The Padres won a crazy game that was basically two bad half innings and then a fantastic pitching duel. The Mets hammered the Phillies. And both have taken the lead and home field advantage away from their opponents. And today we get games from all four series. The NHL got their season underway with a couple of games. And international soccer is going on, but the games really don’t get started until tomorrow. And I think that’s pretty much it for sports.
Even a hollow victory is still a victory. Sadly, it was dismissed on procedural grounds, so these activist turds will likely find a way to run him through the wringer again.
But, I thought everybody was vetted and only those who qualify get in the country. Oh wait, that was always a lie.
This is journalistic malpractice. There is no other way to describe it that I can think of. But it’s CBS, so it should be expected.
Looks like the struggle session went as planned. Again, it’s CBS, so it should be expected.
I don’t know what the terms of this deal were, but this seems excessive. That couldn’t have paid the loan down any faster. Unless they were Secret Circus jeans, I suppose.
Oh wow, this is craaaaaazy. How will the storm manage to not impact white, brown, or Asian people in exactly the same way?
Christ, what a bunch of assholes. But you already knew that.
I’ve always maintained that coons are a menace to society. This just confirms my suspicions.
When will this misogyny end? Oh yeah…when the retardation ends.
Get your bubble gum out. It’s time for some pop. And this here is the poppiest of pop from that whole generation. And I freaking love it. So enjoy.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I admire his tenacity (although that’s mitigated somewhat by the army of activist lawyers he’s got waiting to take up his cases now that they’re setting precedents). I’d have closed up shop and moved to a different state with less shitty laws 20 years ago.
It wouldn’t have mattered with these people. The above should have been all any justice/DA needed to throw it out because its just a personal vendetta.
Not just throw it out, but penalize the plaintiff and their lawyer for bringing the suit again.
Personal vendetta? The Inquisition didn’t have such tenacity.
We’ll keep going back and ordering custom cakes until we win!!!
We’ll keep going back and ordering custom cakes until we
winmake him bend a knee and submit!!!Clearly those groups are all hoarders who have years of provisions stocked away.
Plus Everybody Knows™ that all black people are po’ folk who can’t take care of themselves and need white saviors to rescue them. If you disagree, you’re a racist.
You would think someone of say Ta-nehisi Coates angry disposition might notice that kind of condescension.
“Why. you hate trannys?”
“Because they try so hard I would hate to see all that effort go to waste.”
Terror plot? As was the intention.
I am not sure which is worse, their blatant propaganda or their faux outrage when they are called on it.
“The human race is a race of cowards” – Clemens
That may be but every once in a while one really stands out.
That all are created equal and every individual has inherent value is the idea that ‘progressives’ hate the most.
They really want those ovens cranked back up. Trump is worse than Hitler.
If y ou are going to feed critters you have to go all in. Neuter them and keep them as pets.
How many of those were AI bots? I didnt see it but have heard it described as a train wreck worse than Biden’s debate with Trump.
Are there any real humans that are mad that polishing a turd until your arm falls off wont get it to take a shine?
Oops.
Actual reply: Of course Coates notices. It is his bread and butter. The last thing in the world grifters like him want is for racism to disappear.
Ah… the lie that never ends and never gets challenged. Took them long enough to get there.
Alex Jones wishes he was on par with the propagandists
To be fair, if this is anything like most of the terrorist plots thwarted by the feebs, they probably FedEx overnighted him a visa, a ready-made plot complete with blueprints, some cash, and an unregistered firearm, then swooped in after he agreed to snackbar himself.
I was reminded of the coffee shop Federal Espesso, which initially satisfied its legal issues with FedEx by renaming to Ex Federal Espresso. I went to see if they were still in business. Apparently they had to Undergo another name change and I’m now sad.
It was confusing. People couldn’t tell them apart.
Bigby’s Coffee Shop used to be called Beaners once upon a time. And by once upon a time, I mean the 90’s.
Yeah, they started in MI. They loved the name, but had to change it when expanding into TX. One of the founders spoke at a gathering here and told the tale. Sharp lady
My cats would be freaking out if trash pandas held a convention in my yard.
We had Persian cats when I was growing up. Far too fat and lazy to climb a 6 foot chain link fence. So we had a pet door and let them come and go from the fenced back yard as they pleased. One day, one of the cats startles the shit out of everybody when he comes flying through that pet door like his ass is on fire. So naturally, we get up to go see what the hubbub is about, and waiting patiently at the pet door is the racoon that the retard apparently decided to investigate (probably mistook it for our other cat; about the same size, weight and color).
get dogs?
Or maybe stop feeding the trash pandas.
What is the most effective way of ending a racoon infestation?
Alligators?
WTF:
Earlier this year, I learned that you could buy deer attractant. This is not something that I’ve ever encountered in my suburban years, as that’s the last thing that anyone in the world wants, is more hooved rats eating everything. There were big words on the label that said “IT IS ILLEGAL TO USE THIS AS BAIT”, so the only purpose I could see for it would be to pull jokes on the neighbors and toss it in their back yard.
Mr Ilium, it’s like the old weed shops who used to sell products “for use with tobacco only”. They know what you’re using it for, they know people want to buy it, but they don’t want to be held liable for their customers choices being against the letter of the law.
Deer attractant is for novelty purposes only.
“Do not taunt Deer Attractant.”
.22LR with a silencer, and possibly a mounted flashlight. Night vision or IR is expensive, but possibly worth it if you have nosy neighbors.
(No joke, a friend of mine has a 10/22 with a can and a cheap IR scope, specifically for protecting his chicken coop from predators.)
Sexual Chocolate!
Dem boy’s is good!
Happily, I’ve no idea who that is, but considering:
I kind of doubt a shift of 5,000 or so followers is in any possible way meaningful.
Yeah. I read that article yesterday and figured that number is noise.
I imagine if she posts something different that gets widely reposted she could easily gain the same number.
So you are team Sofia I gather
She was the best Golden Girl, and I’ll fight anybody who says otherwise.
Sophia > Rose > Dorothy > Blanche
I stand by my choices
“Call Her Daddy” is I believe the number one podcast for American spotify. So you should be aware of it. I tried to listen to a clip once but felt I was losing brain cells.
The name is so nonsensical that I know I’m not the target audience.
Plus I don’t use spotify.
So Honestly, I never heard of it until this.
Seems like a less funny, less entertaining version of Love Line from the 90s that had Adam Carolla and Dr Drew.
you should be aware of what the women of your country listen to in droves. So you know what measure to take when you become supreme overlord.
She’s a wannabe tradwife, you need to call her daddy to get permission to date her.
Well, there’s the problem then. I don’t have Spotify and don’t listen to podcasts. It’s fun becoming a pastiche of the ’90s hipsters who didn’t own TVs.
Pat:
I have an unabashed hatred for the trend to move everything to video or audio. I can read faster than you can talk.
I can also skip filler looking for the info I need.
Waiting for the presenter to get around to it only works when I’m not primarily engaged with the media and it’s background noise.
Eh, podcasts have their place. I mostly listen while driving or walking, same as audiobooks.
Video talking head stuff I have no use for. For the reasons Neph and UnCiv said, plus I find the standard YouTube style of presentation to be grating and hucksterish.
I couldn’t bear to listen to her whole raw interview. But it seems like they swapped an answer to a Ukraine question with the word salad about Israel.
You can transfer the shit on the bottom of your shoe to the grass but in the end it is still shit.
The Harris campaign was criticizing Trump for not doing a 60 minutes interview. Can you imagine how hard they’d edit it to make him look stupid?
“What if we used that AI voice emulation software to make it sound like he’s speaking the lines we cut from the Harris interview?”
To be fair…it wouldn’t be that hard. Guy is just all over the map when he speaks.
Yep – mostly just let him ramble. He’ll never take an opportunity for a short answer when a long digression is available.
Thanks for clarifying that you’re a sack of shit whose employability will be limited in perpetuity to CAIR ball washer.
The apology got the kid his degree, so it’s no longer needed.
Can they rescind the diploma
If only. These particular assholes never seem to miss any meals.
U.S. Frustrated by Israel’s Reluctance to Share Iran Retaliation Plans
Israel Reluctant to Share Intel that the US Will Likely Leak.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-frustrated-by-israels-reluctance-to-share-iran-retaliation-plans-f132ebc7?st=dfjd68&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
OTH, we shouldn’t be providing them air and naval cover.
We should just nuke the Iranian nuclear sites and blame China.
Our allies have learned we are addicted to spending and under no circumstances will we ever shut off the flow of funds. Its not like the Executive or Congress will do anything anyway so why share?
“Man who steps out every weekend with his mistress frustrated by his wife’s reluctance to share her weekend plans.”
I’m kind of surprised In-Q-Tel hasn’t seed-funded a company to sell air and naval cover to Israel.
I think Bibi would take that deal. I sense that he’s grown tired of Joe telling Israel it can’t defend itself.
I don’t. Without the U.S., Israel can barely reach Iran much less hope to win a war against them.
Israel is the size of New Jersey with about the same population (9+ million).
Iran is more than twice the size of Texas with 10 times the Israeli population.
I’m assuming Israel can buy what it needs. Perhaps Joe is unwilling to even sell, I don’t know.
“Oh, did I forget to mention we’re no longer allowing the export of computer chips because it’s an industry critical to Israeli national security. What’s that you say? TSMC can’t ramp up production fast enough to feed your arms industry and you’re still 12 years away from completing that one federally-subsized chip fab in Arizona? Well, we Jews love to haggle…”
Their economy is already hurting. I doubt they can afford a protracted war. So why buy stuff you can get for free (or the price of bribed Senators)?
Drake, ISR is perfectly capable of executing a large air strike on Iranian targets of their choosing. Recently they conducted a multi-squadron raid on Yemen that involved multiple aerial refuels. I imagine that the scale of the raid was messaging at Iran as well as a slap at the Huthis.
A strike isn’t a war. This could get ugly for both sides.
Iran has a Sword of Damocles hanging over it, in the form of a single target that will wreck their economy: Kharg Island. In a nutshell, Iran is no more than Israeli one air (or missile) strike away from losing a war with Israel.
Iran has been playing the proxy game, which given the quality of their proxies must be frustrating, to avoid this scenario. The problem with proxies that can’t close the deal, though, is that it creates a vacuum always sucking the principal antagonist in. Thus, the (limited and ineffectual) missile strikes – Iran knows if it does too much directly, Kharg Island is gone and so is the Iranian regime, economy, and regional influence.
Can Israel win a war with Iran – depends on what you mean by win, I suppose. Can Iran win a war with Israel? Almost certainly not.
Correct – neither country can invade the other and make them surrender. They can kill lots of civilians. And, if oil fields are hit and the Persian Gulf is closed, they can ruin the world economy. But the neo-cons are hellbent on it happening anyhow.
I almost feel sorry for the guy being assigned to interview that fraudulent POS grifter but then again, it’s his choice to work there.
This morning’s tempest in a teapot at MSM central.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cbs-news-israel-interview-1bd59a9c?st=imwZdy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Blockquote>CBS Interview on Israel Triggers Fight at Network; Shari Redstone Weighs In
Critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates book prompts turmoil as Paramount’s controlling shareholder objects to how network handled matter
It really is something that the problem seems to be that he asked a couple of serious questions instead of just giving the anti-Semitic race grifter a tongue bath.
So much for Jews controlling the media, I guess.
Ph, sure, that’s what (((they))) want you to think!
You may select 2 (two) of these failed US Amendments to the Constitution to become law TODAY- which do you pick?
https://x.com/TheFarRightSide/status/1843650882766024958
Only way to win is to not play
I invoke my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
I’ll go with:
“All acts of war should be put to a national vote. Anyone voting yes had to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army.”
and
“The right of citizens to segregate themselves from others”
Those and maybe the upper limit on income taxes.
Those war ones are great. Although it’s depressing we’re still fighting the same battles 100 years later.
if you do not pick 1947 means you are some sort of poor.
The problem with that one is that it sets the cap far too high.
Max income tax should be 0%, in any and all jurisdictions.
I agree that the limit is too high, but any limit is better than none.
The thing is, once that high limit is in place, you will never be able to lower it.
Abolition will be the same challenge as getting any given cap in place. So go for gold.
If that income tax limit includes payroll taxes (including employer-side), you’re looking at current SocSec/Medicare taxes plus about 10% on your 1040.
I would pick 1936 and 1947.
I am pretty fond of “The United States of Earth”
too limiting
The UFP nods in agreement.
When you have more money than you know what to do with you have two options.
1. Get into Democratic politics and force others to pay money so you feel less guilty.
2. Oxygenate one of the many homes you own
The Wealthy Are Paying Big Money to Pump Oxygen Into Their Mountain Homes
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/home-oxygenation-systems-luxury-homes-614a0f7d?st=s1CAuc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What happened to good old fashioned buying a sports team and taking it to the bottom of the standings?
There’s only so many teams available in Cleveland.
Yet another sign of the increasing wealth of America.
Look Not Adahn, the rest of us don’t get to breath the multi filtered and purified air at work that you do!
“To reduce risk of corrosion, we have started to use deoxygenated air in the clean rooms.”
I don’t see an issue with making the high altitude air breathable.
Not an issue, really, but your body does it automatically.
They are so precious.
Satire becomes reality
The chinese were buying canned air years ago.
Kamala endorsements keep piling up: James Clapper, Dick Cheney, holocaustrapegroyper …
https://x.com/xenocosmography/status/1843884323893907946
Unnecessary brother. God willing, you will hit your target.
“Bullets”.
Is he planning to throw them at people?
Many terrorists are handloaders. It’s where their angry and frustrated personality comes from…
He’s no Topper Harley.
False. This pop is poppier than Poppy.
The before times Poppy. Such a simpler time
WTF?
pistoffnick:
I’m Poppy.
I’ve met you Neph. You are not as vacuous as whoever that is.
Having been reduced by vitriol, he’s closer to opium.
Poppy’s got a new album coming out, or maybe it just dropped.
I hate that almost every other song on that album is better but nobody will ever know.
That song appealed so strongly to the “MUS1113 – Basic Counterpoint” student that I was.
Not sure if this has been covered, but apparently the narrative on the cat-eating immigrants is shifting. Someone on FB yesterday linked to some “influencers” X account where the message was, basically, “what’s getting lost in the whole cat-eating immigrants issue is that there are people in this country so poor they have to eat cats.”
Gotta admire them: everything always ends up being the fault of greedy Americans.
Now this begs the question, does life imitate memes or do memes imitate life?
The two use a shared memory space within the simulation, so expect data leaks.
We’re approaching the “it’s good that it is happening” stage.
More like “It’s happening and it’s Trump’s fault.”
No, there aren’t. We really lost the plot when we started perceiving poverty as a condition rather than a cohort of behaviors.
Everyone should have an above-average income! /Dem strategerists
Over at Salon:
Why budgeting isn’t a fix for poverty
It’s cruel to tell someone to budget their money when what they really need is a livable wage and a viable social safety net
I stopped being poor by living within my means – I earned more after I sorted my spending.
Ahhh, thank you Salon. I knew I could count on you to provide the most insipid pablum, completely disconnected from the reality we all share.
Salon and friends don’t want a “fix” for poverty.
Wikipedia has changed the name of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs in the UK’ page to ‘Grooming gang moral panic in the UK’.
This is political interference.
1 in 73 Muslim men who live in Rotherham have been prosecuted for grooming gang-related crimes in the past two decades.
https://x.com/JACKGUYANDERTON/status/1843631695037378628
Not all animals are dogs but all dogs are animals?
“Harris is the second-most liberal Democratic senator to serve in the Senate in the 21st century… Harris’s roll call record places her on the far-left ideological edge of this cohort of Democratic senators.”
https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1843850258486571186
I have not seen a shortening of timelines from disturbance formation to hurricane formation…
Well that is just stupid. While I researched weather for my area when we moved I don’t discount what I don’t know and that is the eons prior to actual record keeping and how Mother Nature just DGAF.
I spent copious time looking at weather and FEMA flood data when I was researching locales. Which is how I know that unless you live in the middle of a city with a population over half a million, the best you’ll get in terms of flood data it is a scientific wild ass guess hand-crawled on graph paper by a FEMA intern in 1973. I can’t help but wonder if we might have better data if private insurance companies had to conduct their own surveys.
“Multiple residents” are either stupid or lying. It’s fucking Florida FFS.
Odds the MSM covers this as much as the ban?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/x-can-resume-operations-in-brazil-after-paying-millions-in-fines-91d35271?st=VnPqoo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So when is the tyrant judge going to be flogged until there’s no felsh left on his bones?
Did you mean “flesh”, or “felch”?
There’s something wrong with you.
You need to read more SugarFree.
No, no I do not.
That kills the nerves and he won’t feel pain anymore.
The trick in an effective scourging is to damage the skin and the muscle immediately under the skin but not remove it.
No, tarran, the end result is for him to be dragged off as a corpse. It’s to be a method of execution, not torture.
Well isn’t UCS just a little ray of sunshine this morning.
No different from any other workday.
I’d say high. NPR was crowing about it this morning. Think “‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk caves to sensible Brazilian requests to censor vile far right misinformation.”
That was my thinking of how they are going to spin it. “Commonsense limits to speech proven right” will be what is pushed.
I worked with a girl that said she could turn George Michael. I don’t think she could have, but I bet she would have come as close as anyone could.
I thought he was dating the girl in the Sex video? The challenge with him is keeping him turned.
Appropriate or obligatory?
Was expecting Faith or Father Figure.
Also obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdU9Dcd4WV8
So she thinks anal would have turned him…
You worked with Cheri Blair?
https://youtu.be/ABhZQ_VRbsQ?t=247
I dont think she understands what that means
False news? Made up? Leak?
So I went to VoteHub.us and found nothing regarding this. NC State Board of Elections…nothing. I can only guess is the NC SBoE is all too willing to leak out this information. If only we had a true media and an actual strong party who would point out that this is part of the whole reason people feel the elections are being stolen/fraudulent/etc.
This mroning I saw an article indicating that the board of elections had issued emergency rules for the impacted counties regaridng mail-in ballots. I didn’t go into whether those rules were good or were cheat by mail.
Opps. So its a Newsweek article saying the information is from VoteHub.us who then claims they got the information from the NC SBoE
So similar to Michigan.
John McEnroe hardest hit?
YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
I think I might pay to watch McEnroe get all fired up and argue with an AI voiceover line judge.
“Sorry, John. The tennis ball. was. out. Ha. Ha. Ha.”
Watch McEnroe lose his shit and start rifling balls and equipment at it.
If SNL was a comedy show they could do an amusing skit riffing on this
This kind of technology works well in tennis. It keeps the game moving without any fuss.
It sucks ass in soccer and other sports where the refs still get the final say after wasting tons of time looking at replays and shit.
It appears he was offside by a toe, no maybe just a toenail, but that line drawn by the machine says he is offside.
Ugh, between the dog going nutzo at midnight and the rooster confusing 3am with sunrise, I really needed my caffeine this morning.
Seriously, what kind of brain damaged rooster starts cockadoodledoo’ing at 3am?
It must have been the UFO hovering over your property.
This popped into my head.
https://youtu.be/OhD2mTxyUaE
I feel like chicken tonight!
The neighbors behind us have a rooster, and he crows constantly, all day long. Luckily you can’t hear him when the doors and windows are closed, but if you go outside you can hear him.
Two words: pellet gun
Get a fake owl or hawk then put it on an automated poll that is sound activated. That rooster will crap himself trying to go back to the roost to sleep.
Little Jerry loves the morning…
Daily Ray:
https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1843657181112971435
Thank you.
It’s cute now, but live with that in an adult dog for a decade and it looses its cuteness pretty quickly.
It’s not so cute when it buries the intercostal clavicle you need to complete the brontosaurus skeleton.
Story of my life, right there
I like that dogs have handles now.
Dammit, Kristin
This is more addictive than The Farm.
With cc available on every stream, what the fuck is the point of a sign language chick? Some government work program?
Is she attractive?
No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuc_RzhtXQA&ab_channel=FoxNews
She’s making weird faces.
On top of which, she’s throwing up all these gang signs.
SHOCKING
At face value, the allegations are so extraordinary that they sound like outlandish claims a far-left Trump critic might concoct to make the GOP candidate appear ridiculous. According to the legendary Washington Post journalist, however, the events actually happened.
Broadly speaking, there are two elements to the story, neither of which have been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News. The first is Trump, according to a source close to the former president, kept in touch with Putin after leaving the White House, speaking to the autocrat as many as seven times — which works out to be an average of one undisclosed chat roughly every six months.
Why would a former American president feel the need to communicate with Russia’s autocratic leader seven times after leaving office? That seems like a question in need of an answer.
The second element raised by Woodward is that Trump secretly sent Putin Covid testing equipment at the height of the pandemic, even as people in his own country struggled to gain access to such resources.
Cahooting with our enemies! Stand him up against the wall.
Go ahead and quadruple down on the Trump-Putin stuff you retards, that’s so run into the ground at this point that the only people that buy it already bought it.
If you hear groaning from the choir loft you might know it is time to give it up.
The second element raised by Woodward is that Trump secretly sent Putin Covid testing equipment at the height of the pandemic, even as people in his own country struggled to gain access to such resources.
Imagine the outcry from Democrats if anyone else sent aid to a foreign country while Americans were in need.
Yeah but Covid affected the urban centers. You know, the People Who Matter.
Pre-2020 invasion Russia.
Meanwhile, $2.1B to the Taliban since the US left.
https://www.usaid.gov/humanitarian-assistance/afghanistan
lol FFS
“the events actually happened” and “neither of which have been independently verified” seem to be at odds.
Fake, but accurate.
I don’t really recall a shortage of COVID testing equipment, for starters. And I was kinda at ground zero the whole time, working for a major urban hospital and all. Other shortages, sure, but not that.
What boggles my mind about the whole Trump and Putin are buddies thing is that Trump took a harder line with Russia than Obama did, or Hillary likely would have (Hillary having been paid off and all).
The single biggest way to hurt Russia is to drive down energy prices, which is what happened during Trump’s admin.
“CBS mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil admits ‘regret’ to teary staff at crisis meeting”
Memo from Chief Editor Wizzleteats to the teary eyed staff:
You’re all fucking fired!
Christ on a cracker, I’m not the biggest fan of Israel by a long shot but the teary eyed staff need to be told to shut the hell up and grow a pair.
Mao smiles from hell.
Chances are, this wasn’t what Vice President Kamala Harris intended to focus on with four weeks remaining before Election Day, but sometimes, candidates have to shift gears and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
With this in mind, the Democratic nominee spoke at some length about the controversy in multiple interviews, and as the day came to end, Harris’ team unveiled a hard-hitting television ad highlighting the allegations.
Sling the mud. Sling it.
Are you fucking kidding me?
As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida’s west coast, a new report estimates how much more intense Hurricane Helene’s winds and rain were because of climate change. The scientists behind the research said that they expect Milton to behave similarly and that it is likely to be worse because of climate change, as well.
The report, published at midnight Wednesday, comes from the World Weather Attribution group, a consortium of scientists that analyzes extreme weather and is considered a foremost authority in determining how much climate change has influenced a particular event.
They ran the numbers through their model, you know. Proof positive.
foremost authority
Respect muh authoritah!
Repent, sinners.
Happy Fall Glibs. In a bit of a white pill moment, I quit my corporate job and am starting my own company. I see a gap in my industry that I can fill with a unique service model and expand rapidly. My competitors are getting slaughtered by AI and overhead. There was no way to do this without burning the ships behind me so wish me luck.
Trsh, I’ve been trying to keep up on here and it sounds like you’ve started your legal company? Let me know if you want to Zoom about any startup thoughts. I’ve gotten a crash course in LLC formation and tax write-offs.
Hope everyone is doing well, especially those in the southeast with the storms.
Good luck, brother. I’m happy for you!
Good luck, hopefully you already have some solid leads, or even customers.
I see hard work and perseverance in your future and success will be your reward.
Good luck, man.
Trsh, I’ve been trying to keep up on here and it sounds like you’ve started your legal company? Let me know if you want to Zoom about any startup thoughts. I’ve gotten a crash course in LLC formation and tax write-offs.
Yeah, let’s talk! I’ll hop over to the forum and give you my email address.
The biggest issue im tackling right now is that I was required by state law to file as a professional corporation. I need to get registered as an S-Corp and then I need to figure out how to pay myself properly. Supposedly I can’t just take distributions. The only CPA to return my call wants $500/month for full service accounting. I’ve been averaging $500/month revenue so far, so that’s a non-starter. I’m also a sole practitioner, so I don’t need full bookkeeping. I just need somebody to do my taxes and tell me how to best structure my writeoffs.
Don’t forget to file your FinCen disclosure!
Don’t forget to file your FinCen disclosure!
Ughhhhhhhhh. I was just on a webinar on that topic yesterday. What a clusterfuck.
Got it, thanks Trsh. I’m going to finish getting lunch ready for the kids, and then I’ll shoot you an email. I’m planning on electing to pay taxes as an S-Corp too.
I’ve also found it difficult to find good strategic-thinking CPAs and lawyers.
Salary yourself at a number not wildly out of line with your industry. You will not be cashing those payroll checks you cut to yourself for a while (unless you’re burning through OPM, of course), but the salary expense will be on the ledger, and the amount it keeps you in the red is a loss you can pass through to offset the tax you’ll have to pay on the non-existent wage income. Don’t know your exact circumstances, but PLLCs are also a thing that might be looking into.
Good luck!
Good luck.
Best wishes Semi! Don’t forget us after you purchase Europa.
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. I appreciate the support!
Belated, but best wishes from me as well. I love to live vicariously through people fulfilling their ambitions for independent entrepreneurship.
Good luck! It’s a big step and there will be rough times. But the good times are amazing. Mrs. TOK learned so much about law and accounting and marketing and real estate in the last two years. Learning all that was a great unexpected benefit.
“We have all the full body of research now that shows this very clear connection” between climate change and hurricane intensity, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London, who contributed to the new research. “The biggest danger is not to make the connection to climate change.”
Needs more god-with-unpronounceable-name.
The researchers combined statistical analysis with detailed weather modeling and found that hurricanes as intense as Helene are about 2.5 times more likely because of climate change and the fossil fuel pollution that causes it.
There can be no other hypothesis. It fits our prefabricated conclusions perfectly.
and the fossil fuel pollution
So cows are off the hook now?
Cows use renewable fuel, what’s not to like?
Cows were supposedly bad because of their methane emissions, and of course eating meat is murder.
“hurricanes as intense as Helene are about 2.5 times more likely because of climate change”
This, of course, is supported by the historical record, yes?
Yes, and they will be able to predict future hurricane seasons with 100% accuracy.
Whoops!
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/honda-recall-about-17-mln-us-vehicles-over-steering-gearbox-damage-2024-10-09/
Now Ford, OTH, would have software update that would monitor the steering effort and if it deemed it too high it would put the car in limp mode and illuminate a service indicator.
Ford has had plenty of EPAS failures, but steadfastly pretend they don’t.
They learned that strategy from their Park to Reverse transmission issues.
I blame insufficient semiconductors in cars for this.
Sweet. My lead conversion should see a nice little bump this week.
The World Weather Attribution group is a loose coalition of scientists who publish rapid findings about extreme whether and how climate change influenced particular events. The new analysis involved 21 researchers. Although the group uses peer-reviewed methods, its work is published in advance of a traditional peer review, when the events are fresh and particularly newsworthy. Previous World Weather Attribution work has withstood further scrutiny from outside scientists and been published in major scientific journals.
Repent. The end is near.
“Repent. The end is near”
Yep but it ain’t CC so I have not need for repentin’
That’s a lot of words to say “pack of intellectually dishonest hacks spitting out hot takes to feed apocalyptic headlines”.
Democracy, good and hard
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops.
Walz mentioned the concept during fundraisers in Seattle and in Sacramento, Calif., while talking to donors in the deep blue areas.
“And we know, because of our system of the Electoral College, that puts a few states in real focus,” Walz said in Seattle. “I’m a national popular vote guy, but that’s not the world we live in.”
Let’s let New York and California elect the President. What could go wrong?
rednecks should not stop progress. PROGRESS IS INEVITABLE. RESISTANCE IS USELESS.
STOP RESISTING /cops and proggies
Let our betters in the cities rule us! Make the Senate proportional to population too. Fuck that Connecticut Compromise bullshit!
Some argue that the electoral college encourages lots of people to stay away from the polls and that abolishing it would not be the slam dunk that Democrats seem to think it would be.
Yeah, I think it’s pretty much impossible to know who would have won past elections because we don’t know how many Dems didn’t vote in, say Kansas Districts 1, 2, and 4 OR California District 2 (and, yeah, I know the populations aren’t the same).
The other thing to consider are recounts. The difference between HRC & DJT in 2016 was about 2% of the votes cast. Right now, recounts only happen when state results are close. Imagine the cluster if there was a 1% difference in vote totals and EVERY vote had to be recounted.
https://youtu.be/h6mJw50OdZ4
Or maybe, just maybe, try returning powers to the states so the presidential election doesn’t matter that much.
Not even the states, but Congress could certainly reclaim its own authority.
One might expect the sitting governor of a small rural state to have some reservations about the country being run by the densely populated urban centers, but I guess Walz has got it all figgered out.
You assume that he has any interest in protecting the interests of the plebs.
Oh, piss boy!
How much less effort it would it take to just rig a single national count?
Minnesoda identifies as coastal?
Actually, I think it does.
” small rural state to have some reservations”
There you go again, bringing race into it.
Machine politics will have some slots for those folks
I VISITED AFGHANISTAN SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO
Living Ironically in Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS6klr5e6NQ
Somebody had the fish?
A Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul made an emergency landing at New York’s John F Kennedy airport after its 59-year-old captain died mid-flight.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/09/turkish-airlines-pilot-death-jfk
Was Enes Freedom the co-pilot?
…and yet 80 is the new age for US Presidents…
“I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a — we need national popular vote,” he said. “But that’s not the world we live in. So, we need to win Beaver County, Pa. We need to be able to go into York, Pa., and win. We need to be in western Wisconsin and win. We need to be in Reno, Nev., and win. And the help that you give here today helps make that happen.”
It really sucks that they should have to venture out into the Flyoverstan wastelands and pretend to give a shit about those “undecided independents” doesn’t it?
Gee Timmy, be honest and say that the entire Constitution needs to go and be replaced by an enabling act.
No one important lives in those states with smaller populations – like Delaware.
A Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul made an emergency landing at New York’s John F Kennedy airport after its 59-year-old captain died mid-flight.
That’s what the “co-pilot” is for. So you can keep flying.
New York to Constantinople is too long a flight for just the co-pilot to fly. You need to pick up additional flight crew.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
First officer.
Both the captain and FO are pilots.
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. I appreciate the support!
We’re all counting on you.
juche0071
@juche0071
Today is the 57th anniversary of the martyrdom of Major Ernesto Che Guevara ,a great revolutionary and great friend of People’s Korea . The DPRK was his favourite socialist country
https://x.com/juche0071/status/1843584642177466569
well yesterday but the point stands
Jacobin
@jacobin
Revolutionary Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967.
“The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
https://x.com/jacobin/status/1843984760550617553
or maybe today. or maybe it depends on timezone
still those are some bold words for old Che
Other than those degenerate fags, who he personally murdered. Queers for
PalestineCuba!Yes Pat, I was just trying to remember the quote but cant so here it is paraphrased: “The greatest pleasure in my life is killing queers.” – Che
I understand he used to attend the firing squads and bring his own pistol so he could participate. I think it is one of those ‘He doth protest too much’ things.
If only someone had martyred him decades before and spared all the people he murdered and oppressed.
Look, when even the Bolivians cant stand a commie….
Speaking of that lot – I remember a lot of photos of all the usual suspects…the cool kids….palling around with Castro at parties back in the day. He was quite a celebrity with all of our commie entertainment and high profile social crowd.
Walz has expressed interest in ending the voting system and turning to using the popular vote in the past. He signed legislation as governor last year to add Minnesota to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would mean states award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, The New York Times reported.
Call me crazy, but a governor who wants to void his state’s election results should be removed from office, by force if necessary.
you seem to have an unhealthy obsession with this Walz fella
If the Harris-Walz ticket loses we get Walz back here. In either event, MN loses
Jacobin
@jacobin
As Hurricane Milton threatens to destroy the Tampa Bay region, Florida Republicans bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry are backing legislation that would bar the president from declaring a climate emergency.
https://x.com/jacobin/status/1844030064008302867
If anyone needed any more evidence that the AGW canard is a giant scam there it is right there in giant flashing neon letters.
Jitters
But now, with less than a month to go until Election Day, they’re increasingly worried about a number of issues plaguing the Democratic nominee’s campaign.
On Tuesday, there was grumbling from some Democrats about the vice president’s interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
There’s also concern on everything from the static poll numbers in the race to the vice president’s messaging and even her standing with men — not just white men but Black and Hispanic men, too.
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One Democratic consultant worried that while Harris’s campaign is “doing all the right things” on fundraising, on its field operation, and even paid media, “it may not be enough” for the vice president.
“We all knew this would be hard,” the consultant said. “It’s going to come down to the wire. No one knows how this will end. That’s almost the scariest part.”
Maybe your candidate just sucks. Have you considered that possibility?
“No one knows how this will end.”
*George Soros smiles*
I haven’t seen polls touted in a few days…seems odd given the proximity of the election. Unless of course, they aren’t good or impossible to massage into the correct narrative.
Ideally he infects everyone in his organization with a hemmoragic fever he got from exposure to his internal evil and they all die horrible, bloody deaths before they can organize for more people to step in.
Both RealClearPolling’s EC map and “No Toss Ups” map show Trump ahead. Meaningful? 🤷🏼♀️
GT, I return to my distinction between votes (legally cast by legal voters, one each) and ballots (documents and computer entries which determine the official result). Even if polls can accurately predict voting, they don’t even pretend to predict balloting.
That’s a spherical cow even in the absence of any sort of meddling or incompetence, and neither one is likely to be in any short supply. I expect to see some blue shift as election day approaches if for no other reason than social pump priming. The people who will pay attention to the fact that every major poll oversampled Democrats by a triple digit margin constitute too small a constituency to worry about.
Academia’s plagiarism crisis continues:
Wichita State University President Richard Muma has been accused of plagiarizing 20 different authors in his 88-page (!) dissertation.
He denies it, but, notably in this case, ten scholars have agreed that it looks like plagiarism.
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1844017701972557974
“I didn’t plagarize, I just used uncited sources!”
88-page diss??!!
*checks bio* Ahh, PhD in Education. That explains things.
Also, I find this phrase “first openly gay person to do [x]” We’re assuming there is a long history of closeted gay presidents at Wichita State?
No, they deliberately use that phrasing to try to imply a long history thereof, but for which there is no proof.
They like gaying history when most people have been straight.
Except for the historical figures who may actually have been gay, in which case they trans them.
Hit ‘Em Up was certainly more succinct.
In all seriousness though, my undergraduate capstone project ran just about half that many pages. And it was just a startup business plan.
If the Harris-Walz ticket loses we get Walz back here. In either event, MN loses
Sitting office holders should be required to resign in order to run for a different office.
Even the one they currently hold.
No campaigning on public time!