it’s anti poverty which is good and anything above like household 40k is pandering.
- 21 Jan 2021, 17:41
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Private Money!
- Replies: 831
- Views: 100353
Re: Private Money!
That I'm not sure about but man I've seen the arguments surrounding fiduciary duty. It may be as you say fully exempted somehow but what I can tell you is groups of lawyers and I can give you the names of firms will spend all day every day for the rest of their lives trying to attach dollar value of...
- 21 Jan 2021, 14:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Private Money!
- Replies: 831
- Views: 100353
Re: Private Money!
Sequoia Holdings says employees can draw part of salary in cryptocurrencies Software development services provider Sequoia Holdings LLC said on Thursday its employees can now receive a part of their salary in cryptocurrencies, should they choose to. Under the new program, employees can elect to def...
- 15 Jan 2021, 16:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Lost sheep returned
- Replies: 51
- Views: 792
Re: Lost sheep returned
Wait I'm not Sicilian?
- 15 Jan 2021, 14:27
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Lost sheep returned
- Replies: 51
- Views: 792
Re: Lost sheep returned
baaa!
- 13 Jan 2021, 12:13
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
- Replies: 457
- Views: 37540
Re: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
If this anecdote is accurate then I have no clue how America recovers. My colleague told me that efforts to overturn the election were wrong, and that voting to certify was a constitutional duty. But my colleague feared for family members, and the danger the vote would put them in. Profoundly shake...
- 12 Jan 2021, 13:00
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: 2020 Status Check
- Replies: 145
- Views: 2586
Re: 2020 Status Check
I honestly really and for true think the cost side in the key areas of healthcare and geographically variable cost of living are the 2 most significant features of low income suffering. The general price level is not high. Incomes are rising, low skill slower than most but still. Savings is kind of ...
- 12 Jan 2021, 10:04
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: 2020 Status Check
- Replies: 145
- Views: 2586
Re: 2020 Status Check
I mean the condition in recent history is very few people relocating - downward trend for decades. What you see in 2020 is lots of well off people relocating out of large cities. I'm not sure as the numbers aren't in how many people in middle class and down have relocated but judging by rents is som...
- 12 Jan 2021, 09:47
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Ooh, pretty! Graphic design
- Replies: 126
- Views: 18147
Re: Ooh, pretty! Graphic design
General Mastodon has been a transport staple for millennia!
- 12 Jan 2021, 09:43
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
- Replies: 457
- Views: 37540
Re: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
I do feel like some peeps are driving particularly hard at the idea that the summer was NBD, and I don't think that's a reasonable take. It's somewhat connected to the other thing people are doing which is acting like police in large part were super aggressive in responses to the non events of the s...
- 11 Jan 2021, 18:19
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
- Replies: 457
- Views: 37540
Re: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
Nobody like their gallows humor.
- 11 Jan 2021, 13:34
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
- Replies: 457
- Views: 37540
Re: The Right Way to View Competing Political Horrors
Things that make me tired in the never ending cycle of equivalence/false equivalence and in the related space of whataboutisms. - We forget to talk about the thing itself. If somebody built cages and used them X amount to deter immigration and somebody else used the cages 2X to deter immigration, th...